Sentences with phrase «of comparison groups from»

The paper's conclusion that being a visible minority does not act as a barrier is likely premature and largely untested given the respective demographics of the school and the lack of comparison groups from other schools.

The effect size of this difference is.81 and was computed by subtracting the mean of the comparison group from the mean of the experimental group and dividing by the standard deviation of the comparison group (Cohen 1977).

Not exact matches

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.

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.

Benefiting from good consumption momentum across key brand and markets, the consolidation of its Wild Turkey acquisition and an easy comparison base versus last year's first half, which was hit by the credit crunch and destocking activities, Italian drinks group Campari has increased net profit by 15.2 % to Eur69.3 m on sales up by 16.7 % to -LSB-...]

This analysis is facilitated by presenting comparisons on a per - unit of energy basis, and the use of a common five food group's database designed from the AHS — Australian Dietary Guidelines database.

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 absence of comparison subjects from these hospitals, which may have had fewer resources for managing complicated clinical situations, may have biased the analysis against the home birth group.

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).

The rate of Apgar scores that were less than 7 at 5 minutes in the home birth group, excluding stillbirths and babies with congenital anomalies, was 0.9 %, which was not different from those in the comparison groups.

Corruption Trials and Two Reform Reports Make the Case for Action Now In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the -LSB-...]

In light of the corruption trials of two former legislative leaders taking place this week and New York State's D - minus grade in how it handles issues of integrity from a national comparison study, New York's leading good government groups today called upon the New York State legislature and governor to complete the job of reforming our laws governing public ethics.

But now it seems that Davies might be moving on from Ukip - and cosying up instead to an outlandish new political grouping that makes Nigel Farage's party look middle - of - the - road in comparison.

However, the results of more recent phylogenetic analyses, derived from comparisons between sequences of specific genes and of whole genomes, seemed to point to Ctenophora as the first group that parted company with the lineage from which the rest of the animal kingdom (including sponges) evolved.

For comparison, similar samples were taken from a group of 18 patients hospitalized for diarrhea caused by a pathogenic E. coli infection.

Promising results from the new trial would be a major step forward for a field that has long been criticized for studies that are poorly designed, incomplete or lack control - group comparisons, as well as for the peddling of unproved therapies in many clinics worldwide.

In some cases, such as in the selection of participants for studies on suicide, the bias in the original studies may have underestimated the association between access to firearms and suicide, because both study and comparison groups were recruited from health care settings where they may have been seeking treatment for suicidal planning.

The authors then combined the new genomes with thousands of publicly available genomes that represent the major groups of plant - associated bacteria, and included bacteria from multiple plant and non-plant environments, such as the human gut, for comparison.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

A comparison of the genomes of present - day southern African populations confirms that our ancestors did not originate from a single group

Among the Native American groups for whom genome - wide data are available for comparison, several seem to be descended from a population closely related to that of Kennewick Man, including the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation (Colville), one of the five tribes claiming Kennewick Man.

There were no significant differences in the incidence of ESRD between chlorthalidone and amlodipine, consistent with findings from the INSIGHT trial.33 Comparison of the reciprocal serum creatinine slopes suggested a slower decline in kidney function in the amlodipine group.

(A) SPM results for the comparison of MP vs. placebo on the BPND images from [11C] raclopride in marijuana abusers (MA) and in healthy controls (HC)(Puncorr < 0.005) and group comparisons for the effects of MP (ΔBPND)(P < 0.01, cluster size of 10 voxels).

For a control group comparison, the researchers also engrafted microbiota from regular C57BL / 6 mice into a separate group of pregnant, germ - free mice.

The study was based upon data from the comparison group of the Women's Healthy Eating and Living (WHEL) study — a multi-site randomized trial of the impact of a diet high in vegetables, fruits and fiber, and low in fat on the recurrence of breast cancer.

A collaborative group including the CRI Cancer Immunotherapy Consortium (CIC), the Association for Cancer Immunotherapy (CIMT) Immunoguiding Program (CIP), and scientists at Stanford University launch the Minimal Information About T cell Assays (MIATA) Project, the first systematic effort to establish a framework for reporting immune monitoring data from T cell assays used in clinical trials, with the goal of fostering reliability of data to facilitate meaningful interpretation, comparison, and meta - analysis across clinical trials.

Other comparisons were of outcome variables derived from only one male offspring per litter per experimental groups.

«Among the Native American groups for whom genome - wide data are available for comparison, several seem to be descended from a population closely related to that of Kennewick Man,» the researchers reported.

Systematic analysis is performed based on the study of the contribution from phonon branches, comparison among the mode level phonon group velocity and lifetime, the detailed process and channels of phonon — phonon scattering, and phonon anharmonicity with potential energy well.

A comparison group of regulator meditators was recruited from women aged 30 — 60 who had already enrolled in the retreat.

Each of the five groups differed significantly (P < 0.001) from the other groups by the first principal component (one - way ANOVA, with Tukey's post-hoc comparisons).

DATE: April 3 TIME: 4:05 p.m. LOCATION: Room 204, Level 2, Washington Convention Center TITLE: Comparison of somatic alterations in the genome and transcriptome of 1,705 pediatric leukemia and solid tumors: a report from the Children's Oncology Group (COG)- NCI TARGET Project ABSTRACT: 3004

Each of the six groups differed from the other groups by 1 — 2 principal components (Tukey's post-hoc comparisons).

But in investigator - blinded comparisons of tissue sections from each group of mice, no evidence of defects related to loss of Wnt signaling were found in embryonic or adult pulmonary, renal, cerebral, or skeletal tissues.

From the studies which had both verum and sham acupuncture groups: 3a) greater activation of verum acupuncture points than baseline (verum > rest), 3b) greater deactivation of verum acupuncture points than baseline (rest > verum), 3c) greater activation of sham acupuncture points than baseline (sham > rest), 3d) greater deactivation of sham acupuncture points than baseline (rest > sham), 3e) comparison ALE map of greater activation of verum than sham acupuncture relative to rest («verum > rest» - «sham > rest»), 3f) comparison ALE map of greater deactivation of verum than sham acupuncture relative to rest («rest > verum» - «rest > sham»).

In addition, a small subset of normal tissues will be collected from living surgery patients as a comparison group.

The results from the second test showed that both groups that were given the task of reflecting on the pre-test, did a lot better in comparison to the third group.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

SDs between the mean vectors were found with Hotelling's T2 test for vector analysis, which is a multivariate extension of Student's test for unpaired data in comparisons of mean vectors from 2 groups.

This evaluation drew its comparison group from a sample of children whose families had entered, but didn't win, a lottery to gain admission to the local KIPP school.

Among the central conclusions to emerge from our comparison of these distinctive groups: A teacher's overall level of confidence in educational technology translates into a distinct set of behaviors, perceptions, and choices in the classroom.

In the gender comparison, all of the results show that one gender's idiosyncratic achievement has a positive, highly statistically significant effect on the idiosyncratic achievement of its peers from the other gender group.

In other words, if students from feeder elementary schools eventually attend five different non-KIPP middle schools, the two most commonly attended of these middle schools would be included in the «comparison» middle - school group.

For this portion of the study, we compare KIPP students with two groups of district school students: all those attending non-KIPP middle schools in the same district, and a smaller comparison group of students attending middle schools that accepted an above - average number of students from the feeder elementary schools.

For example, students in the treatment group reported significantly higher levels of interpersonal support from teachers and peers than their comparison counterparts.

Displaced students from district schools that closed in urban areas gained, on average, forty - nine extra days of learning in reading relative to the comparison group; in math, it was thirty - four days.

For example, comparisons of the transcripts of 1990 and 2009 high school graduates reveal that larger percentages of 2009 graduates from all major racial and ethnic groups completed a rigorous curriculum than did comparable 1990 graduates, and, on average, 2009 graduates completed about 420 more hours of coursework than did 1990 graduates.

A total of 48 studies were excluded from the database because they combined all minority children into a nebulous «nonwhite» category, failed to include a comparison group consisting of white children, or did not perform separate analyses with children disaggregated from adults.

A comparison of students» data from before the lottery confirms that the two groups are similar with respect to all characteristics we can observe.