Sentences with phrase «strong as the association»

The association between school climate and graduation rates was just as strong as the association between student poverty and graduation rates.

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Dr. Linda Fried co-founded Experience Corps, a program that engages retirees as literacy tutors, after she discovered a strong association between a sense of purpose and well - being throughout life.

A strong association between cortisol levels and price volatility as indicated by bond futures has previously been reported in financial traders27.

The Ontario Real Estate Association's five - year strategic plan, which includes beefing up the image of Realtors, creating strong government lobbying efforts and working as an advocate for homeowners, was revealed recently in a livestreamed event.

Additionally, as a heart disease survivor and National Volunteer for the American Heart Association, Star uses her international public platform to positively impact the lives of all women by empowering them to take action, stand stronger and join the fight against heart disease.

The Ovation Awards offer a unique opportunity for members of the Greater Vancouver Home Builders» Association to be part of an industry initiative that recognizes the best builders, renovators and designers in our region, as well as one that builds a strong and positive public image for members.

It tells us to look for regular associations between observable empirical events and defines «explanation» as identifying the strongest, most significant associations between them.

In order to press the point, let us imagine God in personal terms: either as a caring Father or perhaps better in our time, as a strong and compassionate Mother, since father imagery can so often bring with it associations of patriarchal domination.

First is strong voluntary associations, such as churches and civic groups, that bring people together around broad common agendas rather than narrow special interests.

Now if - someone - identifies - themselves - as a particular xyz... we naturally presume that they either have a particularly strong identi ty, allegiance, or other association.

They must be balanced by strong moral and cultural institutions, such as families, schools, churches and other voluntary associations that serve the common good.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

A church that is the largest voluntary association in the country; a church whose universal pastor has, over the past decade, definitively answered Stalin's cynical query about the pope's divisions; a church that is, demographically, at its strongest historical point of leverage in American society — this is a church that would seem well positioned to seize what Richard John Neuhaus and others have seen as a possible «Catholic moment» in American history, pro Deo et patria.

The Australian Food Sovereignty Alliance (AFSA), supported by the Public Health Association of Australia (PHAA), express our strongest opposition to the forced removal of Aboriginal peoples from their communities, as proposed by the Western Australian government.

Also detracting from the clean and green advantage is that these attributes are also connected with other countries such as the USA and France (see Table 1).88 While Australia often has the strongest association with these attributes, the relative advantage is not as strong as many within the industry believe.

Serve a snack and plan a quiet activity, such as listening to soothing music, looking at books, or resting on a blanket on the sofa (rather than in bed, which has a strong sleep association).

We also adjusted for maternal intelligence and the HOME - SF score, as well as numerous other potential confounders, and nevertheless found a substantially stronger association (3.75 points) of ever vs never breastfed with verbal IQ at age 7 years.

Infants born prematurely have an increased risk of SIDS, 101,102 and the association between prone sleep position and SIDS among low birth weight infants is equal to, or perhaps even stronger than, the association among those born at term.69 Therefore, preterm infants should be placed supine for sleep as soon as their clinical status has stabilized.

Preterm infants are at increased risk of SIDS, 12,13 and the association between prone sleep position and SIDS among low birth weight infants is equal to, or perhaps even stronger than, the association among those born at term.14 Preterm infants and other infants in the NICU should be placed in the supine position for sleep as soon as the infant is medically stable and significantly before the infant's anticipated discharge, by 32 weeks» postmenstrual age.15 NICU personnel should endorse safe - sleeping guidelines with parents of infants from the time of admission to the NICU.

In response to the UK assuming the chairmanship of the Council of Europe today, the British Humanist Association has said the chairmanship «provides a welcome opportunity for the UK to affirm the importance of strong and effective human rights legislation, and to promote the inclusion of humanists as well as religious people in European initiatives.»

«The US critics» association said the Ghanaian's debut as an African child soldier was «one of the strongest and most phenomenal we have ever seen» and said he had «a very bright future ahead of him».

Thatcherism nevertheless has a strong state as a feature of its ideological matrix: the legal order of state was autonomous from the independently generated social structure of associations and moral practices comprising the community which the state protected.

The Parkside Community Association President says she believes her record as a strong community advocate will attract voters.

The British Humanist Association (BHA) is one of almost 100 organisations to have signed a letter organised by the Sex Education Forum (SEF) and published today in The Times, calling for strong teaching around sex education as part of national curriculum science in England.

Mayor Bill de Blasio repeatedly described the City Council's legislation as the «strongest in the country» during a Wednesday visit with the Morris Park Association, a senior center in the impacted neighborhood.

Indeed, it is worth noting that the only successful byelections came from two Tory defectors — Douglas Carswell and Mark Reckless — each with relatively strong local profiles and track records, as well as a more loose association with the party.

(CNN)- The Democratic Governor's Association announced Friday it raised $ 10 million over the last three months, a cash haul that puts the organization in strong financial shape as it faces the prospect of losing control of a significant number of statehouses this November.

Norman Seabrook, the president of the Correction Officers» Benevolent Association and a nationally recognized labor official, civic leader and reformer, said to Feerick: «As a community district leader for many years, you have demonstrated a strong commitment to fighting for affordable housing, to creating a better education system, quality health care, and achieving economic stability.

«We have also developed strong partnerships with the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the International Red Cross and Crescent as well as Nigerian Bar Association and a number of human rights non-governmental organizations in Nigeria.

«Although association does not imply causality, these provocative data provide a strong argument in favour of the hypothesis that the amount of alcohol intake, and, as a result, the risk of alcohol - related cirrhosis, depends on latitude.

Alan Alda, star of stage, screen and science, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky [pictured at left] about his new PBS science series The Human Spark as well as his strong interest in science and long association with Scientific American.

A phenomenon linked to smoking known as expiratory central airway collapse — or ECAC — may have a stronger connection to underlying lung disease than previously believed, according to new research findings reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

The statement is based on a review of existing scientific research published in peer - reviewed medical journals that documents a strong association between adverse experiences in childhood and teen years and a greater likelihood of developing risk factors such as obesity, high blood pressure and type 2 diabetes earlier than those not experiencing adverse experiences.

«Of the four highly hypnotizable participants in the study, three showed a strong synesthesia - like association between symbol and color, as shown by their verbal reports and confirmed by eye tracking.

«In young and middle - aged adults, our findings suggest that early detection and treatment of mild - to - moderate sleep apnea is warranted in order to prevent future cardiometabolic disease,» said lead author and postdoctoral scholar Yun Li, MD. «Given the stronger association of sleep apnea with metabolic abnormalities in this age group, emphasis should be placed on yearly monitoring of indices of metabolic symptoms and lifestyle interventions, such as weight control, healthy diet, regular exercise, and stress management.»

But others were harder to explain, such as the strong association between liking «curly fries» and having high IQ.

«The requirement to publish is not as strong in industry, obviously,» says Sarah Jones, education and skills manager for the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry.

Alan Alda, star of stage, screen and science, talks with podcast host Steve Mirsky about his new PBS science series The Human Spark as well as his strong interest in science and long association with Scientific American

The study results were very surprising: For most of these clinical measures, the association with bacterial genomes was at least as strong, and in some cases stronger, than the association with the host's human genome.

What doesn't kill us may make us stronger as a group, according to findings from new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science.

Our finding of sinusitis, bronchial hyperreactivity, and bronchial responsiveness in firefighters with World Trade Center cough is important but not surprising.17 - 20 An unexpected finding was that 87 percent of such firefighters reported symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease; such symptoms are generally reported by less than 25 percent of patients with chronic cough.1, 21,22 Despite the strong associations between gastroesophageal reflux disease and chronic cough17 - 20 and between gastroesophageal reflux disease and asthma,23 - 25 it remains unclear whether gastroesophageal reflux disease causes either condition.26 The causative mechanism may be repeated aspiration of minute amounts of refluxed material; vagally mediated esophageal, tracheobronchial, or laryngobronchial cough reflexes; or neurally mediated bronchial inflammation.23, 24,26 Involvement of the posterior nasopharynx is common in patients with gastroesophageal reflux disease, 27 whereas bronchial hyperreactivity may not be present.25, 26 For these reasons, we classified gastroesophageal reflux disease as an upper - airway symptom (Figure 2).

Unexpectedly, the association between scanning and protective actions was strongest for BPA - related behaviors, such as buying BPA - free products.

«The lack of association between the body type genetic risk score and confounding factors such as diet and smoking provides strong evidence that abdominal adiposity itself contributes to causing Type 2 diabetes and heart disease,» explained Connor Emdin, from the Massachusetts General Hospital.

Studies have shown an association of hypnosis with stronger theta - frequency activity as well as with changes to the gamma - frequency activity (Jensen et al., 2015).

As derived from British household surveys, the density of fast food outlets associated with body weight more strongly among women possibly reflecting their greater responsibility in the family setting or maybe lower control of appetite; thus, hinting at a stronger association between body weight and environmental factors.

The study team said that further studies are required to determine whether the strong association between psychosocial factors and the use of e-cigarettes will act as a gateway to tobacco abuse.

Duke University and other researchers have noted a strong association between development of AMD and presence of a variant of a gene known as complement factor H (CFH).

Using genomics approaches, Dr. Nobrega has identified the gene IRX3 as the strongest association to polygenic obesity in humans, and characterized the mechanisms by which mutations altering the expression of a gene called TCF7L2 also represent the strongest genetic link to type 2 diabetes in humans.

PULLMAN, Wash. — Reflecting its strong commitment to economic engagement, Washington State University is one of 16 public institutions nationally recently designated as an Innovation & Economic Prosperity University by the Association of Public and Land - grant Universities (APLU).

Between 1989 and 1996, the percentage of graduating medical students expressing a strong interest in research as a career decreased from 14 % to 10 % (unpublished data, Association of American Medical Colleges).