Sentences with phrase «observational analysis using»

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Contradicting earlier views that good parenting is simply «good mothering,» recent observational research using films and slow motion analysis, shows that good parenting includes two parenting approaches.

Our analyses focused on five conditions that have been consistently associated with breastfeeding in observational studies that adjusted for parity as well as known or suspected confounders such as diet, physical activity, oral contraceptive use (in the case of cancer and hypertension), 6,7,18 and socioeconomic status (Table 1).

It is an observational study involving secondary analysis of maternity records, using binary logistic regression modelling.

Use of inhaled nitric oxide (iNO) among pediatric patients has increased since 2005 and, during a 10 - year time period, mortality rates dropped modestly as the therapeutic approach was applied to a broader range of health ailments, according to an observational analysis presented Feb. 26, 2018 during the 47th Critical Care Congress.

These findings are generally consistent with those from recent systematic reviews, some of which also included trials of statins for secondary prevention.47,51 - 53 Similar to other meta - analyses of primary and secondary prevention trials, 54,55 this review found no association between use of statins and increased risk of muscle - related harms, although some observational studies and randomized rechallenge trials found statins associated with increased risk of myopathy or joint - related symptoms.56 - 58 The large HOPE - 3 trial found statins associated with increased risk of cataract surgery, an unanticipated finding.14 No other trial of statins for primary prevention evaluated risk of cataracts or cataract surgery.

Using those observational records, van Oldenborgh's analysis concluded that global warming has made a temperature anomaly like the one observed in 2014 in Europe at least 80 times more likely.

Despite strategies used in study design and propensity matching analysis, there are inherent limitations to this observational analysis related to confounding, similar to most studies in healthcare that compare non-surgical technologies with surgery.

Routine use of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) was not associated with a significant increase in the risk of ischemic stroke after adjustment for multiple risk stroke factors and PPI indications, according to results of a prospective, observational analysis published in Gastroenterology.

The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.

Despite strategies used in study design and propensity matching analysis, there are inherent limitations to this observational analysis related to confounding, similar to most studies in healthcare of non-surgical technologies compared with surgery.

The catalog is based on a compilation of literature values for atmospheric properties (temperature, surface gravity, and metallicity) derived from different observational techniques (photometry, spectroscopy, as... ▽ More We present revised properties for 196,468 stars observed by the NASA Kepler Mission and used in the analysis of Quarter 1 - 16 (Q1 - Q16) data to detect and characterize transiting exoplanets.

I guess this kind of comparison would shift the analysis towards more of an observational study than an RCT so the same limitations as observational studies should be used.

The review included the results of 12 observational studies, but only nine were used in meta - analyses.

Glycemic index, glycemic load, and chronic disease risk — a meta - analysis of observational studies) concluded that using the glycemic index (GI scale that rates a food's ability to impact blood glucose levels) to consume lower GI foods is associated with lower triglycerides and higher good HDL cholesterol lipid profiles.

«And that observational tool was something we developed from our work around ASOT using a lot of the teacher - level and student - level analysis and all the language that's associated with that.»

In Research Use In District Decision - Making; A Methodological Approach, Coburn presented an analytic approach, rooted in observational work and new methods of analysis, to understand how the role of framing, specifically diagnostic and prognostic framing, influences the way research is incorporated in district decision making.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

One reason why these estimates keep getting revised is that there is a continual updating of the observational analyses that are used — as new data are included, as non-climatic factors get corrected for, and models include more processes.

There are very good scientific reasons for using observational datasets that fill in data sparse regions in many analyses — I will continue using them — but we should be aware of not only their strengths but also of their weaknesses.

The ongoing heat wave dominating a large swath of Europe is being exacerbated by climate change, according to a new analysis by a team of international scientists using both observational data and climate models.

The US CLIVAR / OCB Southern Ocean Working Group was formed to identify critical observational targets and develop data / model metrics based on the currently available observational data, both physical and tracer, and the assimilative modeling (re) analyses, and evaluate and develop our understanding of the importance of mesoscale eddies in the heat and carbon uptake and of the response of the Southern Ocean to a changing climate, using high - resolution numerical studies and theory.

Updating this analysis using observational data through 2011 (not even including the 2012 record low sea ice extent), the 32 - year trend (1979 - 2011) is -530 thousand square km per decade, and the 20 - year trend is -700 thousand square km per decade.

In one method, a statistical analysis of observational records was performed (using the KNMI Climate Explorer) to compare this summer's heat with summers during the early part of the century, before global warming played a significant role in our climate.

«Lewis & Crok perform their own evaluation of climate sensitivity, placing more weight on studies using «observational data» than estimates of climate sensitivity based on climate model analysis.»

«Observational analyses have shown the width of the tropical belt increasing in recent decades as the world has warmed... we use a climate model with detailed aerosol physics to show that increases in heterogeneous warming agents — including black carbon aerosols and tropospheric ozone — are noticeably better than greenhouse gases at driving expansion, and can account for the observed summertime maximum in tropical expansion.

We applied the same method used in the observational analysis on general circulation model data to decrease the statistical uncertainty at the expense of an increased systematic uncertainty.

Using multiple models (including weather@home) and observational analysis, their findings estimate the event to be almost twice as likely due to climate change (80 % more likely in the Seine valley and 90 % in the Loire valley).

For example the Bureau maintains a real - time monitoring system that uses the entire observational network to create a high - resolution, gridded temperature analysis.

In this study, the potential predictability of seasonal variations in extratropical storm activity is investigated using analysis of variance to provide quantitative and geographical observational evidence indicative of whether it may be possible to predict storm activity on the seasonal timescale.

In 3D assimilation, the observational data is incorporated into the model every 6 hours using a complicated statistical interpolation scheme that is not necessary if only wind data is used (as proved in the mathematical analysis of the process and demonstrated in Sylvie Gravel's manuscript).

Each day, the real - time monitoring system uses all available reporting sites — the entire observational network — to create a high - resolution, gridded temperature analysis for the Bureau's website.

Pielke Sr., R.A., A. Pitman, D. Niyogi, R. Mahmood, C. McAlpine, F. Hossain, K. Goldewijk, U. Nair, R. Betts, S. Fall, M. Reichstein, P. Kabat, and N. de Noblet - Ducoudré, 2011: Land use / land cover changes and climate: Modeling analysis and observational evidence.

Facilitate the use of observational data to evaluate model output and provide guidance on related data and model output requirements for extremes analysis;

It was the first observational longitudinal study to use sequential analysis of interaction in relationship conflict styles.

She is a strong methodologist with expertise in observational data collection and longitudinal analysis and has authored several observation instruments used extensively by researchers and practitioners.

Although the current study has a number of important strengths, such as the observational design, the comparison of AD and non-AD children, the examination of real - time dyadic emotions using innovative state space grid analyses, and the inclusion of father - child and mother - child dyads, several limitations should also be noted and addressed in future research.

Increasingly, in complex public health evaluation research, there are questions about whether all relevant benefits can be captured in a single summary outcome measure such as QALY or unit of «effectiveness» or net benefit approach17 which is why the use of a cost - consequence analysis (CCA) framework is being recommended for such economic evaluations.18 Other outcomes from the trial such as the Parent — Infant Relationship Global Assessment Scale (an observational measure that is independently rated blind to group allocation) will be included in the CCA so that all costs and outcomes from the trial can be displayed transparently for decision - makers to consider trade - offs themselves.