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«Elderly populations are growing around the world,» said study co-author James P. Smith, distinguished chair in labor markets and demographic studies at RAND.

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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.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Recent demographic studies find that the LCMS's success rate at creating converts is equal to or higher than that of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC).

With funding from the Lilly Endowment, the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford undertook the massive task of assembling scholars and data and producing eight books, each containing both demographic overviews and focused essays on the features that distinguish each region's religious life.

Pennsylvania State University Paper presented at the Fourth Conference of the European Network for the Sociological and Demographic Study of Divorce, Florence, Italy.

The strengths of our study include a well characterized group of more than 3700 infants, with varying demographic characteristics drawn from 2 discrete geographic regions, and longitudinal follow - up for 6 months, including reports of infant sleep position at 1, 3, and 6 months.

But this study was considered groundbreaking because it compared siblings rather than unrelated children, where demographic differences and whether a pregnant woman smokes or drinks can bias studies in favor of breast - feeding, said Cynthia Colen, an assistant professor of sociology at Ohio State University and the lead author of the study.

Waber and her colleagues at hospitals in five other cities screened thousands of children in order to get a sample that was representative of the diverse demographics of the U.S. Study participants could not have behavioral or cognitive abnormalities or any risk of developing a mental or neurological disorder.

He also notes that although the study focused on a certain age range of women, it did not pull out differences that might be at work in subsets of age, BMI or demographics.

A newly published research study conducted by graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.

Looking at the total of 5,796 deaths, 1,649 CV deaths, and 4,784 major CVD events, and adjusting for demographic, lifestyle, health, and dietary factors, the study showed greater fruit, vegetable, and legume intake was associated with lower total mortality, and non-CV mortality.

The senior author of the study, Deanna Kepka, PhD, MPH, a Huntsman Cancer Institute investigator and assistant professor in the College of Nursing at the University of Utah, added that, «We are interested in looking at cultural values that may make certain demographic groups in the United States, such as Latinos, more supportive of adolescent vaccination than other demographic groups.

Research in this area spans several disciplines, from the biochemical study of basic mechanisms of alcohol metabolism, to the neuroscience of dependency, to demographic and clinical studies on at - risk populations.

«Studies conducted at the Universities of Guelph, Waterloo, and Western Ontario have demonstrated that deregulation has had an impact on the demographics of their enrolment,» according to Joel Duff, the Ontario chairperson of the CFS, such that «students from lower - income backgrounds have almost dropped off the radar screen.»

In this study, researchers reviewed electronic medical records of 100 child pedestrian emergency department visits at St. Christopher's Hospital for Children in Philadelphia, Pa. from January 1 to December 21, 2012, including ambulance dispatch data, patient demographics, procedure (s), diagnoses, and length of stay.

In the related studies presented at the annual meeting, «Trends in Total Hip Arthroplasty in the United States: The Shift to a Younger Demographic» and «Trends in Total Knee Arthroplasty in the United States: Understanding the Shift to a Younger Demographic,» researchers conducted a retrospective review of 2000 - 2009 hospital discharge data on TKR and THR patients from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).

«After adjusting for other demographic and lifestyle factors, and chronic diseases, we found that those who consumed the highest fat intake were more likely to experience excessive daytime sleepiness,» says study author and University of Adelaide PhD student Yingting Cao, who is also based at SAHMRI (South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute).

«Our results suggest that hospitals and policy makers should limit in - hospital formula introduction and consider family history and demographics to reduce racial and ethnic breastfeeding disparities,» said Madeleine Shalowitz, MD, a Director at NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute and co - investigator on the study.

But researchers hadn't tried to capture a detailed demographic snapshot of the men and women who are «now driving innovation in the United States,» says David Hart, a political scientist at GMU and a co-author of the new study.

Unlike other studies that have looked at the influence of social media on election outcomes, their study, «More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior,» took into account such variables as incumbency, partisanship, media coverage, and socio - demographic makeup of the electorate.

The study included three measures of lifetime earnings: gross lifetime earnings by majors; net lifetime earnings after accounting for demographic and high school performance related factors; and net present value at age 20 after applying a 4 percent discount rate.

The study is «carefully and cautiously crafted,» says Toomas Kivisild, a population geneticist at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, and has «major significance for understanding the complex demographic processes in India that led to the endogamous rules of the caste system.»

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the UN in 2015 for the period up to 2030 would lead to a global population of between 8.2 to 8.7 billion by 2100, according to a new study from the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) and the Asian Demographic Research Institute (ADRI) at Shanghai University.

The demographic differences raise important policy questions, said Rachel Morello - Frosch, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies the health risks of air pollution but was not involved in the Yale study.

[Updated at 5:45 p.m.: The new findings give the scientists a chance to study the demographics of multi-planet systems, the scientists said, highlighting a star system containing Kepler - 296f, a habitable - zone super-Earth roughly twice the size of our planet.

«There has been so much written regarding the potential impacts of climate change, particularly as they relate to physical climate extremes,» added Bryan Jones, a postdoctoral researcher at the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research and lead author of the study.

In the US, the multicultural demographic comprises over a third of the population, and their spending power is growing more quickly than the country's average, per a study by the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.

danah boyd, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley, who doesn't capitalize her name, studies the demographics of MySpace as part of her research on social technology.

The Local has taken a look at a study on French online dating habits, released in by Ined, an Institute for National Demographics Studies.

(Many studies don't take into account the varied settings of child care and the changing demographics of children, something an ongoing study at Harvard is trying to address.)

There are also articles about obstacles to greater progress: a study reveals that teacher expectations impact students» likelihood of completing college and are often lower for black students than for their white counterparts, even after accounting for students» academic and demographic backgrounds; and a look at how allowing laptop use in the classroom actually distracts from student learning.

In our study, we compare the enrollment rates at public colleges in Florida of 10,330 FTC students to those of non-participating students who initially attended the same public schools and had similar demographics (language spoken at home, country of birth, race / ethnicity, disability status, age, and free lunch participation) and test scores (in math and reading) prior to participation.

The new study offers the first evidence of growth mindset distribution and its relationship with achievement and student demographics that is available in the US at a large scale.

However, according to Sadler, these studies failed to control for demographic variables and all were undertaken at a single college or university.

The Fordham study controls for both the demographic and prior achievement variables that are measured at the state level of e-school students.

The study looks at academic, financial and demographic data and identifies districts and campuses that produce high academic achievement while maintaining cost - effective operations.

But these previous studies looked at aggregate relationships at the school level; therefore, we can not rule out the possibility that schools with more teachers of color have different disciplinary practices for reasons unrelated to teacher demographics.

In this study, we analyze a unique set of student and teacher demographic and discipline data from North Carolina elementary schools to examine whether being matched to a same - race teacher affects the rate at which students receive detentions, are suspended, or are expelled.

View brief vignettes, or use the search engine at right to find more in - depth case studies, filtered by grade level, demographics, subject area, and more.

«This research shows that positive gains by Renewal schools were not better than schools with similar demographics,» said Jonah Rockoff, an education researcher at Columbia University who has studied New York City schools in the past and reviewed Pallas's data.

The study looks at class sizes, student - to - teacher, student - to - administrator and teacher - to - administrator ratios in suburban, rural and city school districts, teacher pay and the demographics of teachers between 2009 and 2014, using data from the Department of Public Instruction and school district data from the U.S. Department of Education.

The findings in this study are based on an analysis of demographic, economic, and other characteristics of 109 neighborhoods around each DCPS in - boundary school and their relation to patterns of enrollment at in - boundary schools, out - of - boundary schools, and public charter schools.

The study took a close look at the demographics of students enrolled in Ohio's virtual charter schools.

«These leaders must be equipped to work with the dramatic and active demographic shifts and upset the evolving political, economic, and cultural realities that impede administrators from achieving their potential,» said Dr. Dawn Williams Salters, chair of the department of educational leadership and policy studies at HUSOE.

Patrick Wolf, one of the co-authors of the study and an education professor at the University of Arkansas, attributed the new findings to Louisiana's demographic makeup and emphasized that the rollout and examination of school - choice programs should be «heavily context dependent.»

Illinois CSI at AIR experts were proud to present at this year's Superintendents Commission for the Study of Demographic Diversity, on April 20, at the Tinley Park Convention Center in Tinley Park, Illinois.

The study looked at grades 3, 4 and 5 in 474 schools that started using ST Math between 2013 and 2015, and included 16 states where complete state standardized test and demographic data was publicly available to the researchers.

This study looked at the demographics of the DC voucher program.

Oakland Tech High School teacher, Steve Wright shared his experience of studying school - wide grades by demographic and feeling deeply concerned about the achievement gaps between white, African American, and Latino students at his school.