Sentences with phrase «measured subsample»

A FEC is a quantitative technique of mixing weighed or measured quantities of feces with a known volume of flotation solution to examine a measured subsample microscopically to identify the eggs of various parasites that can be present the gastrointestinal tract.

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He investigated the relationship between teacher value - added data and dismissal in a subsample of 803 elementary school teachers and 1,134 high school teachers for which value - added measures are available.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Note: This study uses a subsample from the Lind et al. (2014) study.

Unfortunately, the early bullying measure was available only on a subsample of children, so this model was conducted as a separate subanalysis, with reduced power.

A subsample of 2489 also participated in the in - home assessment of children at ages 36 and 60 months; of this group, 1612 had weight and height measures at both times.

The K10 / K6 scales were developed to measure this dimension by using modern item response theory methods9 that select questions with optimal sensitivity in the 90th - to 99th - percentile range of the general population distribution of psychological distress and that have consistent item response theory sensitivities across a number of sociodemographic subsamples.

For the Year 11 subsample, peer support was a relatively stronger mediator of parent / carer - based measures, and access was a relatively stronger mediator of the area - based SEIFA measure, than for the other subsamples.

Furthermore, uniquely among all of the analyses, family support did not mediate the effect of the SEIFA measure for the Year 11 subsample.

The patient was asked to walk as quickly as possible along a 20 metre corridor for six minutes and the distance covered recorded.24 This measure had good test - retest reliability (intraclass correlation 0.97) 22 when repeated one week later in a subsample of 16 patients.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study used a subsample of subjects from Graham - Bermann, Lynch, Banyard, DeVoe, and Halabu (2007).

The measure used to assess behavior included disciplinary records (for only a subsample of six schools, of which three were control and three were intervention schools); the Problem Behavior Frequency Scales; the Children's Report of Exposure to Violence; Peer Provocation Scale; Life Satisfaction Scale; the RIPP Knowledge Test; the Problem Situation Inventory; the Beliefs Supporting Aggression Scale; the Attitude Toward Conflict Scale; and the Peer Support for Nonviolence Scale.

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) Note: The participants in this study are a subsample from the group used in Kolko, 1996a.

Finally, an analysis of a subsample of the children that includes measures of prenatal exposure to marijuana and cocaine further explores maternal polysubstance use.

This study used a subsample of 2,655 adolescents (all but three of whom had complete data on all measures) in the core sample who met the criteria of (a) participating in both waves, (b) reporting sexual activity at Wave 1, and (c) being at least 15 years old at Wave 1 because many sexual questions were asked only to participants age 15 and older.