Sentences with phrase «contrast to previous studies on»

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«It's unclear as to why our study on children showed contrasting results to previous studies on adults.

Previous studies have found that cardiovascular disease accounts for 45 percent of deaths of on - duty firefighters nationwide, in contrast to 15 percent of deaths among those with conventional occupations, with heart attack being the number one cause of death.

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

Surprisingly, and in contrast to previous studies, profit - related pay and employee share - ownership had a mix of negative and no significant effects on attitudes.

«This is in contrast to a handful of previous smaller studies which have shown some positive effects on repetitive behaviours, social memory and emotion processing.

Building on this perspective, the current study aimed to expand the previous theoretical notion of contrasting induced changes against naturally occurring changes.

In contrast to many previous studies that were based on high risk samples, this study was performed in a large general - population sample.

Moreover, in contrast to a previous report on the present sample (Asscher et al. 2008) which focused on short - term effects (by comparing pre - and posttest scores), in the present study we extend prior research by examining program effects on long term growth in maternal sense of competence, maternal parenting behavior, and child problem behavior over a period of 12 months.

Because previous studies do not provide a basis for making empirically - based predictions about the relative predictive power of the more distal and dispositional empathy measures in contrast to the more proximal and situational ones, we left it up to the data to educate us about the differential impact of dispositional and situational forms of empathy on spousal support provision (Research Question 1).