Limitations include nonrandomization of participants in all 3 studies, lack
of comparison group in Study 1, and length of follow - up.
Not exact matches
Running speed was reduced for both
groups of phone users
in comparison to non-users, while subjects who used their phones for solely music performed at a higher speed and intensity than any
of the other
groups.
Continuing with the dog food example, we can see that ratings,
comparison, and reviews all were all
grouped as closely related to dog food
in general, implying that people that are searching for dog food are very interested
in the
comparison and review side
of things.
Based on a
comparison of the change
in subjective well - being
of these people and
of people from the control
group who had no change
in their volunteer status, the hypothesis is supported that volunteering is rewarding
in terms
of higher life satisfaction.
It's also greater than the 3.4 percent rate
of employment growth measure
in a
comparison group of small, non-clustered businesses based on Dun & Bradstreet data.
By
comparison,
in 1989, this
group on average had equity equal to 81 %
of their house price, meaning that many could look forward to a retirement
in which their mortgage was already paid off.
Millennials are savvy shoppers and many have come
of age
in a post-recession era, and our our research shows that this
group routinely
comparison shops on mobile to get the best value and shopping experience.
F.W. Cook also advises the HRC on the reasonableness
of compensation levels
in comparison with those
of the Peer
Group, and on the appropriateness
of compensation program structure
in supporting the Company's business objectives.
F.W. Cook compiles compensation data for the financial services organizations the HRC considers our peers (Peer
Group), and reviews with the HRC the Company's executive compensation programs generally and
in comparison to those
of the Peer
Group.
This is
in comparison with our Company's peer, UPS, which scored 94.3 and placed
in the top tier
of the
group.
The connected customer is the stranger you must get to know as
in comparison to the customers
of the past, this
group is only growing and it's traversing demographics.
Coworking also «wins hands down»
in terms
of budget and ease
of management for FinTechs, according to Ian Wright, founder at merchant
comparison site Merchant Machine, who said: «The added benefits to FinTechs are that many
of your potential customers may also work
in the same building / coworking
group as you.»
But,
in this case, the
group of active funds are not offering lower risk
in comparison with the passive fund.
Notable startups include WeLab, a leading Internet finance company that operates some
of Mainland China and Hong Kong's largest lending platforms, the CompareAsia
Group, a firm that provides financial
comparison platforms throughout APAC, 8 Securities, a mobile trading and investing venture specializing
in robo - advisory services, and iBox, a company that has developed a mobile point
of sale terminal for businesses.
Instead
of being a passing phase
of the social
group, individual, personal life was progressively gaining a distinct and profound value
of its own, and the higher personality thus rose
in ideal, the farther it could fall by
comparison.
Generally defined as «dominating, restraining, or controlling another forcibly,» coercion involves interference with freedom, where «interference» means that the freedom
in question is lessened
in comparison with what it would have been had the interfering individual or
group not acted at all, and this broad designation leaves open to dispute what kinds
of interference are immoral.
This
comparison of two adult classes
in the same midwestern church illustrates the distinction between therapeutic and non-therapeutic
groups:
@rabidatheist:
In two sentences, you alluded to a
comparison of Christian faith and imagery
of a
group that brought you the Holocaust.
The problem for Jonah (and, certainly as understood
in the biblical faith, the problem for all men) is the abandonment
of the cherished hatreds, the nurtured antipathies, the cultivated distastes, the snide
comparisons by which persons and
groups and classes and nations maintain their own flattering images, their own sense
of superiority and exclusiveness.
By
comparison, Americans averaged gifts
of nearly 1.2 percent
of their income to churches and religious
groups from 2004 to 2008, according to Empty Tomb Inc., an Illinois - based research firm specializing
in U.S. church - giving trends.
Just about everyone agrees that one reason religious belief and practice have flourished
in the United States,
in comparison with Western Europe, is that one state after another
in the early republic ended the «establishment»
of a preferred denomination and allowed all religious
groups to....
But new left
groups became increasingly doctrinal toward the end
of the «60s and remain today more oriented to doctrine than experience
in comparison with religious and human potential
groups.
Simply to list some
of the
groups compared with them — Franciscans, New England Puritans, Pietists, Methodists, high churchmen
in Anglicanism, and Democrats — is enough to suggest that,
in spite
of some resemblances, the
comparisons add nothing.
The cherry on the sundae;
comparison of intermittent fasting versus a more traditional eating pattern
in healthy participants consuming enough calories to maintain their body weight showed no significant differences
in muscle mass between the two
groups, even after a 6 month period.
Direct
comparison of certain food
groups such as vegetables may not be possible, due to changes
in how Australians consume those foods.
Only a 6 - 0 thrashing
of BATE Borisov, the worst team
in their Europa
Group, could be held
in comparison.
Today, as adults, they earn an average
of 25 percent more per year than the subjects whose parents didn't receive home visits; by a variety
of measures, including wages, these formerly delayed infants have now caught up with a
comparison group of their peers who didn't show any signs
of delay
in infancy.
• When fathers
of four - week - old infants were given a brief training
in baby massage and the Burleigh Relaxation Bath technique with a particular emphasis on the father - infant relationship they were more involved with their infants (than a
comparison group of fathers) two months on.
Twenty percent
of the women who had lactation consultants only were frequently breastfeeding at three months, compared to 17 percent
of those who got the consultant and electronic prompts and only 8 percent
in the
comparison group, Bonuck's team reports
in the American Journal
of Public Health.
Participants with support orders
in place paid an average
of $ 90.32
in child support
in the month before the follow - up interview, significantly more than was paid by
comparison group fathers (an average
of $ 38.13).
If you're not sure exactly what kind
of breastfeeding help you need, here is a
comparison to help you sort out the difference between a consultation with an IBCLC and attending a breastfeeding support
group in the Denver metro area:
«The sheer magnitude
of numbers
in de Jonge et al. — over half a million midwife - attended low - risk births, either at home or
in the hospital — combined with a true
comparison group (low - risk, women who chose hospital birth but could have chosen a home birth; both home and hospital
groups, attended by the same
group of midwives) makes this a valuable study (Freeze, 2010, p 8).»
The program to encourage breastfeeding seemed to work - by three months out, 43 percent
of mothers who gave birth at intervention hospitals were still exclusively breastfeeding, compared to six percent
of women
in the
comparison group.
This rate is similar to the National Birth Center Study and to the low - risk hospital births used as a
comparison group in the same study
of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalies).
In comparison, the Lincoln Park Tennis Club pays an annual rental fee
of $ 40,000 for the use
of park land for 10 clay courts, 4
of which are available for public use, the
group said.
The relative benefits and risks
of birth
in different settings have been widely debated
in recent years.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 A problem when trying to evaluate the effect
of birth setting on perinatal outcomes has been the use
of actual place
of birth rather than planned place
of birth to define
comparison groups.
Just to be sure you're getting the best value for money, have a look at the
comparisons in the products, have a look at their specifications and ensure that they are durable and suitable for your child's age
group, size and sense
of style.
Thus, I strongly support the critical statement «human milk is the recommended source
of nutrition for infants»
in the FDA's proposed guidance, and urge a guidance revision that any breast milk
comparison claims (e.g., «closer than ever to breast milk») made by formula companies must also be substantiated by studies that use a control
group of exclusively breast - fed infants.
Research demonstrates that NFP and PAT also have negative effects, such as program families having fewer appropriate play materials
in the home than the
comparison group families, using harsher discipline techniques and being less accepting
of the child's behaviour.
Information includes type
of comparison; child behaviour outcome measures demonstrating a significant difference between
comparison groups; numbers
of children
in each
comparison group.
Comparisons possible were: 3 studies with treatment arms differing only
in the approach (
group, individual or self - administered), 2 studies differing only
in number
of sessions and 5 studies differing only
in adjunctive treatment.
The authors are well aware
of this and that's why they had to be forced to acknowledge the death rates
in the first place and why they refused to compare them to the appropriate
comparison group, which is white women at term.
Values were derived from regressing T on daily paternal caregiving, controlling for time
of saliva collection, usual wake time (AM), sleep quality, psychosocial stress, and number
of children, with fathers who reported no involvement
in childcare as the
comparison group.
The home birth
group was similar to the
group who had a planned hospital birth attended by a physician (physician
comparison group)
in age, lone parent status, income quintile and parity because
of the matching process (Table 1).
Several
of those studies were done
in countries where they DO have hospital
comparison groups, and they were no different.
However, because midwives offer eligible clients the choice
of home or hospital births, subjects
in this
comparison group lived
in the same hospital catchment areas as those
in the home birth
group because the same midwives attended both
groups.
Rates
of birth weight that was less than 2500 g (0.8 %)
in our home birth
group did not differ from the midwife
comparison group (0.7 %) and were somewhat lower than the rate
of 2 % among women attended by midwives
in the Quebec study.
Values are adjusted for time
of saliva collection and usual wake time (AM) and are derived from regressing the change
in T on fatherhood, stratified by child age, with men who were not fathers
in 2005 and 2009 as the
comparison group, and controlling for sleep quality and psychosocial stress (Tables S5 and S6).
But you can't create a
comparison group with a similar proportion
of Amish & Mennonite folks as the MANA Stats sample
in order to make it a fair
comparison when leaving them all
in.
Subjects were selected for this
comparison group if the baby was delivered
in hospital and «midwife» was indicated on the hospital record as any type
of caregiver.