Sentences with phrase «difference in areas associated»

Research shows that Early Head Start makes a positive difference in areas associated with children's success in school, family self - sufficiency, and parental support of child development, but federal funds are reaching only 3 % of eligible children and families.

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Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

The one area in which there was a difference was asthma, which the study found was associated more with breast - feeding than with bottle - feeding.

However, when the same faces were presented for longer (525 ms), the activity difference was not in the amygdala but areas of the PFC and the anterior cingulate — areas also associated with inhibition and control.

The differences were seen in areas of the brain associated not only with disgust, but also with memory retrieval, attention, pain, and innate «gut responses.»

There also are emotional costs associated with distinguishing right from wrong in moral and ethical gray areas, and personal costs when you begin to question yourself, your motives and your ability to make a difference.

Building on this work, the team has now determined that there are seven areas in our DNA where differences in the genetic code are associated with intracranial volume, which is the size of the skull cavity in which the brain resides.

Regarding brain activations, two studies [58], [69] found more activation associated with electro - acupuncture in somatosensory areas, motor area, brainstem, cingulate or insula and one study [66] found no significant difference.

Sex - associated differences in dogs for disorder prevalence in multi-disorder studies have also been reported for Rottweilers [30], Border Terriers [31] and German Shepherd Dogs [32] and may represent an under - explored area of research that could enhance our understanding of disease causality.

While there is some difference in these numbers associated with ending the period in 1990 or 1999, the major discrepancies relate to tide guage selections, vertical land motion corrections, area weighting and statistical analysis methods.

Based on the understanding of both the physical processes that control key climate feedbacks (see Section 8.6.3), and also the origin of inter-model differences in the simulation of feedbacks (see Section 8.6.2), the following climate characteristics appear to be particularly important: (i) for the water vapour and lapse rate feedbacks, the response of upper - tropospheric RH and lapse rate to interannual or decadal changes in climate; (ii) for cloud feedbacks, the response of boundary - layer clouds and anvil clouds to a change in surface or atmospheric conditions and the change in cloud radiative properties associated with a change in extratropical synoptic weather systems; (iii) for snow albedo feedbacks, the relationship between surface air temperature and snow melt over northern land areas during spring and (iv) for sea ice feedbacks, the simulation of sea ice thickness.

Other trends to emerge from the survey show that 26 % of associates think corporate is the easiest practice area to make partner in, while 44 % argue that it makes no difference.

Given the sparsely populated rural area the comprised the 25 - mile radius, there was no practical difference between the words «set up in practice» and «to practise»: the associate doctor could not provide veterinary services in the area without in fact setting up her own practice.

These results suggest that some but not all regions are associated with changes in epigenetic signaling associated with differences in maternal care, with broad epigenetic changes apparent within both genic and inter-genic areas.