Sentences with phrase «for differences in the populations»

«One of the basic things you always have to do when writing about education results is to account for differences in the populations,» said Fredrik deBoer, Academic Assessment Manager Brooklyn College, in a phone interview.

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The population that summer was 307,006,550... so in simple terms that would mean that the 24 % equates out to be approximately 73, 681, 572... I think there are more than enough... the difference between an Atheist baseball team and a christian ball team is that we'd walk away, have a beer and pat each other on the back for a job well done, a christian ball team would give credit to their god.

I don't see how targeting only the gay population could account for that large a difference in the incidence of AIDS.

After adjusting the results for some confounds — such as differences in sociodemographics and lifestyles — the researchers concluded that Waldorf graduates did not differ from the general population in most examined diseases, including high blood pressure, heart disease, cancer or diabetes.

Flint and colleagues suggested that when midwives get to know the women for whom they provide care, interventions are minimised.22 The Albany midwifery practice, with an unselected population, has a rate for normal vaginal births of 77 %, with 35 % of women having a home birth.23 A review of care for women at low risk of complications has shown that continuity of midwifery care is generally associated with lower intervention rates than standard maternity care.24 Variation in normal birth rates between services (62 % -80 %), however, seems to be greater than outcome differences between «high continuity» and «traditional care» groups at the same unit.25 26 27 Use of epidural analgesia, for example, varies widely between Queen Charlotte's Hospital, London, and the North Staffordshire NHS Trust.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

These differences may explain the lower rate of SIDS in this population and this study identifies these issues as clear targets for SIDS risk reduction among White British families.

I was hoping for some more detailed and nuanced information, for example differences in populations of available children, differences in ability to discriminate against certain kinds of potential adoptive or foster parents (e.g., single, non-Christian, gay, etc.), differences in whom prospective parents work with (attorney?

Similarly, the unadjusted difference of 8 points between children who were breast fed for less than 3 months, compared to those who were breast fed for six months or more, is unlikely to have clinical significance in a population with a mean IQ at age 5 of 109 points.

Rather optimistically, Price even argues that differences in population size alone account for «mighty minnows» outperforming the big five (UK, Italy, Germany, France and Spain) between 1997 and 2007.

A gendered difference in sexual behaviour of this size has only been observed for Muslim populations.

«That since the younger generation of Nigerians makes up for more than 60 per cent of the nation's population, it is our hope that they inherit this country in better shape so that they can build a much better future for themselves and their offsprings in an atmosphere that is devoid of anarchy, hate, suspicion and negativity that characterize the polarized, and clearly irreconcilable differences forced on us by the Biafran Igbos».

WHEREAS, women make up 50 % of the population in Santa Clara County but face significant economic disparities, with an average pay difference that is larger than the national wage gap of $.72 for a man's dollar, with women holding advanced degrees earning roughly $ 40,000 less than their male counterparts, and 11 % of the County's female population living in poverty and approximately 33 % of the homeless population being women and girls, and

WHEREAS, the State of New York is best positioned to: (1) understand the ramifications of operating an Exchange within New York's commercial insurance market; (2) consider the unique regional and economic needs of the State's individual and small business health insurance markets; (3) account for the diversity of its population, with its ethnic, cultural and language differences; and (4) decide what benefits will be provided to enrollees in the Exchange, which health plans can participate in the Exchange, what rules should apply to the marketing of products by health plans, and how to operate the Small Business Health Option Program («SHOP») for small businesses;

The next step, of course, is to compare depressed populations — those with MS and those without — to look for any significant differences in how depression progresses in each case.

«It does appear,» he said, «that on many, many different human attributes — height, weight, propensity for criminality, overall IQ, mathematical ability, scientific ability... there is a difference in the standard deviation and variability of a male and a female population.»

What has been called the modern synthesis of the two fields emerged in the 1940s with the idea that the sorts of genetic differences you could observe in populations, right out your window, when compounded and extrapolated over vast periods of time, could account for the large - scale changes we see in the fossil record.

But, Hakonarson says, the work is exciting for two reasons: 65 % of kids in the study had that variant, compared with just under 60 % in the control group — a difference that, across a population, is significant, he says.

In 2002, NIH put out a call for research applications to look at health disparities — differences in health and health care outcomes among diverse populations — from a transdisciplinary perspectivIn 2002, NIH put out a call for research applications to look at health disparities — differences in health and health care outcomes among diverse populations — from a transdisciplinary perspectivin health and health care outcomes among diverse populations — from a transdisciplinary perspective.

The Longitudinal Study, supported by the Heinz C. Prechter Bipolar Research Fund, includes people who don't have bipolar disorder and are willing to act as comparisons for those with bipolar, so scientists can see important differences in the two populations.

Chloroplasts evolve slowly, so researchers use next - generation sequencing to look for subtle differences in their genomes to determine how two plants from different populations might be related.

«Our findings show that population differences in transcriptional responses to immune activation are widespread, and that they are mainly accounted for by genetic variants that differ in their frequencies between human populations,» said Lluis Quintana - Murci of Institut Pasteur and CNRS in Paris, France, who led one of the two studies.

«For the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, DenmaFor the first time, our study points to a risk difference between drinking daily and drinking five or six days a week in the general male population, since earlier studies were conducted on alcohol misusers and patients referred for liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmafor liver disease and compared daily drinking to «binge pattern» or «episodic» drinking,» observed lead investigator Gro Askgaard, MD, of the Department of Hepatology, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, and the National Institute of Public Health, University of Southern Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Factors such as location, labor costs, patient capacity and percentage of uninsured population generally did not account for the price differences, the authors said, making it difficult for patients to know their costs in advance and to «act as rational consumers.»

After watching seven populations wink out in the last year, the team found that inbreeding accounted for as much as 26 % of the differences from population to population in extinction rates.

The prospective study included 23,928 participants without coronary heart disease from Reasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS), a large biracial population - based cohort study.

To investigate this potential link, a team led by Rakhi Naik, MD, MHS (Johns Hopkins University) and Marguerite Irvin, PhD (University of Alabama at Birmingham) analyzed data from a large population - based study, the REasons for Geographic and Racial Differences in Stroke (REGARDS) study.

The authors write that one explanation for lack of statistically significant differences between the treatment groups in all - type cancer incidence is that the study group had higher baseline vitamin D (serum 25 - hydroxyvitamin D) levels compared with the U.S. population.

As Hudson Pinheiro, a researcher from the Department of Oceanography and Ecology at the Federal University of Espírito Santo in Brazil, explains: «Populations of this new species have been isolated in the archipelago for a long time due to the distance from the coast, and have developed clear differences in comparison with other «sibling» species living on the continental margin.»

«For vulnerable populations like the elderly and shut - ins, just getting people into cooler, cleaner air could be the difference between life and death,» he said.

She said that the smoking stigma for women is significantly less in the U.S., so when gender differences in smoking between the native and foreign - born are compared, gender gaps tend to be much larger among migrant populations living in the U.S.

For example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the carFor example, a large body of research has found switching to an entirely vegetarian diet would make a huge difference on the carbon footprint of our food system — the Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security research program reports that if the global population were to reduce or cut its meat intake, it would halve the cost of mitigation actions needed to stabilize carbon dioxide levels to 450 parts per million by midcentury — but for many people that is not in the carfor many people that is not in the cards.

«What we've learned to date about differences in brain anatomy in hearing and deaf populations hasn't taken into account the diverse language experiences among people who are deaf,» says senior author Guinevere Eden, D.Phil., director for the Center for the Study of Learning at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC).

«This is the first time we have seen differences in lipid concentrations between populations,» says evolutionary biologist Philipp Khaitovich of the CAS - MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology in Shanghai, China, and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, lead author of the new study.

His team analyzed the geometry of all of the subway networks in the world that possess more than 100 stations — including Barcelona, Beijing, Berlin, Chicago, London, Madrid, Mexico, Moscow, New York City, Osaka, Paris, Seoul, Shanghai, and Tokyo — without trying to control for differences in politics, population density, or planning.

This large a difference implies that the populations haven't interbred for more than 2 million years, the researchers report in the 22 December Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B.

Then they checked blood samples against half a million known variations in DNA sequences, or single - nucleotide polymorphisms, which recently were identified by the International HapMap Project that looked for differences in the genomes of people from many populations.

Experts suggest that as survival rates improve, understanding racial and socioeconomic differences in pediatric populations are important factors to consider for overall health status.

The difference between age indifferent preference (model AP) and preference for younger females (model YF) in producing a menopausal effect was robust across population sizes and mutation rates.

«Our findings suggest that differences in white matter microstructure may partially account for the variance in functional outcomes among this population.

One of the key differences is that there is far more outreach to adult populations than we see in Canada.Take for example, The University of Albany's College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) programme, «Nano in the Mall».

Although differences in the environments in which people live often are suspected when asthma risks among populations differ, the new findings illustrate the importance of also considering genetic differences among ethnic groups in diagnosing and treating disease, said Esteban Burchard, MD, professor of bioengineering for the UCSF School of Pharmacy and the senior scientist for the study.

The Center for Research on Genomics and Global Health (CRGGH) aims to facilitate a global understanding of the relationship between human genetic variation and population differences in disease distribution, with the ultimate goal of informing health inequalities.

And, of particular use for anthropologists working on historic sites, Ross has also shown that the differences between male and female skulls are becoming less pronounced in some populations.

However, no differences between the use of CD4ζ - modificed and unmodified cells were observed for HIV infection levels and CD4 T - cell levels, although the data does indicate that both NK cells populations can inhibit HIV replication and prevent CD4 + T - cell depletion in vivo.

Because K2 - 39b has a short orbital period, its existence makes it seem unlikely that tidal destruction is wholly responsible for the differences in planet populations around subgiant and main - sequence stars.

In this regard, it is essentially impossible for Morton to have exploited sexual differences in cranial capacity to alter population averageIn this regard, it is essentially impossible for Morton to have exploited sexual differences in cranial capacity to alter population averagein cranial capacity to alter population averages.

We estimated the neutral mutation parameter (4Neμ for autosomal loci and 3Neμ for X-linked loci), where Ne is the effective population size and μ is the mutation rate per site per generation, using two estimators: Watterson's θw [67], the proportion of segregating sites in a sample, and π [68], the average number of pairwise differences per sequence in a sample.

It can make a difference, for example, if community members know that tumors may be more aggressive in certain populations.

This included an event - specific attribution study on the 2013 New Zealand drought, as well as highlighting differences in the emergence of heat extremes for the global population when aggregated by income grouping.