Sentences with phrase «reading a data study»

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Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.

He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by providing data.

My reaction, upon reading the study, was: «wow, they've done a lot of work, and they've got some cool data, but I'm not sure I trust the results».

Using data for 955 non-financial German firms for which sufficient data is available during the period 1960 - 2006 for the factor portfolios and 1993 - 2006 for the sentiment measure, these studies find that: Keep Reading

That's a question I'm asking after reading some new housing data and real estate market studies out this week.

ian... not sure which part you wanted me to reply on, but I will take issue with yr point about homosexuality being a threat to human existence.I'm no expert on the subject, but I think we cd safely assume that the phenomena has been with us since our ancestors came out of the trees... we're now over six billion and growing at an alarming rate.Not sure where you might find the data on this supposed threat to going forth and multiplying.BTW, I have read that homosexual behaviour is observable in the animal kingdom, but I wd need to do some work to reference a credible study.

Alongside these statistics used by the activists, it is useful to read studies by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), the official state agency for demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 and studies by the National Institute of Demographic Studies (INED), the official state agency for demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 and Studies (INED), the official state agency for demographic data: INED estimates the number of concerned children to be between 24,000 and 40,000.

The authors» responsibilities were as follows — CNM: had leadership responsibility for the research planning and execution, wrote the manuscript, and had primary responsibility for the final content of the manuscript; CNM, HE, and BN: formulated the study idea and designed the research; EV and JM: managed the day - to - day conduct of the study and oversaw the data collection; YJ: performed statistical analyses of the study data; and all authors: provided critical review and commentary on the draft of the manuscript and read and approved the final manuscript.

you can't use websites as proof, you have to actually read the studies and then analyse the data and then, look at similar studies for comparison.

If you dig and read studies examining the actual safety and efficacy data about the various vaccines, it is clear that vaccination prevents the development of a strong natural immune system.

Last Friday, I told you about a new study which gathered data in two Vermont elementary schools and concluded that kids» fruit and vegetable consumption is down and food waste is up since the implementation of the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids... [Continue reading]

By San Francisco Chronicle The Burlington Free Press reports (http://bfpne.ws/17nXp8w) in the meantime, a task force will study concussion data from Vermont school sporting... read more

I have read the studies, and I agree that they all have limitations, but I'm not willing to just ignore those data.

It is important to mention this to avoid misinterpretations, sure, but the study seems to be american - centered (there are tests of this method in European coutries, but if I read correctly the graph is only taken from US data).

Yet data on broader public consumption of science - related blogs are limited, and those studies that do exist suggest that blog reading occurs among a small, unique segment of the public — who may or may not be drawn to science blogs with the goal of discussing the science.

«I have a set of grants that I need to read for study section and it's taken me all day just to get through one guy's preliminary data.

A new study in the journal Genetics in Medicine, published by Springer Nature, now shows that up to 40 percent of direct - to - consumer (DTC) genetic tests provide incorrect readings in the raw data.

The study analysed data from four large - scale longitudinal studies and found that the poorer reading and maths skills of children born prematurely were associated with lower educational qualifications on leaving school and lower income in middle age.

By studying such a large data set — over 200,000 galaxies in 21 different wavelengths, or colors of light, from ultraviolet to infrared — astronomers compared the energy emissions from galaxies across a wide swath of space and time to read the history of the universe.

His work involved gathering data for an epidemiological study about congenital malformations by reading medical reports and talking to families and, Cordier says, his boss «felt that I had a good relationship with patients and that maybe I could do more» to help them.

Researchers analyzed data compiled from 335 teens ages 14 - 17 enrolled in the study including a blood pressure reading taken during a physical exam.

Other papers in the issue examine how deep sea sediments may affect seismic wave readings, and evaluate how the Cascadia Initiative's data collection from ocean bottom seismometers has improved over the first three years of the study.

Intrigued by the research, Eden decided to split her time between Oxford and Wake Forest, where she studied children with dyslexia and children who read normally, collecting data on visual - spatial skills and temporal processing.

And the besetting sin, you see as an amateur coming from outside, it struck me almost immediately — because I've never taken psychology or read a psych text book — and what I've noticed over my 20 - years holiday in this discipline is the extent to which people who study IQ data and even other data about individual differences never concoct a sociological scenario that might explain the data.

If you have defensible doubts that the data are actually rubbish (say, an fMRI data set littered with spikes, distortions, and excessive motion artifacts, or a social psychology study where you discovered posthoc that all the participants were illiterate and couldn't read the questionnaires) then by all means throw them in the bin.

Riccardo d'Andria, CNR - ISAFOM's former director who conducted an investigation into the case, said Continue reading Tomato study didn't get co-author okays, includes unreliable data

MAUNA KEA, HI — A detailed study of the motions of different stellar populations in Andromeda galaxy by UC Santa Cruz scientists using W. M. Keck Observatory data has found striking differences... Read more»

FRBs first came to the attention of the scientific community in 2007, when Parkes researchers studying archival data came across a short, sharp spike in readings taken six years earlier.

Many individuals (read: the internet) then went on to make a connection from this to data on the mean rate of amino acid absorption in the small intestine (5 - 10 grams per hour, depending on study), and decided that 30 grams of protein per sitting was the body's upper limit.

I've read the China Study and all of the supporting data from beginning to end.

Please read my Forks Over Knives review for more information on what's wrong with the conclusions drawn from Campbell's casein / aflatoxin research, and if you'd rather look at peer - reviewed research than the words of some random internet blogger, see my collection of scientific papers based on the China Study data that contradict the claims in Campbell's book.

For those reading who, while respecting anecdotal examples, are more keen on evidence - based data, I'd point you towards the renowned Gullet, et al study — A Biomechanical Comparison of Back and Front Squats in Healthy Training Individuals — which compared EMG activity between the two variations.

You can't read too much into a volunteer, self - reported study like this, but if you drill a little further into the data, there are some interesting wrinkles.

Thanks to Karla for finding this recent Pew Study, «The Rise of Intermarriage,» The new data show... [Read more...]

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With all these data obtained from our job and gathering information from the multitude of studies on this issue nowadays, we can expect that in the future the emotional education will be part of our lives, so daily common as sport, reading or calculation; and it will generate a positive impact in the future society, building from the human personalities.

A separate study of the ECLS - K data, also by Peterson and Llaudet, similarly showed that private school students gained significantly more in reading achievement than demographically similar public school students in schools with similar student populations.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Study coauthor Matthew Gaertner, who produced calculations for this article that were not part of the published study, said displaced student test scores dropped 12 percent in reading, 9 percent in math, and 19 percent in writing compared with what they would have scored had the school not closed (using modeling developed from historic test dStudy coauthor Matthew Gaertner, who produced calculations for this article that were not part of the published study, said displaced student test scores dropped 12 percent in reading, 9 percent in math, and 19 percent in writing compared with what they would have scored had the school not closed (using modeling developed from historic test dstudy, said displaced student test scores dropped 12 percent in reading, 9 percent in math, and 19 percent in writing compared with what they would have scored had the school not closed (using modeling developed from historic test data).

Using data on 2,600 students the study shows no statistically significant impact on performance in math, science, language, reading or social studies.

We will share data from the READS evaluation studies with district stakeholders through interviews and focus groups and then use data from stakeholders to modify and enhance READS.

The Education Next study looked at data from the 2007 NAEP tests in reading and math, given to 8th graders in U.S. public and private schools.

According to Australian Council of Educational Research (ACER) analysis of PIRLS (Progress in International Reading Literacy Study) data, 45 per cent of Year 4 students in Australia say they only read if they have to.

The studies range from large - scale assessments (National Assessment of Educational Progress [NAEP] and Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study [TIMSS]-RRB-, to evaluations of specific interventions (class - size reduction and vouchers), to commission reports (National Reading Panel, National Commission on Teaching and America's Future), to data analyses (Education Trust on teacher quality, Jay Greene on graduation rates).

Unfortunately, strict adherence to data - driven instruction can lead schools to push aside science and social studies to drill students on isolated reading benchmarks.

Data from 22,000 children involved in this study of the kindergarten class of 1998 — 99 show that, after controlling for family income, children who attended more academically oriented preschools had significantly higher scores in reading, math, and general knowledge when tested in the fall of their kindergarten year than children in preschool settings without academic content.

Using real data, relayed back to the school from particle cameras, the students will be able to measure the presence of background radiation in the polar region, which will then be added to a dataset of readings from around the world (and beyond) for comparison studies.

We then use data from the British Cohort Study, which regularly surveys all those living in Great Britain born in the United Kingdom between April 5 and 11 in 1970, to estimate the impact of an improvement in reading scores of this magnitude on future labor market earnings.

The course will be conducted as a seminar with class work organized around prescribed readings on a particular issue as well as data and other materials from researchers» and students» qualitative studies.

The initial test - score gaps for Hispanic students in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study data were even greater than for blacks — 0.72 standard deviations in math and 0.43 standard deviations in reading.