Sentences with phrase «measured mean age»

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The 2 groups were similar on all measured characteristics, including maternal ethnicity, educational status, age, parity, breastfeeding history, and infant birth weight (intervention group, 1914.4 g; control group, 1840 g); gestational age; sex; and length of hospital stay (intervention group, mean 27.1 days [range, 2 - 81 days]; control group, mean 25.2 days [range, 1 - 104 days]-RRB-(Table 1).

The mean age (in y, d, h, or wk) of each study's subjects is shown in ascending order of age at which glucose concentrations were measured.

These studies are arranged in descending order of mean age at which blood pressure was measured.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The fact that lowering the voting age would incur costs of about # 6m meant that the Speaker could rule it to be a «financial» measure and therefore exempt from further interference from peers.

THE MEANING «Recently the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe measured the age of the universe to be 13.7 billion years from the cosmic microwave background,» Frebel says.

To evaluate whether the experimental treatment is safe and whether it might be able to reduce frailty, Maharaj plans to run a battery of baseline testing on each clinical trial participant before they get their first infusion of young plasma and then monitor their changes for two years: That means cognitive exams, questionnaires about their quality of life and their indicators of frailty, and tests to measure biomarkers he believes are linked with aging, such as telomere lengths and DNA methylation.

For a paper published in the International Journal of Psychophysiology, the researchers observed the EEG measures of 13 autistic children and 13 neurotypical children (children with a mean age of 10 years old without an intellectual deficiency or sleep problem and who were not on medication) and found that disruptions in protective brain waves during sleep are associated with lower results on verbal IQ tests.

The lovely violin plots at right show the mean GERP scores (a measure of conservation) for included versus excluded variants in the newborn screening (NBS), age - related macular degeneration (ARMD), and pharmacogenetics (PGx) genes examined.

Here we investigate age - related mean and variance changes in gene expression measured by RNA - seq of fat, skin, whole blood and derived lymphoblastoid cell lines (LCLs) expression from 855 adult female twins.

Here I generalize their formula and interpretations of Ta to continuous or continuous - discrete population structure, and derive similar formulas for three other established generation time measures: average parent age across all births at one time (Ā), and mean parent age at birth events for a cohort (μ1) or generation (Tc).

Telomere length is arguably the best marker of biological age, and shorter mean telomere length, usually measured in your white blood cells, is associated with increased risk of heart disease, obesity, cancer, stroke, dementia, and premature death (2).

We calculated geometric mean and 95 % confidence intervals for MRI - measured breast density at ages 25 — 29 years across quartiles of fat intake using linear mixed - effect regression.

In 280 women with a mean age of 18 years old, Boyd and colleagues observed positive associations of serum estradiol, testosterone, progesterone, and sex hormone — binding globulin (SHBG) concentrations with percentage of breast water, a measure of the proportion of the fibroglandular breast tissue to fatty tissue, but only SHBG results were statistically significant (31).

If you're worried about my age, you should consider changing your points of view because maturity is not measured in years by any means.

Age was also unrelated to proxy measures of the stigma associated with online dating (i.e., whether respondents had told others they date online, mean rated favorability of responses to such disclosure).

What that means is, as on the recent films of Christopher Nolan, Age of Extinction alternates between the 1.78:1 aspect ratio (which actually measures 1.88:1 here, though overscan will probably still allow it to fill most 16:9 screens) and the blockbuster standard 2.40:1 aspect ratio used for the entirety of standard theatrical exhibitions.

But currently, that progress is measured from the key stage 1 Sats, taken at age 7, to the key stage 2 Sats, taken at age 11 — meaning the first three years of a child's education is effectively ignored.

GREENSBORO, Georgia — Completely redesigned in 2014, Nissan's best - selling vehicle has now matured, and when measured in automotive years that means it has reached middle age.

«Adequate space»... When an animal is tethered, «adequate space» means a tether that permits the above actions and is appropriate to the age and size of the animal; is attached to the animal by a properly applied collar, halter, or harness configured so as to protect the animal from injury and prevent the animal or tether from becoming entangled with other objects or animals, or from extending over an object or edge that could result in the strangulation or injury of the animal; and is at least three times the length of the animal, as measured from the tip of its nose to the base of its tail, except when the animal is being walked on a leash or is attached by a tether to a lead line.

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.

Study Selection Studies were included if they sampled adolescents (mean sample age ≤ 18 years), included an adolescent report of sexual communication with one or both parents, measured safer sex behavior, and were published in English.

The Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) for children aged 2 to 3 years measured parents» perceptions of their children's behavioral problems.24 Means of 3 CBCL subscales (aggressive behavior, anxious or depressed, sleep problems) were reported.

Also the nature of the GUS disadvantage measures means that we may not necessarily expect to see large differences between children at this young age, either because variations in children are not large or the measures are not detailed enough to pick up smaller differences which may be occurring in relation to poverty impact.

Utilising data from the Australian sample of the International Youth Development Study, frequency of volunteering in Grade 9 (mean age = 15 years) and in young adulthood (mean age = 21 years), and completion of secondary school were measured.

in young adulthood (mean age = 21 years), and completion of secondary school were measured.

Participants (N = 487; 73.9 % Caucasian; 52.6 % female; mean age 22.23 years) completed the GMQ and questionnaire measures of gambling behaviour and problems.

Several studies have addressed the validity of the parent - reported SDQ in school - aged samples, predominantly confirming the intended 5 - factor structure.5, 6 A 3 - factor configuration of externalizing (conduct problems and hyperactivity), internalizing (emotional and peer problems), and prosocial factors has also been proposed and suggested for use in epidemiologic studies and in low - risk populations.7, 8 The internal reliability of SDQ subscales has been predominantly examined by using Cronbach's α, a measure of the interrelatedness of items; however, α estimates are a lower bound for reliability and is often underestimated.9 A meta - analytic review reported weighted mean α coefficients extracted from 26 studies that showed generally modest reliabilities for parent reports (0.53 < α < 0.76).10 McDonald's ω, which estimates the proportion of a scale measuring a construct, typically yields higher reliability estimates but has rarely been used to assess reliability of the SDQ.

Table 1 contains the descriptives for the psychological measures analyzed in this study for children at ages 3 and 5 (mean and standard deviations for the quantitative variables and prevalences for binary outcomes).

Six hundred forty - four non-clinical children aged 11 — 15 years (mean age = 12.7 years) completed questionnaires measuring behavioral inhibition, attachment, parental rearing behavior, and anxiety symptoms.