Sentences with phrase «first objective of this study»

«Given the rapidly evolving landscape in advertising and media coverage of e-cigarettes, the first objective of this study is to describe the prevalence of awareness and perceived harmfulness of e-cigarettes,» Drs. Tan and Bigman write.

Not exact matches

This isn't the first study dedicated to this subject, but it is «one of the largest studies to date in living retired NFL players» and the «first to demonstrate significant objective evidence for traumatic brain injury in these former players,» study author Francis X. Conidi of the Florida Center for Headache and Sports Neurology and Florida State University College of Medicine said in a statement.

To assume that Christian authors of the New Testament in the first century could have known what God had said elsewhere, and that Christian thinkers of the 20th century, on the basis of that Scripture, could pass judgment on any non-Christian revelation without thoroughly objective and unbiased study would be, at the very least, parochial.

The objective of the study was to examine the association between placental abruption, maternal characteristics, and routine first - and second - trimester aneuploidy screening analytes.The study consisted of an analysis of 1017 women with and 136,898 women without placental abruption who had first - and second - trimester prenatal screening results, linked birth certificate, and hospital discharge records for a live - born singleton.

Cesarean delivery women were excluded because most of them are not well awake (effect of anesthesia) and can't breastfeed in the first hours after delivery, while our study is based on postpartum recruitment of women, in addition to the objective of following the practice of breastfeeding just after birth.

The new results, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, give the first objective evidence of a phenomenon that senior author Srijan Sen, M.D., Ph.D. and his colleagues have studied for years.

The study led by researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania is the first to show that lisdexamfetamine (LDX) improved subjective and objective measures of cognitive decline commonly experienced in menopausal women.

«This study provides the first objective evidence suggesting that physical activity behavior is related to the functioning of the endogenous pain modulatory systems in older adults,» the researchers write.

Researchers also tested the validity of conscious experiences using objective markers for the first time in a large study to determine whether claims of awareness compatible with out - of - body experiences correspond with real or hallucinatory events.

For the first study, the «local», the team recruited 857 people in the United States and asked them to self - report their perceived social status (from working to upper class on a numerical scale), as well as an objective indicator in the form of annual household income.

The study, which published today in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, is the first to link psoriasis severity to an increased risk of death using an objective measure of disease severity — called Body Surface Area (BSA)-- rather than treatment patterns, such as whether or not a patient was receiving oral, injectable or phototherapy treatment for the condition.

«These results enable us to determine whether potential treatments will be effective against patients» symptoms by testing them first in healthy volunteers and defining the best doses based on objective physiological data before conducting costly clinical trials,» said Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, the Lawrence C. Kolb Professor and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry at CUMC, and Principal Investigator of this study.

From Science Daily: «In the first, small study of a novel, personalized and comprehensive program to reverse memory loss, nine of 10 participants displayed subjective or objective improvement in their memories beginning within three to six months after the program ’s

The objective of the study is to determine the role of muscarine M1 receptors in cognitive dysfunction in first episode psychosis.

Its mission is twofold: the first objective focuses on aeronomy (the study of the atmosphere), and the second on astronomy.

The new study, by contrast, is among the first to use an objective measure of physical activity.

Lisa contributed to the first published research study to use subjective and objective data to examine the acute and longitudinal effects of a school based yoga intervention in young children.

Lisa contributed to the first research study to use subjective and objective data to examine the acute and longitudinal effects of a school based yoga intervention in young children.

Melody (first author) developed the new literacies course to accomplish three main objectives: (a) to provide teachers with a scholarly foundation in literacy studies that recognizes how advances in technology influence literacy practices; (b) to support teachers in building their pedagogical knowledge of digital texts and tools as well as social practices influencing composing practices; and (c) to provide teachers with a setting for direct application of the theories and practices discussed in class as they worked with children in a writing camp.

There is quite a lot to enjoy in the early figurative works between the mid-1930s and 40s, when Pasmore was deeply involved with, first of all, studying and continuing late Parisian Impressionism and Post-Impressionism; and then creating his own perhaps less successful brand of homespun «Objective Realism».

On paleo data, I think the real problem is two-fold: first of all, there is the flimsy and dicey nature of the proxy data being used and the tiny GH effect that's being read in, which you mention, but then there is the more basic problem that these studies have almost exclusively been «searches for proof» (that «CO2 is the climate control knob», as Richard Alley puts it), rather than objective «searches for the truth».

«One of the main objectives of any health insurance scheme is to provide financial coverage (or risk protection) by reducing such burden while enhancing use of healthcare,» Dr Anup Karan of the Public Health Foundation of India (PHFI) and first author of the study, Extending health insurance to the poor in India: An impact evaluation of Rashtriya Swasthya Bima Yojana on out - of - pocket spending for healthcare, told The Indian Express.

English Teacher La Crosse Elementary School, Fuquay Varina, NC 2012 — Present • Teach English language and literature by employing interactive study methods • Plan lessons and create and implement curriculum conducive to teaching English as both a first and second language • Establish clear objectives for all lessons and projects • Promote general well being and progress of all students • Communicating with parents about student progress • Provide appraisal and review of individual student performance

OBJECTIVE: This study examines the development of television (TV) behaviors across the first 18 months of life and identifies maternal and infant predictors of infant TV exposure.

33 (p32) The present study is the first in a program of research systematically examining DBT with the objective of identifying the specific elements of treatment that are necessary and sufficient for an efficacious outcome among individuals with BPD.

Following the above arguments, the first objective of the present study was to conceptualize the construct of changes in close relationships, and further, to develop a comprehensive measurement to assess the beliefs about the changes in intimate relationships.

Teachers will first become familiar with our 38 objectives for development and learning, they will explore the benefits of using a Teaching Guide and implementing a meaningful study, and they will learn to implement the three main parts of a study and understand how to integrate content into daily events through intentional teaching experiences.

The first objective of the present study was therefore to investigate whether being isolated from cliques from age 11 to 13 years predicted an increase in depressive symptoms at age 14 years, while controlling for other problems in the peer relations domain.

A first objective consisted in confronting the factor structure of the CERS - M, resulting from the first study, with another sample, and by doing so, to consolidate the construct validity of the instrument.

The objective of the present study was twofold: first, using latent transition analysis (Lanza et al. 2009), we tested whether the relevant groups found in previous studies (e.g., Flory et al. 2004; Moffitt et al. 2002), i.e., those with an early onset, a late onset, and no onset or low levels of risk behavior could be identified, while using a developmental model of a single, underlying construct (constituted by tobacco, alcohol and marijuana use and externalizing behavior problems).

The objectives of this study were to establish the different developmental trajectories of hyperactive — impulsive behaviors on the basis of both mother and father ratings at 19, 32, 50, and 63 months, and to examine the predictive validity of these trajectories with respect to later hyperactive — impulsive behaviors, as rated by teachers in the first 2 years of school.

In sum, the first objective of the present study was to investigate whether clique isolation is a social risk factor for an escalation in depressive symptoms in early adolescence.

Regarding our first objective, the results of this study show that we obtain different profiles or groupings by combining the three dimensions that comprise emotional intelligence: attention, clarity, and repair.

The first objective of the present longitudinal study was to examine the socio - emotional outcomes associated with maternal autonomy support during the preschool period.