Sentences with phrase «similar comparison study»

We conducted a similar comparison study, but observed our parent - child pairs as they read an e-book on an iPad as well as a print book.

Not exact matches

you can't use websites as proof, you have to actually read the studies and then analyse the data and then, look at similar studies for comparison.

This rate is similar to the National Birth Center Study and to the low - risk hospital births used as a comparison group in the same study of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalStudy and to the low - risk hospital births used as a comparison group in the same study of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalstudy of 1.3 / 1,000 (0.7 / 1,000 excluding anomalies).

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

Comparisons between the USSR and North Korea are all too frequent, yet it is highly unlikely that a potential collapse of the hermit kingdom would lead to a similar collapse in North Korean studies.

Comparison with recent studies elsewhere has shown that similar, frequent, small volume landslides may be a fundamental mechanism in the long - term evolution of active submarine volcanoes.

For comparison, the study will also include healthy controls and people who have recovered from Lyme disease, which can cause similar symptoms.

«The comparison across athletes sampled in a similar way with validated instruments is what this study adds to the literature,» said Dr. Breyer.

The brivaracetam study is relevant for the research question, the studies used for the comparison are sufficiently similar to this study, and further patient - relevant outcomes are addressed.

On a wider scale, looking at the overall comparison between the study's roughly 22,000 nonusers and 4,000 users, and statistically adjusting for certain factors, the researchers found a similar outcome: Users of statins were more than twice as likely to develop diabetes.

A comparison between less - expensive, over-the-counter hearing assistance devices and a conventional hearing aid found that some of these devices were associated with improvements in hearing similar to the hearing aid, according to a study published by JAMA.

In this paper, by solving the Boltzmann transport equation (BTE) based on first - principles calculations, we performed a comprehensive study of the phonon transport properties of ML GaN, with detailed comparison to bulk GaN, 2D graphene, silicene and ML BN with similar honeycomb structure.

Further sham - operated RCS rats from separate, concurrent studies [42], [43] were available for comparison and yielded similar results (these animals were not included in the present study).

The study produced results which were very similar to the previous study where participants that took creatine right after exercising had a much bigger increase in muscle tissue in comparison to those who were exercising and taking creatine beforehand, or those in the control group that were exercising but weren't using any creatine.

The study results revealed that, even though the two groups had similar nitrate and nitrite levels in the blood prior to drinking the juice, the group consuming beetroot juice had much higher nitrate and nitrite levels in comparison to the placebo group after exercising.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

3) In another study at the University of Chicago, a similar protocol was conducted but men were asked to return a year later for a comparison.

However, the researchers tried to minimize this bias by doing comparisons of similar - intensity studies.

Looking at direct comparisons, recent studies suggest that a high bar speed might transfer better to sprinting compared to similar exercises performed more slowly (Pareja - Blanco et al. 2014; Loturco et al. 2015a; Mora - Custodio et al. 2016), but older studies indicate that this is not always the case (Harris et al. 2008; Blazevich & Jenkins, 2002).

Most states now have such information in their longitudinal databases, but no published studies have used these data to compare the achievement growth of students at virtual schools with demographically similar students at carefully selected comparison schools.

Using student - level data, they are able to surmount a criticism of the Skiba et al. study by limiting the analysis of students involved in the same fight to a sample in which neither student had a previous suspensions — so the only comparisons involve students with similar disciplinary records.

These prior studies are based largely on non-experimental comparisons of survey responses of similar students in public and private schools, whereas our study is the first to examine data on the actual voting behavior of students who participated in a choice lottery.

A written survey component of this study will build on a similar study conducted in 2005 — 06 (Hill, 2007), allowing for the comparison of teachers» curriculum use and content knowledge — and more specifically, their mathematical knowledge for teaching (MKT)-- across time periods.

The Witte / Wolf study used a matched comparison design, following a cohort of students that participated in the program and comparing them to a similar set of students in the Milwaukee Public Schools.

Hoxby quickly gathered data, and just a month after the AFT study grabbed headlines, her study, A Straightforward Comparison of Charter Schools and Regular Public Schools in the United States, is making news with findings showing that, on average, students in charter schools are 5 percent more likely to be proficient in reading and 3 percent more likely to be proficient in math than students at the closest public schools with similar racial composition.

The initial study reported in 1992 (Romance & Vitale, 1992) showed that 4th grade Science IDEAS students displayed higher achievement on nationally - normed tests in reading comprehension and in science (in comparison to demographically similar students) and more positive attitudes and self - confidence toward reading comprehension and science.

Another study conducted a similar comparison of teachers» value added with English language learners and English - proficient students.

The study lists the top and bottom performing institutions in terms of graduation rates for black students, and offers comparisons between colleges serving similar student populations.

Policy Study Associates (PSA) Analysis of the Impacts of City Year's Whole School Whole Child Model on Partner Schools» Performance A third - party study by Policy Studies Associates (PSA) examined the impact of City Year's service model, Whole School Whole Child, on City Year's partner schools» performance in comparison to similar schools without City Study Associates (PSA) Analysis of the Impacts of City Year's Whole School Whole Child Model on Partner Schools» Performance A third - party study by Policy Studies Associates (PSA) examined the impact of City Year's service model, Whole School Whole Child, on City Year's partner schools» performance in comparison to similar schools without City study by Policy Studies Associates (PSA) examined the impact of City Year's service model, Whole School Whole Child, on City Year's partner schools» performance in comparison to similar schools without City Year.

Here, the study argues that, notwithstanding changes in tests and proficiency thresholds in the states over this period of time, the relative position of Arizona vis - a-vis these comparison entities remains very similar, with Arizona continuing to lag behind both in percent of ELL students achieving proficiency in reading and math.

There is evidence that economic inequality is a large contributor to the overall middling performance by U.S. students when it comes to international comparisons, with a 2013 study suggesting that if our students came from an overall similar economic divide as other first - world countries, our ranking would rise considerably.

Looking at an array of «indicators» helps avoid the pitfall, as seen by the School Standards study, of using testing as «a sole method of accreditation or for similar widespread comparison» because testing tends to make «instruction point definitely to success in examinations,» cultivates «a uniformity that is deadening to instruction,» can «thwart the initiative of instructors,» and can «destroy the flexibility and individuality of an institution.»

Morphological comparison among cats from Quanhucun, ancient Egyptian (7), and European wildcats and house cats (20), showing the cats studied seemed more similar in size to domestic cats than wildcats

While the relationship between age and brain atrophy in humans is well documented and could potentially bias a comparison between different age groups, there is no evidence that this is the case in dogs (a recent study has shown that Labradors in the age groups 1 — 5, 5 — 10 and 10 + have similar cerebellar volumes)[22] or even chimpanzees [25].

In our study of the average cost of travel insurance in 2017, we found almost all of the travel insurance quotes from comparison websites were identical or very similar in price to the premiums quoted from insurers directly.

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.

The present study aims to evaluate the impact of CfC on children and their families by investigating differences between children and families living in 10 CfC sites and five comparison sites that were similar in location, size and socioeconomic status.

The effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy in this study was similar to that observed in patients who accepted treatment in the initial uncontrolled evaluation.10 The results differed, however, from those of the two previous controlled trials of cognitive behaviour therapy, one of which was a non-randomised comparison with a waiting list11 and the other a randomised comparison with basic medical care.12 The possible reasons for the greater effectiveness of cognitive behaviour therapy in our study include differences in the characteristics of the patients, longer follow up, and possibly less active medical care.

We will use two comparison groups for this analysis: (1) children recorded in the KiDS database as eligible for the Brighter Futures Program who did not participate; and (2) a propensity - matched comparison group from the whole study population, matched on individual - level characteristics similar to those outlined in the methods to address objectives 1 and 2.

Although we made no explicit comparison, this study revealed a similar pattern.

Three studies appear to be particularly well suited for comparison, as they have samples of similar age and country, and used the same instrument and coding system, i.e., the SSP (Bernier et al. 2004; Cole 2005a, b, 2006; Dozier et al. 2001).

The study we designed involved couples providing major sets of data at three points in time: during the second trimester of pregnancy, about six weeks after the baby was born, and when the baby was six months old (couples in the comparison group were assessed at similar time intervals).

Differing from most housing reports that compare median prices, the annual Coldwell Banker study, which first launched in the late 1980s, provides an apples - to - apple comparison of similar 2,200 - square - foot, four - bedroom, two - and - a-half bath homes in 341 North American markets, in addition to a sampling of other countries / territories outside of North America where Coldwell Banker has a presence.