Sentences with phrase «most previous studies because»

In addition, the data density and geographic extent of this study is far greater than most previous studies because over 16,000 stream temperature sites were used with thousands of biological survey locations to provide precise information at scales relevant to land managers and conservationists.

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This meta - analysis makes a significant contribution to the available evidence on this topic because it includes 6 original studies on the subject not included in previous meta - analyses.38 - 43 Moreover, to our knowledge, this is significantly the largest and most up - to - date review and analysis of current knowledge on childhood leukemia and breastfeeding.

«We started this study thinking we would identify the individual characteristics that motivated rescuers, because that's what most previous research had pointed to,» said Hollie Nyseth Brehm, co-author of the study and assistant professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

The ARIC data were especially useful to study because unlike most previous research linking gum disease and cancer risk, periodontitis cases were determined from dental examinations performed as part of the ARIC study rather than participants» self - reports of the disease.

This is a subject of great importance, because, in most previous studies, the transmission of the pathologic misfolded aggregates did not induce the disease phenotype, raising a debate about whether seeding of protein misfolding is equivalent to disease transmission by infectious proteinaceous agents (Guest et al., 2011; Schmidt et al., 2012; Fernández - Borges et al., 2013; Piccardo et al., 2013; Walsh and Selkoe, 2016).

Finally, most of the previous reviews of the evidence on school choice have generated more fog than light, mainly because they have been arbitrary or incomplete in their selection of studies to review.

Most high school teachers believe their physics courses are preparing students for college physics, perhaps, as Sadler discovered, because all previous studies showed that college students who studied physics in high school outperformed their classmates who did not.

Of these studies, the one by Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges is the most compelling because it involved random assignment of students to classes controlled for factors such as the previous achievement of students, socioeconomic status, ethnicity, gender, class size, and whether or not an aide was present in class.

Because previous studies have shown that puppies are very good learners, the researchers concluded the older dogs going to the generous experimenters was most likely because they'd had enough experience with humans to deduce they were most likely kind since they were geBecause previous studies have shown that puppies are very good learners, the researchers concluded the older dogs going to the generous experimenters was most likely because they'd had enough experience with humans to deduce they were most likely kind since they were gebecause they'd had enough experience with humans to deduce they were most likely kind since they were generous.

Because the most bacteria isolated in the present study were more susceptible to tylosin, gentamicin and oxytetracycline than the other antibiotics, before obtaining microbial susceptibility results, these antimicrobial drugs are recommended, although the choice of antimicrobial therapy before obtaining microbial susceptibility results is made on the basis of clinical signs, gram stains, and a history of previous antimicrobial treatment and the response to therapy (Gerding et al., 1988).

However, the study is still worth examining — in large part because nothing in the study is consistent with what you would hear from most professional breeders, behaviorists, and previous studies on the topic.

Because of the limited availability of daily observations, however, most previous studies have examined only the potential detectability of changes in extreme precipitation through model — model comparisons (12 — 15).

Because the analysis method and sparse data used in this study will tend to blur out most century - scale changes, we can't use the analysis of Marcott et al. to draw any firm conclusions about how unique the rapid changes of the twentieth century are compared to the previous 10,000 years.

«If these results hold for most tropical forests, then it would indicate that because we missed some of the mortality, then the contribution of these forests to the net sink might be less than previous studies have suggested,» Chambers said.

The sum of negative events» rating of bother was used in this study, because previous studies using the CHS and its adult counterpart have suggested that this score is correlated most highly with adjustment measures (Compas, Slavin, Wagner, & Vannatta, 1986; Varni, Rubenfeld, Talbot, & Setoguchi, 1989; Zukerman, Oliver, Hollingsworth, & Austrin, 1986).