Sentences with phrase «term studies performed»

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One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

«Nothing is more important than the attachment relationship,» says Alan Sroufe, who, together with colleagues, performed a series of landmark studies to discover the long - term impact of a secure attachment.

Many times, when children co sleep for too long, they no longer have the skills necessary to perform well in their classes or to go above and beyond what's requested of them in terms of assignments and studying.

This should not be the case, so I authorized the initial study in an effort to get a better picture of how Erie County performs in terms of service providers and coverage,» said Erie County Executive Mark C. Poloncarz.

Back in the late 90s a team at the University of Kentucky performed a series of long - term studies on nuns.

Preterm babies perform as well as their full - term counterparts in a developmental task linking language and cognition, a new study from Northwestern University has found.

Especially informative are the long - term studies on the effects of early childhood interventions, which indicate that an appropriate schooling of children as young as 3 years old produces remarkably large benefits for society, even in cases where the children do not perform significantly better academically.

The Loyola study is unique in that it examines the association of post-operative A-fib on long - term heart attacks and strokes following a procedure performed completely within the abdomen.

«Bariatric surgeries are the most effective long - term treatment of obesity that we know of today, and findings from this study or others showing associations between RYGB and increased risk to develop alcoholism are not to say we should not perform these procedures,» Pepino says.

One day a University of Pittsburgh researcher who was studying psi — an umbrella term for telepathy, precognition, and other seemingly paranormal phenomena — came to see Bem perform.

In addition to this, the study was performed with the public interest in mind and had no corporate or pharmaceutical funding with a long term, blind design that prevented bias from being incorporated into the results.

Furthermore, studies are performed on fetal cardiovascular adaptation to hypoxia and its short and long term consequences.

One of the major parameters was the safety of these agents in the respiratory airways and lung parenchyma, since several of these agents are known to cause adverse effects.23 The main adverse effects observed were cough, transient fever and transient decrease in the respiratory functions after the aerosol administration.8, 19, 20 Moreover; it has been observed that excessive deposition of these agents in one site of the respiratory system can induce non-specific side effects in the form of pulmonary edema as observed with many other drugs.16 These side effects were milder when a premedication with bronchodilators and inhaled corticosteroids were administered.8, 19, 20 Until now no long term trial (> 9 months) has been performed since all patients included in previous studies had stage IV non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

In addition, it is difficult to perform long - term studies of chronic diseases with these implants.

Antigens will be optimally formulated with the selected adjuvant (s) and in vitro characterisation and short - term stability studies performed.

A study led by the Rotman Research Institute at Baycrest Centre for Geriatric Care in Toronto has found that older adults can perform just as well as young adults on visual, short - term memory tests.

The study revealed that 50 minutes of low - intensity exercise performed 3 times per week was the most beneficial in terms of helping to improve mobility in individuals with Parkinson's.

Based on studies performed over the last decades, calorie - restricted diets or diets restricted in fat generally have an insignificant effect on our long - term weight loss.

Training intensification studies performed on already well - trained athletes do not provide any convincing evidence that a greater emphasis on high - intensity interval training in this highly trained athlete population gives long - term performance gains.

We teach you the secrets of long term permanent weight loss learned in scientific studies performed at the National Weight Control Registry.

The results of the study showed that old rats saw a 100 % improvement in spatial long - term memory and even out performed younger rats who had not used MgT (5).

Technically, out of all the variations of shoulder workouts performed in this study, the Standing Dumbbell Press was the winner in terms of total muscle activation except as shown in Figure B where seated Barbell Presses resulted in slightly more Lateral Delt activation.

In the short - term studies that have been performed, the ketogenic diet has been found to cause no damage to the liver (Lyle McDonald, «The Ketogenic Diet», page 77 - 78, 1998).

Finally, there is option for students design a larger, more long term water conservation study to be carried out at home, perform some calculations, and answer some conclusion questions.

Studies comparing learning outcomes for students taught via project - based learning versus traditional instruction show that when implemented well, PBL increases long - term retention of content, helps students perform as well as or better than traditional learners in high - stakes tests, improves problem - solving and collaboration skills, and improves students» attitudes towards learning (Strobel & van Barneveld, 2009; Walker & Leary, 2009).

For example, one study conducted in the Chicago Public Schools shows that preschool attendance is important for several reasons: (1) It sets up patterns for long - term school attendance; (2) children who regularly attend preschool perform better on kindergarten entry assessments tests; and (3) regular attendance enhances social - emotional development.

No long term studies or large testing initiatives are required to see how this relatively new tool performs for even the most disadvantaged of young learners.

And policies tethering teacher evaluations to student test scores are based on studies that link high - performing teachers to long - term improvements in the lives of students, particularly the most disadvantaged.

A recent study speaks to the unintended consequences of this pressure to perform well on tests; demonstrating that the majority of teachers deemed less effective in terms of test scores were moved out of the tested grades.

The study lists the top and bottom performing institutions in terms of graduation rates for black students, and offers comparisons between colleges serving similar student populations.

This guide is intended for elementary classroom teachers to use in developing their arts lessons and units of study in terms of learner outcomes and achievement using the visual and performing arts content standards.

Both groups of students performed similarly in reading.39 Notably, this study only analyzes one year of impact data; however, the results are in sync with the recent longer - term findings discussed above in Louisiana, Indiana, and Ohio.

Below we review both past and recent studies of district - level policies and strategies associated with high performing and improving districts in terms of districtwide student performance on state tests (e.g., Murphy and Hallinger, 1988; LaRocque and Coleman, 1990; Cawelti and Protheroe, 2001; Togneri and Anderson, 2003).

Perhaps just as important, given the difficulty of finding, training and retaining outstanding teachers, is that the difference in long - term outcome between students who have average teachers and those with poor - performing ones is as significant as the difference between those who have excellent teachers and those with average ones, the study found.

Other studies found that funds with positive net flow perform better than those with negative net flow over the short term.

Based on a study that S&P performed using market - weighted portfolios of high and low quality companies, they found that high quality companies have outperformed both the market and lower quality companies over the long term.

There have been a number of studies performed that show stocks» long - term returns have utterly destroyed that of fixed income over the last 100 or so years.

She has performed long - term studies of contraceptive vaccines for cats, with a recent focus on GnRH as the contraceptive target.

Through various life cycle assessment studies (Searchinger et al, 2008; DeCicco et al, 2016) performed on annual bioenergy crops such as corn, it has been shown that they are not much better than fossil fuel energy sources in terms of climate and energy impacts.

In a paper a few years back, Lean and Rind (2008) performed a very similar study to one we recently examined from Foster and Rahmstorf (2011), filtering out short - term effects on global temperature to tease out the human and natural contributions to global warming.

Even within the common definition of what the term «science» means as a working philosophy, there are elements of the philosophy that may be interpreted differently depending upon the working context, or at least to be given greater or lesser emphasis depending on the field of study or the type of work being performed — basic research versus product engineering, for example.

Many such composite studies have been performed based around the use of high - magnitude (≥ 3 %) sudden reductions in the CR flux termed FD events (Cane 2000).

First, we should demand our legislators implement a precautionary principle: GMOs should not be allowed into our food system until extensive long - term, third - party studies — not studies funded or in any way influenced by seed technology companies — have been performed.

The Court confirmed that the concept includes «data concerning the medium to long - term consequences of those emissions on the environment, in particular information relating to residues in the environment following application of the product in question, and studies on the measurement of the substance's drift during that application, whether those data come from studies performed entirely or in part in the field or from laboratory or translocation studies» (case C - 442 / 14, paragraph 96).

Studies show diverse boards communicate more effectively, make better, less risky decisions, and out - perform non-diverse boards in terms of shareholder value.»

The tables below provide summaries of studies performed each year by the American Association for Long - Term Care Insurance., the industry organization.

According to a study performed on behalf of The Insurance Information Institute, 97 % of term life insurance policies purchased by Americans in 2003 were level term life insurance.

«We realized that no study had previously been performed which directly compared the various asteroid impact effects in terms of how harmful they are for human populations,» Clemens Rumpf, lead author of the study, told Digital Trends.

ABSTRACT: In the present study we examined 1) whether childhood disruptive behaviour, in terms of aggressiveness, hyper - activity and social adjustment, predicts school performance since toddler age or whether becomes it relevant first since middle or late childhood, 2) whether gender differences within the associations between school perform - ance and disruptive behaviour exist, and 3) whether there are trait specific effects in these associations, i.e. whether hyperactivity is more relevant determinant for later school success than aggression and social adjust - ment.

They performed a randomized clinical trial study with long - term follow up.