Sentences with phrase «study than an analysis»

The film is a moving and elusive blend of naturalism and melodrama, less a character study than an analysis of a community.

A moving and elusive blend of naturalism and melodrama, less a character study than an analysis of a community.

Sollers Point is a moving and elusive blend of naturalism and melodrama, less a character study than an analysis of a community.

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The first analysis looked at 148 studies involving more than 300,000 people and found that people with social connections had a 50 % lower risk of dying early compared to people who did not have strong social circles.

That finding comes from an analysis of more than 100,000 participants in several ongoing studies.

The study, titled «Prospect Theory: An Analysis of Decision under Risk,» found that loss aversion «expresses the intuition that a loss of $ X is more aversive than a gain of $ X is attractive... for example, most respondents in a sample of undergraduates refused to stake $ 10 on the toss of a coin if they stood to win less than $ 30.»

«In a meta - analysis of 263 research studies across 192 companies, employers with the most engaged employees were 22 percent more profitable than those with the least engaged employees,» Schwartz and Porath write.

The studies conducted in the late 60s that suggested fat intake was a greater risk factor for heart disease than sugar consumption were actually funded by the Sugar Research Foundation, according to a new analysis published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine.

The scientists behind these studies all seem to agree on the answer: rather than view narcissism as an evil to be always avoided, organizations should strive to understand that small doses of the characteristic are often inseparable from high achievement and make rational cost - benefit analyses.

Perhaps most convincing of all, a meta - analysis of 99 data sets from 95 studies conducted between 1962 - 2011 published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, similarly found that female leaders were rated by their reports, peers and managers as being just as or even more effective than male leaders.

Independent research firm Clearview Energy Partners of Washington D.C. noted in a comment late on Wednesday that Judge Boasberg's order pointed to «omissions» in the Corps» analysis, which the Corps may be able to address quickly, rather than larger errors that might require more study.

Using lifecycle analysis, a study conducted by Environment Canada and Natural Resources Canada found that while all forms of electricity generation have environmental impacts, solar PV technologies have fewer negative environmental impacts than traditional fossil - fuel - based electricity production.

An analysis by University of Chicago Law School economists David S. Evans, Howard Chang, and Steven Joyce entitled «The Impact of the U.S. Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation on Consumer Welfare: An Event Study Analysis» quantifies just how much consumers are expected to lose, rather than gain, from The Durbin amanalysis by University of Chicago Law School economists David S. Evans, Howard Chang, and Steven Joyce entitled «The Impact of the U.S. Debit Card Interchange Fee Regulation on Consumer Welfare: An Event Study Analysis» quantifies just how much consumers are expected to lose, rather than gain, from The Durbin amAnalysis» quantifies just how much consumers are expected to lose, rather than gain, from The Durbin amendment.

Based on hundreds of quotes for our study's sample home, we found that the most expensive city costs 14 % more than the cheapest in our analysis.

The report is an analysis of a massive annual study that surveyed 695 million records in B2B companies» databases and spoke with more than 500 marketers -LSB-...]

«Based on rigorous analysis with extensive robustness checks, we conclude that the suspicious trading activity caused the unprecedented spike in the USD - BTC exchange rate in late 2013, when the rate jumped from around $ 150 to more than $ 1,000 in two months,» the study states.

As I mentioned elsewhere that the research from «Meta - Analysis» studies show that the differences between women is greater than the differences between men and women, suggesting that we may overemphasize gender differences.

As the Meta - Analysis studies show, there are greater differences among women, than between men and women.

The revolution in government presaged by an activist population policy would thus seem to be based less in politics per se than in «science,» for in the final analysis it is the field of learning known as «population studies» that provides population policy with its raison d'etre.

CNN: Study: People tweet more about church than beer In an effort to look at cultural differences across the United States, a data analysis company selected two words that it felt exemplified an American cultural divide and analyzed their usage on Twitter.

In The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age, the Old Testament scholar John Collins observes that the rules for historical study are academic rather than confessional, based on modern canons of historical analysis rather than classical principles of faith.

While the study's primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.

In this case, the British Medical Journal study is a so - called meta - analysis of seven previous studies, found that those who eat a lot of chocolate have significantly fewer heart and cardiovascular problems than those who do not.

In terms of own price elasticity values, a recent meta - analysis estimated an average own price effect for carbonated sugar sweetened drinks (a near equivalent of the category non-concentrated sugar sweetened drinks, which predominantly includes carbonated drinks) of − 0.93, larger than our value of − 0.81.51 Our estimated value is also at the lower end of the range of own price elasticities frequently cited for sugar sweetened drinks of − 0.8 to − 1.0, based on one large review.52 Our own price estimate is comparable to experimental data (a 25 % reduction for a 35 % price rise) in a canteen study.53 However, all these estimates may be influenced by US studies in which higher estimates may reflect higher levels of consumption.

In this meta - analysis of 7 studies including more than 150,000 persons, those whose diets provided the highest dietary fiber intake had a 29 % lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those with the lowest fiber intake.

This study's findings are consistent with an analysis commissioned by FDA and updated in 2012, as well as a published ILSI survey of more than 37,000 people which shows that caffeine consumption in the U.S. has remained stable during the most recent period analyzed, while coffee remains the primary source of caffeine in most age groups.

BMC publications include more than 25 Market Report and Focus Report studies offering trends, data and analysis of various sectors of the the beverage industry and snack food market.

To test our hypothesis that studies with food industry sponsorship would be more likely to have favorable conclusions than those without industry sponsorship, we conducted a meta - analysis using Review Manager 5.3 software (Cochrane Collaboration).

A recent analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) found that, in fathers, a higher parenting self - efficacy score was related to lower work - family strain; and a key mechanism by which fathers» work / family strain was decreased was by their doing more than they regarded as their «fair share» of child rearing tasks.

The analysis by parity indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in adverse neonatal outcomes for nulliparous women although the numbers are much smaller than the Birthplace in England study.

Robert Larzelere, associate professor of human development and family science at Oklahoma State University, conducted a meta - analysis of 26 studies on the subject, and found that, overall, spanking seemed more effective than 10 of 13 alternative disciplinary methods for getting a child to behave or do as asked.

Analysis Confirms Rice Poses Higher Risk for IQ Loss from Arsenic Exposure than Alterative Grains We recently released the results of one of our case studies supporting this effort, a robust analysis grounded in peer reviewed science, which examines the impacts on children's IQ from eating arsenic contaminated rice baseAnalysis Confirms Rice Poses Higher Risk for IQ Loss from Arsenic Exposure than Alterative Grains We recently released the results of one of our case studies supporting this effort, a robust analysis grounded in peer reviewed science, which examines the impacts on children's IQ from eating arsenic contaminated rice baseanalysis grounded in peer reviewed science, which examines the impacts on children's IQ from eating arsenic contaminated rice based foods.

If you read the scientific and medical literature, the controversy about bed sharing safety primarily concerns babies less than 20 weeks old, and the most recent meta - analysis of published studies found no evidence of increased risk for babies over 3 months of age (Carpenter et al 2013).

The present analysis was restricted to infants surviving to age 6 months and therefore does not include any infants in the original study cohort who died at younger than 6 months.

The analysis was collected from more than 13 separate studies.

Several studies have also attempted to understand the role of breastfeeding on IQ, and although some authors conclude that the observed advantage of breastfeeding on IQ is related only to genetic and socioenvironmental factors, a recent meta - analysis showed that after adjustment for appropriate key co-factors, breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.6 Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been positively associated with intelligence in adulthood.22 We also observed the benefits of long - term breastfeeding on mental indices, along with the indirect benefit of balancing the impact of exposure to p, p ′ DDE after adjustment for some socioeconomic variables.

In a secondary analysis of a multicenter randomized study of fetal pulse oximetry, of 4,126 nulliparous women who reached the second stage of labor, none of the following neonatal outcomes was found to be related to the duration of the second stage, which in some cases was 5 hours or more: 5 - minute Apgar score of less than 4, umbilical artery pH less than 7.0, intubation in the delivery room, need for admission to the neonatal intensive care unit, or neonatal sepsis (27).

A meta - analysis of observational studies have suggested that planned home birth may be safe and with less interventions than planned hospital birth.

Without links to actual studies, I find it difficult to digest someone's arguments that appear to be more like ranting and bullying (I'm referring to Dr T's posts, not your above one) than proper analyses of scientific research.

In a recent meta - analysis of more than 1400 published studies, Martin Pinquart found that harsh control and psychological control were actually the biggest predictors of worsening behavior problems over time (Pinquart 2017).

A third meta - analysis was published in 2007 by Ip et al. 31 The researchers combined socioeconomic status — adjusted ORs of only 3 studies that were determined by the systematic review conducted by Guise et al32 and published in 2005 to be of good or fair quality: the UK Childhood Cancer Study, 23 Shu et al, 20 and Dockerty et al. 19 Based on their analyses, they concluded that breastfeeding for more than 6 months was associated with a 20 % lower risk for ALL (OR, 0.8; 95 % CI, 0.71 - 0.91).

If we find that the answer to the question is different in the sensitivity analysis, we assume the true answer is closer to the sensitivity analysis than the full analysis — remember, we don't know for sure these studies had bias, only that they were at risk.

In this meta - analysis of published (1995 - 2011) case - control studies examining the relationship between breastfeeding and childhood leukemia, all analyses, except the subanalysis for AML alone, which was not statistically significant, showed that being breastfed for at least 6 months compared with less than that or not at all was significantly associated with a 14 % to 20 % lower risk for childhood leukemia, with a 20 % lower risk when all selected 17 studies were included in the analysis.

Another analysis was conducted for ever vs never breastfed, including 14 studies because 3 studies did not have data for never breastfed.18, 41,43 The definition of never breastfed differed among studies, with some defining never as no and some as less than 1 month; therefore, between - study heterogeneity was significantly higher (Cochran - Q = 38; P <.01; I2 = 65.8 %; 95 % CI, 30.8 % -79.2 %).

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

As detailed in the top stoner zine, High Times, researchers from Washington University conducted a detailed analysis of more than 30 studies to determine if smoking grass while pregnant can cause low birth weight or premature delivery.

† Because many of the case - control studies demonstrated a protective effect of breastfeeding against SIDS in univariate analysis but not when confounding factors were taken into account, 62,184,198,231,238 these results suggested that factors associated with breastfeeding, rather than breastfeeding itself, are protective.

At all ages, control infants were breastfed at higher rates than SIDS victims, and the protective effect of partial or exclusive breastfeeding remained statistically significant after adjustment for confounders.244 A recent meta - analysis that included 18 case - control studies revealed an unadjusted summary OR for any breastfeeding of 0.40 (95 % CI: 0.35 — 0.44).

In meta - regression analysis, there was weak evidence that studies not controlling for socioeconomic factors (pooled difference: — 2.0 mmHg) had mean differences in blood pressure 1.4 mmHg higher (95 percent CI: — 0.6, 3.3; p = 0.17) than in studies controlling for socioeconomic factors (pooled difference: — 0.9 mmHg).

It was not possible to analyse the following outcomes, either because data were not reported by any studies or they were reported in a way that did not allow extraction of the necessary data for meta - analysis, or losses and exclusions were more than 20 % of the randomised participants.