Sentences with phrase «data in a larger sample»

In the current study using 3D MRI data in a larger sample (N = 5,388), multiple SNPs showed significant association with multiple facial phenotypes, even after an over-conservative Bonferroni correction.

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But before everything actually accelerates, the medical research industry will need three things: (1) A larger sample size; (2) A way of letting people share their information in a granular fashion and; (3) A place to put the terabytes of medical data that ResearchKit generates.

The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The scenario model is pre-populated with data based on a large sample of U.S. public companies (more than 2,500 companies) over a seven - year period (2004 - 2011), as compiled by BoardEx.1 To access the pre-populated model calculations, click the Calculations / Historical data and Attrition data tabs in the Excel spreadsheet that you can download from this page.

However, compared to previous studies of regulation compliance that have utilised data sets ranging in duration from 63 hours [9] to 80 hours of programming [24], this was a relatively large sample that was purposively selected to cover both school holidays and term time.

It also features the type of strong driving hypothesis, large sample size, and consistent year - to - year results that we look for in our data - driven betting systems.

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

With the use of national sampling weights, data from these 16 cities were designed to be nationally representative of families with children born in large cities in the United States from 1998 through 2000.22

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

«By acquiring a large amount of data, our system can significantly reduce the error involved in analyzing the physiological status of a crop and the monitoring efficiency of crop growing conditions, without requiring repeated sampling,» said Li.

Young scientists «might spend much of graduate school optimizing computer code for a large physics experiment, or extracting samples in a biology lab, or doing the statistical analyses on other people's data,» Walsh and Lee write in their email.

This is the largest ever study estimating above and below - ground carbon loss from selective logging and ground level forest fires in the tropics, based on data from 70,000 sampled trees and thousands of soil, litter and dead wood samples from 225 sites in the eastern Brazilian Amazon.

In a just - published paper, astronomers used a sample of 40,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxieIn a just - published paper, astronomers used a sample of 40,000 galaxies in the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxiein the COSMOS field, a large and contiguous patch of sky with deep enough data to look at galaxies very far away, and with accurate distance measurements to individual galaxies.

When the researchers expanded their search to include all the data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal samples.

«And the fact that we can get a large sample size for specific types of surgeries allows us to narrow down our data and be more precise in our understanding of individual patient populations and procedures in terms of risk.»

Thakar and the team looked at the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, (NIS), the largest publically available all - payer inpatient care database in the United States, containing data on more than seven million hospital stays each year.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

Unlike other solid tumors, there has been limited progress in understanding the contribution of genetic risk factors to the development of uveal melanoma, researchers say, primarily due to the absence of comprehensive genetic data from patients as the large sample cohorts for this rare cancer type have not been available for research.

Employee - level data was collected through a questionnaire distributed to all employees in workplaces with fewer than 25 employees, and to a random sample of 25 employees in larger workplaces with more than 25 employees.

The replication crisis refers to a growing concern in experimental psychology — and the larger scientific community — about the drop in studies able to confirm previous work with experiments that achieve the same results using the same methods, as well as the increased risk of data manipulation in studies with small sample sizes.

Zeggini believes that collaborations will become increasingly important in her field as researchers use ever - larger sample sizes and generate ever - larger volumes of genetic data.

«Because the data sample was so large, it forced us to use statistically powerful analysis that could, in turn, measure properties in an unambiguous manner.

Scientists estimate that the experiment will result in one of the largest scientific samples of data ever, at least a few hundred petabytes — more than all the written works in the history of the world, several times over.

The researchers from the University of South Carolina College of Pharmacy and School of Medicine discovered this new subtype by analyzing data from 255 cervical cancer samples in The Cancer Genome Atlas, a large - scale federally funded project launched in 2005 by the National Cancer Institute and National Human Genome Research Institute.

Researchers performed a retrospective analysis of the 2008 - 2013 data from the Nationwide Emergency Department (ED) Sample, the largest all - payer ED database in the United States.

In order to contextualise the australopithecine and early Homo stature estimates and range of variability obtained from the footprints within a broader picture (Figure 12), and to compare them with a larger sample, we extended our analysis to consistent data based on skeletal elements, namely femurs (see Materials and methods for details).

Latest trends in neuroimaging studies are focusing more on scalability issues both related to larger data samples and cpu intensive computational methods.

«We will be able to link all of our group's discoveries using blood samples and clinical data from the extensive NHLBI - sponsored Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) cohort, a large longitudinal cohort established in 2000 to study factors contributing to cardiovascular disease progression.

Using large - scale empirical and simulated data sets, we found that the sample sizes used in the HapMap project are sufficient to capture common variation, but that performance declines substantially for variants with minor allele frequencies of < 5 %.

Combining the existing ISO, Spitzer, VLT and Keck ice data results in a large sample of ice sources (\ sime80) that span all stages of star formation and a large range of protostellar luminosities (< 0.1 - 105 L \ odot).

A substantial investment has been made in the generation of large public resources designed to enable the identification of tag SNP sets, but data establishing the adequacy of the sample sizes used are limited.

A challenge for the scientific community is to find consensus in the methodologies used to scale CH4 from sample locations to the larger domain and to integrate information obtained from these various data sets.

The CRS4's Bioinformatics laboratory has access to large clinical sample sets and genomic data and closely collaborates with hospitals to support clinical researchers in translating basic research findings into clinical applications.

Research on vaccine biomarkers, including in - depth comparative analysis of data from different platforms, large - scale RNA sequencing, harmonisation of standard operating procedures (SOPs) for sample, microarray and data analysis, as well as transcriptome mapping (more than 1400 samples analysed).

Data shared through RD ‐ Connect is accessible beyond the usual institutional and national boundaries and researchers across the world can benefit from the opportunity to work with others with an interest in the same field, pool data to create larger cohorts, find confirmatory cases, and access samples for further stData shared through RD ‐ Connect is accessible beyond the usual institutional and national boundaries and researchers across the world can benefit from the opportunity to work with others with an interest in the same field, pool data to create larger cohorts, find confirmatory cases, and access samples for further stdata to create larger cohorts, find confirmatory cases, and access samples for further study.

Due to the availability of data from three observing runs separated by ~ 10 and 1 month timescales, we are able to demonstrate clear evidence for evolution of the photometric amplitudes, and hence spot patterns, over the 10 month gap, although we are not able to constrain the timescales for these effects in detail due to limitations imposed by the large gaps in our sampling, preventing use of the phase information.

Running as facility of this size requires a massive amount of support and we work closely with the library preparation team that supplies large numbers of DNA templates in a from ready to be sequenced, the Institute's IT team that maintains the extensive amount of compute and storage infrastructure necessary, sequencing informatics which develops software tools to process, analyse, store and track all the data, projects and samples for the Illumina pipeline and the development team which invents novel and improved protocols to take better advantage of this new technology.

The qualitative data reported in this article were collected as part of a larger research project which surveyed a national random sample of users of a large online dating site (N = 349) about relational goals, honesty and self - disclosure, and perceived success in online dating.

As advocated by the 22 - member panel chaired by former Gov. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, both bills would expand the Congressionallymandated National Assessment of Educational Progress to provide state - by - state data, measure learning in more core subjects, include out - of - school 17 - year - olds, and provide a larger sampling of private - school students.

In planning for the 1988 survey — which provides the only federal data on civil - rights compliance in education — O.C.R. has quietly inched back toward its old method, rescinding a change that allowed large districts to sample only certain schools and designing the sample to include more districts that have not been surveyed recentlIn planning for the 1988 survey — which provides the only federal data on civil - rights compliance in education — O.C.R. has quietly inched back toward its old method, rescinding a change that allowed large districts to sample only certain schools and designing the sample to include more districts that have not been surveyed recentlin education — O.C.R. has quietly inched back toward its old method, rescinding a change that allowed large districts to sample only certain schools and designing the sample to include more districts that have not been surveyed recently.

The Teacher Follow - up Survey of the Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS - TFS) provides data designed to examine teacher turnover, and it has a much larger sample, 706 former teachers currently working in nonteaching jobs.

Only a few thousand such students have been studied, so estimates are not from as large a sample as one would like, and the cities in these studies may differ from Milwaukee in some respects, but the data provide as direct an estimate as can be obtained.

As part of the larger project, I gathered data on the names and zip codes of school district employees in a stratified sample of 70 California school districts, all of them unionized, and I matched these names to county voter files to get each employee's voting history.

Our major findings were based on analyses of TAAS results for all the schools in Texas plus all the 1992 - 1998 data from NAEP's large and carefully constructed samples for Texas and the nation.

Activities to help learners of secondary mathematics to interpret frequency graphs, cumulative frequency graphs and box and whisker plots for large samples and to see how a large number of data points can result in the graph being approximated by a continuous distribution.

First, using data from the German Microcensus, we show that the same pattern holds in much larger and more recent samples and in estimation within occupational groups that excludes occupations where brawn is important.

After analyzing the content of samples from local wells for a project about the quality of drinking water, fifth - and sixth - grade students at Shutesbury Elementary School display their information on a large map of the town and look for patterns in the data.

Recent data from a study we are doing here at Wellesley Centers for Women with a large, racially diverse sample of low - income students in a large urban school district found that 95 percent of students, both boys and girls, aspired to attend college when asked in 9th and 10th grade.

The single - school configuration helped the teachers easily administer common assessments, obtain assessment data from a larger sample size (3 biology classrooms), and use the information from their collaborative study of the assessments results to modify instruction in a timely manner.

- Gathered the largest sampling of comparable, non-aggregated attendance data in the state — a fact not lost on California Attorney General Kamala Harris, who based her office's report on the state's learning crisis on A2A data;