Sentences with phrase «prior studies»

In prior studies of the impact of a plant - based diet, there were several limitations.

However, this delivery protein does not exist in mice, rats or other animals used in prior studies with the compound.

Even with this careful attention to selection bias, we confirm the findings of prior studies showing that teachers with master's degrees are no more effective than those without.

This work moves beyond prior studies by focusing on the antisocial behavior of parents and their children, but also considers the pathways through which parents influence their children.

This is a major departure from prior studies in rodents, where starting at an earlier age is better in achieving the benefits of a low - calorie diet.

Prior studies suggest that exposure to the natural environment may be important for optimal mental health.

Most prior studies had not taken into account the involvement of other components of the immune system.

Prior studies using global models poorly matched the ozone increases measured in western national parks.

While prior studies of decision - making have focused on group effects, or the ways everyone's brains are similar, the new study focused on individual differences.

Prior studies examining this question have focused on the district level or explored the effects of charter schools located within several miles of a traditional public school.

Unlike prior studies, which relied on models or indirect data, her team was able to use observations gathered directly from the study region, yet they are consistent with earlier findings.

What's more, the research team evaluated weekly average bowel movements during the treatment and follow - up periods, not just end points, as in many prior studies.

This finding was especially interesting since prior studies beginning in the 1980s across different medical specialties had noted an increasing resistance to these antibiotics.

The new British research looked at the issue of long hours spent sitting, which prior studies have found to be bad for people's health.

We suspect prior studies that relied on variation in actual spending and found only modest effects of school spending may have been influenced by unresolved biases.

Why are the effects so negative when prior studies have found either no effect or positive effects?

Prior studies involving loss aversion have found that the technique is more effective when people feel the threat of periodic and regular losses.

Prior studies also often lack information about how services were delivered and which kinds of families experience the greatest benefits.

The results from the current research were compared against prior studies completed in early 2016 and late 2015.

Prior studies show small differences in men's and women's global marital satisfaction.

Extensive research from prior studies has come to the same conclusion.

These results are consistent with prior studies in older women which showed that drinking increases breast cancer risk.

Most prior studies have focused on end - stage renal disease.

Prior studies of food addiction have compared patient reactions to drastically different types of foods, such as high - calorie cheesecake versus boiled vegetables.

It is a surprising result, given that many prior studies have shown religion to have potentially beneficial effects on brain function, anxiety, and depression.

The academic involvement in prior studies should form the central message of the essay.

There were already concerns surrounding the use of iPS cells in therapies because prior studies suggested they were prone to forming cancers.

While prior studies found a strong link between «hot flashes» and increased risk of heart disease and death, this study found that the frequency, but not the severity, of hot flashes was specifically associated with greater arterial stiffening and blood vessel dysfunction.

HBV reactivation can be severe causing acute liver failure and even death, with one prior study reporting a 25 % mortal rate.

Since our study as well as prior studies [37] showed that psychometric properties of the total SDQ scale are more satisfactory than SDQ subscales (Cronbach's alpha =.48 — .68), the total scale was used to investigate the effects of peer - victimization on general mental health problems.

Anastasia Kastanaki, PhD, study co-author, psychologist, and research associate at the University of Crete in Greece, has conducted several prior studies of suicide in Greece: «In the light of these data, authorities are called upon to play a more important role in educating the public over these events with the ultimate aim of reducing the impact of the financial downturn on suicide.

Material News - Material News is prior studies indicating insider buying, selling, activity precedes positive, negative, abnormal returns that persist over relatively long horizons.

«We need to have a better understanding of the impact of this common drinking water contaminant on all aspects of pregnancy,» said Aschengrau, who has led numerous prior studies on the health effects of PCE.

That empirical aerosol forcing assessment for the past decade is consistent with the climate forcings scenario (Fig. 8) that we use for the past century in the present and prior studies [64], [190].

Previous genome - wide association studies (GWAS) by the group have identified new genetic risk factors for the higher rates of asthma and poor response to bronchodilator medications seen in these minority populations — in many cases different from risk factors seen in prior studies conducted in European Americans.

However, prior studies demonstrate that less than one - third of patients are treated within the recommended time frame, and that this measure has improved minimally over time, according to background information in the article.

This research differed in its use of only low levels of alcohol exposure, whereas prior studies used high levels of exposure to reach the same conclusion.

Dr. Gregg Fonarow, a professor of cardiology at the University of California, Los Angeles, said prior studies where lower doses of omega - 3 fatty acids were given after heart attacks had yielded «mixed results.»

Prior studies relied on satellite images, which measure chlorophyll levels alone, so they would not have revealed this distinction.

The mission, Orbital - 2, will both deliver new scientific investigations to the space station, as well as help build upon and expand prior studies.