Sentences with phrase «report focuses on studies»

The bulk of this report focuses on studies that have compared the academic achievement of magnet school students to those attending traditional public schools.

Not exact matches

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

A 2010 study conducted by Cone Communications, a public relations and marketing agency focused on social causes, reported that 80 percent of consumers are more likely to purchase a product that supports a cause during the holiday season.

Most studies focusing on people with MCI require people to either work out or self - report their own fitness levels.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

By focusing on «the religious practices of today's undergraduates,... and the extent to which the study and the practice of religion are made available to undergraduate students,» they offer a systematic report of each campus's ethos, inherent religious practices and religion courses.

Based on anonymous surveys and focus groups involving 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines, the study revealed that only 56 % of soldiers would report a unit member for injuring or killing an innocent noncombatant, while a mere 40 % of Marines would do so.

The value of the report is largely in stimulating us to highlight some of these issues and to encourage further study, discussion and not least to focus with greater intensity on key magisterial documents in order then to articulate a clearer programme and strategy for the future.

While the study's primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.

Our report study focuses on the food and beverage products that are planogramed and currently on supermarket shelves in China — which international competitors» brands and products are selling well; what are the products» features; how are the products being positioned and promoted; and what are the opportunities for Australian food manufacturers in these categories.

The «Global and Chinese GCC Dairy Industry, 2013 - 2023 Market Research Report» is a professional and in - depth study on the current state of the global GCC Dairy industry with a focus on the Chinese market.

The «Global and Chinese Coffee Crystals Industry, 2013 - 2023 Market Research Report» is a professional and in - depth study on the current state of the global Coffee Crystals industry with a focus on the Chinese market.

The «Global and Chinese Ginger Beer Industry, 2013 - 2023 Market Research Report» is a professional and in - depth study on the current state of the global Ginger Beer industry with a focus on the Chinese market.

The «Global and Chinese Frozen Fruits Industry, 2013 - 2023 Market Research Report» is a professional and in - depth study on the current state of the global Frozen Fruits industry with a focus on the Chinese market.

The «Global and Chinese Chaste Honey Industry, 2013 - 2023 Market Research Report» is a professional and in - depth study on the current state of the global Chaste Honey industry with a focus on the Chinese market.

The «Global and Chinese Clover Honey Industry, 2013 - 2023 Market Research Report» is a professional and in - depth study on the current state of the global Clover Honey industry with a focus on the Chinese market.

[1 - 9] As a 2013 research paper [7] and a number of other recent studies [12 - 15] show, education alone (or at least that which focuses on educating athletes about the signs and symptoms of concussion and not changing attitudes about reporting behavior) does not appear capable of solving the problem, because the reasons for under - reporting are largely cultural, [2,3,9,10, 12 - 15] leading the paper's author to conclude that «other approaches might be needed to identify injured athletes.»

Echlin's comments are echoed in the findings of a 2013 quantitative study focusing on what drives the attitudes of high school athletes [1] towards reporting concussions («attitude study»), which found that coaches and teammates are the strongest influences on an athlete's intention to report concussion.

For their report, Hauck and her colleagues looked at data from a large infant feeding study and they focused on about 1,800 mothers who were breastfeeding when their baby was two weeks old.

Even in a study that plainly reports a 3x neonatal mortality rate, they manage to gloss over the shocking mortality rate to focus on the «positive» birth experience.

While all parents in the study wanted their child to perform to the best of their ability, 34 percent reported that they wanted their child to avoid doing worse than others and 43 percent were focused on their child outperforming others.

There has been concern raised about a resurgence of vitamin D deficiency and rickets among infants and children, with reports emerging in the United States from Alaska, 1,2 Iowa, 3 Nevada, 4 California, 5 North Carolina, 6 Texas, 7 and mother - infant pairs in Boston, 8 among others.9 The prevalence of vitamin D deficiency in young children also appears to be high in other countries, including England, 10 Greece, 11 and Canada.12, 13 One study from China found a 65.3 % prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among 12 - to 24 - month - olds, but few cases (3.7 %) of radiographic or clinical rickets were noted.14 Previous studies suggest risk factors to be dark skin pigmentation1,3 - 12 and breastfeeding without supplementation.1 - 7, 9,12,13 To date, reports have focused primarily on young infants compared with toddlers.

In a convenience sample of 45 children during a 1 - week training workshop provided by child psychologists and psychiatrists, inter-paediatrician agreement was high, with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.80 (95 % confidence interval: 0.67, 0.89) for vocabulary, 0.72 (0.54, 0.83) for similarities, 0.80 (0.67, 0.89) for block designs and 0.79 (0.66, 0.88) for matrices.16 Since we previously reported that the intervention resulted in significantly higher verbal IQ scores in intention - to - treat analysis, 16 we focused on results for verbal IQ scores in the present study.

Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also estimated that 4.3 % of men with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.

Part of the original focus of the study was to understand fathers» interactions with their children, and, therefore, a concerted effort was made throughout the study to interview fathers directly rather than relying on maternal report of fathers» information.

In this Focus on Education report, WBFO's Eileen Buckley talks to the principal investigator of the study.

In this Focus on Education report WBFO's Eileen Buckley says the program works to encourages city school students to pursue studies in math, science and technology.

Surprisingly these same people are just as affected as everyone else on other tasks that require different cognitive abilities, such as maintaining focus,» said Paul Whitney, a WSU professor of psychology and lead author of the study, which appeared in the journal Scientific Reports.

This report is the first in a two - phase study that is examining the changing nature of biodefense threats in the age of synthetic biology, focusing on the degree to which it can be used to create a weapon.

The study, to be published Aug. 22 in the journal Cell Reports, focused on the action of serotonin, an important neuromodulator in the brain.

Students who said they felt threatened by their teachers» messages that frequently focused on failure reported feeling less motivated and scored worse on the exam than students who said their teacher used fewer fear tactics that they considered less threatening, the study found.

Numerous studies have reported that women outperform men when it comes to face recognition faces, but most have focused on assessing innate biases in favor of race, gender, and age.

James Campbell Quick and M. Ann McFadyen of the College of Business management department analyzed FBI reports, case studies and human resource records to focus on the estimated 1 to 3 percent of employees prone to workplace acts of aggression, such as homicide, suicide or destruction of property.

The authors of the study, from Shaanxi Normal University in China and York University in Canada, say to maximize this effect media reports should focus on changing people's behavior in an epidemic.

The fact that only just over a third of men and women reporting a problem meeting all three criteria had sought professional help in the last year, suggests that a huge number of people experiencing dysfunction are not receiving help — around 1.2 million in the UK and 5.8 million in the U.S. Overall, this study helps demonstrate how the DSM - 5 diagnostic criteria impose a focus on clinically significant symptoms, posing promising applications in both clinical and research contexts.

Studies suggest that more appropriate questions could focus on resilience, by looking at the percentage of households that report having a stable food supply throughout the year and the average length of time for which households in the community have an emergency food supply after a disaster.

«Rather than focusing on total numbers of published reports, reviews of academic performance should explicitly take into account the proportion of a researcher's initiated studies (e.g., those receiving ethics approval or funding) that have been reported, for which protocols have been shared, and that have had their dataset reused by other researchers.»

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

Rather than focus solely on IQ, as many previous studies had, the scientists analyzed 83 different traits, which had been reported on questionnaires that the twins, at age 16, and their parents filled out.

«Given the aging of the population, emergency physicians need to be prepared to balance their obligations to the patient by documenting findings, reporting suspicions and referring patients to appropriate agencies,» said Marguerite DeLiema, Ph.D, of the Stanford University Center on Longevity in Stanford, Calif., the lead study author of «The Forensic Lens: Bringing Elder Neglect into Focus in the Emergency Department.»

In a recent study appearing in Nature Publishing Group's Scientific Reports, the researchers focused on the properties of schreibersite and conducted experiments with the mineral to better understand how — in a chemical reaction with the corrosive effects of water called «phosphorylation» — schreibersite could have provided the phosphate important to the emergence of early biological life.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

«Anti-bullying program focused on bystanders helps the students who need it the most: Study reports on success of model used in Finland.»

The analyzed studies, published from 1994 to 2015, focused on false social and political news accounts, including misinformation in reports of robberies; investigations of a warehouse fire and traffic accident; the supposed existence of «death panels» in the 2010 Affordable Care Act; positions of political candidates on Medicaid; and a report on whether a candidate had received donations from a convicted felon.

While other reports describe the hydrogenation of bulk materials, this study focuses on hydrogenation of single and few - layers thick graphene.

We considered focusing our studies on the peripheral corneal endothelium and endothelial limbus after reports by Schimmelpfenning [16] and Daus et al. [17] indicated a significant increase in endothelial cell density of the peripheral corneal endothelium.

Although the Badovinac study does mention that immunization of B6 Prf1 − / − mice followed by LCMV infection results in mortality with LCMV - specific CD8 T cell expansion (as do naive B6 Prf1 − / − mice), these data were not shown as the focus of the report was on the BALB / c model.

The results were published this week in a special edition of Cell Reports that highlights epigenetics, a field of study focused on a layer of biochemistry that affects gene expression and that is closely coupled to DNA but does not alter the genetic code.

Genome Atlas Group Reports on Brain Cancer Genes Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center investigators were part of The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) which reported results from its first comprehensive study focused on the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma.

In a substudy, review outcomes were also compared across different types of clinical research, based in large part on the designations and definitions derived from a number of sources, including a report by Nathan, 14 the Institute of Medicine, 20 the NIH Director's Panel on Clinical Research, 9 the Association of American Medical Colleges and American Medical Association, 21 and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.22 All 3599 R01 applications involving human subjects that were submitted to NIH for the October 2002 council were categorized into 1 of the following: (1) patient - oriented studies of mechanisms of human disease (bench to bedside); (2) clinical trials and other clinical interventions; (3) patient - oriented research focusing on development of new technologies; (4) epidemiological studies; (5) behavioral studies (including studies of normal human behavior); (6) health services research; and (7) use of deidentified human tissue.