Sentences with phrase «test main effects»

Individual trials on the effectiveness of parenting interventions tend to be powered to test main effects of the intervention, rather than moderation effects.

We first tested the main effect of wives» HC use for their marital and sexual satisfaction, without accounting for whether they were using HCs at relationship formation or their husbands» attractiveness.

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Indeed, it is striking that the same critical tests which, when applied to the birth stories, reveal so large an element of legend, have the effect, rather, of establishing the validity of the Gospel record when they are applied to the main body of the tradition, the Synoptic account of Jesus» public career.

Atty. Zelda Soriano, Legal Counsel for the Petitioners discussed the grounds on which the appellate court based their favorable decision, which includes the main argument of the petitioners that the field testing is characterized by «serious scientific uncertainty with regard to its health and environmental effects.»

In response to many concerns over the proposed new EU Road Worthiness Tests, the BMF have produced a briefing document, «The EU, MOTs, RWTs and You» summarising the proposal's main effects.

With a sample size of 30 participants, the researchers tested the effects of removing MSG, increasing water intake, or a combination of both, relative to acetaminophen (the main treatment option available in Meru).

While the treatment did have some favorable effects, in the main measure of outcome — measured with a cognitive test called the Alzheimer's Disease Assessment Scale - cognitive subscale — the researchers did not observe any statistically significant benefit compared with placebo.

His main aim is to test if the side effects would be as low in children as they were in adults, and to see if children need extra time for the drugs to work.

Fisher's protected least significant difference (PLSD) post-hoc tests were used where a significant main effect of the condition variable was observed.

Aldrin et al produce a number of (explicitly Bayesian) estimates, their «main» one with a range of 1.2 ºC to 3.5 ºC (mean 2.0 ºC) which assumes exactly zero indirect aerosol effects, and possibly a more realistic sensitivity test including a small Aerosol Indirect Effect of 1.2 - 4.8 ºC (mean 2.5 ºC).

Significant main effects or interactions in two - way ANOVA were followed by Sidak's post hoc test to compare sedentary versus exercise mice of each genotype.

The MCS started in 1968, but the main paper was published in 1989 («Test of effect of lipid lowering by diet on cardiovascular risk.

The experiment tested the effects on insulin and blood glucose, but TNF - a, IL - 8 and c - reactive protein, the main biomarker used to assess inflammation levels, were also tested.

Additionally, there was no main effect of group for waist circumference between CG (81.3 ± 2.5 cm) and AG (80.1 ± 2.2 cm) participants, F (1, 22) = 0.13, p = 0.72, nor was there a main effect of time from baseline testing (81.1 ± 1.7 cm) to posttesting (80.3 ± 1.7 cm), F (1, 22) = 1.51, p = 0.232.

Below is a breakdown of the lesson objectives: * All students will know the main measures of an economy * Most students will have an idea of what the UK economy is currently like * Some students will know how different factors can effect the UK economy The lesson looks at the basics of the following macroeconomic concepts with definition, examples and valid video links: * Inflation * Unemployment * Economic growth * Gross domestic product (GDP) * Balance of payments * Exchange rates The lesson concludes with a nice multiple choice quiz to test students on the lessons theory.

*** Includes 129 original reading passages and comprehension questions *** *** Includes 30 fluency passages *** *** Includes 11 Reading Posters *** - character, setting, realism and fantasy, main idea and details, cause and effect, author's purpose, compare and contrast, sequence, plot, theme, and drawing conclusions *** Includes four level charts for teachers, parents, or students, so that they can keep track of their progress *** *** Includes a roster - words correct per minute for each student / child for fall / winter / spring *** Skills addressed in this resource: # 1 - think and search # 2 - author and me # 3 - analyze text structure # 4 - identify setting # 5 - identify character # 6 - identify plot # 7 - make and confirm predictions # 8 - cause and effect # 9 - compare and contrast # 10 - retell # 11 - classify and categorize # 12 - alliteration # 13 - rhyme and rhythmic patterns # 14 - onomatopoeia # 15 - similes # 16 - repetition and word choice # 17 - sensory language # 18 - study skills # 19 - text features # 20 - genres This is GREAT practice for testing while also providing a lot of fluency practice!

In addition to our main experiment testing the ECO-C Intervention's effects on our target group of high - achieving, low - income students, we also used the same approach to study its effects on students who meet the same test - score criteria but who have estimated family income above the bottom one - third or attended a feeder high school.

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which... Read More

In addition, the main thrust of the report's criticism, that the state's ESSA plan is not sufficiently similar to what it would have been had No Child Left Behind remained in effect, assumes the test - based accountability strategy that these reviewers have made their careers pursuing had been effective, which it has not; and therefore, when coupled with the false claim that California has high - quality academic standards and assessments, which it doesn't (California's standards being based on the Common Core, which leaves American students 2 - 3 years behind their peers in East Asia and northern Europe), California's families remain well advised to opt out of state schooling wherever and whenever possible, until the overreach from both the federal and state capitals is brought to an end and local schools that want to pursue genuinely world - class excellence can thrive.

The truth is that NCLB has failed to prevent millions from falling behind, and has had very little impact on closing the achievement gap; instead, its main effect has been to instigate ever - increasing emphasis on standardized test scores and superficial, formulaic essay writing.

There are three main problems with over testing in schools: (a) student fatigue, (b) practice effects, and (c) false positives.

When comprehension was implemented in school curricula, the same infrastructure of tasks used to create test items was used to create instructional and practice materials — finding main ideas, noting important details, determining sequence of events, cause - effect relations, comparing and contrasting, and drawing conclusions.

More specifically, we (a) examined whether non-significant results were omitted disproportionately in the climate change literature, (b) if there were particular trends of unexpected and abrupt changes in the number of published studies and reported effects in relation to IPCC 2007 and Climategate, (c) whether effects presented in the abstracts were significantly larger than those reported in the main body of reports, and (d) how findings from these first three tests related to the impact factor of journals.

Carrick, I think this comparison is part of what benchmark testing attempts to accomplish, although in most of the benchmarking of temperature adjustment algorithms that I am familiar with the main test is how well non climate effects on temperature that added to to the mix are found and adjusted for..

After the test we find that the main camera has good performance on bokeh effect.

Since the chains are still attached to the bitcoin blockchain, the features can take advantage of the cryptocurrency's network effects and test those applications, without harming the main network should vulnerabilities arise.

In this study, we were interested in testing stress and social support main effect and interaction models in the prediction of adjustment in children with PRDs.

For hyperactivity / inattention measured with ASRS, the test of pairwise comparisons did not reveal any differences between groups (all p > 0.05), although the ANOVA did show a main effect (p = 0.032) and the never poor group had the lowest mean score.

In addition, for 2 variables, the core log - linear model produced unstable variance estimates for the tests of treatment main effects.

The main study hypothesis was tested based on group × time interactions; a significant interaction indicates an intervention effect.

Before testing the moderating effects, the two predictor variables (social support and family function) were standardized to reduce problems associated with multicollinearity between the interaction term and the main effects (Frazier et al., 2004).

To test the moderator hypothesis, it is important that the interaction term has a significant effect on the criteria, for the two predictors (predictor and moderator) the main effects are not relevant (Baron and Kenny, 1986).

To test whether some channels are used more than others, we employed a within - subjects ANOVA, which yielded a main effect of communication medium, F (6, 3,490) = 90.73, p <.0001, η2 =.11 (see Figure 1).

ANCOVA models were used to test whether girls» temperament (ie, inhibitory control and approach) moderated the relation between feeding profiles and girls» EAH and BMI at 5 y. Girls» inhibitory control and approach did not emerge as moderators at 5 y; however, a main effect of feeding profile was observed on EAH at 5 y after adjustment for maternal BMI and education level and family income (F [63,6] = 2.56, P < 0.05).

The nature of significant interaction effects was determined by examining the main effects of sample status separately for the different levels of the moderator in GLM analyses of covariance, to statistically test the sample differences within the subgroups.

In these models, the tests of the mediated effects represent the combined main effects of maternal and paternal smoking and their interactions.1 There was no significant mediated effect for mothers» normative beliefs.

In Step 2, the main effects were entered (acceptance and ethnicity or conflict and ethnicity), allowing us to test associations of relationship quality with outcomes independent of SES and illness - related variables.

To explore main and moderating effects, we conducted a hierarchical regression analysis, to test for linear associations between exposure to bullying behaviors and symptoms of anxiety, as well as the interactive effects of exposure to bullying and the ability to defend, with regard to anxiety.

For example, if one were interested in whether the association between a parenting variable (e.g., father psychological control; Holmbeck, Shapera, & Hommeyer, in press) and an outcome (e.g., school grades) is moderated by group status (e.g., spina bifida vs. an able - bodied comparison sample), one would test the interaction of psychological control and group as a predictor of school grades after controlling for the parenting and group main effects.

Seven effects were tested in the original regression: three main effects (GROUP, MBC, and FBC), all possible two - way interactions (GROUP × MBC, GROUP × FBC, MBC × FBC), and the GROUP × MBC × FBC three - way interaction.