Sentences with phrase «behavior than the analysis»

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The fall in the number of births to immigrant women is explained by behavior (falling birth rates), rather than population composition (change in the number of women of childbearing age), according to a Pew Research analysis.

My Princeton political science colleagues Nolan McCarty and Howard Rosenthal, together with Keith Poole at the University of Houston, have done a statistical analysis showing that the voting behavior of a congressman is much better predicted by his party affiliation today than it was 25 years ago.

Gregory's analysis is largely consistent with modern behavior modification theory and behavior therapy that focuses on actual, regularized, visible, even measurable, behavior change more than the hidden mysteries of supposed intentionality.35

First, to say that this pear has mass might be to say that within the framework of physics and systems of physical measurement and associated units, there is some number m greater than zero, which, to some unspecified tolerance, functions as a parameter in a mechanical analysis of the pear's behavior.

Despite these limitations, the authors believed that the large and diverse sample from multiple schools permitted statistically valid analyses and used 5 measures of muscle - enhancing behavior, which provided a «more comprehensive picture of muscle - enhancing efforts among a US sample of male and female youth than has been available previously.»

In a recent meta - analysis of more than 1400 published studies, Martin Pinquart found that harsh control and psychological control were actually the biggest predictors of worsening behavior problems over time (Pinquart 2017).

On 14 regression analyses for the seven measures of well - being, only one statistically significant difference emerged: The children who frequently overnighted at age 3 years displayed more positive behavior at age 5 years than the rare or no overnights groups.

Even so, their findings revealed no reason why children should not spend overnights with their fathers, as there were virtually no differences between the overnighters and non-overnighters; on 14 regression analyses for the seven measures of well - being, only one statistically significant difference emerged: the children who frequently overnighted at age 3 years displayed more positive behavior at age 5 years than the rare or no overnights groups.

Even better, they've broken us down into conservative and liberal buckets, which is perhaps more straightforward than it sounds, since someone who's a fan of Rush Limbaugh, Mitt Romney and the American Enterprise Institute is probably fairly conservative (this kind of «sentiment analysis» can be a real pain to automate when you're talking about individual social media posts, but I suspect it gets easier when you can figure in someone's overall pattern of social behavior, as Facebook can).

No one understands the transformative power of data analysis better than Democratic consultant Ken Strasma, who helped propel Barack Obama into office by devising a mathematical model that predicts the political behavior of nearly every eligible voter.

With further experimental analysis, the scientists identified two distinct genetic variants that resulted in these sensitivity differences, suggesting that in crowded places, wild C. elegans populations with a specific genetic variation adopt different behaviors than those who don't.

For now, a combination of traditional microscopic analysis with DNA metabarcoding offers a deeper look into bee foraging behavior than either method alone.

While compiling previous research for their analysis, the researchers found that studies were much less likely to measure dating violence perpetration behaviors and victimization experiences than knowledge and attitudes.

The method has roots in other behavioral therapies for autism, such as applied behavior analysis, but is more flexible than many such programs and makes greater use of the child's own interests and motivations.

Although coffee consumption was inversely associated with diabetes, it was also positively associated with a number of behaviors that are considered unhealthy and are associated with an increased risk of death, such as tobacco smoking, 35 consumption of red meat, 36 and heavy alcohol use.37 Tobacco smoking was the strongest confounder in the multivariate analysis, and the inverse association between coffee consumption and mortality tended to be stronger among persons who had never smoked or were former smokers than among those who were current smokers, suggesting that residual confounding by smoking status, if present, attenuated the inverse associations between coffee drinking and mortality in our study.

But those languages didn't come out on top in an analysis of dating behavior in the US that found the ability to speak a second language other than English appears to make people vastly more attractive to the opposite sex — and also that your second tongue of choice matters.

Next, it presents an analysis of user behavior on one site in particular, which has more than 57,000 active users from the United States and Canada.

A recent meta - analysis of more than 100 studies found the Implicit Association Test can predict interracial discriminatory behavior better than personal reports of conscious racist beliefs.

For one, analysis of state - level discipline data (including information I gathered for the reports I wrote in 2005, 2006, and 2007 for the Indianapolis Star) indicates that more often than not, suspensions are more likely to be meted out for reasons other than violence, drugs, or weapons possession; most suspensions occur in categories such as disruptive behavior and attendance, while students are also expelled for chronic truancys.

Students who completed social - emotional learning interventions fared better than their peers who didn't participate on a variety of indicators — including academic performance, social skills, and avoiding negative behaviors like drug use, finds the analysis, which examined follow - up data from dozens of published studies on specific interventions.

Often assessments focus on general management skills and knowledge rather than on specific behaviors (such as data analysis and goal setting) that lead to school - wide improvements in teaching.

Applied Behavior Analysis talks about the «topography» of behaviors, and there is nowhere the need is clearer than in teaching functional skills.

Additional Reading: 2001 Dalbar Study: Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior Report 2003 Dalbar Study: Market Chasing Mutual Fund Investors Earn Less than Inflation 2004 Dalbar Study: DALBAR Study Shows Market Timers Lose Their Money 2007 Dalbar Study — Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior Report

That is according to market research firm Dalbar and its 20 years of Quantitative Analysis of Investor Behavior studies, though I prefer the less scientifically accurate «behavior gap» illustration from Carl Richards, a certified financial planner and the director of investor education for the BAM Alliance, a community of more than 130 independent wealth management firms throughout Behavior studies, though I prefer the less scientifically accurate «behavior gap» illustration from Carl Richards, a certified financial planner and the director of investor education for the BAM Alliance, a community of more than 130 independent wealth management firms throughout behavior gap» illustration from Carl Richards, a certified financial planner and the director of investor education for the BAM Alliance, a community of more than 130 independent wealth management firms throughout the U.S.

Some of these non-Fourier methods are far better than Fourier analysis when the waveform is distinctly non-sinusoidal, and some astronomical objects (like eclipsing binary stars) exhibit such behavior.

You can also, believe that the behavior of some climate scientists was less than perfect AND criticize bad skeptical posts, bad skeptical analysis, and bad skeptical data practices.

However, it is that the few millilitres of gas in ice cores is NOT a sample whose «behavior» can be correlated to a population, these «samples» are STATISTICALLY insignificant as a «population sample», it is NOT enough to simply say it is a «random sample», perhaps these STATISTICAL processes and «Experimental Design» analysis concepts should be what you need to read urther, rather than «climate opinion» (said without trying to appear over critical).

However, according to an analysis by Paul Murtaugh and Michael Schlax («Reproduction and the Carbon Legacies of Individuals», Global Environmental Change, 19:14 - 20, 2009), avoiding the birth of a single child has a much a greater effect on reducing CO2 emissions than environmentally conscious consumer behavior.

Through an analysis of the data beginning in part I and culminating here, we've clearly seen the unfolding of a tale that reveals that the app gap for the average smartphone user, based on human behavior, is far less impactful than many surmise.

Students who completed social - emotional learning interventions fared better than their peers who didn't participate on a variety of indicators — including academic performance, social skills, and avoiding negative behaviors like drug use, finds the analysis, which examined follow - up data from dozens of published studies on specific interventions.

In a recent meta - analysis of more than 1400 published studies, Martin Pinquart found that harsh control and psychological control were actually the biggest predictors of worsening behavior problems over time (Pinquart 2017).

Results Dialectical behavior therapy was associated with better outcomes in the intent - to - treat analysis than community treatment by experts in most target areas during the 2 - year treatment and follow - up period.

As a post hoc analysis, we examined associations of self - regulatory problems with coviewing practices to assess whether parents were taking a break from their difficult children by putting them in front of the TV more often, rather than the recommended practice of watching media together.26 In crude and adjusted models, self - regulatory problems at 9 months or persistent problems at 9 months and 2 years were not associated with any parental coviewing behaviors, such as watching TV with the child or talking to the child during TV viewing (data not shown).

Researchers, for example, recently subjected parent education programs that use video playback of parent - child interactions to a meta - analysis.72 They found that these programs have a sizable positive effect on parent behavior and a modest but significant effect on children's behavior — no less for children referred to clinics for conduct problems than for children referred from other sources.

The briefer version of the PSC3 is broadly used, with > 40 published studies.23 These studies have shown that the PSC - 17 yields higher detection rates than pediatricians relying on clinical judgment alone24 and has risk rates comparable to those of the PSC - 35,3 semistructured interviews (Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children — Present and Lifetime Version), 25 and longer questionnaire measures.2 The PSC - 17 was derived from the PSC - 35 through an exploratory factor analysis conducted on data collected from the 1994 to 1999 Child Behavior Study (CBS), a nationally representative sample of > 20000 pediatric outpatients.3 In that study, the exploratory factor analysis suggested that it was possible to create a briefer version of the PSC with 17 of the original 35 items.

According to a meta - analysis of 75 studies conducted on caregiver - infant attachment with more than 4,500 caregiver - child dyads, behavior - based, reciprocal, and mutually reinforcing interactions that promoted caregiver sensitivity and responsiveness were most likely to change caregiver behavior and influence attachment patterns (Dunst & Kassow, 2008).

A new analysis of more than 200 school - based social and emotional learning programs has found that such programs improve students» attitudes and behaviors, and in some cases, even boost academic performance.

He has authored more than 275 publications, including the books Behavioral Medicine and Developmental Disabilities (Springer - Verlag, 1989), Self - Injurious Behavior: Analysis, Assessment, and Treatment (Springer - Verlag, 1991), Antecedent Control: Innovative Approaches to Behavioral Support (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 1998), Behavior Psychology in the Schools: Innovations in Evaluation, Support, and Consultation (The Haworth Press, 2002), Antecedent Assessment and Intervention: Supporting Children and Adults with Developmental Disabilities in Community Settings (Paul H. Brookes Publishing Co., 2006), Effective Practices for Children with Autism: Educational and Behavior Support Interventions that Work (Oxford University Press, 2011), and Behavioral Sport Psychology: Evidence - Based Approaches to Performance Enhancement (Springer, 2011).

Analysis found children in the PSST condition had greater decreases in aggression and externalizing behaviors and overall behavior problems and greater increases in pro-social behavior at follow - up than did the RT and control groups.

To retain the distinctions between the discrete parenting behaviors in the analyses, rather than averaging the results or selecting one of them, we used Cooper's (1989) shifting unit of analysis.

When the analysis was conducted on the entire sample, results indicated that global and to a lesser extent proximal measures of child behavior problems and personal distress made modest contributions to dysfunctional parenting, with neither child behavior problems or personal distress playing a more important role than the other.

Adults who received spankings as children were more likely to display antisocial behavior and to have mental health than their peers who were raised in non-spanking homes, the meta - analysis found.

Analysis of RMICS positive behaviors (the sum of acceptance, relationship - enhancing attributions, self - disclosure, humor, and constructive problem discussion) indicated theoretically consistent significant differences between high - and low - hostile groups; the sex × group interaction reflected women's larger differences than men's (F1, 40 = 5.84; P =.02).

In the recent meta - analysis of van de Bongardt et al. (2015), it was found that adolescent sexual behavior was more strongly associated with peer pressure of more distant peers (i.e., peers in general) than of closer friends.

The analysis showed that patients with CHD exhibited more overall (medium ES), internalizing (medium ES), and externalizing (small ES) behavior problems than controls (Table II).

PCIT was chosen as the PT program because PCIT: a) has well established efficacy in reducing young children's EBP (Eisenstadt et al. 1993; Eyberg et al. 2001; Hood and Eyberg 2003; Schuhmann et al. 1998); b) contains all of the treatment components recognized by Kaminski and colleagues» meta - analysis (Kaminski et al. 2008) as yielding the largest effect sizes (i.e., increasing positive parent — child interactions, promoting consistency and use of time out, and requiring parents to practice new skills with their child during PT sessions); c) aims to strengthen the parent — child relationship, which can be accomplished in a brief intervention (Bakermans - Kranenburg et al. 2003); d) is a competency - based model that emphasizes skill acquisition rather than a fixed set of sessions; and e) includes a unique delivery technique (i.e., wireless headset for the therapist to coach the parent in vivo during interactions with the child) similar to an exposure - based approach in which parents observe «in vivo» changes in their child behavior during sessions.

However, analyses have shown that youths from the high - risk sample reported more delinquent behavior than the professional caregivers from their institutions [16].

For example, the results of a meta - analysis by Asscher et al. [4] showed that the effect size of psychopathy on delinquent behavior was larger in adolescent female samples than in adolescent male samples.

The main results can be summarized as follows: (1) Synchrony during early mother - child interactions has neurophysiological correlates [85] as evidenced though the study of vagal tone [78], cortisol levels [80], and skin conductance [79]; (2) Synchrony impacts infant's cognitive processing [64], school adjustment [86], learning of word - object relations [87], naming of object wholes more than object parts [88]; and IQ [67], [89]; (3) Synchrony is correlated with and / or predicts better adaptation overall (e.g., the capacity for empathy in adolescence [89]; symbolic play and internal state speech [77]; the relation between mind - related comments and attachment security [90], [91]; and mutual initiation and mutual compliance [74], [92]-RRB-; (3) Lack of synchrony is related to at risk individuals and / or temperamental difficulties such as home observation in identifying problem dyads [93], as well as mother - reported internalizing behaviors [94]; (4) Synchrony has been observable within several behavioral or sensorial modalities: smile strength and eye constriction [52]; tonal and temporal analysis of vocal interactions [95](although, the association between vocal interactions and synchrony differs between immigrant (lower synchrony) and non-immigrant groups [84]-RRB-; mutual gaze [96]; and coordinated movements [37]; (5) Each partner (including the infant) appears to play a role in restoring synchrony during interactions: children have coping behaviors for repairing interactive mismatches [97]; and infants are able to communicate intent and to respond to the intent expressed by the mother at the age of 2 months [98].