Sentences with phrase «comparison study between»

We have done the first registry cleaner comparison study between the most popular registry cleaners on the market.

In addition, the comparison studies between beginning and experienced science teachers» TPACK may allow us to create better teacher education and professional development programs that focus on improving teachers» TPACK.

Not exact matches

The study on federally regulated workers indicates that the sector shrunk by 20,000 between 2008 and 2004, though cautions that the «2004 survey is deeply flawed» and advises against making comparisons between the two studies.

With all due respect, if you'd read the actual study, you would see that this was not a whole genome sequence comparison; rather it was a comparison of mitochondrial 12S rDNA and 16S rDNA sequences for the purposes of confirming the species relationship between the Pod Mrcaru lizards (P. sicula), the source population from Pod Kopiste (also P. sicula), and the original indigenous population on Pod Mrcaru (P. mellisellensis).

The more the disciples had become impressed by the unique caliber of Jesus during his ministry, and the more their study of the scriptures may have led them to believe that Jesus had been «allotted a portion with the great», 15 the more they would have made comparisons between Jesus and such men as Moses and Elijah.

There have been no studies yet which draw specific comparisons between the total amount of religious programming on television in different historical periods.

For the report, six different LCA case studies were developed using the EcoImpact - COMPASS ® LCA software, which allows for quick life cycle comparisons between different package formats.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

Future studies on organic agriculture and other sustainable farming techniques should examine not just economics, but soil quality, biodiversity impacts and other aspects of food production in order to make better comparisons between different forms of agriculture, said Crowder.

The title of the study is, «Mechanics of sucking: comparison between bottle feeding and breastfeeding» (although this was not given alongside the reference in the NUK advertising).

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

But all studies that were evaluated included comparisons between parent - child book reading intervention groups who received training, supportive materials or other encouraging services, and control groups that did not.

We assessed the pairwise comparisons between the different study groups in their rates of breastfeeding using modified Cox regression analysis15 to provide the adjusted relative risks and 95 % confidence intervals.

Urinary incontinence (UI) has an effect on quality of life during the postpartum period.1, 2 Fear of UI is one of the most common reasons for maternal demand for cesarean delivery.3, 4 The muscle strength of the pelvic floor returns to the antepartum value 6 — 10 weeks postpartum in most women.5, 6 However, UI symptoms after delivery do not resolve in the long term in some women.7, 8 Studies have variously concluded that the prevalence of UI changed9 or did not change within 6 months or 1 year postpartum.10, 11 A higher prevalence or incidence of UI has been observed in women who had a vaginal delivery than in women who underwent cesarean delivery.10 — 18 In contrast, a recent study found that vaginal delivery was not associated with postpartum UI.19 The long - term protective effect of cesarean delivery has not been determined.20 Validated and reliable questionnaires to evaluate UI, including severity and quality of life, are needed for postpartum evaluation.21 However, comparisons of UI severity and the effect on daily life between women who have had vaginal and cesarean deliveries are scarce.22

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Three publications were excluded: one study examined only the association between duration of breastfeeding and fasting plasma lipids at 17 y of age, and there was no formula - fed group for comparison (21); one examined the effect of nutritional supplementation in pregnant mothers, infants, and children on serum lipids in later life (18); and one was a review (22).

Comparisons between the USSR and North Korea are all too frequent, yet it is highly unlikely that a potential collapse of the hermit kingdom would lead to a similar collapse in North Korean studies.

Direct comparisons between this study and studies in adults must be made with caution because of differing research protocols, the researchers stress.

In his new study, Dr. Blecher drew comparisons between taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugary drinks, using South Africa as a case study.

«The comparisons between high and low consumption in our study are valid, but our findings should not be interpreted as a prescription,» Zhang said.

Questionnaire - based studies of living, retired NFL players have found rates of memory symptoms and depression between 5 % and 20 % — an imprecise comparison, but one that may reflect NFL players more broadly.

Consumer price comparison is almost nonexistent in the U.S. health care system, but a new study shows that when given the choice between a less costly «open» operation or a pricier laparoscopy for their children's appendicitis, parents were almost twice as likely to choose the less expensive procedure — when they were aware of the cost difference.

Studies of at least some contemporary foraging peoples, as well as comparisons between humans and living primates, suggest that babies evolved in a more cooperative environment, with several adults cooperating to raise kids.

In some cases, such as in the selection of participants for studies on suicide, the bias in the original studies may have underestimated the association between access to firearms and suicide, because both study and comparison groups were recruited from health care settings where they may have been seeking treatment for suicidal planning.

«It was only through our detailed anatomical and statistical comparisons of the skull bones that we were able to distinguish between Albertavenator and Troodon,» said Thomas Cullen, a Ph.D. student of Evans at the University of Toronto and co-author of the study.

Further, a 2015 Annals of Surgery study (Lawson et al) comparing ACS NSQIP and CMS claims data found claims data is not accurate for making quality comparisons between hospitals.

«Recent theories have suggested that humans» fluency in relational learning — our ability to make comparisons between objects, events or ideas — may be the key difference in mental ability between us and other animals,» said Dedre Gentner, professor of psychology in the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern and a senior author of the study.

Ola Landgren, M.D., Ph.D., of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, and coauthors examined the association between MGUS and exposure to Agent Orange during the Vietnam War in a study sample of 958 male veterans, including 479 Operation Ranch Hand veterans who were involved in aerial herbicide spray missions and 479 comparison veterans who were not.

In keeping with previous studies comparing much smaller portions of the chimp and human genomes, the new comparison shows incredible similarity between the genomes.

Leonard Guarente, a molecular biologist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge who has studied aging in yeast, believes that not enough monkeys have died yet to make definitive comparisons between the two groups.

The battle between the sexes in human society may pale in comparison to the one raging among wasps, according to a study in tomorrow's issue of Nature.

«The implication of our study is that the different types of the reward are coded by the same currency system,» says Sadato, «enabling the comparison between them.»

For this study, researchers examined records from the nation's largest cancer patient database to determine how rates of overall and disease - specific survival have changed as use of SBRT has increased, as well as to draw population - based comparisons between SBRT and surgery alone for elderly patients.

In this study, published in the journal Cell Reports, and led by Dr. Esteban Ballestar (IDIBELL), the comparison of the epigenetic profiles between dendritic cells and myeloid - derived suppressor cells has allowed them to identify the existence of specific epigenetic alterations that associated with the development of myeloid - derived suppressor cells as a result of exposure to prostaglandin E2.

Robinson and graduate student Zhengzheng Liang suspected that it might be possible to make comparisons between this behavior and novelty - seeking in humans and other vertebrates, which has been well studied.

On a wider scale, looking at the overall comparison between the study's roughly 22,000 nonusers and 4,000 users, and statistically adjusting for certain factors, the researchers found a similar outcome: Users of statins were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes.

«This approach for data integration will enable the comparison of single - cell datasets and the ability to dissect the differences between them,» explains Rahul Satija, the study's senior author, who is an assistant professor in NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology and a core faculty member at the New York Genome Center.

A comparison between less - expensive, over-the-counter hearing assistance devices and a conventional hearing aid found that some of these devices were associated with improvements in hearing similar to the hearing aid, according to a study published by JAMA.

Only six per cent of the studies tested a direct statistical comparison between energy intake and appetite, possibly suggesting that researchers had avoided reporting this finding.

Despite comparable weight gains between two diet groups in this study, the surplus consumption of saturated fat caused a markedly greater increase in the amount of fat in the liver and abdomen (especially the fat surrounding the internal organs, visceral fat) in comparison with the surplus consumption of polyunsaturated fat.

The study, recently published in the journal Proceedings of National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), details how NASA experts and their peers determined a stunning new way to conduct the normal «apples - to - apples» comparison between various forms of vegetation as a carbon sink.

«This is also a cross-sectional study, a comparison between groups.

We are using a new technique, called single cell RNA sequencing, to isolate thousands of single neurons from human brain tissue, study all the genes that are expressed in each individual cell, and make cell - to - cell comparisons between normal, early stage and late stage AD.

This study makes the first direct comparison between the optical emission line and the ultraviolet and infrared tracers of star formation and indicates that, despite the underlying uncertainties, astronomers can trust the nebular emission lines as robust indicators of the star - formation rate and the amount of light that is obscured by dust in distant galaxies.

The base pair numbers do not correspond to those provided by Roses et al because the present numbers refer to the total length of the polymerase chain reaction product, not the number of polyT repeats (see http://neuroscienceresearch.wustl.edu/Pages/cruchaga2011.aspx for quality control and call comparison between the present study and previous studies).

t - test was used to compute probabilities for comparisons of mean age and mean body mass index between study groups.

As mentioned above, an additional three hearing 75d birds were used in order to facilitate comparison between our measurements and those obtained by another study (Haesler et al., 2004; see Discussion)[15].

Genome - based comparison of ST131 isolates from the LTCF study participants with ST131 associated with bloodstream infection at a nearby acute hospital and in hospitals across England revealed sharing of highly related lineages between the LTCF and a local hospital.

The development of a standardized method to express large panels of P. falciparum cell surface and secreted proteins in their native conformation would enable comprehensive protein libraries to be systematically screened in parallel so that direct comparisons between antigens can be made in functional assays such as vaccine screening and immuno - epidemiology studies.

To facilitate data comparison between the FunGenES database and other resources, we have included a series of links to other Stem cell databases, i.e., to SCDb, Amazonia in the Study your Gene (s) of Interest search engine.