Sentences with phrase «from other recent studies»

Our use of proficiency rates, an aggregate measure of school performance, distinguishes our work from other recent studies that examine the performance gains made by individual students.
* He said its findings support those from other recent studies, including February's Nature Climate Change paper, which was published by a team that England led.
The new findings contrast with those from some other recent studies, although the researchers say some variation may be due to the particular flu seasons that were studied.

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Long - term care insurance, which covers expenses like nursing home care, at - home nursing care and other late - life needs, is fast becoming too costly for many retirees to afford, according to a recent study from LifePlans, an industry research firm.
As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?
Other recent studies, such as the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) Ontario Report from 2015, indicate similar findings.
«According to other studies conducted by Pew in recent years, nearly a third of all millennials — Americans between the ages of 18 - 33 — are religiously unaffiliated, a dramatic and ongoing change from previous generations.»
Aside from the fact that Mr. Douthat has neither the theological nor the geometric qualifications to write on the subject, the problem with his article and other recent statements is that he does not seem to have studied the urtext for understanding our time, viz..
We know from a recent study that nearly as many troubled people seek counseling from clergymen as from all other helping professions combined.
Recent studies from just last week have proved quantum entanglement, that two entangled electrons can communicate with each other instantaneously, no matter how far apart from each other they are.
For those not familiar with many recent studies, however, from perspectives other than my own I present a kind of summary — but it is, of course, from a functional point of view.
Samantha Power's «A Problem from Hell»: America and the Age of Genocide, Michael Ignatieff's work on the former Yugoslavia, Philip Gourevitch's book on Rwanda, and many other powerful works are both studies of the recent history of genocide and calls to action.
He points out that the most recent model leans away from the concern for concrete mechanical effects characteristic of the transmission model and leans toward what is loosely termed the ritualistic model more akin to anthropology and other cultural studies.
Kelly's summary of the trends in the curriculum of Oberlin Seminary applies to many others as well: «The program of study was changing from the dogmatic to the practical, from the ecclesiocentric to the socio - centric... «34 More recent examinations show the continuation of these emphases in our time though they also show a revival of interest in systematic and exegetical theology and in the Biblical languages.
The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.
While we have known for centuries about the health benefits of all types of honey, recent studies have shown that only Manuka has an antibacterial component that sets it apart from other honeys.
In case you missed it, a recent landmark study published in the peer reviewed International Journal of Epidemiology found that risk for coronary heart disease, stroke, total cardiovascular disease and death other than from cancer was reduced with each 200g a day increase in fruit and vegetables up to 800g a day, and 600g a day for cancer.
One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.
According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.
In recent years, numerous studies have shown that bright, charming, seemingly confident and socially skilled teenagers from affluent, loving families are experiencing epidemic rates of depression, substance abuse, and anxiety disorders - rates higher than in any other socioeconomic group of American adolescents.
A recent study from Canada finds an elevated risk for diabetes when a person has both depression and metabolic syndrome; the diabetes risk is higher when the two disorders are combined than when only one or the other disorder is present.
A recent study of high school sports revealed that the concussion rate in boys» ice hockey (5.4 per 10000 AEs) was second only to football (6.4 per 10000 AEs); however, concussions accounted for a greater proportion of total injures in boys» ice hockey (22.2 %) than any of the other 20 sports, with 30 % of the concussions in ice hockey resulting from a player being body checked.
The initiative was introduced to the United Kingdom in 1993, but, although improvements have been reported, 3 rates of breast feeding in the UK are still among the lowest in the world.4 5 Recent reports from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) urge NHS units to become baby friendly to improve rates of breast feeding and save money.4 6 Data from the millennium cohort study, however, show that though participating maternity units in the UK increased rates of initiation of breastfeeding, duration did not increase.5 Other strategies are therefore required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended time.
A more recent study of crib injuries that used data from the CPSC National Electronic Injury Surveillance System concluded that the potential benefits of preventing minor injury with bumper pad use were far outweighed by the risk of serious injury such as suffocation or strangulation.197 In addition, most bumper pads obscure infant and parent visibility, which might increase parental anxiety.195 There are other products that attach to crib sides or crib slats that claim to protect infants from injury.
A recent study from Seedo, which manufactures a plant cultivation device, found that more pot is consumed in New York than in any other city on earth.
Moreover, recent studies on rodents indicate that the internal clock also affects how the metabolism responds to the intake of carbohydrates or fats, and that certain time frames are more suitable than others for the consumption of a high - carbohydrate or a high - fat diet, seen from a health perspective.
This effect is largely contributed by fruit, vegetables, tea and other hot beverages, as well as moderate consumption of alcohol, as shown in a recent study from an Inserm research group, published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (study from an Inserm research group, published in Diabetologia, the journal of the European Association for the Study of Diabetes (Study of Diabetes (EASD)
Discover how to successfully persuade others with these findings from a recent study on speech.
However, other recent studies do confirm that all present - day non-African populations branched off from a single ancestral population in Africa approximately 60,000 years ago.
If there is any genetic basis at all to racial IQ test - score differences, it is indeterminate and poorly quantified, with recent studies estimating IQ heritability to be anywhere from nearly zero to over 80 percent, and strongly countered by other studies showing that environment counts most.
We believe that our data on NS3 substrate specificity, combined with the recent report on protein structure from other researchers, will allow for development of highly specific inhibitors in the future,» said Dr. Krzysztof Pyrć, senior author of the FEBS Letters study.
But a recent study in PNAS suggested that wind (and other renewables) will fall short of slashing carbon emissions, because there just isn't enough of it in the U.S. Based on data from a company owned by one of the study's authors, this map's white areas show where wind turbines would be most effective — but because wind isn't available all the time, they'd only produce roughly 50 percent of the energy wind turbines could at maximum capacity.
«This study suggests that methane emissions may be a serious problem in Utah, but we need more data to pinpoint exactly where emissions are coming from and to identify where the opportunities are to reduce them,» said Hamburg, calling this and other recent research on methane emissions «alarm bells ringing in our ears.»
Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.
Professor Thomas Higham said: «Other recent studies of Neanderthal and modern human genetic make - up suggest that both groups interbred outside Africa, with 1.5 % -2.1 % or more of the DNA of modern non-African human populations originating from Neanderthals.
These new findings, along with other recent studies, suggest that the risk for congenital heart defects in Down syndrome can come from several genes and environmental factors, in addition to the substantial risk from the extra chromosome 21.
Some recent studies indicate that facial resemblance between couples was a strong driving force among the mechanisms of assortative mating: human couples resemble each other significantly more than would be expected from random pair formation.
A 2010 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine calculated that about two - thirds of the recent reductions in breast cancer mortality did not come from screening but from other causes, such as better treatments.
While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.
Finch's ideas about senescence from his grad school days have also held up: The popularity of the Hayflick model has declined as other research questioned its relevance to aging in whole organisms, and recent studies in long - lived nematodes have confirmed Finch's hunch that brain hormones control aging (see Johnson Review).
To begin to grapple with those questions, the researchers involved in the new study first selected as «seeds» the nine genes that have been most strongly tied to ASDs in recent sequencing research from their labs and others.
The researchers conclude that this study, as well as other recent reports from the same group, provides strong support for the assumption that SSRIs exert a specific antidepressant effect.
Recent studies from the VIC and other centers have identified several unsuspected roles for B lymphocytes, including the secretion of powerful anti-inflammatory molecules.
Jon Furuno, co-author on the study and an associate professor in the College of Pharmacy, noted that the findings support a recent Oregon law requiring written notification from the discharging facility to the receiving facility anytime a patient carrying a multridrug - resistant organism, or other infection requiring transmission precautions, is transferred.
The ubiquitous chemicals added to furniture, electronics, and other products to keep them from going up in flames may have unsettling side effects, according to two recent studies.
Bruce Ribner, the clinician who led the Emory University Hospital team that treated patients Kent Brantly and Nancy Writebol, said in a recent interview with Scientific American that although studies have shown Ebola patients shed genetic material from the pathogen into their sexual fluids there is scant evidence they are often shedding viable virus that could infect others.
Assistant Professor Yuzo Miyazaki of Hokkaido University, who led the research, said «In recent years, some studies have pointed out that the amount of organics emitted from the forest floor is similar to, or even larger than, that emitted from tree leaves in cool - temperate or other higher - latitude forested areas.
She points out that they are consistent with those from «several other recent studies that have shown that U.S. female service members are no more vulnerable than male service members to the negative mental health consequences of warfare exposure.»
With unique access to a «hidden population» from one of America's largest Spanish - speaking immigrant destinations, a recent study finds that more than 30 % of undocumented migrant laborers in this area are victims of labor trafficking and 55 % are victims of other labor abuses.
The new study, published in the journal American Antiquity, is one of several recent analyses of the site from researchers at the Illinois State Archaeological Survey at the University of Illinois and their colleagues at other institutions.
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