Sentences with phrase «investigate mean levels»

The current meta - analysis will investigate mean levels of stress in specific domains of family functioning, and compare levels of stress between parents of preterm and term infants, and fathers and mothers of preterm infants.

Not exact matches

We don't just investigate the world at a scientific level: We also seek to give meaning to our lives, and to connect our own small narratives with the larger narratives of the world around us.

Organizers of the new Arlington Heights chapter of the anonymous tip line that helps police investigate crimes assure us that the group's introduction to the northwest suburb does not mean it suddenly has surpassed some qualifying level of criminal activity.

Finding high levels of fibers in the fish is significant, as some studies investigating microplastics in fish have dismissed such fibers as contaminants from the lab environment, meaning their role as a pollutant may have been underestimated.

«Our cohort of elite master athletes therefore represents our best means of investigating the long - term impact of years of competition - level endurance sport,» explains Jürgen Scharhag.

Global sea level trend during 1993 — 2012 Here we investigate the global - mean sea level (GMSL) change during 1993 — 2012 using Empirical Mode Decomposition, in an attempt to distinguish the trend over this period from the interannual variability.

Using a summary score of number of CD symptoms, structural equation modelling was used to investigate whether mean level and variation in CD increased with more recent cohorts, and whether any increase in variance could be explained by familial or non-familial factors.

Logistic regression analyses were conducted to investigate the mediation hypotheses, using an established 3 - step procedure.48 First, we investigated whether there was a significant bivariate association between a high level of maladaptive parenting (operationally defined as ≥ 3 maladaptive parenting behaviors) or abuse during childhood or early adolescence (by a mean age of 14 years) and risk for suicide attempts during late adolescence or early adulthood (reported at a mean age of 22 years) and whether the magnitude of this association was reduced when interpersonal difficulties during middle adolescence (reported at a mean age of 16 years) were controlled statistically.

The present study investigates five types of continuity of personality and internalizing and externalizing problems (i.e., structural, differential, mean - level, individual - level and ipsative continuity) in a sample of referred children and adolescents (N = 114) with a broad variety of psychological problems.

However, relatively few studies have investigated whether there are differences in brain structure between these subgroups.We acquired diffusion tensor imaging data and used tract - based spatial statistics (TBSS) to compare adolescents with CD and high levels of CU traits (CD / CU +; n = 18, CD and low levels of CU traits (CD / CU -; n = 17) and healthy controls (HC; n = 32) on measures of fractional anisotropy (FA), axial (AD), radial (RD) and mean (MD) diffusivity.