Sentences with phrase «longer than in previous studies»

Not exact matches

While Tecentriq's results in Imvigor211 were consistent with its previous study, Roche said, patients getting chemotherapy in the latest trial survived longer than anticipated.

Using data from previous field studies, the team estimates that the minerals and other nutrients released by giant Antarctic icebergs (those longer than 18 kilometers) trigger as much as 20 % of the CO2 absorption by life in the southern seas.

Our study also covered a longer time period, and included more in - situ observations of deep - sea debris than any previous study I'm aware of.»

In a previous study, Aldridge and her colleagues demonstrated that mycobacteria divide asymmetrically — despite being genetically identical, one of the two daughter cells will usually be longer and faster growing than its twin.

Measuring museum specimens revealed that U.K. birds had slightly longer beaks than those in mainland Europe — a difference of about half a millimeter — confirming the findings of a previous study.

The findings support the results of previous studies that have suggested that genetic differences in height result principally from their effect on local regulation of the growth of long bones, rather than on broader, systemic processes.

Gonadectomized female and male dogs lived longer than sexually intact dogs in this cohort (Table 1) ⇓ and in a previous study (32), which might be expected to contribute to a higher overall cancer incidence associated with gonadectomy.

However, the sustained increase over a period of 30 years in the proportion of category 4 and 5 hurricanes indicates that the related oscillation would have to be on a period substantially longer than that observed in previous studies.»

Don't forget to consider issues such as how you are going to fund your study and where you're going to live early on — due to the popularity of postgraduate qualifications the loan approval process now takes longer than in previous years, so apply in good time to guarantee secure finance.

Our dropout rate for BWL was consistent with previous research.36, 39 The CBTgsh attrition in our study was greater than in others (eg, Grilo and Masheb17) possibly because it was contrasted with longer, more «face valid» treatments.

Although this study has some shortcomings such as small sample size, potential selection bias, and less than ideal controls (eg, treatment group was seen for a longer period than control group), the results are promising and consistent with data from previous studies in non-medical patients with depression.

On social - emotional measures, foster children in the NSCAW study tended to have more compromised functioning than would be expected from a high - risk sample.43 Moreover, as indicated in the previous section, research suggests that foster children are more likely than nonfoster care children to have insecure or disordered attachments, and the adverse long - term outcomes associated with such attachments.44 Many studies of foster children postulate that a majority have mental health difficulties.45 They have higher rates of depression, poorer social skills, lower adaptive functioning, and more externalizing behavioral problems, such as aggression and impulsivity.46 Additionally, research has documented high levels of mental health service utilization among foster children47 due to both greater mental health needs and greater access to services.