Sentences with phrase «studies over a number of years»

The purpose of the proposed study is to examine the association of substance use, including nicotine, alcohol, marijuana, and other illicit drugs, and IPV for a sample of 160 generally lower socioeconomic status women studied over a number of years with the same male partner in the OYS - Couples study.

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The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Over the years Richard Leblanc, an adjunct at Osgoode Hall Law School and associate professor of governance law and ethics in the School of Administrative Studies at York University, has been struck by the number of students who had difficulty staying awake during class.

A September study published by the Brookings Institution found that a large share of the growth in the number of students struggling to pay off their loans over the past several years is tied to students borrowing to go to for - profit schools and to a smaller extent two - year community college.

This triggered a simple study that I have examined a number of times over the years in the subscriber letter.

Of all the Midwest metro areas we studied, Kansas City has had the highest average number of days over 95 °F over the past 30 years, at around 10 each year on averagOf all the Midwest metro areas we studied, Kansas City has had the highest average number of days over 95 °F over the past 30 years, at around 10 each year on averagof days over 95 °F over the past 30 years, at around 10 each year on average.

That is consistent with other studies that show: «Over three years, that number [of failures] rises to three in five.

The real Fishtown is a white working - class neighborhood in northeastern Philadelphia that has been the subject of a number of sociological studies over the past fifty years.

A study in Cebu, Philippines, found that helping police and courts target child prostitution resulted in 87 arrests over four years — and a 79 percent reduction in the number of children in the sex trade.

The directive of the churches represented in Faith and Order — that a study of worship be pursued over a number of years — indicates a recognition that there is a giveness to Christian worship, and that the common degradation of worship into gimmicks for religious mood - engendering is a kind of impoverishment, a failure, a positive disobedience hiding behind the face of individualism, spontaneity, freedom.

A recent study by the Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good finds that social and economic supports such as benefits for pregnant women and mothers and economic assistance to low - income families have contributed significantly to reducing the number of abortions in the United States over the past twenty years.

Further, the shorter - term effects of capital punishment have been studied by examining the daily number of homicides reported in California over a ten - year period to ascertain whether the execution of convicts reduced the number.

Onions have long been considered healthy, medicinal vegetables around the world, and over the years, a number of studies have proven certain health benefits...

As we've helped customers with the cloth diaper washing questions over the last twelve years, we have accumulated a number of research - based articles and studies about detergent ingredients and detergent residue.

Publication of the Purdue study sent shock - waves reverberating through the football world, with the findings cited by concussion experts calling on youth sports organizations to take more aggressive action to minimize exposure to RHI, including sub-concussive blows, by changing the way contact and collision sports are played and practiced, and reducing the amount of brain trauma a child incurs by limiting the number of hits they sustain in a sports season, over the course of a year, and during a career.

One major study in the United States found that the number of aspiration - related deaths dropped significantly over a five - year period in the early 1990s when parents started putting their babies to sleep on their back.

A recent study in Pediatrics showed a large increase in the number of children with communication disorders over the past ten years.

Over the course of nine years, he studied privately while teaching at a number of mission schools in Southern Rhodesia.

But the sheer number of students I've met over the years who've run into significant snags with these kinds of studies suggests that you do not want your academic future hinging on one of these kinds of projects.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

The yearly number of discharges with Enterobacteriaceae - associated infections remained relatively stable over the course of the study years.

«As these drugs are considerably cheaper than current therapies, they can improve treatment in the developing world where the number of deaths from cancer is predicted to increase significantly over the next ten years,» said Dr Federica Sotgia, another leader of the study.

Over the years, he's seen a number of ways in which replication studies can go wrong in career terms.

The fact that only just over a third of men and women reporting a problem meeting all three criteria had sought professional help in the last year, suggests that a huge number of people experiencing dysfunction are not receiving help — around 1.2 million in the UK and 5.8 million in the U.S. Overall, this study helps demonstrate how the DSM - 5 diagnostic criteria impose a focus on clinically significant symptoms, posing promising applications in both clinical and research contexts.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

The results of the study by Marc Baguelin and colleagues from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine in the UK, Public Health England, and Athens University of Economics and Business, show that the current flu vaccination policy that targets people aged 65 years and over and also those in high risk groups has reduced the number of flu infections and associated deaths in these groups over the past 14 years.

The study, published today in the December issue of Health Affairs, found the average number of interventions adopted increased from 5.2 to 6.6 percent over four years.

In the Isle Royale Wolf - Moose Study's annual report released today, the researchers say that over the past three years, they have tallied the lowest numbers of wolves ever: nine in 2011 - 12, eight in 2012 - 13 and nine in 2013 - 14.

The original, randomized, open label study, which enrolled 20 outpatient men with cirrhosis and recurrent HE receiving standard - of - care (SOC) treatment, had previously reported that a single FMT enema after antibiotic pretreatment improved cognitive function at Day 20 and reduced HE episodes and hospitalizations over the following 5 months compared with SOC.1 The long - term outcomes of this study, which were presented today at The International Liver Congress ™ 2018 in Paris, France, demonstrated sustained and statistically significant reductions in the number of HE episodes and hospitalizations as well as improvements in cognitive function over 1 year in the men who received FMT compared with the control group.

For example, gravitational way is being a real solid test of inflation, but over the last couple of years, there have been a number of other ideas studying these primordial seeds that John and his collaborators measured.

«Given the substantial reduction in maternal mortality and the increase in the number of older women over the last 10 years, health systems in low - and middle - income countries must adjust accordingly, otherwise this trend will continue to increase,» said Dr John Beard, director of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Department of Ageing and Life Course and one of the authors of the study.

And, because of the current faculty age structure, the number of retiring professors should «increase dramatically» over the next 5 to 10 years if current retirement patterns hold, states Mark Regets, senior analyst at the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resource Studies.

Over the years, a number of rigorously controlled studies have proved that hypnosis reduces pain, controls blood pressure, and can even make warts go away.

A significant number of U.S. drivers reported engaging in angry and aggressive behaviors over the past year, according to the study's estimates:

«This study evaluated the number of minors who visited an emergency department over a two year period for injuries resulting from contact with law enforcement and demonstrates this issue comes with significant financial, if not human, cost,» says Alexandre Rotta, MD, FCCM, Chief, Division of Pediatric Critical Care Medicine at UH Rainbow and the study's senior investigator.

It is also well - known for some of its atypical qualities, such as a lack of counting numbers or relative directions, such as «left» and «right,» qualities which Everett worked out over years of study.

«Conventional wisdom among coaches and managers is that restricting innings for young starting pitchers, and slowly increasing the number of innings pitched over several years, gives pitchers» tissues sufficient time to adapt to the workload of a major league season,» said Thomas Karakolis, lead investigator on the study.

A new study finds that, while rates of deforestation have sharply fallen in the Amazon over the past decade, the number of wildfires affecting the region has remained stubbornly high — particularly in drought years.

Over the years, great numbers of whale eyes have been preserved for study.

In the meanwhile, a big number of studies have shown that consuming a moderate amount of full - fat diary products instead their low - fat versions can reduce the risk of developing heart disease and diabetes, while in healthy people over 60 years of age, a higher cholesterol has been associated with a lower risk of mortality.

A 2007 study in the Canadian Journal of Gastroenterology and Hepatology found a jump in the number of hospitalizations for diverticular disease (which includes diverticulitis) in Ontario, Canada over a 14 - year - period from 94 out of 10,000 people in 1988 to 105 per 100,000 in 2002.

A number of studies over the years however, have revealed that vitamin D deficiencies have been heavily linked with low testosterone levels.

Participants indicated what types of exercise they did and how many minutes per week they did each exercise, and then the researchers calculated a special number called a «hazard ratio» (HR) over the 8 - year period of each person's participation in the study (19).

Intermittent Fasting has been studied more and more over the last few years and has been shown to provide a number of health benefits.

At the same time, a number of scientists and writers have issued warnings53 about the adverse effects of soy, citing both the scientific literature dating back over 60 years as well as recently published studies.

A series of studies over the past few years have connected sugar to a number of serious health conditions, including heart disease and certain types of cancer, while also putting you at an increased risk for type - 2 diabetes.

A number of studies have been commissioned over the years to look at the consumption of dairy products and its relation to weight loss.

One recent study compared the number of bone fractures in a group of 870 study participants over a period of seven years to see if intake of EVOO was associated with the number of reported bone fractures.