Sentences with phrase «reductions than control»

The videotape - based parenting - skills group with therapist - facilitated discussion showed greater reductions than the control group showed in the frequency of problem behaviors and in the intensity of the three most troubling behaviors.

They found that people in all of the groups had greater pain reductions than the control group.

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The platform planks for «32 embodied a number of Century concerns: U.S. adherence to the World Court protocol; U.S. entry into the League of Nations, provided that its covenant be amended to eliminate military sanctions; U.S. recognition of the Soviet Union (which was granted a year later); the safeguarding of the rights of conscientious objectors (including those denied citizenship, such as Canadian - born theologian D. C. Macintosh of Yale Divinity School); the abolition of compulsory military training in state - supported educational institutions other than military and naval academies; emergency measures for relief and public - works employment; the securing of constitutional rights for minorities; the reduction of gross inequality of income by steeply progressive rates of taxation on large incomes; «progressive socialization of the ownership and control of natural resources, public utilities and basic industries»; «the nationalization of our entire banking system»; and so on (June 8, 1932).

After 12 weeks, the researchers observed a larger reduction in blood glucose levels than in the control group.

But what is so absurd about these flights of wishful thinking is that there is not a single word about the real lessons which Labour needs to learn — the need for radical banking reform, the need for a massive revival of British manufacturing (when this year the UK deficit on traded goods is likely to exceed the entire UK budget deficit), the need to take back public control of the NHS and education system, the need for a jobs and growth strategy rather than a programme of endless cuts, the need for an effective anti-poverty strategy and a huge reduction in inequality.

While heart function dropped by almost 50 percent in the control group following chronic stress, the subjects with the switch turned off fared much better, showing less than a 10 percent reduction in heart function.

In the acute model, the Cd14 - deficient mice showed greater weight reduction and intestinal barrier disruption than controls, including more severe intestinal lesions and ulcerations.

The Sleepio users also had 30 per cent fewer hallucinations than the control group, a 25 per cent reduction in paranoia, and their anxiety and depression levels were 20 per cent lower (The Lancet Psychiatry, doi.org/cctz).

In ventral striatum (key brain reward region), MP - induced reductions in DVs and BPND (reflecting DA increases) were inversely correlated with scores of negative emotionality, which were significantly higher for marijuana abusers than controls.

Not unsurprisingly given the fact that microcephaly has not been associated with dengue, the neurospheres survived much better than when infected with Zika and the brain organoids showed no reduction in growth when compared to the controls.

In the new study, investigators demonstrated that when the southern green stinkbug was reared inside an incubator, in which temperature was controlled at 2.5 °C higher than outside, there was a significant reduction in the symbiont bacteria that sparked severe fitness defects in the insect (ie.

In addition, there has been an improvement in quality control, with our Libraries now meeting a 99 — 100 per cent pass rate and a reduction in sequencing lane failure rates to less than 5 per cent.

Numerous small studies show a reduction in depression and fatigue in cancer patients who received Reiki, and a rigorously controlled study in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research showed that cells in test tubes treated by Reiki practitioners grew better than those in an untreated control group.

In a small experimental study, participants in an eight - week mindfulness - based stress reduction (MBSR) program — focusing on the breath, mental content and bodily sensations while walking, sitting or practising yoga — experienced notably smaller post-stress inflammatory responses than control subjects.

According to a double - blind, placebo - controlled, randomized 2009 study out of Brazil, women with clinical abdominal obesity (waist circumference of more than 88 cm) who used coconut oil daily for 12 weeks — in conjunction with a balanced, low - calorie diet and moderate exercise program — enjoyed a statistically greater reduction in waist circumference than those women taking soybean oil.

The results showed that after 3 months, 38 % of children in the ketogenic group had greater than 50 % seizure reduction compared to just 6 % in the control group.

Food elimination based on IgG antibodies in irritable bowel syndrome: a randomised controlled trial http://gut.bmj.com/content/53/10/1459.short «After 12 weeks, the true diet resulted in a 10 % greater reduction in symptom score than the sham diet (mean difference 39 (95 % confidence intervals (CI) 5 — 72); p = 0.024) with this value increasing to 26 % in fully compliant patients (difference 98 (95 % CI 52 — 144); p < 0.001).»

A 2009 study on obese women found that supplementing with coconut oil led to an increase in HDL Cholesterol (good cholesterol) and a reduction in LDL Cholesterol (bad cholesterol), they also lost more weight than the control groups and reduced their waist circumference [5].

In less than five years, those eating a Mediterranean diet supplemented with additional olive oil or nuts achieved a 30 percent relative risk reduction for cardiovascular disease, and a 49 percent reduction in stroke, compared to controls who were instructed to eat a low fat diet

Both groups showed significant declines in pain and increases in self - reported quality of life, however, the yoga group indicated nearly 2 times more pain reduction than the exercise group controls.

The reductions with the fruits - and - vegetables diet were 2.8 mm Hg (P < 0.001) and 1.1 mm Hg greater than with the control diet (P = 0.07).

During the 12 - week treatment, the intervention group showed greater reductions in blood glucose levels and a quicker drop in fasting glucose levels than the control group.

In a prospective, randomized, controlled trial with a low fat and a low fat plus high Dietary Fiber groups, the group consuming high Dietary Fiber exhibited a greater average reduction (13 percent) in serum total cholesterol concentration than the low fat (9 percent) and the usual diet (7 percent) groups (Anderson et al., 1992a).

In the a priori subgroup analyses, higher fibre intake in the intervention arm than in the control arm showed a significantly greater reduction in non-HDL cholesterol.

Both of the low - carbohydrate, higher - protein, higher - fat diets in this study led to a reduction in this ratio that was significantly different from the control diet and more than would be predicted from previous studies.

The trial of this program found that students whose families participated in the program had significantly greater reductions in victimisation than control families who were relying mainly on school efforts alone to resolve the problems (Healy & Sanders, 2015).

In the five largest school districts other than Los Angeles, namely San Diego, San Francisco, Long Beach, Oakland and Fresno, researchers found that class size reduction raised the proportion of third graders who exceeded the national median by 10.5 percent in math, and 8.4 percent in reading, after controlling for all other factors.

Not only do they contribute to a reduction in unsprung mass but they are also more responsive than conventional twin - tube dampers, and therefore offer greater ride control.

Mazda managed to minimize pumping loss (20 % reduction) with a continuously variable dual S - VT (sequential valve timing) system on the intake and exhaust valves, enabling the air intake quantity to be controlled by the valves rather than the throttle.

On the road, the SVR feels more alive and controlled than regular models thanks to a 40 kg weight reduction and a 20 % hike in roll stiffness.

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The overall intervention yielded a reduction in intake of owned cats that was greater in total numbers and percentage than four control areas.

The key findings of this research were that: GIS can be a valuable tool in selecting a target for an intake reduction intervention as well as tracking program success; outreach tools can be a successful way to increase participation in programming; some outreach tools were more successful than others in increasing participation in the program; the intervention area owned cat intake decreased by a greater number (and percentage) than the control areas; the estimated percentage of owned intact cats that were spayed or neutered was higher for the intervention area; and, as the estimated percentage of owned intact cats that were spayed or neutered approached or surpassed 20 % for a given area the intake reductions were more profound.

This reduction was greater in total numbers and percentage than the four control areas.

However, the reduction in insulin sensitivity is more pronounced during pregnancy than during diestrus (122), and the alteration in the metabolic control of growth hormone during gestation may in some way be pregnancy - specific in dogs (123).

I ask myself, is population control a much higher quality form of sacrifice than direct reduction of CO2 emissions?

Once it is out of our control we're pretty much in for a terrible ride that will amount to much more harm than broken ribs, and no matter how much of our GHG emissions we reduce, there will be virtually nothing we can do about it — except maybe with huge reductions slightly reduce the severity of the harms.

For more than two decades, power companies and grid operators have met pollution control limits for sulfur dioxide and other pollutants by ramping up cleaner generation and ramping down dirty generation, using both smokestack pollution controls and pollution reduction credits.

The Wise Folk want to frame action as risk reduction and insurance policy rather than mobilization and crisis control.

«Gale Klappa served as president of the ICE board more than 25 years ago,» she said, going on to present Wisconsin Energy's emission control investments and reductions.

(i) BMO reducing its roster of firms from about 800 to 200 with further reductions planned; (ii) the clients of seven sister firms hiring me to help them get control over their legal spend and forge stronger and more value based relationships with their firms; (iii) the many small and mid-sized businesses who hire accountants to do all of their tax and structuring work because it is cheaper than dealing with lawyers; (iv) firms hiring me to help them figure out how to budget, set and meet client expectations without losing money; (v) «clients» who never become clients at all as they do their own legal work based on precedents that friends share with them; (vi) the various forms of outsourcing that are now prevalent (from offices in India to Tory's office in Halifax); (vii) clients hiring me to figure out how to increase internal capacity without increasing headcount in order to reduce external spend; (viii) the success of firms like Conduit, SkyLaw and Cognition (to name a few) who are taking new approaches to «big» and «medium law» work; (ix) the introduction of full time project managers in many firms; and (x) the number of lawyers throughout the profession who regularly don't docket chunks of their time in order to avoid unpleasant fee conversations with their clients.

Finally, in Greece, centralization of the financial and all other control mechanisms, and moreover the reduction of commercial banks along with the increase of tax and other controls, which refer to earlier than 10 years controls and the rapid rythms of clampdown on preventive measures by authorities (i.e. freezing of funds / accounts commitments), in connection with the multi-law effect in tax cases, intensify the unstable enterpreunership's development environment.

With the ever increasing reduction of the billable hour, the need for cost recovery associated to legal matters is stronger than ever, however today is as much about managing and controlling your costs as it is simply recovering them.

• Established corporate inventory control policy, which resulted in significant reduction in inventory losses from +4 % to less than 1 %.

GPU Nuclear Corporation 1991 --[Insert End Date] Three Mile Island Nuclear Station — Operations Analyst - I (Nuclear Plant Operations Analysis) • Conducted audits and studies with GPU Nuclear Operations Analysis Group • Implemented successfully numerous recommendations from completed Policies & Procedures project which resulted in a recurring annual cost reduction of $ 800k • Managed implementations and integrations that improved productivity and cost control by more than 50 % in key areas of the G&A

Professional Experience CHARTIS (New York, NY) 2004 — 2010 Manager, Financial Analysis • Utilize experience in accounts receivable / payable, expense control / reduction, budgeting and forecasting • Create, prepare, and analyze weekly and monthly GOE expense and account reports of over $ 12M • Provide Senior Executive and CFO with critical information needed to manage divisional expenses • Generate and implement new procedures to reduce expenses over budget • Conduct analysis of significant expense and account receivable items • Manage the premium and expense results for the profit centers • Provide comptrollers with monthly divisional account receivable cash forecast of over $ 86M per month • Reduce cash forecast variance to less than 5 % per month • Resolve and reduce receivables over a 12 month period from $ 12M to less than $ 3M per month • Establish and maintain strong relationships with vendors, underwriters, and senior executives • Control and maintain expenses to stay within budgets and forecasts • Review and verify the validity and accuracy of accounts payable prior to approving disburcontrol / reduction, budgeting and forecasting • Create, prepare, and analyze weekly and monthly GOE expense and account reports of over $ 12M • Provide Senior Executive and CFO with critical information needed to manage divisional expenses • Generate and implement new procedures to reduce expenses over budget • Conduct analysis of significant expense and account receivable items • Manage the premium and expense results for the profit centers • Provide comptrollers with monthly divisional account receivable cash forecast of over $ 86M per month • Reduce cash forecast variance to less than 5 % per month • Resolve and reduce receivables over a 12 month period from $ 12M to less than $ 3M per month • Establish and maintain strong relationships with vendors, underwriters, and senior executives • Control and maintain expenses to stay within budgets and forecasts • Review and verify the validity and accuracy of accounts payable prior to approving disburControl and maintain expenses to stay within budgets and forecasts • Review and verify the validity and accuracy of accounts payable prior to approving disbursements

A standardised mean difference of 0 indicates that both groups had similar improvements; effects of − 0.5 or − 1 indicate that 69 % or 84 % of patients in the intervention group, respectively, had greater reductions on depression scores than the average patient in the control group.

A 2012 RCT showed that the e-couch Depression program yielded a greater reduction in depressive symptoms immediately post-test than an attention control, with the combination of e-couch and an online support group showing longer term positive outcomes for participants.