Sentences with phrase «on smaller cohorts»

This is a typical diagnostic rate for clinical exome sequencing and is consistent with previous reports based on smaller cohorts.

Not exact matches

Though on a smaller scale than in the early «80s, political killings still go on, yet not one ranking military officer has ever been tried for human rights violations — not even in the Romero case, despite the unassailable evidence implicating (then Major) Roberto D'Aubuisson and his cohorts.

But behind the scenes, a small cohort of researchers embarked on a years - long journey to understand why it hadn't worked when immunology suggested it should.

«The data here — even though it was a very small cohort — are encouraging» that smart, swallowable capsules can provide new insight into gastrointestinal goings - on, says Giovanni Traverso, a gastroenterologist and biomedical engineer at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston.

Unemployment increased slightly in the more recent group, compared with the 2004 — 05 cohort analyzed by Vitae in 2008 (from 1.7 % in 2008 to 2.4 % in 2010), but the economic crisis seemed to have only a very small effect on the employment prospects of recent Ph.D. graduates.

Sex had a small but significant impact on the genetic T2DM risk model, which disappeared in the combined genetic and lipid metabolites risk model in the Framingham offspring cohort (196).

The life table analysis was based on a notional cohort of 65 year old smokers diagnosed with early stage non-small cell lung cancer or limited stage small cell lung cancer.

Aggregate effects on IGF and its BPs were estimated by multivariate regression on macronutrient sources from dietary questionares and blood samples in 4700 + subjects, but the effect sizes were small and the only protein source where a statistically significant effect was seen was with dairy protein and dietary calcium (ie associated with dairy in general population cohorts).

This conclusion is based on prospective cohort studies showing a dose - dependent positive association between caffeine intakes during pregnancy and the risk of adverse birth weight - related outcomes (i.e. foetal growth retardation, small for gestational age) 26.

Early on, that sense of collaboration among Po and the Furious Five makes a brief appearance during a fight with Shen's wolf cohorts, who try to steal all the metal from a small village of musicians.

But this time, we looked for different effects on math scores in schools with more and fewer math teachers and different effects on reading scores on schools with larger and smaller cohorts of reading teachers.

In 2006, a U.S. Department of Education report noted that black graduates were more likely to take on student debt, and in 2007, an Education Sector analysis of the same data found that black graduates from the 1992 - 93 cohort defaulted at a rate five times higher than that of white or Asian students in the 10 years after graduation (Hispanic / Latino graduates showed a similar, but somewhat smaller disparity).

As the cohorts have aged, it is now possible to measure the effects of small schools on college enrollment and choice, outcomes that have never been examined before.

In the program's first year, the bonus program boost to math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such teachers in middle schools).

Whether the community is a large, regionally - united tribe or a small online learning cohort, we know that success, engagement, satisfaction, and growth all depend heavily on the support and sense of identity that comes from a community.

However, they say that the number of looked - after children moving from London is «too small» to impact on secondary schools with bigger cohorts.

Most of the 11 states want to focus on low - performing students as a whole — a U-turn from the NCLB law, in which poor performance by a small cohort of at - risk students could sink a school's rating.

We find some small differences across charter types, but none of the charter school enrollment effects on test score growth for any cohort were positive among any of the three types examined.

She has reached out to schools in Millis and nearby Dover and is working with a post-master's cohort at the University of Massachusetts on ways to make pre-k programs more effective in small communities.

For a limited time, districts can enroll small groups of their educators into a national learning cohort focused on earning the Gamification micro-credential.

In his classroom, Joshua has three skill - equivalent cohorts of students rotating through four different stations: • self - paced online work on the LMS Blendspace, • independent reading, • collaborative project - based learning, and • small group instruction.

A policy brief released in 2014 updated MDRC's previous research on small schools, updating high school graduation effects with an additional fourth cohort of students.

An updated MDRC policy brief revealing the effects of small high schools on an additional cohort of students.

Consequently, the loss of a teacher with high value - added would not affect average achievement, since removing that teacher would have no change on the cohorts, and since cohort - to - cohort changes in achievement would be smaller than that predicted by value - added.

Each member attends bi-monthly on - line gatherings with a small «impact cohort» and is encouraged to lead a student group.

Still, this small cohort is the group that most news organizations would like to know and expand on.

There is a small trainee intake, and the cohort «gets on really well and there are lots of social events and sports clubs».

Effect of alcohol consumption and psychosocial stressors on preterm and small - for - gestational - age births in HIV - infected women in South Africa: a cohort study

First, associations between depression and cortisol in pregnancy were not found in one large population based cohort study20 and may only be significant in the presence of antidepressant medication21 or co-morbid anxiety.22 Second, studies that tested either direct associations between antenatal maternal cortisol levels on infant or child outcomes or the mediational role of antenatal cortisol in associations between antenatal depression and outcomes yield mixed findings and typically have relied on small samples.23 Postpartum depression has been associated with a range of problems in infants» and young children's development.

It should be noted, however, that the risks presented for the earliest cohort are based on relatively small numbers of events and are subject to a wide margin of uncertainty.

There thus appears to be a deleterious effect of the heterozygous genotype on CU traits: however, as true heterozygous effects are rare and the numbers of minor homozygotes in the high CU group are small, replication is required in larger cohorts to determine whether this is a true effect.

Smaller cohorts will arrive at 25 from now on.

The 55 to 64 cohort has registered a smaller rate of decline compared to the other age groups -LRB--4.6 percent), but its homeownership rate also slid to its lowest point on record during the first quarter of 2012.