Sentences with phrase «part of previous study»

RFA's study on high school choice builds on the «Learning from Philadelphia's School Reform» study and turns RFA's attention to the improvement of Philadelphia's high schools — a focus that was not part of the previous study...

As part of the previous study in which we randomly assigned school groups to tour an art museum on a field trip, we found a significant increase in tolerance among students who toured the museum.

The women in the first group, as part of the previous study, had been counseled on various strategies for weight loss, including measuring out portion sizes, calculating calorie density of different foods, and making overall healthier choices.

Not exact matches

That's striking because the treatment is part of a class called CETP medicines which haven't proven particularly successful in previous studies.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

Previous studies have shown that a part of the brain called the hippocampus is important to relational memory — the «ability to bind together various items of an event,» said Jim Monti, a University of Illinois postdoctoral research associate who led the work with psychology professor Neal Cohen, who is affiliated with the Beckman Institute at Illinois.

According to a new study published online today in Science, the tiny differences found in previous studies may have resulted from a slight tendency on the part of political conservatives to «self - enhance,» or view themselves in an unrealistically positive light.

«Previous studies have shown that black people are more likely to have a poor sense of smell than whites and yet may be less likely to develop Parkinson's disease,» said Chen, who is part of MSU's Global Impact Initiative, an effort to help accelerate research in key areas affecting the world such as health and energy.

With previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new study, believe that using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.

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.»

Previous imaging studies have found that in PTSD sufferers, parts of the brain involved in memory, fear, and mood control are smaller compared with the brains of people who come through their trauma more - or-less unscathed.

Previous studies of genetic alterations in lymphoma and lung cancer have found that certain genetic mutations — specifically when part of a gene breaks off and gets fused to another — can inappropriately switch on ALK, driving cancer cells to grow and divide.

Previous studies in humans and a variety of animals have shown that the OPFC is part of a network of brain regions that respond to food, sex, and other rewards.

The first part of the pattern constitutes a novel perspective on self - control, whereas the second part is «consistent with previous theorizing on why good people behave badly,» notes Ann Tenbrunsel, an ethicist at Mendoza College of Business who was not part of the study.

Professor Joanna Scurr, who leads the research group, said: «Previous studies of adult women have shown time and again that the same concerns are directly responsible for women no longer taking part in sport or exercise.

Previous studies show that similar comets — known as Jupiter Family comets — historically stay in the inner parts of our solar system for 12,000 years, therefore recognizing comet 67P / Churyumov - Gerasimenko as a member of the Jupiter Family makes sense.

Previous studies had suggested that meditation does something similar for parts of the brain involved in focused attention.

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.

Previous studies in the lab showed that once HCMV is inside the cell, it quickly becomes latent by entering the cell's nucleus and co-opting a cellular protein called Daxx — part of the intrinsic immune system — to shut down its own replication, the process of reproducing its genetic material to make more copies of itself.

But one part stood out: an unusual bulge in the frontal cortex, in an area which previous studies have suggested may process the meaning of words.

Previous evidence of preserved collagen date back to the Late Cretaceous Period — more than 100 million years younger than this discovery — but those studies extracted the organic remains by dissolving away all other parts of the fossil, without a clear understanding of the precise origins of the collagen.

He says some doctors also prescribe antidepressant drugs known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs, since previous studies have suggested that people who have violent, aggressive outbursts may have decreased levels of serotonin in frontal parts of their brains.

«We know from previous studies that the fission yeast version of DDX3X is thought to play a role in translation of key regulatory proteins, possibly by helping untangle parts of the RNA molecule.»

Previous studies found such impacts could pulverise part of a planet, leaving behind debris that coalesces into a moon or rings like Saturn has.

Previous studies have found that the part of the brain responsible for verbal memory is larger in musicians, and Jakobson and Chan agree that future studies should investigate whether music training boosts development of the region, thereby making musicians more handy with words.

Previous «mind - reading» studies have shown that certain parts of the brain respond to particular words.

Expanding from their previous studies with mice, the researchers first established that under specific conditions, culturing human embryonic stem cells with fibroblast growth factor 2 (FGF2) leads to neural differentiation particular to the midbrain / hindbrain region — the location of the cerebellum — within three weeks, and the expression of markers for the cerebellar plate neuroepithelium — the part of the developing nervous system specific for the cerebellum — within five.

The new study from Tonegawa's group builds on previous research demonstrating that episodic memories are physically represented in populations of cells in parts of the hippocampus.

Previous modeling studies find that GHG make up roughly 50 % of the total LGM to present temperature response (see e.g. Broccoli & Manabe), the other part being albedo etc that respond to the seasonal cycle of irradiance.

Previous studies have revealed a number of clouds of neutral atomic hydrogen that are near the Milky Way but not part of its disk.

The researchers studied various previous findings on the health effects of the gluteofemoral fat, i.e. fat stored in the lower part of the body, and then compared them with the ones produced by the fat stored around the waist.

The findings come from a small new clinical trial, published in the journal Appetite, which compared food consumption among 39 women who'd taken part in a previous, year - long weight - loss study and 63 women who were not part of the earlier study.

However, evidence presented in the report sheds doubt these large test score increases: according to an Education Writers Association study, when neighborhood schools were restored, the superintendent in Oklahoma City reduced the number of low - achievers taking the standardized tests by increasing the number of students retained (or «flunked») and implementing transition grades (in which students repeat all or part of the previous grade).

Part of my rationale had to do with previous studies that examined how Historical Surviving Withdrawal Rates were related to (initial) dividend yields.

I then decided to pursue study of a Master of Business on a part time basis over three years from 2014 to 2016, and quickly realised that there was no way that I could continue my previous level of effort on my blog whilst also studying.

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Mike Flannigan, a fire researcher at the University of Alberta, said that previous studies have tried to understand the effects of climate on fires in parts of Canada, but that nothing had been done for the United States on this scale.

The periods of intense hurricanes uncovered by the new research were driven in part by intervals of warm sea surface temperatures that previous research has shown occurred during these time periods, according to the new study.

Previous studies suggested impurities such as black carbon and dust drive melting of bare ice on the lower part of the ice sheet.

This to me is a very pertinent conclusion as previous studies were lambasted at WUWT for showing those losses (and subsequently responded to by me over at Skeptical science) http://www.skepticalscience.com/Part-One-Why-do-glaciers-lose-ice.html http://www.skepticalscience.com/Part-2-How-do-we-measure-Antarctic-ice-changes.html http://www.skepticalscience.com/Part-Three-Response-to-Goddard.html So even with the uncertainties lowered it is still clear that the submarine portions of EAIS are losing more ice than the center part is gaining in snowfall.

Previous evidence that permafrost is warming80 has been confirmed and enhanced by more recent studies.81, 82 The most recent modeling efforts (for example, Avis et al. 2011; Jafarov et al. 201283,84) extend earlier results85, 86 and project that permafrost will be lost from the upper few meters from large parts of Alaska by the end of this century.

While previous studies point to atmospheric CO2 concentrations of 3,000 — 4,000 parts per million during ancient greenhouse events, Breecker's team revises this down to around 1,000 parts per million.

The number of UK students going on to postgraduate study dropped by eight per cent in 2011 — 12 compared to the previous year and was particularly marked among students taking up places on part - time courses.

Well, over half of the graduate recruiters that took part in a recent research study by Highfliers said that, «graduates who have had no previous work experience at all are unlikely to be successful during the selection process and have little or no chance of receiving a job offer for their organisations» graduate programmes.»

Previous Presentation: This study was presented in part at the 36th Annual Convention of the Association for Advancement of Behavior Therapy; November 14, 2002; Reno, Nev..

Writing in Behaviour Therapy, Tenille Frank and colleagues explain that they decided to involve both parents in the design of the study because of previous findings that improvements in child behaviour are more likely to be maintained over time when both parents take part in a program.

This finding is consistent with the results of other studies, 34 and many service providers are trying to find ways to encourage fathers to attend parenting programmes.35 Reports of difficulty sustaining behaviour change over time and the desire for further support have also been reported previously.9, 33 Continuing support to the group from both volunteers and professionals has been proposed as well as flexible, open access, non-structured sources of support.37 Previous studies have also suggested that 30 — 50 % of families who take part in parenting programmes are likely to show no benefit because of other events in their lives, and may therefore need more than a single intervention.36

Children from a previous marriage seem associated with the failures of second marriages, according to a 2002 study by the National Center for Health Statistics (part of the CDC in the USA), which collected information on marital failures.

The exclusive or limited focus on physical abuse and maltreatment might in part explain the failure of some previous studies to confirm the role of MAOA genotype in moderating the relationship between early stress and subsequent aggressive behavior [18]--[20].

Some previous studies incorporated items on activities, but these items were usually a part of the broader items assessing the quality of relationships in particular, as part of the positive dimension (Johnson et al., 1986).