Sentences with phrase «few other studies of»

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The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

In 2014, she undertook a project to study the social media accounts of a few of her «superfans,» learning what they liked, who they were friends with, where they worked and other personal details.

Side note: I've put together a few other examples of strong case studies in that Future of Location 2018 ebook I mentioned earlier.

A roundup of gun control and violence studies by writer German Lopez at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.

For example, a few years ago, a compelling study in the MIT Sloan Management Review used ROA data (among other metrics) to compare the performances of external and internal candidates in CEO successions.

In share trading there are very few hard and fast rules other than trading on emotion which causes massive loss and the rule of hard work and meticulous study which must be obeyed.

From Indian University Web site: «When exceptionally complete fossil sites are studied, usually a mix of patterns are seen: some species still seem to appear suddenly (within a few hundred thousand years), while others clearly appear gradually (over many millions of years).

I have also seen Misthology (study of rewards), Anthropology (study of man), and a few others.

I grew up as a JW and have since left and gained enough perspective (through lived experience and university study) to understand that the religious organization (while insular) is no more so than any other anti-interdenominational religion of which there are quite a few: Baptists who won't sit down with Methodists.

A minority of cultivated men (and a few women) went on from grammar to rhetoric, to the «encyclical studies» which included arithmetic, music and other «liberal arts», and some ventured into philosophy.

Many say that the antioxidant action provided by superfoods protects against cancer and heart disease, among a host of other ills — while others point out that few carefully controlled studies have been conducted.

I doubled back, and after nestling the package between my other boxes, I noticed the tiny old lady a few yards away, still studying a pouch of cookie mix.

In making the leap to the NFL, 20 - year - old Texans rookie Amobi Okoye and other marquee 2007 first - round draft picks are discovering the value of hard work, intense study and a few good friends

A few commenters on the Strollerderby post, They Say: Spanking Makes Your Kid Mean, a Bit Dumb, question how scientific this study was and if other variables could have played a role in the aggressiveness of the children.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

A recent study comparing women's choices of pain relief in midwife - led and consultant - led units in Ireland showed that when women were offered other options such as hydrotherapy and transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation, fewer women chose epidural analgesia [9].

Many other studies have shown this to be the primary reason for placing infants in the nonsupine position.10, 12,13 Our study showed that spitting up in the first 24 hours after birth occurs in fewer than 4 % of newborns, whether asleep or awake.

The contribution of the mode of delivery to the infant microbiome has been evaluated.13, 15,24 However, no study has examined the effects of delivery mode and breastfeeding following adjustment for the other, and, to our knowledge, there are few data on the effects of combination feeding (feeding breast milk and formula together).

However, despite the financial success of these videos, one study reported that for babies from 8 to 16 months old, every hour spent watching these videos rather than experiencing human interaction resulted in their having six to eight fewer words in their vocabularies compared to other babies their age.

Preventing SIDS is the most important reason to put your baby to sleep on her back, but a study published in 2003 in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine found other benefits, too: Infants who sleep on their back suffer from fewer ear infections, fevers, and stuffy noses than babies who sleep in other positions.

Basically, after reading a few fancy medical jargon laid articles, it seems that the findings of this study were that MRSA and other bacteria was able to survive from one to 90 days on the fabric surfaces of cotton, polyester, and polyethelene.

On the other hand, a few studies claim that there are no relations between the use of marijuana and pregnancy.

Beyond the headlines, few have bothered to read these and other studies of Chinese influence.

In fact, we give few things more weight in terms of digital infuence on purchase decisions than social networks other than blogs and actual retail sites according to a recently released study from Technorati.

One study from 2012 suggests how easily people can become desensitized to privacy invasion; when 10 homes were fitted with cameras, microphones and other surveillance equipment, residents grew to accept the lack of privacy after just a few months.

Studies of the drug abroad have shown that it is effective and has fewer side effects compared to other corticosteroids, namely less associated weight gain.

Three groups of middle - aged mice (about a year old) were studied: one group ate a normal diet, in which fewer than 30 percent of calories came from fat, while two others were fed high - calorie diets in which 60 percent of the calories came from fat.

In the past few years, a host of other studies has demonstrated the power of enrichment.

Few studies have been done to date on the health risks of chronic exposure to methane and other gaseous hydrocarbons.

According to the researchers, the limits of spare capacity have been studied in very few other species, with most work focused on several varieties of snakes.

In research that has implications for diabetes and other metabolic diseases, an international study based at UT Southwestern Medical Center found that the protein connexin 43 (Cx43) forms cell - to - cell communication channels on the surface of emerging beige fat cells that amplify the signals from those few nerve fibers.

Currently there are no registries of egg donors in the UK or in the US, and there are only a few long - term follow up studies on egg donors who have received fertility drugs to help others.

«If you're rich, there's a good chance you know lots of other rich people and relatively few poor people; likewise, if you're poor, you're likely to know fewer wealthy people and more poorer ones,» says study co-author Robbie Sutton.

In one of the few such studies, scientists examined how dead leaves, roots, and other plant litter decay over a decade.

Although many different malaria resistance loci have been postulated over the years, this is one of very few that have stood up to stringent testing in a large multi-centre study; the others include the genes for sickle cell and the O blood group.

This latest study is one of only a few well - documented examples of what evolutionary biologists call «character displacement,» in which similar species competing with each other evolve differences to take advantage of different ecological niches.

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

In contrast to previous studies of access to care in Massachusetts that have relied on patient surveys, which the authors say may be subject to potential biases due to patient recall or other factors, the new study is one of the few to rely on objectively measured outcomes and was based on nearly every hospital admission occurring in Massachusetts and the comparison states for nearly two years before and two years after the reform was implemented.

In other studies, obesity has been associated with a decreased risk of early death; however, follow - up studies suggest that this «obesity paradox» may be explained by unintentional weight loss in the few years preceding death, rather than a truly protective effect of obesity.

In a different study Waghmare presented at the recent annual meeting of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation in Orlando, Florida, the researchers teased out a few risk factors that can drive the development of lower respiratory tract infections — namely, high levels of steroid use (commonly given to transplant patients for other complications such as graft - vs.

Kuller and others are also concerned that if the proportion of black people included in studies is the same as that in the overall population — about 12 per cent — there will be too few in any one study to allow separate conclusions to be drawn about them.

Very few studies on screening for other gynecologic conditions with pelvic examination alone have been conducted, and the USPSTF found that these studies have limited generalizability to the current population of asymptomatic women seen in primary care settings in the United States.

«It's enough to make me think about trying it in a few of my autism patients who haven't responded to other interventions,» says Randi Hagerman, a pediatrician who studies neurodevelopmental disorders at the University of California, Davis.

Other studies show that children in day care have less asthma and fewer allergies than those raised at home, and younger siblings have a lower incidence of these syndromes.

A new study appearing in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) found that these surgeries are generally safe with mortality rates decreasing for total hip (THR) and total knee (TKR) replacement and spinal fusion surgeries, and complication rates decreasing for total knee replacement and spinal fusion in patients with few or no comorbidities (other conditions or diseases).

A few epidemiological studies have even found a small correlation between SSRI use during pregnancy and ASD, but that can largely be explained by other factors, such as the severity of a mother's depression, says Lars Henning Pedersen, at Aarhus University in Denmark, who has no affiliations with any antidepressant manufacturers.

By adding fundamentals of biology to their computer science training, more than a few native computer scientists are contributing — and preparing themselves to contribute — to the advancement of the life sciences (among other fields), laying foundations for new branches of study.

«A few other studies have shown results suggesting an increased risk of pregnancy - induced hypertension in egg donation patients,» said Dr Letur.

Only a few cells in a cancerous tumor are able to break away and spread to other parts of the body, but the curve along the edge of the tumor may play a large role in activating these tumor - seeding cells, according to a new University of Illinois study.

Most focus on droughts, floods or other disasters that arguably have cut off empires; the new study is one of the few to explore the more complex question how climate might have invigorated one.