Sentences with phrase «than control families»

The odds of receiving each component of developmentally oriented care was 4 to 20 times greater among intervention than control families (Table 3).

Overall, parental discipline practices were more favorable among intervention families than control families (Table 3).

Overall, greater percentages of intervention than control families reported receiving effective, patient - centered, timely, and efficient care (Table 2).

The trial of this program found that students whose families participated in the program had significantly greater reductions in victimisation than control families who were relying mainly on school efforts alone to resolve the problems (Healy & Sanders, 2015).

Overall, families whose first child had ASD were one - third less likely to have a second child than control families.

Not exact matches

In a statement released after the Moonves appointment, Redstone said she didn't want the chairmanship of Viacom to go to someone who is a director of her father's trust — which will take control of Redstone's more than $ 40 billion in assets after his death — or to someone who is too involved in the family's affairs.

Madsen said that young family businesses (those companies that didn't have as much experience) were shown to possess or develop more dynamic capabilities than older and more family - controlled family businesses.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

One of Canada's most dynastic companies, the Irving group got its start back in the 1920s, when K.C. opened a small service station in Bouctouche, N.B. Nearly 100 years on, the family controls more than 250 enterprises scattered across Canada and the northeastern United States.

Companies led by a family member were particularly good bets, producing better returns than both widely held firms and those that were family controlled but managed by someone outside the clan.

Viacom announced new rebranding efforts on Thursday morning that will see the struggling company focus its efforts on six flagship brands — which include Paramount, the studio acquired more than two decades ago by media mogul Sumner Redstone, whose family owns the controlling stake in Viacom and CBS.

The New York Times (nytab) has been criticized in the past for remaining family - controlled, and some have argued that the newspaper would be better off if it were run by a regular corporation rather than being operated in the interests of a specific family.

It might seem odd to have a family dynasty at the helm of one of the world's most powerful media organizations, but such an arrangement — in which the Sulzbergers control the majority of the voting shares — used to be the rule in media rather than the exception.

It's more than a little ironic that Facebook (fb), which has become a powerful media entity, is controlled in much the same way through multiple - voting shares owned by Mark Zuckerberg and his family.

The sector still features prominently in the family controlled business; gaming and hotel revenues from the former Portuguese colony amounted to more than HK$ 670 million for the 2017 fiscal year, some 23 % of total sales, according to Kingston's annual report.

The Murdoch family, which controls Fox, prefers a deal with Disney because it would rather be paid in Disney stock than Comcast stock, and expects a potential deal with Disney to be cleared by U.S. antitrust regulators more easily, one of the sources said.

Wealthy families say a family office maintains a level of independence and gives them more control over their wealth, rather than working with a traditional wealth manager.

For a privately held firm, a firm is classified as a family firm in case a family controls more than 50 % of the voting rights.

But they get to recommend where their cash goes, and in exchange for giving up some control, they get a bigger tax write - off than they would with a family foundation.

In addition, the percentage of family representatives on the board may be no more than 10 % greater than the percentage of the family's control.

After more than 10 years of measuring and rating the effectiveness of the boards of directors of widely held Canadian publicly traded companies, the Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness (CCBE) published a report in 2013 about the performance of family - controlled corporations (family firms).

For example, a family that controls 30 % of the issuer's votes may have no more than 40 % of the board made up of family representatives, including executives of affiliated companies, whether or not they are independent from management.

Most women are monogamous, and taking the pill to control the how and when they start a family (or add to it) rather than just sleeping around.

Now the richest 400 families in America control more wealth than half of the entire population.

Huntington, for example, contends that «far more significant than the global issues of economics and demography are problems of moral decline», an «increase in antisocial behavior», decay of family structures, weakening of the «work ethic», and decreasing commitment to intellectual activity.12 Similarly Brzezinski refers to a current global crisis of spirit which has to be overcome if the human race is to regain some control over its destiny.

When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith - community, we produce trained cowards rather than Christian persons.»

Their old recruiting method of no birth control and huge families is less popular than it used to be.

Adequate level families are less likely to maintain control through intimidation than midrange ones, but there is still more sex - role stereotyping (and loss of intimacy) than in Optimal families.

How to convert your family's favorite foods into healthier, grain - free versions that taste just as good (if not better) than the original... so you can reclaim control of your health...

Rather than trying to control children's behavior with bribes, yelling, and punishments, peaceful parenting families experience more joy by

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When a woman knows and trusts her midwife to understand her needs and those of her family, there is a shift of power toward the woman as she takes more control over her care rather than «fitting in» with the system.

As a politically active feminist and a mother myself, I believe her time and ability to command editorial space in The Wall Street Journal would be far better spent opining about things like the need for better family leave and health care policies, improved access to birth control and higher education and affordable child care for working mothers rather than whether Angelina Jolie plans to adopt again or how long my friends plan to breastfeed their babies.

So often adopted children are assaulted with the family tree exercise at school, and it becomes an activity that causes stress and feelings of isolation, rather than something they feel in control of.

Even after controlling for income, youths in father - absent households still had significantly higher odds of incarceration than those in mother - father families.

If you have kids older than that, though, this book will give you a nice framework for thinking about all the areas of family life so you can assess what you can control and streamline things so you can process the chaos as it happens and spend more time enjoying life and less time feeling like it's dragging you around.

This is consistent with other studies demonstrating a link between breastfeeding and maternal sensitivity.25, 26,27 For example, in a longitudinal study of more than 1300 families in the USA, mothers who breast fed were observed to be more sensitive to their babies at 6, 15, 24 and 36 months.27 Importantly, this difference persisted after statistical control for the effects of maternal mental health, the quality of the home environment in terms of infant health and stimulation and socioeconomic status.

Saving for our retirement rather than splurging today; controlling our intake of food and drink, and taking exercise in order to be healthy; taking time to be with our children and families, rather than being sucked into overwork or overconsumption.

One day after Soundview deposited the proceeds from the sale, Espada's son, Alejandro, who was heading the clinics in his father's stead, doled out more than $ 350,000 to himself, his father, his brother, Pedro G., and a janitorial company the family controlled.

Yes, the IDC championed paid family leave and helped pass a minimum wage increase — but both policies were significantly less impactful than they could have been had Democrats controlled both houses of the legislature.

The July memo came less than two months after Cuomo pledged to help Democrats retake control of the State Senate, as he sought the nomination of the labor - backed Working Families Party.

One of the groups is the Working Families Party, which gave Cuomo its nomination in exchange for a commitment to push for Democratic control of the State Senate as well as a commitment to let localities set higher wage floors than the state.

A second, genome - wide association study scanned the genome for common variants behind autism in more than 10,000 affected children, their families, and controls.

The group that experienced mood symptoms was more explosive, out of control, physically and verbally violent and depressed than the group that experienced memory and thinking deficits, with family members reporting that 73 percent of those in the first group were «explosive,» compared to 27 percent in the second group.

The researchers found that mothers in the Family Spirit group were less likely to use illegal drugs, be depressed or experience behavior problems than those in the control group.

The registry contains information about more than 18,000 people including LQTS patients and their affected and unaffected family members, who provide a nearly ideal group of controls.

In the human genome, there are at least 20,000 pseudogenes; some gene families, like the one that controls our sense of smell, have more of these genetic train wrecks than working members.

A study of the development of the nervous system of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans by Neda Masoudi, Oliver Hobert and colleagues reveals a novel function for a member of the basic helix - loop - helix family of transcription factors in controlling terminal neuron differentiation (rather than initial commitment to a neural fate).

The program also allows the patient and family member more control over when they perform the care activities rather than following a schedule when the nurse or patient care tech are available.

Ongoing T2D research activities at CRGGH include 1) whole - exome sequencing of African families with at least four affected members (data generation is complete and analysis is ongoing), 2) GWAS of 1,200 cases and 1,200 controls from West Africa using the new and more efficient African - centric Affymetrix Axiom genome - wide array with more than 2 million markers, and 3) whole genome expression analysis on skeletal muscle obtained from biopsy from 45 subjects (expression QTL (eQTL) studies on the dataset are complete).