Sentences with phrase «early findings demonstrate»

The full impact report was released at the forum, but early findings demonstrate increases in test scores, reductions in dropout rates, and increases in summer learning.

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To avert such a disaster, the Judeo - Christian heritage must be allowed to shed its outworn forms, and by finding that mode of expression most proper to the context of the new world, demonstrate to men that it possesses the same creative vitality that it has manifested in earlier periods.
The sources of this «final metaphysical perspective» are instead, as I have demonstrated, to be found in Russell's writings extending backward from 1959 to the early logical and analytic works of 1918 and before.
Most studies of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta - analysis in the same year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place of birth for women at low risk of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.
Not long before he moved back to Illinois and joined Eisenstein in the early 1980s, medical authorities in Alaska found Rosi demonstrated «professional incompetence,» records show.
These findings follow earlier research by Janssen that demonstrated that planned home births resulted in fewer interventions and similar rates of adverse newborn outcomes compared to planned hospital births among women who met the criteria for home births.
In another study, fathers with children enrolled in Early Head Start employed significantly more complex social play interactions with their 24 - month - olds than did fathers with children in a control group.17 These studies suggest possible benefits to fathers who become involved in Head Start, but more studies are needed to replicate these findings and to demonstrate how fathers and children are affected by participation.
Earlier epidemiologic studies were not consistent in demonstrating a protective effect of breastfeeding on SIDS *; some studies found a protective effect, 67,239,240 and others did not.
[1] The finding is unexpected, since earlier studies demonstrated an unequivocal relationship in the opposite direction (i.e. that IMF programmes reduce social spending).
But New York State Supreme Court Justice William Ford found Lake «has failed to sustain his burden of demonstrating how the court has misapprehended or overlooked key, material or relevant points of law or facts and evidence,» according to the decision filed earlier this month.
On the day it sponsored its speaker's forum, it also released the findings of the questionnaires victorious Council candidates completed earlier in the year, which it said demonstrated «widespread support for reforms previously thought to be unachievable.»
Earlier MD Anderson investigations demonstrated exosomes as a factor in detecting pancreatic cancer, but these latest findings reveal genetically altered exosomes as a potentially novel approach for direct and specific targeting of mutated KRAS, the cancer gene commonly linked to pancreatic cancer.
The research team writes that the findings demonstrate that placental dysfunction due to CHD can be apparent as early as the second trimester of pregnancy using this imaging technology.
The HIV prevention strategy whose impact was observed in the study is based on earlier findings by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and others demonstrating the protective effect of voluntary medical male circumcision for HIV - uninfected men and of HIV - suppressing antiretroviral therapy (ART) for halting sexual transmission of the virus to uninfected partners.
While early research found that e-cigarettes resulted in lower levels of plasma nicotine than conventional cigarettes, more recent research demonstrated that experienced users can attain nicotine absorption similar to that with conventional cigarettes.
New findings by researchers at the Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences (I - LABS) at the University of Washington demonstrate for the first time that an early social behavior called gaze shifting is linked to infants» ability to learn new language sounds.
Published in the current online edition of the journal Dermatology and Therapy, the early lab findings demonstrated that resveratrol and benzoyl peroxide attack the acne bacteria, called Propionibacterium acnes, in different ways.
Perusing the literature, he found earlier experiments that demonstrated a crucial part of the amygdala known as the central nucleus contained links to the key brain stem areas that control the autonomic functions involved in the fear response, like acceleration of breathing and heart rate.
«These findings demonstrate a single origin of gills that likely corresponds with a key stage in vertebrate evolution: when some of our earliest relatives transitioned from filtering particles out of water pumped through static bodies to actively swimming through the oceans,» says lead author Dr Andrew Gillis, a Royal Society University Research Fellow in Cambridge's Department of Zoology, and a Whitman Investigator at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, US.
Markowitz and University of Kentucky Professor Hsin - Hsiung Tai earlier had demonstrated that a gene product found in all humans, 15 - hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase (15 - PGDH), degrades and reduces the amount of PGE2 in the body.
Collectively, these findings demonstrate that even a brief period of immune system activation during critical periods of early development can leave a long - term signature upon the brain.
The findings, published online today in the leading medical journal The Lancet, demonstrate the benefits of cancer centres providing early specialized palliative care in outpatient clinics, says principal investigator Dr. Camilla Zimmermann, Head, Palliative Care Program, UHN, and Medical Director, Al Hertz Centre for Supportive and Palliative Care at the Princess Margaret.
Planetary scientists have discovered pieces of opal in a meteorite found in Antarctica, a result that demonstrates that meteorites delivered water ice to asteroids early in the history of the solar system.
According to the researchers, the findings «support the notion that pleasant touch plays a vital role in human social interactions by demonstrating that the sensitivity to pleasant touch emerges early in human development.»
Acknowledging that these are early findings, he said that longer follow - up is needed to confirm that this valve continues to demonstrate benefits over surgery.
Findings demonstrate support for the enduring effects of sustained school - based early education to the end of the third decade of life.
These findings demonstrate that the vascular effects of sleep apnea are reversible if treated early in the disease process, suggesting that we might be able to mitigate the long - term risk of chronic exposure to OSA.»
«The LALES findings unexpectedly demonstrate that even the earliest stages of AMD may impair eyesight enough to interfere with daily activities.
However, RPE65 gene therapy was found to restore cone function in dogs, and Pang and his colleagues demonstrated that it can restore cone function in Rpe65 - deficient mice if administered early — 14 days after birth (Pang et al. 2006; Pang et al. 2010).
«Our findings demonstrate that damage to the hippocampus early in life leads to increased anxiety - like behaviors in response to an unfamiliar human,» says research associate Jessica Raper, PhD, first author of the paper.
Conclusions: Our findings demonstrate that disruption of Bscl2 specifically in developing adipocytes is sufficient to cause the early - onset generalised lipodystrophy observed in patients with mutations in BSCL2.
Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions
Circulating testosterone levels decline with increasing age but do not appear to be significantly affected by the menopausal transition.8 As early as the 1940s, testosterone was reported not only to alleviate menopausal symptoms but also to restore libido.9 In recent years, evidence has accumulated supporting the hypothesis that the decline in endogenous testosterone levels is associated with menopausal symptoms, including decreased libido, worse moods, and poorer quality of life.10 Clinical trials have demonstrated that exogenous androgens in conjunction with estrogens can ameliorate symptoms affecting sexual function and general well - being.11, 12 In addition, studies have found beneficial effects of androgen therapy on bone mineral density.13 - 15
The joke is that the depressed Abe, who earlier tries to liven up a party with his students by demonstrating how Russian roulette is played, finds his purpose in life by deciding to end the life of another human being.
In fact, findings are almost uniform in demonstrating significant and meaningful benefits for enrollment in early education settings in which teacher - child interactions are supportive, instructive, and stimulating.
«The event demonstrated there's a chance we'll find an early learning champion who will value the importance of high - quality early learning programs for all of California's kids with teachers who are compensated fairly,» said Patricia Lozano, executive director of Early Edge California, an advocacy organization promoting expanded early education progearly learning champion who will value the importance of high - quality early learning programs for all of California's kids with teachers who are compensated fairly,» said Patricia Lozano, executive director of Early Edge California, an advocacy organization promoting expanded early education progearly learning programs for all of California's kids with teachers who are compensated fairly,» said Patricia Lozano, executive director of Early Edge California, an advocacy organization promoting expanded early education progEarly Edge California, an advocacy organization promoting expanded early education progearly education programs.
City Year's work with 3rd through 9th graders is guided by a groundbreaking 2006 study from Johns Hopkins University that found that if 6th - grade students demonstrated «early warning indicators» — poor attendance, behavior issues, and low achievement in math and English coursework — their chances of graduating from high school plummeted to 25 percent.
While our findings demonstrate the vertical influence federal incentivization can have on state adoption activity, our findings also support earlier work in education (e.g., Cohen - Vogel, Ingle, Albee, and Spence 2008; Mintrom and Vergari 1998) showing that the likelihood of state adoption may be enhanced through participation in national policy consortia.
And while some earlier studies may not have homed in on why many affluent retirees seem reluctant to draw on their nest eggs, they have demonstrated that many seniors find it difficult making the transition from saving to spending.
Decades of research have demonstrated that the cost of changes in the S&P 500 Index is significant and increasing.1 Consistent with earlier academic findings, Chen, Noronha, and Singal (2004) determined that, from announcement day to the effective date, the additional cost of a new index holding rose from 3 % in the 1976 — 1989 period to about 9 % in the 1989 — 2000 period.
In early studies, we have demonstrated the safety and efficacy of the CT pneumocolonography procedure in normal dogs, but it is important that we learn to accurately interpret the imaging findings for a wide variety of disease processes in clinical patients so that our CT diagnoses are accurate.
One of the most common examples of this is food guarding; however, earlier research found only half the dogs who demonstrated this behavior in the shelter continued it in the home.
In 2014 the Museum hosted a Symposium on Human Origins, inviting an international cadre of scientists to demonstrate and debate the latest findings in early human evolution.
The launch of the new app follows new research findings, released by Tourism Australia earlier this month, demonstrating the growing impact of social media on the way Australians travel around their own country.
To demonstrate the level of attention that developers at Riot Games provide League of Legends, one could only find the game's early iteration and compare it with the current version.
The early works demonstrate Oiticica's efforts to find his own expressive language by integrating the playfulness of Klee's figurative dreamscapes and the strict geometricity of Malevich and Mondrian.
Following Plate Paintings 1978 - 1986, the artist's solo exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum that focused on his early plate paintings, this refreshing exhibition demonstrates the influential artist's ability to find endure rapid transformations in today's art.
An early and influential conceptual photographer, Kenneth Josephson makes photographs of found and constructed visual puzzles that demonstrate his alert and often humorous way of encountering the world at large.
Maps + Patterns at DC Moore Gallery featured a selection of mixed - media works, which demonstrated a continued adherence to the concerns of Pattern and Decoration, so integral to Kozloff's work since the movement's founding in the early 1970s.
The early Pictographs were created with a defined grid structure in order to organize theimages, often figurative and fragmented, in a utilitarian manner.Around 1948, Gottlieb began deconstructing the grid in an effort to find an alternative way to balance nature's interrelated forces: order and chaos.The earliest work on view, Inscription to a Friend, 1948, is an example of Gottlieb's initial attempts to integrate abstract forms that could still be relatable to a larger universal language, without the help ofthe grid.Inscription, 1954, demonstrates Gottlieb's further progression into purely abstract imagery using an evocative and highly developed lexicon.
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