Sentences with phrase «since prior studies»

Moreover, we opted for a study period of two workweeks, since prior studies found that during this time period it should be possible to capture respondents» life representatively (Reis and Wheeler, 1991).

This finding was especially interesting since prior studies beginning in the 1980s across different medical specialties had noted an increasing resistance to these antibiotics.

CONCLUSIONS: This study builds upon previous research, since no prior study was able to identify the moderating role that self - esteem plays between physical demands at work, and worker's alcohol misuse.

Not exact matches

A recent study of 21,000 business school alumni found that 45 % of entrepreneurs who have graduated since 2010 started their businesses straight out of school, compared to just 7 % among those who graduated prior to 1990.

According to Genworth Financial's Cost of Care Survey for 2017, the annual median cost of services increased by an average of 4.5 percent in 2017 from the prior year, the second - highest year - over-year increase since the study began in 2004 and nearly three times the overall rate of inflation.

Since contemporary practices profoundly shape both historical retrievals and systematic articulations of Christian faith, studies in these branches of theology properly proceed by way of a prior movement of description.

«Our finding from statistical analyses of all genes in the genome that SMCHD1 was the only plausible site of causal variants for arhinia — lack of a nose — was frankly shocking, since prior to our study no patients had ever been reported with both conditions.»

While all individuals in the TBI group were at least six months post-injury at the time of the study, the average length of time since injury was eight years with no history of any significant, clinically - diagnosed neurological or psychiatric disorders prior to their TBI.

This issue has been hard to resolve since no detailed scientific studies of Caribbean reefs were conducted prior to the outbreak to help researchers understand reef dynamics and what might impede their recovery.

To determine whether scientific studies since 2002 found additional evidence on the usefulness of omega - 3 fish oil supplements, the authors focused on studies related to preventing a first heart attack in the general population, or in patients who were at high risk for heart disease, and preventing recurrent events and death in patients who had a prior heart attack, congestive heart failure, stroke, or atrial fibrillation.

Prior to working at City of Hope, she worked as a research associate in Dr. Peter Lee's lab at Stanford University since 2006 and facilitated in investigating mechanisms causing immune dysfunction in melanoma and breast cancer patients» peripheral blood, lymph node and tumor specimens utilizing techniques including microarray analysis, RT - PCR, Phospho - flow cytometry, histoloogy, and functional FACS studies.

People in the fitness tracker group lost, on average, 7.7 pounds since the start of the study two years prior, while those in the self - tracking group lost an average of 13 pounds.

Though studies have yet to include matcha's influence on fat burning post resistance training, since we know that the post-exercise oxygen consumption with resistance training is higher than cardiovascular activity, the suggestion is there that matcha prior to your weight training session would also boost your fat burning benefits.

More weight is given to the prospective studies since diet intake is assessed prior to rather than after disease occurrence.

Interactions of CMD and depression with sex in the initial model (Model 0 per sex - specific tertile trend: adjusted for age and ethnicity) were tested using LRT since sex - differences have been reported in a prior study on the association of diet and depression in the Whitehall II cohort51.

Curtis Hanson: I do not study other pictures prior to making a picture, since I try to not have other pictures entering my mind when I do mine.

«As a social studies teacher, I've always had a concern about whether Internet filtering provides someone (and since filtering is a requirement of Federal law, that someone would be the U.S. Government) with an opportunity to censor (allow for prior restraint of) online materials.

Since Morrissey relies heavily on a prior research paper on California (which I've written about before), I'll use an example of California's most recent experience study, adopted in 2017.

I have concentrated on the Bayesian inference involved in such studies, since they seem to me in many cases to use inappropriate prior distributions that heavily fatten the upper tail of the estimated PDF for S. I may write a future post concerning that issue, but in this post I want to deal with more basic statistical issues arising in what is, probably, the most important of the Bayesian studies whose PDFs for climate sensitivity were featured in AR4.

It is possible to recast an OLS - regression, normal - error - distribution based study in Bayesian terms, but there is generally little point in doing so since the regression model and error distributions uniquely define the form of the prior distribution appropriate for a Bayesian interpretation.

«The assessment is supported additionally by a complementary analysis in which the parameters of an Earth System Model of Intermediate Complexity (EMIC) were constrained using observations of near - surface temperature and ocean heat content, as well as prior information on the magnitudes of forcings, and which concluded that GHGs have caused 0.6 °C to 1.1 °C (5 to 95 % uncertainty) warming since the mid-20th century (Huber and Knutti, 2011); an analysis by Wigley and Santer (2013), who used an energy balance model and RF and climate sensitivity estimates from AR4, and they concluded that there was about a 93 % chance that GHGs caused a warming greater than observed over the 1950 — 2005 period; and earlier detection and attribution studies assessed in the AR4 (Hegerl et al., 2007b).»

These changes, designed to make the interventions more suitable for the primary care setting and clientele, did not seem to be significant changes from prior research since the «dose» findings in this study are similar to the «completer» findings of prior research, and because prior studies of less intensive interventions involving therapist contact also show similar effects for less intensive treatments.

Since our study as well as prior studies [37] showed that psychometric properties of the total SDQ scale are more satisfactory than SDQ subscales (Cronbach's alpha =.48 — .68), the total scale was used to investigate the effects of peer - victimization on general mental health problems.

These results follow patterns established in prior studies in 2003 and 2009 and indicate the «trust rating» lihas declined since those inquiries, where we are now «more trusted than Members of Parliament and used car salespeople but less than most other professions.»