Sentences with phrase «less successful outcome»

There was a trend, for example, that sperm donors under the age of 20 were associated with a less successful outcome than older donors.

With the exception of last weekend's rout by Arsenal the performances against Tottenham, Manchester United and Liverpool have been generally acceptable and, in many ways, were similar (but with less successful outcomes) to games against the «top» sides last year.

Not exact matches

These outcomes are important for a sound, collaborative company culture where employees feel safe contributing new ideas and trying out new approaches: Google, for instance, conducted a study that found employees who felt psychologically safe in their environments were less likely to leave, more likely to leverage a diverse skill set and more likely to be successful.

Bernie Sanders» almost successful run for the Democratic nomination, and in particular his results in caucuses (i.e. primaries in which party elites had less control over the outcome), points in the same direction.

You begin to restrict admissions among students who are less likely to achieve the outcomes in the funding model and you recruit more students who have a greater likelihood of being successful,» he said.

Potential problems are much easier to resolve early on than after damage is done, so speaking up soon can often lead to more successful and less contentious outcomes.

After analyzing the data, he and his collaborators in Berlin are convinced that the activity of Shp2 and its target genes can predict the outcome of breast cancer: The less active Shp2 is, the higher the chance for the affected women to stay relapse - free after having undergone a successful breast cancer therapy.

On average, these children are less likely to make successful transitions to school and are at risk of poorer long - term educational outcomes.

Yet until very recently there was little rigorous research demonstrating the importance of principal quality for student outcomes, much less the specific practices that cause some principals to be more successful than others.

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Respiratory arrest occurring later after induction or cardiac arrest is less likely to have a successful outcome.

Getting animals into successful outcomes quickly is essential for lifesaving success.These shelters (among other successful shelters) focus less on «not killing» animals and more on SAVING them - which means creating successful outcomes quickly for the animals that come into the shelter.

This is the reason why the scientific method has been so successful: instead of very clever men convincing their less clever fellow - men that they should be in charge of things and dictate policy, it requires those very clever men to design an experiment, make a falsifiable claim as to the outcome of the experiment, measure the actual results of the experiment and then publish their results so that other very clever men can check their claims, verify that the results are reproducible and then refine and test the hypothesis with other experiments.

To succeed in this type of market, a successful law firm must innovate, share the cost benefits of their increased efficiency with clients by lowering prices, and show clients where and how they are getting better outcomes for less money.

This creates a more successful outcome because less missed appointments, ability to identify stressors in the home and ability to follow a child through multiple foster home placements.

This similarity in the outcomes of Early Start and the Nurse Family Partnership Program raises interesting issues about the features that may distinguish these programs from less successful home visitation programs.

For children experiencing more stress or less support, EBP produced more successful outcomes than did ICPS.

At the point of disorder, less effective emotion regulation and poorer self - control also predict less successful substance use treatment outcomes, including poorer treatment persistence and increased rates of relapse [67, 72].

Constraining beliefs about the need for complete assurance of personal and relational success were more strongly held, whereas beliefs that cohabitation improves later marital outcomes, successful relationships require little effort, and opposites attract were less likely to be endorsed.

For the majority of infertile couples successful treatment outcome results in improvement in emotional wellbeing (Leiblum et al., 1998; Repokari et al., 2005), but less is known about how a previously infertile couple, as a unit, is affected during the transition to parenthood.

Parent - training programmes have been shown to be successful in improving a range of outcomes including maternal psychosocial health32 and emotional and behavioural adjustment in children under 3 years of age.33 In the UK, the Sure Start project was launched in 1999 targeting preschool children and their families, in disadvantaged areas, with a number of interventions including good quality play, learning and child care.34 Recent evidence suggests that enrolled families showed less negative parenting and provided a better home - learning environment.35 The findings presented in this paper suggest that successful parenting interventions may improve the transfer of cognitive skills between generations thereby protecting disadvantaged families from unintentionally placing their children at risk of being on a path of continual negativity.

In examining the relative effectiveness of prospective and retrospective measures to predict later life outcomes, we find that retrospective reports of the family environment most validly capture influences on the child in domains of strong emotional content but are less successful in cognitive domains.