Sentences with phrase «examining whether changes»

We are also examining whether changes in young children's behavioral regulation are connected to changes in areas of the brain related to stress response.

First of all, the present study aimed at examining whether changes in self - compassion on the part of the intervention group could predict changes in positive affect.

In addition to learning about the city's election issues, the lawmakers were intent on examining whether changes to the Voting Rights Act were hurting New Yorkers of color.

«While we know that there is a strong link between diet and health, intervention trials to examine whether a change in diet will help prevent Alzheimer's disease and other dementias have been largely neglected,» Morris says.

The research team also examined whether changes in student demographics at a school could be causing violence to go up or down, instead of the academic gains.

The Full Federal Court stated that Justice Wilcox should have simply been examining whether the change meant that the law or custom was no longer traditional: [23]

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Finally, changes since recent budgets were examined to understand the nature of past variances and whether there may still be biases in the current forecast.

We aimed to examine whether 12.5 % and 25 % salt reduction in bread is detectable, and, if so, whether acceptability is changed, in a sample of adults

The ACCC is examining the latest milk price cuts from Fonterra and Murray Goulburn to consider whether the changes «involved misleading conduct or whether there are elements of unconscionable conduct».

In addition to examining potential changes in protein, calories, and calcium, it would be important to document whether students compensated at lunch, or after school, by consuming higher calorie beverages or other calorically dense snacks.

They examine whether there have been serious changes in the way the international community recognises and deals with the issue of rape in war and the role that gendered violence plays in modern conflicts.

Also at 10 a.m., the Assembly will hold a public hearing to examine the status of inmates with mental illness in the state's prisons and local jails and to determine whether changes may be needed to appropriately address the treatment of mentally ill prisoners, Legislative Office Building, 2nd Floor, Hearing Room C, Albany.

In March 2005, Home Secretary Charles Clarke asked the advisory council on the misuse of drugs (ACMD) to examine new evidence on the harmfulness of cannabis and consider whether this changed their assessment of cannabis as a class C drug.

Sir Hayden Phillips was asked by Tony Blair to examine whether agreement could be reached over changes to party funding.

Sir Hayden, a former civil servant, was asked by the prime minister to examine whether agreement could be reached over changes to party funding.

Officials in nine states are examining whether to change the program's emissions limits and protocols via public meetings.

Dana Dabelea, M.D., Ph.D., of the Colorado School of Public Health, Aurora, Colo., and Elizabeth J. Mayer - Davis, Ph.D., of the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and colleagues with the SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study, examined whether the overall prevalence of type 1 and type 2 diabetes among U.S. youth has changed in recent years, and whether it changed by sex, age, and race / ethnicity.

In addition, we examined whether the CR - induced changes were age - dependent,» the researchers wrote.

But now, for the first time, climate scientists are systematically examining recent extreme weather events to determine whether climate change played a role.

But the latest techniques are making it possible to examine the role that climate change played in shaping the season that has just past — whether it was a scorching summer or a particularly wet winter, for instance.

To identify these epigenetic changes, they examined whether genes had methyl groups attached to them.

This study used a national sample to examine the association between being a college student and changes in excessive drinking from late adolescence through young adulthood and whether students» residing with their parents during the school year affected the association.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

Then, we can critically examine whether the Solar System experienced this drastic chemical change.

These studies did not directly examine whether these fibrous pockets affect the local stiffness of breast tissue, and if such changes drive cancer growth.

However, few studies have examined whether implicit social biases can change.

Some lawmakers have questioned whether certain National Science Foundation grants, including those examining changes in ocean pH, are in the «national interest.»

The data from our two studies provide the evidence we need to begin examining whether similar changes are observed in humans with hyperlipidemia.

Future studies should examine whether using initial weight loss as a criterion for changing a treatment plan has a greater benefit for patients.

We will examine whether and how these changes activate self - sustaining patterns of brain activity that represent internal state and heighten sensitivity to taste and smell and trigger food seeking.

In an interview with Miller-McCune.com, meteorologist Kevin Trenberth examines the world's recently wacky weather and whether it's a sign of climate change or just routine variability.

The Michigan researchers examined whether using medical cannabis for chronic pain changed patterns of opioid use.

In addition to the analysis of human brain activity which is associated with the perception of chemosensory anxiety signals, it has been examined whether the neuronal activity changes during the conscious perception of the chemosensory stimuli as odors.

It has examined how new genetic findings (duplication and deletion or changes in genes) influence the response to various drugs and whether this information can be used to choose the right drug for the right patient.

We have to examine whether our coffee consumption is a positive or negative on our health and we must understand that this may change with time.

In this study, the researchers investigate whether consumption of fruits and vegetable with a higher fiber content or lower glycemic load is more strongly associated with a healthy weight than consumption of fruits and vegetables with a lower fiber content or higher glycemic load by analyzing data on weight and diet changes among US men and women enrolled in three large prospective cohort studies set up to examine risk factors for major chronic diseases.

Not only do pupils understand the causes and effects, they examine evidence as to whether or not climate change is real or a hoax.

To answer this question we examine whether the annual changes in performance made by traditional public schools during this period were more positive in schools with charter schools nearby than in schools not facing charter school competition.

But it is possible to examine whether the mix of schools attended by FTC students has changed, and whether those changes have favored groups of schools that have been more or less successful in the past.

Specifically, I examine whether the results change when I adjust my results to account for differences in student characteristics, including prior (age 7) test scores; gender; eligibility for free lunch; special education needs; month of birth; whether first language is English; ethnic background; and census information on the home neighborhood deprivation index.

Alfred S. Regnery, administrator of the Justice Department's office of juvenile jus - tice and delinquency prevention, told members of the Senate Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice that the department is examining the Supreme Court's landmark 1975 student - rights decision, Wood v. Strickland, to determine whether it is possible to change the federal statute on which the...

In a series of reports, researchers at AIR examined whether and how opportunities for deeper learning change high school graduation and college attendance rates for students.

To see whether teachers» grading standards remained stable over time, we divided the full sample of teachers into thirds according to their grading standards each year and examined how the position of individual teachers changed from year to year.

Scott notes that her study did not examine teacher perception surveys» uses other than the EES survey's relationship to student achievement nor did the research make any claims about whether changes in school goals, processes, and supports result in changes in student outcomes.

Even if we were confident that the test score gains in New Orleans are not being driven by changes in the student population following Katrina (and Doug and his colleagues are doing their best with constrained data and research design to show that), and even if these test score gains translate into higher high school graduation and college attendance rates (which Doug and his colleagues have not yet been able to examine), we still would have no idea whether portfolio management and other high regulations in NOLA helped, hurt, or made no difference in producing these results.

Managers and workers in partnership predicted aspects of the work that could be changed to result in improvement, and then examined whether enacted changes resulted in desired outcomes.

Emily Roden will examine how screen time has changed the modern family dynamic and whether technology can actually increase human - to - human interaction.

Specifically, since technology changes quickly, we sought to examine whether there were any changes to what teachers perceived as useful content and format for technology PD.

To determine whether individuals who left had a stronger resistance to change, a MANOVA was conducted to examine scores on the four RTC constructs for those who left versus those who stayed.

Then, I examine whether the strength of neighborhood effects on children's outcomes has changed as consequence of a potentially weakened neighborhood - school link.