Sentences with phrase «tests than control»

The results, published in 2007 in the Journal of Early Childhood Teacher Education, showed that the storytelling students scored significantly better on vocabulary and reading «readiness» tests than the control group.

The pilot study, conducted by Dr. Keiko Abe of the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, showed that healthy laboratory rats fed a diet in which some of the carbohydrate was replaced with pure maple syrup from Canada, yielded significantly better results in liver function tests than the control groups fed a diet with a syrup mix containing a similar sugar content as maple syrup.

On average, both groups did slightly better on these tests than control subjects who read either a nonfiction article or nothing at all.

However, the young mice given THC performed worse in some tests than the controls.

A 2011 paper that investigated the effects of tutoring provided by teachers found that students who received tutoring in either reading or math performed significantly better on the state standardized test than a control group of students with similar prior scores who did not receive tutoring.19 Even when programs are less structured and instruction is not provided by trained teachers, tutoring can have a notable effect on student performance.

Not exact matches

It also said every vehicle is subjected to rigorous quality control involving more than 500 inspections and tests.

They get rewarded in many other ways than pure financial returns — including creating stronger suppliers, putting control levers in their industry, testing products, de-risking innovation, and engineering less expensive acquisitions.

The trial was one of three scheduled for the first half of this year over claims that Volkswagen deceived customers with the deliberate rigging of emissions controls to perform differently when being tested than they do on the road.

This lack of collaboration had gone unnoticed because the system was tested in conditions that were highly controlled, rather than being subjected to an open beta test.

Indeed, the test window experienced more trades executed than any other 9:30 — 9:33 window during Control Period 1.

There is not a single three - minute window during Control Period 2 that experienced more than five mini flash crashes, whereas the test window experienced thirteen mini flash crashes.

However, despite the increase in the number of trades executed, the test window still experienced more mini flash crashes on a normalized scale than any other 9:30 — 9:33 window during Control Period 1.

The DOL's former head of wage enforcement, David Weil, recently suggested that weighing whether gig economy workers should be classified as employees or independent contractors is not so different than making the same determination for workers at brick - and - mortar businesses.84 Existing legal tests to determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor are multifactor, fact - based exercises based on the level of control a company exerts over the workers in question.

from where i'm sitting, conor's strengths: - long and athletic - great power in his hands and feet - throws with speed & accuracy - uses all 8 points of contact (and uses them all in multiple ways)- uses good footwork to circle away from power shots and to control pace / location of fight - has shown good to great TD defense (until tired)- has good chin (tested several times and the proof appears to be in the pudding, as they say)- displays good head movement which allows him to absorb fewer strikes while within range - excellent counter puncher (able to get in and out fast using his karate style stance)- has shown better conditioning at lw than fw or ww - has incredible fight iq (lone exception in the ufc was against nate in first fight when he was clearly fatigued)

There is more than one reason for any specific ranking, but Long is asked to stand in front of a camera and say «eye test» (sorry, «complete team») or «résumé» or «top 25 wins» or «strength of schedule» or «game control *.»

If you get that ratio right and keep the right players healthy — obviously the former is a little bit more in your control than the latter — you have passed the roster balance test.

As Dr. Robert Cantu explains in his 2012 book, Concussions and Our Kids, [15] it «takes more than one type of test to compile a comprehensive baseline,» because neurocognitive tests measure the thinking and reasoning parts of the brain (medial temporal lobe and front lobe), but concussions «also may cause trauma to the calcarine cortex, which is in the back of the brain and controls vision, and the cerebellum, at the top of the neck, where balance and coordination are measured.

While it can be scary to test your baby for peanut allergies, it's best to find out in a controlled environment rather than by accident later in life at a friend's house, birthday party, or school event.

For example: an 18 month old throwing a spoon on the floor could be seen as trying to disrupt or take control, which would assign the child more negative motive, than if the parent were to also consider tiredness and natural developmental challenges of this age, which would be seen as normal and inevitable testing of limits.

It may have less to do with the actual food than a need to test the limits of your authority and assert some control over his life.

The intervention tested by Bonuck et al. (31) yielded impressive results with significantly higher rates of any breastfeeding through 20 wk PP, with the exception of week 18 (53 vs. 39 %, P < 0.05) and greater breastfeeding intensity (defined as more than half of feedings derived from breast milk in this study) through 9 wk (46 vs. 33 %, P < 0.05) in the intervention (vs. control) group.

At the end of the test period the massage group had significantly less depression and very significantly better interaction with their babies, than the control group.

He concluded that traits such as perseverance and self - control were better predictors of success than intelligence and high test scores.

Hunts would be eligible to register if they could show that hunting was undertaken for purposes specific to pest control (the utility test), and that it would cause less suffering than any alternative method of pest control (the cruelty test).

BUFFALO, N.Y. — According to the most recent Centers For Disease control data, more than 2,300 children across upstate New York tested positive for lead poisoning in 2014.

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

«To deny New York City's 1.1 million students anything less than the full preservation of mayoral control is to subject them to the dysfunction and chaos of the old system, as well as risk an end to higher test scores and graduation rates.

Tests revealed that during their fetal development, boys with autism were exposed to even higher levels of sex steroid hormones than the control group of boys.

The second form of taste testing is «slightly less controlled than a difference test but a lot more fun,» according to Spors.

Only seven of 812, or less than 1 %, of healthy controls tested positive.

As the mice aged, their motor performance on a rotarod test (which measures how long the mouse can remain on a rotating rod) became impaired and the length of their strides were significantly shorter than the wild type control mice.

Over several hours, the rats consumed 30 % more oxygen than control rats; the experiment was not designed to test for weight loss.

It can precede the classic motor signs of the disease by several years, and olfactory tests have been shown to do a better job than motor function tests when it comes to distinguishing Parkinson's patients from healthy control subjects.

Now, one of the first randomized, controlled tests of a large - scale economic aid program has shown small but encouraging effects for people living on less than $ 1.25 per day.

In addition to potentially improving screening tests, the team believes their approach may someday help doctors control CTC - induced metastasis, which the researchers say can be far more lethal than the original tumor.

The first group also scored up to 17 percent lower than the control group on multiple - choice tests, evidence that engaging in messaging unrelated to the class hurts student learning.

The task force also wants to expand a type of trial that tests different drugs in separate arms against the same control group, which they say is more efficient than running a control group for each drug.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tested 736 people, mostly adults, in six North Dakota cities and found that those who ate wild game had 50 percent more lead in their blood than those who did not eat it.

If only the green control zone becomes darker, the blood alcohol content is less than 0.2 ‰, and the test functions properly.

«Our modelling provides compelling evidence, for those charged with controlling Bovine TB, that investment in increasing the frequency of cattle testing is a far more effective strategy than badger culling.»

But in Schultz's laboratory tests, exposed males were less interested than unexposed controls in trying to drive off artificial «bait» minnows placed near their nests.

When Kolb put them through a series of cognitive and spatial - ability tests, the vitamin - charged rats did markedly better than the control group.

Almost half of the tested lavae, which ate less than control butterflies fed their normal milkweed diet, died.

Rates of testing were 45 percent higher in intervention communities than in control communities, especially among men and young people.

More than one - half of the HIV - infected young people in the United States have never received a test for the virus, according to a study released today by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Tests showed that water retention increased with the percentage of torrefied biomass, with 5 % biomass yielding a soil that contained about 5 % more water than the control soil.

In every test, the Maya chose the correct answer far more often than not, scoring almost as well as a control group of Italian adults (doi.org/wvt).

The research team found that IED - diagnosed group was more than twice as likely to test positive for toxoplasmosis exposure (22 percent) as measured by a blood test, compared to the healthy control group (9 percent).

AFEx will test whether under conditions of microgravity Indy flies exhibit less change in behavior than wildtype or «normal» control flies.

Homogeneous molecular catalysts, which have far greater control over selectivity than heterogeneous solid catalysts, are now being tested in SCFs, and early results show that high rates, improved selectivity, and elimination of masstransfer problems can be achieved.