Sentences with phrase «based studies of»

Population - based studies of parenting styles and practices are surprisingly rare, and since parenting is, in part, culturally determined the results of studies carried out in one country do not necessarily transpose across borders.

To my knowledge, this is one of the first population based studies of sexuality in postpartum couples.

Altimeter data are used extensively in observationally based studies of ocean climate variability on seasonal and longer time scales.

He responds to the specific questions, which were asked (the others did not) and comes up with detailed analyses of observation - based studies of both ECS and TCR, pointing out which studies were more representative of reality and why.

Previous theoretical and model - based studies of the relationship between ocean bottom pressure (pb) and sea level (ζ) suggest primarily barotropic variability at mid to high latitudes for scales greater than a few hundred kilometers and periods less than a few months.

In addition to basic research on behavior of dogs and cats, Hart, along with graduate students and husband Benjamin Hart, professor emeritus at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, conducts field - based studies of large mammals, including elephant, bison, and antelope.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

Over its history, the NRCCTE has undertaken three scientifically based studies of curriculum integration models in an effort to determine if the integration of CTE courses is feasible and leads to improved student achievement in the core academic areas of math, literacy, and science.

Together, the consortium reviewed decades of research on teacher effectiveness and implemented data - based studies of diverse schools.

The University routinely conducts campus - based studies of student attitudes, student academic achievement, student satisfaction, and personal, professional and career development.

Evidence of interallelic complementation at clinically relevant loci is limited to biochemical and cell - based studies of a handful of metabolic disorders with defects in enzymes including propinyl - CoA carboxylase [2], argininosuccinate lyase [3], galactose -1-phosphate uridylyltransferase [4], and methylmalonyl CoA mutase [5].

Systematic long - term MRI - based studies of athlete hearts will therefore not be available in the foreseeable future.

Ground - based studies of the outer solar system suggest what the probe might find

Majid Ezzati at Imperial College London and his team have analysed data from 1698 population - based studies of 19.2 million men and women from 186 countries.

Questionnaire - based studies of living, retired NFL players have found rates of memory symptoms and depression between 5 % and 20 % — an imprecise comparison, but one that may reflect NFL players more broadly.

When UCSF scientists pooled the results of five population - based studies of smokers, they found that smokers who used e-cigarettes were about a third less likely to quit smoking than those who did not use e-cigarettes.

In a study of 1001 home births in the Toronto area before the regulation of midwifery, the transport rate during labour and post partum was 16.5 %.8 In other national, population - based studies of planned home births, rates of intrapartum transport ranged from 14.5 % in Australia9 to 20.3 % in the Netherlands.3

Low participation in population based studies of planned home births is common.

To my book on technology corresponds my theologically based study of the great city as the supreme achievement of man's technology.

Venneman et al 2009 were first to find unqualified proof of this long suspected fact having conducted a populations - based study of 333 infants who died of SIDS between 1998 and 2001 matched in age to 998 «control infants» born 4 to 6 weeks after the case infants.

A population - based study of 58,113 multiparous women yielded similar results when the duration of the second stage was greater than 2 hours (31).

Methodology: the research had two main components: an interview, survey and observation based study of senior managers in public and private sector corrections; and a mainly ethnographic and survey - based study of four matched public and private sector prisons and three additional establishments involving observations of and interviews with prisoners and staff, and the administration of quality of life surveys to both groups.

In the first population - based study of the disorder's prevalence, the researchers identified 35 cases from 1976 to 2010 reported in Minnesota's Olmsted County.

In a large population - based study of randomly selected participants in Germany, researchers found that mild cognitive impairment (MCI) occurred significantly more often in individuals diagnosed with a lower ankle brachial index (ABI), which is a marker of generalized atherosclerosis and thus cumulative exposure to cardiovascular risk factors during lifetime.

The population - based study of 503 people with colon cancer found that 14 percent of Caucasians and 7 percent of African - Americans had a genetic marker called microsatellite instability, or MSI.

A new U.S. - based study of more than 25,000 older men shows that testosterone therapy does not increase men's risk for heart attack.

In a long - term, large - scale population - based study of individuals aged 55 years or older in the general population researchers found that those diagnosed with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) had a four-fold increased risk of developing dementia or Alzheimer's disease (AD) compared to cognitively healthy individuals.

«In our large population - based study of more than 6,000 adults with CAP and almost 30,000 matched controls, we found that CAP patients have high rates of long - term morbidity and mortality compared to those who have never had CAP, irrespective of their age.»

«This is the first field - based study of mandatory menu labeling laws that found a large overall adjusted difference in calories between customers who dined at labeled restaurants when compared to unlabeled restaurants — about 155 fewer calories purchased,» said Amy Auchincloss, PhD, an assistant professor in the Drexel University School of Public Health and lead author of the study.

Dr. Navarro said, «Our study group is specific to DILIN centers and therefore we can not conclude that liver injury due to herbals and dietary supplements in on the rise in the U.S. Further population - based study of liver injury due to herbal products and dietary supplements is needed.»

The most extensive land - based study of the Amazon to date reveals it is losing its capacity to absorb carbon from the atmosphere.

The laboratory - based study of animals and cells (known as disease models) can be a powerful method for understanding illness.

The University of Southern California (USC) Roski Eye Institute researchers and clinicians published results of the largest population - based study of adult Latinos and age - related macular degeneration (AMD) in the National Eye Institute - funded «Los Angeles Latino Eye Study (LALES).»

Study groups were drawn from the Icelandic Cancer Registry; CAPS1, a population - based study of prostate cancer patients in Sweden; the Prostate Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE) at Northwestern University; and the Flint Men's Health Study and the Prostate Cancer Genetics Project, both of the University of Michigan.

Evanoff, B. A., et al. «Geographic and ethnic variation in Parkinson disease: a population - based study of US Medicare beneficiaries.»

In 2010, writer - director Derek Cianfrance broke out with Blue Valentine, the Ryan Gosling - Michelle Williams character - based study of a failing marriage.

VocabularySpellingCity's mission is the efficient game - based study of literacy skills using any word list.

This longitudinal, field - based study of programs of study (POS) / career pathways was designed using rigorous research methods to estimate the impact of POS on high school students» academic and technical achievement outcomes through the completion of high school.

«The interview - based study of 95 head and senior traders of U.S. equity asset managers and hedge funds determined that over 95 % of U.S. equity funds have been impacted by investors» move from actively managed funds to passive strategies,» researchers explain.

This time - based study of the clouds was a way of investigating my personal relationship with the weather while grounding me in the present conditions of each photograph taken.

[Since there is going to be a computer - based study of this question of WAIS stability, Captcha wisely states «it investment».]

Science - based study of fire impacts often occurs at scales of time and space that differ from those that are relevant to wildfire management decisions.

These trend figures also match those from a recent comprehensive surface station based study of the Arctic which gives 0.364 degrees C / decade from 60 - 90N over this same period (Bekryaev 2010).

Which probably brings us all to a mention of another area of my interests, to wit: - ===================================== «Individual Psychological Development» - a Population based study of the «greenhouse syndrome».

The choice between small and large sample development was highlighted by Harrison & Ambaum (2010) in a localized ground - based study of meteorological measurements.

The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is currently conducting a national ZIP code - based study of auto insurance affordability and availability, and Pennsylvania is participating in that as well.

As for physical abuse, 30 % of the men from our study had experienced it as boys, which closely parallels the finding (31 %) in a population - based study of Ontario men that used questions from the same scales.71 The similarity of the estimates from the ACE Study to those of population - based studies suggests that our findings would be applicable in other settings.

Comparison of two treatments for traumatic stress: a community - based study of EMDR and prolonged exposure

A Family - Based Study of the Association Between Labor Induction and Offspring Attention - Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Low Academic Achievement.

Attempted suicide among young people: risk factors in a prospective register - based study of Danish children born in 1966.