Sentences with phrase «significant than another outcome»

but the buildup of serotonin may be less significant than another outcome of PST deficiency — namely, the effect this deficiency would have on the permeability of the intestinal lining.

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With the benefit of hindsight, given the lower - than - expected inflation outcomes, this would have resulted in a significant undershooting of the inflation target.

Asked about these matters, Kevin Heine, a Bank of New York Mellon spokesman, said, «We believe an $ 8.5 billion bird - in - the - hand settlement with significant servicing improvements is a far better result for all investors than the likely outcome following years of costly litigation.»

The monetary policy debate over whether rule - like behavior is preferable to pure discretion dates back at least to Henry Simons in 1936.1 More recently, in their Nobel Prize - winning work, Finn Kydland and Ed Prescott demonstrated that a credible commitment by policymakers to behave in a systematic rule - like manner leads to better outcomes than discretion.2 Since then, numerous papers using a variety of models have investigated the benefits of rule - like behavior in monetary policy and found that there are indeed significant benefits.

Cobb's recognition that the origin of the act of decision is temporally earlier than its outcome is most significant for it stands in contrast with the implicit tendency to treat concrescence as if it were temporally instantaneous.

Significant convergences on doctrinal issues have not ceased, as in, for example, the Lutheran — Roman Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (1999), but these convergences tend to be the outcome of discussions already well advanced in earlier decades and are to be attributed more to institutional inertia than to continuing enthusiasm.

More significant than the extra fly balls are their outcomes: After a career in which about one in nine of his flies went for homers, Bautista is going deep on one in five.

This indicates that the outcome of last week's game is far more significant than Tannehill's injury.

The analysis by parity indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in adverse neonatal outcomes for nulliparous women although the numbers are much smaller than the Birthplace in England study.

Fewer than 4 % (3.4 %) of newborns spit up while sleeping in the supine position in the first 24 hours of life, but none required significant intervention or experienced adverse immediate outcomes.

Analysis of data from nine randomised trials involving 6756 patients (1729 older than 80 years of age) showed that alteplase treatment significantly increased the odds of a good stroke outcome (no significant disability 3 - 6 months after stroke), with faster treatment offering the best chance of recovery.

The odds of a good stroke outcome were 75 % greater for patients given alteplase within 3 hours of initial stroke symptoms, compared with those who did not receive the drug; for those given the drug between 3 and 4 · 5 hours post-stroke there was a 26 % increased chance of a good outcome; while for those with a delay of more than 4 · 5 hours in receiving treatment, there was just a 15 %, not statistically significant, increase in the chance of a good recovery.

«However, while the operative mortality numbers are lower than historical outcomes, 19 % is still significant and further improvement is needed.»

Visa status, they find, plays a significant role in outcomes — but for many holders of new doctorates, circumstances other than U.S. immigration policy are extremely influential.

Stroke patients who received genetically modified stem cells significantly recovered their mobility... Outcomes varied, but more than a third experienced significant benefit.

March 17, 2016 Shared decision - making can improve health care outcomes for LGBTQ racial and ethnic minority patients Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) patients who are also racial and ethnic minorities suffer significant health disparities, while facing more complicated challenges than white LGBTQ or racial and ethnic minority patients alone.

These strong long - term outcomes — which tend to be much more significant than any short - term test - score gains — likely reflect Catholic schools» focus on discipline and character as much as their excellent academics.

While students at both groups of schools did better than the trends projected in the years studied, closures produced positive and statistically significant impacts on several key outcomes for displaced students versus those in the comparison group (Figure 5).

While LSP transfers result in slightly more negative outcomes than positive ones for receiving schools, this difference is not statistically significant.

The plan sets a target of 66 % of working - age New Mexicans earning a college degree or post-secondary credential by the year 2030 — a rigorous goal given the current attainment rate of 45 %.1 The plan also sets a vision for New Mexico to be the fastest growing state in the nation when it comes to student outcomes, with a goal to increase the percentage of students who demonstrate readiness to more than 60 % on the state English language arts (ELA) and math assessments.2 These efforts are significant considering New Mexico's historically lower student academic proficiency rates compared to other states and to national averages3, and demonstrate how leaders are driving a sense of urgency to improve.

The first of these (Follett, 1924) essentially advocated leadership through expert rather than positional power, whereas the second (Bowers & Seashore, 1966) provided evidence that peer sources of leadership in large organizations could have significant effects on organizational outcomes.

Dr. Geoffrey Borman's recent meta - analysis of student achievement outcomes in 29 leading CSR models found that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations.»

So, there are a number of trials, albeit much smaller than this EEF trial, which suggest that a Lesson Study approach can have significant, positive impact on student outcomes, but only when the content is of high quality.

The Every Student Succeeds Act revised the standards for assessing curriculum adoption and instructional approaches for English learners, and those revisions make measuring student outcomes more significant than ever.

The good news is that states have made significant progress toward developing longitudinal data systems that can provide such information, and more than 40 states now publish postsecondary outcome data for individual high schools.52

For example, a 2002 systematic analysis by Dr. Geoffrey Borman and his colleagues of the student achievement outcomes of 29 leading K - 12 CSR models — most of which operated in Title 1 schools — reported that «the overall effects of CSR are significant, meaningful, and appear to be greater than the effects of other interventions that have been designed to serve similar purposes and student and school populations» (Borman, Hewes, Overman, & Brown, 2002, p. 33).

These results tend to be larger and are more statistically significant than the estimated effects of proximity to a Superfund site on birth outcomes.

One such challenge was significant limitations regarding the underlying validity of the data that were to inform judgments about performance and accountability, which corresponded with a less than robust picture of the meaningful steps that should then be taken to improve systems and yield better student learning and outcomes.

On all outcome measures, the intervention group means were higher than the control group means, although statistical tests did not yield significant differences between the groups.

• Differences with the private sector: Higher - education faculty members tend to be older, more educated, and have higher incomes than the working population as a whole, and the structural pension plan design differences in the higher - education sector also make a significant contribution to the better retirement outcomes expected by faculty.

As SRS begins to emerge in veterinary cancer care, early reports indicate good outcomes and fewer side effects than traditional radiation therapy, and pet owners appreciate the significant reduction in daily visits to three or fewer.

For more than 100 years, without any significant break, the U.S. has been doing whatever it can to influence the outcome of elections — up to and including assassinating politicians it has found unfriendly.»

As the distribution obtained by combining all independent evidence is narrower than any of the evidence separately, the choice of prior will have a lesser influence on the outcome, but it may still have a significant effect.

Although the year might be characterized as one of preparation and cultivation, rather than tangible, high - profile outcomes, the seeds of 2016 promise to bear significant fruit in the years ahead.

Long and Christensen found no statistically significant correlation between readability and outcome in the briefs in their study.129 For federal appellate court briefs and state supreme court briefs, the only variable with a statistically significant correlation to reversal was jurisdiction, which is not surprising because state cases have higher reversal rates than federal cases.

With more than 125 countries worldwide with merger control regimes, it has become increasingly complex to predict merger control timelines and final outcomes (in particular, whether significant conditions for clearance will be necessary).

98 This intra-case comparison is significant because if one party explained the facts more clearly than the other, the difference could make a favorable outcome more likely regardless of whether the individual brief's readability score was high or low.

It has now been more than two full months since the Supreme Court decisions in Gall and Kimbrough, and I am really wondering if these rulings have had a significant impact on district court sentencing outcomes.

In those instances an attorney finds potential legal rights with significant value, often a severance can be negotiated and / or successful legal action can be pursued with an outcome better than the initial severance offer.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.

In almost all instances where mental health outcomes were explored, children of parents with BPD fared worse than control children, even when these control children had parents with significant mental health difficulties, for example, Weiss et al33 found that children of mothers with BPD (mean age around 11 years) had lower Child Global Assessment Schedule (CGAS) scores than children of mothers with other personality disorders, and that the mean of these scores was in the «non-functional» range.

When these demographic variables were not included, only two of the 14 outcomes variables were statistically significant (at p < 0.05): children's physical health was better in comparison sites than in CfC sites, and the reverse was true for maternal mental health at wave 1.

The coping measures provided less valid results than work characteristics or personality groups, although both positive and negative coping were significant predictors of outcomes.

To qualify as potential mediators, risk factors must follow the onset of the intervention and show a significant bivariate association with the outcome variable.9 We also required them to occur in more than 5 % of the participants.

There were significant associations between brief exposure to maternal mental ill - health, but the outcomes for these children were less marked than for those repeatedly exposed to a mother with mental health problems.

These differences were more marked for some outcomes than others but were statistically significant for all.

Results from Cohort I indicated that parents in the EBPP indicated significant improvements in parental rejection, in the quality of family relationships, and in child behavior outcomes than those in the control group.

Citing workplace hypertension and the profound impact that one's work environment has on physical health he noted that the quality of one's manager at work is actually more significant than one's doctor in determining health outcomes.

This study presents a significant step forward in its operationalization of both primary and secondary appraisal variables by treating hurt as an outcome, rather than an antecedent, of the appraisal process, and considers an extensive range of coping responses.

High expressed emotion (EE) refers to affective attitudes and behaviors toward patients characterized by critical comments, hostility, and emotional over involvement (EOI).3 The construct has traditionally been applied to the study of familial relationships, and it is well established that levels of familial EE are significant predictors of outcome across a range of psychiatric and physical health conditions.4 A substantial body of this research has been carried out with people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and there is strong evidence that those living in high EE environments have a much higher risk of relapse than those living in low EE environments.5 The success of family intervention studies aiming to reduce high EE and relapses add to the support for a causal relationship.6, 7