Sentences with phrase «proportion of the population studying»

In these countries, the standards are much more demanding than the Common Core State Standards because they have a far lower proportion of the population studying mathematics in upper secondary school.

Not exact matches

Urinary As concentrations in our infants were an order of magnitude lower than the median 35 µg / L of As in a Bangladeshi population exposed to high drinking water As levels (median, 80 µg / L).28, 47 This was expected given the high rate of breastfeeding in our populations29 and the lower proportion of households with tap water As concentrations above the US Environmental Protection Agency standard of 10 µg / L (12.5 % in our study).

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

Given that a small proportion of the population is homosexual, prospective studies require a large number of children.

According to the nationally representative study, patients who will gain Medicaid under expansion programs supported by the ACA will be younger (average age of 36 versus 38), with a larger proportion being male (49 percent versus 33 percent) and white (60 percent versus 50 percent) compared to the current Medicaid population.

A study of 222,000 technology, science, and medicine graduates showed that between 1990 and 2000 they started 49,000 new companies — a proportion no higher than among the adult population at large.

Kuller and others are also concerned that if the proportion of black people included in studies is the same as that in the overall population — about 12 per cent — there will be too few in any one study to allow separate conclusions to be drawn about them.

By drawing on previous studies, Dietz estimated what proportion of the population could realistically be persuaded to change their behaviour using financial incentives, mass - media campaigns and so forth.

The general rise in short - sightedness, including in a sizeable proportion of the working age population, has implications for both the health care system and the economy, conclude the authors of the study.

The declining rate of growth in health care expenditure in the USA during this period is especially striking because, unlike the other five countries studied, during this period the USA started major reforms to expand health care coverage to a wider proportion of the population.

Professor Sherwin, of the UNSW School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences, said the advantageous mutation then spread rapidly through the population, with the proportion of birds carrying Haplotype H increasing from 17 per cent to 47 per cent during the five years of the study.

The primary measured outcome was carbon monoxide - confirmed self - reported 7 - day point - prevalence abstinence (the proportion of the study population abstinent at a specific point in time) at 26 weeks.

In some studies, observed risk was presented as a proportion of expected risk calculated by Poisson regression modelling with general population data.

A study conducted at the Endocrinology & Metabolism Unit of Evgenidion Hospital in Greece states that «The incidence of both obesity and the metabolic syndrome in modern Western societies has taken epidemic proportions over the past decades and often correlates with indices of stress in the affected populations.

~ Resistant starch and «the butyrate revolution» (review — abstract) «Early epidemiological studies indicated that populations that consume a high proportion of non-starch polysaccharide (NSP) dietary fibre (DF) in their daily diet suffer less from gastrointestinal diseases, in particular colorectal cancers, than populations that consume diets that are high in fat and protein but low in NSP fibre.

«Only a small proportion of the children of our college - educated population is equipped to compete with students in a majority of OECD countries,» wrote Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann in their study, «Teaching Math to the Talented.»

At the time of our study, a high proportion of its student population was black, and a significant proportion of the community lived below the poverty line.

Here we see a very substantial two county study (Alachua County, Florida and San Diego County, California) in which the authors, including Dr. Julie Levy, a noted TNR advocate, write, «In both counties, results of analyses did not indicate a consistent reduction in per capita growth, the population multiplier, or the proportion of female cats that were pregnant.»

«This is a serious concern because a large proportion of the population lives in arid regions to the west of the Andes,» said Antoine Rabatel, the lead author of the study and a scientist with the Laboratory for Glaciology and Environmental Geophysics in Grenoble, France, in an interview with the Guardian.

Taken together, these studies support the notion that collectivism can protect against psychopathology in populations with a high proportion of social sensitivity alleles.

For some clinical populations, such as people with eating disorders, college students may constitute a high risk group, and treatment and psychometric studies with a high proportion of students would not necessarily be excluded from EBMH.

This proportion is approximately double that of children found to be at high risk in the general New South Wales population (15 %) 27 but similar to the proportion noted in other studies of Aboriginal children (24 %, 5 22.5 % 28 and among Aboriginal participants in the New South Wales Population Health Survey).27 There is only one other study to date that has measured the factors associated with Aboriginal child and adolescent mental health.5 SEARCH makes an important, new contribution to this emerging area of research by considering, for the first time, the impact of carer psychological distress.

Our current study is examining, for the first time, the efficacy of the Alert Program within Australian schools, for children with or without a FASD diagnoses, and in a population with a high proportion of Indigenous children.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

Furthermore, a large proportion of comparison participants qualified for a lifetime psychiatric diagnosis (combining subthreshold and full diagnoses)(Table 4), sometimes exceeding population rates.40 It seems more compelling that differences at the mean age of 41 years between probands and comparison participants reflect differential development, especially because findings are highly consistent with other, briefer follow - up studies.

To ensure that the study included a sizable proportion of racial / ethnic minorities and low - income respondents for more accurate subgroup analyses, there was also an oversampling of US telephone exchanges that had a population of 70 % or more of African American, Hispanic, or low - income households.

Several studies have addressed the validity of the parent - reported SDQ in school - aged samples, predominantly confirming the intended 5 - factor structure.5, 6 A 3 - factor configuration of externalizing (conduct problems and hyperactivity), internalizing (emotional and peer problems), and prosocial factors has also been proposed and suggested for use in epidemiologic studies and in low - risk populations.7, 8 The internal reliability of SDQ subscales has been predominantly examined by using Cronbach's α, a measure of the interrelatedness of items; however, α estimates are a lower bound for reliability and is often underestimated.9 A meta - analytic review reported weighted mean α coefficients extracted from 26 studies that showed generally modest reliabilities for parent reports (0.53 < α < 0.76).10 McDonald's ω, which estimates the proportion of a scale measuring a construct, typically yields higher reliability estimates but has rarely been used to assess reliability of the SDQ.

We used complete case analysis because the proportion of missing values in the study population was small (5 % or less) for each regression variable.

The study sample was found to be representative of the general population of the United Kingdom at the start of data collection, except for a smaller proportion of mothers from ethnic minorities compared to the study location (4.1 % vs. 7.6 %), a higher proportion of married or cohabiting mothers, and a greater number of owner - occupier families (Boyd et al. 2013).