Sentences with phrase «improvement over the control»

Parents in the treatment group show significant improvement over the control group in the reduction of postnatal depression, and increased parenting skills and understanding child development and behavior, suggesting that Make Parenting A Pleasure ® is especially effective in these areas.

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Results The intervention group showed significantly greater improvements over time for the primary endpoint of spiritual well - being as compared to the control group (P =.03, partial η2 =.01).

Palsgaard ® IceTriple also offers excellent heat shock stability for ice cream and milk ice: «The key to delivering this improvement is a uniform, fine air cell distribution together with greater control over ice crystal size during production and storage of the ice cream.

-- There would be lack of city control over improvements in and around Soldier Field, which the agreement treats more «as profit centers for the park district rather than enhanced park and recreational facilities.

In fact, in late 2011, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention awarded nearly $ 6 million over three years to the National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality to help hospitals nationwide make quality improvements to maternity care to better support mothers and babies to be able to breastfeed.

With greater control over skills and innovation, with the ability to drive a step change in infrastructure improvement and with greater fiscal autonomy, the Regional Growth Fund would be largely unnecessary.

And there was the discordant thud last Wednesday night, when Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie, a Democrat, and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan, a Republican, declared they were sending their members home without doing one of the few things that actually came with a deadline: extending mayoral control for New York City's schools, a system that both houses and parties view as a vast improvement over the old system of board control.

New ways of delivering insulation improvements to Cornish homes agreed with the Government means we have more control over the decisions on which homes can receive this support.

The district has two years to show improvement in the schools or it could lose control to an independent receiver that will have full authority over how the school operates and is managed.

The combination of MM - 398 with 5 - fluorouracil (5 - FU) and leucovorin achieved an overall survival of 6.1 months, a 1.9 month improvement over the 4.2 month survival demonstrated by the control arm of 5 - FU and leucovorin alone.

Another Clean Air Act provision requires large new stationary sources of pollution, such as power plants and factories, to meet pollution limits based on what can be achieved by the «best available control technology,» which ensures continuous improvement over time.

Data from national and international surveys suggest that despite improvements over the last decade, significant proportions of patients have poor control of their elevated blood pressure.

The quest for further improvements continues and the next major goal is to find out whether the satellite is capable of registering ships in the water it flies over as planned, and, if so, whether it can send the information on the ships» positions down to the control center.

A new report from the UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement (IPHI) shows the impact of cancer screening over the past 15 years, identifying areas where increased screening and other cancer - control efforts would save lives and significantly benefit population health.

A new report from the UC Davis Institute for Population Health Improvement shows the impact of cancer screening over the past 15 years, identifying areas where increased screening and other cancer - control efforts would save lives and significantly benefit population health.

«The significant improvement in overall survival with pembrolizumab was remarkable given that more than 40 % of patients crossed over from the control arm to pembrolizumab after progression of the disease,» said Reck.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

As expected, children who received theory - of - mind training showed improvement on the theory - of - mind tasks over time, while the children in the control group did not.

Although patients given the lifestyle intervention program made encouraging initial progress in both weight loss and diabetes control, those improvements dropped noticeably over time.

Improvements in gender equality over the last half - century have been driven by better control of infectious disease, a new analysis suggests.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

Indeed, the results once again showed improvement with Lactobacillus helveticus and Bifidobacterium longum vs. controls (particularly in somatization, depression and anger - hostility), and among this low cortisol sub-group the overall benefits in anxiety and depression were pronounced over time [114].

The significant improvements in stress may have occurred because yoga provides its practitioners with ways to gain more control over their lives, thereby reducing stress, the study authors surmised.

PC Version is slightly over the top, thanks to graphical improvements and a better control scheme.

The biggest improvement of Wreckless on the PS2 is the control system of the game that has been greatly improved over the clunky and difficult XBox system.

She has more control over her life and what she wants to do with it, which is also an improvement over the previous movie.

Over an average of five weeks the blended students» improvement between the entrance and the exit test was 9 points, compared to an average score increase of 3 points for the students in the control groups during the same time period.

With a new Republican Governor and control of the House for the first time in 118 years, G.O.P. lawmakers approved a budget bill that slashes over $ 32 million by gutting 22 education - improvement programs, including several signature programs from the Democratic administration of Mr. Riley.

In several respects, the House's compromise legislation is an improvement over the administration's plan to allow every state to assume control over Head Start.

Although schools and districts have quite a bit of control over these things, there's still a long time lag, and it will be hard for a superintendent or principal to show any immediate improvements.

But perhaps the strongest objection to national standards that we have repeated at JPGB (here, here, and here) is that even if the current set of proposed national standards is an improvement for some states (and less good than others), there is strong reason to fear that people opposed to sensible, rigorous standards will gain control over the newly created national standards infrastructure and be in a position to impose their nonsense on everyone.

They combine new federal dictates over the timing of improvement with continued state control over the standards for improvement, perhaps providing perverse incentives for states to lower the academic standards they recently adopted.

Rather than provide states and districts with more control over their accountability and improvement systems, as Congress intends, the side effects of the CRA can actually impinge on these efforts.

In 1995, the Illinois legislature gave Mayor Daley control over the system, and in the years since, he has sought improvement through balancing budgets, reducing waste, firing bad principals and founding charter schools.

However, again, it was a an improvement that the DCPS would have seen sooner, had then councilmember Adrian Fenty supported Mayoral Control putting politics over children.

To her credit, Chancellor Rhee has not deviated with the anticipated improvement of that plan and has used the leverage that she was given, with Mayoral control over the schools, to get things done faster.

Janis is a highly successful primary head teacher with over 30 years» experience in education across a range of disciplines including school improvement, quality of teaching and learning, whole school strategic planning, financial controls, project management and human resource management.

However, it addresses so many of NSBA's objectives, such as requiring the U.S. Department of Education to collaborate with local school leaders and not simply impose its will on them, eliminating the existing one - size - fits - all approach to school accountability, providing more state and local opportunity to shape workable school improvement plans, and ensuring state control over academic standards, while excluding «portability» (i.e., vouchers).

To adjust for student - preparedness levels that teachers can't control, value - added emphasizes test score improvements that teachers cultivate over a year, not high or low scores by themselves.

Consistent with the goal of shifting power over education decisions away from Sacramento, the Local Control Funding Formula law creates a new agency to work with, not dictate to, local districts on how to meet their improvement goals.

We will simply point out that the conception of teaching effectiveness and teacher training has expanded to include consideration of the context in which teachers work (i.e., the context is also a target for the interventions, not just the teacher), the refinement of teacher training into trainer of trainer models with strict control over and monitoring of performance, ongoing data gathering for program validation and program improvement purposes, and the protection of proprietary rights to the materials and processes used.

Researchers issued a strong caution against using what they called the «modest improvement» in test scores over the past four years as evidence that mayoral control had improved learning in District schools.

«All the participating schools both understand the school improvement model that they are working to, agree that it is an appropriate one to use and think that it is comprehensive; the majority of schools said that they felt they had control over their futures, and plans and a strategy to make positive change happen; 95 % reported that the process made them think about new approaches to school improvement».

The most crucial finding was that the most effective schools, based on test score improvement over time after controlling for demographic factors, had developed an unusually high degree of «relational trust» among their administrators, teachers, and parents.

Teacher development involves multi-year goals for instructional improvement (e.g., reading, mathematics) and increased school control over professional development (PD) decisions and resources in the context of district goals for improvement.

* Waiting for Superman suggests that teacher improvement is a matter of increased control and discipline over teachers.

It's an improvement over its predecessor, the M135i, but it still lacks the body control at the rear axle to make it truly great.

Amongst the many improvements over the regular Huayra, including more power, a more focussed chassis and a sophisticated traction control system, the BC produced more downforce thanks to rear wings and front canards