Sentences with phrase «separate studies measuring»

Marsha Richins of the University of Missouri conducted three separate studies measuring consumers on their level of materialism and their emotional state before and after making a purchase.

Not exact matches

For a separate study, the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's Ala Khazendar — a co-author of Scheuchl's paper — measured ice loss at the bottom of the three glaciers, which he suspected might be influencing the changes in their grounding lines.

Calling the study «flawed,» the Sugar Industry Association said that the fact that so many of the participants lost weight during the study «makes it impossible to separate the effects of weight loss from dietary changes on the health variables measured.»

What's next: The team will study different techniques to separate carbon - emitting sources by taking soil samples and measuring the fluctuation of carbon dioxide.

Another study examining the effects the different lipids in terms of heart disease risk found that «triglyceride concentration was not independently related with CHD risk after controlling for HDL - C, non — HDL - C, and other standard risk factors, including null findings in women and under nonfasting conditions.21, 22 Hence, for population - wide assessment of vascular risk, triglyceride measurement provides no additional information about vascular risk given knowledge of HDL - C and total cholesterol levels, although there may be separate reasons to measure triglyceride concentration (eg, prevention of pancreatitis).»

This includes evidence from four separate studies that have directly tested whether VAMs measure correlation or causation... All four of these studies reach the same conclusion: VAMs that control for students» lagged test scores primarily capture teachers» causal effects rather than correlations due to other factors not captured in the model.

A separate test is being developed to measure progress in science and social studies.

ScholarCentric's researchers have also conducted three separate studies to evaluate whether students» resiliency scores, as measured by the Success Highways Resiliency Assessment, could 1) differentiate high from low academically achieving students using several factors; and / or 2) identify whether the assessment could be further refined to serve as an early warning indicator of potential high school failure.

U.S. fourth - graders are 11th in the world in math in the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study, a separate measure of nations against each other.

Peer effect is a critical missing measure in studies that purport to show charter effectiveness (CREDO NJ for example)-- because it's really hard to separate «school effect» from «peer effect» [because «peers» are an integral part of the «school»] Clearly, schools like North Star that serve substantively different student populations than district schools, and shed «weak» non-compliant students (& their parents) at astounding rates, create peer conditions that are advantageous to those few (50 % or so) who actually make it through.

Their study measures three variables: adherence to originalism, citations of Scalia's nonjudicial writings, and willingness to express views by writing separate opinions.

Furthermore, the studies included in this meta - analysis, and in the former meta - analysis, did not measure different forms of victimization separately (ie, physical and relational victimization) or did not report separate analyses for different forms of victimization.

In an attempt to tease apart these explanations, Dr. Holt - Lunstad's research team (also consisting of Wendy Birmingham of Huntsman Cancer Institute and Kathleen Light of the University of Utah) studied 34 married couples that took part in an intervention and had oxytocin levels measured at two time points separated by four weeks.

In a study of unwed fathers one year after their children's births, Mincy, Garfinkel, and Nepomnyaschy found, using Fragile Families data, that strong enforcement, measured as a city or state's commitment to establishing paternity, increased the chance that fathers had seen their child in the past thirty days and that they had received an overnight visit from their child in the past year.47 A nuanced set of findings emerges from a separate study by Nepomnyaschy of the interactions between father involvement, and formal and informal support payments.48 Both formal and informal support payments one year after a child's birth raise the likelihood of father contact two years later.

«The study found that on average unhappily married adults who divorced were no happier than unhappily married adults who stayed married when rated on any of the 12 separate measures of psychological well being.

If some primary studies report an outcome as a dichotomous measure and others use a continuous measure of the same construct, we will convert results for the former from an OR to a SMD, provided that we can assume the underlying continuous measure has approximately a normal or logistic distribution (otherwise we will perform two separate analyses).

Since anxiety and depression are highly correlated and often comorbid, it is important that studies separate anxiety and depression (as opposed to using a composite measure of internalizing symptoms) in order to increase specificity.

Since our measure of EV indexed 3 weeks, separated by 3 months, we are confident that such occurrences have not had a major impact on our results, but it would nevertheless be informative to study EV in the context of adolescents» daily lives.

To illustrate that parental knowledge should be separated from parental monitoring and that exploration of monitoring processes can be of use with chronic illness samples, we reanalyzed data from an instrument development study using our PMDC monitoring measure.

The most commonly explored strategy was escapist coping (or distraction / disengagement in Lord and Robertson, 2005), which was measured by five separate studies.