Sentences with phrase «life outcomes as»

You mention the Project Star study showing that test scores in kindergarten correlated with later life outcomes as proof that test scores are reliable indicators of school or program quality.

Over decades, the researchers have documented correlations between the ability to delay gratification and life outcomes as diverse as SAT scores, body - mass index, the frequency of drug abuse, and measurable differences in brain functioning, which are visible thanks to modern functional MRI techniques.

However, euthanasia should never be substituted for a live outcome as a means of reducing length of stay.

Not exact matches

It's thinking about life as a chess game based upon possible outcomes.

If you understand this fact, then suddenly, you can have a better attitude toward the change in your life while continuing to attempt to control the outcomes as much as possible — but not letting the things that are out of control upset you.

As we wait for more evidence to emerge with the use of this «living drug,» let's hope the CMS announcement heralds a new era in finding ways to link reimbursement to patient outcomes.

From a value perspective, if the young adults with leukemia who respond to therapy end up with more years of life — an outcome that is quite likely — then Kymriah will be cost - effective for society as well.

As Gallup notes, previous research has tied well - being scores to health outcomes including life expectancy and a lower risk of obesity, while some studies suggest that taking time off positively impacts the brain and heart.

And when things go wrong between co-founders, as with most things in life, a little planning up front can mean the difference between a catastrophic vs. merely painful outcome.»

Visualizing the moments you knocked it out of the park, almost as if you were watching a highlight reel of your life and career, can positively affect your outcome.

As he has since 2014, Warren Buffett offered $ 1 million every year for life to the person who could correctly predict the outcomes of all games through the Sweet 16 (this year the prize rose to $ 2 million if a Nebraska team took home the trophy).

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In part, this weak outcome reflects supply constraints, as some of Australia's mature oil fields are approaching the end of their productive lives.

The first and most evident outcome of this view of the matter is the singular extent to which it co-ordinates and unifies such ideas as we have been able to arrive at on the subject of life in general.

As Cobb puts it, God doesn't «assure the success of the good in the world,» but «the vision of God nevertheless guarantees the worthwhileness of present life whatever may be its temporal outcome.

If there were a broad set of initial conditions consistent with the development of complex structures and a thin scattering of islands of life here and there, then yes, this would be a scenario in which life could be regarded as a random outcome.

In contrast, the non-evangelical born again and notional Christians — groups not as devoted to biblical applications to every aspect of life — are more focused on pragmatic outcomes than theological foundations.»

In fact, God doesn't care about our specific choices — God has given us free choice to do as we will and is committed to that freedom — although God cares passionately about the final outcome of our lives.

Presbyterian polity has been understood historically and philosophically as the means to secure, if not full agreement, at least a willingness to live with the outcome of the polity's operations.

So unhappy and so hopeless of any happy outcome of life is he that he welcomes death as a glad release.

If it is true, as I suggest, that salvation lies in the direction of an Earth organically in-folded upon itself, it is then surely evident that, though a reciprocal mechanism of action and reaction, the vision and prevision of this ultimate end, this outcome of History and of Life, may be made to play an essential part in the building of the future, if only by creating the atmosphere, the psychic field of attraction, without which it will be impossible for Humanity to continue to converge upon itself.

Jeff: This is what causes division as we go about doing even good things, out of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil to set up another sect out of our carnal nature; above is the outcome; Jesus came to cause division among men that tries to become their own god and sets up camp, even for them that call themselves Christian, for them that have went from Him and His Words, even that are not of His Spirit: Jesus said; the Words that I speak are Spirit and Life, That means the Words of man can only bring forth death: Therefore; if we do not have His Spirit in us, then we too can only speak forth death: This is what it is to be a believer, we truly believe our Lord: I can see what the Catholic church and her daughters are doing to form a religious Babylonian city: Even as God caused a division in Babylon in the past because the peoples became great, so to is it now with all of the man made sects of religion: But when we are filled with the Spirit of God then we can not help but to live for God: It is written; those who are led by His spirit are His children: Thank - you Jeff: Those who are of His Spirit will know these truths, those who are not of His Spirit truly believe a believer is as they and can not know what we speak, because they live in unbelief: Thank - you again Jeff; In Jesus Name Alexandria: P.S..

If, as an unintended consequence of saving the mother's life, her unborn child loses its life, that should be viewed as a profoundly, deeply sad, and regrettable, but lawful outcome.»

NICE recommends the use of a version of the Quality - Adjusted Life - Year as its principal outcome measure (EQ - 5D), partly to enable

No matter how the breakdown of the «modernization» syndrome might occur, Heilbroner envisages a relapse into traditional authoritarianism as the most likely result, providing, that is, that the worst outcome, total destruction of life on the planet, is avoided.

These bitterly suppressed people in their ragged procession, remembering now the word of Moses conveying the Word of Another, in overwhelming realization that only this Word could effect so glorious and impossible an outcome; this company of the lost, the enslaved, the dying, now found and freed and given life by God; this weak, diffuse body of humanity suddenly made almost terrifyingly aware of its unity and entity as created out of God's unfathomable purpose - these people in this company, in this body, all break forth into a spontaneous hymn of praise, more shout than song, more chant than anthem, more cry of ecstasy than conscious composition:

The view that life is an accidental outcome of «material» complexity, is viewing only the «material» as real.

Pope John Paul II himself has said that «a great teaching effort is needed to clarify the substantive moral difference between discontinuing medical procedures that may be burdensome, dangerous, or disproportionate to the expected outcome»» what the Catechism of the Catholic Church calls «the refusal of «over «zealous» treatment» (2278)»» and taking away the ordinary means of preserving life, such as feeding, hydration, and normal medical care.»

That which we usually make the object of life, those outer things we are all so wildly seeking, which we so often live and die for, but which then do not give us peace and happiness, they should all come of themselves as accessory, and as the mere outcome or natural result of a far higher life sunk deep in the bosom of the spirit.

They guys at Vivo Life are happy with the outcome of the THRIVE product I developed and have asked me to create a further 2 products for them as well as refine the flavours of their existing products so stay tuned for more delicious health and fitness supplements!

Mr Joyce has previously described ESCAS as making Australia «a clear world leader in the welfare of exported live animals» due to statistics that showed from a performance report that 8,035,633 livestock were exported with just 12,958 animals — or 0.16 pc — experiencing a potentially adverse animal welfare outcome.

I fear for us on Sunday — of course, football is a crazy game, and we could very well get ourselves 3 points, but whatever the outcome on Sunday, win lose or draw, if you believe that our current team under Moyes is as good as the current Liverpool team under Rodgers, you're living in dreamland.

When we as parents feel responsible for our child's behaviors, thoughts, feelings and outcomes in life, we get highly invested in their behavior.

Dads who are committed to results will celebrate success with the family and will focus on the outcomes of family life as well as the processes.

What if we could all exhale with the understanding that it is not our job as parents to directly shape or control the outcome of our child's life, but instead to create conditions for them to thrive and grow into whatever type of adult they decide...

What they wanted was somebody to show them what to do and to help them, and not having that help is costing the Government and the devolved Administrations through the outcomes for those babies, as they are more likely to cost the NHS more in later life; through the outcomes for the mothers; and through the outcomes for some mothers who really struggle with having to give up breastfeeding, and end up in the mental health system as a result.

But, as University of Chicago professor James Heckman discovered in 2001, going over Perry Pre-School Project (Ypsilanti, Mich.) student success rates, certain character traits and social behaviours were a much better predictor of improved life outcomes.

From a completely mercenary standpoint, measures such as hospital birth and interventions at the start of life are cost effective because the desired outcome is years of functional life.

This is becoming less common since it was shown that cerebral palsy isn't necessarily an intra-partum event, but generally a live baby with brief breathing issues who might need a short NICU stay is seen as a better outcome than either death or hypoxic damage.

Parenting remains in truth a bit frightening at first, as an outcome of that it is discouraging to be accountable of the life of another person.

Like all parallel medical services, it falls to the patient to figure out who is legitimately skilled and who is not: EXCEPT, most women having babies are in their twenties and early thirties and I personally didn't have the kind of life - experience necessary to question whether or not my government would provide me with sub par care and just assumed that if the government was paying, it must be safe, and the midwifery community capitalizes on this by running advertisements (which OB / GYN are not permitted to do) advertising themselves as being less interventionist, less c - section (no shit, Sherlock, but you'd have to read between the lines to understand why), and better outcomes.

The course supports the practice of reflection regarding the possible impact on breastfeeding outcome, behaviours and the infant's life as a whole.

How frustrating that obstetricians and mothers are focusing on the such short term outcomes as whether the baby lives or dies, is born intact or has suffered a brain injury.

They must live with the outcome of their decision same as you must live with the outcome of your decision.

Furthermore, it is now clear that all kinds of crying (i.e. fussing, crying and inconsolable crying) is prolonged, that this prolongation occurs only in the first few months, and that inconsolable crying is almost unique to the first few months of life.3, 40 The «unpredictability» of the crying, and of the caregiver's ability or inability to soothe the infant is most likely due to the facts that (1) the infant cry in the first few months is a reflection of the organization of its behavioural states (crying, awake alert, sleeping), rather than an intentional «signal,» 14 (2) that behavioural state changes occur in «steps» rather than due to increases or decreases in arousal7, 41 and (3) infants are resistant to behavioural state change unless they are in a transitional phase in which they are «ready» to change state.7 Finally, there is now good evidence that the proportion of infants that have evidence of organic disease to explain their crying is less than 5 %.8, 42,43 In the absence of other compromise, infants with «colic» have as good an outcome as infants without «colic.»

Although the observational studies that underlie our models all adjusted for multiple confounders, including known risk factors for the disease outcomes of interest, risk factors for early breastfeeding cessation such as preterm birth, preeclampsia, and obesity are also risk factors for metabolic disease in later life.

We considered a range of prespecified maternal, fetal, and neonatal outcomes, including fetal death, neonatal death (defined as death during the first 28 days after birth), perinatal death (a composite of fetal and neonatal deaths), and infant death (defined as death during the first year of life).

Non-cognitive skills, as social scientists call them (the rest of us call them personality traits)-- persistence, grit, curiosity, self - control, delayed gratification, conscientiousness — play a crucial role in life's outcomes.

Shafia's message calls us to the work of «birthing change» — increasing personal capacity, as health care professionals, doulas, and birth workers, that will ensure inclusion for better birth outcomes, and a world where all babies see their first birthday, and where mothers live to raise them.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.