Sentences with phrase «by accounting for differences»

We've known that they couldn't all be perfectly round, but this study demonstrates you can use these derived values and improve predictions for more accurate models by accounting for differences in properties at different sizes and types of particulate matter.»

Not exact matches

We can account for this difference by measuring employment growth relatively to the overall level of employment in each country.

As the cohort ages, differences are accounted for more fully by differences in income from the 3rd pillar, especially after age 70.

At the age 64 to 66 point, the differences are accounted for primarily by differences in earnings from employment and self - employment.

It shows the part attributable to the interest differential, with the difference between the two lines accounted for by the currency movement.

Given that the deficit / surplus was not affected by the difference in accounting, there should be no difference between our estimate and that estimated by the authors for under / overshoots in the deficit / surplus.

After accounting for differences in risk, demographic and trading characteristics, self - directed investors outperform advised investors by a small margin.

Some of this difference can be accounted for by Strategy Analytics only tracking five large countries and Loup's attempt to quantify shipments to other countries as well.

«Delusion» can account for any feeling of being «correct,» which is why there is no practical difference in believing god exists but offers no measurable mechanism by which to prove it, and in believing that he doesn't exist.

In other words, he assumes that accepting the fact of reasonable pluralism entails denying that differences on what he labels «ultimate questions» can be accounted for by saying that somebody has made what he calls «mistakes in reason.»

There is, to be sure, a technical difference, as he had pointed out: The epiphenomenalist says that every mental state is caused by a corresponding physical state, whereas in Kim's account the mental state is supervenient upon the physical state, the difference being that in the latter relationship the two levels are understood to be simultaneous whereas the epiphenomenalist's causal relation allows for a time lapse between the physical state and its mental effect (SM 359).

Whitehead offers an alternative formulation and claims on behalf of his formulation that it can account for all experimental results accounted for by the Einsteinian formulation but that it represents a different interpretation of these results in terms of a more adequate concept of nature (PNK vi; CN vii, 182; IS 125 - 35).18 The major theoretical difference between the two formulations is that whereas in the Einsteinian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is variable from point to point and in differing directions (that is, heterogeneous and nonisotropic), in the Whiteheadian formulation the metric structure of the space - time continuum is uniform from point to point and in differing directions (that is, homogeneous and isotropic).

All of the objections are answered by the fact that Peter admits to have written through an amanuensis in 1 Peter, and the differences in themes and audiences accounts for grammatical differences.

Also, human DNA does not differ that much from the DNA of our closest relatives, and the differences are easily accounted for by the standard source of mutation and natural selection.

how interesting, I wonder what accounts for the difference... are you using a frozen banana by any chance?

I have heard that the bobblehead factory's locality pay difference doesn't fully account for all of the ways that Hawaii is more expensive, so some bobblehead lineworkers feel like they've taken a pay cut by going there.

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

These socioeconomic differences were accounted for by researchers via questionnaire.

SilentHunter, Some of the differences are that a newspaper is publishing an account and a dossier; that this is going to an independent complaints commission which the police do not control; that both supporters as well as opponents of the government will ask questions about this - in parliament, on blogs, and in many other places - no doubt pushing for an inquest with a jury, and be pushing for broader changes in policing to ensure its consistency with the human rights legislation we now have (such as those being advocated by Stuart White here on Next Left).

I kindly ask for your support in this campaign by sharing it on your Facebook and Twitter accounts - every new voter we make contact with can make the difference this November!

WHEREAS, the State of New York is best positioned to: (1) understand the ramifications of operating an Exchange within New York's commercial insurance market; (2) consider the unique regional and economic needs of the State's individual and small business health insurance markets; (3) account for the diversity of its population, with its ethnic, cultural and language differences; and (4) decide what benefits will be provided to enrollees in the Exchange, which health plans can participate in the Exchange, what rules should apply to the marketing of products by health plans, and how to operate the Small Business Health Option Program («SHOP») for small businesses;

The budget is able to exploit this loophole by not «adjusting for payment timing differences and accounting changes,» such as through premature debt service payments or «shifting expenditures out of state operating funds spending.»

After adjusting their findings to account for differences in race and ethnicity, sex, age, poverty level, education and urban density of the children's neighborhoods, Keet and her team found that for each microgram / cubic meter increase in coarse particulate matter, asthma diagnosis increased by 0.6 percent, emergency room visits for asthma by 1.7 percent and hospitalizations for asthma by 2.3 percent.

Using a United Kingdom database, they surveyed general practitioners about BSA affected by psoriasis and looked at data on 8,124 adults with psoriasis and 76,599 adults without psoriasis over the course of four years, and they adjusted the samples to account for any differences in age, sex, and body mass index and other diabetes risk factors.

After accounting for these differences, PSR was by far the most cost - effective option.

A shared upbringing accounted for 36 per cent of the differences, with the remainder influenced by other factors that weren't shared, such as having a different teacher (PLoS One, doi.org/qhf).

A study by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) published this week in PLOS ONE identifies four factors that may account for sex differences in statin therapy among patients with coronary artery disease (CAD), pointing to interventions and additional research that will be needed to help overcome this sex disparity and reduce cardiovascular risk for women.

For example, more light is emitted by affluent regions in Albania than by similar regions in Liberia, which means that differences between countries have to be taken into account.

In the 24 June Sciencexpress, researchers at the University of Sydney report that the differences between the bees» liking for heat can be accounted for by genetics.

To determine what level of a toxin is safe, researchers take a dose that has no observed toxicological effect in an animal and divide it by 10 once (to account for the differences between species) and then again (to account for variations among humans» ability to handle toxins); for pesticides, the dose is then divided by 10 a third time (to allow for the extraordinary sensitivity of babies and children).

«Our findings show that population differences in transcriptional responses to immune activation are widespread, and that they are mainly accounted for by genetic variants that differ in their frequencies between human populations,» said Lluis Quintana - Murci of Institut Pasteur and CNRS in Paris, France, who led one of the two studies.

«The types and levels of bacteria encountered by infants in developing countries is different from the types and levels of bacteria encountered by the babies in our UC Davis cohort, and that might account for some of the differences,» he said.

The study, conducted jointly by researchers at Harvard and UT Southwestern Medical Center, is the first to look at state - level trends in child fatalities involving motor vehicle crashes, and to account for differences in geography and state laws and regulations.

That difference can be accounted for by the nonlinear nature of the waves, which are not sinusoidal — but instead have rounded troughs, along with sharp peaks that result from the water being pushed upward against the pull of gravity.

For chemicals that don't cause cancer, they obtain a safe dose for humans by applying uncertainty factors to account for differences between mice and men and among individual peopFor chemicals that don't cause cancer, they obtain a safe dose for humans by applying uncertainty factors to account for differences between mice and men and among individual peopfor humans by applying uncertainty factors to account for differences between mice and men and among individual peopfor differences between mice and men and among individual people.

Similarly, a 23,000 - person study by Portia Dyrenforth and colleagues in 2010 demonstrates that such principles account for approximately 0.5 percent of person - to - person differences in relationship well - being.

The researchers identified several hundred differences in methylation associated with either Mexican or Puerto Rican ethnicity, but discovered that only three - quarters of the epigenetic difference between the two ethnic subgroups could be accounted for by differences in the children's genetic ancestry.

Nevertheless, the researchers were able to show that the Messel forest web is likely comparable in structure to modern webs, by using models to account for differences in structure that would result from the many more taxa and interactions in the Messel data.

It may, for example, partly account for the differences in brain structure and behavior between identical twins, and could even affect thought processes by subtly influencing the changes in nerve cell connections that occur with experience.

By not accounting for these differences, models have likely over-estimated the amount of water lost to the atmosphere in some regions.

A shared upbringing accounted for only 36 per cent of the differences, with the remainder accounted for by environmental factors that weren't shared, such as each twin having a different teacher.

They account for about half of all differences in intelligence among people, so half is not caused by genetic differences, which provides strong support for the importance of environmental factors.

Deficiencies include how easily the metric can be skewed by just a few papers, how it fails to account for the differences between fields, and its potential to be «gamed» by editors and authors.

Quiz Ref IDPatients cared for by female physicians had lower 30 - day mortality than did patients treated by male physicians (10.82 % vs 11.49 %; risk difference [RD], — 0.67 %; 95 % CI, — 0.80 % to — 0.54 %; P <.001; number needed to treat [NNT] to prevent 1 death, 149) after accounting for patient characteristics (Table 2).

Patients treated by female physicians had lower 30 - day mortality (adjusted mortality, 11.07 % vs 11.49 %; adjusted risk difference, — 0.43 %; 95 % CI, — 0.57 % to — 0.28 %; P <.001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 death, 233) and lower 30 - day readmissions (adjusted readmissions, 15.02 % vs 15.57 %; adjusted risk difference, — 0.55 %; 95 % CI, — 0.71 % to — 0.39 %; P <.001; number needed to treat to prevent 1 readmission, 182) than patients cared for by male physicians, after accounting for potential confounders.

In addition, to address the possibility that physicians» age may not fully account for the differences in clinical experience between female and male physicians, we further adjusted for physicians» years in practice as measured by years since completion of residency.

Therefore, we consider it unlikely that the striking dimorphic behavioral responses to some mouse semiochemicals [2], [4], [6], [34] can be solely accounted for by transcriptional differences at the level of detection.

It also retrieved information about how each of the experiments in the literature was completed, and corrected the data to account for any differences that might be caused by the format of the experiment.

Desai and his team are planning to account for those geographic differences in an upcoming study, which will track Medicare reimbursements over years and by specialty.