Sentences with phrase «as the reference group»

Interestingly the authors chose to use the MD group as the reference group despite the fact that it contains high risk women.

Most studies have revealed protective effects of breastfeeding on common infections in the first 8 to12 months of life.8, 27,29,30 One study, which distinguished between infectious diseases until and from the age of 6 months, revealed results similar to those from our study.24 Although the authors used exclusive breastfeeding for 3 months as the reference group, exclusive breastfeeding for 6 months reduced the risk of gastrointestinal tract infections between the ages of 3 and 6 months but not between the ages of 6 and 12 months.24 We can not explain why breastfeeding duration was only associated with lower risks of lower respiratory tract infection from 7 to 12 months.

The vitamin K content of cream products, for which the researchers had a smaller sample size, was analyzed using a general linear model, with heavy cream as the reference group.

Compared with boys, the prevalence of smoking and alcohol use is relatively low in Taiwanese girls (OR = 5.5 and 5.8, respectively, girls as the reference group).34 Female smokers or alcohol users may be more pathological and have a lower threshold for DSH / SA.

The analyses also included age, race / ethnicity (three binary variables for Black, Hispanic and other ethnicity, coded with Whites as the reference group), gender, household income and parental education, media - viewing habits — hours watching television on a school day and how often the participant viewed movies together with his / her parents — and receptivity to alcohol marketing (based on whether or not the adolescent owned alcohol - branded merchandise at waves 2 — 4).31 Family predictors included perceived inhome availability of alcohol, subject - reported parental alcohol use (assessed at the 16 M survey and assumed to be invariant) and perceptions of authoritative parenting (α = 0.80).32 Other covariates included school performance, extracurricular participation, number of friends who used alcohol, weekly spending money, sensation seeking (4 - wave Cronbach's α range = 0.57 — 0.62) 33 and rebelliousness (0.71 — 0.76).34 All survey items are listed in table S1.

Multivariable models were then used to predict the likelihood of each poor wellbeing outcome being associated with either poor or excellent father - child relationships, using good father - child relationship as the reference group.

At first a regression model with the general relationship satisfaction scale as the criterion and seven predictors: the Triangular Love sub-scales (Passion, Commitment, Intimacy) a dummy sex variable (men participants coded 0 as the reference group, and women coded as 1), and the interaction terms between the sex variable and the love sub-scales.

Note: EOP: early onset persistent, CL: childhood limited, AO: Adolescent onset, the Low group was used as the reference group; SEP: social economic position was grouped into 4 categories: 1: unskilled or semiskilled manual; 2: skilled manual or nonmanual; 3: managerial and technical; and 4: professional.

Note: 1Maternal reports of partner's alcohol consumption; 2Univariable multinomial logistic regression models; 3Multinomial logistic regression models adjusted for maternal age at delivery, parity, Social economic position, maternal education, maternal smoking during first trimester in pregnancy, housing tenure, income, and maternal depressive symptoms at 32 weeks gestation; CL: childhood limited, AO: adolescent onset, EOP: early onset persistent, the Low conduct problems class was used as the reference group.

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The group of politicians who were allegedly paid by Manafort were known as the Hapsburg Group, a reference to the famous Austrian imperial dyngroup of politicians who were allegedly paid by Manafort were known as the Hapsburg Group, a reference to the famous Austrian imperial dynGroup, a reference to the famous Austrian imperial dynasty.

Company names should include no references to political organisations or religious or sectarian groups, such as the FBI or Mafia.

Thus, the long - term target incentives for the NEOs who head these significant business segments are determined based on a blend of peer positions with similar titles at peer group companies and CEO positions among smaller companies, using the 75th percentile for peer - company positions and the median for CEO positions at smaller companies as competitive reference points.

As discussed above, «publishers» frequently references a broad group including local business websites, media and news sites, online directories, search engines, map platforms, blogs, retail websites, e-commerce sites, apps, video sites and social media pages.

The presence of other divergences too (David Moss's luminous piece on friendship stands very well alone), the dispersal of the group on both sides of the Atlantic, and the fact that some members are already deep into other conversations all suggest that as a movement it will (at least in Britain) either fragment or at best fare like feminist, liberation and nonrealist theologies, and have its main influence as a point of reference and interrogation.

While reference to a target people group's religious writings can be made as a part of bridge building, care should be exercised not to imply a wholesale acceptance of such.

In other words, during the transition from a racially segregated to a desegregated school system, it may be desirable to substitute for the previous racial groupings new kinds of educationally pertinent groupings, in which any deficiencies of the less favored race can be taken into account automatically, without reference to race as such.

Why would they be aimed at athiests, as referenced in «when you are at the pearly gates and Gods asks you», when athiests don't believe in God anyway, the message it sends would be null, to that group.

In guidance, the student is ideally considered as a unique person, without reference to membership in any group or class.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

A unique aspect of a church group which contributes to its health is its vertical as well as horizontal reference.

Premier spoke to Simon Calvert from the Christian Institute, who were specifically referenced by Spielman as a group with «conservative» views.

Indeed, only the most superficial observer would attempt to describe him without reference to an indeterminate group of persons quite other than him, most of them past, as to Thomas Jenson, buried at Clifton, Texas, or to Lena Nerhaugen, buried in Mt. Olive Cemetery in Chicago.

These references make it clear that when we as persons or groups are threatened by terror or tragedy we need to factor in the divine Presence.

The Christian Institute was specifically referenced by Spielman as a group with «conservative» views.

Do you know that there is a group of people that do not call themselves as Christian with the reference of that no where in the Bible Jesus (Peace be upon him) called himself as a Christian... and this group of people call themselves as a «Follower of Christ» and they also follows the verses talks about Jesus in Quran... just for your information...

Examining his subjects with reference to their hypnotic sensibility and to such automatisms as hypnagogic hallucinations, odd impulses, religious dreams about the time of their conversion, etc., he found these relatively much more frequent in the group of converts whose transformation had been «striking,» «striking» transformation being defined as a change which, though not necessarily instantaneous, seems to the subject of it to be distinctly different from a process of growth, however rapid.»

Also, I am thinking that Jeremy is using the term «church» in reference to a group such as «First Baptist Church» that refers to itself as a church.

This process of transcendence is some - times noticeable in our political life, for the transcendent reference groups in a democracy can be widened until they include humanity as a whole and beyond that the total community of being.

A democratic patriot in the United States, for instance, will carry on his dialogue with current companions, but as one who is also in relation to what his companions refer to — representatives of the community such as Washingtons, Jeffersons, Madisons, Lincolns, etc.... But now the transcendent reference group... represent [s] not the community only but what the community stands for.

As for advocates of «intelligent design» — the media - savvy group that has brought its ideas to school boards and courtrooms — they aren't even worth a mention by AiG, which makes abundant references to Darwin himself at the museum in the course of doling out ammunition with which to attack him.

In an attempt to provide such a wider perspective, the sermon brought in reference to groups not present ~ specially ethnic minorities not there, other nations whom we view as the enemy, children, and the animals.

«A reference to Mormonism as a cult was scrubbed from the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association's website shortly after Mitt Romney met with the group's leader.»

Based in Danville, CA our programs include: Competitive Spring, Summer and Fall League Play Tournament and Showcase Play Small Group Team Training Small Group Private Training One on One Private Training Mentor Program Mentor Program: Players can use Coach B (Lance Blankenship) as a reference for High School & College recruitment or communication with potential High School & College Coaches.

Women were analysed in the group in which they planned to give birth, with the obstetric unit group as the reference.

The obstetric unit group contained the largest number of eligible births and was therefore used as the reference to maximise statistical efficiency.

We also estimated relative indices of inequality (RII) and slope indices of inequality (SII) as summary measures of relative and absolute inequalities of breastfeeding outcomes, respectively, across the entire distribution of maternal education.24 For child IQ, linear regression analyses using GEEs were performed to estimate mean IQ differences in lower maternal education from the reference category in each intervention group and compared between the groups.

Hits right now include Sexion d'Assaut's (a group which remains signed to an independent label) song, Africain, which speaks to the African and African Diaspora experience of youth unemployment, voicelessness in the international debates (they reference the G8), dreams of going to Europe and America, the western media portrayal of Africa as a dangerous place, and the humiliation of racial profiling (rough English translation: «I will show my papers, OK, stop stressing; do not talk to me like I am another species»).

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is looking to amend any reference to a firefighter or police officer throughout state law to be gender neutral, a change they see as fixing antiquated law that refers to the holders of such jobs as men.

Miliband's repeated use of the language of «our economy», «wages,» and «working people,» coupled with his shunning of variants of «control» and of references to «migrants» as a group or in particular categories such as students and family members, supports this sort of interpretation.

The work uses strong nation - building references, such as referential movement depicting a group of people going towards their death, then becoming trees, ocean, and forming a strong collective out of a group of individuals; its language movement is very dramatic and places a strong emphasis on unison movement rather than individual dancers.

«You'll read about it,» he said as he entered the Senate chamber, in reference to interviews he had given to a select group of reporters earlier.

He argues that prebendalism is the most appropriate conceptual notion for explaining Nigeria's politicians intense and persistent struggle to control and exploit the offices of the state and defines prebendalism in terms of «the historical association of the term «prebend» with the offices of certain feudal states which could be obtained through services rendered to a lord or monarch or through outright purchase by supplicants... the adjective «prebendal» will refer to patterns of political behaviour which rest on the justifying principle that such offices should be competed for and then utilised for the personal benefit of office holders as well as their reference or support group.

HMIC has invited the BASC to participate as a member of a specially convened External Reference Group (ERG) to support their forthcoming thematic inspection of firearms licencing across twelve individual police forces in England and Wales.

Speaking on The Big Issue as the world marked International Anti-Corruption Day, the MP made reference to President Nana Akufo - Addo's endorsement of the founder of the Jospong Group of Companies, Joseph Siaw Agyepong.

«The White Paper has laid to rest the true nature and status of IMN as an insurgent group whose members bear arms and had refused to evacuate Gyallesu area of Zaria, Kaduna state ahead of the referenced military operation in the report.

When the group arrived outside the building, they laid down and periodically cried out «I can't breathe,» a reference to what Garner said as he was placed in a chokehold by Pantaleo before he died.

As evidenced by the social science research referenced in the pending legislation, those slurs have negative consequences for groups targeted by the epithets.

«We could not detect this widespread East African admixture previously since we did not have an un-admixed San group to use as reference.

The group's website lists a host of figures and references that take aim at what they describe as the «political fabrication of global warming alarm.»

Randall is an enthusiastic narrator who leavens her prose with references to such pop culture phenomena as the group Talking Heads («And you may ask yourself, Am I right?