Sentences with phrase «as predictive factors»

Expression of cyclin D1a and D1b as predictive factors for treatment response in colorectal cancer.

If twelve month loss predictions are used to write a three month policy, the numbers become nearly useless as a predictive factor.

If twelve month loss predictions are used to write a three month policy, the numbers become nearly useless as a predictive factor.

Child Attachment Style as a Predictive Factor for Internalization and Externalization of Witnessing Community Violence

Although the literature considers the maternal PPD such as predictive factor for paternal PDD in our study there are no correlations between maternal and paternal PPD.12, 69

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Given these factors, risks and uncertainties, investors should not place undue reliance on forward - looking statements as predictive of future results.

But as time has gone on, the behavioral finance folks have shown that valuation, price momentum, normalized operating accruals, and other factors have significant predictive potential on future returns.

Up to this point we have established the fact that inherent in the deliberations of reason is the subjective and predictive factor, that reason is hypothesis - making, that, in short, it makes acts of belief, and that in order to attain truth, belief as hypothesis - making is not only reasonable but necessary.

The reviewers identified several risk factors for women in the U.S. that were predictive of adverse reactions subsequent to abortion, including perceptions of stigma, a need for secrecy, low social support and personality traits such as coping style.

The study found that the ability to withstand this stress was more predictive of survival than other factors such as the overall amount of water lost through leaves and the depth of roots.

Boston, MA (Scicasts)-- Study of 27,000 women finds that branched chain amino acid levels in the blood stream are as predictive of heart disease as LDL cholesterol, other risk factors.

This includes predictive factors, validation of diagnosis specific tools for functional assessment as well as the impact of different surgical techniques and type of chemotherapy used on the incidence of chronic pain after surgery and adjunctive cancer treatment.

The regression equation for correlation between pSTAT5 and apoptosis was configured to include lesion size (total number of cells in the lesion) along with pSTAT5 % as potential predictive factors of apoptosis, and only pertains to lesions from a single mouse (red).

The report describes the project and discusses the factors, such as grades and attendance, that are identified as predictive of high - risk students.

Furthermore, as the Teach Plus Fellows explain, these additional data can be used to «examine whether certain factors have predictive power» for improving student achievement.

A factor model can provide predictive effects that condition on averages over many classrooms, with and without the same teacher, and can provide a limit as the number of such classrooms tends to infinity.

These «predictive» or «formative» indicators include in - school factors such as strong classroom assessment and professional development for teachers, and out of school factors such as health care, housing, nutrition, and availability of high - quality pre-school; whether educators are using information in a reasonable way to improve teaching, learning and school quality; and whether the state and federal governments are providing positive support in these areas.

Strengthening the social inclusion of individuals, the reporting and alerting system was hailed as unique «because it mixes psychological factors with technological innovation and community participation that perfectly integrate the protective and predictive factors against crime.»

Evidence is also mounting that other factor premia, such as value and low beta, are also time varying and predictable.3 Table 1 reports for a number of popular factors the one - year - ahead predictive regression using the valuation spread as the predictive variable.

But as time has gone on, the behavioral finance folks have shown that valuation, price momentum, normalized operating accruals, and other factors have significant predictive potential on future returns.

A: Every mutation is different; some are highly predictive of disease, and some are dependent on other factors, such as the breeds involved, or the influence of other genes, the environment, and even diet.

The «stadium wave» as a partial systemic or meta explanation of the natural evoultion of climate affecting factors is an intersting, cogent and logical step to understanding this sort of thing — it might mot be right, but at least it's an attempt, even if it will take years or decades to determine if it's on the right track and what other factors need to be added / removed to make it an effective and usefully predictive tool.

And i agree that there seems to be no predictive value in winter ice growth versus summer recession.It would be interesting to graph sea surface temperatures versus ice extent (individual years, not normed), to see if that lends some information as to the probability that soot is an important factor in summer melt.

The court ultimately found that «prior cases have consistently rejected the use of sex as a decision - making factor, even though the statutes in question certainly rested on far more predictive empirical relationships than this.»

All of these factors are well recognized, and it comes as no surprise to any experienced lawyer that the traditional predictive analysis — that is, a precedent - focused analysis of the potentially applicable elements and defenses — will not always produce accurate forecasts of case outcomes.

Some writing companies use credit as a stronger predictive factor, others barely change the price based on credit.

McCrae's and Costa's early landmark findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging showed that individual differences in personality traits are stable over time and predictive of important life outcomes such as health and coping, leading to a strong resurgence of the entire field of personality psychology in the 1980s and the establishment of the five - factor model as the dominant paradigm for personality.

It has been suggested that interactional factors such as the relationship between the foster parent and the foster child and the fit between foster parent and foster child characteristics are more predictive of placement outcome than either child or foster parent characteristics alone (Berrick et al., 1998; Doelling & Johnson, 1990).

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

There are a number of risk factors that are predictive of aggression among early infants, such as lower parental age, unmarried status, lower income, and infant male gender (Hay, Mundy et al., 2011; Tremblay et al., 2004).

He refers to this withdrawal as stonewalling and suggests that it is one of the «four horsemen of the apocalypse» — the factors most predictive of break ups and divorce.4 According to Gottman, taking a break during an argument to cool down can be beneficial because it is counterproductive to discuss relationship issues when things get too heated.

The first 5 years of life are critical for the development of language and cognitive skills.1 By kindergarten entry, steep social gradients in reading and math ability, with successively poorer outcomes for children in families of lower social class, are already apparent.2 — 4 Early cognitive ability is, in turn, predictive of later school performance, educational attainment, and health in adulthood5 — 7 and may serve as a marker for the quality of early brain development and a mechanism for the transmission of future health inequalities.8 Early life represents a time period of most equality and yet, beginning with in utero conditions and extending through early childhood, a wide range of socially stratified risk and protective factors may begin to place children on different trajectories of cognitive development.9, 10

Although social factors have been shown to be predictive in other populations and are increasingly being recognised as key determinants of smoking and targets for intervention, 26 the low socioeconomic status, multiple demographic risk factors, and high population smoking rates, may render these factors particularly salient among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women.

The following aspects of the BIQ - SF were subjected to a psychometric evaluation: (a) the hypothesized six - correlated factors structure of the scale was tested by means of a confirmatory factor analysis, (b) various types of reliability were investigated including the internal consistency, test — retest reliability, and cross-informant agreement, and (c) several aspects of the validity were explored such as the relations with anxiety and internalizing (i.e., convergent validity) and externalizing (i.e., divergent validity) symptoms as well as the relations between BIQ - SF scores of parents and teachers and laboratory observations of an inhibited temperament (i.e., predictive validity).

Although the number, shape, and predictive validity of internalizing trajectory classes were similar across gender, trajectory classes» initial values and rates of change varied significantly across gender, as did the impact of maternal postpartum depression and anxiety on latent growth factors.

Other risk factors (i.e., teen or single parenthood, very low income, high initial levels of problem behavior) showed no predictive effects, implying intervention was at least as successful at helping the most disadvantaged families, compared to more advantaged.

As such, family factors were predictive of unique variance above and beyond adherence, indicating direct and indirect effects of family variables on metabolic control.

A recent meta - analysis indicates being younger parents or experiencing shorter relationship involvement as risk - factors for lower relationship satisfaction over the transition to parenthood (Mitnick et al., 2009), while a prospective study indicated that older first time mothers reported greater hardiness than younger first - time mothers and hardiness was predictive of a more adaptive transition to parenthood (McMahon et al., 2011).

Additionally, there are several potential risk factors (such as negative life events, family conflict, medical illness) and protective factors (such as social support, adaptive coping strategies, self - efficacy) for poor mental health and mental wellbeing (WHO 2012) that were not measured and might have added to the predictive strength of the study.

The ASI - 3 subscales from the bifactor model however did not provide incremental predictive utility above and beyond the general AS factor with respect to an external anxiety criterion.

Other factors, such as partner type, condom use, religious involvement, and school enrollment, were not predictive of infection.

HLM analyses indicated that peer group aggression (physical and relational) at time 1 was predictive of individual aggression levels at time 2 after controlling for other peer group characteristics as well as other individual risk and protective factors.