Sentences with phrase «recent large scale study»

The most recent large scale study comparing outcomes for mother and baby reported in the British Medical Journal last month showed that for women who had previously given birth, adverse outcomes were less common among planned home births (1 per 1,000) than among planned hospital births (2.3 per 1,000).

Not exact matches

The results, which mirror those of similar, small - scale studies of the illegal drug in recent years, come as MDMA is about to enter larger, Phase 3 trials this summer.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

The most recent findings of the Belarus study (an excellent, large scale, randomized, first world study) were recently published and show that 11 year - olds have a 17 % GREATER chance of being obese or overweight if they were in the breastfeeding group than in the control group.

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

Kennedy said a recent independent study shows that 70 large and small - scale MMA events held around the state could generate close to $ 67 million in annual spending.

While large - scale climate research models offer a systems view of what the transport sector, for example, could contribute to climate protection in comparison to the energy sector, the study presented in Science, however, examines transport - related issues within the sector by using more recent and more specific data on how people commute and travel.

Lozier (p. 1507) discusses how recent studies have challenged our view of large - scale ocean circulation as a simple conveyor belt, by revealing a more complex and nuanced system that reflects the effects of ocean eddies and surface atmospheric winds on the structure and variability of the ocean's overturning.

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

Large - scale storage of low - pressure, gaseous hydrogen in salt caverns and other underground sites for transportation fuel and grid - scale energy applications offers several advantages over above - ground storage, says a recent Sandia National Laboratories study sponsored by the Department of Energy's Fuel Cell Technologies Office.

The new study is one of the first to monitor recent large - scale glacier change in Bolivia, to better understand how receding glaciers could affect communities in the country.

Following the results of this study, the comparably low temperatures of the more recent past (i.e. the Ice Ages) may be attributed to the absence of large scale vulcanism events and an increase in atmospheric oxygen.

Moreover, recent studies indicated that reconnection has a less important role at Saturn than at the Earth, in large - scale transport near the subsolar region of the magnetopause (Lai et al. 2012).

The CCDG award, when viewed in the light of the recent NIH budget increase, also presents a unique opportunity to seek funding for other large - scale common disease sequencing studies that might be co-funded with other institutes.

Recent large - scale efforts have launched a new generation of studies that aim to identify the molecular and cellular characteristics of the brain and how these translate into normal brain function — or, in the case of disease, dysfunction.

Finally, recent large - scale human genetic studies have implicated mutations in the NMDAR itself and serine racemase, as well as many genes associated with the postsynaptic density, with increased risk for schizophrenia.

Proteomics — the large - scale study of proteins, particularly their structure and function — combined with transcriptomics — the examination of the expression level of messenger ribonucleic acids (mRNAs) in a given cell population - played a significant role in the recent derivation of a combined protein and gene list that constitutes one of the largest descriptive data sets of its kind.

In recent years, large - scale genetic studies have accumulated ample evidence that genetic predisposition influences peoples» health and their risk of developing certain diseases.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, Shapiro and his colleagues introduced a method to correlate magnetic field patterns in tissue, which occur on micrometer scales, with the larger, millimeter - scale features of MRI images.

While FDR is a well - recognized approach in biology, one could also argue for using a family wise error rate (FWER), which has been the norm in recent large - scale, genome - wide association studies (GWAS).

Two recent large - scale studies of the early education system provide a contemporary perspective: the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Study of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD) and the National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL) Multi-State Pre-K sStudy of Early Child Care and Youth Development (NICHD SECCYD) and the National Center for Early Development and Learning (NCEDL) Multi-State Pre-K studystudy.

Although some interpret these turnover patterns as evidence of teachers» discontent with their students, recent large - scale quantitative studies provide evidence that teachers choose to leave schools with poor work environments and that these conditions are most common in schools that minority and low - income students typically attend.

's most recent post (November 25, 2013) about the non-peer-reviewed National Bureau of Economic Research's DC IMPACT study, another recently published study albeit this time in the Journal of Labor Economics, a top - field peer - reviewed journal, found no impact of incentives in New York City's (NYC) public schools given its large - scale multimillion program.

A recent large - scale federal study revealed that most states lack expertise to turn around struggling schools and are rarely successful.

Emerging talent Clare Bonnet's work was a huge success in our Jamaica Street Artists exhibition earlier this year and this time we will show four recent, large - scale oil paintings of semi-abstract female studies.

Playful in tone and less reliant upon the exploitative construct of the case - study scenario in such large scale video projects as Them, 2007, and Repetition, 2005, Artur Zmijewski's earlier videos stand in contrast to these somewhat over-determined provocations; while recent Zmijewski productions have adopted a nearly formulaic approach to positioning cultural difference and conflict, and thereby seem to codify the subject as «other» a priori — a risk that critic and art historian Hal Foster has insightfully called the «self - othering» of «the artist as ethnographer» — three earlier Zmijewski works engage a simpler, more agile approach.

Their work has been — and continues to be — frequently exhibited together, both in a number of contemporaneous and now historically significant group shows, as well as in recent large - scale retrospective studies of the New York School.

We find (i) measurements at all scales show that official inventories consistently underestimate actual CH4 [methane] emissions, with the natural gas and oil sectors as important contributors; (ii) many independent experiments suggest that a small number of «super-emitters» could be responsible for a large fraction of leakage; (iii) recent regional atmospheric studies with very high emissions rates are unlikely to be representative of typical natural gas system leakage rates; and (iv) assessments using 100 - year impact indicators show system - wide leakage is unlikely to be large enough to negate climate benefits of coal - to - natural gas substitution.

A recent example of a large - scale «top down» study using aircraft and tower data is that of Miller et al (2013, PNAS).

Indeed, one recent study concluded that large - scale deployment of BECCS could result in a greater diminution of terrestrial species than temperature increases of 2.8 °C above pre-industrial levels.

Risk analyses given in some recent studies suggest that there is no longer high confidence that certain large - scale events (e.g., deglaciation of major ice sheets) can be avoided, given historical climate change and the inertia of the climate system (Wigley, 2004, 2006; Rahmstorf and Zickfeld, 2005).

Some recent studies suggest a decreasing high - cloud amount due to more efficient large - scale organization with warming (Bony et.

A recent study by the Global CCS Institute found that the number of large scale CCS projects has dropped to 65 from 75 over the last year.

Previous studies have demonstrated large - scale declines in coral reefs over recent decades.

Both these studies note that various factors have contributed to climate change since the 1960s but that most of the recent large - scale warming was very likely due to the observed increase in greenhouse gas concentrations.

In another recent study, NCAR researcher Jeffrey Yin used computer climate simulations to show that large - scale rain and snow storms known as frontal storms are moving polewards, driven also by global warming.

A recent review offers ambiguous support for the relation between home visitation and reductions in child maltreatment.2 The findings from several large - scale home - visitation efforts have shown disappointing short - term results in reducing family violence and child maltreatment.4, 9 A 15 - year follow - up study of the Elmira trial families, however, provided the first evidence from a randomized trial for the long - term effects of home visitation on reducing child maltreatment.10 Results from the follow - up showed that nurse - visited families had half as many child maltreatment reports as families in the comparison group.

Few studies have specifically addressed this issue.14, 15 A large scale randomized control trial (RCT) comparing CBT, counselling and psychoanalytic therapy with routine care found that, while all active treatments were moderately effective in treating depression and brought about short term benefits in the quality of the mother - infant relationship, there was limited evidence of benefit to infant outcome; and effects (including those on maternal mood) were not apparent at follow - up.16, 17 Similarly, a recent RCT found that, although interpersonal psychotherapy was effective in treating maternal depression, there was no benefit in terms of observed mother - infant interactions, infant negative emotionality, and infant attachment security.18

A recent large - scale, long - term study suggests otherwise.