Sentences with phrase «robust predictors of»

Maternal depression and parenting are robust predictors of developmental outcomes for children with attention - deficit / hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).

For example, mothers» positive emotional expressivity is one of the most robust predictors of adequate social - emotional functioning in children, including adaptive self - regulation and high social competence (Eisenberg et al. 1998).

Emotion regulation deficits have been established as robust predictors of substance use risk [52, 53 • •, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69].

Preschool MDD as well as family history of affective disorders emerged as the most robust predictors of later MDD compared with other risk factors considered simultaneously in the model.

As a result, FICO has redeveloped its credit scoring models several times to make sure they remain robust predictors of credit risk.

Social support is one of the most robust predictors of resilience in the aftermath of trauma, as well.

The scientists had expected inflammation markers in the CSF to be more robust predictors of AD - related pathology and neuronal damage than those in the blood due to the «blood brain barrier.»

«Our study provides further evidence that sleep - disordered breathing negatively affects attention, processing speed and memory, which are robust predictors of cognitive decline,» said senior study author Susan Redline, MD, MPH, Peter C. Farrell Professor of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

«In this study, it was a robust predictor of increased long - term physical health quality.»

We show that drill - hole size is a robust predictor of body size among modern drilling predators and that drill - hole size (and thus inferred predator size and power) rose substantially from the Ordovician to the Quaternary period, whereas the size of drilled prey remained stable.

In a longitudinal population - based study, childhood SES, assessed from fathers» occupation or education, was a robust predictor of incident diabetes, especially among women, which had a cumulative risk effect for both childhood SES and adult BMI (98).

On the other hand, there is mounting evidence for a distinctive role played by motor vehicle traffic — related exposures in elevating cardiovascular risk.108, 111,268,269 Lipfert et al76, 77 interpreted the results of their analysis of the Veterans Affairs hypertensive male cohort as suggesting that traffic density was a more «significant and robust predictor of survival in this cohort» than PM2.5.

In a 2004 study, Professor William Henderson first examined the extent to which the LSAT's predictive power for law school success relates to test - taking speed.69 He concluded that LSAT scores were «a relatively robust predictor of performance on in - class exams but a relatively weak predictor of performance on take - home exams and paper assignments.»

Finally, we controlled for the effects of socioeconomic status given that it has been found to be a robust predictor of children's conduct problems (e.g., D'Onofrio et al. 2009).

Interviewer - rated maternal responsiveness was a robust predictor of conduct problems, but only among infants low in fearfulness.

Not exact matches

«This is important because there's a robust body of research showing that the ability to talk about sexual health with a partner, such as a willingness to talk about condoms, is one of the strongest predictors of whether a couple will engage in safer sex,» says Laura Widman, lead author of a paper describing the work and an assistant professor of psychology at NC State.

The approach reflects robust, growing scientific evidence that the number of traumatic events a person has experienced is the most important predictor of PTSD and depression, Schauer says.

In a recent Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica study, poor academic performance, measured as grade point average (GPA) at age 16, was a robust and strong predictor of suicide attempt up to middle age.

However, the neutrophil count is a robust indicator and it was shown in the EPIC Norfolk study that a raised neutrophil count in healthy middle - aged subjects was a predictor of earlier death.

But for kids who kept using e-cigarettes, «the most robust predictors were the low cost and trying e-cigarettes to quit smoking,» said lead researcher Krysten Bold, a postdoctoral fellow in psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine.

As he explains; «probably the most robust finding to date from research on accountability policies is that the strongest initial predictors of the impact of policy on student performance are the attributes of schools rather than the attributes of the policies themselves.»

Substantial research evidence demonstrates that CBMreading is a robust indicator of reading development and a useful predictor of student performance on state tests.

S1 which removed alternatively (a) all tree - ring data or (b) 7 additional long - term proxy records associated with greater uncertainties or potential documented biases (showing the temperature reconstruction was robust to removal of either of these datasets), we here removed both data sets simultaneously from the predictor network (Fig.

The series is only 42 data points long (equating to 126 years), so is hardly robust, however, it may be a useful predictor of future temps since it is gistemp that lags the SST.

manacker, the 60 - year smoothed curve is robust over the last century or so, and, I would suggest, a good predictor of what future smoothed temperatures would look like if extrapolated.

Other reconstructions can be considered to represent what are essentially intermediate applications between these two approaches, in that they involve regionalisation of much of the data prior to the use of a statistical transfer function, and so involve fewer, but potentially more robust, regional predictors (Briffa et al., 2001; Mann and Jones, 2003; D'Arrigo et al., 2006).

The mediated and moderated effects of collaboration on the relation between shared selves and well - being were robust when marital quality and subjective health were included as rival predictors.

One of the most robust concurrent and prospective predictors of depressive symptoms and episodes is the occurrence of stress (Grant et al. 2004; Shih et al. 2006).

Nevertheless, our findings did not change in terms of the predictors involved or the direction of associations when excluding these siblings, indicating that the findings are robust.

In addition, both mothers and fathers reports of relational aggression uniquely predicted internalizing behaviors, externalizing behaviors, and social problems, with fathers» reports emerging as a particularly robust predictor.