Sentences with phrase «previous studies conducted»

This screening procedure for outliers was based on previous studies conducted with children (Waters et al., 2012).

In line with previous studies conducted at the UNSW CBRC [8, 19, 29, 39, 58], parent and teacher reports were combined using a hybrid categorical / continuous rating method.

The positive relationship found between GHQ - 12 and «Avoidance» (or equivalently, the negative relationship found between university adjustment and «Avoidance») is also supported by previous studies conducted by Aspinwall & Taylor (1992), Halamandaris & Power (1999), Park & Adler (2003), and Dyson & Renk (2006), which reported the negative impact of «Avoidance» coping strategy on university adjustment, especially the mental health of students.

This is supported by previous studies conducted in the 1990s and 2000, which found that pets acquired as gifts are actually less likely to be relinquished than pets acquired directly by an individual owner.

From the study: «In contrast to our previous studies conducted among men with prostate cancer and those with abnormal biopsies that showed high grade prostatic intraepithelial neoplasia or foci of atypical cells (5,6), we did not observe differences in PSA change between the study arms.

In previous studies conducted in the same population, Dr. Li's team found a similar association between BPA exposure and erectile dysfunction, among other sexual problems.

Previous studies conducted with both military members and civilians who have experienced trauma have shown anger in the context of PTSD to be far more than a symptom; it can predict PTSD severity but also interfere with PTSD treatment.

«Previous studies conducted in our laboratory have demonstrated that both pre - and postharvest application of lysophosphatidylethanolamine (LPE) can retard aging and improve shelf life of various fruits,» Palta and Ahmed said.

«This is important because previous studies conducted in West Africa are not generalizable to the U.S. population.

The study pooled data from previous studies conducted at 23 sites across the northeastern U.S.

In previous studies conducted by Dr. Wansink each of these changes increased white milk consumption by 30 - 60 % in schools.

Edwardson is a key player in influencing future strategy for research in the lab, as well as a valuable academic mind as Shedd continues to analyze previous studies conducted with partners at the University of Chicago, The University of Illinois and Argonne National Laboratories.

The Washington State University researchers looked at 44 previous studies conducted on organic agriculture.

This is particularly concerning considering a previous study conducted by Baldwin Way, the senior author of the Ohio State study showed the same ingredient also suppressed positive emotions.

A previous study conducted at MedUni Vienna has already shown that it is a form of craving.

A study of Chinese adults in Singapore suggests the prevalence of glaucoma, a disease of the eye that can result in blindness, was 3.2 percent, with no difference from a previous study conducted in 1997, according to a study...

Previous studies conducting personal interviews with male / female athletes who have used creatine for longer than 1 year did not reveal any long - term side effects of creatine.

A previous study conducted by our team found that open communication was related to fewer PTSS in adolescent daughters, while more problem communication was related to more PTSS [5].

Not exact matches

As an example, they cited outside research and «early evidence» from a previous study Matias conducted on Internet messaging board Reddit that involved showing readers of Reddit's «r / science» forum rules for commenting.

According to a PayPal study conducted by Ipsos in October 2015, 36 percent of Internet users in China had made a cross-border purchase in the previous 12 months.

«According to other studies conducted by Pew in recent years, nearly a third of all millennials — Americans between the ages of 18 - 33 — are religiously unaffiliated, a dramatic and ongoing change from previous generations.»

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Although in this study information on breastfeeding practice was reliant upon maternal recall at 9 months, breastfeeding figures are in agreement with data collected prospectively in the UK Infant Feeding Survey conducted in 2000.32 Likewise, the validity of maternal recall of the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery has been shown to be accurate.33 We were unable to adjust for maternal intention to breastfeed at antenatal booking, a factor shown to be important in previous studies34 as this information was not collected in the survey.

«This study adds to previous research conducted in smaller sample groups that also showed this approach does not increase the risk of a baby choking, and indeed in the UK, supports the Department of Health recommendation that babies can have finger foods from six months old.»

This cross-sectional study was to assess the relationship between RA, breastfeeding, and also use of oral contraceptives, in a population of older women from South China, where cultural habits differ from those in the West, where most previous studies were conducted.

For example, the effect of early milking frequency on «programming» milk production capacity has been explored in bovine models [30], [40]--[42], but no human studies have been conducted, most notably due to the previous need for mammary biopsies.

The Justice for All (J4A), a civil society group, disclosed on Wednesday that in a recent independent study it conducted, it concluded that the Nigeria Police Force, in recent times, performed satisfactorily in the handling of sexual assault cases against women and minors, which is a complete departure from previous low ratings.

With regard to poor throwing technique, we identified a list of 24 variables that constitute «proper» pitching technique, based on previous studies of several hundred elite professional and college players conducted at ASMI.

In order to gain a clearer picture of the labor market for cybersecurity professionals, Libicki and coauthors David Senty and Julia Pollak reviewed previous studies on the topic, examined the economics of particular kinds of skilled labor shortages, conducted interviews with managers and educators of cybersecurity professionals, and examined the kinds of skill sets required for these jobs.

To conduct their analysis, they reviewed 158 previous studies on forest elephant behaviors and their cascading ecological impacts.

The new approach contrasts with previous ways scientists analyzed and came to conclusions about sea level rise because it is «the only proper one that aims to fully account for uncertainty using statistical methods,» noted Parnell, principal investigator of the study conducted collaboratively with researchers at Tufts University, Rutgers University and Nanyang Technological University.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

In two previous studies, conducted in 1989 and 1999, the annual financial impact of smoking on California's economy was tallied at $ 7.6 billion and $ 15.8 billion, respectively.

Previous studies of their effectiveness in patients with end - stage renal disease produced mixed results, leading researchers to conduct the review of records of all U.S. patients who had initiated peritoneal dialysis from 2007 to 2011.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

Previous studies have been conducted on testosterone replacement therapy and its cardiovascular effects in men, with different results.

To examine the potential emergent effects of educational interventions, Powers and colleagues analyzed data from two previous intervention studies conducted with 7th graders.

Motivated by their previous finding of the presence of P - glycoprotein overexpression in the nasal lining of patients with CRS with nasal polyps, the study authors conducted a randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled clinical trial studying the use of low - dose Verapamil in 18 patients with CRS with nasal polyps.

We conducted a very extensive study which confirms similar conclusions from previous, smaller studies.»

The findings might have departed from prior studies because of the difference in size and study design, he said, explaining that much of the previous work in this area has been conducted in groups of 100 or fewer and mostly involved student subjects.

Two smaller previous studies were conducted at a single healthcare site and produced conflicting results: one showed higher rates of 30 - day readmissions, and the other found lower rates.

Previous studies have been conducted on, for example, how anonymity affects our willingness to act pro-socially, and thus our concern for social image.

Previous studies, conducted within the longstanding collaboration between the Munich Institute of Tropical Diseases, headed by Prof Michael Hoelscher, and the Mbeya Medical Research Center in southern Tanzania, laid the foundation for conducting a study of this kind.

The previous studies, however, were retrospective (relying on participants» recall), did not focus exclusively on ADHD (included other conduct disorders) or compared only men suffering from adult ADHD with those having remitted childhood ADHD, rather than to controls without ADHD.

Previous studies have reported that trap - jaw ants sometimes jump with their jaws, «but it was unknown whether this behavior was meant to help them get away from a predator, and it wasn't clear that it actually improved their odds of surviving an encounter with a predator,» said University of Illinois graduate student Fredrick Larabee, who conducted the study with entomology professor and animal biology department head Andrew Suarez.

«Compared with several other strains that have been studied, the strain that is least sensitive to the most endocrine - disrupting chemicals has been identified, and the EPA is planning to use it in the screening assays,» says Spearow, now a staff toxicologist for the California EPA; he emphasizes that this is his personal opinion, based on previous work conducted at Davis.

Previous in vitro studies conducted by researchers in other countries showed that this molecule was able to reduce the multiplication and increase the mortality of cells from melanoma, the most aggressive type of skin cancer, as well as breast cancer and neuroblastoma, a tumor that typically affects patients aged 15 or younger.

Porpino analyzed previous research findings from 24 peer - reviewed papers, and empirical data from a study conducted in households in the US and Brazil.

The teenagers with conduct disorder struggled to recognize anger, fear, happiness, sadness and surprise in facial expressions, in line with findings from previous studies.

We hope that this result will accelerate the automation and miniaturization of gel electrophoresis, which in turn can make medical diagnoses and DNA sequencing cheaper, faster, and more reliable,» says Assoc. Prof. Nathaniel Robinson, leader of the research group, on their «work as a logical extension of previous studies on conducting polymer electrodes in electrokinetic systems.»