Sentences with phrase «follows cohorts»

Using new population - level data that follows cohorts of children born in the state of Florida between 1994 and 2002, this paper examines the short and long - term effects of prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants on children living within two miles of a Superfund site, toxic waste sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as being particularly severe.

The study follows cohorts of rising 9th graders for five application years from 2003 - 04 through 2007 - 08.

FFCWS is an ongoing, nationally representative study following a cohort of children born between 1998 and 2000 in the United States and their parents.

1) The Singapore - Longitudinal Aging Brain Study (started in 2005) follows a cohort of healthy adults of Chinese ethnicity aged 55 years and above.

«By following this cohort of older women for so long, we show directly that lifetime risk of hip fracture in community - dwelling women over age 75 is extremely high,» wrote the authors of the Journal of Bone and Mineral Research study report.

Overall, numbers from NSF's Survey of Earned Doctorates, which follows a cohort of Ph.D. s for 10 years, show that in 1973, 74 % of natural science and social science doctorates were in faculty positions 1 to 3 years post-Ph.

Funded by a multinational partnership led by UMass Amherst and including the Himalayan region's Intergovernmental Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies in Potsdam, Germany, the investigation will follow a cohort of 32 traffic control officers in Kathmandu during two seasons: Cold, dry winter from this month into March, with a second study in the hot, rainy monsoon season from June to August, when air pollution levels are lower.

Following cohort recruitment, creation of the bio-bank and population of the database, the pathogen discovery and pathogenesis study led by the Center for Infection and Immunity at Columbia University seeks to uncover novel viruses implicated in the disease by using techniques that allow up to 20 pathogens to be searched simultaneously.

Her 16 - year study at Uppsala University followed a cohort of Swedish men as they became octogenarians.

To explore these questions, we analyze the federal Education Longitudinal Study of 2002, which followed a cohort of 10th - grade students for a decade.

Our method was to follow cohorts of students in grades 3 through 10 and calculate the schoolwide change in test scores.

Following cohorts measures the performance of roughly the same students on the test over time.

The Witte / Wolf study used a matched comparison design, following a cohort of students that participated in the program and comparing them to a similar set of students in the Milwaukee Public Schools.

If we follow a cohort of 8th graders, roughly 2 in 10 will drop out before high school graduation, and another 3 will graduate high school but choose not to enroll in postsecondary education.

The National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) runs regular surveys that follow cohorts of teachers for a few years, but there's no national dataset that I'm aware of that tracks individual teachers over long periods of time.

In Virginia and in the District, four - year graduation rates are calculated by following a cohort of students who started as freshmen and graduated with a diploma four years later.

«This data is based on individual pupils and they have been able to follow a cohort of children through in both England and Wales,» said Prof Reynolds.

The authors use follow a cohort of students to demonstrate how indicators reflecting poor attendance, misbehavior and course failure in sixth grade can be used to identify 60 % of the students who will not graduate from high school.

Grantees serve an entire cohort of students beginning no later than seventh grade and follow the cohort through high school.

Chronic Absenteeism Among Kindergarten Students followed a cohort of students though several years and found that those who were chronically absent in kindergarten were:

The Chicago Longitudinal Study began in 1999 and has been following a cohort of 1,539 low - income students who were born in 1980.

Morris Animal Foundation's Golden Retriever Lifetime Study — the largest prospective, longitudinal study in veterinary medicine in the United States — is following a cohort of more than 3,000 purebred golden retrievers throughout their lifetime.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study is a new data set that follows a cohort of approximately 5,000 children born between 1998 and 2000 in medium to large U.S. cities.37 Approximately 3,700 of the children were born to unmarried mothers and 1,200 to married mothers.38 The study initiated interviews with parents at a time when both were in the hospital for the birth of their child and therefore available for interviews.39 As a consequence, FFCWS is able to comprehensively detail the characteristics of both parents and the nature of their relationship at the time of the child's birth.

The Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which followed a cohort of nearly 5,000 children born in large U.S. cities between 1998 and 2000 (roughly three - quarters of whom were born to unmarried parents), sheds light on the relationships of low - income, unmarried parents.11 The vast majority of unmarried fathers in the study indicated they were romantically involved with their child's mother at the time of the child's birth.

For example, Appleyard et al. [2] followed a cohort from birth to age 16 and assessed CR at multiple time points.

Briefly, the Registry longitudinally follows a cohort of 71,434 individuals, including rescue and recovery workers, lower Manhattan residents who lived south of Canal Street on 9/11, students and staff at schools South of Canal street on 9/11, building occupants, and passersby south of Chambers Street on 9/11 [1, 23].

Not exact matches

The first cohort of entrepreneurs from Miami will likely be announced in December, following Endeavor's next international selection panel in Dubai.

Once you get the faculty and the curriculum, the cohort will follow.

For men, lifetime earnings are on track to increase for the cohort born between 1980 and 1989, but that increase follows decades of earnings stagnation.

Schools receive points based on the following weighted ranking: 33.5 % reputation (higher is better), 20.5 % classroom experience (student - teacher ratio and cohort diversity), 13 % average GMAT scores (higher is better), 13 % tuition (lower is better), 13 % required work experience (more is better) and 7 % program length (shorter is better).

Following its successful pilot in the fall of 2013, Impact8 — Ontario's first accelerator for social ventures — is pleased to announce its second cohort.

We make the following head - of - household age cohort assumptions:

The AP study further concluded that where Gen Y leads, other cohorts will soon follow: «the rest of the population is catching up to the vanguard.»

Three cohorts of men and women (268 socially advantaged Harvard men born about 1920, 456 socially disadvantaged inner - city men born about 1930, and 90 middle - class, intellectually gifted women born about 1910) have been followed continuously for six to eight decades.

We know that Christians who still follow these teachings are still out there, but they are silent while their more vocal cohort make a mockery of their Lord's words.

They would have to show, in effect, what would be the «present value» of a child born today, and also to show how that present value would be changed by altering the size of the baby's cohort of peers, or the cohorts following.

As of the early 1960s, each birth cohort of males was followed by a smaller cohort of females, thus reducing the competitive market value of what males had to offer.

In response to «Diet Soda Intake Is Associated with Long - Term Increases in Waist Circumference in a Biethnic Cohort of Older Adults: The San Antonio Longitudinal Study of Aging,» a study published online today ahead of print in the Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, the American Beverage Association issued the following statement:

The Long - term Effects of Breastfeeding on Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Pregnancy Cohort Study Followed for 14 Years.

The Long - Term Effects of Breastfeeding on Child and Adolescent Mental Health: A Pregnancy Cohort Study Followed for 14 Years.

The other study, led by Kate Grimshaw, CFNP, of the University of Southampton in the U.K., analyzed data from a cohort of 1,170 women recruited during pregnancy and followed, along with their infants, for two years after birth.

This multi-country, population — based cohort study in eleven sites in South Asia and Sub - Saharan Africa identified 278,154 pregnancies and followed them through pregnancy, birth and postnatal period to determine the burden, timing and causes of maternal deaths, stillbirths and neonatal deaths.

Design, Setting, and Participants Prospective observational study of 102 infants followed up as part of a US pregnancy cohort study.

Sears et al (30) performed a landmark birth cohort study in which 1037 children in New Zealand were followed from age 3 years and assessed every 2 — 5 years from ages 9 to 26 years.

Laubereau et al (24) examined 889 infants from the GINI cohort who were exclusively breast - fed for 4 months with an incidence of atopic dermatitis of 9.5 % (vs 14.8 % in infants supplemented with a cow's - milk — based formula) at the 1 - year follow - up (Table 1).

In addition, we followed up only a subset of the original Project Viva cohort to ages 3 and 7 years.

A cohort of 265 breastfeeding mother — infant dyads was followed prospectively.

Given the relatively young ages of children at follow - up assessment, longer term evaluations of these cohorts will be important to see if these findings remain as children enter the more behaviourally challenging late middle childhood and adolescent years when emotional and behavioural problems often become more pronounced.

Our study included 951 of 984 infants (96.6 %) delivered to mothers enrolled in the New Hampshire Birth Cohort Study from February 2011 to October 2014 who consented for the follow - up component.

At year one, 2456 questionnaires were received (82 % of initial cohort; 94 % of those consenting to follow up), and 2365 (79 %; 91 %) attended for clinical assessment.