Sentences with phrase «from study participation»

Women were excluded from the study participation if they 1) had significant back problems or experienced claustrophobia in the past that would interfere with the fMRI procedure; 2) weighed more than 200 pounds; 3) were currently pregnant, nursing, or trying to become pregnant; 4) had any mechanically activated or metal implants, permanent retainers, piercing that can not be removed, or electrical implants; and 5) had a history or current diagnosis of seizures, diabetes requiring insulin treatment, heart attack, stroke, blood clots, high blood pressure, or chronic pain.

«Anyone who attempted to find out information about the recipient baby or establish a personal relationship with the recipient was dropped from study participation, with all contact ceasing.»

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Our study found that female participation in the on - demand economy has grown from 37 percent in 2015 to 41 percent in 2016.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

Under her leadership, the average SAT scores of the entering freshman class increased by nearly 50 points, and participation in global semester study abroad rose from 25 percent to 75 percent.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

Subsequent studies have borne out this view (Abramson et al. 1988, Herman and Chomsky 1988, Entman 1989, Chomsky 1991, Dahlgren and Sparks 1991, Greider 1992, Barnet and Cavanagh 1994, Krugman 1994), From 1972 to 1992 there has been a steeply rising curve of money and time spent on political campaign media, especially television, and it has directly matched a descending curve of actual political participation (Phelan 1992).

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

As Gawande notes, a study conducted by Aetna Insurance permitting «concurrent care» — having access to both hospice and life - extending treatments — saw hospice participation rise from 26 to 70 percent of eligible patients.

The ease with which many disconnect their individual faiths from institutional belonging is revealed in a study of the unchurched in Appalachia: 80 per cent engaged in religious activities every week — activities ranging from prayer to reading, from watching religious television programs to conversations with others or visits to ministers (David H. Smith et al., Participation in Social and Political Activities [Jossey - Bass, 1980], p. 222).

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

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.

However, three studies have randomized (Rienks et al., 2011, Besnard et al., 2009, Cowan et al., 2009) and all have found benefits from couple - participation.

To maximize participation rates, the study selected the sample from a national consumer opinion panel consisting of 500,000 households from throughout the United States.

It is also possible that women who were able to be located for participation in the breastfeeding study somehow differ from those women who could not be located.

Overall, the study found that children benefited from their mothers» participation in Legacy, although the affected factors differed by site:

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Evidence from British Election Study Internet Panel Wave One conducted in Feb / March 2014 There is a bit of a clash between different explanations of the particularly low level of participation in European Parliament elections.

Currently, Alison is PI on the ESRC funded project «International Professional Fora: a study in civil society participation in internet governance» (September 2015 - September 2018) with CIs George Christou (Warwick) and Seamus Simpson (Salford) and an ESRC Senior Fellow on the ESRC UK in a Changing Europe programme with the project «The impact of a proposed UK Brexit from the EU: the UK communications industries».

The bill would ensure that schools can notify parents they can refuse to have their children in grades 3 - 8 participate in Common Core standardized tests, protects schools from having state aid withheld & ensures that students are not punished for their lack of participation in those tests, and it would set - aside alternate studies, Last year, parents of 60,000 students refused New York State Common Core tests.

The study has involved the participation of groups from the «Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas,» the «Hospital Clínico de Barcelona - IDIBAPS - UB,» and the Centre for Genomic Regulation.

«People may benefit from social support programs and previous studies have shown a benefit from efforts to improve the social participation of people with stroke, especially exercise programs,» said Katzan.

Gronke studied Oregon's motor - voter law, which enables people to register to vote when they apply for or update their driver's license, and found it increased participation by voters from both parties, in both rural and urban areas.

The study also counts with the participation of experts from the Scientific and Technologic Centers of the UB (CCiTUB), the Institute of Predictive and Personalized Medicine of Cancer (IMPPC), Hospital del Mar, and the Wake Forest University (North Carolina, USA).

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study analyzes data on suicides and religious participation from 1981 to 2007 in 42 countries encompassing seven regions.

The study, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, used data from comprehensive dental exams performed on 7,466 participants from Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, and North Carolina, as part of their participation in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study who were then followed from the late 1990s until 2012.

The study has benefitted from the participation of CNIO researchers Marcos Malumbres and Ignacio Pérez de Castro, who are experts on protein AURKA and its role in the cell cycle.

The study also recommends that coaches remain mindful of the central role competitive sports can have in the lives and identities of athletes, and attempt to create or maintain cultures that allow athletes to derive enjoyment and perspective from participation, while moving away from a mentality of winning at all cost.

But then she received an e-mail invitation that was not an error: Based on her participation at the conference, the pontifical university Regina Apostolorum in Rome, which hosted the conference, offered her a scholarship to study in their new School of Bioethics for a year following her graduation from Fordham.

Researchers, led by Dr Stephanie Tobin from The University of Queensland's School of Psychology, conducted two studies centred on «lurking» or passive Facebook participation and on ostracism, aiming to analyze how participants would feel when deliberately «snubbed».

An international collaborative study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), with major participation from Yokohama School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and UC San Diego, has identified the molecular mechanism behind lithium's effectiveness in treating bipolar disorder patients.

Study recruitment, participation, and data collection took place in the comprehensive care clinics at the New York University College of Dentistry (NYUCD) from June 2013 to April 2014.

Study findings, based on analysis of data from 75,264 individuals from 389 congregations, are published in the Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion in the article «Race, Belonging and Participation.»

Nieves» team, which included participation from the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies in Esporles, Spain, set out to detect decadal sea level changes over large U.S. coastal ocean regions.

These patients have traditionally been viewed as a vulnerable group and «protected» from participation in clinical studies.

A multinational study of data from 130,000 people shows that inherited risk factors for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder also predict participation in the arts and creative professions REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 8 June 2015 — A study led by scientists at deCODE genetics...

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Prior to this scan, women had a urine pregnancy test; a positive result excluded the participant from further study participation.

Other cardiovascular risk factors and pre-existing cardiovascular disease did not preclude from participation in the study.

This report reviews 18 empirical studies published from 2000 to 2015 on arts participation and early childhood social - emotional development.

In California, for example, participation in music courses dropped 46 percent from 1999 - 2000 through 2000 - 04, while total school enrollment grew nearly 6 percent, according to a study by the Music for All Foundation.

Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).

Data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics suggest that the introduction of state funding for kindergarten prompted a reduction in Head Start participation among African Americans.

It's true that the data - collection demands imposed by participation in such a study can detract from valuable instruction.

He also cites Mathematica's recent Access, Participation, Eligibility, and Certification (APEC) study, which found that most error results from households» misreporting of eligibility information on their applications (Ponza et al. 2007).

This article shares a few findings from a recent case study of a SaaS platform for graduate education, discussing both what works for eLearning participation and how you measure it.

But the participation rate shot up to 80 percent when the sign - ups were offered in a private setting that shielded students from the prying eyes of their peers, according to a study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.

The authors of this study suggest teachers can use data from previous school events to increase participation in the future.

And, of course, most graduate and professional school programs in all areas of study suffer from poor participation by students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds.

The Australian study was developed for the Invergowrie Foundation by researchers from Deakin University and the University of Melbourne and looks at the decline in the participation rates of girls in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics subjects and girls» engagement in STEM at school.