Therefore,
the specific aim of our study was to identify behaviors that supported the global goal of calorie reduction,» McTiernan said.
Not exact matches
The «historical» task required a mutual interaction between the «general» history
of religions and the historical
studies of «
specific» religions, while the «systematic» task
aimed at disciplined generalizations and the structuring
of data and depended on a collaboration
of phenomenological, comparative, sociological, psychological, and other
studies of religions.
Now, when I edit grants, I first
aim to broadly understand the area
of study, and then I work to identify the
specific elements that provide the strongest rationale for the proposed
study.
In the future,
studies are
aimed at using novel molecular approaches to selectively delete AMPK in
specific brain regions associated with nicotine dependence to better understand the functional role
of this protein in addiction.
Published in the October Journal
of the American Academy
of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, this is the first large - scale, multi-site
study aimed at identifying
specific social - communicative behaviors that distinguish infants with ASD from their typically and atypically developing high - risk peers as early as 18 months
of age.
For example, in a grant application which requires an Abstract,
Specific Aims, Background, Progress Report — or Preliminary
Studies in the case
of an initial application — Research Design and Methods, and Literature Cited, it would be wise to outline the sections in the following order: Progress Report / Preliminary
Studies,
Specific Aims, Research Design and Methods, Background, and Literature Cited.
The
study reflects an «antimicrobial stewardship» approach, guiding healthcare providers to prescribe the most appropriate antibiotic for a patient's
specific type
of infection, with the
aim of improving individual outcomes and reducing the overall risk
of antibiotic resistance — in which disease - causing microorganisms develop resistance to commonly used antibiotics.
The Scientific Review Committee (SRC) ensures that all cancer clinical trials conducted under the auspices
of the Vanderbilt - Ingram Cancer Center meet peer - reviewed standards
of scientific design, including appropriate scientific rationale,
specific aims,
study endpoints, biostatistical analysis, and adequate ability to accrue patients.
A
study in the Journal
of Lipid Research looks at the life stages
of a microorganism that causes a blinding eye infection,
aiming to find a target for a species -
specific drug.
The results provide a valuable resource for future
studies aimed at a mechanistic understanding
of the function
of O - GlcNAc on
specific proteins during T cell activation.
In one 2015
study in Annals
of Internal Medicine, when dieters
aimed for 30 or more grams
of fiber daily, it helped them lose weight and improve their body's ability to respond to insulin nearly as well as the people who followed a more complicated eating plan that involved cutting back on sugar, sodium, fat, and alcohol and
aiming for
specific quotas
of carbs, protein, and fat.
On the other hand, from the Multi-Institutional and Multidisciplinary Doctorate in Dissemination
of Knowledge (DMMDC), located in Salvador de Bahia (Brazil), we work the triple theoretical, epistemological and methodological area which
study the knowledge from their construction, translation and distribution processes,
aiming at the understanding
of languages, frameworks and processes
specific to different disciplines with the
aim of making these
specific bases for the construction
of the ballast
of understanding inter / transdisciplinary and multi-referentiality, with the commitment
of production and socialization
of knowledge in open perspective to dialogue between these different disciplines / sciences, and other modes
of knowledge organization, in order to make private knowledge
of cognitive or epistemic communities in public.
The
aim of this
study was to compare the complete growth curves
of 12 different - sized dog breeds and to investigate a mathematical basis for the provision
of breed -
specific feeding guides.
For his first exhibition in the Hudson Valley, Pittsburgh - based artist Jon Rubin has conceived
of a new, site -
specific project at the Center for Curatorial
Studies that
aims to catalyze a more direct relationship between the CCS and its local audience.
Curated by David Ho Yeung Chan, a curator based in Hong Kong with an MA from the Centre for Curatorial
Studies at Bard College in new York, The Thid Script
aims to look at two different ways
of deconstructing a narrative - through a site -
specific installation by Lai and a time - based artwork by Boo.
Conceptually, it is impossible to separate decisions about what is
studied and how it is
studied from funding levels, funding sources, institutional priorities, publication
aims and complex decisions about what to report and how to report it, so that facts are «constructed» in the sense
of being shaped by a variety
of specific circumstances (20).
Be
specific and tell what you know,
aimed at demonstrating your perfect fit for the desired industry and area
of study
This
study aimed to provide information for action paralleling these
specific aims: To identify the demographic and work setting correlates
of poor mental health (depression and anxiety) among working Australians in order to identify those groups and settings most urgently in need
of intervention.
Various research
studies have
aimed to pinpoint the
specific income level that increases a couple's divorce risk, but the results vary by location, family size, cost
of living, etc..
Objective: The
aim of this
study was to analyse gender
specific differences in regard to intensity and factors influencing health - related quality
of life in patients with cardiac arrhythmia.
Abstract: Objective: The
aim of this
study was to analyse gender
specific differences in regard to intensity and factors influencing health - related quality
of life in patients with cardiac arrhythmia.
OBJECTIVE: The
aim of this
study was to identify job stress level and to elucidate the factors associated with job stress among female golf caddies as a
specific job group in South Korea.
Abstract: OBJECTIVE: The
aim of this
study was to identify job stress level and to elucidate the factors associated with job stress among female golf caddies as a
specific job group in South Korea.
This paper describes the following aspects
of the
study:
specific aims, research design and
study organization, assessment
of primary and secondary outcomes,
study treatments, data analysis plan, and data monitoring and safety reporting.
In the
specific area
of parental control tools, the Commission funded a
study under the Safer Internet plus programme (2005 - 2008) which
aimed at «Benchmarking
of filtering software and services».
In addition, because most
of the RCTs reviewed in this
study were trialling interventions
aimed at more than one type
of anxiety disorder, it was not possible to make inferences about whether the interventions with highest effectiveness targeted
specific types
of anxiety disorders.
Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This
study describes the implementation
of a
specific, community based, multifamily group (MFG) intervention strategy (Baby Families and Schools Together [FAST]-RRB-
aimed at improving the outcomes for infants
of teenage mothers.
Given that the theoretical model suggested by Loeber et al. (2000) which we
aimed to test in this
study is age
specific, we selected from all the participants
of the Zuid - Holland longitudinal
study, a sub-sample
of participants who were aged 6 — 8 years (i.e., children in early childhood; 507 children / 243 males) and had parent reports at Time 1.
The current
study aimed to examine: (1) similarities (or concordance) in the ways people seek support from their social relationships as well as their perceptions
of these relationships, and (2) whether support - seeking may be related to relationship closeness at the relationship - general versus relationship -
specific levels.
The
aims of the project are to (1) develop a culturally
specific parent training intervention for Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems, (2) evaluate implementation feasibility and initial efficacy
of the intervention in a pilot
study, (3) develop and refine measurement methods for assessing Latino individual family processes, and (4) test an integrative theoretical model that hypothesizes how social and acculturation contexts, family stress processes, and parenting practices are linked to predict Latino youngster adjustment.
This exploratory
study aimed to describe, explore and test a self - constructed conceptual framework designed to understand the relative impact
of infertility -
specific and general psychological characteristics, in predicting psychological distress.
In the future, it will be important to design
studies aimed to understand the complex relationships between BGM affect, adherence, diabetes -
specific family conflict, quality
of life, and glycemic outcomes.
In line with this lack
of literature, the present paper reports on a pilot
study aimed at investigating longitudinally the quality
of mother — child interactions, with
specific reference to emotional availability (EA), in a group
of mother — child pairs involved in infant massage classes.
Because the use
of two - wave panel data in the present
study makes resolving the puzzle impossible, a
specific focus will be on the transition from adolescence to adulthood with the
aim of identifying implications regarding the causal direction
of associations.