Sentences with phrase «on demographic studies»

For example, François's new right - wing colleague, Godefroy Lempereur, introduces him to a nativist literature heavy on demographic studies purporting to show that «belief in a transcendent being conveys a genetic advantage: that couples who follow one of the three religions of the Book and maintain patriarchal values have more children than atheists or agnostics.

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Judge and his colleagues sifted through a series of long - range demographic studies that followed thousands of Americans over the years, collecting data on their personalities and incomes.

The study focuses on the demographics.

The Pew study includes demographic data on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn that are worth a look.

He called himself fiscally responsible, and he said the issue of demographic pressure on public pensions demands study.

Studies have shown half to two - thirds of the rise in non-participation is due to demographic changes as baby boomers reach retirement age and teenagers choose to focus on school rather than working part time.

A comprehensive demographic study of more than 230 countries and territories conducted by the Pew Research Center's Forum on Religion & Public Life estimates that there are 5.8 billion religiously affiliated adults and children around the globe, representing 84 % of the 2010 world population of 6.9 billion.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

With funding from the Lilly Endowment, the Leonard E. Greenberg Center for the Study of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford undertook the massive task of assembling scholars and data and producing eight books, each containing both demographic overviews and focused essays on the features that distinguish each region's religious life.

Some demographic studies suggest that on current trends Britain could have a Muslim majority by the middle of this century.»

The study examines foodies» demographic characteristics and includes separate chapters on each of the five foodie segments.

There have been numerous studies of breastfeeding in the UK, most of which have adopted a quantitative approach, and they have largely focused on obstetric or socio - demographic factors in the decision to breastfeed.

The early warning report will use nine financial indicators, including the amount of cash on hand, the size of operating deficits, as well as demographic trends like population size and tax growth that the Comptroller's office has recently studied.

In 1989, University of Wisconsin researchers launched a longitudinal study, called the Wisconsin Study of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adultstudy, called the Wisconsin Study of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adultStudy of Families and Work, which collected medical and demographic data on several hundred children from birth to early adulthood.

He also notes that although the study focused on a certain age range of women, it did not pull out differences that might be at work in subsets of age, BMI or demographics.

As part of the study, Nikolaus created a chart categorizing which spices were most well - liked, less well - liked, and least well - liked, based on the demographic subpopulations that participated in the study.

Together with colleagues Maren Rebke from Avitec Research and the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and Peter H. Becker from the Institute of Avian Research «Vogelwarte Helgoland» in Wilhelmshaven, Germany, they have developed a statistical model to analyze the long - term study on common terns in Lake Bant in Wilhelmshaven led by Prof. Becker.

The researchers say follow - up studies could explore questions such as what extent demographic changes — especially a larger population of older adults — will have on heat - related mortality, and the effect of specific interventions related to adaptation and greenhouse gas reductions.

Research in this area spans several disciplines, from the biochemical study of basic mechanisms of alcohol metabolism, to the neuroscience of dependency, to demographic and clinical studies on at - risk populations.

To shed light on the mystery of Bornean elephant's origin, Chikhi and Goossens» team used genetic data analysis and computational modelling to study the past demographic history of these animals.

«Studies conducted at the Universities of Guelph, Waterloo, and Western Ontario have demonstrated that deregulation has had an impact on the demographics of their enrolment,» according to Joel Duff, the Ontario chairperson of the CFS, such that «students from lower - income backgrounds have almost dropped off the radar screen.»

Because the samples are anonymous (though they may come with some demographic information, depending on the study), researchers have argued that they don't need to seek informed consent to use them.

In the related studies presented at the annual meeting, «Trends in Total Hip Arthroplasty in the United States: The Shift to a Younger Demographic» and «Trends in Total Knee Arthroplasty in the United States: Understanding the Shift to a Younger Demographic,» researchers conducted a retrospective review of 2000 - 2009 hospital discharge data on TKR and THR patients from the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP).

Until the present study, demographic inference was based on only three Aboriginal Australian genomes; one was derived from a tuft of hair (taken from a deceased individual), and the other two from cell lines whose provenance is somewhat hazy.

«Our results suggest that hospitals and policy makers should limit in - hospital formula introduction and consider family history and demographics to reduce racial and ethnic breastfeeding disparities,» said Madeleine Shalowitz, MD, a Director at NorthShore University HealthSystem Research Institute and co - investigator on the study.

The study assesses the food supply available to more than 140 nations (with populations greater than 1 million) and demonstrates that food security is becoming increasingly susceptible to perturbations in demographic growth, as humanity places increasing pressure on use of limited land and water resources.

Petkova, who was the lead author of her study, traced five different demographic models for New York City that drew on past trends.

Unlike other studies that have looked at the influence of social media on election outcomes, their study, «More Tweets, More Votes: Social Media as a Quantitative Indicator of Political Behavior,» took into account such variables as incumbency, partisanship, media coverage, and socio - demographic makeup of the electorate.

The study, published Monday in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine, tapped a U.S. health survey that gathered data from providers and facilities on prescription medications, health status, and basic demographics for about 51,000 adults.

Having studied the group demographics on income, employment, marital status, education and race, the team were able to establish latent class segmentation of the group based on kudos - seeking food buying behaviours.

In this study, researchers analyzed five years of data — demographic (including race / ethnicity), clinical and billing — on nearly 53,000 patients admitted to Connecticut hospitals for TJR from 2008 to 2012.

The scientists call for further toxicological and demographic studies on other southern species.

373 D IETARY, FUNCTIONAL, AND TOTAL FIBER Dietary Fiber and the Prevention of Colon Cancer Marked international differences in rates of colon cancer (Boyle et al., 1985), coupled with findings from migratory studies showing that indi - viduals take on the cancer demographics of the population to which they move (Haenszel and Kurihara, 1968), have suggested a strong role for environmental factors in colon cancer incidence.

The more a person (knows) what they are looking for in mate the easier it is for them to determine which site to join by studying the demographic of it's members gender ratio, education, income, race, religion and so on.

danah boyd, a doctoral student at UC Berkeley, who doesn't capitalize her name, studies the demographics of MySpace as part of her research on social technology.

This does not mean that all cases of STDs are linked to social media, but social media has been shown in this study to have a statistically significant effect on the number of STDs after controlling for demographic and economic variables.

The Local has taken a look at a study on French online dating habits, released in by Ined, an Institute for National Demographics Studies.

A detailed listing of Pew Research Center polling and demographic topics With more and more people relying on online dating to meet a partner, the act of online dating also gets studied more and more.

The study used data on student loan delinquencies by zip code, from the credit reporting agency Experian, and matched this to information on racial demographics by zip code from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey.

The study examines the impact of winning a school choice lottery on dropout rates and crime for groups of students with different propensities to commit crimes, using an index of crime risk that includes test scores, demographics, behavior, and neighborhood characteristics to identify the highest - risk group.

A 2010 study by Richard Freeman and colleagues shows that countries that perform best on TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) not only have a higher average score, but also have 1) less variation in performance and 2) smaller achievement gaps between different demographic grstudy by Richard Freeman and colleagues shows that countries that perform best on TIMSS (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study) not only have a higher average score, but also have 1) less variation in performance and 2) smaller achievement gaps between different demographic grStudy) not only have a higher average score, but also have 1) less variation in performance and 2) smaller achievement gaps between different demographic groups.

And about one in three Newark students attends «beating the odds» schools, those that outperform schools with similar demographics in their state in reading and math, according to a 2015 study by the Center on Reinventing Public Education.

Our study focuses on the demographics, course - taking patterns, and academic results of pupils attending Ohio's e-schools.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

The study begins with a cohort of three - and four - year - olds that is representative on demographic indicators (e.g. language, ethnicity, family income) of all three - and four - year - olds across Massachusetts.

What that demographic tends to seek for its children's education — besides the universal desiderata of «a solid core curriculum... an emphasis on... STEM education, and the development in students of good study habits, strong critical thinking skills, and excellent verbal and written communication skills» — is schools that «offer vocational classes or job - related programs.»

The report was a demographic study outlining major demographic shifts in our population, focusing in particular, on the changes from early childhood education through college and career systems.

A new study commissioned by the Association for Equity in Funding (AEF) finds disparities in school funding among school districts with vastly different student demographics have negative effects on student outcome measures such as scores on school and district report cards.

Similarly, in the schools we studied whose plans reflected a belief that teaching and leadership affect student achievement, achievement gains were three times greater than they were in schools whose plans reflected a focus on student demographic characteristics as the primary determinants of student achievement (Reeves, in press).

This echoed findings from a previous study that analyzed information search patterns on the District's first public school information site and revealed that parents were most interested in demographic characteristics of the student population, followed by location, and, only then, academic performance (Schneider & Buckley, 2002).