Sentences with phrase «early positive findings»

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A positive sign: The firm, founded in 2006, has accelerated its growth in the last year, with its customer base up about 22 % from a year earlier, to 950 customers (that growth was about 9 % from a year before that).

Earlier this year Merck halted trials on its once - promising Alzheimer's drug after an independent panel of ruled there was «virtually no chance of finding a positive clinical effect.»

The APA survey mentioned earlier found that 91 percent of workers at companies with well - being programs have a positive relationship with supervisors, and 93 percent of employees reported positive relationships with coworkers.

In Luther especially, and also, we note, in the early Puritans, we find a positive view of the life of married love as a glorification of God and its joy as a celebration of God's goodness.

Earlier we found that the primary aim of Marx's critique of religion and his atheistic position was the realization of the positive factor of transcendence.

Israeli archaeologist Yosef Garfinkel announced earlier this week several findings which may contribute toward a positive case for the veracity of biblical history, in particular the question of whether a centralized Israelite kingdom existed during the era of the biblically purported King David....

I keep thinking of wenger's 1000th match when we were smashed, I find it hard to be positive about today's game because I know arsenal to well in these early kick offs they are horrendous

Spending many hours per week playing sports was found to have a positive effect on explosive strength and gross motor coordination among all age groups, supporting the theory advanced in earlier studies.»

Especially when they earlier say «Positive maternal outcomes in homebirths settings, such as those found in this analysis, are supported by other relevant literature.»

In fact, a regular bedtime, especially an early one, was found to have the most significant positive developmental effects on children 4 years of age.

A study published in Pediatrics found that parents» skin - to - skin contact with premature babies helped the babies not only develop early on, but created positive effects for years to come.

There's a great deal of variability in how screen time affects different children and there are enormous positives to be found in the offerings of today's technology, but apparently not in a child's earliest years.

Keep in mind that characteristics you find challenging in your child's early years may turn into positive qualities as he grows.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

Since the early 1990s, government policy on maternity care in England has moved towards policies designed to give women with straightforward pregnancies a choice of settings for birth.1 2 In this context, freestanding midwifery units, midwifery units located in the same building or on the same site as an obstetric unit (hereafter referred to as alongside midwifery units), and home birth services have increasingly become relevant to the configuration of maternity services under consideration in England.3 The relative benefits and risks of birth in these alternative settings have been widely debated in recent years.4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Lower rates of obstetric interventions and other positive maternal outcomes have been consistently found in planned births at home and in midwifery units, but clear conclusions regarding perinatal outcome have been lacking.

Findings from the rapidly growing science of early childhood and early brain development show the positive, lifelong impact fathers can have by being engaged early in their children's lives.

Throughout the book you will find stories and tips from mothers like you and health professionals who give evidence - based advice about all aspects of birth and early parenthood, from where to give birth to positive caesarean, skin - to skin contact and breastfeeding.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Findings from the rapidly growing science of early childhood and early brain development show the positive, lifelong impact fathers can have by being positively engaged early in their children's lives.

However, in malnourished populations motor development may be a useful predictor of subsequent human function.5 A study conducted in Denmark6 found a positive relationship between breastfeeding duration and an earlier ability to crawl and perform the «pincer grip» after adjusting for potential confounding variables.

EDIT: Yuval Levin has just written a book which argues that the positive rights vision of liberalism originated not with Dewey in the early twentieth century as I suggested, but rather in the late 1700's with Thomas Paine, one of America's founding fathers.

Nevertheless, platforms like these could potentially be a powerful force to promote positive adviser - advisee relationships and empower early - career scientists to find environments that work for them.

In the study researchers sought to test whether earlier findings on the positive effect of neurofeedback on sleep quality and memory could also be replicated in a double - blind placebo - controlled study.

In a positive sign for efforts to boost U.S. competitiveness in science and technology, a new study finds that courses that engage college students in conducting scientific research early on can dramatically increase students» odds of completing a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) degree.

On a popular online news aggregator, the researchers found, comments with early, fake positive votes got considerably higher ratings than controls.

The discovery follows earlier work by the same Italian research team, which found that dogs wag to the right when they feel positive emotions (upon seeing their owners, for instance) and to the left when they feel negative emotions (upon seeing an unfriendly dog, for example).

The findings provide the highest level of evidence supporting expert - derived clinical practice guidelines which have recommended Oncotype DX in patients with early stage ER - positive breast cancer.

«Given the links between behavioral engagement in early schooling and positive academic development, our findings are promising for helping children with high maintenance temperaments succeed academically,» said McClowry.

Now the teams have compared their most recent results and their analysis backs the earlier trial that had positive findings.

Earlier results of the trial were made public by the NCI in December 2013 because of the strong positive findings.

This is at odds with our earlier findings in Fig 4 that show a positive association between hg19 loss and mm10 loss.

These unexpected findings may be related to the epileptic phenotype of many pedigrees of patients with early - onset familial AD and to the hyperactivation of neuronal networks in patients with sporadic AD and amyloid - positive nondemented subjects.

My translational research has focused on trying to find better ways to estimate recurrence risk in patients diagnosed with oestrogen - receptor positive early breast cancer, with the ultimate aim to better personalise our therapies for those patients who have the most to gain from them.

These findings are probably related to the epileptic phenotype of many pedigrees of patients with early - onset familial AD and to the hyperactivation of neuronal networks in patients with sporadic AD and amyloid - positive nondemented subjects.

Choi also said that if the testing was started earlier, it would have found more men who were positive of the virus.

We found that, in the allogeneic group, IFN - γ +, IL - 17A +, and IFN - γ / IL -17 A double - positive CD4 + T cells derived from spleen (Fig. 2A, 2B) and MLN (Supplemental Fig. 1A, 1B) increased since the early stage after transplantation compared with the syngeneic group, whereas the IFN - γ — and / or IL - 17A — producing CD8 + T cells increased only at the late stage (Supplemental Fig. 1C, 1D).

The new figures are in line with an earlier study by Boston University that found that 97 % of brains of former NFL players who were studied tested positive for CTE.

«The positive ecological correlations between national intakes of total fat and saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular mortality found in earlier studies were absent or negative in the larger, more recent studies,» the authors wrote, concluding that «the harmful effect of dietary saturated fatty acids and the protective effect of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are questioned.»

From a widower in his late 30s to a father in his early 50s, Dino has gone through many ups and downs in his life, but with an unconquerable spirit, he finds a way to turn even tragedy into something positive.

Sex Positive (R for profanity and graphic sexuality) Bio-pic revisits the life and times of Richard Berkowitz, an HIV + prostitute specializing in freaky fetishes who found himself ostracized by the gay community at the outbreak of the AIDS epidemic in the early Eighties just for being a safe sex advocate.

Finally, earlier evaluations of these programs found neutral to positive effects on test scores.

Research is telling us that if kids don't form positive attitudes towards STEM early in life then they can find it difficult to engage later on, so there was a huge need to plug this gap.»

To eliminate the effects of any chance differences in performance caused by other observable characteristics, our analysis takes into account students» age, gender, race, and eligibility for the free lunch program; whether they had been assigned to a small class; and whether they were assigned to a teacher of the same race — which earlier research using these same data found to have a large positive effect on student performance (see «The Race Connection,» Spring 2004).

Earlier studies, which found significant positive effects for voucher participants, used such neutral tests.

An earlier evaluation found that after two years, Higher Achievement had statistically significant positive impacts on both math and reading test scores.

We found that attrition and replacement patterns could not explain most of KIPP's positive effects on student achievement, because (a) early attrition patterns at KIPP schools are similar to those at nearby district middle schools; and (b) KIPP schools have large achievement effects in the first year of students» enrollment, before replacement patterns could have any effects.

Researchers with Mathematica Policy Research, an independent group, found positive effects both for the combination of KIPP pre-K and KIPP early elementary grades and for KIPP pre-K programs alone.

The combination of KIPP pre-K and early elementary school had «positive and statistically significant impacts on reading and math achievement» by second grade, researchers found.

Findings from studies of high quality early childhood education experiences illustrate that such services for our youngest learners, infants and toddlers, have long - lasting and positive impacts on their development, learning abilities, and capacity to regulate their emotions (National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; NICHD, 2003).

In a presentation to the State Board of Education earlier this month, Vanderbilt researcher Gary Henry said he found positive effects from turnaround efforts in North Carolina's bottom ranked elementary schools — but without continued state funding to replace the temporary federal dollars that were put toward this initiative, those gains won't continue.