Sentences with phrase «second aim of the study»
«So, the second aim of the study is to try to identify genetic markers that might influence how a disease manifests in a family with a known genetic condition.»
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«The second aim of the study was to see whether pancreatic insulin and enzyme secretions are controlled by different types of vagal motoneurons — the cells of the nervous system that control motor functions of the pancreas through the vagus nerve.»
The second aim of the study was to examine whether frequency of computer use with a friend was related to higher online, mixed and offline friendship quality.
A second aim of this study was to examine links between emotion socialization strategies and psychological distress.
To address the second aim of the study, we directly compared the CD / CU + and CD / CU - subgroups in terms of EA, emotion recognition, and affective empathy, to examine whether empathy deficits were more pronounced, or only present, in the CD / CU + subgroup.
A second aim of this study was to replicate the few existing studies in humans that investigate the relationship between stressful prenatal life events and the risk of infectious disease in the offspring.
The second aim of this study was to investigate whether children's ER varied between AD and non-AD children.
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The study had two aims: first to help church people and the public to identify the issues; and second, to identify solutions that would not restrict the rights of citizens to express themselves freely in a democracy.
The second approach to comparative religion at Chicago was advocated by George Burman Foster (d. 1918), who accepted a widely held three - layered scheme: (1) a narrow history of religions — conceived to be the simple historical study of «raw» religious data, often colored by an evolutionary ideology — toward (2) «comparative religion,» which aims to classify religious data and culminates in (3) a philosophy of religion (or a theology) that provides a meaning for the comparative religion enterprise as a whole.
With this second aim, we used new data on planned birth setting to improve the interpretation of studies in which investigators could not disaggregate in - hospital births that had been planned to be out - of - hospital births from births that had been planned to be in - hospital births.
In this pilot study, we used simulation as a methodology with 2 aims as follows: first, to explore the use of simulation incorporating a standardized pregnant patient as an investigative methodology and, second, to determine similarities and differences in content and style of prenatal counseling between American and Dutch neonatologists.We compared counseling practice between 11 American and 11 Dutch neonatologists, using a simulation - based investigative methodology.
The aim of the second day was to showcase the innovative approaches currently being undertaken in the study of political transnationalism.
A second study, led by Le Bouc, aims to get at one of the biggest mysteries of imprinting disorders — their link to in vitro fertilization (IVF).
In the second phase, half of the study volunteers participated in a 20 - week behavioral intervention aimed at reducing their sodium intake to 1,500 mg / day by using spices and herbs.
A second grant funds a pilot study using diffuser tensor imaging to identify whether damage to the brain's white matter correlates with cognitive decline in individuals with MS. Dr. Genova's aim is to develop more effective strategies for maintaining cognition and quality of life.
This report presents findings from the second year of the Enhanced Reading Opportunities (ERO) study, a demonstration and random assignment evaluation of two supplemental literacy programs — Reading Apprenticeship Academic Literacy and Xtreme Reading — that aim to improve the reading comprehension skills and school performance of struggling ninth - grade readers.
This is the second in a series of seven revision sheets, aimed at Applied Ethics (Unit B603) of the OCR GCSE Religious Studies course, featuring key information on abortion.
This second study aims at providing additional evidence of the validity and reliability of the CERS - M by examining the differential, convergent, discriminant and criterion validity of the instrument as well as its test - retest reliability (Laveault & Grégoire, 2014).
Subsequently, a second study aims to provide additional evidence of both the reliability and the validity of the scale.
Our second aim was to assess this relationship by comparing levels of anxiety and depression symptoms within sibling groups, while our third aim was to study the relationship between the combined anxiety and depression symptom loads of adolescents and parents and later receipt of medical benefits in young adult offspring.
After explaining the aim of the study and the instructions, the teacher read the items, one by one, leaving a few second between two items for students to respond.
The present study aims to build a model of second language (L2) reading, taking into account working memory capacity and first language (L1) literacy as variables within structural equation modeling (SEM).
The study aims to determine whether receiving the Second Step intervention in middle school reduces youth aggression, sexual violence, and substance use, and teen dating violence when in high school; to evaluate Second Step program effects on trajectories of bullying, victimization, homophobic teasing, sexual harassment, and teen dating violence in high school, and to examine the relations among growth in aggression and substance use.
Our second aim was to study the stability of these profiles by examining children's transitions in profiles from 1.5 and 3 to 6 years of age using LTA.
The aim of the current study was to test first the validity of the social learning model, in which children's externalizing behavior (EB) is considered to be related to problematic parenting, and second, whether and to what extent mothers and fathers moderate the influence of each other's parenting on children's EB.