Sentences with phrase «prior studies of»

Consistent with most prior studies of older adults (Bulanda, 2011; Cohen et al., 2009; Windsor & Butterworth, 2010), we found higher levels of global marital satisfaction among men than women.

These changes, designed to make the interventions more suitable for the primary care setting and clientele, did not seem to be significant changes from prior research since the «dose» findings in this study are similar to the «completer» findings of prior research, and because prior studies of less intensive interventions involving therapist contact also show similar effects for less intensive treatments.

(b) most prior studies of parent training have conducted «completer» rather than intent to treat analyses.

Our study of VIP and BB, together with prior studies of ROR and Healthy Steps, suggests that a targeted approach may be preferred for primary care interventions to promote parent - child interaction and early child development.

Moreover, there were more female patients and male partners in this study compared with prior studies of veterans and a community sample.

Our findings confirm those of prior studies of adult female detainees and females with conduct disorders, which found that females have higher rates of psychiatric disorders than males.64, 65

Although there is limited research on the effects of an individualized, strengths - based approach on child and family outcomes for the population of child welfare clients, prior studies of other service recipients (e.g., early intervention, mental health, elderly services) have found that a family - centered, strengths - based approach is associated with increased service engagement (Green et al., 2004; Shireman, 1998), increased parenting competency (Green et al., 2004; Whitley, 1999), and enhanced interaction among family members (Green et al., 2004; Huebner, Jones, Miller, Custer, & Critchfield, 2006).

Unlike prior studies of marital conflict, the current investigation focused specifically on how married individuals» communication about finances is related to marital satisfaction.

Unfortunately, in most prior studies of acculturation cultural background and genotype have been confounded.

This section then compares the summary judgment success rates in our sample with the success rates in the few prior studies of summary judgment success.

Those measures, however, rely entirely on two structural features — syllables per word and words per sentence.48 As we describe below, we have adopted a comprehensive approach to measuring readability by taking fifty different readability measures and then using factor analysis to create an index based on the most reliable set of measures.49 The next section discusses the few prior studies of the relationship between readability and case outcome.

For the new study, Brandt and his colleagues analyzed approximately 15,000 measurements from 18 prior studies of natural gas leaks from across the U.S. using a statistical technique called extreme value theory, which is useful for analyzing infrequent but highly consequential events.

These results are consistent with all prior studies of the causes of global warming (Figure 1).

Prior studies of the English bulldog relied on pedigrees rather than DNA analysis.

MTDA's overall credit recovery passing rate is 57 percent, which falls at the high end of the range found in prior studies of online classes.

Prior studies of IWB use have indicated that contextual influences, such as teacher philosophy and efficacy, likely impact teacher instructional use of an IWB.

Although prior studies of mainstreaming have produced mixed results, none have used experimental methods to gain a clear picture of its effectiveness.

When comparing the current data to prior studies of FMc, some additional differences merit discussion.

Most prior studies of FMc examined Ficoll - purified peripheral blood mononuclear cells.

Our findings that female internists appear to have better outcomes for inpatient care than their male peers are consistent with results from prior studies of process measures of quality.

Notably, that GWAS was conducted using a custom high - throughput SNP array with classic GWAS variants (tag SNPs), a catalog of known protein - altering variants (exome chip) and several custom sets based on prior studies of AMD:

For the new study, Brandt and his colleagues analyzed approximately 15,000 measurements from 18 prior studies of natural gas leaks from across the U.S. using a statistical technique called extreme value theory, which is useful for analyzing infrequent but highly consequential events.

Furthermore, these antibodies prevent CHIKV from both entering and exiting cells, whereas prior studies of neutralizing antibodies to CHIKV and multiple other classes of viruses have focused on the capacity to block viruses from entering a cell.

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

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 of microfluidic devices have shown that motility of the sperm sample increased to almost 100 percent and morphology of the isolated sperm also was improved after microfluidic sorting.

Lock, who has conducted several prior studies of the therapy that teaches parents to help their children eat normally again, said he thinks this approach works by interrupting the patient's behaviors that are supporting erroneous thinking patterns.

As a result, prior studies of maternal health in India have severely missed the mark when calculating pre-pregnancy body weight.

Prior studies of dark matter have found that galaxies and other visible matter float inside blobs of dark matter, like white chocolate chips in a dark cookie.

Prior studies of atomic - level grain boundary and segregation structures have been mostly focused on small - angle or special symmetrical tilt and twist boundaries with high symmetries and well - defined periodicities in artificial bicrystals.

But it was a very unsatisfying attempt — to have weighty theological questions determined by delegates who came together for a few days with little prior study of the issues, who were sometimes inclined to suppose that such questions admitted of «yes» or «no» answers, and who passed judgment after rather limited opportunity for discussion and debate.

Participants had been enrolled at five to seven months of age for a prior study of dust - control efficacy.16 The children had been born between July 1994 and January 1995.

This is consistent with the researchers» findings in a prior study of mSMT in patients with MS, which provided the first Class I evidence for the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in MS. (Chiaravalloti N, et al: An RCT to treat learning impairment in MS. Neurology 2013 (81) doi: 10.1212 / 01.

By setting the camera in complete darkness and forgoing technical control, the artist relies on his prior study of the landscape to produce these images.

Criteria for no comparable services were maternal age 18 years or older (adolescent mothers routinely receive parenting services at our institution) and no participation in the prior study of VIP or BB.

Not exact matches

A recent study of 21,000 business school alumni found that 45 % of entrepreneurs who have graduated since 2010 started their businesses straight out of school, compared to just 7 % among those who graduated prior to 1990.

The researchers caution that their study can't pin down exactly how much achievement is down to prior math success and how much is because of the way positivity pumps up learning in the brain.

«Woody Island serves as the administrative and military center of China's presence in the South China Sea,» Gregory Poling, Center for Strategic and International Studies fellow and director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative, told CNBC in a prior interview.

But in today's culture of quick fixes, we'd like to plead a case for the old - fashioned route of in - depth, prolonged study prior to hanging out a shingle.

Additionally, a study by Inmoo Lee of the KAIST College of Business, Yuen Jung Park of Hallym University, and Neil D. Pearson of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign found that companies that completed buybacks outperformed the benchmark prior to 2001.

From the bank's universe of 37 million checking account customers, the think tank's researchers stripped identifiers and grabbed a sample of 2.3 million families across 23 U.S. states for whom they had «a very good window into their financial lives,» said Fiona Greig, JPMCI's Director of Consumer Research, who presented the study's key findings prior to the panel discussion.

In the study, which examined over 12,000 customers of 212 clothes stores over 12 months, moving up one point on a 7 - point identification scale increased spending by $ 124.39, even when other factors like satisfaction, income and prior spending were kept the same

What's especially telling is that studies indicate that prior entrepreneurial experience doesn't change the positive impacts of an accelerator program.

The Harvard paper cites a 2000 study by Bhide that finds «a substantial fraction of the Inc. 500 got their idea for their new company while working at their prior employer.»

In a recent study, TalentBoard found that for candidates who interviewed with a company they had «no [prior] relationship with,» 50 percent of them rated the company's candidate experience with one - star.

The study simulated a negotiation in the context of resource allocation, in which one group of participants was given the opportunity to voice their opinions prior to the final decision, and the other group was not.

This should motivate greater attention to and study of the consequences of mini flash crashes, including the retroactive investigation into patterns of mini flash crashes prior to other flash crashes that are surrounded by great causal uncertainty, such as the Flash Crash of the U.S. Dollar on March 18, 2015 [25].

In previous editions of this guide, we spent a huge amount of time and resources testing cables: We looked at nearly 40 popular and highly rated cables for the prior edition, including sending a selection of those to a former NASA engineer to tear them down and study their physical construction.

Prior to that, he studied Physics at the University of California at Davis.

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