Sentences with phrase «most useful predictor»

The quasi-global sea - surface temperature and quasi-global sea - level pressure fields are found to be the most useful predictors.

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In the case of a home birth, most mothers do not submit to cervical checks since they provide little useful information and are poor predictors of labor progression.

But rather than supplanting BMI as the best predictor of diabetes risk, waist circumference might be most useful if it's simply added to the mix, says Jane Bolin, Ph.D., an associate professor of health policy and management at the Texas A&M Health Science Center School of Rural Public Health, in College Station.

Promising school - based interventions (Gross et al., 2003; Reid, Webster - Stratton, & Hammond, 2003) may not be useful if ODD symptoms occur primarily at home, and interventions and referrals originating in pediatric primary care offer certain advantages: (a) other than teachers, physicians have the most professional contact with the families of preschoolers; (b) pediatricians report that research on the role of the primary care provider in treating mental health problems is important to them (Chien et al., 2006); and (c) parents tend to trust physicians» opinions, and pediatricians» recommendations are the best predictor of help - seeking for preschoolers» behavior problems (Lavigne et al., 1993).