Sentences with phrase «relatively small study»

This may be due to a large number of studies with relatively small study populations.

The largest benefits claimed economically come from a relatively small study of 123 children in the Perry Preschool Program, where all of the children by age three were performing in the category now labeled developmentally or cognitively delayed (IQ scores below 85 prior to entering the program).

What this tells us is that exercise, on its own, doesn't preserve all the muscles in your body: in the words of the researchers, there's no «whole body neuroprotective effect,» or at least none that shows up in this relatively small study.

It was a relatively small study that only looked at 23 women over a 12 week period.

However, Rabin also noted that major complications in pregnancy are relatively rare, so any benefit to the mother might not have been picked up in this relatively small study.

The study comprised 26 individuals treated over the internet for nine weeks, making it a relatively small study.

While these are relatively small studies they do help to shed some light on our relationships with our dogs.

, 2009) and, with respect to DRD4, most supporting evidence is limited to relatively small studies of child traits or behaviors.

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As shown in previous studies (www.3dpolicy.ca), the federal government has a relatively small structural deficit.

«Central clearing will play a critical role in correcting long - standing flaws in market structure caused by overconcentration of exposures among a relatively small number of dealers,» according to the TABB Group study, which was commissioned by the World Federation of Exchanges.

eh huh, if you did not know, study says «the Muslim world produces a disproportionately small amount of scientific output, and much of it relatively low in quality.

Regarding the course of study as a whole, however, this is too rigid to be practicable except in schools with relatively small and very homogeneous student bodies.

The Global Burden of Disease Study 2010 predicted that sugar sweetened drink consumption contributes a relatively small amount to UK population morbidity (28000 disability adjusted life years) compared with low fruit and vegetable consumption (1130000 disability adjusted life years).59 Using revenue from a sugar sweetened drink tax to reduce the prices of fruit and vegetables is a potential mechanism for further improving population health.60

Putting the ANZOS research findings into context, the same dietary survey used for the study (2007 Kids Eat, Kids Play) found that beverages including sugar - sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks contributed a relatively small and declining proportion of total energy intake amongst Australian children:

Because the study is relatively small and new, researchers say that it must be followed up with further study.

Further epidemiological studies will provide only relatively small gains and some clarification of the risk factors.»

Though this was a relatively small, retrospective study, the results did reveal that women who were given Pitocin to induce or augment their labors did have an increased risk of having a baby with lower Apgar scores or who required admission to the NICU.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

It's really not that surprising that the difference between a one - to - three minute delay and immediate clamping was relatively small, especially considering the limited number of outcomes that the study focused upon.

While the delays highlighted in this study are relatively small, if they add onto delays in patients presenting to their GP with symptoms, or in a diagnostic appointment, they become more serious.

Although the number of participants in the study was relatively small, the researchers report that it was sufficiently large to detect clinically relevant effects.

The results were from a study that was relatively small — only 208 patients — but provided a head - to - head comparison of niacin and ezetimibe, known by the brand name Zetia.

«It is very concerning to have found any positives, because the studies being performed currently are relatively small and of uncertain sensitivity.

«While the number of cycles is relatively small, it is definitely growing,» said Georgia Tech's Aaron Levine, the associate professor in the School of Public Policy who led the study.

According to the study, countries with coastal borders — 192 in all — discharge plastic into the world's oceans with the largest quantities estimated to come from a relatively small number of middle - income, rapidly developing countries.

A long - term study of life history and government records reveals a disproportionately large set of social costs devoted to a relatively small sector of the population.

Guideline authors noted, however, that the evidence for the recommendations is weak, since many of the studies had relatively small numbers of patients with similar types of epilepsy and were conducted at only one institution, so the results may not be generalizable to everyone with epilepsy.

NMR, meanwhile, allows researchers to study biological molecules in a solution, such as water — but its use has generally been limited to relatively small proteins.

There's no way the relatively small corps of American science journalists could adequately track goings - on in the much larger research community without input from those of us who can more closely monitor individual studies at individual institutions.

«Although evidence suggesting the presence of cognitive deficits in children with sleep apnea has been around for quite some time,» said Leila Gozal, MD, MSc, from the University of Chicago, «the relatively small groups studied made it difficult to demonstrate a strong relationship between increasing cognitive issues and increasing sleep apnea severity.»

While the study was relatively small, we believe the data suggest that DBS surgery targeting the fornix can be performed safely in this patient population.

The researchers note that a limitation of the study is the relatively small number of people on which xenodiagnosis was attempted.

«The sources of this liquid water will require more observational studies; however, the research shows that the effects of relatively small amounts of water on Mars in forming features on the surface may have been widely underestimated.

Limitations of the study acknowledged include the difficulty in isolating SSRI effects from those of their indications for use, lack of information on SSRI dosage precluded dose - response analyses, and the relatively small sample of DD children resulted in imprecise estimates of association, which should be viewed with caution.

The mechanisms have been studied only in relatively small ways.

According to the study, the number of these deaths that can be attributed to changes in the climate since the industrial era is, however, relatively small.

On average, material blasted across Mercury's surface by relatively recent impacts of comets, asteroids, and other small bodies reflects only two - thirds as much light as freshly excavated material on the moon, previous studies have shown.

Coastal sea ice formation takes place on relatively small scales, however, and is not captured well in global climate models, according to scientists at the University of California, Santa Cruz, who conducted the study.

The study revealed that in the model system chosen by Opitz and colleagues the winning side becomes apparent at a very early stage in the growth of the population, when the numbers of cells are still relatively small.

«A stable and healthy reef includes a high abundance and diversity of predatory fish and a relatively low number of herbivorous and small prey fish,» says study lead author April Boaden, a PhD student at the Coral CoE.

Twins in the study whose genomes showed a low risk for Alzheimer's, for example, did have about a 12 percent (thus, much, much smaller) risk than that of the general population (which, to begin with, has a relatively small risk of getting Alzheimer's during their lifetimes).

Although this study was relatively small and not designed to develop theories about disorder heritability risk and eye - movement abnormalities, Mosconi notes that potentially «there would be greater risk [of having a child with autism] if both parents are showing it.»

The study was the first randomized - controlled trial to examine the potential benefits of the low fat diet on the management of MS.. The study found no significant differences between the two groups in brain lesions detected on MRI brain scans or on other measures of MS.. But while the number of trial participants was relatively small, study leaders believe the significantly improved fatigue symptoms merited further and larger studies of the diet.

«The collection of samples in the study was relatively small and therefore regional differences in sahti characteristics are not easy to detect.

The numbers studied were also relatively small, and it wasn't possible to account for the potential effects of air pollution.

The studies were based on a relatively small number of participants, and a selection of genes.

The present study shows that Gächter's previous conclusion that punishment was detrimental «was an experimental artifact generated by a relatively small number of interactions,» says anthropologist Rob Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the mechanisms that shape human culture.

The authors caution that their study was conducted in a country with strong social welfare supports and that while the sample overall was large, the number of children with many symptoms of ADHD was relatively small.

«However, our study finds that it would take only relatively small changes to tip the scales back in favor of offering the LAIV, so close monitoring is very important.»

The authors cautioned that this study doesn't entirely prove that vitamin D levels and menopause symptoms are not connected because the sample of women they had with enough data was relatively small and the women, who averaged age 66, were nearly 16 years from menopause, and only 27 percent of the women in this group had hot flashes or night sweats.