Sentences with phrase «small subgroups of»

Within small subgroups of the population, however, religious viewing does seem to be associated with lower religious involvement....

Kirby says — and even some vaccine defenders agree — that some small subgroup of children might have a particular vulnerability to vaccines and yet be missed by epidemiological studies.

A writeprint — an amalgam of a writer's compositional quirks — can pinpoint an author within a small subgroup of, say, 20 people with about 90 percent accuracy.

However, for a small subgroup of people with asthma, LABAs can cause severe, life - threatening side effects and carry a boxed safety warning from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Basophils are a small subgroup of granulocytes.

Not all lung cancers are linked to ALK mutations, so the drug crizotinib, which inhibits the mutant enzyme, is prescribed only for that small subgroup of lung cancer patients.

Future studies need to clarify whether smaller subgroups of breast cancer, defined according to expression array criteria, will behave in ways similar to ER - α — positive or negative breast cancer but it is clear that the 2 major disease subgroups, defined by ER - α status, show contrasting hypoxic CSC responses.

â $ For a small subgroup of women with strong family histories of breast cancer, we recommend starting screening, including annual mammograms and MRIs, at age 25, â $ says Julie R. Gralow, MD, the director of breast medical oncology at the University of Washington and Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle.

A small subgroup of doctors argue that the condition is caused by residual bacterial infection and should be treated with long - term antibiotic therapy for months or even years.

A smaller subgroup of 3,556 5th graders showed no difference in performance on 5th grade science standards, based on whether or not their teachers participated.

Those results favored by Mike are drawn from a small subgroup of the 126 achievement - attainment pairs in our study.

The super subgroups combined smaller subgroups of low - performing or disadvantaged students, but Ed Week notes that «civil rights advocates argued they allowed states to mask the performance of some student subgroups.»

Systemic signs — a small subgroup of dogs display lethargy, depression, and fever.

NMDA receptor antibodies are found in a small subgroup of patients with first - episode psychosis, but their clinical relevance is unknown

Prevalence, assessment and diagnosis: NMDA receptor antibodies are found in a small subgroup of patients with first - episode psychosis, but their clinical relevance is unknown

However, no conclusions could be drawn about the effects for the small subgroup of children with ASD separately.

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But each of those subgroups is, in effect, its own sample, and those samples can be very small.

A better analogy along the same lines would be where a small percentage of the employees decided that they want every single employee to contribute money to a fund that supplies the small subgroup with season tickets to the local baseball team.

Throughout 1977 DCS staff, working with the panel, collected data on energy use and production, generated papers representing different points of view on basic energy questions, and held smaller consultations with subgroupings in the larger panel.

Most commonly, the word «crimini» is used to designate a subgroup of the button mushrooms, and it refers to button mushroom varieties that are somewhat smaller than most white button mushrooms; more light brown / coffee / cocoa in color; and somewhat firmer as well.

Due to heterogeneity and to the small number of trials in each subgroup, we would advise caution when interpreting this result (Analysis 2.1).

And for a small but well - established subgroup of political professionals, Weiner's campaign does something more than all that: It tests the proposition of whether it's necessary to run for mayor with their help in the first place.

The authors report that most of the fake news consumption was Pro-Trump, however, and heavily concentrated among a small ideological subgroup.

We can not make robust conclusions because the subgroup of patients with negative EGFR was very small, but the hypothesis generated here is that those tumours do not respond well to necitumumab.»

«By combining the genetic analysis of a small population of immune cells from healthy skin with functional experiments we were able to define two subgroups of memory immune cell and in detail decipher / dissect how these cells behave in healthy and inflamed skin,» explains Liv Eidsmo, researcher at Karolinska Institutet's Department of Medicine.

Although drawing conclusions about small population subgroups — such as kids at risk of violence — from broad population trends can be dicey, it is still worth noting that as violent video games proliferated in recent years, the number of violent youthful offenders fell — by more than half between 1994 and 2010, according to the U.S. Department of Justice.

Since smaller groups are more likely to reach consensus, the researchers said, it would be better for a subgroup of countries to come to a consensus on its own and then bring that single proposal to the larger group.

«Our study is small, retrospective and all of the patients were located at a single medical center, but it demonstrates that it's possible to use molecular diagnostics to identify subgroups of patients more likely to respond to a given treatment,» said co-first author John Paul Shen, MD, senior clinical fellow and postdoctoral fellow.

Biologists say that if the dam is not stopped, the gene pool in the subgroups will be so small the bears will no longer be viable and they could disappear within a couple of decades.

Find out what your tribe members read (like a small but interesting blog) and where they hang out (in a subgroup of a major website or down the street at the corner pub, where the local analytical chemistry group meets once a month for a beer to discuss the latest HPLC methods).

It was small, and the findings can't be applied to certain subgroups of patients who were excluded from the study (such as those with severe depression who may be suicidal), to primary care settings, to forms of dementia other than Alzheimer's, or to other types of antidepressants.

(As always with polling data and reporting subgroups, some caution should be taken when making comparisons of subgroups having smaller sample sizes — and hence, larger margins of error — than the total national sample.)

For smaller American Indian / Alaskan Native and Hawaiian Native / Pacific Islander subgroups, the majority of students in the subgroup remain uncovered if only students in that subgroup are pooled: the «super subgroup» strategy of aggregating across racial / ethnic groups is the only way to account for most students in these groups, although their data are not identifiable at the subgroup level.

The overlap between the subgroup of teachers who received a layoff notice and the subgroup of teachers who received one in our simulation is relatively small — only 23 teachers (or 16 percent of the teachers for whom we could estimate value - added who received a layoff notice).

First, it would all but eliminate school - level information about the learning of student subgroups, as testing only a single grade in each school often results in sample sizes for groups such as English learners or blacks that are too small to yield reliable information for the school as a whole.

With one exception (immigrants benefited less than native - born students from a performance pay regime), I found only small differences in the impact of performance pay on the math achievement of subgroups in the population.

The higher the threshold — say, requiring a subgroup to represent at least 15 percent of the student body, as opposed to 5 or 10 percent — the lower the failure rate will be for schools with small percentages of disadvantaged minority students.

Among the smallest quintile of elementary schools, 47 percent of racially heterogeneous schools (those with four or more racial subgroups) won performance awards, versus 82 percent of similarly sized but racially homogeneous schools.

Though African Americans appear slightly more likely to support the option of sending a child to a religious school, subgroup differences on this matter are small (Q. 9).

Analyses of candidates» 2014 portfolios revealed only small differences in performance across various ethnic and racial subgroups.

As a part of the new Local Control Funding Formula tentatively approved by legislative leaders and Gov. Jerry Brown this week, school districts will be required to track and report the academic progress of subgroups of students as small as 30 members.

In terms of grade level, bullying was more common for 7th graders than for 8th graders at the three schools we surveyed, with two notable exceptions: Verbal bullying affected 8th grade girls more than any other subgroup at Small City School, and physical violence affected 8th grade boys and girls more than 7th graders at Big City School.

The CORE districts have committed to track progress of and hold themselves accountable for much smaller subgroups, with as few as 20 students per campus.

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The pattern of results across the four models is broadly consistent although there are differences in significance across age groups, potentially due to lower power for the smaller subgroup samples.

The small number of studies in the respective meta - analyses did not allow for subgroup analyses.

The effect was small, but was identified in the whole program group, instead of only in a smaller subgroup.86 In Memphis, more positive interactions were observed in the subgroup of women who possessed low psychological resources.87 Likewise, home - visited mothers in Early Head Start were rated as more supportive during play with their children than controls, though the effect was small.88 Maternal sensitivity was also examined in Hawaii Healthy Start, the Healthy Families evaluations in San Diego and Alaska, and the Comprehensive Child Development Program, though none identified significant effects.

The sum of participants in the treatment groups (intervention plus CAU) is smaller than the number of participants in each subgroup because some participants did not complete the post or the follow - up assessment and could therefore not be included in the main analysis.

This allowed us to overcome the heterogeneity of misclassification bias of subgroups due to a small number of subjects in each group.

The odds of having comorbid disorders are higher than expected by chance for most racial / ethnic subgroups, except when base rates of disorders were already high or when cell sizes were small.