Sentences with phrase «do longitudinal studies»

We can't do longitudinal studies but we can point to other indicators.

Impregnated mozzie nets is one thing (anyone done any longitudinal studies on birth defects in the children of people who sleep in a DDT environment as children?)

Metcalfe says she is «dying to do a longitudinal study» to see where these young Ph.D. s go in the long term.

«Instead of doing a cross-sectional study like this, where we tested children at various ages, we would prefer to do a longitudinal study that would involve the same kids who'd be followed over the years from childhood through adolescence,» Dr. Foxe said.

But on the answers what to do, we're seeing some really positive findings out of, for example, Denver, Colorado, where they did a longitudinal study, ben cans and Gonzalez, tracking students over six years, where they have implemented restorative practices, finding that achievement went up, suspensions came down, and the racial disparities shrunk dramatically.

To understand the difference between happy and unhappy couples, Dr. Gottman and Robert Levenson began doing longitudinal studies of couples in the 1970s.

Jones (1957) did a longitudinal study comparing males who were slow developers — smaller than most of their peers throughout childhood — with early developers.

A second, more powerful method is do a longitudinal study (e.g., of the same children before and after divorce) and determine whether, on the average, any change in the children can be identified from the period before their parents divorce to the period after.

At this stage of our knowledge, empirically based assessment and taxonomic methods can be especially useful for distinguishing between syndromes, deriving norms, doing longitudinal studies, and detecting patterns of comorbidity.

Not exact matches

Although Milkie's research — a large - scale, longitudinal study — didn't dispute the positive and necessary benefits of sharing meals or one - to - one time, it did find that the quantity of time parents spent with their little ones mattered little.

In addition, several longitudinal studies show that screen time leads to unhappiness but unhappiness doesn't lead to more screen time.

Since we did not conduct a longitudinal design (a study conducted over time tracking the same people) we are unable to validate this assumption.

A recent analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) found that, in fathers, a higher parenting self - efficacy score was related to lower work - family strain; and a key mechanism by which fathers» work / family strain was decreased was by their doing more than they regarded as their «fair share» of child rearing tasks.

The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents And Children (ALSPAC), which is following up all children born in 1991/92 in the Avon district, has discovered that 49 % of teenage mothers have a live - in partner (mainly the father of their child) at the time of the birth; and of the 51 % who don't, two thirds will have a live - in partner by 33 months post partum.

Researchers are still conducting longitudinal studies to figure out how they did it.

Well, in a longitudinal study looking at night wakings between birth and 3 years of age, the percentage of infants / children who did not signal their parents at night from 6 months to 3 years only rose from 29.58 % to 37.94 % [4].

One of the things that longitudinal studies permit you to do is look at kids and parents before and after a divorce, so you see how they are functioning in the family as it starts to disintegrate.

A series of longitudinal studies done with nuns out of the University of Kentucky shows a significant relationship between linguistic ability early in life and the development of Alzheimer's later in life.

The Longitudinal Study, supported by the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund, includes people who don't have bipolar disorder and are willing to act as comparisons for those with bipolar, so scientists can see important differences in the two populations.

«Cross-national surveys such as the WHO Study on Global Aging and Adult Health (SAGE), the Gallup World Poll, and other longitudinal cohorts studies of aging in Brazil, China, India, and South Korea, are beginning to redress the balance and provide the evidence for policy, but much more remains to be done.»

Although the design of this study did not allow for an examination of causality, the present study lays the groundwork for future longitudinal investigations that further elucidate the relationship among alcohol use, insomnia symptoms and suicide risk.

And an even fewer number of studies have explored the longitudinal effects of doing meditation or spiritual practices by evaluating subjects at two different time points.

The Quebec Longitudinal Study of Child Development is a set of public data coordinated by the Institut de la statistique du Québec.

Data from longitudinal studies, in which subjects have been monitored by MRI for years, potentially decades, simply does not exist.

In a new longitudinal study, first - generation immigrant children who took part in a community - based intervention had higher scores on math and reading tests than their first - generation immigrant peers who did not participate in the program.

In her first year, to help her pay to attend a conference in the U.S., Eden did a one - month fellowship at Wake Forest University in North Carolina with Frank Wood, who conducts longitudinal research studies of dyslexia.

It's not longitudinal, as we did not study the same individuals over time.

The researchers note that this study only looked at air pollution exposure at the participants» home address and did not have data on their exposure at other locations, and say that larger longitudinal studies are now needed to confirm their results.

These methodological advances coupled with large, longitudinal studies of subjects progressing from healthy aging into dementia will enable a detailed understanding of the seeding and spread of these disorders.Neuroimaging has provided ample evidence that neurodegenerative disorders progress along brain networks, and is now beginning to elucidate how they do so.

To be clear, the predictive power of these exams is not zero; longitudinal meta - analytic studies do find statistically significant linear correlation coefficients at the 0.1 - 0.2 level between test scores and long - term outcomes such as citations and scholarly output decades later.

Her longitudinal studies of brain development in healthy children have revealed that some brain structures continue to change and do not reach maturity until late adolescence.

A longitudinal study using PET scans to measure CMRglu in people ages fifty to eighty showed that people with the lowest CMRglu at baseline experienced the quickest development of overt AD.24 At baseline, hippocampal glucose metabolism in people who progressed from normal to AD was 26 percent below that of people who did not develop AD, and the annual rate of decline averaged 4.4 percent.

This article reviewed the state of the evidence and, based on the prospective longitudinal studies, concluded that «men who develop prostate cancer do not have higher baseline testosterone levels and men with higher testosterone levels are at no greater risk for developing prostate cancer than men with lower testosterone levels.»

Obesity, disordered eating, and eating disorders in a longitudinal study of adolescents: how do dieters fare 5 years later?

A longitudinal test of video game violence influences on dating and aggression: A 3 - year longitudinal study of adolescents Let's Do This!

Tinder users are more likely to think of themselves as sex objects than people who don't use the app, suggests a new study of online dating A longitudinal test of video game violence influences on dating and aggression: A 3 - year longitudinal study of adolescents

Several longitudinal studies in the 1980s and 1990s did find that high school students who took both an occupational course sequence and a core academic curriculum fared better after high school, both in the labor market and in postsecondary education.

In a longitudinal study of dropout rates, researcher Argun Saatcioglu concluded, «desegregated schools likely played a more effective role in counterbalancing student - level nonschool problems than did segregated ones.»

Every reliable longitudinal study of private versus public schooling handles sector switchers in this scientific way, and the Lubienskis should have as well, but did not.

These programs have actually demonstrated tremendous longitudinal success where you do have these studies, [that demonstrate] very clearly, much higher college - going rates, much higher college retention rates, great indicators of post-secondary success.

Nationally, 40 percent of undocumented adults ages 18 to 24 did not complete high school, according to Gonzales» current longitudinal study of about 2,700 undocumented youth, the National UnDACAmented Research Project (NURP), which is investigating how DACA affects this group.

The longitudinal study's null finding is not as encouraging as a positive finding would have been, but the nightmare world of increasing school segregation promised by Potter's lengthy speculations apparently did not come to pass in Milwaukee.

Looking at longitudinal studies in Milwaukee and Louisiana, she describes them in a way that will leave the impression that the results were negative for school choice: «In both cases, programs were used primarily by black students and generally did not exacerbate segregation in public schools; however, students using vouchers did not gain access to integrated private schools, and segregation in private schools actually increased.»

Setting aside the question of whether 8th - grade tests can be compared with the lower - grade tests in the Prospects study and the higher - grade tests in the National Education Longitudinal Survey, a more basic problem with this measure has to do with the statistical properties of test scores.

It's interesting that there have actually been two longitudinal studies of the Louisiana voucher program, and Potter didn't review the other one.

Results of a longitudinal study of nearly 4,000 students find that those who do not read proficiently by third grade are four times more likely to leave school without a diploma than proficient readers.

An analysis of the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study (ECLS - K) revealed that children who become overweight between kindergarten and 3rd grade have poorer school outcomes than those who did not become overweight during the early grades.

Because this study was not longitudinal and did not follow teachers into the field, I can not say with any certainty whether or not these practices will endure in practice.

They did this by relying on data from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, which tracked a cohort of children from kindergarten in the fall of 1998 through the end of their fifth - grade year in 2004.

Where is the longitudinal studies to show what this trauma does to children in their beliefs about themselves, in others, empathy and the effect of stress at such a young age all for the sake of better test scores?