Sentences with phrase «because national estimates»

Subica and his colleague, Li - Tzy Wu, a professor at Duke University Medical Center, took on the project in part because national estimates of Pacific Islander, American Indian, and multiracial adolescent substance use and suicidality are scarce, presumably due to their small population sizes.

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Student loan debt has taken over national conscience because of the large aggregated debt that current college students have obtained (an estimated $ 1 trillion — or 1,000 billion).

According to the Times, last year an estimated 5.5 million pounds of the ammonia - treated beef was used in the National School Lunch Program, in part because — big surprise — it's cheaper than other ground beef.

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years anNational Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years annational survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

Estimates of the numbers of women booked for home birth but delivering in hospital were even more difficult to obtain because hospital records do not always specify this information accurately and no national estimate exists.1 4 Data collected in this region in 1983 suggested that 35 % of these women changed to hospital based care either before or during labour, and a more detailed prospective study of all planned home births in 1993 found a total transfer rate of 43 %.8 Women were classified as having booked for a home birth when a community midwife had accepted a woman for home delivery and had this arrangement accepted by her manager and supervisor of midwives at any stage in pregnancy, irrespective of any later change of plan.

Their work, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Robert A. Welch Foundation, is important because some one percent of Americans are afflicted with autism, and the annual cost of autism management in the United States alone is estimated to be at least $ 236 billion.

The government dataset, called the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Extended Reconstructed Sea Surface Temperature version 4, increased the sea surface temperature trend estimate over the last 18 years from 0.07 ° Celsius per decade to 0.12 ° Celsius per decade, partly because of adjustments for different types of measuring instruments.

«I didn't sign because I thought the estimated error was not correct,» says OPERA team member Luca Stanco of the National Institute of Nuclear Physics in Italy, adding he thinks it is larger than the stated 10 nanoseconds.

Estimates are between 20 and 30 percent, but no one knows for sure because the National Cancer Institute's Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results Program, or SEER Registry, only tallies people when they die of cancer; it doesn't track recurrence or progression.

Nevertheless, because it is an intriguing lead, the US National Institutes of Health will award an estimated $ 5.1 million to investigate Crohn's disease in 2003.

We estimated the risk of death due to cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 - 69 year olds from data from the Office for National Statistics.19 We assumed that this death rate was approximately that of the non-smoking population, because around 12 % of this age group smoke.20 We multiplied this rate by the relative risk of death from cardiorespiratory causes in lifelong smokers to estimate the number of deaths that would be expected over five years from cardiorespiratory causes in the general population of 65 year olds who smoke.

Stefan Schwietzke, a research associate at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., said Howarth may be overestimating methane emissions from shale gas because his 12 percent leakage rate estimate is based mostly on a single satellite study.

The National Center for Education Statistics, which administers the test, estimates that Maryland's scores were 7 points higher for fourth - grade reading and 5 points higher for eighth - grade reading because of the exclusion.

Because Alachua County's gain scores tend to be larger than the national average, these are more conservative estimates of years of gain than are those based on national grade equivalents.)

According to the most recent national estimates, 30 percent of state and local government employees, many of whom are teachers, are not covered by Medicare because they do not belong to the Social Security program and rely on an independent retirement health - care plan.

The Board on Testing and Assessment of the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences has stated: «VAM estimates of teacher effectiveness should not be used to make operational decisions because such estimates are far too unstable to be considered fair or reliable.»

Repair costs are estimated using the national average consumers will pay to keep their vehicle in operating condition (please note that because maintenance costs are measured separately, the repair cost does not include these costs).

Ideally one or two national banks and a local bank or credit union because all of these organizations will have to provide estimates on what the fees will be to obtain a mortgage.

The National Canine Cancer Foundation estimates that one out of every three dogs gets cancer, in part, because modern pets» longer life spans allow more time for malignancies to develop.

National estimates indicate that approximately 3 million to 4 million of the animals who enter shelters nationwide every year are euthanized (60 percent of dogs and 70 percent of cats) simply because there is no one to adopt them.

The National Park Service doesn't estimate crowd size anymore because they got sued by the organizers of the million man march, so the NPS should not have retweeted any estimate.

A simpler 2008 National Renewable Energy Laboratory estimate came in at just 22 percent of electricity — the new estimate shows a higher percentage partly because solar panel efficiency has improved but also because new sources of data made a more accurate estimate possible.

It costs the national economy an estimated # 50bn per year, and the police have called for individuals to take more responsibility for online security because they can not cope.

According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) website Distraction.gov, an estimated 421,000 people were injured in 2012 in motor vehicle accidents because of a distracted driver.

An estimated 1,560 children died because of maltreatment, with the highest rates of victimization in the first year of life — 20.6 per 1,000 children.1 Research demonstrates that outcomes for children who survive child maltreatment (defined as neglect, abuse, or a combination of the two) are poor, with performance below national norms in a range of outcomes areas, including psychosocial and cognitive well - being and academic achievement.2, 3,4 The costs to society overall of these children not reaching their full potential and the lower than expected productivity of adult survivors of abuse are estimated at as much as $ 50 - 90 billion per year in the U.S. 5,6 These findings underscore the need for strategies to prevent child maltreatment in order to improve outcomes for children, families and communities.

The purpose of the current report is to present nationally representative estimates of lifetime prevalence and age - of - onset distributions of the DSM - IV disorders assessed in the recently completed National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCS - R).1 While the Epidemiological Catchment Area Study2 and the baseline National Comorbidity Survey (NCS) 3 both reported high lifetime prevalence and generally early age - of - onset distributions of most DSM - III (NCS) and DSM - III - R (NCS - R) disorders, it is not clear whether similar results will hold for DSM - IV disorders because of the greater emphasis on clinically significant distress and impairment in DSM - IV than in earlier editions.

This is because the estimate largely relates to the period prior to the national effort to close the gap and the associated funds «hitting the ground» and having an impact.

It's hard to know exactly how this will unfold on the national arena, but one CoreLogic executive recently estimated that up to 3.6 million home owners will be reluctant to sell this year because of rate lock - in.