Sentences with phrase «included assessment studies»

Mr. Annan says that while the initial plan of the Programme, which included assessment studies of renewable energy potentials and initiatives to boost investment in the area, was quite ambitious, the number of projects actually funded did not meet early expectations.

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At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

Specialties include operational reviews, assessment studies, service integration, oversight reviews, implementation processes and RFP leadership.

Long - term studies of both problems and potential benefit of Kona coffee drank by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Long - term studies of both risk and potential benefit of drinking Kona by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

It is still too early to say, however, whether the King - Devick test can replace other, more conventional concussion evaluations for young athletes, including the standardized assessment, despite its shortcomings in this study, Dr. Galetta cautioned.

Currently, he has a four - year (ongoing) study that includes yearly assessment of injury risk and a prospective study of injury in Division I athletes across five different sports.

A subsequent study from the United Kingdom included additional subjects and additional follow - up assessments at 18 and 30 months.9, 10 Adjusted risk estimates revealed that the risk of ear infections at 18 and 30 months was related to infant sleeping position at age 1 month.

New studies should be large enough to include assessment and reporting of impacts by important subgroups to improve our understanding of what works for which populations.

Six models showed favourable effects on primary outcome measures (e.g., standardized measures of child development outcomes and reduction in behaviour problems).13 Only studies with outcomes using direct observation, direct assessment, or administrative records were included.

The study includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.

Independent observations of change were on the whole smaller than parent - report (SMD of 0.4 compared with 0.7), and very few (7/25) of the included studies had provided an independent assessment of outcome.

The Waldorf School of Princeton's comprehensive program begins with the observation of children and also may include child studies, consultations with parents as well as additional educators and / or specialists, various assessments, and individual and / or group lessons with other students.

The home study process includes assessments of each parent's character, marital stability, financial situation, lifestyle, and medical history.

In future updates, if more eligible studies are included, we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

In future updates we will explore the impact of including studies with high levels of missing data in the overall assessment of treatment effect by using sensitivity analysis.

Prospective adoptive parents must have received a favorable home study * — a process that includes: Criminal and child abuse registry clearances, Personal references, Verification of their employment & income and an assessment that they are ready and able to properly parent a child.

After 17 months of study (including 19 written and 9 face - to - face assessments), I also completed a Diploma in Counselling with an advanced study major in Child Development and Effective Parenting.

Caution is also needed in the interpretation of this finding as there is inconsistent reporting due to variations in the timing of outcome assessments, and the settings of studies and the population groups included in studies with more face - to - face visits.

For each included study, we described the method used to generate the allocation sequence in sufficient detail to allow an assessment of whether it should produce comparable groups.

The study will include the economic assessment of the existing local food producers and systems, data development, an economic impact analysis and the identification of barriers and opportunities within the food system of Oneida County.

Bruce Collette, who studies ocean fish at the National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory in Washington DC, and his colleagues conducted the first global assessment of the scrombids and billfish, groups of fish that include some of the species with the highest value as seafood, such as tuna and marlin, as well as staples such as mackerel.

The science program currently supports a wide area of research, including airborne measures of Alaska's interior forests, prototype methane monitors for California regulators, satellite - based assessments of farming emissions, and studies of forest fires in the Amazon basin.

The study included 677 patients from the multicentre, prospective cohort study B - SAFE.4 BMIPP scintigraphy, ECG and C - reactive protein assessment was performed in all patients.

Sherman says the study was a collaborative effort involving participants with Down syndrome, their families and assessment sites across the United States, including those mentioned above along with Kennedy Krieger Institute, Children's National Medical Center and Ohio Nationwide Children's Hospital.

The difference is in part due to the fact that the EFSA assessment includes several unpublished studies, whereas IARC based its assessment only on published papers.

As part of the Concord Health and Ageing Project (CHAMP) in Sydney, the research included 1,318 men ages 70 and older who had health assessments when they entered the study from 2005 to 2007, and again two years later.

Limitations of the study include its observational nature and the self - reported diet assessments.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

«Our study exemplifies the utility of looking beyond phylogenetic criteria alone when conducting risk assessment for emerging RNA viruses and the need to include functional, ecologic, and pathogenic analyses of animal reservoirs,» says Jan Felix Drexler, M.D., the study's corresponding author and a professor of medicine at the Institute of Virology at the University of Bonn Medical Centre in Germany.

The authors note study limitations include the use of telephone - based cognitive assessments rather than in - person interviews.

«These results support the contention that studies of nutrition and cognition should include more comprehensive and sensitive assessments that are administered multiple times through early childhood,» said John Colombo, study director and KU professor of psychology.

The study's strengths, the authors wrote, include «the large sample size for both early and late postmenopausal women, the examination of multiple sex hormones in the same population, and the use of a comprehensive neuropsychological battery that allowed for the assessment of different cognitive domains.»

Their analysis included data from the Coronary Artery Risk Development in Young Adults (CARDIA) study, which contained repeated assessments of marijuana use and kidney outcomes.

The study stands out among long - term cohort studies for its high retention rate — nearly 95 % of the original cohort has stayed with the study since it launched in 1972 — and the intimacy of the data - gathering process, which includes not just cognitive, psychological, and health assessments, but also interviews with cohort members» teachers, families, and friends and reviews of their financial and legal records.

«Our study builds on these findings by investigating exposure at the individual level, including in - home assessment of temperature and specific health effects of COPD.

An analysis using updated global surface temperature data disputes the existence of a 21st century global warming slowdown described in studies including the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) assessment.

A new study suggests that most people inhale substantially more organic contaminants, including cancer - causing benzene, than is indicated by standard environmental risk assessments based on outdoor measurements.

IQWiG included one long - term study (179 - CL - 049) in the assessment, which the manufacturer had reported, but not used to derive an added benefit.

For example, studies similar to Karlan's, including assessments of microloan programs, have been done by Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo, both at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

This is the first study of self - awareness in MS that includes assessment of online awareness, as well as metacognitive awareness.

A professor of German, Frank has held a number of roles in the subject community, including being President of the Association for German Studies in Great Britain and Ireland and was a member of panels for the national assessment of research (RAE and REF).

Services include: consultation with investigators to chose the best method of analysis; sample preparation, assay design and processing of the most used methods to study DNA methylation, both gene - specific and genome - wide (PyroMeth, RRBS and Methyl - Seq); and assessment of global DNA methylation by pyrosequencing methylation analysis of repetitive elements (LINE - 1 and Alu repeats).

The study included 236,739 men born between 1952 and 1956 who underwent extensive physical and psychological examinations at around age 18 years as part of compulsory military conscription assessments.

These additional studies included assessment of cardiac output, ejection fraction, and fractional shortening as well as measurements of flow velocities and pressure gradients across the aortic valve, pulmonary valve and mitral valve.

And a two - year study on women showed that the Mediterranean diet (rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and olive oil) significantly increased scores on the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), a measure that includes assessment of arousal, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain.

The strengths of this study include its population - based sample, high participation rate, and use of a GI - and carbohydrate - validated FFQ to collect dietary information, and detailed questionnaires that permitted careful assessment of potential confounding variables.

Key strengths of the study included the comprehensive assessment of the main causal factors of sarcopenia in a well - defined elderly population.

Another study examining the effects the different lipids in terms of heart disease risk found that «triglyceride concentration was not independently related with CHD risk after controlling for HDL - C, non — HDL - C, and other standard risk factors, including null findings in women and under nonfasting conditions.21, 22 Hence, for population - wide assessment of vascular risk, triglyceride measurement provides no additional information about vascular risk given knowledge of HDL - C and total cholesterol levels, although there may be separate reasons to measure triglyceride concentration (eg, prevention of pancreatitis).»

However, limitations to this study included short trial duration, subpar assessment methods, a small sample size, and a 1200 kcal diet which was artificially low compared to what this population would typically carry out in the long - term.