Sentences with phrase «range of previous studies»

[94] These findings are consistent with a range of previous studies that examine government funding arrangements.

Not exact matches

Furthermore, the report by Aidenvironment, which analyzed 40 previous independent research studies, surveying over a hundred business leaders across four sectors, found a range of business benefits from certification — from improved market access, profitability and production to enhanced reputation and reduced risk for certified businesses.

However, compared to previous studies of regulation compliance that have utilised data sets ranging in duration from 63 hours [9] to 80 hours of programming [24], this was a relatively large sample that was purposively selected to cover both school holidays and term time.

Previous studies have reported a bewildering range of transition times, from a few thousand to nearly 30,000 years.

Overall, the average nitrogen content in the shells and soft tissue was comparable to that found in previous studies ranging from Cape Cod to the Gulf of Mexico.

In a report of their preliminary results, published in the 26 April issue of the American journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the researchers note that the lengths of DNA that would code for such protein segments — 450 nucleotides for prokaryotes and 375 for higher organisms — fall in the range of sizes that previous studies have found to be optimal for forming circular segments of DNA.

Previous studies found patterns suggesting that some lineages and groups are hit harder than others, but in El Copé, the disease hit across the entire range of evolutionary history, wiping out some lineages and not others in a random way.

The pilot study — an autumn 2014 online survey complemented with focus groups — looked into the career paths of some 500 young scientists who had obtained a Ph.D. in the previous 7 years and done at least one postdoc with one of a small and diverse range of research and funding organizations.

Evolutionary biologists Emma Teeling and Mark Springer from the University of California, Riverside, and their colleagues sought to resolve this controversy by studying a broad range of bats and examining more genes in each than did previous studies.

A previous study estimated that the R2 of most ecological research ranges was between 0.02 and 0.05, but few researchers will publish results with such small explanatory power.

Previous small studies suggested that delaying stent implantation for a period of time ranging from several hours to several days after reopening the artery might reduce the risk of blood - flow disturbance.

Unlike previous studies, which tracked lymphoma progression by monitoring the sequence of just one cancer - associated protein, CAPP - Seq can identify a much larger range of mutations in the tumor genome.

Previous estimates provided a 10 - year range of maturity and we have been able to pinpoint exactly when the whale in the study hit sexual maturity.

This result was agreed with several previous studies who stated that, Cyclin D1 showed nuclear and cytoplasmic staining and had an extensive range of intensities between different sections [22, 23].

Interestingly in this study, the reported sperm viability of neonicotinoid - exposed drones was still well within the range reported in a previous published paper (Pettis et al 2016; Peng et al 2015) for health honeybee colonies.

Previous studies show that individuals recovering from stroke who attended 8 weeks of bi-weekly yoga rehabilitation demonstrated significant improvements in balance, decreased fear of falling, greater physical strength, walking ability and range of motion, and less pain.

«Insomnia is quite common among older adults and it can lead to a range of health issues if left untreated,» said lead researcher Jack Losso, professor in the School of Nutrition and Food Sciences at Louisiana State University Agricultural Center in Baton Rouge who has conducted previous studies on tart cherry juice and sleep.

Our finding corroborates the findings of previous studies (16, 20, 21) and suggests that even though moderate caffeine and coffee intakes may alter E2, these alterations are not within a range that affects ovulatory function.

Significant gains in knee range of motion reported in previous studies may be more achievable because they used a strict, hip fixed, kneeling position in a modified lunge (6,7), so there was little room for subjects» prelearned movement pattern to be used.

One change this year is that GCSE English literature and history syllabuses required teenagers to study the full curriculum - some previous syllabuses had allowed for a narrower range of content to be studied.

Additionally, unlike the previous studies, the Portland intervention utilized a wide - range of outreach tools and did so over a relatively short amount of time.

Unlike the previous studies consisting mostly of clinical samples with more severe cases [25], [26], [40], our population sample covered the entire phenotypic range and included also milder cases in all breeds.

Actually Olson et al's abstract states «Our results are consistent with most previous studies» and «The mode of the climate sensitivity estimate is 2.8 °C, with the corresponding 95 % credible interval ranging from 1.8 to 4.9 °C» (which supports the first quote).

Hegerl et al (2006) for example used comparisons during the pre-industrial of EBM simulations and proxy temperature reconstructions based entirely or partially on tree - ring data to estimate the equilibrium 2xCO2 climate sensitivity, arguing for a substantially lower 5 % -95 % range of 1.5 — 6.2 C than found in several previous studies.

As in previous studies in Europe and southern Africa, we project both reductions and increases in range sizes, depending on the degree of climate change and the abilities of the species to disperse [12]--[13], [20]--[21].

Previous global modeling studies have predicted the extent of this species» range in northeastern USA under current climatic conditions [3], [24].

Previous research has shown that global warming will cause changes in ocean temperatures, sea ice extent, salinity, and oxygen levels, among other impacts, that are likely to lead to significant shifts in the distribution range and productivity of marine species, the study notes.

I recommend Wittenberg (2014, http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00577.1): «Previous studies have revealed a wide range of ENSO responses to forcings from greenhouse gases, aerosols, and orbital variations, but they have also shown that interdecadal modulation of ENSO can arise even without such forcings.

Regarding variability, the ISPM fails to mention that the IPCC found that the larger «natural climatic variability» is almost all in the direction of cooler temperatures, relative to «previous estimations», for the past millenium: «The additional variability shown in some new studies [since the Third Assesment Report] implies mainly cooler temperatures (predominantly in the 12th to 14th, 17th and 19th centuries), and only one new reconstruction suggests slightly warmer conditions (in the 11th century, but well within the uncertainty range indicated in the TAR).»

Previous studies reported a wide range of stratospheric water vapor feedback strength from 0.02 to 0.3 Wm - 2K - 1» https://ams.confex.com/ams/21Fluid19Middle/webprogram/Paper319586.html

Consequently, the upper - end range of carbon release by 2100 calculated in this paper, 508 PgC, is much larger than the previous studies that did not use coupled carbon - climate models.

Industrial Agriculture's Negative Effects The report didn't go into wider - ranging effects of the industrial agriculture dominant in the US, such as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous estimates.

The study did not assume 100 % adoption of each intervention; rather, drawing on empirical data of adoption rates for previous health and environmental behavior interventions, the researchers estimated potential adoption rates ranging from 15 % for carpooling to 90 % for weatherization.

A recent rapid review to update the evidence for components of the Healthy Child Programme in England also found few studies of interventions aiming to promote child development outcomes in all families with children in the 0 — 5 age range.10 We reviewed a larger number of primary studies than either of these previous publications.

The SMFQ is a valid instrument48 with adequate psychometric properties, 49 and a previous study based on the youth@hordaland study found the SMFQ to be unidimensional, supporting the use of the sum score of SMFQ.50 Reliability in the current sample was excellent (range = 0 — 26, ordinal α = 0.95).

Advances in prevention in public health2 provide a model for prevention of adolescent health - risk behaviors by focusing on risk and protective factors predictive of these behaviors.3, 4 Research on the predictors of school failure, delinquency, drug abuse, teen pregnancy, and violence indicates that many of the same factors predict these different outcomes.5, 6 Recent research has shown that bonding to school and family protects against a broad range of health - risk behaviors in adoles cence.6 Yet, prevention studies typically have focused narrowly on a specific outcome, such as preventing substance abuse, and on attitudes and social influences that predict that outcome.7, 8 Previous studies on prevention have not sought to address the shared risk and protective factors for diverse health - risk behaviors that are the main threats to adolescent health.

For the total score of Greek UCLA the results showed a high satisfactory and adequate psychometrically Cronbach's α coefficient of 0.91, which is comparable to alphas reported in previous studies ranging from 0.89 to 0.97.

Parents reported the frequency with which they used each of 12 responses to their child's misbehavior in an average week in the past month.23 As in our previous study, 5 the usual 7 - point scale was condensed to 4 response categories, ranging from 0 (never) to 3 (almost always), for telephone administration.

Reported alpha for the IBI scale ranged from.94 to.98 in previous studies (Dweck, et al., 1995), and an alpha of.89 was obtained for the current study.

Results indicated that patients gave high ratings for therapeutic alliance in e-therapy, with the means for the subscales of bond and partnership between therapist and patient (mean 5.97, SD 1.26) and confident collaboration between therapist and patient (mean 6.19, SD 1.24) within the range of reported means for previous face - to - face therapy studies.

Previous studies examining varying levels of antenatal alcohol use (i.e., light, moderate, heavy, and alcohol dependence) have demonstrated adverse effects on a range of offspring outcomes [56]; while others have demonstrated no associations [17,18,57,58].

Previous research has shown that this scale demonstrates acceptable internal consistency, ranging from.7 to.8, and high test — retest reliability (Fritz & Helgeson, 1998; Helgeson & Fritz, 1999), including a study of adolescents with diabetes (Helgeson & Fritz, 1996).

Previous studies have suggested that children with sleep problems are more likely to display more externalizing behavior problems.4 Although a similar pattern was seen in our cohort, the severity of externalizing behavior problems in children with persistent sleep problems did not fall into the clinical range.5