Sentences with phrase «reports of various studies»

Recently, there have been reports of various studies suggesting that CBT is an effective measure in the treatment of schizophrenia.

Not exact matches

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«There are 70,000 books in the British Library with leadership in the title,» the blog reports Furnham remarking, «but most leaders don't succeed, they fail, with a base rate of bad leadership collated from various studies of 50 per cent.»

A third of respondents to polls by various American and Canadian health organizations report getting a good night's rest at best a few times per month; more than one in 10 — some studies say almost 50 % — suffer from insomnia.

According to the CIBC study, which examined various reports that have attempted to compute an annualized average «return on investment» on education and found stark divergences depending on the field of study, the university premium over college has also narrowed and now comes to 0.7 percentage points.

The best way to get a thorough understanding of these two subjects is actually read, compare and understand many reports on resource estimates and economic studies, in various stages of development.

Avoiding commitment as to any specific attitude which the church and Christian men ought to adopt toward war when war comes, the conference report contented itself with exhibiting the various views which Christians actually hold on that subject and with saying that while the church could neither affirm that any one of these was right and the others wrong nor acquiesce in the permanent continuance of these differences, it should promote the study of the problem with a view to a better understanding of the purpose of God.

If you study all the flaws in scripture, the theological inconsistencies which are everywhere, the obvious different writing styles and favorite words, phrases and themes of the various writers, the typo errors (like 1Corinthians 14:22), the differences in reporting (wqs there really one Gadarene demoniac or two), and hundreds of other problems, you start to understand why there are more than twenty thousand denominations in the state of California alone, all of them claiming the truth.

BMC publications include more than 25 Market Report and Focus Report studies offering trends, data and analysis of various sectors of the the beverage industry and snack food market.

Caffeine is a mild stimulant and studies show that moms reported various effects of caffeine on their babies, including that their babies were jittery or slept poorly.

In today's New York Times, Jane Brody reports on the recently released results of the CHildhood Obesity Cost - Effectiveness Study (aka «CHOICES»), which examined various possible approaches to curbing childhood obesity and chose two as most likely to help: the imposition of taxes on sugary beverages and curbs on children's junk food advertising, both measures long supported here on The Lunch Tray.

In 2007, in an effort to establish whether certain lifestyle factors offered any preventive measure against various types of cancer, the American Institute for Cancer Research released a report of a meta - study it had conducted (over five years, compiling results from several smaller studies).

Although there were limitations in the way that satisfaction - related outcomes were assessed and reported, the majority of the included studies showed a higher level of satisfaction with various aspects of care in the midwife - led continuity of care compared to the other models of care.

Ten studies reported maternal satisfaction with various components of the childbirth experiences (Biro 2000; Flint 1989; Harvey 1996; Hicks 2003; Kenny 1994; MacVicar 1993; McLachlan 2012; Rowley 1995; Turnbull 1996; Waldenstrom 2001).

It added, «Having received and studied the Reports, the President has decided to undertake an on the spot assessment of the various occurrences and to meet and console the communities affected.

The report examined 79 properties owned by Sinatra through various limited liability companies, but was not an exhaustive study of his entire portfolio.

In a study published in the March 15 Journal of Environmental Science & Technology, Kolpin and his colleagues reported they looked for 95 different contaminants, such as antibiotics, steroids, hormones, antioxidants, plasticizers, and various solvents.

A 2002 study of beluga whales in Canada's Saint Lawrence Estuary suggested that PAH pollution caused over a quarter of the 263 deaths reported there between 1983 and 1999, by inducing various cancers.

«Understudied are the ways schools can create positive climates for students to come forward and report various risky behaviors — the utmost concern of which are weapons on campus,» said doctoral criminology student Nina Barbieri MS» 12, the second author on the study.

The material used in the study consists of chronicles, travelogues and various administrative documents such as tax and land registers, as well as diplomatic reports.

The study is believed to be the first to examine for hypertension among individuals who self - reported various frequencies of insomnia symptoms.

As María Antonia Serrano, a scientist at the UPV and main author of the study, explains: «In Spain, despite being a country with many hours of sunlight, several articles have reported a high percentage of vitamin D deficiency among various strata of the Spanish population.»

The activity of circulating leukocytes have been reported by various past studies to differ between ME / CFS patients and controls, possibly resulting from infectious agents, autoimmunity, or immune system disturbances.

Asthma: Adults with asthma have reported an increased quality of life and reduced asthma symptoms in various research studies.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

Previous case reports, as well as number of non-randomized, controlled studies of exposed workers (including firefighters), demonstrate that detoxification reduces body burdens of PCBs, PBBs, dioxins, various drugs and pesticides with concurrent symptomatic improvement.

The Feskanich group reported the proportion of various dietary sources of vitamin A in this study in great detail and differentiated between supplemental and food retinol with impressive rigor.

It goes through in detail various potential sources of error and bias (e.g. manner and timing of reporting of weight, mammography, high risk vs average population, cancer subtypes, hormone therapies, etc) that may be confounding results, and relates results of previous studies to those of a more recent study which attempted to correct for some of these errors.

During the past years, a multitude of mouse studies indeed proved anti-tumor effects of KDs for various tumor types, and a few case reports and pre-clinical studies obtained promising results in cancer patients as well.

The negative effects seem to lie in the capacity of some foods / nutrients to stimulate proliferative pathways that in turn stimulate development of acne — suspect foods include those with a high glycaemic load and milk.11, 43, 44 Other evidence comes from several studies reporting that the prevalence of acne varies significantly between different populations and is substantially lower in non-Westernized populations that follow traditional diets, 45 a common factor among these traditional diets being a low glycaemic load.46 Various studies have provided evidence that high - glycaemic - load diets are implicated in the aetiology of acne through their capacity to stimulate insulin, androgen bioavailability and insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1) activity, whereas the beneficial effects of low - glycaemic - load diets, apart from weight and blood glucose levels, also include improved skin quality.44 The clinical and experimental evidence does in fact suggest ways in which insulin can increase androgen production and affect via induction of steroidogenic enzymes, 47 the secretion by the pituitary gland of gonadotropin - releasing hormone and the production of sex hormone - binding globulin.48 Insulin is also able to reduce serum levels of IGF - binding protein - 1 increasing the effect of IGF - 1.49 These insulin - mediated actions can therefore influence diverse factors that underlie the development of acne such as:

People who reported the most psychological distress were two - thirds more likely than happy people to die during the various studies, which lasted for an average of about 8 years.

Hooker looks at the overall results of the study and the methodology used in the report's various surveys, to assess the strengths and weaknesses of statistical data within the online dating industry.

The study concluded that between 1998 and 2000 the number of students who reported various acts of cheating, stealing, drinking, drug taking, class cutting, and the like decreased significantly.

Participants in the study documented in the report — adults of various racial and ethnic backgrounds and educational levels from across the U.S. — judged black girls, starting at age 5, to be older, to need less support, to know more about adult topics, to need less protection, and to be more sexually aware than white girls.

Chicago tells us no more about this than does Atlanta, where cheating was systematic, or Kentucky, where another study that I cite in Charade found that 9 to 36 percent of teachers in Kentucky reported various forms of cheating in their own schools.

Through various FOI project activities, HCDC will: • Share results of Family Nurture Intervention in the NICU studies with key stakeholders through inclusion in the FOI Innovation Inventory • Broaden support for emotional connection theory / construct through inclusion in FOI reports, webinars, and testing new intervention strategies • Elevate the profile and connections of the work of Dr. Martha Welch and the Nurture Science Program at Columbia University

Various studies of the impact of private school voucher programs now in effect have demonstrated mixed results, the report points out, and some of the studies suffer from methodological problems.

Previous real - life studies conducted by BioCote in various sectors — such as in a hospital and care home — to measure the levels of bacteria on BioCote protected surfaces also reported them to be less contaminated than their unprotected counterparts.

The author has reported on the Columbine high - school massacre in various magazines and newspapers since 1999; he has interviewed, it appears, everyone interviewable; he has studied all the many official reports and all the evidence, listed here in a bibliography of 14 pages; and one can only regret the form in which he has chosen to cast his account.

Policymakers should be cautious about drawing any conclusions based on any study that reports results for only a few years of any program or cohort of students, especially at the beginning of a school choice program, when various stakeholders, such as participating students, their parents, school leaders, and state - level administrators, are on a learning curve.

There are various opportunities to meet KS2 National Curriculum requirements, including study of a significant author, reading techniques such as prediction, drawing inferences, clarification and summary, and drama and writing opportunities, including poetry performance, descriptive writing, persuasive writing, letter writing, newspaper reports, poetry and play scripts.

While all studies in this set reported positive effects due to various teacher leaders practices in support of the implementation of instructional materials, Gigante and Firestone (2007) suggests that support provided within teachers» classroom was more effective than other forms of support.

Using the comments of each teacher across the three interviews, the study group meeting notes, study group action plans, facilitator logs, and the end - of - year reports, we built a scale indicating the degree to which a school was perceived to be implementing the various components of the school change framework (see Table 5).

The purpose of the survey used in this study was to examine how exposure to various technologies used to support K - 12 student literacy development may influence teacher candidates in their reported level of familiarity and their intent to recommend and adopt the technologies in their own literacy - based instructional practice.

The purpose of this survey - based study was to examine how exposure to various digital technologies used to support K - 12 student literacy development may influence teacher candidates in their reported level of familiarity with them and their own intent to recommend and adopt the technologies in their literacy - based instructional practice.

Reviewing various documents from across the past 150 years — research studies, government reports, encyclopedia entries, pronouncements of august organizations, teacher blogs, methods guides — revealed that we educators have been pretty sloppy in our use of that term.

The report also offers case studies of the America College Promise programs in state, city, urban, and rural institutions in order to provide communities with various design options and strategies.

This 65 - page report contains the results of a case study conducted on five Wisconsin schools of various grade levels.

Bowker, a company that has released some vital reports on studies conducted across various aspects of the publishing industry, spoke to GoodEReader at Digital Book World about the staggering growth of ebooks in the market, the metadata requirements that help a reading audience find the books that are being produced, and the overall buying and reading preferences of consumers.

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