Sentences with phrase «independent study samples»

Validation for depression in preschool children has been provided by 2 independent study samples.

The findings were replicated in both independent study samples.

Not exact matches

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

We estimated differences in resource use and costs with the independent samples t test procedure and differences in effects with odds ratios and weighted incidence rates from the cohort study.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

At Cox's urging, Mash set out to conduct an independent study of ALS and Alzheimer's brains using samples from her own human brain bank.

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.

«Although this wasn't an experiment, it was a well - controlled longitudinal study in a racially diverse sample — so it provides a strong clue that being socially integrated early in life is good for our health independent of a number of other factors such as personality, weight in childhood, and the family's social status in childhood,» she explains.

An earlier, independent study, led by Rupal Mittal of the Rochester Institute of Technology and the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, also analyzed the star - birth rates in the same galaxies as Tremblay's sample.

«We showed, based on extrapolation from a random sample of land snail species from all over the world, and via two independent approaches, that we may already have lost 7 percent (130,000 extinctions) of all the animal species on Earth,» said Robert Cowie, research professor at PBRC and co-author of the two studies.

The studies both involve Mikovits and several other independent labs testing the same samples.

While the link between mothers» depression and depression in their children is well - established, the new Lancet Psychiatry study is the first to find an association between depression in fathers and their teenaged children, independent of whether the mother has depression, in a large sample in the general population.

A limited number of total or polyadenylated (polyA) RNA samples (n = 21, corresponding to 14 unique samples) from the original 2006 study by Urisman, et al. [1], 6 previously found to be XMRV - positive and 8 XMRV - negative, were available for independent re-analysis.

This is the first study demonstrating smoking - induced expression changes for this particular set of genes and importantly, it is the first time partial reversibility (MUC5AC) and irreversibility (GSK3B) and has been demonstrated using two different cohorts of samples with two independent assays for expression quantification.

«With a large sample size, long follow - up period and objective assessment of hearing loss, our study provides strong evidence that smoking is an independent risk factor of hearing loss,» said study lead author Dr. Huanhuan Hu, from the National Center for Global Health and Medicine, in Japan.

The study's sample consisted of 44 independent observations — the states that voluntarily participated in one or more of seven NAEP tests that were administered from 1990 to 1996.

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«Further, studies which focus on a small number of cases in particular are strongly informed by cases where there has been conflict, do not sample on the independent variables (climate impact or risk), and hence tend to find some association between these two variables,» reads the study.

Meanwhile, Nalco won't release samples of the chemical to independent researchers to study the chemical, so someone could finally get an idea of just how toxic the stuff is.

So far, only three published studies have analyzed the association between brief readability and case outcome, 50 and no studies have analyzed that association in the trial courts, where most lawyers practice.51 Long and Christensen sampled 882 appellate briefs from the Supreme Court, federal appellate courts, and state supreme courts.52 Their dependent variable was the outcome of the appeal (affirmed or reversed), while their independent variable was readability measured by the Flesch Reading Ease score as calculated by Microsoft Word.53 For federal appellate and state supreme court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for federal or state court, standard of review, presence of a dissenting opinion, and readability of the opinion deciding the appeal.54 For United States Supreme Court briefs, the researchers coded control variables for constitutional issue, criminal or civil case, presence of a dissenting opinion, and opinion readability.55 They found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.56

Highlights Maintained a GPA of 3.8 over six years of undergraduate and graduate study Completed upwards of 50 hours of lab work Familiar with several methods of sample analysis including liquid chromatography and gas chromatography Took field samples and maintained a sterile environment Friendly and respectful to teachers, supervisors and fellow students Punctual Skilled at note taking and independent research Organized Willing to learn, with an abiding interest in all aspects of the field of chemistry Experience Intern 8/1/2015 — 5/1/2016 Scientific Laboratories Incorporated — Syracuse, NY Took inventory of lab equipment Followed safety and security procedures accurately when handling hazardous material Worked closely with experienced chemists and earth scientists Cleaned and sanitized lab equipment Assisted with experiments Measured and mixed compounds for experienced chemists Established a mentor relationship with laboratory manager Assisted in the writing of technical reports

In addition, to assess whether there was an independent study effect on pregnancy rates by time period of recruitment into the study (before and after December 31, 2001), we included a time period variable in the multiple logistic regression analysis of the full study sample and found no effect.

The most recent analysis evaluated thirty - two independent samples of participants and found a significant and positive overall effect size of.20.92 When researchers eliminated studies with serious methodological shortcomings, the effect size rose to.25, which is closer to the effect documented for television violence.

Although there was adequate power to detect associations in this study because the sample was enriched for maltreatment experiences and psychopathology, independent replication is warranted.

The study did not find evidence of these clinical domains being separate at a molecular genetic level, although only 1 — 2 genome - wide genetic variants were found to be nominally associated with either sub-domain (without allowing for multiple testing), and these did not replicate in an independent clinical sample of children diagnosed with ASD.

The second study, carried out by Carrasco et al [12] examined the independent and interactive effects of DRD4 and DAT1 on ADHD in a sample of Chilean families.

However, the fact that several independent studies found higher rates of avoidant attachment in older adults increases our confidence that these results are not just due to sampling artifact.

The authors reviewed 48 studies with 82 independent samples from 1980 to 2014 examining the relationship between teacher qualification and the quality of ECEC environment, which included children from pre-kindergarten and kindergarteners prior to primary school.

This study examined independent predictors of PTSD severity between genders in a Danish probability sample of 15 - to 18 - year - old males (n = 863) and females (n = 1,125).

The present study examined the independent contributions and the interaction effects of oppositional defiant problems (ODD), callous unemotional traits (CU) and anxiety symptoms on attentional orienting to emotional faces, in a community sample of preschoolers.

This paper reports on two separate studies that examined unique dimensions of parental emotion socialization in relation to childhood CU traits, using different methods and independent samples of families.

The first aim of the present study was to investigate the independent contributions and the interaction effects of ODD - related problems, CU traits and anxiety on attentional orienting to emotional faces, in a community sample of preschoolers, by using a facial affect Dot - probe paradigm (MacLeod et al., 1986).

The other studies had a nonequivalent group design: 2 studies compared e-therapy data with data from previously published studies and 1 study used naturalistic independent samples of participants provided by a youth counseling service.

We also attempted to determine if any demographic variables (gender, race, or relationship status) predicted change in attachment attitudes via independent samples t - tests (gender, relationship status) and one - way ANOVA (race) in order to better contextualize study findings.

These results should be considered in light of the fact that the study had methodological strengths, including the use of random assignment, independent evaluators, tests of treatment fidelity, and psychometrically strong measures, as well as limitations, particularly the modest sample size.

For this reason, it may be advisable to use EA ratings collected from independent healthy samples as the reference point for calculating EA values in future studies.

This study also demonstrated that within a sample of children with antisocial behaviour problems there is a relationship between CU traits and peripheral serotonin levels that is independent from antisocial behaviour severity.

This study revealed an independent association between fathers» mental health problems and depressive symptoms and increased rates of child emotional and behavioral problems among a large nationally representative sample of children in the United States.

This study was conducted to determine whether child physical maltreatment early in life has long - term effects on psychological, behavioral, and academic problems in a community sample, independent of other characteristics associated with maltreatment.

Independent sample t - test (t - test for equality of means) was used after splitting the data country wise, to evaluate the hypotheses of this study which were formulated after finding the gap in the existing literature, which include: