Sentences with phrase «than a previous study done»

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While the Journal doesn't quote the publishing journal for the new studies, a previous study by both institutions in 2014 showed that those who took notes with a computer performed much worse on answering conceptual questions than those who hand - wrote.

A recent study showed that a full two - thirds of buyers relied more on content to make buying decisions in 2015 than they did the previous year.

(PS - if you're having a low - energy day and don't feel like hitting the gym after a study session, you might want to know that previous research has also suggested napping for less than an hour helps cement memories as well).

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.

Putting many MANY studies together has been done, and going in for a repeat c - section with my fourth baby knowing that I had a more than 3-fold increased risk of dying on the table than if I was attempting a vaginal birth after 3 previous c - sections was hard to deal with.

A new study from the Family Online Safety Institute, a nonprofit on a mission to «make the online world safe for kids and families,» found that teens are not only more connected than ever, increasingly using mobile devices and social networks, but they understand privacy and safety issues in a way that previous generations didn't.

Previous studies have shown that mothers who breastfeed have more favorable cardiometabolic profiles than mothers who don't, including lower cholesterol levels, increased weight loss, and decreased blood pressure.

Previous studies of the effect of breastfeeding on morbidity among full - term infants have not always accounted for selection bias that may result if infants who are breastfed are inherently healthier than bottle - fed infants.22 In the current study, the VLBW infants» ability to breastfeed did not reflect better health status as both human milk and infant formula were provided via gavage feeding especially during early enteral feedings.

Previous research from the UK and Canada has identified a lower risk of PPH among planned home births than among planned hospital births [4, 11], but the UK study did not attempt to control for confounding variables.

Their analysis of data in previous studies done by The Cancer Genome Atlas group have shown that the types of abnormal methylation levels they found are lower in smokers who have quit for more than 10 years than those who have not quit.

She explains that the raccoons had fewer opportunities to interact with the puzzle than did many of the birds that were tested in previous studies.

The raccoons performed differently than birds and human children did in previous Aesop's Fable studies, and they did not always pick the most functional option.

Previous studies have shown than those of African descent do not usually carry a mutation to the filaggrin gene (FLG) that has been associated with the risk of onset and persistence of AD in those of European and Asian ancestry.

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

Today's youth dedicate more hours to their studies and extracurricular activities than previous generations did.

The differences between children who attended Educare and children who did not attend were larger than differences seen in previous studies of similar programs, such as Early Head Start or home visiting programs.

Evolutionary biologists Emma Teeling and Mark Springer from the University of California, Riverside, and their colleagues sought to resolve this controversy by studying a broad range of bats and examining more genes in each than did previous studies.

The previous studies, however, were retrospective (relying on participants» recall), did not focus exclusively on ADHD (included other conduct disorders) or compared only men suffering from adult ADHD with those having remitted childhood ADHD, rather than to controls without ADHD.

«If women want to consider having acupuncture for hot flushes, they should know that although previous studies show it is better than doing nothing, our study demonstrates that needling does not appear to make a difference.»

«What we did in this paper is engineer our sensor to be about 15 times better than a previous version, and then compared it against a blood biomarker in a mouse model of ovarian cancer to show that we could beat it,» says Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the senior author of the study.

Previous studies that attempted to explain why the shifts were occurring at different rates and in different directions than expected did not have the data necessary to study changes in detail.

Previous studies had shown that in rodents — and in humans — those who relapsed began consuming more nicotine than they did when first exposed to the drug.

We note that this does not correct for multiple hypothesis testing, however, our cutoff (P < 0.0001) is higher than previous studies that have used this method (Green et al. 2010; Freedman et al. 2014; Li et al. 2016).

In line with previous research, the current study found that socioeconomic status interacted with reported discrimination in different ways for whites than it did for blacks.

The Next Generation Science Standards do a better job overall of covering genetics than most previous state standards, but are missing some key content, according to a new study by science education specialists at the American Society of Human Genetics.

Whether they're taking selfies or studying photos their parents took of them, in 2018 there's no escaping the fact that kids have way more access to photos of themselves than the children of previous generations did.

Previous studies conducting personal interviews with male / female athletes who have used creatine for longer than 1 year did not reveal any long - term side effects of creatine.

The study, by researchers at the University of Brasilia in Brazil, builds on previous studies that have found that people doing weight training build more muscle and gain more strength when they're supervised than when they're on their own.

The Winter 2010 issue of Ed Next included a study by Bob Costrell and Mike Podgursky that showed how teacher pensions concentrate benefits on teachers who spend their entire careers in a single state, penalizing younger teachers, who change jobs and move more often than did previous generations.

Quality Preschool Benefits Poor and Affluent Kids, Study Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&rStudy Finds NBC News, March 28, 2013 «While most previous studies had focused only on kids from underprivileged backgrounds, in the new study Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.&rstudy Harvard researchers found that regardless of family income children who got a year of quality prekindergarten did better in reading and math than kids who spent the year in daycare, with relatives, or in some other kind of preschool, according to the report which was published in Child Development.»

According to a study of lottery data, students who apply to charter schools, on average, scored higher in the previous year than the students who didn't submit an application.

«But in the previous Indiana K - 5 standards, the word «pizza» occurs more times in the study of fractions than the word «number line» does.»

They had to learn more knowledge than previous GCSE students and they managed to do that by regular and effective study habits.

In updating its 2009 national study on charter schools, Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) reaches the same conclusion it did in its previous study: The vast majority of charter schools in the United States are no better than public schools.

Previous studies that did not account for the choice factor found that women were earning 18 percent less than men.

Contrary to previous studies, the team also found that girls have stronger relationships with their pets than boys do.

We did not associate runs of homozygosity in English bulldogs with characteristic phenotypic traits but are confident based on previous studies that the greater genomic variation in English bulldogs compared to Standard Poodles reflected stronger human - directed selection in the former breed than in the latter.

Just pop around the site today and you'll see Amelia Urry's interesting piece explaining why a study finding vastly more fish in a deep ocean layer than previous estimates doesn't mean worries about overfishing are overblown.

But until then, I have to place it in a big bin of suspect studies «done by people out to prove something rather than investigate something,» as the evolutionary biologist Michael Eisen said in a late update to my previous post on this work.

We incorporated both competition and climatic variables simultaneously in the models, rather than separately as previous studies did (6, 11), and considered possible interactions between competition and climatic variables (21) in the models.

Consequently, the upper - end range of carbon release by 2100 calculated in this paper, 508 PgC, is much larger than the previous studies that did not use coupled carbon - climate models.

More important still than their personal beliefs about climate change, the Yale study echoed previous surveys in finding that, contrary to McConnell's claims, most Republicans are down with the idea of doing something about it.

It seems to me that several of those sites post more frequently and promptly on such developments than does RC, often with at least some substantive scientific commentary (e.g. putting new studies in the context of previous work, etc).

Industrial Agriculture's Negative Effects The report didn't go into wider - ranging effects of the industrial agriculture dominant in the US, such as loss of biodiversity, fertilizer run - off, etc. (and whether industrial agriculture is really the best method of raising food, the UN doesn't think so, and I suppose that's all a bit beyond the research brief here) but at least corn ethanol fares a bit better in this study than in previous estimates.

In a previous post, I noted a recent study that checking emails while working makes you dumber than someone on drugs doing the same kind of work.

Don't forget to consider issues such as how you are going to fund your study and where you're going to live early on — due to the popularity of postgraduate qualifications the loan approval process now takes longer than in previous years, so apply in good time to guarantee secure finance.

This result did not agree with findings reported in a previous study; the level of psychological distress was higher in partners who had negative perceptions regarding patients» treatment than in partners who had positive perceptions [14].

There is growing evidence for online mindfulness courses being as effective as other face - to - face interventions and online courses for stress even without a therapeutic alliance.37 — 40 Previously found Perceived Stress Scale (PSS) effect sizes are comparable to those found with face - to - face mindfulness and CBT interventions, including our previous research examining the course currently under investigation.40 — 42 One RCT found that an automated internet - based therapy including CBT and mindfulness actually had better outcomes for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) than the comparative online therapist - led intervention, suggesting that the effects of internet interventions can not be attributed to, and do not rely on, therapist interaction.43 Studies are finding that online mindfulness courses can be beneficial for depression in samples with IBS and epilepsy and anxiety symptoms in a non-clinical sample comparing a 3 - week mindfulness course with positive psychology interventions and treatment as usual (see Monshat38 for a review).

A previous trial evaluating fluoxetine found no effect on alcohol consumption, but fluoxetine did reduce Ham - D - 24 scores more than placebo treatment among the 14 % of study subjects who had comorbid depression.1

The present results support previous studies.39) According to Hauschildt et al., 40) the PTSD group had lower HRV than did non-trauma-exposed controls at baseline and throughout different affective conditions, implying decreased parasympathetic activity and inflexible response regulation.