Sentences with phrase «effects with higher confidence»

The optimal integration of these four aspects results in a clear improvement of our ability to anticipate adverse effects with higher confidence, which entails an extremely positive impact on society».

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• Moffatt & Stanton (2005) also found «high level of knowledge about the effects of passive smoking on baby» and «confidence in ability to quit» associated with smoking cessation.

This method allows the scientists to measure very subtle effects with very high confidence, while eliminating the effect of any genetic or epigenetic modifications and cell culture related variations that could occur during the experiment.

Compared with noncarriers, carriers of PTV at CETP had higher high - density lipoprotein cholesterol (effect size, 22.6 mg / dL; 95 % confidence interval, 18 - 27; P < 1.0 × 10 -LRB--4)-RRB-, lower low - density lipoprotein cholesterol -LRB--12.2 mg / dL; 95 % confidence interval, -23 to -0.98; P = 0.033), and lower triglycerides -LRB--6.3 %; 95 % confidence interval, -12 to -0.22; P = 0.043).

Happily, we have four RCTs on the effects of charter schools that allow us to know something about the effects of charter schools with high confidence.

They can not isolate with confidence the effect of individual criteria, like whether a teacher is certified in the subject or has higher SAT scores because «many of the measures of teachers» qualifications are highly correlated with each other.»

A study with high internal validity boosts our confidence that effects we observe are attributable to the program itself and not to other extraneous factors — that is, we are confident that the program caused the outcome we observed.

Competitive effects studies may have high external validity, but they have lower internal validity than RCTs, meaning we don't have as much confidence as we would with RCTs that there is a causal relationship between school choice programs and test score gains by students who remain in public schools.

The most recent report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change states with «very high confidence» that «the health of human populations is sensitive to shifts in weather patterns and other aspects of climate change» due to direct effects — such as changes in temperature and precipitation or occurrence of heat waves, floods, droughts, and fires — as well as indirect effects — through crop failures, shifting patterns of disease vectors, or displacement of populations.

Number two, the global warming is now large enough that we can ascribe, with a high degree of confidence, a cause - and - effect relationship to the greenhouse effect.

Based primarily upon the range of urban minus rural adjusted dataset comparisons and the degree of agreement of these products with a broad range of reanalysis products, it is unlikely that any uncorrected urban heat - island effects and LULC change effects have raised the estimated centennial globally averaged LSAT trends by more than 10 % of the reported trend (high confidence, based on robust evidence and high agreement).

So we find a person in his 20's who has yet to be awarded a PhD, who has been a Greenpeace activist, but who is awarded a position as a coordinating lead author on a vital IPCC Chapter which concludes with very high confidence that mitigation is required to head off the more damaging effects of man - made climate change.

He said that ``... the global warming is now large enough that we can describe with a high degree of confidence a cause and effect relationship between the greenhouse effect and the observed warming.»

The RCT study design with an active comparison group (controlling for positive adult instructor and group activity) and comparable groups at baseline provides a high level of confidence that the improvements seen in the MBSR arm are due specifically to the mindfulness aspects of the intervention, as opposed to baseline differences and / or other nonspecific intervention effects.

With a relatively larger (albeit still inadequate) body of literature, UCLA / Lovaas — based intervention and EIBI variant studies have revealed positive shifts in language, adaptive, cognitive, and educational outcomes, but our confidence (strength of evidence) in that effect is low because of the need for additional, confirmatory research, a lack of high - quality RCTs, and no studies that have directly compared effects of promising manualized treatment approaches.

The greatest effects for the VIP group were found for mothers with a ninth - grade or higher reading level (Cohen d, 0.68; 95 % confidence interval, 0.33 to 1.03).