Sentences with phrase «largest national study»

A larger national study is underway.

A new large national study found that the more nursing directors knew about palliative care, the lower the likelihood that their patients would experience aggressive end - of - life care.

The majority were from large national studies in the United Kingdom (EMBRACE), the Netherlands (HEBON), and France (GENEPSO).

Large national studies like NAEP could complement teacher surveys with the collection of audio, every day, all day, in a big sample of schools.

In yet another recent report of a large national study of 400 Chapter 1 schools, researchers found that higher levels of poverty, greater application of grade retention policies, and higher levels of student disciplinary actions were related to lower student achievement (Puma et al., 1997).

According to a large national study just released, it's possible to teach kids in preschool to give better answers to that question — not only when asked by a researcher, but in real life.

For example, a large national study found that a principal's teacher - reported effectiveness was strongly related to teacher attrition and that this impact was much larger in high - need schools.Grissom, J. A. (2011).

The results of this large national study support earlier findings from smaller samples that found maternal depression to be associated strongly with factors amenable to interventions (eg, poverty and chronic illness).

The North Carolina Family Child Study became part of a larger national study, LONGSCAN (the Longitudinal Studies of Child Abuse and Neglect), the longest such study ever undertaken in the US.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

This happened on a large enough scale to have a positive impact on national productivity, according to the study.

Studies have shown a fairly large percentage of employees are stressed about their financial situation, and worried about not having enough money to retire, said Todd Saulnier, vice-chair of the national policy committee at the Association of Canadian Pension Management (ACPM) in Halifax.

I have emphasized global and national problems, but many believe solutions must be local, and, in any case, large - scale problems can sometimes be best studied locally.

A new study by USC and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs.

One large study by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences showed that children who are breastfed have a 20 percent lower risk of dying between the ages of 28 days and 1 year than children who weren't breastfed, with longer breastfeeding associated with lower risk.

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

Only a third of large companies provide a private, secure area where women can express breast milk during the workday and only 7 percent offer on - site or near - site child care, according to a 2005 national study of employers by the nonprofit Families and Work Institute.

Funding: This study was part of a larger study jointly funded by the Department of Health's Policy Research Programme and the National Institute for Health Research Service Delivery and Organisation programme.

One large study funded by the National Institutes of Health found that belonging to a strong social network correlates with better mental functioning.

This longitudinal study in 3 middle schools and 3 high schools in a large, urban US school district in Washington state compared the nutritional quality of student school lunch food selections before and after the implementation of the new National School Lunch Program meal standards.

The UK's largest shooting organisation has drawn on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism for rural businesses and communities.

The UK's largest shooting organisation has drawn on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism

Commenting on the research published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers» union, said: «The independent Institute for Fiscal Studies has confirmed what the NUT has been saying since the Government announced its cuts programme.

Kicking the decision over to a commission looks to have a healthy track record of delivering: a 2014 study by the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) found that every state legislature that saw a pay raise during the preceding 12 months had done so without a vote; the states that saw the largest hikes, Hawaii and California, each did it by passing the task to a commission.

The UK's largest shooting organisation drew on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism for rural businesses and communities.

Recent years have seen a large rise in the number of humanists who are on SACREs, as documents such as the 2013 national framework, programmes of study and RE guidance have referred to teaching about non-religious beliefs such as Humanism.

Large scale random probability surveys, such as the Labour Force Survey, The National Readership survey and the British Election Study

But their passionate opposition to the chemical plant generated an explosion of public anger that forced a halt in construction, pending further environmental impact studies by authorities in Beijing, and produced large demonstrations June 1 and 2, drawing national publicity.

A study published Aug. 28, 2017, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences adds a new dimension to the controversial decision to inject large amounts of chemical dispersants immediately above the crippled oil well at the seafloor during the Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010.

But in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found evidence that these large SOD1 fibrils protect rather than harm neurons.

You are now involved in your largest effort yet, the National Children's Study.

It was the largest flood of the lower Mississippi ever recorded, and University of Illinois» researchers took advantage of this «once - in - a-scientific-lifetime» occurrence to study the damage, funded by a National Science Foundation Rapid Response Grant.

Patients 65 and older who have ambulatory surgery are much more likely to be readmitted to the hospital within 30 days than younger patients, regardless of their health before surgery, reports a new, large national Northwestern Medicine study.

«We've got a large new national study showing a threefold increase [in children's learning disabilities and special education].

Working with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, they are currently finishing up a detailed study of the effects of a particularly large piece of marine debris — a shipping container that fell off a ship in 2004.

The National Institutes of Health oversees studies of mice, along with rats and birds; the U.S. Department of Agriculture monitors larger animals.

«The large amount of data our collaboration has generated sheds light on mechanisms that account for embryonic losses at implantation,» said Olivier Sandra, team leader for the study at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique in France.

Studies involving rabbits and larger mammals, for example, are overseen chiefly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C. Federally funded studies of rats, mice, and birds are subject to different rules and a different overseer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, MaStudies involving rabbits and larger mammals, for example, are overseen chiefly by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) in Washington, D.C. Federally funded studies of rats, mice, and birds are subject to different rules and a different overseer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Mastudies of rats, mice, and birds are subject to different rules and a different overseer, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland.

The National Institute of Justice, the research and development arm of the DOJ, is funding two larger camera studies in Las Vegas and Los Angeles that should explore a few of these issues.

«Before this study, we knew that these HIV prevention measures worked at an individual level, yet it was not clear that they would substantially reduce HIV incidence in a population — or even if it would be possible to get large numbers of people to adopt them,» said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH.

A recent study from the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital done in conjunction with researchers from Colorado School of Public Health at the University at Colorado and Temple University used data from a large, national sports injury surveillance system to determine the effect of state - level TBI laws on trends of new and recurrent concussions among US high school athletes.

Appearing in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the study is the largest watershed study of its kind to date, and provides a basis for evaluating water quality and health implications and the impact of septic systems on watersheds.

«We've made the largest map for studying the 95 % of the universe that is dark,» noted David Schlegel, an astrophysicist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and principal investigator for BOSS.

This large study sponsored by the National Institute on Aging has been following 566 noncardiac surgical patients over the age of 70 for the past five years with the goal of finding new approaches to prevent delirium and its long - term consequences in older adults.

Bride and his co-authors analyzed a large, national sample of Substance Use Disorder counselors from the National Institutes of Health - funded National Treatment Center national sample of Substance Use Disorder counselors from the National Institutes of Health - funded National Treatment Center National Institutes of Health - funded National Treatment Center National Treatment Center Studies.

The study, «Prevalence of hypertension, awareness, treatment and control in the Hispanic Community,» led by Dr. Paul D. Sorlie of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), sampled 16,400 individuals, making it one of the largest and most rigorous health studies of the Hispanic community.

«According to our study, there is more human — jaguar conflict in Darién National Park, probably because communities are near larger tracts of unbroken forest, which is much better jaguar habitat,» Moreno said.

Women who begin menopause before age 46 or after 55 have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes, according to a study of more than 124,000 women enrolled in the Women's Health Initiative, a large national trial aimed at preventing disease in postmenopausal women.

In 2011, Science's editors will be watching a smaller detector at the Large Hadron Collider called LHCb, which will study B mesons in great detail; new techniques that should lead to the discovery of many more genes contributing to adaptation; an ignited fusion burn at the National Ignition Facility; broadly neutralizing antibodies, which are capable of disabling a wide range of viral variants; the first plug - in hybrid electric cars whose batteries are charged from a wall socket go on the market; and the results of the first phase III trial of a malaria vaccine.

Dr. McCrea and his team are also co-chairing the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Consortium (CARE) project, a major national effort that will enroll more than 30,000 college athletes, making it the largest study of concussions to date.