Sentences with phrase «largest comparative studies»

, identifies some inherent weaknesses in conducting a large comparative study of Sub-Saharan African nations within this context, and he does a good job within the confines of his short article to articulate important distinguishing factors within this immense geographical space.

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So, inevitably, the researchers at Monash will produce just another large body of comparative cognitive studies — humans are better than cephalopods at crossword puzzles, no photodiodes can play chess but many Belgians can... that sort of thing — all meretriciously tricked out in the useless patois of Integrated Information Theory.

«It is important and a valuable stepping stone in our quest to understand how intelligence evolved, but like all studies, it is one piece of a larger puzzle,» says Sarah Benson - Amram, a zoologist at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, whose recent comparative study of 39 species of carnivores reached the opposite conclusion.

Generally speaking, the larger a mammal's brain, the greater its tendency to play, according to a 2001 Journal of Comparative Psychology study that correlated play with relative brain size across 15 orders, from Rodentia to Primates.

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.

A new study, led by Assistant Professor Vijay Dhanasekaran and Associate Professor Gavin Smith from Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School (Duke - NUS), has presented the largest comparative analysis of human influenza B viruses undertaken to date.

«Hubble reveals diversity of exoplanet atmosphere: Largest ever comparative study solves missing water mystery.»

However, no extensive comparative studies of a large panel of MDs have been carried out thus far.

-- Towards large - cohort comparative studies to define the factors influencing the gut microbial community structure of ASD patients

A comparative study of several different groups of athletes, including endurance runners, shows that the gluteus maximus is larger in strength and power athletes than in endurance runners.

Professor Adams is the Director of ACER's Centre for Global Education Monitoring and a Professorial Fellow of the University of Melbourne, specialising in psychometrics, educational statistics, large - scale testing and international comparative studies.

The cross-country comparative approach provides a number of unique advantages over national studies: It can exploit institutional variation that does not exist within countries; draw on much larger variation than usually available within any country; reveal whether any result is country - specific or more general; test whether effects are systematically heterogeneous in different settings; circumvent selection issues that plague within - country identification by using system - level aggregated measures; and uncover general - equilibrium effects that often elude studies in a single country.

Based on a study of the special education placement process in a large city in the United States and two studies in different regions of Spain, the authors offer a comparative analysis of the relationship between professional beliefs and practices and the achievement of culturally and linguistically diverse (CLD) students.

As a basis for tool development, tool comparison, and comparative studies a large number of meteorological data sets have been compiled by German company Suntrace.

The results of a major comparative outcome study have shown schema therapy to be highly effective with a large percentage of outpatients with Borderline Personality Disorder, with a low dropout rate.