Sentences with phrase «small studies provide»

The mostly small studies provide conflicting results and marginal benefits.

Maria Leadbeater, Clinical Nurse Specialist at Breast Cancer Care, said: «This small study provides a unique retrospective insight into the link between breast density and risk of recurrence after breast conserving surgery.

Not exact matches

Some small studies have suggested that synbiotics could provide benefits to a range of other conditions influenced by the gut microbiome as well, including obesity, diabetes, and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, but larger - scale clinical trials focusing on each of those conditions are needed.

In this book, Branson uses anecdotes and case studies, Branson provides a roadmap for success through strategies like thinking big and building small, as well as having empathy for employees.

The results of this study seem to contradict the conventional wisdom that small businesses don't have the financial bandwidth (or inclination) to provide benefits.

«I think it provides proof of principle that diet could potentially reverse an aging process,» Scott Small, the study's lead researcher, told Time.

Overall, concluded political scientist Yun - han Chu, who studied Asian Barometer surveys about East Asians» commitment to democracy, «authoritarianism remains a fierce competitor of democracy in East Asia,» in no small part because of the influence of China's ability to foster economic success without real political change, providing an alternative model that is clearly visible to other East Asians, who travel to China, work with Chinese companies, buy Chinese products, and host Chinese officials.

One study provides evidence consistent with one explanation of the overall lack of strong findings: optimal board structures may vary by firm size, with smaller firms benefiting from a unified chair / CEO position, with the clarity of leadership that structure provides, and larger firms benefiting from the extra monitoring that an independent chair may provide given the greater risk of «agency costs» at large companies.

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Thankfully, it is not only the government realizing the extent of the porn epidemic but churches are starting to take action by providing small group studies and recovery programs, like the Conquer Series, that are designed to break the cycle of pornography and provide sexual discipleship.

Compilations such as Ph. Schaff's Creeds of Christendom, Neve's Churches and Sects, Frank S. Mead's Handbook of Denominations, Marcus Bach's They Found a Faith, E. T. Clark's «Small Sects, the Study of Organized Religion in the United States,» in the Annals of the Academy of Political and Social Science, W. W. Sweet's The American Churches, and H. W. Schneider's Religion in 20th Century America provide lists and summary descriptions of the groups that compose the American religious scene.

Basically, there are three stages of growth opportunities provided: general (Sunday mornings); basic (study groups, task groups, small groups, and impromptu fellowships); and focused (one on one spiritual direction and counseling for those who request it).

The 672 current postings provide a small case study in the impacts of experiential versus artificial feedback.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

Improved postharvest practices: A recent research study undertaken by WFLO with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides an great assortment of data on the results of 12 past projects, postharvest losses % for 26 crops, a description of the value chain for 30 crops in 4 countries (Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and India) and 21 field trials of postharvest technologies suitable for helping small farmers reduce losses and improve their incomes.

Further epidemiological studies will provide only relatively small gains and some clarification of the risk factors.»

Independent observations of change were on the whole smaller than parent - report (SMD of 0.4 compared with 0.7), and very few (7/25) of the included studies had provided an independent assessment of outcome.

The number of babies from multiple pregnancies was small and none of the studies had sufficient numbers to provide information about how interventions worked for mothers of multiples.

The UK Childhood Cancer Study investigators23 published in 2001 a study that provided 1636 leukemia cases and indicated a weak evidence of borderline statistical significance that ever (compared with never) having been breastfed was associated with a small reduction in leukemia risk (OR, 0.89; 95 % CI, 0.84 - 1Study investigators23 published in 2001 a study that provided 1636 leukemia cases and indicated a weak evidence of borderline statistical significance that ever (compared with never) having been breastfed was associated with a small reduction in leukemia risk (OR, 0.89; 95 % CI, 0.84 - 1study that provided 1636 leukemia cases and indicated a weak evidence of borderline statistical significance that ever (compared with never) having been breastfed was associated with a small reduction in leukemia risk (OR, 0.89; 95 % CI, 0.84 - 1.00).

Small «s 1999 book, Our Babies, Ourselves: How Biology and Culture Shape the Way We Parent provides several case studies that illustrate the differences in parenting within a variety of cultures.

799 - B, 1376 - A, and 1783 to provide commercial rent tax relief for certain small business owners and study the impact of the commercial rent tax.

The study provides a straightforward answer to a puzzle that comparative neuroanatomists have been wrestling with for more than a decade: how can birds with their small brains perform complicated cognitive behaviors?

This study shows that coexistence of conservation and development is possible, provided that wildlife are offered refuges, such as the small protected areas that constitute the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary.

This study finds that the presence of small sanctuaries or «refuges» in densely populated semi-arid landscapes allows these antelopes to survive, and provides clues as to why animals might be moving outside sanctuaries.

Although the study population is small, the authors believe the results provide additional evidence in support of wearing helmets to prevent severe injury in motorcycle crashes.

The estimates presented in this study are also 15 % larger than global estimates provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), only slightly smaller than estimates provided by the EPA for the US, 4 % larger than EDGAR (Emissions Database for Global Atmospheric Research) global estimates, 3 % larger than EDGAR estimates for US and 54 % larger than EDGAR estimates for the state of California.

The results were from a study that was relatively small — only 208 patients — but provided a head - to - head comparison of niacin and ezetimibe, known by the brand name Zetia.

But a study from John Benson and colleagues provides evidence that the eastern coyote hunts moose and other large prey far less frequently than does the eastern wolf — instead preferring to attack smaller game or scavenge human leftovers.

The lidar - based tools developed in the study have the potential to assist in these tasks, since the laser scans are obtained throughout entire forest areas, providing high - resolution maps of changes within small forest areas.

«This study provides compelling evidence that the iconic small size of birds results from a chance but sustained pattern of selection for smaller body size spanning millions of years,» says Gregory Erickson of Florida State University in Tallahassee.

To reach these conclusions, the study provides the most detailed anatomical descriptions of the species given to date, highlighting the small size of the reptile, which measured no more than a metre long, according to craniums found at the site in Catalonia.

Injections of botulinum toxin (BOTOX ®) may provide significant relief, suggests a small preliminary study presented at the ANESTHESIOLOGY ® 2017 annual meeting.

Although this is small - scale study, explained Dr Scott, it provides hope for developing treatments in the future that may help treat the long - term effects of head injuries.

A new University of Illinois study provides video evidence of parental infanticide in dickcissels, small grassland birds of the Midwestern US.

«It is possible that Svalbard may have provided one such important refuge during warming periods, in which small polar bear populations survived and from which founder populations expanded during cooler periods,» argues biologist Charlotte Lundqvist of the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, who is a co-author of the new study.

Although small and messy, galaxies like NGC 4861 provide astronomers with interesting opportunities for study.

They will now be entering a period of rapidly increasing mortality,» said Lumey, «and this will provide significantly more study power in the future to detect small but important associations between famine exposure by stage of gestation and even more narrowly defined causes of death.»

The prairie vole, a small monogamous rodent found in North America, provides a model to study this complex phenomenon.

Dr Kathryn Adcock, Head of Neurosciences and Mental Health at the Medical Research Council, said, «Although this is quite a small study and therefore can't provide a definitive answer, the work shows very promising indications of the benefits of early intervention.»

Furthermore, the study results indicate that larger bat colonies may provide more nutrients for the trees than small colonies.

Language development expert Marianella Casasola of Cornell University calls the study «truly remarkable,» providing a level of insight that until now had to be inferred from smaller studies.

«This study provides novel insight into early life stage demographics of a long - lived seabird from the long - term study of a small and highly tractable colony.

«I was amazed by how beautiful the data looked,» Parker said, noting that the correlations between oxytocin and anxiety were surprisingly strong for a small study, and provide interesting fodder for future research.

Though the study was a small one, confirmation of the concept that PET scanning could be used as an objective test for CFS / ME could lead to better diagnosis and ultimately to the development of new therapies to provide relief to the many people around the world afflicted by this condition.

«Our findings for this study provide important starting points for using small molecule imaging techniques to explore MAO - B further at the organism level, and in fact, opens up future prospects for non-invasive imaging - based diagnostic applications,» said Dr Li Lin, the first author of the paper and a post-doctoral fellow in Prof Yao's lab.

Their smaller and simpler brains make them far easier to study than wild turtles and pigeons, and so may one day provide some answers.

«Despite their small size, these interplanetary dust particles may have provided higher quantities and a steadier supply of extraterrestrial organic material to early Earth,» said Michael Callahan of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. «Unfortunately, there have been limited studies examining their organic composition, especially with regards to biologically relevant molecules that may have been important for the origin of life, due to the miniscule size of these samples.»

This work illustrates how the study of inbred canine populations can provide new insights into the genetic underpinnings of complex disease, bridging the gap between small rodent models and humans.

Although scientists suspected that plants consume small amounts of oVOCs, this study provides the «first concrete data,» says chemist Roger Atkinson of the University of California, Riverside, who was not involved with the research.

The results of the current study provide a partial answer to this mystery: it is precisely because of their small brain that is densely packed with nerve cells that birds are able to reduce the processing time in tasks that require rapid interaction between different groups of neurons.