Sentences with phrase «first quantitative study»

This article presents the results of the first quantitative study of Canadian defamation actions.

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Today the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life released what it claims to be the first quantitative worldwide study on how governments and societies infringe on the religious beliefs and practices of individuals.

A formative study using participatory action research design will first be conducted, followed by a cluster - randomised trial utilising both qualitative and quantitative data collection methods.

It has been suggested as an aid in diagnosing melasma depth, but this is the first study to find a significant quantitative difference between viewing the skin under natural light versus under a black light when evaluating extent in those with subtle disease.

A new study provides one of the first quantitative estimates of the methane leak rate from the blowout of a natural gas well in California in 2015, suggesting that emissions from this event temporarily doubled those from all other sources in the entire Los Angeles Basin, including landfills, dairies, and other leaks.

The first development is the publication of recent studies providing detailed exposure - response data, enabling regulations based on quantitative risk assessment.

Largest quantitative study of howling, and first to use machine learning, defines different howl types and finds that wolves use these types more or less depending on their species, resembling a howling dialect.

«But our study is the first to ever test this in a quantitative fashion,» Grabowski says.

UC Santa Barbara distinguished research professor Richard P. Appelbaum, former MacArthur Chair in Sociology and Global & International Studies, and Xueying Han, a former postdoctoral scholar at UCSB who now works for the Science and Technology Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., have co-authored the first comprehensive quantitative analysis of China's STEM research environment.

The study, whose first author is the quantitative biologist Ivan Iossifov, a CSHL assistant professor and on faculty at the New York Genome Center, finds that «autism genes» - i.e., those that, when mutated, may contribute to an ASD diagnosis - tend to have fewer mutations than most genes in the human gene pool.

The team says their paper, «What Happens After You Both Swipe Right: A Statistical Description of Mobile Dating Communications» is one of the first large scale quantitative studies to look at the way mobile dating sites are used.

While at Stanford, Ericka has worked in partnership with a California school district to help answer high priority and actionable research questions; mentored first and second year doctoral students as a part of the Enhancing Diversity in Graduate Education program; served as a doctoral student representative on the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Interdisciplinary Policy Studies Area Committee; and served as a teaching assistant for quantitative and theoretical courses on educational inequality.

Among the first studies of scripted curricula to incorporate quantitative methods, this mixed - methods, quasi-experimental dissertation examines the development and implementation of more scripted curricula by two New York City school support networks (one charter and one non-charter).

This study provided the first clear quantitative evidence that «dogs confined in CBEs for breeding purposes demonstrate impaired mental health and, as a result, diminished welfare.»

Source: Geological Society of America Summary: A 25 - year - long study provides the first quantitative measurement of in situ calcium - magnesium silicate mineral dissolution by ants, termites, tree roots, and bare ground.

«Martini and Haddock's study is the first ever quantitative analysis of the numbers and types of individual glowing animals at different depths,» the organization adds.

The study is the first to examine the drought - to - war narrative in quantitative detail in any country, ultimately linking it to climate change.

«This is the first quantitative temperature record from the area they were living in,» study researcher William D'Andrea, now at the University of Massachusetts — Amherst, said in a statement.

The Trajectory At first, a quantitative study was realised to analyse the baseline CO2 emissions of Vilvoorde in 2011.

(Plass, who worked for Lockheed on the practical problem of using infrared radiation to guide missiles, «moonlighted» on studies of the radiative effects of atmospheric CO2, and was the first to use computers to perform the lengthy calculations necessary to achieve a really accurate quantitative picture of radiative transfers throughout the atmosphere.)

This perspective is outlined in a first - of - its - kind, quantitative study by FindLaw, which you can read here.

First, for an impressive descriptive study of judicial disqualification appeals from 1980 to 2007, see Sande L. Buhai, Federal Judicial Disqualification: A Behavioral and Quantitative Analysis, 90 Or.

Several studies have examined the efficacy of interventions for conduct disorder and delinquency in children and adolescents.1 The systematic review by Woolfenden et al is timely as it is the first quantitative synthesis of preventive interventions targeted at youths aged 10 — 17 years.

The evidence for VIG's effectiveness came (first) from a series of small qualitative and quantitative studies of VIG without controls or randomization.