Sentences with phrase «powerful predictor»

This review of research clearly demonstrates that early grade retention is one of the most powerful predictors of later school withdrawal.

She discovered that the most powerful predictor of success — acceptance into the academy — was grit.

And why they are such powerful predictors of success?

It will give dating sites that have never used psychological assessments the ability to integrate genetics and psychology together, and combine them to make a really powerful predictor of compatibility.

And among the general public, party identification remains the single most powerful predictor of people's opinions about a wide range of policy issues.

Our analysis of maternal smoking and breastfeeding found that maternal infant feeding intention was a more powerful predictor of breastfeeding duration than whether the mother smoked or not [78].

A growing number of empirical studies suggest that encouraging play early on enhances this ability, and that educational interventions supporting it are the most powerful predictors of children's development as learners.

• Phonemic awareness has been shown to be a very powerful predictor of later reading achievement.

The least powerful predictor is the child's intellectual development.»

As Kay Trimberger has noted, marital status may not be as powerful a predictor of whether you will die alone as whether you have maintained a circle of friends.

A team of scientists at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and Baylor College of Medicine, led by Eric Boerwinkle, Ph.D., Richard Gibbs, Ph.D., and Bing Yu, Ph.D., have identified powerful predictors of congestive heart failure, a major cause of hospitalization and death in the United States.

One of the most powerful predictors in neuropsychiatry is the epsilon 4 (ε4) allele of the apolipoprotein gene (APOE).

«Kids who show up everyday; who attend schools that are stable, with low student churn; who have high basic skills as measured by PSSAs and GPA are all powerful predictors of who's getting a college degree.»

«The FICO is a summary of credit history, and it is a pretty powerful predictor of a borrower's defaulting on a loan and lender.

The second-most powerful predictor was political ideology, followed by holistic negative affect.

Multiple regression analyses revealed that socio - economic status (SES) was a more powerful predictor for spatial memory than age in boys, but not in girls.

However adaptive coping with learning disabilities is known to be a more powerful predictor of life success than extent of the learning disabilities / dyslexia (Margalit, 2003).

In our research, we have discovered that a very powerful predictor of relationship stability is whether couples allocate «cognitive room» for their relationship and for the world of their partner.

Childhood religious background, not exposure to scientific education, seems to be the most powerful predictor of future irreligion.

Mr Steele found that the fathers» initial interviews, conducted during the pregnancy, were powerful predictors of the children's emotional and mental state at age 11, but not of their condition at younger ages.

«The father's education is a more powerful predictor of a child's learning prospects even than the education level attained by the mother who is probably spending more time with the child,» explains Ms Burgess.

In Parenting from the Inside Out, Mary Hartzell and I offer you ways to make sense of your own childhood experience — a process of reflection that has been shown to be the most powerful predictor of how your child will become attached to you.

Automatic voter registration is one of the most powerful predictors of high voting turnout levels.

Thus, age at first drink (AFD) is generally considered a powerful predictor of progression to alcohol - related harm.

«The suicide attempt is a powerful predictor» of later - life trouble, Goldman - Mellor said.

They find that the prevalence of infectious diseases can be a powerful predictor of regional smarts.

But an even more powerful predictor of staying in the United States, the authors write, is whether «in recent years the US economy has had strong GDP [gross domestic product] growth or the birth country of the foreign student has had weak GDP growth.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

Howard Hughes Medical Institute researchers have discovered that the activation of specific components of the genetic machinery used to close a wound may also be a powerful predictor of which breast...

Unpredictable or «unstable» angina is a powerful predictor of a heart attack.

Why the study matters The discovery adds to a growing body of research that proves social networks are powerful predictors of behavior.

As you may know, your waist size is not only a matter of aesthetics, but also one of the most powerful predictors of lean body mass and your risk of serious degenerative disease.

Movement, of all kinds, falls under Non-Exercise-Activity-Time (N.E.A.T.) and it is a powerful predictor of overweight and obesity.

Dr Mary Vernon suggests, and I agree, that the most powerful predictor of heart attack is a triglyceride to HDL ratio above 4, with higher being worse.

As such, childhood obesity can be a powerful predictor of adult disease and death.

We expected, based on prior research demonstrating the importance of physical attractiveness in romantic attraction both on - and offline, that changes in beliefs about partners» physical appeal would be the most powerful predictor of relationship longevity.

July 30, 2013 • An unusual new analysis finds that the geographic location of a state capital is a powerful predictor of corruption in that state.

We ran a regression analysis to estimate the relationship between states» absolute and relative poverty levels and student achievement, and the result was clear: absolute poverty is a powerful predictor of achievement, while the relationship between relative poverty and test scores in the U.S. is weak and not statistically significant (see Figure 5).

Our data confirm that the latter are powerful predictors of students» academic performance as measured by standardized tests.

But the most powerful predictor of test success is proficiency with nonfiction literacy (writing and reading), White added.