Lucina Uddin, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Miami, who was not part of the research team, said, «The combination of multiple neuroimaging modalities is a clear
strength of the current study, and the authors are to be commended for undertaking the difficult task of trying to reconcile results from methods designed to tap different aspects of brain structure and function.
Among the main
strengths of the current study are the large sample size and use of well - validated measures of mental health problems developed for use with adolescents.
Having the intervention developers involved in the manualising and adaptation of their Alert Program is
a strength of the current study.
A strength of the current study is the examination of programme fidelity and its impact on programme outcomes, which few studies have examined to date.
The strengths of the current study include the use of validated interview measures.
One
strength of the current study involves the use of multiple informants; parents and caregivers reported on outcome measures, and youth reported on friendship qualities, thus reducing the potential confounds of shared - method variance.
The strengths of the current study are the large sample size, the overall high participation rate, the use of validated headache outcomes and the assessment of the impact of a range of commonly experienced types of interpersonal violence, loneliness, psychological distress, and family cohesion within a population - based cohort of adolescents.
While there are a number of
strengths of the current study including the use of a multi-wave, longitudinal design and examining hypotheses with both Canadian and Chinese adolescents, it also important to recognize limitations.
Not exact matches
The
strengths of the
study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place
of birth at the start
of care in labour, the high participation
of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation
of selection bias through achievement
of a high response rate and absence
of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms
of identified clinical risk (according to
current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability
of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start
of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.
Our
current alcohol tax system, branded «a mess» by the Institute for Fiscal
Studies, perversely incentivises the production
of cheap, high
strength products.
The latest
study, funded by the Wellcome Trust and published in
Current Biology, shows that the
strength and reliability
of «homing signals» in the human brain vary among people and can predict navigational ability.
Bone loss and the risk
of fracture is also a serious concern for the 54 million people in the United States who have low bone density or osteoporosis.1 The three-fold difference observed in bone mechanical
strength versus density in the
current study should prompt additional review
of how physicians assess risk and treat patients with this condition.
According to Col Jerome Kim, Walter Reed Army Institute
of Research, US, who was also part
of the lead group for the
study, apart from the
current four doses
of vaccines that were given to subjects in the phase III clinical trials in Thailand, they are planning to give a booster does after six months to increase the
strength of the vaccine.
Based on evidence from electrophysiological
studies showing that both synaptic plasticity and
strength of inputs to hippocampal region CA1 vary systematically with ongoing theta oscillations (Hyman et al., 2003; Brankack et al., 1993), it has been suggested that the theta rhythm functions to separate periods
of encoding
of current sensory stimuli and retrieval
of episodic memory cued by
current stimuli so as to avoid interference that would occur if encoding and retrieval were simultaneous.
In contrast to these individual attributes, in a
current Canadian
study at the College
of Kinesiology, at the University
of Saskatchewan, scientist tested the combo
of whey, creatine and CLA on
strength training.
In 2015, The Lancet published research and found that grip
strength is more accurate than blood pressure in forecasting fatal heart disease, and a 2017
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care
study concluded that muscle mass is a far better predictor
of health than body mass index.
According to a
study published in the
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care journal in 2010, it has been found out that muscle loss as well as decreased muscle
strength occurs during a prolonged period
of fasting.
Now the same researchers have published another
study, in the
current issue
of Journal
of Strength & Conditioning Research, this time looking at «dynamic» stretching instead
of static stretching.
Based on the
current evidence, it is clear BCAA's stimulate protein synthesis acutely and one
study [173] has indicated that BCAA's may be able to increase lean mass and
strength when added to a
strength training routine; however, additional long - term
studies are needed to determine the effects
of BCAA's on lean mass and
strength in trained athletes.
Our
current strength is in the fields
of history, anthropology, politics and
current affairs, Indo - Persian
studies, media and culture
studies, literature, administration, governance and management.
To get around this problem, the
study's authors created an index based on sea surface temperatures to infer the
strength of the
current over time.
The hurricane cemented a lifelong fascination with natural disasters, and led Navarro into her
current career as a Ph.D. candidate at the University
of Washington, where she
studies hurricane forecasting and how solar radiation affects the
strength of hurricanes.
In this
study, the researchers» temperature analysis confirmed computer models» predictions
of AMOC behavior and suggested a decline
of about 15 percent in
current circulation
strength, beginning in the 1950s.
Here are the main challenges identified in the
study, along with
strengths and weaknesses
of the
current regime.
Using recent case
studies, he will outline
current methods for extracting from data the story
of a firm's hidden
strengths.
There are
strengths and limitations to both absolute and relative measures
of low income, and use
of relative measures, such as those used in the
current study, have their merits when used within countries to identify those at risk
of poverty and social exclusion.30 Still, Norway has low levels
of poverty and economic inequality, which may restrict generalisability
of these results.
This outcome
study is the first
of its kind, and all
of the authors are proud to display the
strengths of gay and lesbian relationships to the scientific community, given the
current worldwide political climate toward same - sex relationships.
Identify the
strengths and limitations
of the
current study, and discuss recommendations and conclusions.
Although the
current study has a number
of important
strengths, such as the observational design, the comparison
of AD and non-AD children, the examination
of real - time dyadic emotions using innovative state space grid analyses, and the inclusion
of father - child and mother - child dyads, several limitations should also be noted and addressed in future research.
However, despite the abovementioned
strengths, the
current study also reveals some limitations
of the FEEL - KJ.
Given the relative
strength of critical parenting in the Lewin et al. (2006) model, we expected that critical parenting would emerge as the strongest predictor
of HbA1c in the
current study.