Sentences with phrase «several of our previous studies»

As in several of our previous studies, 53 we found significant but much weaker relationships between leadership and teacher capacity.

Not exact matches

Several churches I know of have a mid-week «Pastor's Study» which is taught by the pastor, and is devoted to reviewing the sermon that was preached the previous Sunday, and answering any questions that people might have.

We have studied the symbolism of the Cosmic Tree in several of our previous works, (Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion (New York, 1958), pp. 270 ff.; Eliade, Le Chamanisme et les techniques archaïques de l'extase (Paris, 1951), pp. 244 ff.; and Images et Symboles, pp. 5S ff.

Several previous studies indicated this relationship, but none of them had taken gender differences into consideration.

Several clinical centres in the USA and Canada recruited four groups of men with CRPC to a phase II study to receive 2550 mg of galeterone orally once a day: 22 men had CRPC that had not metastasised (spread) and had received no previous treatment; 39 men had metastatic CRPC and no previous treatment with abiraterone or enzalutamide; 37 and nine men had metastatic CRPC and had failed treatment with abiraterone and enzalutamide respectively.

With regard to poor throwing technique, we identified a list of 24 variables that constitute «proper» pitching technique, based on previous studies of several hundred elite professional and college players conducted at ASMI.

Led by Jenna Goesling, PhD, of the University of Michigan, the study identifies several «red flags» for persistent opioid use — particularly previous use of high - dose opioids.

With several years of postdoctoral study under their belts, today's new science faculty members are, in purely scientific terms, better trained than any previous generation of newly independent scientists.

The research team has in several previous studies, based on x-ray crystallographic methods, shown the basic structure of SRP.

A previous study of rats in New York by investigators at CII found several of the same pathogens, including E. coli, Salmonella, and C. difficile.

Several previous studies have found an association between increasing nut consumption and a lower risk of diseases such as heart disease, type 2 diabetes, colon cancer, gallstones, and diverticulitis.

«One theory that resonated with a lot of the things we found points to the importance of busy streets in promoting outdoor activity, interaction and cohesion in communities, which could potentially deter street violence,» said Branas, who has led several previous studies suggesting that urban parks and greening vacant lots encourage people to become invested in maintaining their neighborhoods and may reduce violent crime.

In the new study, scientists built upon previous discoveries that a safe, non-reproducing vaccine strain of T. gondii could cure mice of several types of solid tumors, and identified which parasite proteins and which immunological pathways are required to break immune tolerance.

«Several previous studies pointed to recent adaptation in this region of the genome.

Several previous studies have revealed that leisure time is important for older people, and that it has a positive influence on their quality of life, happiness and sense of peace.

In previous studies, including recent genome sequencing of cancer patients, human SETD2 has been implicated in several cancer types, especially in renal cell carcinoma — the most common kind of kidney cancer.

Professor Paul Upchurch (UCL Earth Sciences), co-author of the Biological Reviews study, added: «Several previous methodological studies have shown that it is important to include as many species in an evolutionary tree as possible: this generally improves the accuracy of the tree.

In a previous study she showed that marine snow can reach depths of several hundred meters within a few days, which contradicted previous theories suggesting that it might dissipate and dissolve long before reaching the ocean floor.

Several features make the initiative different from previous CFS studies, Carlson says — the technology Lipkin will use, the size and careful characterization of the cohort, the investigators involved, and the business - driven approach.

Previous small studies suggested that delaying stent implantation for a period of time ranging from several hours to several days after reopening the artery might reduce the risk of blood - flow disturbance.

Previous studies described the existence of several mechanisms that might explain the effect of vitamin D on the components of MetS.

«These findings invalidate the underlying premise of several previous studies that used the modifier QZ to determine how often nurse anesthetists provide unsupervised care.

Previous studies have found that several years before the disease manifests itself, the brains of people with the mutation undergo subtle changes, with a thinning of the regions involved in motor function.

They identified several genes whose absence conferred HIV resistance, some of which had been predicted by previous studies and others that had never been directly tied to HIV infection before.

One of the major parameters was the safety of these agents in the respiratory airways and lung parenchyma, since several of these agents are known to cause adverse effects.23 The main adverse effects observed were cough, transient fever and transient decrease in the respiratory functions after the aerosol administration.8, 19, 20 Moreover; it has been observed that excessive deposition of these agents in one site of the respiratory system can induce non-specific side effects in the form of pulmonary edema as observed with many other drugs.16 These side effects were milder when a premedication with bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids were administered.8, 19, 20 Until now no long term trial (> 9 months) has been performed since all patients included in previous studies had stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

This result was agreed with several previous studies who stated that, Cyclin D1 showed nuclear and cytoplasmic staining and had an extensive range of intensities between different sections [22, 23].

«Though several studies have suggested that amyloid beta builds up when we lack sleep, and previous evidence has shown sleep may give the brain a chance to clear out clumps of amyloid beta, unfortunately none have been able to confirm that sleep deprivation can cause dementia.

Previous studies had linked several traits with a lower chance of developing mental disorders.

Several previous studies of cell therapy for heart attack have used unsorted bone marrow cells.

Previous genomic studies have shown that recombination accounts for a high proportion (> 96 %) of diversity within several major disease - associated sequence types (STs) of L. pneumophila.

In January 2010, Michael F. Holick, MD PhD, a vitamin D researcher whose work I have cited in previous articles, Linda Linday, a medical doctor whose cod liver oil study formed the starting point for Cannell's 2008 commentary, and several other colleagues, even including one researcher from the National Institutes of Health, made a direct response to Dr. Cannell and his colleagues in the pages of the same journal.

In January 2010, Michael F. Hollick, MD PhD, a vitamin D researcher whose work I have cited in previous articles, Linda Linday, a medical doctor whose cod liver oil study formed the starting point for Cannell's 2008 commentary, and several other colleagues, even including one researcher from the NIH, made a direct response to Dr. Cannell and his colleaugues in the pages of the same journal.

For this reason, a team of Japanese researchers conducted a meta - analysis that combined the results of several previous studies.

«Further studies are required for us to be able to understand the mechanisms involved in the connection between poor breakfast and metabolic syndrome, but our results and those of several previous studies suggest that a poor breakfast can have a negative effect on blood sugar regulation,» says Maria Wennberg, the study's main author.

Several previous studies also have demonstrated the cholesterol lowering benefits of soy in women with PCOS.

«We have been investigating Montmorency tart cherries for several years because they're a unique fruit with a high concentration of anthocyanins,» said co-author Howatson, whose previous studies have demonstrated the ability of Montmorency tart cherry juice to reduce certain inflammation responses and oxidative stress after high - intensity exercise.

Several previous studies show that caffeine reduces «perceived exertion,» the perception of how hard you're working.

Several previous studies have observed deficiencies in intakes of micronutrients, such as vitamin D, calcium, zinc, magnesium, and iron, in dieting bodybuilders [3, 17, 18, 204, 205].

This instrument has been used in several published studies to gauge the content of teachers» instruction (examples here and here), but most previous studies have used SEC data from only semester - end or year - end surveys (for more on the history of the SEC, see here).

This finding is important because EPI has been traditionally considered a disease of middle - aged to older cats, although a previous study had reported similar findings with several cats with EPI being < 1 year of age.

Several previous studies have examined the impact of spay / neuter on shelter intake [2]- [5].

Hegerl et al (2006) for example used comparisons during the pre-industrial of EBM simulations and proxy temperature reconstructions based entirely or partially on tree - ring data to estimate the equilibrium 2xCO2 climate sensitivity, arguing for a substantially lower 5 % -95 % range of 1.5 — 6.2 C than found in several previous studies.

But the downside of those opportunities is the risk that the current pace of climate change could be sped up dramatically by the release of long - trapped methane gas in the region's permafrost — a risk to which a new study has attached an eye - popping price tag of $ 60 trillion in the next several decades, on top of previous estimates.

The discussion of the previous thread brought up in several comments the observation that the Figure 9.20 of WG1 might most appropriately be considered a representation of likelihood functions that describe the results of various studies based directly or indirectly on empirical data.

Previous studies in the Rivière Boniface area have described the structure and old age of spruce woodlands and krummholz (Payette et al. 1985, 1989a, b; Payette & Morneau 1993), composed of both living and dead spruce stems and branches several hundred years old.

It seems to me that several of those sites post more frequently and promptly on such developments than does RC, often with at least some substantive scientific commentary (e.g. putting new studies in the context of previous work, etc).

Several of the most commonly identified risk factors in previous research were identified in this study, including being male, membership in a single - parent or stepfamily, 5 high levels of parent - reported childhood activity, 23,24 maternal mental health problems, 25 and a history of teenage parenthood.26 What is relatively novel about this report is the consideration of the joint effects of psychosocial risk factors, while controlling for multiple indicators of social class and the assessment of both accidents and illnesses in a large community sample followed prospectively since pregnancy.

Unfortunately, these previous studies failed to address several important questions: What are the different roles of the mother and father in the social development of their child?

Effectively, in several previous studies peer relationships have been found to moderate the effects of children's problematic attitudes (e.g., anxiety, aggression, and difficult temperament) on their behavior problems (Miller - Johnson et al., 2002; Dodge and Pettit, 2003; Gazelle and Ladd, 2003; Ladd and Troop - Gordon, 2003; Henricsson and Rydell, 2006).

As pointed out in the previous section, the results from several large prospective studies indicate that being victim of aggression from others is a risk factor for the development of both emotional problems and conduct problems.