Sentences with phrase «than a research variable»

She concluded that gender is much more than a research variable.

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The American Meteorological Society published research in 2011 that found current temperature has a bigger effect on our happiness than variables like wind speed and humidity, or even the average temperature over the course of a day.

«The questionnaire collects 18 variables from mothers over a voice call, and our initial research has shown that 20 % of the data is more than 75 % accurate, can be identified automatically, and is sufficient to build a detailed analysis of the quality of care provided by different health facilities.

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.

It takes about an hour to glue more than a dozen sensors to a research subject about to undergo polysomnography, the technology designed to monitor brain waves and other physiological variables used to characterize our time asleep.

Her research suggests that climate conditions across Africa may have been more variable than once thought.

Launching a natural research experiment in Kathmandu, Nepal, this month using advanced monitoring methods to assess health risk from air pollution, environmental health scientist Rick Peltier at the University of Massachusetts Amherst hopes to demonstrate for the first time in a real - world setting that air pollution can and should be regulated based on toxicology variables rather than simply on the volume of particles in the air.

Specifically, the reviewed data showed that analysis and discussion included sex as an independent variable in less than 33 % (432 of 1303) of surgical clinical research studies.

Though much less variable than HIV, there are still possible areas of overlap between the HIV and flu vaccine research efforts.

This research is unique in that it had a much longer follow - up period than other studies on benzodiazepines, followed patients forward in time, and controlled for variables (such as depression) which are known to be early symptoms of dementia.

Other research shows support for a variable attention span far longer than 8 seconds and dependent on many factors (as we would expect).

The research is clear: Teacher quality affects student learning more than any other school - based variable (issues such as income and parental education levels are external).

Find an adviser that does more than glibly quote industry research or ask if you can «sleep at night» with a variable rate.

The research results involve more than 200 variables, but for this analysis, we focused on the basic demographic player profile of each franchise to see which have found a sweet spot in terms of the audience they attract.

It clearly shows that the number of blocking events is variable by decade and that we are in a phase with more blocking days than the period of time used for the Hansen research of 1951 to 1980.

The models in the case of AGW, are a little more scientific than either approach /;, the variables can not all be counted for, but they do provide insights to the totality of the research, and the models, (and data fed into the models) satellite data and observations from researchers in the geographical areas affected by GW, agree more than do not, as long as the averages are taken into account.

The Wallace et al. 2016 study represents a new and interesting approach to climate science research which should yield very interesting and much more valid results since the weight given to each likely variable is determined by available evidence rather than the guesses of carefully selected «experts» and incorporated into their largely arbitrary computer models.

Legal Research and Writing follows algorithmic logic anyways — and Watson can hold a lot more variables in mind than I can.

For more than 40 years, his research examined couples» interactions, the variables of divorce, and the constants in happy relationships.

Cecilia Saulters - Tubbs found that district attorneys were less likely to file charges against female drug offenders than against male offenders, while Donna Bishop and Charles Frazier found, similarly, that boys were treated more punitively than girls for delinquency offenses and that girls were less likely than boys to receive a sentence involving incarceration.10 Such studies suggest that the system treats girls as less criminally dangerous than boys.11 Other research, however, notes that once legal variables are controlled, girls are treated similarly to boys in the early stages of court processing but more harshly in the later stages.12 Earlier studies pointing toward more «chivalrous» treatment of girls may thus have failed to consider differences in the underlying seriousness of the offenses involved.

'' [O] nly a minority of children in single - parent families are maladjusted; the majority evince no psychopathology or behavioral symptoms, whether or not they experience psychic pain... Although many social scientists have emphasized the effects of father absence on child adjustment, Amato's research clearly indicates that the bivariate association between the two variables is much weaker than one might expect.

Interestingly, research on cohabitating couples found sex to be a more important variable in part because the option for divorce is easier in many cases — legally, emotionally and economically and less sexual satisfaction is more likely to lead to relationship termination than in legally defined unions.

Because previous research (Gilligan et al., in press; Suitor et al., 2009) has shown that the perception of any favoritism, rather than the particular pattern (e.g., mother preferred the respondent or another child), predicted sibling tension, we used the children's responses to create a dichotomous variable: 0 = child does not perceive mother as preferring any particular offspring as her future caregiver and 1 = child perceives that mother prefers either him / herself or another child as her caregiver.