Sentences with phrase «find several large studies»

You'll find several large studies, and dozens of smaller ones have been done on many aspects of open adoption, from all three perspectives.

Not exact matches

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

But over the past few years, Allison says, several large studies such as this one and this one «have found that babies at high risk for becoming allergic to peanuts are less likely to develop the allergy if they are regularly fed peanut - containing foods in the first year of life.»

I could list several recent large prospective studies (this one out of Canada, this one out of the Netherlands, and this one out of the United Kingdom) all comparing where and with whom healthy women gave birth, which found similar rates of baby loss — around 2 per 1,000 — no matter the place or attendant.

The largest ever genetic study of mosquitoes reveals the movement of insecticide resistance between different regions of Africa and finds several rapidly evolving insecticide resistance genes.

Although several small studies have found similar results, this large study of almost 800,000 babies and mothers expands the evidence by using a statistical method that also accounts for unmeasured or unobserved factors.

These new findings laid the groundwork for a much larger, ongoing study funded by the Wellcome Trust and involving several UK Universities and Pharmaceutical companies that will seek to replicate the findings and refine the test.

Several Detection Teams» studied CoRoT light - curves for planetary transits, also finding by coincidence a large number of EBs.

Several large studies have failed to find the link, Wakefield's paper was retracted in 2010, and he was disbarred as a physician after the U.K. General Medical Council found him guilty of dishonesty and endangering children.

A 1988 study found the disease to be nearly twice as common in several large Asian cities, where soy intake is two to five times as high as in the U.S.

However, Rick was excited to find out that a large and well - organised community group based in Sydney (the Frog and Tadpole Study Group, or FATS) has been gathering this kind of information for several years — and the main person involved, Dr Arthur White, was happy to collaborate in analyzing and publishing the results of their work.

A large Swedish study analyzing thousands of people diagnosed with celiac disease found that these individuals were more likely to have taken antibiotics within the preceding several months than healthy control subjects.

However, a review article published in a 2010 edition of the «Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine» reports that several large - scale studies have found a link to artificial sweetener use and weight gain.

On their native diet they are free of disease and exceptionally hardy.17 An extensive study of diet and disease patterns in China found that the region in which the populace consumes large amounts of whole milk had half the rate of heart disease as several districts in which only small amounts of animal products are consumed.18 Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat — including highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese — comprises up to 70 % of their caloric several districts in which only small amounts of animal products are consumed.18 Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat — including highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese — comprises up to 70 % of their caloric Several Mediterranean societies have low rates of heart disease even though fat — including highly saturated fat from lamb, sausage and goat cheese — comprises up to 70 % of their caloric intake.

While it is true that researchers have induced heart disease in some animals by giving them extremely large dosages of oxidized or rancid cholesterol — amounts ten times that found in the ordinary human diet — several population studies squarely contradict the cholesterol - heart disease connection.

The review authors stated, «Several large scale prospective cohort studies found positive correlation between artificial sweetener use and weight gain.»

In several large prospective studies (The Iowa Women Health Study, Nurses Health Study and The CARE Study) the researchers have found an inverse relationship between those who eat nuts and those who have a high risk of atherosclerotic heart disease.

These are among the findings of five former education - school deans who have spent several months studying the fiscal well - being of many of the nation's largest education schools — those housed in the state, land - grant, and major private universities.

A large well - controlled study in the UK found that parents» reports of their child being bullied at school predicted increased risk of ongoing mental health problems for children several years later (Arseneault et al, 2008).

The study typifies Fryer's work in several ways in that it takes one aspect of a larger societal problem, one that has a whiff of controversy about it, and finds an ingenious way to study it and quantify it.

In recent years, several studies using randomized admission lotteries have found large and persistent impacts on student achievement, even for middle school and high school students.

Several studies find that that the labor - market payoff to adolescents completing an additional year of schooling as a result of being compelled to attend is as large as 10 percent.

In order to be included in our analysis, several criteria must be met: we must have school characteristics and outcome data available from the school before and after the adoption, the textbook must be identifiable from the SARC, the adoption must be on - cycle (2008 or 2009), the school must be a uniform adopter in the elementary grades under study (1 - 3 for the main analysis, 1 - 5 for the analysis up through fifth grade), and the school must not be in a district that is so large that finding appropriate comparison schools is impossible.

Specifically, a study that focused on the LLMT course described above and involving a larger sample of preservice teachers than the current study found significant group differences on several measures.

Several large - scale studies have identified specific ways in which professional community - building can deepen teachers» knowledge, build their skills, and improve instruction.13 For example, a comprehensive five - year study of 1,500 schools undergoing major reforms found that in schools where teachers formed active professional learning communities, achievement increased significantly in math, science, history, and reading, while student absenteeism and dropout rates were reduced.

The first study that found no evidence of confounding looked at large samples of students and teachers from a single urban district over several years.

An unprecedented study that followed several thousand undergraduates through four years of college found that large numbers didn't learn the critical thinking, complex reasoning and written communication skills...

Installed among a number of large, monochromatic pictures, now known as the White Paintings (1951), and a few Elemental Sculptures (ca. 1953)-- objects combining stone, wood, rusted metal, and found objects — was a selection of his Black paintings, an imposing series of large canvases layered with newspaper and dark paint of varying finish and consistency.1 Among the works on view was this untitled canvas, now known as Untitled [black painting with portal form](1952 — 53), which the artist is believed to have begun in early 1952.2 This painting was one of several compositions that originated at Black Mountain College near Asheville, North Carolina (fig. 2), where Rauschenberg studied intermittently between 1948 and 1952.

Studying Chinese summer thunderclouds the researchers found that an increase in aerosols led to larger and more persistent convective cloud systems, with larger anvils at several kilometers of altitude that may reflect more sunlight, but trap even more heat — as their high - resolution model showed.

«In 1999, when Houston's ozone levels were the highest in the nation, the state of Texas conducted several studies that found large industrial leaks,» the report notes.

Even though a large - scale study conducted in several countries found that having «compatible personalities» has hardly any impact on relationship satisfaction, 1 the concept remains popular.

A recent review offers ambiguous support for the relation between home visitation and reductions in child maltreatment.2 The findings from several large - scale home - visitation efforts have shown disappointing short - term results in reducing family violence and child maltreatment.4, 9 A 15 - year follow - up study of the Elmira trial families, however, provided the first evidence from a randomized trial for the long - term effects of home visitation on reducing child maltreatment.10 Results from the follow - up showed that nurse - visited families had half as many child maltreatment reports as families in the comparison group.

Several large - scale studies have found no association between the amount of contact a non-custodial father has with his children and an assortment of measures of child well - being (King, 1994; Furstenberg, Morgan, and Allison, 1987).

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.

In a study conducted by Lewin et al. (2006), critical parenting was found to be the strongest predictor, among several predictors comprising a family variable composite, accounting for the largest portion of variance in glycemic control (β =.38 p <.001).