Sentences with phrase «more systematic study»

The study wasn't designed to measure whether tumor profiling made a difference in how patients fared, but «it nonetheless lays the groundwork for more systematic study of the impact of genomics on clinical practice and patient outcomes,» the report said.

Soon, Doody launched a more systematic study of the phenomenon.

Researchers need to do more systematic study of concussions in young athletes, such as these high school football players in Arkansas, a new report finds.

«We need a more systematic study,» says Bernie Tershy, a seabird biologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

In future, more systematic studies might show which species may adapt fastest and if this rate of adaptation is fast enough to prevent the species» extinction.

Not exact matches

But perhaps we need a longer, more intensive period of interpenetration of systematic theological study and religious historical studies....

P. F. Fichter, the author of The Southern Parish, has rightly said that a systematic understanding of the role of Catholicism in modern society requires us to study not only its values and meanings but more especially the «vehicles» employed to activate them and the agents who believe in these values and employ these «vehicles.»

Kelly's summary of the trends in the curriculum of Oberlin Seminary applies to many others as well: «The program of study was changing from the dogmatic to the practical, from the ecclesiocentric to the socio - centric... «34 More recent examinations show the continuation of these emphases in our time though they also show a revival of interest in systematic and exegetical theology and in the Biblical languages.

Undergirding this kind of practical information and savvy there is undoubtedly a place for a more formal and systematic study program.

Weber was, of course, far more conscientiously devoted to the systematic study of religion than was Marx.

* And in the largest and possible most systematic study to date, conducted on five different ethnic groups from both Chicago and New York involving over 1,400 subjects Mosenkis (2000) found far more positive adult outcomes for individuals who coslept as a child, among almost all ethnic groups i.e. African Americans and Puerto Ricans in New York, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Mexicans in Chicago than there were negative findings.

Additionally, a systematic review of PPI studies in treatment of reflux determines that they provide no more benefit than placebos.7

Where indirect links have been noted, systematic reviews linking the intervention directly to one or more targets are not currently available; i.e. the studies included in the review (s) do not assess the effect of the intervention on the outcomes that are directly relevant to the targets.

A systematic review of 22 studies [40] found women who had continuous support in labour (either from a nurse, midwife, doula, childbirth educator, family member, partner, or stranger) were more likely to have a spontaneous vaginal birth, a shorter birth, and to be satisfied with their birth.

A third meta - analysis was published in 2007 by Ip et al. 31 The researchers combined socioeconomic status — adjusted ORs of only 3 studies that were determined by the systematic review conducted by Guise et al32 and published in 2005 to be of good or fair quality: the UK Childhood Cancer Study, 23 Shu et al, 20 and Dockerty et al. 19 Based on their analyses, they concluded that breastfeeding for more than 6 months was associated with a 20 % lower risk for ALL (OR, 0.8; 95 % CI, 0.71 - 0.91).

In addition, there was no effect on breastfeeding duration when the pacifier was introduced at 1 month of age.280 A more recent systematic review found that the highest level of evidence (ie, from clinical trials) does not support an adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.281 The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier use in observational studies likely reflects a number of complex factors such as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean.281 A large multicenter, randomized controlled trial of 1021 mothers who were highly motivated to breastfeed were assigned to 2 groups: mothers advised to offer a pacifier after 15 days and mothers advised not to offer a pacifier.

I imagine too he would have been heartened to have seen Elinor Ostrom win the Nobel Prize for Economics last year (whose similar, if more systematic, empirical studies of commons governance and economics are gaining wider traction in scholarly & policy circles).

Research is systematic study directed toward more complete scientific knowledge or understanding of the subject studied.

Spitzer is conducting a systematic study of the dust around more than 300 nearby stars, each about 2.5 times as massive as the sun.

Last year, Devereaux and his colleagues at McMaster, the University of Toronto, and the University at Buffalo published pioneering systematic reviews and meta - analyses of studies comparing the mortality rates of private for - profit hospitals and those of private not - for - profit hospitals (more commonly, although somewhat inaccurately, referred to as «public hospitals» in Canada).

Despite the fact that more than 100,000 healthy people annually participate in non-oncology phase I studies worldwide, there is little systematic research quantifying their risks.

«My graduate students insisted that social science research was nothing more than the systematic study of what you already know,» she says.

These two studies have provided us with better, more systematic and accurate ways of predicting before and after surgery, which patients are at greater risk for complications, allowing us to more accurately assess their conditions, and determine the appropriate course of treatment, care, and rehabilitation.»

The study puts forward policy recommendations proposing that liberal adult education should be better taken into consideration both in national and EU - level education policy, and that a more systematic approach should be taken towards the utilization its clear benefits on well - being.

Although some specific insect migrations have been extensively studied, the new work, by taking a more systematic and quantifiable approach, reveals just how common they are.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

An emerging controller of the cholinergic effect of inflammation is micro-RNA-132 (5), whose involvement with post-stroke recovery awaits further studies and might open new venues for more rigorous assessment of the post-stroke risk of survival and systematic infection and the identification of conceptually novel targets for therapeutic interference.

«The study has to be done in a lot more systematic manner,» says Kulvinder Gill, a crop geneticist at Washington State University in Pullman, who faults the paltry data and statistics presented.

Based on a systematic review of medical studies, the committee's recommendations for acutely hospitalized adults on mechanical ventilation for more than 24 hours are:

A systematic review of studies from 2011 - 2016 led by Katherine Courtright, MD, MS, an instructor of Medicine in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at Penn, found that among more than 795,000 Americans who were part of 150 different studies, 63 percent had not completed any advance directive.

A systematic review of 49 studies, involving more than 1,600 patients and their caregivers, showed that this lack of knowledge leads to confusion, delays in seeking help, and uncertainty about the long - term outlook and how to manage their own care.

Alcohol consumption and the risk of type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and dose - response meta - analysis of more than 1.9 million individuals from 38 observational studies

Ageing research and more generally the study of the functional basis of human diseases profit enormously from the large - scale approaches and resources in mouse functional genomics: systematic targeted mutation of the mouse genome, systemic phenotyping in mouse clinics, and the archiving and distribution of the mouse resources in public repositories.

To compile a more comprehensive library of recombinant proteins representing the repertoire of P. falciparum merozoite extracellular proteins for systematic vaccine and functional studies, genome - wide expression profiling was used to identify additional candidates.

In fact, we revealed that lean participants from the different studies varied more in their levels of Firmicutes than did the lean and obese individuals within each study, pointing to systematic biases and biological differences across the study populations.

Now, if he was a more experienced athlete, he would harness far more positive results in term of brain function, as shown by other studies that have used a more efficient systematic progression in the training routines, applied to subjects with intermediate or advanced levels of experience with training.

A new systematic review of the research finds early evidence that yoga may reduce the incidence of various forms of heart disease, but concludes that more high quality studies are needed before making definitive recommendations.

Dr Bügel says: «No systematic differences between cultivation systems representing organic and conventional production methods were found across the five crops so the study does not support the belief that organically grown foodstuffs generally contain more major and trace elements than conventionally grown foodstuffs.»

According to some systematic reviews of studies, there is INSUFFICIENT EVIDENCE that animal protein would be more beneficial or harmful for human health than plant protein:

Design features of studies synthesised in the systematic review to inform online dating (data presented as 100 % stacked bars; figures in the stacks represent the number of studies; some studies contributed information to more than one step of online dating).

Chicago tells us no more about this than does Atlanta, where cheating was systematic, or Kentucky, where another study that I cite in Charade found that 9 to 36 percent of teachers in Kentucky reported various forms of cheating in their own schools.

In a systematic study of scandals in public and private schools, Greg Forster and Matthew Carr found that misconduct was actually slightly more likely in regulated public schools than in largely unregulated private schools.

While more research is needed, the results from this study suggest that conversations about systematic phonics instruction and opportunity to practice need to be broadened to include «on the spot» coaching as children are actually reading.

That said, I don't know of a more recent systematic review of Lesson Study, so there is a danger that those last two are cherry - picked.

Finally, more systematic research needs to be done in the area of social studies and technology, as reviews of the existing literature (Berson, 1996; Whitworth & Berson, 2003) have repeatedly shown that we do not really know what impact technology has on teaching and learning in social studies.

The report calls for more fully articulated parent involvement programs, systematic data collection, and rigorous study designs to provide evidence of what works to engage parents of adolescents in their children's education.

As teacher educators and teachers, we are well aware of the importance of accountability for our students» literacy learning, and while we were convinced of our students» success based on observational and descriptive data from our pilot studies, we knew that a systematic study evaluating students» progress in reading, writing, discussion, and content learning — using experimental methods — would be potentially more convincing to others.

According to a systematic review of international studies of low - speed vehicle incidents involving children, boys are more likely than girls to be injured or killed in backover crashes.

An immediate annuity's ability to transfer money from people who die early to those who die late is largely the reason that a recent study by former U.S. Treasury official Mark Warshawsky concluded that while an annuity didn't always provide more retirement income than using the 4 % rule or other type of systematic withdrawal, it did so often enough that «it is hard to argue against a significant and widespread role for immediate life annuities in the production of retirement income.»

Still, the study's large sample size and systematic, controlled approach will yield data that could fuel research on questions that go well beyond cancer, he said - such as whether goldens in some geographic regions or with certain traits, like size or coat color, are more or less likely to have particular conditions.