Sentences with phrase «in a large sample from»

Abstract: The current study investigated developmental trajectories of teacher - reported aggressive behavior and whether these trajectories are associated with social - cognitive development (i.e., aggressive problem - solving) across the first three elementary grades in a large sample from Switzerland (N = 1,146).

The current study investigated developmental trajectories of teacher - reported aggressive behavior and whether these trajectories are associated with social - cognitive development (i.e., aggressive problem - solving) across the first three elementary grades in a large sample from Switzerland (N = 1,146

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The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.

The scenario model is pre-populated with data based on a large sample of U.S. public companies (more than 2,500 companies) over a seven - year period (2004 - 2011), as compiled by BoardEx.1 To access the pre-populated model calculations, click the Calculations / Historical data and Attrition data tabs in the Excel spreadsheet that you can download from this page.

Thus Wimberley and his associates have found in the 1970s, among a large if not absolutely representative sample of North Carolinians, 74 percent agreement with the statement: «Human rights come from God and not merely from laws.»

While we can infer from this study that some degree of contamination exists in naturally gluten - free grains, seeds, and flours sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

Another Sample Recipe from Cooking TLC, Volume 1 I make my almond flour in a miniature food processor (I own an Oscar), or in a large high quality food processor (Cuisinart).

And when you've sampled all of the delicious farm - to - fork fare you think you can take, go see the wall of wine at Taste in the Alley and enjoy late - night sipping from the largest by - the - glass list with over 350 choices because as the saying goes, when in wine country...

However, compared to previous studies of regulation compliance that have utilised data sets ranging in duration from 63 hours [9] to 80 hours of programming [24], this was a relatively large sample that was purposively selected to cover both school holidays and term time.

And in fact it could give Wenger ammunition (as if he needed more) to make a case of why he didn't spend as much or felt that the way certain players finished the season deserves an endless show of faith to prove something we know already from a larger sample there not (at least at Arsenal under Wenger that is).

He was actually more accurate from three than Tatum was in college, but his awful free throw percentage suggests his shots might not be reliable in a larger sample, at least not yet.

In order to avoid falling for this bias on the question of extended breastfeeding the best way forward would be to draw from the largest sample possible: the entire primate lineage.

It seems as if another study with a larger sample size is warranted — in addition to a study that has a control group in which parents refrain from giving their infants yogurt.

With the use of national sampling weights, data from these 16 cities were designed to be nationally representative of families with children born in large cities in the United States from 1998 through 2000.22

In a larger community - based study, cluster samples were identified from 70 per cent of the total population.

Corbyn's supporters — who constitute the largest group in the sample — were completely distinct from those of the other candidates.

In pollster - ese, we would resume polling on Monday with a separate survey of New York voters on the question of the governor's political future, include questions about the Gillibrand - Ford Democratic Senate primary (we didn't have a large enough sample of Democrats from the previous week), eliminate the now - outdated Paterson - Cuomo primary matchup, and take the 646 completed interviews from the previous week as a done deal on the remaining approval ratings and general election toss - ups.

The amount of nickel - 60 found in meteorite samples — particularly in comparison to the amount of stable, «ordinary» iron - 56 — can indicate how much iron - 60 was present when the larger parent body from which the meteorite broke off was formed.

Once again, autistic children received more structural variants from their fathers but not mothers — though the size of the effect wasn't quite as large in this second sample.

The first paper, published in the Journal of Alzheimer's Disease, draws from a very large sample population and shows that presently around 20 percent of all dementia cases are diagnosed as HS - AGING at autopsy, although almost none are given that diagnosis during life.

The scientists examined blood samples taken from 572 women in the Nurses» Health Study and from 699 men in the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study, two of the largest long - term investigations of factors that affect women's and men's health.

Larger biomarker signatures can be detected with technology from CDI Laboratories, which offers microarrays of functional human proteins (over 20,000 on a single array) to test the antibodies present in human liquid biopsy samples, such as blood, serum, plasma, CSF, or tissue lysates.

When the team looked for it in data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that it was present in 73 per cent of all 466 faecal samples.

The scientists have recently begun the difficult task of collecting long core samples of sediment from the sites of large landslides, a critical step in determining when they happened and how often they and their associated tsunamis are likely to occur.

One method, called intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI), has the potential to allow greater numbers of offspring to be produced from individual mares and from stallions where sperm samples are limited, allowing breeds to continue in larger numbers.

In order to thoroughly investigate cures for a diverse population, cell lines from a large sampling of individuals are needed.

By studying core samples taken from the river delta, the research team, led by Zhen Li of East China Normal University in Shanghai and colleagues, detected patterns and sizes of charcoal to indicate fire distance (small particles can travel farther than 100 meters, whereas larger ones stay put) as well as pollen to deduce the presence of either crops or nonagricultural flora.

I had taken a skin sample from his back the week before, a small piece from a much larger growth located in the upper center of his 5 - foot 8 - inch 270 - pound frame.

To identify the relevant mutations the scientists analyzed the blood samples of 1,858 men from three independent cohorts in Europe and North America: the Swiss arm of the European Randomized Study for Prostate Cancer Screening, the large American Screening trial, Prostate, Lung, Colorectal, and Ovarian (PLCO), Princess Margaret Cancer Centre (University Health Network) and Mount Sinai Hospital (Sinai Health System) in Toronto.

Dr Piers Dawes, from The University of Manchester's Audiology and Deafness research group, said: «This is the first study to describe the prevalence of difficulties understanding speech in background noise in a large sample of the population, anywhere in the world.

Using statistical tests, Kamangar combined the results from studies in the U.S., Europe, Iran, China and Japan to evaluate if H. pylori helps prevent either form of esophageal cancer in such a large and geographically diverse sample pool.

This is the largest ever study estimating above and below - ground carbon loss from selective logging and ground level forest fires in the tropics, based on data from 70,000 sampled trees and thousands of soil, litter and dead wood samples from 225 sites in the eastern Brazilian Amazon.

Tissue engineers have been unable to grow epidermis with the functional barrier needed for drug testing, and have been further limited in producing an in vitro (lab) model for large - scale drug screening by the number of cells that can be grown from a single skin biopsy sample.

Researchers analyzed results from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, the largest in - patient hospital database in the United States.

When the researchers expanded their search to include all the data from the Human Microbiome Project, a large - scale project to sequence the DNA of all the microbes that live in and on our bodies, they found that the same virus was present in 73 per cent of all 466 human faecal samples.

Piano and co-investigator Shane Phillips, associate professor of physical therapy, measured PEth in blood samples from student participants at two large Midwestern university campuses.

In the samples studied by the scientists, there are also high levels of atmospheric contamination from lead during the Roman Empire, when large quantities of this metal were extracted in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as during the past 300 years, coinciding with the Industrial Revolution and the reactivation of mining activity in southern SpaiIn the samples studied by the scientists, there are also high levels of atmospheric contamination from lead during the Roman Empire, when large quantities of this metal were extracted in the south of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as during the past 300 years, coinciding with the Industrial Revolution and the reactivation of mining activity in southern Spaiin the south of the Iberian Peninsula, as well as during the past 300 years, coinciding with the Industrial Revolution and the reactivation of mining activity in southern Spaiin southern Spain.

In order to get a large sample of dogs from similar backgrounds the researchers recruited working border collies, which meant that there weren't big differences in how they were raiseIn order to get a large sample of dogs from similar backgrounds the researchers recruited working border collies, which meant that there weren't big differences in how they were raisein how they were raised.

«We have made great efforts and spent many nights in the field to cover large parts of Poland when sampling saliva from the two tree frog species for genetic analyses,» said Tomasz Majtyka, the University of Wroclaw and equal first author of the study.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmenIn the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmenin their oceanic environment.

«Although such differences may be a function of the large sample size and thus not clinically relevant, our findings suggest that use of ICSI may improve fertilization rates but not implantation or pregnancy rates in the setting of unexplained infertility, advanced maternal age, and low oocyte [a cell from which an egg develops] yield,» the authors write.

Mass spectrometry of the samples revealed over 200 unique proteins from barley and yeast, with large changes in their relative abundance and appearance at different production steps.

This study was based on a large population sample in the community, rather than being drawn from secondary care.

Over the spring and the early summer of 2010, a large team of scientists, led by Dr Christian Wurzbacher and Dr Norman Warthmann, affiliated with the Leibniz - Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries and the Berlin Center for Genomics in Biodiversity Research, Germany (currently at University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and the Australian National University, Australia, respectively), collected a total of 216 samples from 54 locations, encompassing eight different habitats within Lake Stechlin in North - East Germany.

Yet because of the difficulty in collecting samples from so far below the ocean surface, and because of the large area that was impacted by the spill, a number of gaps in understanding the fate of the oil over time remained.

Large - scale conservation genetics studies on wild jaguars spanning across several range countries assessing these threats are rare and suffer from low sample sizes for this region,» said Claudia Wultsch, the lead author of the paper, a scientist in the Museum's Sackler Institute for Comparative Genomics, and a conservation research fellow at Panthera.

The study was supported by, and conducted in collaboration with Synairgen, a University of Southampton spin - out company, and formed part of U-BIOPRED, a large - scale European project using information and samples from adults and children to learn more about different types of asthma.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

In the world's largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size and shape of sperm (referred to as sperm morphology), a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size and shape was worse in samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six dayIn the world's largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size and shape of sperm (referred to as sperm morphology), a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size and shape was worse in samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six dayin samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six dayin the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six dayin men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six days.

Selected samples taken from the cannabis seized by the police in the three largest cities in Denmark is analysed at the forensic chemistry departments on a monthly basis.