The word
"cohort" refers to a group of people who share a common characteristic or experience and are often studied or analyzed together. It can be used to describe a specific age group, a team, or a group of individuals involved in a particular event or activity.
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Their analysis of the data led the teams to define questions about the progress of
cohorts of students as they moved from one grade to the next.
The study adds to the body of large
cohort studies of planned home births that have reported on the relative safety of home versus hospital births.
Completed 10 - year outcomes
in cohort studied since 1 year of age.
The prospective
birth cohort study examined the effects of low - dose chemical exposure in 164 pregnant women.
For cohorts who entered repayment in the 1990s and early 2000s, the median large - balance borrower made gradual progress repaying his or her loan.
We observed a robust inverse association between fruit and vegetable intake and long - term weight change in three large
prospective cohorts of American adults.
Those still in their sophomore and junior years were earning more credits toward graduation, giving hope that the success of the
first cohort of students will be repeated by subsequent ones.
We also partner
with cohorts of forward - thinking school operators to rethink «school» design and to begin to design breakthrough models.
One might also be concerned that some families are, for some reason, unable to remove their children
from cohorts with a large number of troubled peers.
The two new systematic literature reviews also describe recently published results from several mother and
child cohort studies linking organic milk and dairy product consumption to a reduced risk of certain diseases.
Students can start their program with a
new cohort group in either the summer or fall semester and can finish their degree within 18 months.
Today roughly 10 per cent of each
age cohort in rich countries receives more in a single inheritance than the lifetime income of someone in the bottom 50 per cent of income earners.
Breastfeeding is associated with improved child cognitive development: A population
based cohort study.
Young people are indeed behaving and thinking differently from previous
cohorts at the same age.
In my social circle, the majority of those in my birth
cohort who do not have children are single (or divorced without kids).
Then, the function is illustrated on a real dataset from a nationwide prospective observational
cohort including patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
The four - year adjusted
cohort graduation rate reported by the state for the 2014 - 15 school year was 79 percent for Black students, but 90 percent for White students.
The
youngest cohort of children, ages 5 and below, was defined as having early - onset pancreatitis.
The programme has been a such a success that a
second cohort of schools will start training this Autumn 2016.
While all kids improved, they didn't meet the rapid pace set by the
smaller cohort of original charter school students.
Identifying gene expression patterns in relation to the compound could facilitate the selection of the most appropriate
patient cohorts for clinical development.
The likelihood that a new teacher was a woman who ranked in the top 10 percent of her high
school cohort fell by 50 percent between 1964 and 2000.
State plans should not be approved if the four - year
adjusted cohort graduation rate is not used as an indicator in the state's accountability system.
Of particular interest were the prospective
longitudinal cohort studies in which mothers were recruited during their pregnancy or postpartum period, and the children were assessed at regular intervals.
For the first time, the assessment also tracked the progress of the
same cohort of students by administering a third test in their last year of school.
In a
retrospective cohort of approximately 30,000 patients, 14 percent received broad - spectrum drugs and 86 percent received narrow - spectrum drugs.
Most states have been publishing reliable graduation and dropout rates
using cohort methodology since the class of 2007 or so.
The study
follows cohorts of rising 9th graders for five application years from 2003 - 04 through 2007 - 08.
Indeed, it is because of the wide income spread and life chance differences within
cohort groups, rather than between them, that British politics does not yet have an effective grey lobby.
Also consistent with the idea that parents become less important in the lives of adolescents were the diminishing effects
across cohorts from parents to friends regarding support.
All too many of our baby - boom constituents have much more in common with those parts of
other cohorts who are left at the bottom of the income pile.
That might seem small at first glance, but relative to the current three - year
cohort default rate of approximately 11 percent, it is a substantial change.
However, real gains by blacks in
recent cohorts do appear to be an important part of the divergence between our results and past research.
We selected a very
diverse cohort of 26 fellows who range in age, gender, and professional experience.
Sometimes it's done with a
whole cohort of teachers working within a grade level.
Unfortunately, transcript - based measures are not currently available to track for
different cohorts over time.
Very early predictors of conduct problems and crime: results from a
national cohort study.
The longer - term benefits will need to be measured as the
early cohorts age into adulthood.
Effectively we have lost an
entire cohort over two years which can not help but impact negatively on schools.
But the programs are «not going to be for everyone,» she said, such as older workers nearing retirement age, a
growing cohort in this country.
The
current cohort of American teenagers between he ages of 13 and 17 is lonely, spiritually hungry and intensely aware of the threat of violence.
Last year the program was expanded to five middle schools and an algebra 1 component was added, and this fall its monitors will follow the original
cohort into high school.