Sentences with phrase «lower than previous studies»

Not exact matches

(PS - if you're having a low - energy day and don't feel like hitting the gym after a study session, you might want to know that previous research has also suggested napping for less than an hour helps cement memories as well).

«In a previous study, the same research team found that organic crops and organic crop - based foods have up to 60 percent more key antioxidants and lower levels of the toxic metal cadmium than conventional crops.

Previous studies have shown that mothers who breastfeed have more favorable cardiometabolic profiles than mothers who don't, including lower cholesterol levels, increased weight loss, and decreased blood pressure.

Previous research from the UK and Canada has identified a lower risk of PPH among planned home births than among planned hospital births [4, 11], but the UK study did not attempt to control for confounding variables.

Their analysis of data in previous studies done by The Cancer Genome Atlas group have shown that the types of abnormal methylation levels they found are lower in smokers who have quit for more than 10 years than those who have not quit.

Previous studies also demonstrate that moderate hypo - fractionated radiation therapy (HRT), consisting of daily treatment for one month using a larger dose per treatment, provides a similar low risk of recurrence, and may even be lower with HRT than CRT.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

Omega - 6 had been shown in a previous study to be lower than normal in the blood of people with Crohn's.

Notably, this new study shows that when a workforce has access to water, rest, and shade, the rates of CKDu onset and kidney injury are lower, and the injury is less severe than that seen in previous studies.

A new study finds that methane emissions from shale gas production are nearly 50 times lower than previous estimates, improving the climate benefit of switching from coal to natural gas.

Dr McKay added that previous studies had only compared the decisions of delusion - prone and non-delusion-prone people to each other rather than to an objective measure of performance: «Surprisingly, our study also found that even low delusion - prone people jumped to conclusions — so most people jump to conclusions, but delusion - prone people jump further.»

The regulations that set fuel - economy and greenhouse - gas emission goals for cars and trucks have lower costs and higher benefits than previous analyses report, a new Carnegie Mellon University study shows.

When these previous strength data were plotted against the grain size in each study, all the data fit on a smooth trend which predicts lower - than - thought strengths in Earth's lithospheric mantle.

For instance, the study puts the 2000 toll at 535,000, almost 200,000 lower than previous calculations.

In previous studies, the researchers showed that CPC program participants have attained higher incomes, and experienced lower rates of serious crime, incarceration, and depression than participants of other programs.

«The levels we used are based on previous studies and produce very low levels in blood that are lower than those reported in humans,» Hunt said.

The study is one of two NIH - funded projects — the other strips previous applications of all identifying characteristics before subjecting them to a new round of reviews — now underway that were spawned by a 2011 finding that black scientists have a much lower chance of receiving an NIH grant than their white counterparts.

The study tested a lower dose of the oral multi-targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor sunitinib than in previous trials, where toxicity proved too much of a problem.

One intriguing clue, gleaned from previous studies, is that small dogs have lower concentrations of the growth hormone IGF - 1, or insulin - like growth factor 1, in their blood than large dogs.

(People with more education and people who were married had lower rates of MCI than the other study participants — a pattern that has been observed in previous studies.)

Also, their previous studies have found that a moderately low - carbohydrate diet that includes healthy sources of fat and protein — such as olive oil, nuts, poultry, fish, whole grains and legumes — can better lower the risk of premature death from cardiovascular disease than low - fat, high - carb diets.

Both of the low - carbohydrate, higher - protein, higher - fat diets in this study led to a reduction in this ratio that was significantly different from the control diet and more than would be predicted from previous studies.

Estimates of teacher effects on achievement gains are similar in magnitude to those of previous econometric studies, but the authors found larger effects on mathematics achievement than on reading achievement, and in low socioeconomic status (SES) schools than in high SES schools.

Previous studies have shown that minority and low - income students tend to participate in AP courses and take AP exams at lower rates than middle - class white students at the same high schools.

Guglielmo Wiber, author of the previous study, says the benefits for kids in households with less books were much lower than kids who had more access to books.

One intriguing clue, gleaned from previous studies, is that small dogs have lower concentrations of the growth hormone IGF - 1, or insulin - like growth factor 1, in their blood than large dogs.

Hegerl et al (2006) for example used comparisons during the pre-industrial of EBM simulations and proxy temperature reconstructions based entirely or partially on tree - ring data to estimate the equilibrium 2xCO2 climate sensitivity, arguing for a substantially lower 5 % -95 % range of 1.5 — 6.2 C than found in several previous studies.

As such, recent studies looking back at the past 30 years of data show a decadal modulation of El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) stability, with the past decade characterized by higher - frequency and lower - amplitude El Niños than the previous ones [22].

This to me is a very pertinent conclusion as previous studies were lambasted at WUWT for showing those losses (and subsequently responded to by me over at Skeptical science) http://www.skepticalscience.com/Part-One-Why-do-glaciers-lose-ice.html http://www.skepticalscience.com/Part-2-How-do-we-measure-Antarctic-ice-changes.html http://www.skepticalscience.com/Part-Three-Response-to-Goddard.html So even with the uncertainties lowered it is still clear that the submarine portions of EAIS are losing more ice than the center part is gaining in snowfall.

IF we are to belive the current satelite measurements, and this study shows a smaller upward temp trend, that should mean previous temps were higher than advertised, not that current ones are lower?

Wind farms that have red flashing lights on the turbine blades or sites that were studied previous to construction had lower fatality rates than the others.

In this study, vitamin D levels were «substantially lower» than levels thought to be sufficient, and «somewhat lower» than those reported in previous studies in other European and American populations.

These studies have consistently noted the salience of the parental relationship in determining parents» paternity establishment decisions, with cohabiting or dating parents far more likely to establish paternity in - hospital than those with no relationship.3 In addition, these studies have helped form a portrait of the father characteristics most associated with the failure to establish paternity in - hospital; among others, these include low education, unemployment, children from previous relationships, and a lack of financial and emotional support during the pregnancy.4

The present results support previous studies.39) According to Hauschildt et al., 40) the PTSD group had lower HRV than did non-trauma-exposed controls at baseline and throughout different affective conditions, implying decreased parasympathetic activity and inflexible response regulation.

Although the current dataset collected little demographic data on individual cases, information from the practices showed a very high percentage of suburban practices in the current sample, suggesting the possibility that the overall socioeconomic status of these subjects might be much higher than it was in the original PSC - 17 sample.1 As noted in previous studies with the PSC43 and other measures, 9,13,44,45 the rate of positive screening, especially for externalizing problems, is usually higher in lower — socioeconomic status populations.

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.

We also repeated the t - test analysis that was conducted in the previous study to ascertain whether Indian participants (categorized as high in collectivism) were more collectivistic than American participants (categorized as low in collectivism).

Although, sampling differences between the US and Dutch participants (i.e. there were no high school students in the US sample) might partly explain this result, it stil is remarkable, as previous Dutch studies showed that D / HH students do have a lower friendship quality than hearing students [1], [8].

Recent research conducted in mainland China found that obesity prevalence was higher among children in wealthier families, 4 but the patterns were different in Hong Kong with higher rates of childhood obesity among lower income families.4 5 Hong Kong, despite having a per capita gross domestic product of Hong Kong dollar (HK$) 273 550, has large income differences between rich and poor as reflected by a high Gini coefficient of 0.539 reported in 2016; approximately 20 % of the population are living in poverty as defined by a monthly household income below half of the Hong Kong median.6 It is widely accepted that population health tend to be worse in societies with greater income inequalities, and hence low - income families in these societies are particularly at risk of health problems.7 In our previous study, children from Hong Kong Chinese low - income families experienced poorer health and more behavioural problems than other children in the population at similar age.8 Adults from these families also reported poorer health - related quality of life (HRQOL), 9 with 6.1 % of the parents having a known history of mental illness and 18.2 % of them reporting elevated level of stress.

Although previous research on younger couples revealed that discordant heavy drinking (rather than only drinking status) is associated with lower marital satisfaction and divorce (Leonard et al., 2014; Mudar et al., 2001), the present study contributes to the literature by showing that concordance on drinking status (i.e., drinker vs. no drinker) appears to be more important for negative marital relationship quality among older couples than frequency or quantity of consumption.

This sample reported lower conflict and higher cohesion than previous studies with nonclinical, healthy samples, suggesting that the families in this study were doing remarkably well prior to transitioning to the pump.

However, correlations between the FIMP scores and outcome measures found in our study are not lower than those reported in previous studies in which FIMP scores were obtained from the same families as the outcome variables (see Forgatch and DeGarmo 2011; Hukkelberg and Ogden 2013).

The study's authors note that the deficiency in low - income rental options is growing faster than it has in previous years.