Sentences with phrase «because previous studies»

Furthermore, because these previous studies have not taken into account whether players were pathologically involved with violent or non-violent games, we do not know whether aggressive behavior may be caused, or aggravated by, the violent content of games.

Depression was included as a control because previous studies have found that it influences both marital quality (Whisman, 2001) and health (Ormel et al., 2002).

Because previous studies do not provide a basis for making empirically - based predictions about the relative predictive power of the more distal and dispositional empathy measures in contrast to the more proximal and situational ones, we left it up to the data to educate us about the differential impact of dispositional and situational forms of empathy on spousal support provision (Research Question 1).

The sum of negative events» rating of bother was used in this study, because previous studies using the CHS and its adult counterpart have suggested that this score is correlated most highly with adjustment measures (Compas, Slavin, Wagner, & Vannatta, 1986; Varni, Rubenfeld, Talbot, & Setoguchi, 1989; Zukerman, Oliver, Hollingsworth, & Austrin, 1986).

Prof Tung said the study's findings were a surprise because previous studies had suggested it was the Pacific Ocean that was «the culprit for hiding heat».

The dramatic difference between these and previous findings is because previous studies only looked at sea level rise.

Because previous studies have shown that puppies are very good learners, the researchers concluded the older dogs going to the generous experimenters was most likely because they'd had enough experience with humans to deduce they were most likely kind since they were generous.

Most high school teachers believe their physics courses are preparing students for college physics, perhaps, as Sadler discovered, because all previous studies showed that college students who studied physics in high school outperformed their classmates who did not.

I think we're focusing quite heavily in this study on exam results because previous studies have found the link between test scores or exam results and the gross domestic product of an economy or the vitality of a country's society.

Researchers were interested in looking at weight training and resistance activities like weight lifting and yoga, because previous studies have shown that glycemic levels — which reflect how quickly blood sugar rises — improve with muscle - strengthening exercises.

«This is a very important finding, because previous studies reported that CCBs can reduce the RAGE and AGE [advanced glycation end products] interaction and can prevent pancreatic cancer, but they didn't look at short - acting CCBs,» Wang said.

These results are significant, Lee said, because previous studies have shown that the brain needs to suppress and reverse certain kinds of information when lying.

«We were not expecting to see the effect,» Pirkle says, because previous studies — which tended to combine men and women in the analysis — had shown no effects at higher levels of perchlorate.

Potential study limitations include being geographically confined to Baltimore and the decision to not measure indoor ozone levels because previous studies found those levels to be low indoors in the city.

However, it is unclear whether they increase the risk of pregnancy loss because previous studies have shown inconsistent results.

«This research is an important addition to the field because previous studies looking at CYP gene variants and their effects on risks of repeat heart attacks, bleeding and death have included predominantly Caucasian patients of European ancestry,» Cresci noted.

That's because previous studies had shown prolactin cues a few specialized birds and fish to produce regurgitated «crop» milk and milky secretions to feed their offspring.

«This research is important because previous studies have shown that a reduction in blood supply to the heart (ischemia) during mental stress doubles the risk of heart attack or death from heart disease,» said Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.

Because previous studies had suggested that different alleles (versions) of the IL - 28B gene affect immune responses, the researchers determined which alleles the transplant recipients carried.

The prostate seemed a promising target because previous studies with mice revealed that it contained cells with the same protein markers as other known stem cells, suggesting that the necessary stem cells might be relatively easy to find.

In fact, the research team had specifically chosen flat research sites because previous studies had shown that soil carbon tended to migrate downhill over time.

The findings were unexpected because previous studies, done with small numbers of people in the lab, concluded that people's minds wander less often.

«This is important because previous studies conducted in West Africa are not generalizable to the U.S. population.

The finding is novel, says autism researcher Peter Mundy at the University of California, Davis, because previous studies of joint attention have not distinguished between initiating and responding.

This was a surprise because previous studies had suggested that part of the Williams brain functions normally in adulthood, with little understanding about how it developed.»

The results, to be published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are a surprise, because previous studies of frog evolution pinpointed the blossoming of the main frog lineages today to about 35 million years earlier, in the middle of the Mesozoic era.

«I'm not surprised the results have been mixed, because the previous studies have involved different societies, cultural practices and so on.»

For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.

Because no previous study examined the psychometric aspects of the Japanese W - DEQ version B, information concerning the validation of the scale would provide more evidence that the W - DEQ can serve as a standard measure.

Not exact matches

That's striking because the treatment is part of a class called CETP medicines which haven't proven particularly successful in previous studies.

Hoback suggested any review of the Canada's proposed legislation could be speedy because the original Trans - Pacific Partnership, which was signed in October 2015 by the previous Conservative government, has been heavily studied.

Joel has stated in previous interviews that he has never attended seminary school or taken religious studies but he REALLY needs to because he is sounding more foolish than ever.

A previous major Search Institute study, Young Adolescents and Their Parents, did little to reshape denominations» youth and family programs because denominations did little to act on the information.

In a recent «Focus Group Study» of celiac's who were not eating oats either because of fear or had previous reactions to other gluten free oats, 95 % had no problem with PrOatina oatmeal and have added PrOatina Oat products to their diets.

Parental reporting, however, was accurate in a previous study.13 Because of the number of comparisons in these analyses, some of the significant associations could have occurred by chance.

Additionally, 3 (3 %) were excluded because their infants had major malformations, and 3 (3 %) were excluded because the mother already had been included in the study with a previous pregnancy.

This meta - analysis makes a significant contribution to the available evidence on this topic because it includes 6 original studies on the subject not included in previous meta - analyses.38 - 43 Moreover, to our knowledge, this is significantly the largest and most up - to - date review and analysis of current knowledge on childhood leukemia and breastfeeding.

No association between vaginal delivery and interference with daily life was observed after 6 weeks, which supports a previous study.22 Additionally, the prevalence of moderate or severe UI in the vaginal delivery group was higher than that in the cesarean delivery group at 3 — 5 days, perhaps because pelvic floor muscle strength is significantly reduced at 3 — 8 days after vaginal delivery, but this is not the case after cesarean delivery.6

Hood and Dixon, nevertheless, make a brave attempt which, because it is an amalgam of their efforts to straighten out inconsistent series and the work of previous partial studies, has all the excitement of a PhD thesis.

«We started this study thinking we would identify the individual characteristics that motivated rescuers, because that's what most previous research had pointed to,» said Hollie Nyseth Brehm, co-author of the study and assistant professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

That's interesting because previous brain imaging studies of synesthetes have suggested that they might have an abnormally high number of neuronal connections.

Previous failures in reprogramming primate cells probably happened because the egg ran into roadblocks — portions of the body cell's DNA known as reprogramming - resistant regions, say study coauthor Mu - ming Poo, director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, and his colleagues.

Nicolas Greber of the University of Geneva and colleagues say previous studies got it wrong because scientists looked at silicon dioxide in shales, which bear the...

«We chose the basal ganglia because they are primary targets of inflammation in the brain,» says lead author Andrew Miller, MD. «Results from a number of previous studies suggest that increased inflammation may be a contributing factor to fatigue in CFS patients, and may even be the cause in some patients.»

Although none of these stars came from the far side, the technique seems to work because the results agreed with previous studies that mapped star clusters in the visible section of the galaxy.

«Because our previous research and that of others indicates that exercise and diet each provide their own unique health benefits beyond those that were evaluated in the current study, it is important to recognize that both diet and exercise are important for health and longevity,» Weiss said.

The new approach contrasts with previous ways scientists analyzed and came to conclusions about sea level rise because it is «the only proper one that aims to fully account for uncertainty using statistical methods,» noted Parnell, principal investigator of the study conducted collaboratively with researchers at Tufts University, Rutgers University and Nanyang Technological University.

This estimate, while in line with suggestions from previous linguistic studies, is a more robust result because it was found consistently in the majority of the different statistical models of evolution tested in this study.

Nicolas Greber of the University of Geneva and colleagues say previous studies got it wrong because scientists looked at silicon dioxide in shales, which bear the detritus of continental rocks.

While previous studies have surveyed the genomic characteristics of tumors confined to the prostate gland, the new study is the first to focus on metastatic hormone resistant prostate cancers, which can be difficult to treat because they often develop resistance to standard treatments.