Sentences with phrase «life measures predict»

Baseline quality of life measures predict early cessation of chemotherapy and overall survival in women with platinum - resistant / refractory, recurrent ovarian cancer.

Not exact matches

Whether this will lead to global destruction in the clash of competing systems or to a greater measure of freedom and justice through the lifting of the living standards of the underprivileged peoples of the earth, no one can predict.

With such measures backed up by strong trade unions, quality public services and other social security payments (such as to cover the additional living costs of disability), a society of this kind would certainly look very different to the scenario otherwise predicted by Piketty.

Although models predict that tDCS would generate EFs throughout the brain, there is no direct evidence demonstrating or measuring these electric fields in a living person's brain.

And, you know, psychologists can actually turn that into a pretty solid statistical measure and, you know, IQ scores are turned out to be very predictive in the sense that you can take someone's IQ score as a chi - square in predicting about their lives.

This little trick — a deceptively simple measure of flexibility and strength — can predict who will live longer and whose lives will be cut short, according to a study by Brazilian physician Claudio Gil Araujo.

Measuring carbon dioxide, for example, can help predict the shelf life of meat.

Length measured at 1 year also predicted life span, but the relationship was weaker, whereas at later time points (after 3, 4, 6, and 7 years) there was no correlation, the team reports online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The device measures the stiffness of the aorta, which is known to predict both heart disease and dementia in later life.

As Clayton Christensen, James Allworth, and Karen Dillon recount in How Will You Measure Your Life, most companies that hire assume implicitly that there are some innate talents that candidates either have or don't have that can predict success.

In addition, research showing that value - added measures outperform other teacher characteristics at predicting a teacher's impact on student growth in future years — and that they also capture information on teachers» impacts on longer - term life outcomes like teen pregnancy, college going, and adult earnings — served as an important justification for differentiating teacher effectiveness.

Research tells us that social and emotional skills trump the more traditional cognitive measures — like IQ, standardized test scores, and GPAs — in predicting major life outcomes when the individuals are in their early adult years.

This result shows that DCR is a great measure to predict default, but in live portfolios can provide no guarantee that the portfolio is immune to default risk.

Yes, Yoshi's Island DS is pretty much the nearest thing Nintendo have ever made to a kaizo style ROM hack, and seems to be designed by someone who thinks the best measure of game quality is how much it can predict its players behaviour and make their experience a living hell.

There is no doubt that swiftly and accurately measuring hurricane conditions to predict their behavior before landfall could safeguard lives — and lifesaving infrastructure.

You can't predict weather, or even short term warming, but those aren't the only things to measure, and those things that are bigger than weather, longer term than decadal warming, they are profoundly important to the costs and risks we and our descendants will live with.

Despite controversies concerning the extent to which daily hassles are confounded with mental health outcomes, measuring daily hassles may be more useful than assessing major life events (e.g., parents divorce) in predicting psychological and somatic adaptational outcomes (Holm & Holroyd, 1992).

Research tells us that social and emotional skills trump the more traditional cognitive measures — like IQ, standardized test scores, and GPAs — in predicting major life outcomes when the individuals are in their early adult years.

That being said reviewers ask for it and curiosity still predicts measures of positive emotions, life satisfaction, meaning in life, and positive social interaction behaviors and relationship outcomes after controlling for openness.

Too often program evaluations are based on standardized achievement tests and IQ measures that do not tell the whole story and poorly predict life outcomes.

Psychiatric staff play key roles in the life of people with psychosis, so it is important to identify reliable and valid methods of measuring staff - patient relationships and factors that predict relationship quality.

Using structural equation modeling, measures of family relationships, such as a person's own and his / her partner's marital adjustment, the amount of contact with children (and grandchildren, if applicable), and being a grandparent or not, served as independent variables to predict each partner's satisfaction with life.

(iii) To examine whether couple - related (number of children, length of partnership and number of previous partnerships) and psychosocial stress (SES, stressful life events and depressive symptoms in pregnancy) factors differently predict the quality and change of marital relationships among ART and control groups, we added corresponding two - way interactions into the main effect repeated - measure MANOVAs.

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.