Sentences with phrase «studied populations who»

Linguists have studied populations who move their hands when they speak.

For this reason, only linked records for children in the study population who started school, or potentially started school, in 2012 will be requested.

Not exact matches

Some studies suggest that for specific populations, like people who have been diagnosed with heart disease or are obese, fitness trackers can motivate them to move more, at least for several months.

One German study, for instance, showed that participants who had listened to music with prosocial lyrics (such as Bruno Mars's «Count on Me» or Aretha Franklin classic «Respect») were equally likely to help students with German and Turkish - sounding last names (there is a large population of Turks living in Germany).

«But if there's a 100 microgram per meter smoke day, we'd expect that to go to a 100 percent increase of inhaler refills for the population,» Katelyn O'Dell, who studies the health hazards of wildfire smoke at Colorado state university said.

SUNSET PARK, BROOKLYN — A new study by New York State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace are home to rapid job and population growth — but some local officials and activists say too little is known about what kinds of jobs are being created in the area, and who is benefiting.

Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

One effect can outweigh another depending on how large the study population was and who they are composed of (age, gender, race, medical history, environment etc etc).

Pew has released the findings of their 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, which shows that among the overall population, the number of people who do not believe in God has increased 3 percentage points.

The geographic and age distributions of the men who took part in the study closely match what is known about these populations.

In 1984, an Annenberg - Gallup study revealed that the total number of viewers who watch one hour or more of religious programs per week is about 4.84 million persons, or 2.17 percent of the total population.

I met with a researcher studying the populations, who escorted me past white U.S. Border Patrol SUVs into the Coronado National Forest.

In addition, the LEAP study design excluded 9.1 % of the infants who were screened (76 of 834) because large wheals (greater than 4 mm in diameter) developed after the skin - prick test21 that were probably associated with peanut allergy; the safety and effectiveness of early peanut consumption in that population remain unknown.

However, with the exception of women who consumed a high intake of soy during adolescence, the majority of epidemiological studies (studies carried out in defined population groups) have not found that women with higher soy intakes are at lower risk of breast cancer.

More than half of the study population exceeded the WHO's cut - off for FS, especially children and adolescents.

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

And in Canada, where it appears safest of all, several studies have demonstrated that in carefully selected populations, there is no difference between the number of babies who die at home or in the hospital.

Venneman et al 2009 were first to find unqualified proof of this long suspected fact having conducted a populations - based study of 333 infants who died of SIDS between 1998 and 2001 matched in age to 998 «control infants» born 4 to 6 weeks after the case infants.

* A study of parents of 86 children in clinics of pediatrics and child psychiatry (ages 2 - 13 years) on military bases (offspring of military personnel) revealed that cosleeping children received higher evaluations of their comportment from their teachers than did solitary sleeping children, and they were underrepresented in psychiatric populations compared with children who did not cosleep.

The study population included all «low risk» women who participated in the cohort study, as described elsewhere.12 In brief, the cohort study was designed to compare outcomes in women judged to be at low risk of complications before the onset of labour.

With respect to potential sources of bias in the study sample, the initial cohort through which these women were identified is a self - selected population and may not be representative of all women who use fluoxetine during pregnancy.

However, some recent studies support the hypothesis that an additional effect of postnatal exposure through breastfeeding is likely.20 We have observed in the infants of this population that those who breastfed increased their concentrations of organochlorine chemicals during the first weeks of life (N. Ribas - Fitó, submitted for publication).

«In our study, infants with DP who were the product of a multiple - birth pregnancy were disproportionately higher than in the general population and greater than in previous studies,» Oh said.

Inclusion criteria were as follows: the study population was women who chose planned home birth at the onset of labor; the studies were from Western countries; the birth attendant was an authorized mid-wife or medical doctor; the studies were published in 1985 or later, with data not older than from 1980; and data on transfer from home to hospital were described.

«For this large cohort of women who planned midwife - led home births in the United States, outcomes are congruent with the best available data from population - based, observational studies that evaluated outcomes by intended place of birth and perinatal risk factors.

Pugh et al. (33) conducted a pilot study in 2002 that paired a nurse and a PC to form a breastfeeding team who provided breastfeeding education and support to a low - income, predominantly black population.

The prone or side sleep position can increase the risk of rebreathing expired gases, resulting in hypercapnia and hypoxia.54, — , 57 The prone position also increases the risk of overheating by decreasing the rate of heat loss and increasing body temperature compared with infants sleeping supine.58, 59 Recent evidence suggests that prone sleeping alters the autonomic control of the infant cardiovascular system during sleep, particularly at 2 to 3 months of age, 60 and can result in decreased cerebral oxygenation.61 The prone position places infants at high risk of SIDS (odds ratio [OR]: 2.3 — 13.1).62, — , 66 However, recent studies have demonstrated that the SIDS risks associated with side and prone position are similar in magnitude (OR: 2.0 and 2.6, respectively) 63 and that the population - attributable risk reported for side sleep position is higher than that for prone position.65, 67 Furthermore, the risk of SIDS is exceptionally high for infants who are placed on their side and found on their stomach (OR: 8.7).63 The side sleep position is inherently unstable, and the probability of an infant rolling to the prone position from the side sleep position is significantly greater than rolling prone from the back.65, 68 Infants who are unaccustomed to the prone position and are placed prone for sleep are also at greater risk than those usually placed prone (adjusted OR: 8.7 — 45.4).63, 69,70 Therefore, it is critically important that every caregiver use the supine sleep position for every sleep period.

The study population was derived from women who participated in the DNBC, a prospective study of women and infants (31) that was established in 1996.

Because there is a clear genetic predisposition to IBD, these populations should probably be composed of families that include persons who already have IBD [such as the studies conducted by Koletzko et al (20, 26)-RSB-.

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

The study found that most people who rescued were significantly older than the general population.

«This study offers new insight on the problem of multiple stellar populations in star clusters,» said study lead author Chengyuan Li, an astronomer at KIAA and NAOC who also is affiliated with the Chinese Academy of Sciences» Purple Mountain Observatory.

Even when Facebook downplayed the importance of the echo chamber effect in their own Science study, the data was based on a tiny snapshot of users (i.e. those who declared their political ideology or about 4 % of the total Facebook population).

To that end, AAAS, in coordination with an advisory council, will identify and coordinate ethicists and a multi-disciplinary team of highly qualified scientists who have experience conducting prevalence studies in vulnerable and marginalized populations.

«Viking is not a genetic term,» says University of Bergen geneticist Ellen Røyrvik, who was part of a landmark 2015 genetic study of populations in the British Isles.

The difference between Paleoamerican and modern Native American facial features is likely a combination of additional waves of migration from Siberia, via Beringia, and genetic drift, a gradual change in appearance and other traits as populations divide, migrate and adapt, says Jim Chatters, a Seattle - area anthropologist who led the multinational study of Naia.

The population - based retrospective cohort study used insurance records from Ontario to analyze the rate of diabetes cases among nearly 643,000 women who delivered their first child between April 2000 and March 2010.

David Lazer at Northeastern University in Boston who authored the study, thinks topic pages on Wikipedia or WebMD could potentially give officials a better handle on a population's real - time concerns.

«The reason why [the current influenza outbreak] getting so much attention is that it started really early, which really speaks to the susceptibility in the population,» said Jeffrey Shaman, a professor at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University who studies influenza and climate.

«I think it's a stretch to suggest more generally that tropical animal populations may be capable of rapid adaptation to anthropogenic warming,» said Mahler, who is also co-chairman of the Anoline Lizard Specialist Group, which studies which anole lizard species are at risk of extinction at the International Union for Conservation of Nature.

They reached out to Jordan Price, an undergraduate studying ecological population models who worked as a math tutor.

Research Fellow, Mette Andersen, who led the study, said, «This is the largest population - based study to examine whether levothyroxine treatment for patients with subclinical hypothyroidism can affect their mortality.

Through a variety of «high tech» approaches, including the isolation of monoclonal antibodies from single B cells and ultra-deep sequencing of shifting viral populations over more than three years of infection, the researchers studied one woman who developed potent broadly neutralizing antibodies.

«It's shocking to see how few articles discussed risk to the general population, and when they did, they typically characterized risk as low,» said Pascale, who studies the social construction of risk and meanings of risk in the 21st century.

While based on nationwide data, the study was limited to patients in the VA system, who may differ from the general population of ulcerative colitis patients.

«These studies are rather illuminating because they provide new insights into the population of HIV virons that spreads horizontally from men,» Warner Greene, director of the Gladstone Institute of Virology and Immunology at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), who was not involved in the new work, noted in an e-mail.

«What all the studies have found is that these populations who are living a more traditional lifestyle are the best approximation for our ancient microbiota.

Andrea Manica, a population geneticist at the University of Cambridge, UK, who co-led the study, says the team made a mistake in its conclusion that the backflow reached western and central Africa.

But Craig Packer, a biologist at the University of Minnesota who is in charge of a long - term study of the Serengeti lions, believes the population will recover as long as the disease doesn't spill over into the park again.

Hanna Granroth - Wilding, who led the study, said: «Our knowledge of disease in wild animals has tended to focus on the individual, but our study shows that we need to pay more attention to the broader consequences of disease to fully appreciate the role that it plays in wild populations, especially those whose numbers may be under threat.»