Sentences with phrase «study measured the increase»

The new study measured the increase or decrease of self - governing powers in Indian governments as a result of the Self - Governance Project.

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Another measure being studied is to remove a mechanism that currently increases interest rates as time elapses — the so - called step - up margin interest rate.

They also measured working spouses» occupational success by studying their self - reported job satisfaction, salary increases, and the likelihood of being promoted.

But the study found that cannabis ballot measures did increase the overall voter turnout in Colorado and Washington in 2012 (though not in Oregon, where the initiative did not pass).

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).

«Although this «rise of the nones» has increased dramatically over recent decades, the rate of increase slowed last year, suggesting the possibility that there may be a leveling off in this measure in the years ahead,» reports the Gallup study, which is made up of more than 350,000 interviews.

Results of the study showed that the total antioxidant capacity in the bloodstream of the participants increased, and that their level of oxidative stress (as measured by the amount of carboxymethyllysine in their blood serum) decreased.

At the end of the study, the curcumin group had lower levels of three blood markers of inflammation, including C - reactive protein (CRP), along with lower fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c (a measure of longer term blood sugar levels).5 For comparison, the placebo group had higher blood sugar levels and increased inflammation after the eight weeks.

the measure of BMI did not distinguish obesity from weight from muscle mass, so that it was possible that the associations seen were due to increased muscle resulting from the behaviors being studied.

Studies should also be done to measure the durability of these changes as the time from an educational intervention increases.

Berman (1980) studied the arousal patterns in men and women when they were confronted with a crying or smiling baby measuring such things as increase of heart rate, blood pressure and skin conductance.

This study actually found an * increase * in allergies in the breastfeeding group as measured at age 6 *.

If approved by the City of Crystal Lake, Lakewood and the Crystal Lake Park District, the measure could be a bellwether for an increase in spending on ecological studies needed to keep the lake healthy, according to members of Watershed Management and Lake Ecology Agency.

«In an earlier phase I clinical study, our group has shown that increasing the dose of radiation delivered daily with high precision and using image guidance may offset the need for chemotherapy in improving survival, and it may also improve quality of life measures by reducing treatment periods in half.

In a report on their study, published June 20 as an Early View article online in Annals of Neurology, the Johns Hopkins team found that increasing levels of the protein clumps corresponded with worsening nerve damage, indicating that the smaller skin biopsies they used appear to work well as a measure of disease severity.

In their study Dr. Würtz and colleagues used a technique called Mendelian randomization to assess whether increases in BMI in 12,664 mostly non-obese adolescents and young adults causally affects multiple cardiometabolic risk markers (82 molecules measured in their blood at a single time point).

The researchers also measured increased glutamate levels in patients, which lines up with strong support for elevated glutamate reported in other studies of first - episode psychosis.

By measuring the levels of various substances in the shoots of the legume, which lives in symbiosis with fungi, and combining the results with large - scale genetic studies, the researchers have found that the levels of secondary substances (flavonoids and terpenoids) rise in the shoots as a result of the increased hormonal levels.

The authors note that many studies and measures indicate that Americans have become increasingly polarized in recent years, and that numerous researchers and commentators attribute increased polarization in part to the rise of social media and the internet.

Additional studies evaluating the mechanisms by which race / ethnicity, infertility diagnosis, and day of embryo culture affect perinatal outcomes in both autologous [donor and recipient are the same person] and donor IVF pregnancies are warranted to develop preventive measures to increase the likelihood of obtaining a good perinatal outcome among ART users,» the authors write.

The study — «Mental health nurses» emotions, exposure to patient aggression, attitudes to and use of coercive measures: Cross sectional questionnaire survey» — also revealed that, while individual nurses exposed to this behaviour were more approving of coercive interventions, this did not translate into an increased use of restraint or seclusion.

A new study led by researchers at Boston Medical Center (BMC) found that the proportion of discharges among minority patients receiving inpatient care at minority - serving hospitals in Massachusetts increased after the implementation of health insurance reform measures which expanded access to care in non-safety net hospitals.

While late - term gestation was associated with an increase in the rate of abnormal conditions at birth and with worse physical outcomes during childhood, it was also associated with better performance on all three measures of school - based cognitive functioning measures during childhood,» the study concludes.

Children who attended a full - day preschool program had higher scores on measures of school readiness skills (language, math, socio - emotional development, and physical health), increased attendance, and reduced chronic absences compared to children who attended part - day preschool, according to a study in the November 26 issue of JAMA.

As public health officials worry that the increase of opioid use among young adults has helped to spread the hepatitis C virus to a new generation, a study in Rhode Island finds that while screening is common, the follow - up measures needed to stop the spread of the virus are significantly less so.

The study also confirmed a finding that has been emerging: that water conservation measures that directly reduce irrigation, such as drought - tolerant landscaping, can have the unintended consequence of increasing temperatures in urban areas.

While participants enrolled in the trial that assessed physical function did not see significant improvements in their walking ability — as measured by an increase of 50 meters or more in their distance walked in 6 minutes — an increase was found when all study participants were evaluated.

When the team measured tau in the study participants» CSF, it found that higher levels were specifically correlated with increased tau in the temporal lobe, a region involved in memory processing, Ances says.

«The leveling off of CDI incidence toward the end of our study period may be the result of increased antibiotic stewardship programs and improved infection control measures, such as use of contact precautions, cleaning and disinfection of equipment, and environment, and hand hygiene.»

An increasing number of journals, including Nature and Science, have adopted measures such as checklists for study design and reporting while improving statistical review and encouraging access to data and protocols.

Whilst some studies have found increased postural sway during quiet standing and walking on level ground in patients with DPN, no data exist on objective measures of balance during stair walking.

The study provides concrete starting points for developing measures targeted at increasing regional wood supply from forests or lowering harvest pressure in regions where forests are heavily used.

Writing in the September 15 issue of the journal Schizophrenia Research, a team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System analyzed all eight published longitudinal studies of mortality in schizophrenia that met their strict research criteria and found that the mean standardized mortality ratio — a measure of the mortality rate in schizophrenia — had increased 37 percent from pre-1970s studies to post-1970s studies.

The study finds that thermal pollution will increase in the future unless measures are taken to reduce such pollution through mitigation technologies.

The study, which published today in the Journal of Investigative Dermatology, is the first to link psoriasis severity to an increased risk of death using an objective measure of disease severity — called Body Surface Area (BSA)-- rather than treatment patterns, such as whether or not a patient was receiving oral, injectable or phototherapy treatment for the condition.

In future studies, it will be important to measure the biomarker at several time points to determine whether levels of the biomarker increase as the disease progresses, Apte said.

Dr Julie Sharp, Cancer Research UK's head of health information, said: «This study further highlights that however you measure it being overweight or obese can increase the risk of developing certain cancers, including breast and bowel.

Although the cage running wheel system and the ambulatory photobeam break system used in the current study are measures of spontaneous activity, the dramatic increases observed in both studies reflect a consistent behavior of increased activity that suggests an increase in the capacity to perform exercise.

«In a previous study we measured a lot of crop parameters that indicated that strip - till allowed the plant to be more efficient in taking up nutrients and water and increasing yield.

In addition, results from a recently developed biomarker assay that was designed to measure levels of SMN protein in the cerebral spinal fluid (CSF), showed time - and dose - dependent increases in SMN protein levels in SMA children treated with ISIS - SMNRx from both single - and multiple - dose studies.

Participants in the Northwestern study who received acoustic stimulation increased their overnight recall of word pairs — a measure of memory — by nearly 27 %.

Study Finds Rising Levels of Plastics in Oceans Photo Some eight million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the world's oceans each year, and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the next decade unless nations take strong measures to dispose of their trash responsibly, new research suggests.

In the current study, ActD also showed a time course - dependent increase in p53 activity, assayed by measuring the transcriptional activity of a p53RE reporter plasmid.

We think that social stress explains these effects because a great deal of research has linked lower rank to increased social stress in captive female macaques (and for primates in some other settings as well), and in fact we were able to measure stress hormone dysregulation in our study subjects indicative of chronic stress.

While previous studies have suggested that the sympathetic nervous system - the «fight or flight» response - of veterans is overactive, this study was the first to measure this increased activity directly and provide a potential mechanism behind this response.

One study showed increased activity in the visual cortexes of participants (1) while other studies found increased creativity in university professors and students (measured by standardized tests for creativity).

Along with pointing to a more accurate way to measure secondhand smoke exposure, the study highlights the need for tighter smoking restrictions and increased preventive screenings for people more likely to have been exposed to secondhand smoke, the study authors said.

And a two - year study on women showed that the Mediterranean diet (rich in fruits, vegetables, whole grains, nuts, and olive oil) significantly increased scores on the Female Sexual Function Index (FSFI), a measure that includes assessment of arousal, orgasm, satisfaction, and pain.

Although blood levels of vitamin D were not measured in study participants, it is possible that increased absorption of calcium due to better vitamin D status and increased rates of supplementation might have played a role in increasing heart attack risk.

A study carried out by Spanish researchers found that training to failure stresses muscles to the point that they're depleted of energy, as measured by an increase in AMP, a cellular energy signal that cells are depleted of energy.