Sentences with phrase «reviewed large scale studies»

By the way, a great book by another skeptical OBGYN is called «Born in the USA» only he's skeptical of medicalized birth because he's a clinical scientist as well, unlike our author here and he's realized that home birth is safer than hospital birth according to peer - reviewed large scale studies.

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Finally, we have reviewed a large - scale study on high blood pressure showing an association between high levels of protein intake (in the vicinity of 100 grams per day) and significantly decreased risk of high blood pressure over an 11 - year period of time.

Experts have called for large - scale studies into altering the make - up of bacteria in the gut, after a review showed that this might reduce the symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).

A review of large - scale studies involving more than 1.5 million people found all - cause mortality is higher for those who eat meat, particularly red or processed meat, on a daily basis.

In a review of existing literature, Marteau did find descriptions of nudging being used to improve health behaviors — one study reports a 70 % increase in the amount of fruit bought by school children at lunchtime after fruit was placed by the cash register — but these interventions have not been evaluated on a large scale or assessed for cost - effectiveness.

The big takeaway from this study: While there is uncertainty in projections for changes in the climate indices reviewed here (especially El Niño and La Niña), this study serves to alert us to the fact that the climate impacts that our local coastal communities face are based in large part on changes that occur on both a large, global scale and over the long, decadal term.

A large - scale study, published in Wellcome Open Research and which passed peer review today, has shown that inactivating the same gene in mouse embryos...

However, a review article published in a 2010 edition of the «Yale Journal of Biology and Medicine» reports that several large - scale studies have found a link to artificial sweetener use and weight gain.

It's important to remember that, as this is a systematic review study, it provides large - scale average values rather than specific diet strategies.

The review authors stated, «Several large scale prospective cohort studies found positive correlation between artificial sweetener use and weight gain.»

's most recent post (November 25, 2013) about the non-peer-reviewed National Bureau of Economic Research's DC IMPACT study, another recently published study albeit this time in the Journal of Labor Economics, a top - field peer - reviewed journal, found no impact of incentives in New York City's (NYC) public schools given its large - scale multimillion program.

However, two careful, large - scale studies, reviewed in detail below, suggest that despite the lack of persistence of value - added on future test scores, one year of experience with a high - value - added teacher predicts higher rates of college attendance and adult earnings, as well as other important outcomes.

Schacter's (1999) review of 13 meta - analyses and four large - scale studies concluded that «Computer Based Instruction (CBI), the most widely implemented and studied computer technology, moderately improves student learning» (p. 330).

A large scale study under review at the time of writing in the US suggests LS has a significant impact on pupil learning as a result of teacher learning.

The review covered 17 research papers, from large - scale questionnaires to observational studies, experiments, and veterinary case studies.

A recent review offers ambiguous support for the relation between home visitation and reductions in child maltreatment.2 The findings from several large - scale home - visitation efforts have shown disappointing short - term results in reducing family violence and child maltreatment.4, 9 A 15 - year follow - up study of the Elmira trial families, however, provided the first evidence from a randomized trial for the long - term effects of home visitation on reducing child maltreatment.10 Results from the follow - up showed that nurse - visited families had half as many child maltreatment reports as families in the comparison group.

In this study, we (1) developed the initial item pool based on a focus group, broad literature review and existing scales; (2) examined the psychometric properties of the scales in a pilot study among 538 middle school students; (3) examined the psychometric properties of the scales according to classical and modern test theories among a large sample of adolescents.

This information is based on literature reviews of large scale, university based studies in North America and Europe.

The studies reviewed in Part I included a large scale research project by Clawar and Rivlin, which was commissioned by the American Bar Association Section on Family Law (1).