Sentences with phrase «hypotheses about interventions»

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They can then be used to test drug interventions or to test hypotheses about the causes of disease.

Their work was published in an article, «New Evidence About Language and Cognitive Development Based on a Longitudinal Study: Hypotheses for Intervention» in the online edition of the American Psychologist.

Science feeds FOI's intervention strategies with new insights and testable hypotheses about the causal mechanisms underlying the lifelong effects of adversity on the body and brain.

There is the converse hypothesis promoted by the late William Hamilton, about the Planetary Hospital, in which we all will harbor lethal or debilitating mutations (poor eyesight) and survive by continual intensive medical intervention.

This is a sandpit for people who want to (a) argue about the efficacy of specific road safety interventions (b) record their status as believers (with or without qualification) in the libertarian / conservative orthodoxy that climate change is a hoax / fraud / unsupported hypothesis.

Challenges for the young pre-schooler about to enter kindergarten have been well documented.3, 4,5 What makes this an especially important developmental transition period is the consistent evidence for a «trajectory hypothesis» in both middle - class and low - income samples: how children fare academically and socially in early elementary school is a strong predictor of their academic, social, and mental health outcomes throughout high school.6, 7,8 These findings imply that interventions to improve the child's relative standing at school entrance could have long - term payoff.

Given that pediatric pain relief was expected to result secondary to effective parent coaching, our primary hypothesis was that a parent computer training intervention would result in greater immediate and long - term parent knowledge about the impact of specific parent behavior on child procedural distress.