Sentences with phrase «substantially smaller studies»

Not exact matches

One small US study of just six fathers (Parra - Cardona et al, 2006) found the young men's involvement with their children and their commitment as fathers substantially increased after participation in a therapeutic / psycho - educational fatherhood programme.

While the new study adds to the Milky Way's tally of star - forming regions, it may not substantially boost our galaxy's star total because the young, massive stars focused on in this study make up only a small percentage of the overall population.

With the new method, a much smaller number of measurements could do the same job, and substantially larger systems, previously inaccessible, could be studied.

A recent study suggests that Montana forests will likely show substantially lower productivity overall given only small projected increases in precipitation (Charney et al. 2016).

However, another small study among athletes found that HMB helped athletes substantially increase their lower body strength... but the effects on body composition were insignificant.

On the other hand, walking provides a substantially better workout than elliptical machines for the hamstrings, calves and small muscles around the ankles, according to biomechanical studies.

In addition, it has been reported in EMG studies that the gluteus maximus is substantially more active during other potentially adaptive movements (such as sprinting) than in either running or climbing (Bartlett et al. 2014) and it is clear from cross-sectional analyses of athletes that endurance running develops the gluteus maximus to a much smaller extent that almost any other athletic activity (Niinimäki et al. 2015).

Researchers from RAND studying the first year of Vermont's implementation of portfolio assessments for fourth and eighth graders found that the development of portfolios (work was selected by students with input from classroom teachers) had several positive educational outcomes: Students and teachers were more enthusiastic and had a more positive attitude about learning, teachers devoted «substantially more attention» to problem solving and communication (two areas represented by portfolios), students spent more time working in small groups or in pairs, and teachers felt the portfolios afforded them a new perspective on student work.

In essence, the Tennessee study shows that students in substantially smaller classes in their first year of schooling (whether kindergarten or 1st grade) perform better than those remaining in classes of larger size.

In fact, studies appear to clearly demonstrate small caps substantially out - perform all other stocks (& other asset classes?)

Since LASSO can be applied even in models with the number of predictors exceeding the number of participants, the smaller sample size poses no problem in the current study where the number of participants still substantially exceeds the number of predictors.