Sentences with phrase «overall differences among»

A series of robustness and placebo tests indicate a systematic influence of teacher skills as distinct from overall differences among countries in the level of cognitive skills.

Not exact matches

Among the public overall, there are only modest income differences in views of what should be done with tax rates for corporations and high incomes.

In Judaism, despite the rather far - reaching differences between the orthodox, conservative, and liberal wings, and the existence of national variants, including pro- and anti-Zionists, there is a definite, overall consciousness among practically all Jews everywhere of being one (a qahal, or people), and this feeling is predominantly a religious feeling.

«We believe that there are important differences among the college majors in worldviews and overall philosophies of life,» the researchers explained.

The patristic and medieval «metaphysics of participation» (in which God is seen as the Being whose essence is to exist, rather than as one being among others) undergirds a theology and politics of communion that, George argues, late - medieval theology abandoned the overall argument in The Difference God Makes is a strong one.

Those overall figures hide some significant differences among different groups.

Among those seats listed above are a number of marginal and target seats, which could potentially make all the difference between a party winning a decisive overall majority or not.

«I was expecting to see ancestry - associated differences in immune response but not such a clear trend towards an overall stronger response to infection among individuals of African descent,» added Luis Barreiro of the University of Montreal and the CHU Sainte - Justine in Canada, senior author of the other study.

There were no overall differences in rates of mental health symptoms at diagnosis among treatment groups, although 18 % of the PADT group reported poorer memory compared to 12 % in the local group and 15 % in the combination group.

Overall, the researchers found «no gender difference» in scores among children in grades two through 11.

(JOSE LUIS PELEAZ / GETTY IMAGES) Even though breast cancer incidence rates are slightly lower overall among African - American women than white women (the incidence is lower still among Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women), a combination of socioeconomic factors and unexplained biological differences make the disease more deadly — and in some cases, harder to treat — in the black community.

A dissimilarity index at the district level, however, measures the dissimilarity of districts and the overall student population in the area, and provides information on changes over time in racial differences in the distribution of students among districts.

The low overall incidence of teachers in the entire sample asking higher level questions should concern us: Differences among schools notwithstanding, only 16 % of the teachers in grades 1 - 3 in this study were frequently observed asking higher level, aesthetic response questions.

A 2006 study not only «challenged assumption of private school superiority overall» but also found substantial differences among various kinds of private schools.

Among the factors influencing the results are differences in overall education quality among the states and the geographic targeting of the charter schAmong the factors influencing the results are differences in overall education quality among the states and the geographic targeting of the charter schamong the states and the geographic targeting of the charter schools.

There were also differences among the Board members on what the district's responsibilities are in terms of recreational and adult activities and how these relate to overall budget priorities, with most Board Members uncertain as to their position.

Overall, libraries report technology improvements — including nearly ubiquitous public wi - fi, growing mobile resources and a leap in e-book access — but the ALA's 2014 Digital Inclusion Survey also documents digital differences among states and an urban / rural divide.

Small differences often appear depending on the automated controls of the white balance, but overall, snapping photos with both tablets yield very good shots — clearly among the best that can be obtained with a modern tablet.

Spreading your savings among many types of investments — stocks versus farmland, for example — cuts overall risk because inherent differences between investments makes their returns subject to totally different economic forces and because investments vary with respect to riskiness.

This can make a difference in the overall amount you pay back, even if all other factors are equal among the loan offers you're considering.

In truth, the discerning investor will discover many differences among the characteristics between the individual companies (105 in total) and the overall group.

Overall, there isn't much difference in the game from the Wii U version, with only the menus and maps being added all on one screen instead of split between two, and with some added weaponry, such as the inclusion of a nail bat, among others.

But to answer those questions, the results of climate model work reported in the IPCC TAR (see Fig. 7.2) show huge differences among models in the overall cloud radiative forcing.

Being recognized as the highest ranked wireless provider for overall purchasing experience by J.D. Power, for the third time in a row, shows this commitment to the customer experience is making a difference.9 AT&T outperformed competitors in the J.D. Power 2014 Volume 2 study and received the «Highest Satisfaction with the Purchase Experience among Full - Service Wireless Providers, Three Times in a Row.»

Overall, we found that social behaviors in second grade made a greater difference in how much youth were bullied among boys during elementary school and among girls through middle school.

It is difficult to compare our findings with studies of general population youth because rates vary widely, depending on the sample, the method, the source of data (participant or collaterals), and whether functional impairment was required for diagnosis.50 Despite these differences, our overall rates are substantially higher than the median rate reported in a major review article (15 %) 50 and other more recent investigations: the Great Smoky Mountains Study (20.3 %), 56 the Virginia Twin Study of Adolescent Behavioral Development (142 cases per 1000 persons), 57 the Methods for the Epidemiology of Child and Adolescent Mental Disorders (6.1 %), 32 and the Miami — Dade County Public School Study (38 %).58 We are especially concerned about the high rates of depression and dysthymia among detained youth (17.2 % of males, 26.3 % of females), which are also higher than general population rates.51,56 - 61 Depressive disorders are difficult to detect (and treat) in the chaos of the corrections milieu.

There were no significant differences between these659 families and the original 976 families for demographic characteristics, maladaptive parental behavior, maternal psychiatric symptoms, offspring temperament, or the overall prevalence of paternal psychiatric symptoms, although paternal substance abuse in 1975 was less prevalent among the 659 families in the present sample than among the 976 families in the original sample.

At 12 months after intervention, again controlling for baseline differences, rates of alcohol and marijuana use were significantly lower and cigarette use and overall risk intention were marginally lower among FOK plus ImPACT youths compared with FOK only youths.

Among the findings were that perceived imbalance with respect to the work of relationship initiation was common, that women were more likely than men to perceive their partners as having done more work than they did themselves, and that overall there were no gender differences in perceptions of who did more work.

The USGBC compiles the rankings using «per - capita figures as a measure of the human element of green building, allowing for a fair comparison of the level of green building taking place among states with significant differences in population and, accordingly, number of overall buildings.»