Sentences with phrase «reliable study of»

There are no reliable studies of the impact of the EITC or the CTC on child well - being, but, to the extent that they boost employment and income together, the effects should mirror those of the «make work pay» experiments cited above.

Not exact matches

One reason may be because Cambodian companies have been able to position themselves as low - cost, reliable alternatives to Chinese factories, where wages are rising, according to Afshin Molavi, senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

And while some, like a 2013 study in the journal The Lancet and a 2015 paper in the journal Nature, have yielded promising clues, none have been able to spot any precise, reliable genetic markers of the disease.

In a handful of recent studies, scientists have identified what they believe to be some of the most reliable genetic hallmarks of mental illness, a discovery that would transform our current approach to treating the disorders.

A study by independent research company Morningstar found that expense ratios are the most reliable predictor of future fund performance — in terms of total return, and future risk - adjusted return ratings.

The rule of law is one, according to studies from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the law firm Hogan Lovells; in countries with strong rule of law, government officials as well as individuals and private entities are predictable, reliable, and held to account.

One reliable study conducted by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College estimated that 44 % of men and 58 % of women will need nursing home care at some point in their life.1

Living Goods told us at that time that the results from the RCT were not going to be reliable due to spillover of the intervention into control locations and incorrect matching of the treatment area and the treatment survey area — issues that reduce the statistical power of the study.1

While we believe that each of these studies and publications is reliable, we have not independently verified market and industry data from third - party sources.

Additionally, the study I pointed to is, in fact, the most reliable of its kind (over 3000 people involved).

[citation needed] Other studies have suggested that there are roughly 54 million Christians in China, of which 39 million are Protestants and 14 million are Roman Catholics; these are seen as the most common and reliable figures.

Of the 63 studies, 53 found a «reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity».

The only reliable way of learning this is by using the accepted methods of historical study.

New research from Harvard University actually suggests that attending «religious services» at least once a week will significantly lower your risk of dying over the next decade and a half — and these results have been replicated in enough studies and populations to be considered highly reliable.

This same rationalistic approach to the gospel was applied to the believer's knowledge of Jesus: «If the person of Jesus Christ stands at the centre of the gospel, how can the basis for a reliable and communal knowledge of this person be gained other than through critical historical study, if one is not to trade a dreamed - up Christ for the real one?

Throughout the study the team keeps in mind the underlying question: What do members demonstrate is the preferable and reliable practice of their household?

The National Council on Alcoholism estimates six and one - half million, whereas the Rutgers University Center of Alcohol Studies holds that our most reliable evidence points to an estimate close to five million.

(3) Patristic quotations are not always absolutely reliable: (a) the Church Father may have been quoting not from a text but from memory; (b) he may have used more than one manuscript; (c) his own works may not have been correctly transmitted; study of their manuscript tradition is required.

so often they just look at potential markers — but those don't always equate to diseases)- what was the health of the those being studied - I'm assuming the test subjects were people, but other studies done on animal subjects might not be as reliable as those done on humans.

Several reliable studies have shown that high levels of interest by a father in his child's schooling and education are associated with improved outcomes, including:

Standardized Assessment of Concussion or «SAC», Sport Concussion Assessment Tool Version 3 or «SCAT3», the Balance Error Scoring System or «BESS», King - Devick Test», Maddocks» questions) already shown by studies to be reliable in making the initial remove - from - play decision, or one of a number of new assessment screens being developed and tested.

Because ACOG has created its position on home births based on much of the data from Wax's meta analysis, the researchers warn that physicians and women who are considering home births and using this study as a reference for their decisions are not getting reliable information and may not be making a well informed decision.

it's an example of what confounds need to be eliminated in order to do a reliable and valuable empirical study in the future.

«The results of this study demonstrate that the K - D test is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes with head trauma, and is a strong candidate for a rapid sideline screening test for concussion, [with] particular relevance to contact sports including football, soccer, hockey, MMA and boxing,» wrote co-author, Dr. Laura J. Balcer of the Department of Neurology, Opthalmology, and Epidemiology at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

There is actually one study though that did show that moms» perception of sort of feelings of fullness in her breasts or that initial milk increase is really quite reliable.

A recent review of studies performed between 1966 and 2003 showed that maternal report of breastfeeding is reliable through the age of 3 years.41 The main outcomes in our study were self - reported upper and lower respiratory and gastrointestinal tract infections.

As part of the research for her book, Ms. O'Hara surveyed approximately 150 women — enough to make the study statistically reliable.

The findings of this study contribute accurate and reliable data to the global estimates, and have important implications for public health programmes to improve maternal and newborn survival.

The percentage of women breastfeeding would still remain relatively high through the 1930s, however, when compared to the numbers just two decades later.31 Jacqueline Wolf, in her study of infant feeding in Chicago, found that despite the known dangers of using breast milk substitutes, by the mid-nineteenth century many women began weaning their babies at three months, even before cleaner cow's milk and more reliable proprietary foods were available.

It was a study and I think that the ones published in reputable academic journals are pretty well scrutinised by ethical committees and probably fairly reliable in terms of impartiality.

How reliable is the methodology of the study?

«This study goes against everything that's been published for several years now from very reliable clinicians and researchers about the potential hazards of supplementing exclusively breast - feeding babies with formula,» says Dr. Kathleen Marinelli, an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine and the chair - elect of the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee.

However no published studies have determined if self reports of sleep position are valid, consistent or reliable.

Urinary incontinence (UI) has an effect on quality of life during the postpartum period.1, 2 Fear of UI is one of the most common reasons for maternal demand for cesarean delivery.3, 4 The muscle strength of the pelvic floor returns to the antepartum value 6 — 10 weeks postpartum in most women.5, 6 However, UI symptoms after delivery do not resolve in the long term in some women.7, 8 Studies have variously concluded that the prevalence of UI changed9 or did not change within 6 months or 1 year postpartum.10, 11 A higher prevalence or incidence of UI has been observed in women who had a vaginal delivery than in women who underwent cesarean delivery.10 — 18 In contrast, a recent study found that vaginal delivery was not associated with postpartum UI.19 The long - term protective effect of cesarean delivery has not been determined.20 Validated and reliable questionnaires to evaluate UI, including severity and quality of life, are needed for postpartum evaluation.21 However, comparisons of UI severity and the effect on daily life between women who have had vaginal and cesarean deliveries are scarce.22

But even if we assume that there is some sort of reliable metric to measure the Overton window, studies will only be able to see a correlation between the Overton window and the Trump presidency, but not a causation.

Since 2013 there have been a number of reliability studies and statements confirming that reliable replacement power for Indian Point is already in place.

A University of Rochester review of 63 studies found a «reliable negative relation between intelligence and religiosity» in 53 cases.

A simple method of testing «twilight vision» gives reliable results in identifying people who have decreased visual acuity under low light conditions, according to a study in the May issue of Optometry and Vision Science, official journal of the American Academy of Optometry.

As such, the genome holds much less influence about longevity than expected and our results help to explain why [genome studies] of longevity have failed to find a reliable signal so far,» noted Erlich.

The new IGB study highlights the importance of reliable, scientifically based data on degradation behaviour and the effects of microplastics.

The study indicated that the proteins are readily measurable with standard assays, but the team hopes to develop a microfluidic chip that can derive reliable readings within just two hours (well within the duration of many emergency room visits).

The study results raise questions about the best way for researchers and other groups to communicate climate change to an audience that may not trust them as a reliable source of information.

In order to be able to make reliable statements on the long - term effects of school fruit schemes, further studies would have to be carried out.

This study highlights the prime importance of determining the causal relationship between biological variables in order to be able to draw reliable conclusions.

«The importance of this study is that it establishes a reliable test and a «biological» marker for detecting concussion,» Dr. Grady says.

«This is the first reliable evidence that a lunar rhythm can modulate sleep structure in humans when measured under the highly controlled conditions of a circadian laboratory study protocol without time cues,» the researchers say.

It is only relatively recently, however, that developmental scientists have conducted controlled studies to identify the earliest and most reliable signs of adult homosexuality.

«Because there is currently no reliable screening available for ovarian cancer, most cases are diagnosed at advanced stages,» said the study's author, Bo (Bonnie) Qin, PhD, a postdoctoral associate at Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey.

Four of those phases were reliable predictors of increased inland hail activity during peak storm seasons, according to the study.

More robust approaches for identifying the causal effects of factors influencing health, such as the methods applied in this study, are required if we are to make recommendations for public health based on reliable evidence.»