Sentences with phrase «from broad population»

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Our participants may thus differ from the broader population of online daters in important ways.

Not exact matches

Today, as the global population faces more serious challenges — from resource scarcity to concerns about income inequality and education — companies around the world are committing themselves to creating a profit while also defining their broader contribution to society.

Certainly the conservatives learned an important lesson from the war and struggled thereafter to promote equality at home, to fight against the shortsightedness and personal greed polluting our air and rivers, to champion safer foods and medicines, to extend the promise of American freedom to a broader and broader cross-section of the population?

Now, as Waldorf - methods schools enter the public arena, a broader population of children will benefit from and succeed with this exceptional child - centered educational experience.

It was a source of concern for the opposition party and certain segments of the population from the very start, and after the end of the Bush administration, when Obama had those sweeping powers, the questioning of those broad powers gained more momentum as previous supporters suddenly found it to be troubling.

While the Windrush scandal revolves around a particular group of people, the incident has broader implications for any political party hoping for support from Britain's wider black Caribbean population.

Working with the Wilson - Cowan model, a widely - used model in computational neuroscience that describes the average activity of populations of interconnected neurons, Alonso has designed a new mathematical tool to help other neuroscientists explore the broad spectrum of responses possible from a simple neural circuit.

He told me that grey squirrel numbers fluctuate considerably from year to year and that at the moment we are suffering from a population explosion as the result of a combination of relatively abundant broad - leaved seed crops and mild winters in recent years.

«We are, however, advocating serious consideration of moving populations from areas where species are seriously threatened by climate change to other parts of the same broad biogeographic region,» meaning in nearby locations sharing similar ecosystems.

The trick for researchers, Willems Van Dijk says, is to sift information from broad studies of large populations to identify behaviors and other influences on health that can be modified.

What's not clear from this study is how such damage might be affecting pteropod populations or the broader ecosystem.

However, to meet these targets, the traditional approach of broad, population - based treatments, prevention messages, and technologies must give way to more specific and focused approaches, according to a new commentary from Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and colleague Hilary D. Marston, M.D., M.P.H.

The study included more than 100,000 adults from the general populations of 17 countries, providing a broad sample of people that varied greatly in socioeconomic, geographic and demographic makeup.

Chris is a statistical geneticist with a broad range of interests from population genetics to association analysis of clinical phenotypes.

In a recent study by Helmsley grantee the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, researchers identified how the intestinal microbial population of Crohn's disease patients differs from that of individuals free of inflammatory bowel disease.

The researchers note that PRISM makes it easier to profile a broad range of cancers — not only rare cancers but also cancers from populations whose genetics are traditionally underrepresented in research studies.

In the April 2007 issue of the journal PLoS Genetics, researchers from the University of Chicago, Harvard, the Broad Institute and Arizona State show that there has been very little detectable admixture between the different populations and that chimps from the central and eastern populations are more closely related to each other than they are to the western «subspecies.»

In this article we will review creatines benefits, some important studies to back its efficacy, its broader applications, and the populations who will benefit most from its use.

PSP students come from a broad range of academic and professional backgrounds, but share a commitment to working with diverse, high - risk student populations.

Two new studies from the Kinder Institute's Houston Education Research Consortium confirm the broad variations of pre-kindergarten offerings across the state's largest school district, Houston Independent School District, as well as the impact high quality programs can have for disadvantaged populations in particular.

McIntosh's charges come amid growing claims from school choice critics that charters — publicly - funded schools with broad flexibility in their curriculum and staffing — may «cherrypick» or intentionally exclude some high - needs students, serving decidedly fewer low - income children and children with disabilities, populations that also tend to trail their peers academically.

What separated the FuelBand from many of these other products is that, while previous efforts were mostly focused on measuring more vigorous exercise, especially runs, the FuelBand reached out to a broader population.

Drawing from the literature and a broad experience base, we outlined what is needed to meet the minimum basic needs of companion animals living in population settings.

To get a sense (a chilling sense) of how popluation patterns have amplified exposure to earthquake hazards in the region, have a look at this map from GeoHazards International (a high - resolution version is here, part of a broader analysis), which shows the quake zone with population densities superimposed:

It wasn't the efforts of several dozen little non-profits from the gay community that finally got the general picture of AIDS into the broadest and largest portions of the American population: It was mass media.

The benefits that the services that this broader swath of the population enjoys from our energy - and carbon - intensive society can be put forward as a quasi-sacred duty, by those who defend the energy status quo.

I do think that there is a broad consensus that there likely is an effect from increased SST, but that so far it is not sufficiently significant to be visible in the impact record, while lots of other things are, including the well known natural decadal cycles affecting hurricanes, flood defenses and increasing population and property values.

Gilbertson Davis LLP committed to diversity and inclusion and welcomes applications from across the broad spectrum of our diverse population.

Since a bulk of the population belongs to that category, a broad variety of insurance products from different insurers are available on the market, each offering a different set of perks, greater coverage or access to a wider health care service network.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.

Broad demographic studies of the flexible and ill - defined «fatherless homes» populations, which indicate complex and multi-causated reasons for the (actually small) negative outcomes suffered by a minority of children in these «single mother home» groups are twisted, baselessly, into the political rhetoric that children «need» or «benefit» from having two parents.

It is, however, difficult to extrapolate from one individual to a broader population, so this may just be me.

During the past 3 decades, a broad national consensus has emerged identifying poverty - related disparities in child development and school readiness as a critical public health problem.1, 2 Children growing up in poverty fall behind their middle - class peers in development from the time they say their first words, usually shortly after their first birthday.3 In a 2009 population - based analysis, 4 40 % of low - income eighth graders performed below the basic level for their age group in reading.

There is a need to move the current Indigenous policy space from a position of what they (governments) do to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples to improve our lives — to what governments (and the broader Australian population) can do with us, to support us in achieving our goals and aspirations.

Limitations include small sample size, retrospective recall may have been compromised, and unable to differentiate condition from therapist effects, may not generalize to other racial / ethnic groups or to the broader population of depressed adolescents with comorbid conduct disorder and other psychiatric disorders, and randomization process resulted in unequal gender representation in the two conditions.

The present study will investigate whether a broad set of predictors among mothers of toddlers is associated with relationship dissolutions throughout the next 17 years of parenthood, using data from the population based Norwegian TOPP study.

While the study has strengths such as using data from a population based sample, a long follow - up period and a broad set of predictors, there are also some methodological limitations that could guide future research.

We, as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, have our own unique needs and aspirations as distinct from the broader Australian population.

The project will extend the evidence on the efficacy of the intervention from two previous randomized efficacy trials of the KITS Program with special needs populations to examine the impacts of the intervention on the broader population of children from disadvantaged backgrounds in general education.

in the broader population 17.4 percent of 65 - 74 years olds have adequate health literacy levels in contrast to 3.4 percent of people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds have adequate health literacy levels.

From a macro perspective, there's very broad - spanning data that suggests that enrollment as a whole for the student housing sector has actually declined, so it makes sense to ferret out which universities are poised for consistent growth that's ultimately going to drive the ability to raise rents as the economy continues to grow and expand and the student population base grows.