Sentences with phrase «compared with youths»

These findings indicate that adolescents in the Safe Dates group reported perpetrating less psychological and sexual abuse at all four follow - up periods, compared with youths in the control group.

Adolescents in the program reported perpetrating less psychological and sexual abuse at all four follow - up periods, compared with youths in the control group.

Results indicated that compared with youths in the control group, youths in the Together Facing the Challenge group showed improvement on the three focal domains — symptoms, behaviors, and strengths.

At 6 months» follow - up, youths in families that were assigned to FOK plus ImPACT reported significantly lower rates of sexual intercourse, sex without a condom, alcohol use, and cigarette use and marginally lower rates of «risky sexual behavior» compared with youths in families that were assigned to FOK only.

Because black and Hispanic youngsters are indeed «underrepresented» in the entering classes of the SHSAT high schools when compared with the youth demographics of New York City — and there's no denying that they are, just as white and especially Asian youngsters are «overrepresented» — the NAACP asserts that the test must be discriminatory and therefore the federal Office for Civil Rights should make the city stop using it.

Children receiving RLH did not have placements or psychiatric hospitalizations, a positive, but not significant trend, compared with youth in the TI - TAU.

Results showed significant reductions in depression, youth threats toward staff, use of physical restraints, and seclusion rates for youth on the intervention program units when compared with youth on the TAU program units.

Not exact matches

I couldn't help comparing this church with the rollicking, regular church experiences of my youth.

So while Canada's youth unemployment situation is far from ideal, it does compare favourably with other job climates, both historically and abroad.

Youth in Canada were hit much harder by the financial crisis, with youth unemployment peaking at 16.4 %, compared to 12 % in AustrYouth in Canada were hit much harder by the financial crisis, with youth unemployment peaking at 16.4 %, compared to 12 % in Austryouth unemployment peaking at 16.4 %, compared to 12 % in Australia.

According to rate - tracking website Ratehub.ca, youth accounts at Tangerine, the online bank owned by Scotiabank, pays the highest interest rate for young savers at 1.2 per cent compared with typically less than one per cent at the country's big banks.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

At the same time, a major new study by Daniel Yankelovich shows that only 28 per cent of American college youth consider religion important, compared with 38 per cent in 1969; and that among working youth, the number considering religion an important value dropped from 64 to 42 per cent.

So, while I disagree with Beck on many issues, and have taken great offense to some of his past comments, like that time he compared the camp that the 2011 Norway terror attacks occurred to a Hitler Youth camp, I am inclined to agree with Beck here.

Let us not compare our youth setup with Madrid.

@ larryking listen jock wenger could never coach anyother club because no big club would go six season without a trophy there is no way wenger could go to madrid and go two season without a trophy no way in hell he would be fired in no time bmunich fired klinsman less than half season look at the real madrid coach grave yard pelligrinie made 95 + points last season that amount would win the league in almost any country yet he got fired i can go on if fergi goes two seasons without a trophy am sure he gone i love arsenal but football is about winning trophies wenger has hypnotize you i do nt care arsenal have gone five years without a trophy and six witout the league not even a carling cup or fa cup and loosing all our best players all for money all this talk about wenger and his youth policies i can count on both hands all the players that came through arsenal youth system that went on to be world beaters look at the current crop walcott nasri diaby denilson bedtner clichy none of these are world class they have improve minimal @ arsenal compare that to barca their youths pedro and co are world beaters event the great vanpercy who we rate he would never leave arsenal because all that chance wenger gives him he would» t get at other big clubs this does not make sense we buy young players they take ages to develop most do nt» t then we sell them or they leave because they want to win things that how you grow pretty soon that top four will become very hard to stay in if we get out of that then what i wish all you wenger fans luck am all out of patients with him last chance this year................

The number of youth participating in the Park District of Highland Park's gymnastics programs was up in fall and winter 2012, compared with previous years, and likely due to the popularity of the Summer Olympics, administrators said.

Participation in youth sports is in steady decline across the country, with youth football down nearly five percent compared to previous years.

The youth vote famously played a large role in Barack Obama's victory in 2008, but one of the big questions of this year's election is how young voter turnout will compare with that of the previous election.

No official data exists for the scale of the youth vote but an NME - led exit poll suggests turnout among under - 35s rose by 12 points compared with 2015, to 56 %.

Compared to population - based peers, youth who have gone to an emergency department to hospital with suicide - related behaviors had three to four times higher risk of death.

A team of UCLA scientists has found that brain areas linked to social behaviors are both underdeveloped and insufficiently networked in youths with high functioning autism spectrum disorder (ASD) compared to study participants without ASD.

Respondents who scored high on church attendance and «intrinsic religiosity» were only 31 percent likely to treat underserved populations, compared with 35 percent among the nonreligious; spirituality and youth were better predictors of service.

The study also finds that tablet access surpasses use of desktop computers among American teens, with 54 percent of youth having access to a desktop, compared with 68 percent of teens having access to a tablet computer.

Holton and Nigg created a lifestyle index to summarize the total number of healthy lifestyle behaviors adhered to by 184 children with ADHD as compared to a control group of 104 non-ADHD youth.

The results showed that youth who reported that they did not spend time outdoors after school (17 %) achieved 21 fewer minutes of MVPA daily, with an additional 70 minutes per day of sedentary behavior compared with those who reported spending most of their time outdoors after school (39 %).

«This was the first study that examined youth with psychiatric disorder by comparing what type of service they were receiving and whether that was associated with self - concept,» said Mark Ferro, the Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Wateyouth with psychiatric disorder by comparing what type of service they were receiving and whether that was associated with self - concept,» said Mark Ferro, the Canada Research Chair in Youth Mental Health and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at WateYouth Mental Health and an assistant professor in the Faculty of Applied Health Sciences at Waterloo.

Among non-smoking youth who had ever used e-cigarettes, 43.9 percent said they intended to smoke conventional cigarettes within the next year, compared with 21.5 percent of those who had never used e-cigarettes.

During the 12 years after detention, non-Hispanic white youths had 30 times the odds of cocaine use disorder compared with African Americans.

They compared MRI measurements from 31 youth with Down Syndrome and 45 typically developing peers.

Possibly in keeping with its relative youth compared to Sol's 4.6 billion years, Star A has a faster rotation of 13.4 days (Knutson et al, 2007; and Noyes et al, 1984) compared with Sol's 25.4 days, with more chromospheric activity including starspots large and widespread enough to affect its luminosity by about + / - 1.5 percent in visible light (Knutson et al, 2007).

Comparing their spectra suggests that young L dwarfs with similar ages and temperatures can have different spectral signatures of youth.

A streamlined behavioral therapy delivered in a pediatrics practice offered much greater benefit to youth with anxiety and depression than a more standard referral to mental health care with follow - up in a clinical trial comparing the two approaches.

With its focus on Central African youth in peril, interludes of dreamy stylization and non-native directorial perspective, «White Shadow» will routinely be compared to Kim Nguyen's recent, Oscar - nominated child - soldier study «War Witch» — which also, as it happens, featured a significant albino character.

Granted, the intended audience of contemporary youth for American Pie will be largely unfamiliar with most of the garbage which splashed across the screens in the 1980s and will find this movie is something original, especially compared to similar films that are watered down once the PG - 13 rating became the norm for teen fare.

In one scene while out taking in the spectacular mountain scenery, Mick uses a tourist telescope to illustrate the difference between how close the future seems in youth compared to how distant the past appears with age.

Infants who experience insecure access to food will be less cognitively advanced when they become toddlers, compared with infants who had consistent access to food, concludes a study by a team of researchers at Child Trends, a Washington - based nonprofit organization that researches child and youth issues.

The cognitive assessment, according to OECD PISA's paper, «Preparing our youth for an inclusive and sustainable world,» will measure students» abilities to engage with news articles about global issues, recognize outside influences on world views, understand how to communicate with others in an intercultural fashion, and identify and compare different courses of action to address global issues.

In addition, 29 per cent believe that today's youth will have a better quality of life than their parents, compared with 43 per cent in 2003.

The dysfunctional nature of how urban schools teach students to relate to authority begins in kindergarten and continues through the primary grades.With young children, authoritarian, directive teaching that relies on simplistic external rewards still works to control students.But as children mature and grow in size they become more aware that the school's coercive measures are not really hurtful (as compared to what they deal with outside of school) and the directive, behavior modification methods practiced in primary grades lose their power to control.Indeed, school authority becomes counterproductive.From upper elementary grades upward students know very well that it is beyond the power of school authorities to inflict any real hurt.External controls do not teach students to want to learn; they teach the reverse.The net effect of this situation is that urban schools teach poverty students that relating to authority is a kind of game.And the deepest, most pervasive learnings that result from this game are that school authority is toothless and out of touch with their lives.What school authority represents to urban youth is «what they think they need to do to keep their school running.»

With passage of the Local Control Funding Formula, California became the first state to require schools to consider how best to serve a small subset of at - risk students: youth in foster care.According to 2016 California Department of Education data, in English language arts, 56.2 percent of foster students did not meet standards on the Smarter Balanced tests (compared to 30.5 percent of non-foster students) and for mathematics, 64 percent of foster students did not meet standards (compared to 37.3 percent of non-foster students).

The academic achievement gap for poorer youth is particularly pronounced for low - income African American and Hispanic children compared with their more affluent White peers.

Whether you use the definition of giftedness from the United States Office of Education (US Department of Education, 1993), which describes these students as» children and youth with outstanding talent who perform or show the potential for performing at remarkably high levels of accomplishment when compared with others of their age, experience, or environment», or as Renzulli (1978) does as the intersection and interaction among three basic clusters of human traits — above average ability, high levels of task commitment, and high levels of creativity, it is arguably the concept of asychronicity that educators must address.

Due to historical trauma, chronically underfunded programs, and broken promises on the part of the U.S. government, children and youth from Native American communities experience many educational, health, and economic disparities compared with their peers.

Due to historical trauma, chronically underfunded programs, and broken promises on the part of the U.S. government, youth from Native American communities experience many educational, health, and economic disparities compared with their peers in the general population.

So committed was he to learning from others and with others, that he engaged the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in assessing the knowledge and skills of Massachusetts youth, in ways that would help us compare the performance of students in the State with that of their peers in other countries and regions.

Compared to 43 % of youth with disabilities nationally, 67 % of YTP students obtain a regular high school diploma.

However, I believe that martial arts can offer even greater youth development when compared with traditional sports due to the climate of respect that goes along with training in various combat sports.

My Uncle knows I'm a left - leaning Liberal youth, and whenever we meet, our conversations either turn to politics, or discussing how his business works and how the company I work for compares, analyzing the minutiae with all that he has learned through his years of experience.