Sentences with phrase «means by age group»

We conducted exploratory factor analysis to explore the structure of the items and compared the distribution of each scale means by age group and gender.

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Between 1995 and 2007, mean intake of sugar - sweetened beverages fell by 33 % in the 16 — 18 year age group.

Rather perfectly, Japan have been thrown into a tricky but by no means impossible Group C, alongside a good (but Falcao-less) Colombia, a decent (but ageing) Ivory Coast, and a rubbish (and hideous) Greece.

Criticism of crying it out and sleep training: Though CIO critics sometimes point to a 2012 study finding that babies» levels of the stress hormone cortisol remained high even after they stopped crying and went to sleep on their own, that study has since been under fire for being too small (just 25 babies ages 4 to 10 months old) and flawed because there was no control group and no baseline cortisol levels reported to define what study author Dr. Wendy Middlemiss of the University of North Texas meant by «high.»

They are also much more likely to try to undress themselves by this age, so firm fastenings mean the parent isn't always redressing their child, but remember too that this age group wriggle a lot more whilst having their diaper changed so ease of fastening is a must.

But Vote Leave are now just another political grouping defined by the child - like paranoia and mean - spiritedness of the digital age.

Almost 75 % of those in the original group who could be located (mean age 51 years) have agreed to participate, and over 800 individuals completed a medical and psychological examination supported by subsequent grants from the National Institute on Aging.

Adult learning also carries different meanings for different age groups: for younger age groups, liberal adult education serves as a stepping - stone to society by increasing the feeling of being able to control one's life.

«This does not necessarily mean that a similar response would happen in the future with increasing CO2 levels, since the boundary conditions are different from the ice age,» added by Professor Gerrit Lohmann, leader of the Paleoclimate Dynamics group at the Alfred Wegener Institute.

By comparing the two groups (a patient group and a control group, each with a mean age of 17), investigators successfully determined the many ways cerebral palsy affects patients» movement patterns.

This means that today's high school kids being forced to watch Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» — some of them 4 times in 4 different classes — will be nearly eligible for AARP (age 50) retirement group membership by the time warming resumes if these new studies turn out to be correct.

Said another way, that means that the birth rate in this age group fell from 0.9 per 1,000 females in 2000 to just 0.2 births per 1,000 by 2016.

The drama focuses on flash marriage and flash divorce groups and explores the meaning of marriage in an age of fast - food marital relationship by portraying three couples of different ages who choose to get a lightening marriage in different situations.

The school's unique structure meant that children were members of four different peer groups: their classmates of the same age; their dormmates of various ages (which in my case included an older boy by the name of Shimon Peres); the coeducational members of their youth group; and their fellow workers on the farm.

«This means every ninth - grader has a big sister or big brother in each of the other classes.This vertical integration, as opposed to horizontal integration of grouping students in grade levels by age, fosters deep friendships across grades and promotes a feeling of family in our school community.

For those who haven't come across it before though, what do we mean by that and what age groups is it being used with?

A trend Johnson notices is how millennials (Generation Y) and the next generation (Generation Z) have embraced cultural diversity and become extremely multicultural and inclusive, which means marketers can approach young people more by age group than by ethnic orientation.

You mean... you're not a teeny bit sceptical of this «ice age», announced by scientists who apparently work for a lobby - group?

And while it can be hard enough to secure a single PC, maintaining security online is complicated by the fact that more than 70 % of internet users are now «multi-device users,» meaning they may use several devices over the course of a day; the percentage is even higher in the age 25 - to - 49 age group, according to Go - Gulf.

In a randomized control trial, 659 sixth and seventh grade African - American male and female adolescents, mean age 11.8, were stratified by gender and age and randomly assigned to receive one of three 8 - hour curricula: an abstinence curriculum, a safer sex curriculum or a health promotion curriculum (which served as the control group).

The adolescents received the curriculum in small groups of six to eight students led by either an African - American adult facilitator (mean age 40) or two peer African - American co-facilitators (mean age 16).

The groups did not differ on residential stability as measured by mean number of years living in Seattle by age 12 years and by the mean number of residences in which participants lived from age 5 to 14 years; socioeconomic status, as measured by years of parental education or proportion eligible for the school lunch program; proportion from single - parent families; proportion of boys; or proportion of whites or nonwhites.

In addition, programs need to be staffed at a level that allows for teacher - child ratios that are appropriate for the age of the children and the size of the group, such as those required for programs accredited by the National Association for the Education of Young Children.44 Low teacher - child ratios enable teachers to focus on the individual needs of the children and engage them in meaningful interactions.45 This means having both an adequate number of teachers specifically assigned to a classroom, as well as providing sufficient substitutes or floaters to cover for breaks, planning time, and paid leave.

In a recent study by Milyavskaya et al. (2009), the authors investigated an older group (mean age, 14.5 years) of 720 adolescents from the US, Canada, and France.

Kokko et al. [12] obtained two trajectories of prosocial behavior from ages 6 to 12 by means of a group - based trajectory method.