Sentences with phrase «few comprehensive studies»

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After doing a comprehensive study, NHTSA found that even the early version of Tesla Autopilot resulted in 40 % fewer crashes.

Sources tell Press Association Sport that a major study into whether footballers are at greater risk of degenerative brain disease is set for launch in the next few weeks with the appointment of a research group to undertake the most comprehensive study of its kind, jointly commissioned by the Football Association and Professional Footballers» Association.

Comprehensive, high - quality studies to address the links between lifestyle and fertility are few and far between.

White and his colleagues note that «surprisingly few» comprehensive evolutionary study systems have been described, although the number is growing.

Our study showed that kids who received a comprehensive education from a coach had fewer injuries,» said lead author Zachary Y. Kerr, PhD, MPH of the Datalys Center for Injury Research and Prevention.

Few scientists thought that the Galileo spacecraft, beset by technical troubles, could conduct such a comprehensive study of the Jovian system.

The DNA repair deficiency, called homologous recombination deficiency, or HRD, has previously been studied in only a few cancers, but as researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center report, HRD can be found in all of the cancer types the researchers studied, including prostate, breast, pancreatic, and endometrial cancers as well as two of the more deadly types: ovarian cancer and glioma, a type of brain cancer.

Here, a few: Limit those happy hours Heavy drinkers have a higher risk of developing the disease, according to a study from the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami's Miller School of Medicine.

The Parthenon Group market research study found that few other leadership development models provided comprehensive in - field support through mentoring, assessment, community support, job placement, and professional development.

Although 43 states are employing strategies that encourage elementary teachers to teach higher - order thinking skills, few have developed comprehensive policies for reforming the curriculum to include such skills in the early grades, a study by a federally sponsored research center shows.

Although providing a comprehensive overview of current research is beyond the scope of this blog post, there are a few recent studies that I've found particularly helpful as we think about this work.

The most careful, comprehensive study of virtual charter schools, from Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes, found that virtual charter students achieved the equivalent of 180 fewer days of learning in math and 72 fewer days of learning in reading than students in traditional public schools.

We started 2017 off strong with a comprehensive study on the availability of shelter dogs in our country, showing that far fewer than previously thought are actually available for adoption.

A comprehensive study funded by APPA a few years ago looked at the next 10 years for the pet industry.

Those measures, however, rely entirely on two structural features — syllables per word and words per sentence.48 As we describe below, we have adopted a comprehensive approach to measuring readability by taking fifty different readability measures and then using factor analysis to create an index based on the most reliable set of measures.49 The next section discusses the few prior studies of the relationship between readability and case outcome.

Few previous studies have focused on designing new comprehensive models for WCC.

A recent investigation from the UK Millennium Cohort Study found that a variety of parenting, home learning, and early education factors explained a small portion of the socioeconomic status (SES) gradients in children's cognitive ability by age 5.2 Although some US studies have examined selected factors at different stages of childhood, 24 — 27 few have had comprehensive data to examine the socioeconomic distribution of a wide variety of risk and protective factors across early childhood and their role as potential independent mediators of the SES gradients in cognitive ability at kindergarten entry.

To date, the immediate and lasting positive effects of quality care on language, cognitive development, and school achievement have been confirmed by converging findings from large, reasonably representative longitudinal studies and smaller, randomized trials with long - term follow - ups.1, 2,9 - 13 Contributors to this knowledge base include meta - analytic reviews of interventions and large longitudinal studies conducted in several countries.1, 2,14,15 Comprehensive meta - analyses now establish that effects of early care decline, but do not disappear, and when initial effects are large, long - term effects remain substantial.1, 2 Null findings in cognitive and social domains in a few studies may reasonably be attributed to the limitations inherent to their designs, samples, and measures.

Together these components allow greater support for everyone involved in the therapeutic process and a number of scientific studies have demonstrated that comprehensive DBT results in fewer days of hospitalization, self - injuries, and suicides.

While news coverage of individual transactions grows with each newly announced deal, particularly large dollar - value investments, few analytical studies offer a macro perspective on this boom, and none have attempted a comprehensive survey of total Chinese investment.