Results of individual studies have suggested that some children who enter into intensive autism - specialized intervention services at young ages may show larger gains in terms of cognitive and adaptive functioning and early educational attainment than children who do not receive such services.2, — , 6 This research led to a reconceptualization of ASDs as a group of disorders marked by plasticity and heterogeneity and for which there was hope for better outcomes for some children who receive appropriate intervention.
Meta - analysis is the use of statistical methods to combine
results of individual studies.
Although
the results of individual studies are always questionable, a range of peer reviewed studies on the effects of small classes have now emerged, and they throw into doubt this advice.
Not exact matches
In
studying the stories
of these
individuals and other thought leaders and influencers, what I've found interesting is that in many cases the way they found their purpose and voice, and their biggest successes, wasn't the
result of a well - thought - out strategy; it was by simply responding to demand.
Team
results were also
studied so a player would benefit from victories but would be punished for losses, regardless
of his own
individual performance.
«Because changing these circumstantial factors can be monetarily and temporally costly — if not impossible — the
results of these
studies provide limited assistance to
individuals who wish to achieve greater happiness in their daily lives.»
We put the question to 207 sales and marketing professionals in a director position or above, and published our findings in a
resulting study of 80 +
individual data points and datapoint combinations.
Broker - dealers are helping investors make better retirement decisions as a
result of procedural changes firms have made in preparation for the DOL fiduciary rule, according to a
study done by state regulators on the
Individual Retirement Account rollover market.
The overview note is the
result of extensive discussions among the members
of the
study group, taking into account insights obtained from the
individual papers.
Such
result of the
study of an American company from New Jersey, which
studied the provision
of loans to
individuals.
As a
result, I revised Article 4.1 to cite instead a review by Vanguard using a Morningstar
study for the differences between
individual investor returns and the returns
of the funds themselves.
This was the largest
study of angel investment returns ever conducted, analyzing
results from 86 organized angel investor groups throughout the United States, involving 539
individual angel group investors who have experienced more than 1,130 exits in which investment - receiving companies were acquired, went public, or were closed.
The report, «Carrageenan: New
Studies Reinforce Link to Inflammation, Cancer, and Diabetes,» is the
result of a three - year investigation on the part
of the Cornucopia Institute and contains information gleaned from 1,337 questionnaire responses from
individuals about their own health.
«While only parents and athletes in
individual sports were examined in this
study, I believe that the
results may apply to parents
of children in youth sports,» says Kaye.
The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change
individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our
results are also compatible with an observational
study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period
of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26
These
studies are at risk for selection bias both
of cases and
of control
individuals and their
results might be influenced by potential confounders such as other health behaviors that may be independently associated both with breastfeeding and childhood leukemia risk, although this is
of course not limited to case - control
studies.
The
result is a gaping divide between microeconomics (the
study of how
individual people and companies in a market make decisions to buy and sell) and macroeconomics (the
study of movements in economy - wide indicators such as GDP, inflation and unemployment).
The combined
results of these
studies demonstrate that flavanols are effective at mitigating age - related changes in blood vessels, and could thereby reduce the risk
of CVD in healthy
individuals.
«For anesthesia
studies, the variables most likely to
result in identification
of individuals are the combination
of hospital and surgical procedures,» Dr. O'Neill and coauthors write.
The
results of our
study and the proven safety
of PS extracts encourages their testing in HIV - 1 infected
individuals as next step.»
«The
study results are extremely suggestive that changes in diet might impact both how an
individual responds to primary therapy and their chances
of lethal disease spreading later in life,» said the
study's senior author, Gregory J. Hannon, PhD, professor
of Cancer Molecular Biology and director, Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, University
of Cambridge in England.
One
of Mehrotra's Harvard colleagues has been
studying how the AI - boosted Human Dx system performs in comparison with
individual medical specialists, but has yet to publish the
results.
He emphasises that the precise economic and environmental advantage for an
individual household depends on the building's specific thermal conditions, but that the
result of the
study will under all circumstances have an impact on the construction industry.
«The
results of the
study tell us that some
individuals are genetically more prone to inflammation than others, especially in the adipose tissue and blood vessels.
«If we can confirm these
results in the larger
study that we are planning to begin soon, this imaging system may allow us to personalize breast cancer treatment and offer the treatment that is most likely to benefit
individual patients,» says Hershman, who is also a professor
of medicine and epidemiology at Columbia University Irving Medical Center.
Liu adds that the
results may not apply to less prestigious departments and other disciplines, and because the
study looked at the level
of the entire laboratory rather than
individual members, it may be a stretch for young scientists to use the
results to make career decisions.
The authors caution that further
study and replication
of their
results in different populations is needed to verify their model before it will be useful for
individual genetic tests — or before longevity «cocktails» are created.
This proof -
of - concept
study involved a single patient so further
studies are needed to establish whether these
results are true for a larger population
of individuals with paraplegia.
Independent
of these preclinical
studies, Clementia Pharmaceuticals is currently conducting phase 2 clinical trials in
individuals with FOP, based on the 2011 preclinical
results published by Pacifici and Iwamoto.
Nuclear physicists have extended the solid state physics
results to the limit
of a single Cooper pair and
studied Cooper pair tunneling to
individual quantum states — something which is not possible in solid state physics.
Senar and his team wanted to replicate these
results in the Eurasian siskin by
studying the journeys made during the entire biological period and throughout the lifetime
of an
individual.
This finding echoes the
results of many other human epigenetic
studies that show that the effects
of certain experiences during childhood and adolescence are especially enduring in
individuals and sometimes even across generations (right).
The 2008 Great Recession
resulted in changes to
individuals» health behaviour, with a significant increase in the likelihood
of obesity, diabetes and mental health problems, according to a new
study from City, University
of London and King's College London.
The authors caution that the
results represent averages across general practice populations; this
study did not evaluate the outcome
of prescribing decisions for
individual patients.
The revival
of group selection is a
result of better models and experimental
studies showing it is indeed possible, as well as the realisation by biologists that today's
individuals are yesterday's groups.
«We need to be much more cautious in interpreting any single
result,» he said, «and the world
of science also needs to think about ways to improve the reliability
of these
individual studies.»
Several
studies have shown the drug helps about half
of the people who take it lose more than 5 percent
of their body mass within a year, but there's a great deal
of variability in
individual results, and the mechanism underlying its effect was previously unknown.
«The knowledge gained through our
study will pave the way to better understanding
of eating behavior and facilitate the design
of personalized dietary advice that will be more amenable to the
individual,
resulting in better compliance and more successful outcomes,» said Berciano.
When comparing testing sites that dispensed coupons with those that did not,
study results show there was no significant improvement in the percentage
of people who were successfully linked to medical care after HIV diagnosis, possibly due to the fact that there were fewer than anticipated HIV - positive
individuals identified at the HIV test sites.
«The
results of the
study show that the planum temporale does not explain the rare but strong
individual variability
of the language domain that exists in humans and, therefore, can not be considered as a marker
of language asymmetry at
individual level,» they stress.
Comparing this work with previous
studies, she continues, «These
results add to prior evidence
of a potentially detrimental relation
of rotating night shift work and health and longevity... To derive practical implications for shift workers and their health, the role
of duration and intensity
of rotating night shift work and the interplay
of shift schedules with
individual traits (e.g., chronotype) warrant further exploration.»
He notes, however, that findings from the
study indicate that democratic turnover might increase as a
result of climatic events that are outside the control
of individual politicians.
Beebe cites previous
studies when she adds that the impact
of bullying can affect the physical, mental and academic well - being
of an
individual,
resulting in high levels
of anxiety, low self - esteem, and more frequent thoughts
of suicide.
«We are the first to admit that the human arm in the
study has only preliminary
results on a small subset
of individuals,» says computational biologist Eran Segal, one
of the
study authors.
ICU nurses in the
study also said they were satisfied with the
results of the patient - controlled - sedation (PCS) for
individual patients.
Christian, who led the
study as part
of his research degree (MRes) in Vertebrate Palaeontology, adds: «Our
results indicate that the number, and the relative thickness,
of layers around the circumference
of the rachis and along the feather's length are not fixed, and may vary either in order to cope with the stresses
of flight particular to the bird or to the lineage that the
individual belongs to.»
«We analyzed these small molecules in the blood and urine
of non-diabetic patients with chronic kidney disease and compared the
results to samples obtained from a group
of healthy
individuals,» said Stein Hallan, M.D., first author
of the
study published in EBioMedicine.
As a
result of this
study, Dr. Kumar and her team are researching the effect
of specific psychiatric comorbidities commonly seen in
individuals with ADHD on the development
of obesity.
«While the
results of this
study are preliminary, they hold promise for enhancing and maintaining brain reserve in later life, particularly among sedentary
individuals who may benefit most urgently from behavioral interventions like Experience Corps,» said Carlson, who is now leading a larger fMRI trial as part
of a large - scale randomized trial
of the Baltimore Experience Corps Program.
The
study involves observing 65
individual brown dwarfs, so these new detections represent just the beginning
of the
results expected from the
study.