Sentences with phrase «study populations mean»

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Austin and his team selected a nationwide group of 100 bankruptcy filers meant to represent a cross-section of the U.S. population, studied their paperwork, then followed up with a survey asking filers, basically, «Why?»

One should bear in mind that studies of populations show that condom use for contraceptive purposes has a failure rate of 12 \ % [6]- where «failure» means conception, which can occur only once a month, whereas HIV can be transmitted any day of the year.

The weighted mean ± SD added - sugars intake of the study population was 60 ± 53 g / d or 15 % higher than that estimated by the ABS.

So the bell curve was shifted away from the mean for that population so they re-did the growth charts by doing population studies in the United States including everybody and reissued those growth charts and those became CDC growth charts.

there were 3 groups in that 1967 study (btw 68 kids divided into 3 groups, by no means a big study), all kids were born in poverty, so these kids couldn't represent whole population.

Standardised mean differences were derived to take account of the variety of behavioural outcome measures included and random effect models adopted in view of variability of the intervention and target populations across studies.

Index children were aged 12 and under or had a mean age < 12 in 49/57 studies and 68 % of the agregated study population were male.

Two prominent studies find modest effects, in one case estimating that each 1 % increase in the share of migrants in the UK working age population leads to a 0.6 % decline in the wages of the 5 % lowest paid workers, which would mean about 3p less per hour for someone earning just over the minimum wage of # 6.19.

Supporters also claim the city - sponsored study examines the wrong population of projects — it includes an as - of - right subsidy for industrial and commercial properties the bill is not meant to capture.

«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.

The data of lab experiments and population studies is coherent, meaning that data from both sources point toward a similar conclusion.

One of the challenges to drawing conclusions from a study like this one is the lack of exact data on the U.S. postdoc population, which means that the precision of the quoted numbers is probably misleading.

The study group was also mostly male — because the veteran population is majority male — meaning that the results can not necessarily be generalized to women with Parkinson's disease.

According to the new study, the mean weighted latitude of density of Finnish bird populations has shifted northward by an average of 45 km, as predicted.

The total study population represents a diverse group, with a mean maternal age of 28.7 years, a median BMI of 24.7 and 42 % were first time mothers.

«Results from this study are based on current climate projections, and it doesn't necessarily mean that lesser prairie - chickens will experience a population decline,» said Blake Grisham, Texas Tech University scientist and lead author of the study.

The study estimates age - adjusted diabetes prevalence for 200 countries — meaning that researchers adjusted the results to account for diabetes becoming more common as a person ages and for some countries having older populations.

That means the animals move through the corridors and breed with other populations, says study author Stephen Mech, now a conservation biologist at the University of Memphis in Tennessee.

Because most patient populations have more cardiovascular deaths than overdose deaths, our finding means that prior studies may have underestimated the harms of long - acting opioids.»

«Monkeys are cute, but can devastate systems that don't have the proper predators or other ecological means to keep their populations in check,» said Jane Anderson, a doctoral student in wildlife ecology and the lead author on this study.

«We wanted to know what it would mean in terms of the size of an outbreak, how long an outbreak lasts, how likely an outbreak is to occur and the reproductive ratio of the parasite, a measure of how effectively the parasite transmits in populations,» said the study's lead author John Vinson, a doctoral student in the Odum School.

«We established a means to study viral populations within more complex communities and found that surface ocean viruses were passively transported on currents and that population abundances were structured by local environmental conditions,» said Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and member of the BIO5 Institute.

If confirmed, the study means that plans to replace entire mosquito populations with disease - resistant ones may have better chances of success.

The study is the first to show that animal populations can adapt and already have adapted to higher temperatures and increased heat wave frequencies — two results of climate change — by means of evolutionary changes in their heat tolerance.

The study samples were population - based, meaning they included people who experienced symptoms of depression but had not sought treatment.

«If further studies can confirm our report the treatment of periodontal disease may become reducing means by which to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, especially in high risk populations such as Indigenous Australians.»

«While we don't know which comes first — depression or cardiovascular disease — the consensus is that depression is a risk marker for cardiovascular disease, meaning if you have cardiovascular disease, there is a higher likelihood that you could also have depression, when compared with the risk in the general population,» said Victor Okunrintemi, M.D., M.P.H., a research fellow at Baptist Health South Florida in Coral Gables, Florida, and lead author of a pair of studies that looked into different aspects of depression and cardiovascular disease.

American scientist James H. Brown publishes study saying this means a crash of economy and population is «very, very likely».

Nevertheless a role for these cells can not be excluded, it is possible that an incomplete replication of the suppressive microenvironment in vitro or indeed the diversity of Treg populations mean that these studies do not fully explore the potential role of suppressive or regulatory T cells in promoting MSC tolerance.

«We established a means to study viral populations within more complex communities and found that surface ocean viruses were passively transported on currents and that population abundances were structured by local environmental conditions,» said Sullivan, associate professor in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and a member of the BIO5 Institute.

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of psychostimulant use in the French medical community and their motives.A population - based cross-sectional study using a self - administered online survey was done.A total of 1718 French students and physicians (mean age, 26.84 ± 7.19 years, 37.1 % men) were included.

Ruuskanen emphasized that the study found a small increase in strokes at the population level — which means that for any one person, daylight saving time transitions would not have a big impact on stroke risk.

But unlike previous studies, the new study used a huge population, meaning it might indicate a more general trend.

A 2016 UCLA study revealed that a shocking 46 percent of all adults in California either have prediabetes or suffer from undiagnosed type 2 diabetes — meaning that almost half of the adult population of the state has blood sugar that is too high.

The present study and a previous one [13] were both conducted on a population with mean dietary selenium intake close to the RNI, but the association in a population with very low dietary selenium intake may be different.

Now even more conservative groups are starting to question this connection, citing a recent study that showed higher saturated fat consumption didn't mean higher rates of heart disease when looking at large population studies.

«The mean 25 - hydroxyvitamin D concentration was low in the study population at baseline.

The mean vertical jump of subjects used in this study was comparable to similar college - aged populations.

Summary statistics were used to describe the study population with means (SDs) or percentages.

The study, released by a group that advocates for environmentally - sound buildings, is meant to draw attention to the condition of buildings that on weekdays house some 56 million students and teachers — more than one - sixth of the U.S. population — but that nevertheless attract little attention in the national debate over education policy and reform.

Yet, since the technology PD K - 12 teachers received may have varied between districts, the findings of teachers» perceptions in this study were not meant to be generalized to the broader K - 12 technology - using teacher population regarding effective technology PD.

For this particular study, an arbitrary population cutoff was set at 1,000, meaning any town or city with a population below 1,000 was eliminated from further analysis.

Results indicate that the prevalence of parasites in this study alone, based only on fecal exams, probably means a lot more parasites affect the general cat population.

In the present study we have examined a cohort of English Cocker spaniels in Denmark to determine the prevalence and heritability of distichiasis, and to evaluate the possibilities of using selective breeding as a means to reduce the incidence of the disease in the population.

The mean values for each dog on the control diet suggests that dogs were generally scoring low across categories anyway which suggests that, in general these were not necessarily a particularly anxious population of dogs that were studied.

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This retrospective study examined a population of 20 dogs (eleven intact females, nine intact males) that ranged in age from 3 years to 12 years of age with a mean age of 7.5 ± 2.4 years.

Studies show that TNR works as a humane means of controlling feral cat populations.

Back at the turn of the decade, when just a tiny fraction of the population even knew what the term meant, he used the downloadable radio - style shows to unwind at the end of long days reading case law while studying at Dalhousie University's Schulich School of Law.

That means about 12 million virtual goods buyers just from some of the top players in the virtual world space, which comes out to around 4 percent of the US population between 12 - 64, which this study was measuring.