Sentences with phrase «of the previous study because»

«The current study provides support for the interpretation of the previous study because the kids who chose to go on differed from those who did not in background and musical self - concept, but not in terms of ability,» Demorest said.

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That's striking because the treatment is part of a class called CETP medicines which haven't proven particularly successful in previous studies.
Hoback suggested any review of the Canada's proposed legislation could be speedy because the original Trans - Pacific Partnership, which was signed in October 2015 by the previous Conservative government, has been heavily studied.
In a recent «Focus Group Study» of celiac's who were not eating oats either because of fear or had previous reactions to other gluten free oats, 95 % had no problem with PrOatina oatmeal and have added PrOatina Oat products to their diets.
Parental reporting, however, was accurate in a previous study.13 Because of the number of comparisons in these analyses, some of the significant associations could have occurred by chance.
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.
No association between vaginal delivery and interference with daily life was observed after 6 weeks, which supports a previous study.22 Additionally, the prevalence of moderate or severe UI in the vaginal delivery group was higher than that in the cesarean delivery group at 3 — 5 days, perhaps because pelvic floor muscle strength is significantly reduced at 3 — 8 days after vaginal delivery, but this is not the case after cesarean delivery.6
Hood and Dixon, nevertheless, make a brave attempt which, because it is an amalgam of their efforts to straighten out inconsistent series and the work of previous partial studies, has all the excitement of a PhD thesis.
«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.
That's interesting because previous brain imaging studies of synesthetes have suggested that they might have an abnormally high number of neuronal connections.
Previous failures in reprogramming primate cells probably happened because the egg ran into roadblocks — portions of the body cell's DNA known as reprogramming - resistant regions, say study coauthor Mu - ming Poo, director of the Institute of Neuroscience at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shanghai, and his colleagues.
Nicolas Greber of the University of Geneva and colleagues say previous studies got it wrong because scientists looked at silicon dioxide in shales, which bear the...
«We chose the basal ganglia because they are primary targets of inflammation in the brain,» says lead author Andrew Miller, MD. «Results from a number of previous studies suggest that increased inflammation may be a contributing factor to fatigue in CFS patients, and may even be the cause in some patients.»
Although none of these stars came from the far side, the technique seems to work because the results agreed with previous studies that mapped star clusters in the visible section of the galaxy.
«Because our previous research and that of others indicates that exercise and diet each provide their own unique health benefits beyond those that were evaluated in the current study, it is important to recognize that both diet and exercise are important for health and longevity,» Weiss said.
The results, to be published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, are a surprise, because previous studies of frog evolution pinpointed the blossoming of the main frog lineages today to about 35 million years earlier, in the middle of the Mesozoic era.
The new approach contrasts with previous ways scientists analyzed and came to conclusions about sea level rise because it is «the only proper one that aims to fully account for uncertainty using statistical methods,» noted Parnell, principal investigator of the study conducted collaboratively with researchers at Tufts University, Rutgers University and Nanyang Technological University.
This was a surprise because previous studies had suggested that part of the Williams brain functions normally in adulthood, with little understanding about how it developed.»
This estimate, while in line with suggestions from previous linguistic studies, is a more robust result because it was found consistently in the majority of the different statistical models of evolution tested in this study.
The finding is novel, says autism researcher Peter Mundy at the University of California, Davis, because previous studies of joint attention have not distinguished between initiating and responding.
Nicolas Greber of the University of Geneva and colleagues say previous studies got it wrong because scientists looked at silicon dioxide in shales, which bear the detritus of continental rocks.
While previous studies have surveyed the genomic characteristics of tumors confined to the prostate gland, the new study is the first to focus on metastatic hormone resistant prostate cancers, which can be difficult to treat because they often develop resistance to standard treatments.
The PPN was of interest because, in previous studies, patients with Parkinson's disease displayed lower levels of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in remaining dopaminergic neurons.
As in previous studies, the beetles were used to model ecological and evolutionary conditions because of their small size and their more rapid progression through subsequent generations.
They believe their study is more accurate than previous work because they only used one variable — the presence or absence of 0.3 % triclosan — and fixed all of the other factors which can affect the results.
«As a result of the previous study, we reported that SUMO is probably important for controlling expression of active genes because we found it on every gene we looked at, but only when they were turned on,» notes Rosonina.
«Because severe cases of influenza may be prevented by 2 mechanisms, the effectiveness of vaccination against severe influenza may be greater than that for mild cases, and the benefit of influenza vaccination may be greater than that estimated in previous studies.
Professor Chris Perry from Geography at the University of Exeter, lead author of the study said: «Previous research has highlighted how important parrotfish are for the general health of coral reefs, specifically because they help to control algal growth and promote coral recruitment.
Jeffrey Kidd, Ph.D., an Assistant Professor of Human Genetics and Computational Medicine & Bioinformatics who worked on the new study, notes that only recently has it become possible to sequence Y chromosomes, because of technical limitations of previous approaches.
«Previous studies have given us a broad set of benchmarks, including the sequence of the entire genome, which makes Candida albicans a great subject for study in microgravity because we have extensive information to compare it to.»
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.
For the animal study, the researchers separated 52 mice with colon cancer tumors into three groups, including a control group and groups that were fed either the grape compounds or sulindac, an anti-inflammatory drug, which was chosen because a previous study showed it significantly reduced the number of tumors in humans.
The findings were unexpected because previous studies, done with small numbers of people in the lab, concluded that people's minds wander less often.
The findings might have departed from prior studies because of the difference in size and study design, he said, explaining that much of the previous work in this area has been conducted in groups of 100 or fewer and mostly involved student subjects.
«Sometimes you can be lucky and work this out, as we did in a previous study, but this was possible because information of outbreaks that were known to be pure human - to - human chains was, unusually, available.
Because there is a known clinical connection between eye melanoma and skin cancer, in this study researchers sought to determine whether there were commonly shared genetic factors between both diseases, as the inherited genetic risk of skin melanoma has been more extensively explored in previous medical literature.
To show this, Cox and colleagues developed a new method to assess addiction - like behaviors with meth, which could not be studied with previous techniques because of the drug's long - acting effects.
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.
Isaacman - VanWertz picked pinene because it has been extensively studied, so he could use previous work to make sense of his observations.
Because previous studies had suggested that different alleles (versions) of the IL - 28B gene affect immune responses, the researchers determined which alleles the transplant recipients carried.
The chemical evolution associated with disk formation has scarcely been studied observationally because of the insufficient sensitivity and spatial resolution of previous radio telescopes.
Previous studies by D'Odorico, who, in addition to his faculty position at U.Va., is a sabbatical fellow with the National Socio - Environmental Synthesis Center at the University of Maryland, have suggested that the coupling of population and food dynamics might be becoming increasingly unbalanced and that, because of trade dependency, exposure to food insecurity is increasing.
Dr Payne says that previous studies have missed the different effect that polypharmacy has in different people because they used overly simplistic approaches when looking at the effect of taking many drugs at once.
«This research is important because previous studies have shown that a reduction in blood supply to the heart (ischemia) during mental stress doubles the risk of heart attack or death from heart disease,» said Viola Vaccarino, M.D., Ph.D., senior author of the study and professor of epidemiology and medicine at Emory University's Rollins School of Public Health in Atlanta, Georgia.
The segmentation theory of events, on which the published study is based, argues that the brain acts on the grounds of constant predictions based on previous experience; When these predictions fail, for example because there is an unexpected change of context, the brain interprets this moment as a boundary event, which delimits the neural coding of the lived experiences.
«Also, in our previous studies, we inferred the presence of nuclear polarization indirectly through optical measurements because we weren't able to test if the bulk sample was polarized or just the nuclei that were very close to the NV centers.
Biochemist Valerie Weaver of the University of California, San Francisco, who led previous studies linking tissue stiffness and breast cancer growth, calls the paper «very important» because it finds a novel mechanism linking obesity with breast cancer.
Kim and colleagues are interested in studying the activation mechanism of protein kinase G I (PKG I) because a mutation of PKG I has been shown to cause thoracic aortic disease, as Kim and his collaborators showed in a previous publication in the American Journal of Human Genetics.
This study also shows that the importance of biological diversity has been underestimated because previous research only focussed on individual trophic groups: «Our extensive research programme demonstrates how important it is to study the broader context and that there is a need for action to protect ecosystems,» summarises Fischer.
«This research is an important addition to the field because previous studies looking at CYP gene variants and their effects on risks of repeat heart attacks, bleeding and death have included predominantly Caucasian patients of European ancestry,» Cresci noted.
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