Sentences with phrase «rate than boys»

Girls are moving to these subjects at a faster rate than boys.

The results of the research paper are consistent with those of a 2013 study which found that, while ACL injuries did not disproportionately affect female high school athletes overall, girls were found to have a significantly higher ACL injury rate than boys in sex - comparable sports (soccer, basketball, and baseball / softball), with girls 2 times more likely to suffer an ACL injury playing soccer than any other sport, and 4 times more likely to sustain such an injury playing either soccer or basketball than volleyball or softball.

In fact, by age 5, girls already have higher heart rates than boys do.

And girls had both higher average scores and higher growth rates than boys.

Not exact matches

%) than soccer, where attendance by a doctor was rare (3.0 %), this despite the fact that statistics show that soccer, both boys» and especially girls, have concussion rates among the highest of all high school sports.

Among directly comparable sports (soccer, basketball, baseball / softball), the severe injury rate was higher for girls (0.29 per 1,000 exposures) than for boys (0.23), with virtually all of the difference resulting from a much higher severe injury for girls» basketball (0.34) versus boys» basketball (0.24);

Not only are girls predisposed to instability or dislocation of the kneecap (patella), pain and problems under the kneecap, but the twisting and cutting in soccer make them particularly vulnerable to non-contact injuries of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which they suffer at a rate two to ten times higher than boys.

Confirming previous data, the severe injury rate was more than three times higher in competition (0.79) than practice (0.24), both overall and in each of the nine sports studied (boy's football, boys» and girls» soccer, girls» volleyball, boys» and girls» basketball, boys» wrestling, boys» baseball, and girls» softball).

Among sex - comparable sports, the rate of sport - related concussion was 56 percent higher in girls than in boys.

Research shows that preteen and teen boys are more likely to want to see a program if it's rated MA (mature audience) than if it's PG (parental guidance suggested).

Girls have higher concussion rates in sports like soccer and basketball than boys, but whether they experience greater levels of acute, postconcussive neurocognitive impairment remains unclear, even after extensive research.

If your hair seems to be growing nonstop, and at a much faster rate than it typically does, a little boy may be the reason!

If your locks are suddenly luscious, and seem to be growing at faster - than - normal rate, it is an indicator of a boy baby lounging in your stomach, making you all stunning and radiant.

A recent study of high school sports revealed that the concussion rate in boys» ice hockey (5.4 per 10000 AEs) was second only to football (6.4 per 10000 AEs); however, concussions accounted for a greater proportion of total injures in boys» ice hockey (22.2 %) than any of the other 20 sports, with 30 % of the concussions in ice hockey resulting from a player being body checked.

On the whole, girls have higher rates of suicide ideation and planning than boys.

«In addition, vigorous physical activity, defined as activity that raises heart rate and breathing, increased more in girls than in boys.

Prior studies have found that, before puberty, boys have approximately 1.5 times higher rate of asthma than girls.

When it comes to mathematics, girls rate their abilities markedly lower than boys, even when there is no observable difference between the two, according to Florida State University researchers.

Female adults had a higher response rate to language blocks initiated by infant girls than boys during the newborn period and at 44 weeks» PMA.

Recent estimates suggest that as many as 1.9 million children younger than 18 years have a sport - or recreation - related concussion each year in the United States.1 This injury is biomechanically induced, with symptoms resulting from neuronal dysfunction due to functional and neurometabolic alterations rather than gross structural abnormalities.2 Compared with boys involved in similar activities, girls experience higher rates of sport - related concussion,3 - 7 report more severe symptoms,8 - 11 demonstrate worse cognitive impairment,8 - 10, 12 and take longer to recover.11 The neural mechanisms behind these postconcussion sex differences are poorly understood but have been attributed to differences in neuroanatomy and physiology, 13 cerebral blood flow, 14 and the female sex hormones estrogen and progesterone.15 - 17

Circumcision rates have traditionally been higher in the U.S. than in Europe, but the American Academy of Pediatrics currently says that the medical benefits are insufficient to recommend circumcision for all baby boys.

Girls have higher rates of UTI than boys, and yet when a girl gets a UTI, she is simply prescribed antibiotics.

It is now estimated that one in sixty - eight children will be diagnosed with autism, with boys affected at a much higher rate than girls.

In fact, one recent study involving women with celiac disease found that 37 % suffered from clinical depression, and another involving celiac children found depression rates ranging from more than 8 % in boys to nearly 14 % in girls.

O'Brien adds that it's also not known why the disease more often progresses in girls to a degree where treatment is required than it does in boys, at a rate of eight to one.

Timmons, B.W., Bar - Or, O. and Riddell, M.C. (2003) Oxidation rate of exogenous carbohydrate during exercise is higher in boys than in men.

The rate among adult women is 25 % higher than that in men, however, and research suggests that boys may be more likely to outgrow asthma after puberty.

I originally agreed with this site's less - than - enthused review of the first movie, which was «edgy» in an obvious, trying - too - hard way, occasionally wearing its «R» rating with all the misplaced pride of a middle school boy sporting a chocolate milk mustache as if it were a Sam Elliott - style soup strainer (although — kudos!

For families looking for a PG - rated outing sure that's harmless for boys and sure to please them, they could do a lot worse than The Last Starfighter.

After all, every other disappointment since then could be attributed to Sandler messing with the proven formula, whether it's working with accomplished directors on more dramatic fare (like Funny People, Punch - Drunk Love, and Spanglish), exploring a new medium (the animated Eight Crazy Nights), or testing his appeal with a rating other than PG - 13 (from the PG Jack and Jill to the R - rated That's My Boy).

And elsewhere, in Chad and the Central African Republic, there is a flat rate of less than 70 girls for every 100 boys.

They represent a population with a very high dropout rate, one that is higher than that of Latino girls, because the boys are more likely to feel the pull of the streets and of work.

Parents became aware regarding the importance of education and they themselves send their children including daughters, in fact now the enrollment rate of girls is higher than the boys.

By socio - economic level, low - income boys tend to drop out earlier from the educational system and enter into the labor market sooner than their wealthier peers even though they face higher unemployment rates, lower income and worse employment conditions (Amarante, 2011; Bucheli, 2006).

Rochester has the country's lowest high school graduation rate for minority boys, graduating less than 9 percent of African American and less than 10 percent of Latino boys.

Comparing boys to their sisters in a data set that includes more than 1 million children born in Florida between 1992 and 2002, the authors demonstrate a persistent gender gap in graduation and truancy rates, incidence of behavioral and cognitive disabilities, and standardized test scores.

Boys are suspended at higher rates than girls, and whites are suspended at higher rates than Asians.

And so what we found in that was even though girls had comparable test scores to boys and had actually higher grades, as was mentioned earlier, higher grades in math and science than boys, that teachers were more likely to rate the class as easy for the boys and as more difficult for the girls.

From as early as preschool, boys are expelled almost five times as often as girls; for all grade levels, African American students are suspended or expelled at rates several times higher than any other group; and nonheterosexual youth experience school sanctions up to three times more often than heterosexual youth.

No finer approval rating than making Darrell, the big orange boy, content and loved til his passing.

His teaching is rated as «incompetent,» and based on everything he writes for his blog during class time (when he is being overpaid to teach rather than blog), he is also a poster boy for corruption and misappropriation of funds — and a damning indictment of the tenure system.»

In addition to this rapid surface warming, the global oceans have also been accumulating heat at an incredible rate - the equivalent of more than two Hiroshima «Little Boy» atomic bomb detonations per second, every second over a the past half century.

The rate of birth injuries is higher among baby boys (about 6.6 per every 1,000 infants born) than for baby girls (about 5.1 per every 1,000).

If you're buying a turbo, high - tech, red sports car with a spoiler, and you're a 17 year old boy, your insurance rates are going to be a lot higher than if you're a middle aged woman with a good driving record purchasing a minivan.

A teenage boy is likely to have a higher insurance rate than a middle - aged driver, because statistically, teenage boys have more accidents than do 40 - year - olds.

Successfully maintained staff attrition rate of less than 4 %, and supervised staff of up to 40 food servers, bartenders, bus boys, cooks, catering staff, snack bar, beverage cart personnel and three managers.

By adolescence, however, girls» rates are significantly higher than boys» (Petersen, Sarigiani, & Kennedy, 1991).

Research within clinical populations consistently finds that girls are more often abused than boys, although research focused on the broader population of community youth has not shown such gender differences in rates of physical maltreatment.72 Female offenders typically are abused before their first offense.73 Among girls in the California juvenile justice system, 92 percent report some form of emotional, physical, or sexual abuse.74 Self - reported victimization rates among boys in the juvenile justice system are considerably lower, though boys may be more likely than girls to underreport certain forms of abuse.75 Some studies report abuse rates for males between 25 percent and 31 percent, while others report rates of 10 percent for sexual abuse and 47 percent for physical abuse.76 Closer comparison reveals that delinquent males and females tend to report different types of traumas as well.

Girls reported significantly higher rates of SM than did boys (64 vs. 36 %, respectively).

Researchers at Columbia University found that the presence of a Boys or Girls Club in a public housing project reduced crime rates by 13 percent and drug use by more than 20 percent.