Sentences with phrase «conduct analyses suggesting»

Marlinde L. van den Boogaard conduct analyses suggesting transcription of DUX4 in somatic cells is modified by variations in its epigenetic state and provide a basis for understanding the reduced penetrance of Facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) within families.

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The studies conducted in the late 60s that suggested fat intake was a greater risk factor for heart disease than sugar consumption were actually funded by the Sugar Research Foundation, according to a new analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Some analysis we have conducted on the representativeness of the Securitisation Dataset suggests that it has fewer high LVR loans than the broader population of loans.

For some time now, certain just war thinkers have suggested that there is a third cluster of questions to be pursued in a thorough just war analysis: In addition to the war - decision questions of the ius ad bellum and the war - conduct questions of the ius in bello, there are questions of what Michael Walzer has called the ius post bellum.

Funnel plot analyses conducted for the primary outcomes all show marked asymmetry, with each suggesting that smaller studies showing a less beneficial effect of the intervention may be missing.

Computer analyses of sauropod buoyancy conducted by Donald M. Henderson, a paleontologist at Canada's University of Calgary, suggest that floating sauropods of some species could indeed have made forefoot - only trackways.

An economic analysis conducted earlier this year suggested that such an institute could generate as many as 30,000 jobs in the metropolis.

Researchers suggest the study be interpreted with caution as it is a retrospective analysis conducted at a single institution and did not follow - up regarding continued marital status.

The researchers suggest that a more recent analysis should be conducted to see how the reefs are faring today.

Analyses conducted over the last decade in the U.S., Canada, England, the Netherlands, Sweden and Denmark suggest that «a 75 - to 85 - year - old has a lower risk of having Alzheimer's today than 15 or 20 years ago,» says Langa, who discussed the research on falling dementia rates in a 2015 Alzheimer's Research & Therapy commentary (pdf).

Archaeologists from the University of Pablo de Olavide (Seville, Spain) have conducted a detailed analysis of the structure and now suggest that it may originally not have been used for burials but for worshipping the God Mithras.

«Our analysis suggests that Instagram is as important as being cast by a top agency in terms of its ability to predict success on the runway,» said Emilio Ferrara, a computer scientist at the University of Southern California who conducted the research at the IU Bloomington School of Informatics and Computing's Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research and as a member of the IU Network Science Institute.

The mammoth analysis suggests that «it might be that decarbonization [of the U.S. electrical grid] is able to be met even without the Clean Power Plan,» says Michael Webber, an engineer and deputy director of UT's Energy Institute, which conducted the research.

A meta - analysis of five acupuncture studies conducted by the U.S. Public Health Service, however, concluded that the evidence suggested that acupuncture was no more effective for smoking cessation than placebo.

Now, an analysis conducted at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville suggests intermittent fasting may slow the aging process and help prevent disease.

The analysis, conducted by HGSE Assistant Professor Bridget Terry Long, suggests the credits encouraged many states to increase the prices of public colleges where students were the greatest beneficiaries.

That's one conclusion suggested by a new analysis of online civic engagement among young people, conducted by a trio of Harvard Graduate School of Education researchers and published this month in the International Journal of Communication...

Our team at DreamBox is inspired not only by this new recognition from Tech & Learning, but also by the recent analysis conducted by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University that suggests DreamBox drives compelling achievement gains in elementary math.

Then, because some authors have suggested that dual enrollment programs spanning multiple semesters may be more effective in improving outcomes for middle - achieving students, we conducted a second set of analyses that accounted for students» participation intensity, defined as the number of dual enrollment courses taken.

If you have the assignment to conduct marketing case analysis, it means that you should analyze a certain marketing problem and suggest some possible way of its solving.

Blogger and author Chris McMullen suggests conducting a cost - benefit analysis on the promotion ideas that appeal to you.

A revenue gap analysis conducted by the national laboratory for 79 of 99 operational reactors that are in a region where public wholesale electricity market prices are available suggests that 63 units would have lost money in 2016.

«There is a great risk that if regulators and stakeholders do not conduct the type of analyses suggested here, we will end up committing significant amounts of money and effort to improve resilience, yet have little constructive impact on the probabilities or actual levels of future customer outages,» the authors wrote.

The wide range of studies conducted with the ISCCP datasets and the changing environment for accessing datasets over the Internet suggested the need for the Web site to provide: 1) a larger variety of information about the project and its data products for a much wider variety of users [e.g., people who may not use a particular ISCCP data product but could use some ancillary information (such as the map grid definition, topography, snow and ice cover)-RSB-; 2) more information about the main data products in several different forms (e.g., illustrations of the cloud analysis method) and more flexible access to the full documentation; 3) access to more data summaries and diagnostic statistics to illustrate research possibilities for students, for classroom use by educators, or for users with «simple» climatology questions (e.g., annual and seasonal means); and 4) direct access to the complete data products (e.g., the whole monthly mean cloud dataset is now available online).

However, studies conducted on a smaller scale in Finland and elsewhere in Scandinavia using long - term data sets and time - series analyses have found that more males are born in years with higher mean annual temperatures [7], [11], [14], which suggests that mean ambient temperature affects maternal condition and influences the SSR.

Many companies profess to conduct scenario analysis and a subset of these suggest it has and continues to impact planning.

One view — advocated most prominently by Kristen Tiscione and Ellie Margolis — suggests that e-memos constitute a new and distinct legal writing genre.23 These commentators posit that the change in medium — from paper to email — creates a fundamental shift in the way that legal analysis is conducted and communicated.24 These scholars argue, for example, that the comparative informality of the e-memo and its lack of prescribed elements creates a more organic format, where writers are free to combine traditional sections like the facts, brief answer, question presented, and conclusion in ways that are more «accessible, efficient, and appropriate.»

Professor Lande suggests that strategic «pre-dispute planning» starts with each of the contracting parties conducting an analysis of their business's unique dispute history (what kind of disputes does it commonly encounter, with whom, when etc.).

• Assisted clients in their purchase decision via efficient translation of pricing policies and product details • Conducted competitive market analysis and suggested sales strategies based on market surveys and calculated comparative sales studies

• Perform general and operations research by conducting testing and experiments • Perform analysis for evaluation, mission support, and logistics purposes • Apply data and results to current operations and potential operational scenarios • Design methods, solutions, and technique to address operational problems and inefficiencies • Suggest future research and development projects • Manage ongoing programs, projects, and research

Due to the ordinal and categorical nature of the response options, reliability was assessed using polychoric correlation - based version of the reliability coefficients.45 These analyses suggested satisfactory internal consistency for the SDQ total difficulties scale (α = 0.86) and for all subscales (α emotional problems = 0.82, conduct problems = 0.71, hyperactivity — inattention = 0.76, peer problems = 0.75 and prosocial behaviours = 0.77).

MacKinnon and colleagues38 suggested that mediation analyses be conducted when there is a relation between a predictor and mediator (paths A1, A2, and A3 in Figure 1), as well as a relation between a mediator and outcome (paths B1, B2, and B3 in Figure 1).

We formally tested for mediation of the relation between IPV and obesity by maternal depression using a bootstrap method.49 Owing to theoretical and empirical data suggesting differing associations between family and neighborhood violence exposure and BMI by sex, additional stratified analyses were conducted and effect modification was tested using interaction terms.

In a pair of analyses based on NSCAW, Cecilia Casaneueva and colleagues showed that about one - third of parents with low parenting skills had experienced domestic violence.24 Such violence was also associated with harsher parenting: children over the age of eighteen months were more likely to be spanked if their parents were facing domestic violence.25 But parents who had once experienced domestic violence, but had been able to put it behind them, did not show elevated rates of impaired or violent parenting.26 The parenting of women currently suffering interpersonal partner violence is significantly worse than that of women who have faced it in the past, suggesting that the context of the violence is creating the problems in parenting and child conduct problems and that its cessation may be a more important contributor to child outcomes than parent instruction.

The briefer version of the PSC3 is broadly used, with > 40 published studies.23 These studies have shown that the PSC - 17 yields higher detection rates than pediatricians relying on clinical judgment alone24 and has risk rates comparable to those of the PSC - 35,3 semistructured interviews (Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School - Age Children — Present and Lifetime Version), 25 and longer questionnaire measures.2 The PSC - 17 was derived from the PSC - 35 through an exploratory factor analysis conducted on data collected from the 1994 to 1999 Child Behavior Study (CBS), a nationally representative sample of > 20000 pediatric outpatients.3 In that study, the exploratory factor analysis suggested that it was possible to create a briefer version of the PSC with 17 of the original 35 items.

This stage suggested that there were probably enough studies suitable for inclusion in a quantitative analysis.15 In the second stage, conducted independently by JW and PS, the computer searches were repeated and all journals that had published a randomised controlled trial in this field were searched manually.

Regression analysis suggested that there was moderate intergenerational continuity (r = 0.23, p < 0.001) between parental and offspring conduct problems.

The meta - analysis suggests that programs with stronger effects on children's social and emotional development share three characteristics: (a) the program targets children with a specific need that has been identified by the parents, such as a behavioural or conduct disorder or developmental delay (also corroborated by Brooks - Gunna; (b) the program uses professional rather than paraprofessional staff; or (c) the program provides opportunities for parents to meet together and provide peer support as part of the service delivery approach.

Analyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» beAnalyses of findings from an earlier intensive child development program for low birth weight children and their parents (the Infant Health and Development Program) suggest that the cognitive effects for the children were mediated through the effects on parents, and the effects on parents accounted for between 20 and 50 % of the child effects.10 A recent analysis of the Chicago Child Parent Centers, an early education program with a parent support component, examined the factors responsible for the program's significant long - term effects on increasing rates of school completion and decreasing rates of juvenile arrest.11 The authors conducted analyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» beanalyses to test alternative hypotheses about the pathways from the short - term significant effects on children's educational achievement at the end of preschool to these long - term effects, including (a) that the cognitive and language stimulation children experienced in the centres led to a sustained cognitive advantage that produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour; or (b) that the enhanced parenting practices, attitudes, expectations and involvement in children's education that occurred early in the program led to sustained changes in the home environments that made them more supportive of school achievement and behavioural norms, which in turn produced the long - term effects on the students» behaviour.

The meta - analysis suggests that programs with stronger effects on children's social and emotional development share three characteristics: (a) the program targets children with a specific need that has been identified by the parents, such as a behavioural or conduct disorder or developmental delay (also corroborated by Brooks - Gunn

Although classic theories of homophily would suggest that other dimensions of structural similarity might shape sibling favoritism, a separate analysis conducted using the WFDS sibling data revealed that gender was the only dimension that predicted respondents» choices (tables not shown).

Mental health problems in adolescents may impair their ability to learn and create a risk for lower education attainment and school dropout, 47 which in turn are known to increase benefit dependence.51 In the study by Fergusson and Horwood50 in which they studied conduct problems at age 8 years and unemployment 10 years later, analyses suggested that the association was mediated by a series of processes during adolescence including patterns of peer affiliation, substance use, truancy and problems with school authority.

Most individual trials and meta - analyses suggest that children with more severe conduct problems benefit more from parenting interventions (e.g., Leijten et al. 2013; Menting et al. 2013).