Sentences with phrase «stronger life outcomes»

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Mankoff and his colleagues argue that making a strong clinical case for these new imaging techniques will mean demonstrating their ability to improve traditional treatment outcomes such as progression - free survival and quality of life.

In our two previous research collaborations with the Skills for Life team, we already had shown that mental health problems are quite common, are among the strongest predictors of poor attendance, poorer grades, and lower scores on standardized tests, and that improved mental health scores are powerful predictors of improved academic outcomes.»

Yes, nanotechnology is becoming ubiquitous in our daily lives and has found its way into many commercial products, for example, strong, lightweight materials for better fuel economy; targeted drug delivery for safer and more effective cancer treatments; clean, accessible drinking water around the world; superfast computers with vast amounts of storage; self - cleaning surfaces; wearable health monitors; more efficient solar panels; safer food through packaging and monitoring; regrowth of skin, bone, and nerve cells for better medical outcomes; smart windows that lighten or darken to conserve energy; and nanotechnology - enabled concrete that dries more quickly and has sensors to detect stress or corrosion at the nanoscale in roads, bridges, and buildings.

James talked about the close correlation between positive health outcomes and a strong sense of community in areas like the blue zones where people live longer and have lower incidence of chronic disease.

The evidence suggests that private school choice programs may have stronger later - life outcomes for students than charters.

Is stronger academic performance related to better life outcomes for kids and better economic outcomes for nations?

That same conventional wisdom also suggests that the type of community in which a student lives and attends school will exert a strong and pervasive influence on a variety of educational outcomes.

The aims are to build a strong evidence base that will support four key Learning Away propositions, ie to demonstrate that high - quality residential learning: has a strong, positive impact on academic achievement and a wide range of pupil - level outcomes, including emotional well - being, learner engagement, behaviour and personal, social, employability and life skills; can transform the learning experience of pupils; can help to transform schools; does not need to be expensive.

But a recent study of «no excuse» charter schools in Texas casts doubt on the idea that stronger initial test scores will translate into positive later - life outcomes.

I've described at least 8 studies that show a disconnect between raising test scores and stronger later life outcomes.

From a public investment standpoint, $ 1 invested in high quality early childhood education returns between $ 7 to $ 13 through stronger academic and life outcomes.

I base that claim on the evidence from other research that the main tool for portfolio management — test scores — are simply not strong enough predictors of later life outcomes to allow even benevolent managers to accurately identify bad schools for closure and good schools for expansion.

Achievement tests are useful but they are not nearly strong enough predictors of later life outcomes to empower a portfolio manager to close a significant number of schools because he or she «knows» that those schools are «bad.»

A strong body of evidence suggests that suspensions correlate with — and in some cases cause — a range of negative, long - term outcomes: higher dropout rates, lower grades and behavioral problems later in life.

By incorporating the authorizing practices linked to strong outcomes identified in NACSA's latest report, authorizers around the country can help charter schools live up to their fullest potential.

Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the LGA Children and Young People Board, said: «Councils are ambitious to improve the life chances of all the children and young people in their communities and understand the key role that strong school leadership plays in improving their outcomes.

Strong accountability policy also helps us identify and learn from the schools with high student outcomes, particularly those schools largely serving students living in poverty and students of color.

In a Special Report, Life Changes: The Case for Early Investment in Our Kids, The American Prospect highlighted the need to continue the investment in children's education to support strong Third Grade outcomes.

«A stronger anchor point improves surgical outcomes, gives afflicted horses a higher quality of life, and may even save the lives of horses struggling with this disease.»

It requires a strong impulse, from within or without, to abandon the life lived so far, at least for a time, and set out on a new path — in spite of all obstacles and an uncertain outcome.

The outcomes of trials in which the government had a strong political stake, such as those touching on Islam as it related to political life and national security, the legitimacy of the monarchy, and the Western Sahara, sometimes appeared predetermined.

Nicholls State University 08/2004 — 05/2006 Resident Assistant • Oversaw residential facilities ensuring safe, organized, and productive living conditions • Provided advice and guidance to students concerning academic, social, and personal issues • Developed and implemented educational programs in accordance with University goals • Documented and resolved conflicts between students ensuring positive outcomes • Maintained strong grade point average while completing duties and exceeding expectations • Performed administrative functions as needed including data processing, filing, and scheduling

McCrae's and Costa's early landmark findings from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study of Aging showed that individual differences in personality traits are stable over time and predictive of important life outcomes such as health and coping, leading to a strong resurgence of the entire field of personality psychology in the 1980s and the establishment of the five - factor model as the dominant paradigm for personality.

Strong gradients of association between childhood socioeconomic conditions and adult health have been consistently observed in a number of British, and other, populations at various stages within their life course, with outcomes considered including all - cause mortality, general health measures and specific causes of mortality and morbidity.1 — 10 This study continues to provide clear evidence for association between childhood socioeconomic deprivation and adult general health and mental well - being, even considered within a broad context of child well - being including other aspects of family background, health and development.

In 2010, more than 1 in 5 children were reported to be living in poverty.6, 10 Economic disadvantage is among the most potent risks for behavioral and emotional problems due to increased exposure to environmental, familial, and psychosocial risks.11 — 13 In families in which parents are in military service, parental deployment and return has been determined to be a risk factor for behavioral and emotional problems in children.14 Data from the 2003 National Survey of Children's Health demonstrated a strong linear relationship between increasing number of psychosocial risks and many poor health outcomes, including social - emotional health.15 The Adverse Childhood Experience Study surveyed 17000 adults about early traumatic and stressful experiences.

It is an adapted form of an evidence - based treatment for depression that has been modified for the home setting, addresses the unique needs of new mothers who are socially isolated and live in poverty, and engages the home visitor to facilitate a strong collaborative relationship in order to maximize outcomes for mothers and children.

Framing childhood adversity in the context of the physiologic stress response begins to explain the strong associations between adverse experiences in childhood and a wide array of altered developmental outcomes and life - course trajectories.

The roadmap, called Resilient Families: Strong Communities, sets out 10 actions or pledges the State Government will undertake in partnership with Aboriginal people to strengthen families, improve living conditions, increase job prospects and accelerate education outcomes.

Problems with communication, specifically non-verbal cognitive ability, are a strong predictor of externalising behaviour problems.3 Children with ASD exhibit more severe internalising and externalising behaviours than non-ASD children, as well as a high prevalence of aggressive behaviour.3 These behavioural challenges can often cause caregivers more distress and mental health problems than the core ASD symptoms.4, 5 Increased child behaviour problems and parental (especially maternal) psychological distress compared with children without autism is established early in life — by the time that children are aged 5 years.6 These co-occurring, behaviour problems are of concern in early childhood because of the importance of these early years for longer term child developmental outcomes.7

Strong connections to traditional ways of life were the predictors for the better health outcomes.

Development during the prenatal period, infancy and childhood is known to influence lifelong health, 1 — 4 and the link between early - life health and adult outcomes is strong and economically meaningful.5 Promotion of optimal child development and well - being comprises early detection and treatment of whole families, and it can potentially prevent the development of behavioural and emotional problems in children and adolescents.6

The research base supporting SEL as a strategy for improving academic and life outcomes for students is strong.

Fact: «Although early research suggests that youth living in two - parent biological families fare better on a range of developmental outcomes than those in single - parent or alternative structures (Amato and Keith, 1991), this research typically finds that effects of family structure on developmental outcomes such as delinquency are not strong (Hetherington and Kelly, 2002)... More tangible differences in family dynamics or circumstances — such as supervision practices — are largely responsible when study groups have different outcomes... The highest rates of delinquency were for youth in father - only households, followed by father - stepmother...»

High expressed emotion (EE) refers to affective attitudes and behaviors toward patients characterized by critical comments, hostility, and emotional over involvement (EOI).3 The construct has traditionally been applied to the study of familial relationships, and it is well established that levels of familial EE are significant predictors of outcome across a range of psychiatric and physical health conditions.4 A substantial body of this research has been carried out with people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and there is strong evidence that those living in high EE environments have a much higher risk of relapse than those living in low EE environments.5 The success of family intervention studies aiming to reduce high EE and relapses add to the support for a causal relationship.6, 7

Second, we question their exclusive focus on cancer - related mortality, when strong cumulative evidence suggests that optimism is related to positive health outcomes for other major diseases, and that psychosocial interventions may improve other important cancer outcomes, such as reduced pain and increased quality of life.

In examining the relative effectiveness of prospective and retrospective measures to predict later life outcomes, we find that retrospective reports of the family environment most validly capture influences on the child in domains of strong emotional content but are less successful in cognitive domains.