Sentences with phrase «effects models on»

The analyses were performed by using linear mixed - effects models on the log scale of hormones.

Multiple meta - analyses were conducted using the random effect model on raw data in the StatsDirect statistical program.

The two images below (if my links work properly) are of the age effect and year effect coefficients with 95 % (2se) error bands, from a random effects model on data from 1000 - 1996.

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In fact, the book had such an effect on Musk that he even slipped a reference to it into the Tesla Model S software.

Design elements like colors and fonts, the look on a model's face, the lighting, the music and more, can all have drastic effects on how your brand is viewed.

Also noteworthy was the effect of plus - sized models on consumers with average and skinny builds.

Producers say new episodes will feature Tinky Winky, Dipsy, Laa - Laa and Po as characters, but the series will undergo an update with new CGI effects and scenes shot on replica models of the sets.

In many dark energy models, we would expect to see significant effects on both laboratory and cosmological scales.

4) Stock effects: If Apple were successful in moving a large proportion of its iPhone and iPad users to a Netflix subscription model, that could have a large impact on the company's share price.

«Reading can offer richer, broader and more complex models of experience, which enable people to view their own lives from a refreshed perspective and with renewed understanding,» says Josie Billington of the University of Liverpool, who's an expert on the effects of reading.

The system uses information from your sleep to create a model of your body clock predicting the effect on your concentration and performance throughout the day.

This is simply in line with the current «neutral» mode of our market timing model, which went into effect at the close of trading on October 5.

Our impression of the structure and parameters of such models as these is that the result of the thought experiment above — a rise in short - term rates in real terms of 1 per cent — looks broadly similar in terms of its bottom line effect on activity.

During my hiatus, I spoke with Rick Santelli (click on the image below) to discuss some of the new issues presenting investment opportunities, in addition to concerns surrounding potential negative fallout from ill - conceived models, such as the effect of the border adjustment tax on the global financial system.

, Fabian Hollstein, Marcel Prokopczuk and Chardin Simen test effects of different return sampling frequencies, forecast adjustments and model combinations on market beta prediction accuracy across the universe of U.S. stocks.

On the other hand, induction allows us to calculate probabilities from past observations where theoretical models are unavailable, possibly because of a lack of knowledge about the underlying relation between cause and effect.

While that fragmented model works well for high - volume stocks, promoting competition and price discovery, it does not have the same effect on less liquid stocks, which become harder to trade, Nasdaq said.

Calacanis then stated his view that there will eventually be some sort of cataclysmic decline in the bitcoin price due to the emergence of a superior competitor, but Barhydt pushed back on this claim as well, stating that the network effects and proven security model of Bitcoin are simply too strong for this to happen.

Essays on censorship, ethinic programming, pornography, popular religious practices, media criticism, effects research, ritual and transmission models of communication.

I would argue that major trends in American society are more of an indictment of globalization's effects on community than a model for the world to follow.

In this model, the modern epoch is characterized by an abandonment of the three - tiered or dualistic universe of traditional religion, a reliance on scientific and technical reasoning, and increasing intervention by the state to promote advanced industrial capitalism and to combat its ill effects on social life.

To date much social science research in communication has focused on either the message content or media effects - linear models.

Although in fact there is no reason why the transmission model could not be used for much of this research - as it is, for instance, in studying the effects of pornography on youth - the preponderant model leans away from the concern for concrete mechanical effects characteristic of the transmission model and leans toward what is loosely termed the ritualistic model.

Also, the NCM460 cell line that Dr. Ebert and the carrageenan lobby criticize is derived from normal colonic mucosa and is useful to model effects on colonic cells, in the same way that other intestinal cell lines, such as Caco2 and HT29, are useful.

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

We used the estimates generated to derive the change in energy intake, which we then used to model the effect on average body weight and prevalence of obesity in the UK (fig 1 ⇓).

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

Objective To model the overall and income specific effect of a 20 % tax on sugar sweetened drinks on the prevalence of overweight and obesity in the UK.

Briggs A, Mytton O, Scarborough P, Rayner M. Appendix 8: Modelling the effects of a 10 % sugar sweetened drinks tax on obesity and overweight in Ireland: a report to inform the Health Impact Assessment.

We chose to model the effects on body weight because good evidence (from both trials and epidemiological studies) links regular consumption of sugar sweetened drinks to weight gain.8 10 12 Moreover, data from longitudinal studies support the idea that changes in the price of sugar sweetened drinks are linked to changes in body weight.20 Other groups have used this form of modelling to estimate the effects of a sugar sweetened drink tax on obesity.18 21 22

Using a «gnotobiotic mouse model» — where mice were «colonized with a synthetic human gut microbiota composed of fully sequenced commensal bacteria» — Desai et al reported on the effects of different diets with different fibre content.

«More than 1,400 researchers and stakeholders worldwide use the DNDC Model on over 40 agricultural crops to assess the effects of various management practices on greenhouse gas emissions,» said Allison Jordan, CSWA executive director.

Overall and income specific effect on prevalence of overweight and obesity of 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in UK: econometric and comparative risk assessment modelling study

Modelling environmental effects on phenology and canopy development of diverse sorghum genotypes.

4) Wheat germ agglutinin, a direct intestinal toxin in animal models, exerts disruptive effects on gastric, small intestinal, and colonic mucosa.

Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be studied and many patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).

Our model also explains the performance - enhancing effect of dopamine / noradrenaline reuptake inhibitors on exercise performance in hot conditions, as shown by Watson et al, 33 as well as the reported effects of amphetamines on endurance performance.

They can model both healthy and unhealthy behaviors of their parents so the parents should be careful about their attitude about certain activities, alcohol, tobacco, drugs and other substances as this can have a significant effect on the future behavior of their children.

With a flat top, carefully press in the model dinosaurs (the miniature dinosaurs are great because of the details like spikes and plates on them), and after experimenting with our dinosaur box these produced the best effect in the dough.

You can easily emulate the effect of these chignons with a ponytail by twisting the sides (as seen on the model above) and leaving the ponytail loose.

This is the only model on the market combining the stability of kinesiology taping with the effect of compression technology.

This particular model produces an underwater effect on your ceiling.

The child might not immediately register this, but consistent modeling of good behavior and stable thinking patterns will have an uplifting effect on the child's emotional well - being.

Limitations in the underlying studies prevent us from modeling the effect of extended lactation on some maternal conditions (eg, ovarian cancer).

Individual growth curve models were developed for multilevel analysis and specifically designed for exploring longitudinal data on individual changes over time.23 Using this approach, we applied the MIXED procedure in SAS (SAS Institute) to account for the random effects of repeated measurements.24 To specify the correct model for our individual growth curves, we compared a series of MIXED models by evaluating the difference in deviance between nested models.23 Both fixed quadratic and cubic MIXED models fit our data well, but we selected the fixed quadratic MIXED model because the addition of a cubic time term was not statistically significant based on a log - likelihood ratio test.

Of note, our models may underestimate the true maternal costs of suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and MI.

A full description of PROBIT's design and methods has been published elsewhere.17 In brief, 31 maternity hospitals and their affiliated polyclinics (where children are followed for routine health care) were randomized either to receive a breastfeeding promotion intervention modelled on the 10 steps to successful breastfeeding of the WHO / UNICEF Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative (BFHI) or to continue the maternity hospital and polyclinic practices in effect at the time of randomization.

Methods: The Promotion of Breastfeeding Intervention Trial (PROBIT) randomized 31 Belarusian maternity hospitals and their affiliated polyclinics either to receive a breastfeeding promotion intervention modelled on the WHO / UNICEF Baby - Friendly Hospital Initiative or to continue the standard practices in effect at the time of randomization.

Modeling the effects of different infant feeding strategies on young child survival and mother - to - child transmission of HIV.

Studies of the Nurse Family Partnership model followed children to 6 years and found significant program effects on language and cognitive functioning as well as fewer behaviour problems in a randomized controlled trial study.24 In addition, more recent evaluations of Healthy Families America have shown small, but favourable effects on young children's development.25, 26