Sentences with phrase «lowest quality group»

Thus, studies in which information about breastfeeding was not provided by the mother of the patient or an older close relative were assigned to the lowest quality group.

Not exact matches

The NPD Group tracks customers» perception of food quality, and «McDonald's traditionally has always ranked lowest,» says Robert Carter, NPD's executive director of food service in Canada.

«We believe Southwest is the highest quality airline in the group with a very conservative balance sheet and low earnings volatility,» he said.

target and maximum levels, assumed, for Mr. Hoyt's Wholesale Banking Group, continued double - digit loan growth and favorable credit quality; for Mr. Oman's Home and Consumer Finance Group, improvement in the home mortgage business due to cost control and expected improvements in the yield curve favorably affecting earnings from hedging activities; and for Ms. Tolstedt's Community Banking Group, growth in deposits, especially low or no - cost core deposits, continued loan growth, and stable credit loss rates.

The three interest sensitivity groups are limited, moderate and extensive and the three credit quality groups are high, medium and low.

«Among the characteristics needed to join the elite group are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.&rgroup are stable macroeconomic policies,» says Kate Phylaktis, director of the Emerging Markets Group at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.&rGroup at Cass Business School, City University of London, adding «prudent fiscal policy, low inflation and a stable currency, political stability, good - quality institutions, good infrastructure (especially transport) and above all, education.»

«Through the intense focus our 285,000 colleagues bring to helping people live healthier lives and helping make the health system work better for everyone, we have grown to serve more people in more ways than ever, including through innovative uses of advanced technologies, data analytics, and modern clinical approaches that improve quality, lower cost and advance consumer and care provider satisfaction,» David S. Wichmann, CEO of UnitedHealth Group, said in a conference call.

I have seen the low FODMAP diet help patients with IBS issues tremendously and wanted to provide this group struggling with IBS symptoms with low FODMAP options because quality low FODMAP foods can be hard to find.

There are 12 high quality studies since 1995 (1 - 12) from Canada, Switzerland, Sweden, Holland, US, UK, New Zealand and Israel, which all show planned attended homebirth to have either lower or similar rates of perinatal mortality and very significantly lower rates of maternal morbidity, such as cesareans, hemorrhage, and third and fourth degree tears compared to matched groups of low risk women who plan to deliver in hospital.

We're a group of Canadian moms striving to provide quality, sustainable cloth diapers to interested low income / struggling families that can not afford the initial start up costs associated with cloth diapering.

Current conditions are so favorable for the GOP — including the president's poor poll numbers, the states with Senate races, the lower turnout of Democratic groups in midterm elections, the quality of this cycle's Republican Senate recruits and the daily dose of negative news that should help the party not holding the White House — that Republican Senate gains of fewer than six seats would be a punch to the party's solar plexus.

«Our study group has spent decades studying the health effects of diet quality and composition, and now this new data also suggests overall dietary habits can be important to lower risk of coronary heart disease,» said Eric Rimm, Sc.D., senior author and Associate Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health and Associate Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School.

The authors suspect that the app was particularly successful for the anxious group because highly math - anxious parents tend to provide a low quality of math input in the home.

A research group led by Junichi Isoya, professor emeritus, University of Tsukuba and Tokuyuki Teraji, principal researcher, Optical and Electronic Materials Unit, NIMS, has successfully fabricated for the first time in the world single - photon sources of SiV (silicon vacancy) centers — one of the color centers in diamond during the growth of thin film diamond, which have high purity and crystalline quality — by introducing them at extremely low concentrations.

«First results from the world's oldest group of ICSI men show they have lower semen quantity and quality.»

First results from the world's oldest group of young men conceived by means of intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) fertility treatment because of their fathers» infertility have shown that they have lower sperm quantity and quality than men who were spontaneously conceived.

Researchers found working out in a group lowers stress by 26 percent and significantly improves quality of life, while those who exercise individually put in more effort but experienced no significant changes in their stress level and a limited improvement to quality of life, according to a study published in The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association.

Dr. Yorks and her fellow researchers at the University of New England College of Osteopathic Medicine recruited 69 medical students — a group known for high levels of stress and self - reported low quality of life — and allowed them to self - select into a twelve - week exercise program, either within a group setting or as individuals.

What's more, full - mooners took 5 minutes longer on average to get to sleep than those in the other groups, and they also rated sleep quality as 15 per cent lower (Current Biology, doi.org/m95).

Professor Cappuccio continued: «The diet of disadvantaged socio - economic groups tends to be made up of low - quality, salt - dense, high - fat, high - calorie unhealthy cheap foods.

Indoor air quality is a concern especially in low - income and minority communities as studies show levels of indoor pollutants are often higher in these groups compared with more affluent homes.

«More importantly, the lower level of health care access and utilization among this group is likely to impact follow - up care of these patients and may make them more susceptible to diminished quality of life.»

«Air quality in «green» housing affected by toxic chemicals in building materials: Findings could lead to healthier homes, especially for low - income groups living in subsidized housing.»

Same Energy Watch Group report, citing a 2006 study conducted by BP Energy: â $ œThe growing share of lower quality coal is the reason why total coal production in terms of energy content peaked in 1998 at 598.4 Mtoe and has since declined to 576.2 Mtoe in 2005 in spite of the continuous rise in produced volumes (BP 2006).

In this small group of ICSI - conceived men, there was a lower level of semen quality.

There's a reason why you love those group cycling classes so much: According to new research published in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, exercising with a group significantly improves quality of life and lowers stress.

It has been shown to be significant improve semen quality especially in groups with lower baseline levels.

It can significantly improve the toned quality of your lower - body muscle groups.

While the «lower quality» plant proteins may be lacking in one or more of the essential amino acids, as a group they do contain all of them....

[102] Together with public and private research groups, these agencies construct databases on supplement properties, perform research on quality, safety, and population trends of supplement use, and evaluate the potential clinical efficacy of supplements for maintaining health or lowering disease risk.

The small study tracked nearly 70 medical students over 12 weeks because they are a group known for being pretty stressed out with a lower quality of life based on the hours they pull.

A study a number years ago showed that labeling patients as hypertensive compared to a control group with the same blood pressures lowered their quality of life and increased the days of work missed.

The original narration at the beginning of Tobe Hooper's film points to the film being a factual account «of the tragedy that befell a group of five youths...» Twenty - five years later, The Blair Witch Project went further by claiming that the low - quality video to be actual found footage.

For youth in the highest risk group (top 20 %), the gain in school quality indicators is «roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.»

For youth in the high - risk group, the gain as measured by these quality indicators is roughly equivalent to moving from one of the lowest - ranked schools to one around the district average.

Poor and minority citizens are just as informed: Although many have speculated that low - income and minority citizens are less informed about or interested in school quality than more advantaged groups, we found no evidence that this is the case.

Indeed, a coalition of civil rights groups recently raised concerns about new federal CTE legislation because of what they see as a too - limited role for Uncle Sam in ensuring underserved populations don't get tracked into low - quality «voc - tech» programs.

You could even slice the graph into groups of programs that look as if they have similar quality, such as «effective» programs, «low - performing» programs, and «at risk» programs.

If the brightest of women seek education after college, then the control group in the bottom trend line of Figure 1 — women with only four years of postsecondary education — is self - selected to be of lower quality.

Formed in reaction to a provision that allowed teachers in training to be identified under federal law as «highly qualified» and concentrated in low - income, high need schools, this group has developed a new, comprehensive framework for teaching quality that will allow the nation to put a fully - prepared and effective educator in every classroom and school.

A group of Connecticut parents are suing the state over access to high - quality schools for low - income families.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and advocacy group, has led the charge against low admission standards, frequently citing a 2007 McKinsey report that claims the majority of U.S. teachers are recruited from the bottom two - thirds of their class.

«NCLB must be overhauled if the federal government is to make a useful contribution to enhancing the quality of education received by low - income and minority group students.»

Overall, as a group, teachers received lower scores on the Attention to Individual or Subgroups of Learners rubric than on the Focus and Quality of Evidence rubric, possibly indicating that attending to individual students» thinking and understanding is a skill that needs time to develop and is not prevalent in novice teachers.

«Let's call this move what it is: a pivot in the wrong policy direction to pander to a sizable interest group — teachers» unions — that comes at the expense of mostly low - income, minority kids who desperately need high - quality school options,» Francesca Jarosz Brady wrote in an op - ed published by The Hill on Nov. 13.

That's why in recent years, GreatSchools has expanded data collection efforts in every state to include various types of school quality data broken down by student groups, including students from low - income families, diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, and students with disabilities.

Campaign for Quality Education v. California was filed that same summer by the nonprofit law firm Public Advocates on behalf of a coalition of community groups serving low - income and minority students.

The groups call on the committees to hold oversight hearings on, and correct the department's approval of, noncompliant plans, arguing that the «failure to do so will only undermine ESSA's potential and continue to confine the millions of historically marginalized children to a low - quality education.»

Led by the President's Committee on the Arts and the Humanities, together with local partners, it brings high - quality arts education resources to a group of the lowest - performing elementary and middle schools in the country, and help them use those resources to improve attendance, parent engagement, student motivation and more.

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