Sentences with phrase «cohorts grouped by»

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After listening to that episode, I began thinking more and more about angel groups and how that seems like a really easy way to have a cohort that you run deals by and also have the same decision autonomy of doing it lone wolf style.

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 and older.

The cohort has a high representation of women from disadvantaged and lower socioeconomic groups, who are of particular interest in the targeting of breastfeeding interventions.29, 30 We can not exclude residual confounding by factors that we were not able to account for within this observational study.

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.

The baby - boomers have turned out to be the most privileged of cohorts our country has produced when common sense would suggest that this extraordinarily large group, born in the wake of the 1945 peace, would be disadvantaged by their size.

In cohort 1, compared to the placebo group influenza - like illness was reduced by 9 percent in pre - and post-partum mothers who received vaccine.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

Unemployment increased slightly in the more recent group, compared with the 2004 — 05 cohort analyzed by Vitae in 2008 (from 1.7 % in 2008 to 2.4 % in 2010), but the economic crisis seemed to have only a very small effect on the employment prospects of recent Ph.D. graduates.

Analysis of respondents by sex, age group, and birth cohort showed differing trends over time.

The groups were equivalent regarding all baseline characteristics, except that the RYGB cohort had by chance a longer diabetes duration (11.4 versus 6.8 years).

Studying older people over time can be challenging given their uncertain health, but Ritchie and his colleagues had an unusual resource in the Lothian Birth Cohort, a group of people born in 1936 whose mental function has been periodically tested by the Scottish government since 1947 — their first IQ test was at age 11.

To cite a recent example, speaking at an event organized by the pressure group Save British Science, Astronomer Royal Professor Sir Martin Rees this week voiced his concern that the lack of a long - term view from successive governments means there is a serious danger that the cohort of young academic researchers needed to replace the older generation will fail to materialize.

In order to find out whether this polymorphism is also associated with extreme longevity, Spanish researchers performed an analysis of the frequencies of this polymorphism among centenarians and healthy adults in two independent cohorts, by geographical regions and by ethnic groups.

And instead of recruiting participants through doctors or by knocking on doors, ECHO will pull together existing studies of groups, or cohorts, of children.

Of the dozen of these metabolites that were measured in cohorts from the longitudinal Framingham Heart Study (the long - term 1948 study to identify the common contributive factors of cardiovascular disease by following its development in a large subject group) levels of glycerol turned out to be «significantly correlated» with resting heart rate, another indicator of fitness, as measured in the study.

This contrasts with a study by another group, of a Canadian IDUs cohort, which showed transmission of multiple strains.

«In this study we were able to demonstrate the clinical utility of Prosigna in a real world setting by testing a comprehensive population - based cohort of patients,» stated Dr. Bent Ejlertsen of the Danish Breast Cancer Cooperative Group.

One hundred children aged 1 to 6 years were sequentially assigned to 3 cohorts of 20, 40 and 40 participants with stratification for age by 2 - year increments (1 — 2 years, 3 — 4 years, and 5 — 6 years) to ensure that the study groups were balanced by age in case of age - related differences in tolerability or immunogenicity.

Incidence of bladder cancer varies considerably between ethnicities, and as the risk factors reported here were discovered by analysing DNA from groups of European descent, it is our hope that the publication of these findings will contribute to the swift analysis of the impact of these variants in cohorts of other continental ancestries.

BioGenoMEL will be coordinated by the University of Leeds and has already received expressions of interest from 6 research groups with large cohorts of melanoma patients in Spain, Austria, Sweden and the USA.

Next, to determine whether risk of non-affective psychotic disorder in refugees relative to migrants differed by region of origin, we fitted a Cox regression model to a subset of the cohort, excluding the Swedish - born group who did not contribute information to these analyses.

By using this new characterization, we examined whether dietary GI and intakes of fiber and carbohydrate - containing food groups were associated with the 13 - y inflammatory disease mortality in an older Australian cohort.

You'll practice coaching in the secure environment of your cohort group, led by your course facilitator.

Dorr recruits four cohorts (Marlon Wayans, J.K. Simmons, Tzi Ma and Ryan Hurst), disguised as a practicing music group, and proceeds to rob the casino by tunneling underground.

Though I begin by looking at outcomes among borrowers, for most of the report I will focus on default rates and debt burdens among all entrants of a given cohort and demographic group, including those who never borrowed.

The table at the bottom of Chart 1 shows the group breakdown and we can clearly see that while the whole cohort success increased by a factor of three, low SES students and minority students rates of success jumped by factors of five and six — double the rate of the whole cohort.

This is accomplished by using only that portion of the achievement of a gender or racial group that can not be explained by a linear time trend and the overall gender and racial composition of the group's cohort.

This study introduces two empirical strategies that circumvent these obstacles by examining differences in cohorts of students - a school's group of 3rd graders in one year versus the next year's group of 3rd graders - rather than cross-sections of classrooms at the same grade level.

While part of orientation week is giving students a chance to meet their colleagues, especially in their respective cohorts, by midweek it seemed the Higher Education group had already developed friendships.

Both programs offer support through a cohort model: ACE teachers must live in small groups, whereas TFA corps members frequently room together by choice.

Now that the school year has begun, and our research into documentation and assessment practices is off and running, we're excited to welcome the 2016 - 2017 Agency by Design Oakland Fellowship cohort, a group of 28 educators from around the San Francisco Bay Area.

The schools are grouped into cohorts by the year they started in the PICCS initiative.

Our story had revealed that Harris had six schools in England's top 50 ranked by checking how much the year group taking GCSEs in 2013 had shrunk compared with the size of the same cohort when it entered secondary education.

Normed tests, also known as Norm Referenced Tests are tests that are normed by collecting large amounts of testing data from large cohorts of students, later comparing the performance of age and grade groups.

Small group cohorts are arranged by the Arizona K12 Center and Candidate Support Provider (CSP) contact information is provided during the funding assistance process and / or Institute experiences.

In addition to the larger institutes, Leadership Academy participants were also grouped into small cohorts of about 15 — organized by region — to do «learning walkthroughs» or classroom visits, to observe teachers in area schools and provide feedback.

But he also said that because the report does not include demographics of the groups of students tested each year, track cohorts of students, nor include data for all grades or break scores down by school, it's hard to draw conclusions.

This year because of additional grant funding, we are offering many cohort groups facilitated by trained Candidate Support Providers.

This course may be taken by individuals as a self - paced, independent study, or by groups of educators as part of a school or district cohort.

Compass will generate important summative data for individuals, cohorts and groups typically found in trackers, but this is a by - product rather than its core purpose.»

Regardless of the cohort size, candidates are divided into small Inquiry Groups (peer study groups) to optimize opportunities for collaboration, dialogue, and ongoing support by an E-Mentor assigned to each Inquiry Groups (peer study groups) to optimize opportunities for collaboration, dialogue, and ongoing support by an E-Mentor assigned to each Inquiry groups) to optimize opportunities for collaboration, dialogue, and ongoing support by an E-Mentor assigned to each Inquiry Group.

MITUL provides leadership and organizational development services to teacher union locals by engaging in a multi-year consulting relationship with the locals and providing a cohort experience for a group of «critical friend» locals.

Compass will also generate important summative data for individuals, cohorts and groups typically found in trackers, but this is a by - product rather than its core purpose.

Results from regressions censored by respondent groups and financial literacy topic areas suggest that the decline is not related to cohort effects or differences in gender or educational attainment.

(6) As calculated by the Secretary under § 668.413, the loan repayment rate for any one or all of the following groups of students who entered repayment on title IV loans during the two - year cohort period:

By noon, the groups will meet back at the plaza entrance for the conclusion of the event — featuring lunch, a display showing all of the amazing accomplishments of the day, and plenty of time for relaxing with your Muir Woods Earth Day cohorts for the rest of the afternoon.

Tom was selected from a full cohort of 36 longlisted artists from seventeen universities across the south - east, nominated by directors and curators from Aspex, De La Warr, MK Gallery, Modern Art Oxford and Turner Contemporary galleries, whose work has been shown in a series of group exhibitions over the summer.

In the 1950s, a comparably collaborative strategy was adopted by the the Independent Group (IG), a cohort of artists, architects, theorists and designers working at the vanguard of British art.

An installation by artist Ayesha Hadhir Al Mheiri titled Al Doobah, part of the Community and Critique: SEAF 2016/2017 Cohort 4 group exhibition at Warehouse 421 in the Mina Zayed.

«The hockey stick's author was the same IPCC lead author who in my opinion worked with a small group of cohorts and misrepresented the temperature record of the past 1,000 years by promoting his own result»