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These anecdotes are supported by research showing that students who are taught to develop mental imagery of text do better than control groups on tests of comprehension and recall.

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.

University of Kansas scientists have found that infants who were fed formula enriched with long - chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LCPUFA) from birth to 12 months scored significantly better than a control group on several measures of intelligence conducted between the ages of three to six years.

James J. Kemple, the executive director of the Research Alliance for New York City Schools, who conducted a study comparing the city's school reform efforts to a «virtual» control group modeled from other urban districts in the state, including Buffalo, Yonkers, Syracuse, and Rochester, «found New York City students improved significantly faster than the control group on both the New York state assessments and the National Assessment of Educational Progress during the reform period, from 2002 to 2010.»

The treatment group scored significantly higher than the control group on the index of reading awareness.

Not exact matches

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.

Kashagan has huge amounts of oil in store, and according to Financial Times, «Opec, the 14 - member cartel that controls more than a third of all crude production, on Monday said Kashagan's ramp up is one reason it now thinks supplies outside the group will actually grow next year, despite two years of low prices.»

«If a group of miners controls more than 50 percent of the computational power on the network, it can always mine blocks faster than whoever has the other 49 percent.

The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.

The abnormalities disclosed on post-season DTI scans among the players were closer to the scan of the one player with diagnosed concussion than to the normal brains in the control group.

A series of randomized control trials of a nurse home visitation program show a range of positive effects on maternal health, including decreases in prenatal cigarette smoking, fewer hypertensive disorders in pregnancy, and fewer closely spaced subsequent pregnancies., A randomized control study of another program that works with a particularly high - risk population found that participant mothers showed significantly lower depressive symptoms than those in the control group and were less likely to report feeling stressed a year after participation.

The differences were small, though — in the latter study, the babies spent eight minutes less in REM sleep, on average, in those first few hours than babies in the control group did.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

At 4 wk PP, the intervention group had a significantly higher rate of exclusive breastfeeding than controls (based on 24 - h recall).

At 4 months of age, based on since birth recall, the breastfeeding proportion was significantly higher in the intervention group than in control group (20.6 % in the intervention group vs. 11.3 % in the control group, p < 0.01).

The fathers of the control group were also offered a face - to - face 40 - minute training session about child care, such as accident prevention and vaccination, but discussion was focused on the health benefits of breast milk rather than the management of breastfeeding.

In another study conducted by Dr Field, premature babies who were massaged gained 47 percent more weight and were discharged from hospital six days earlier than babies in a control group, with follow up studies showing lasting effects on growth and development.

He is fastidious about controlling his message and says nothing on the record — other than insisting he has gone perfectly Zen about that ragtag group at Cuomoville.

Mayor Bloomberg's gun control group is dropping more than $ 250,000 on cable TV ads featuring surveillance video from the Columbine High School massacre to urge the Senate to put new restrictions on gun sales.

Two gun safety groups in Maine are getting more than $ 3 million from a nonprofit backed by former New York City Mayor Bloomberg in preparation for a big gun control measure on the November ballot.

Take the ban on donors with business before the city giving more than $ 400 to groups controlled by public officials.

Two influential Republican groups, the Club for Growth and the Republican Jewish Coalition, said they planned to focus on helping House and Senate candidates this fall and on keeping both chambers under Republican control, rather than making the presidency their top priority.

Nearly 20 percent said they had gotten sunburned in the previous year, and on weekend days, sun exposure was roughly equal between the two groups, with 74.8 percent of the survivors and 79.7 percent of the controls spending more than two hours outside.

«The shift in assertiveness is small — HEART participants were 5 percent more assertive than the control group — but one of the key findings here is that a short, one - time intervention can have a measureable impact on behavior,» Widman says.

When, for example, subjects were asked 20 times in succession to estimate the duration for which a square — displayed for exactly one second in each case — appeared on the screen, the estimates given by patients with schizophrenia exhibited a much higher level of variability than those of the control group.

For a control group, he used hundreds of other children also in intensive care, also on the brink of death, but whose pulse and breathing hadn't been interrupted for more than 30 seconds.

At Week 8, those in the control group reported a greater decrease in the effort they were willing to put into staying on the diet than those who received the Support app Preliminary data suggests that the MRP Support app has the potential to increase positive mood and maintain motivation during a weight loss programme.

«Three months after training, the group that had received tDCS had improved more on our clinical measures than those in the control group.

At two and a half, the autistic subjects» brains were 7 percent larger on average than the control group's.

The factors that may differ between the groups, such as older age, obesity, smoking and diabetes, are known and can be controlled for, providing for comparison groups that may provide more information on the impact of heart failure on subsequent cancer occurrence than other heart disease groups.

When the researchers repeated the analysis to focus on problem gambling − a larger group of people than those with the more narrowly defined pathological gambling − they found that 16 percent of relatives of the pathological gamblers were problem gamblers compared to 3 percent of relatives of controls.

After 7 weeks, the group of mice on antibiotics had significantly more fat than a control group drinking plain water, the team reports online today in Nature.

In the study, MBSR participants reported significantly greater improvement in the ability to pay attention, and also made fewer mistakes on difficult cognitive tasks than those in the control group, which received patient education materials and supportive counseling.

On the second day, patients in the methadone group required less than 1 mg of hydromorphone, compared to 3 mg in the control group.

On the third day, patients in the methadone group didn't require hydromorphone, compared to less than 1 mg in the control group.

By the fall of their kindergarten year, children who participated in Head Start and the REDI - P group scored higher than the children in the control group on several measures, showing greater increases in their vocabulary, literacy skills, reading fluency and academic performance upon entering kindergarten.

The 20 men who sniffed the pheromone offered, on average, half a euro more than the control group (about $ 5), and accepted offers around half a euro lower (about $ 3), the researchers report this week in PLOS ONE.

IED - diagnosed subjects scored much higher on both measures than either control group.

Fetuses from zinc - deficient mice in the study were 38 percent smaller on average than those from the control group fed a diet with zinc included.

«All too often, pollsters ask Americans whether they support more or less gun control, or frame gun policies as controls on gun ownership generally rather than as measures to keep guns from criminals or other high - risk groups,» Barry says.

«The fly's rapid takeoff is, on average, eight milliseconds faster than its more controlled takeoff,» says Janelia group leader Gwyneth Card.

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These mice weighed about 30 percent more than the controls that ate a low - fat diet, while the group on the diet containing regular soybean oil weighed 38 percent more than controls.

But an interim report from one group, based at the University of Wisconsin, previously found that the monkeys on a restricted diet were indeed living longer than the control group.

After 10 generations, the line of fighting flies had become much more aggressive than a group of control flies, and after 20 generations, the aggressive insects scored more than 30 times higher than the controls did on a «fighting index» that measured how ferociously they fought, Dierick and Greenspan report online 13 August in Nature Genetics.

Surprise, surprise, the distracted group didn't do as well on the test — 10 points worse than the control group.

They discovered that patients on ADT experienced significantly more hot flashes at 6 months and 12 months after therapy initiation than the other two control groups combined.

Specifically, MP significantly increased scores on self - reports (averaged measures), and the effects differed between groups, with controls reporting a more robust «high» (drug effect: F = 92, P = 0.0001; interaction: F = 6.2, P = 0.02), «restlessness» (F = 35, P = 0.0001; interaction: F = 5.8, P = 0.02), «anxiety» (F = 7, P = 0.01; interaction: F = 5.8, P = 0.02), and «drug effects» (F = 100, P = 0.0001; interaction F = 4, P = 0.05) than marijuana abusers.

Antibody levels peaked 4 weeks after the third immunization on study day 90 with 100-fold or greater rise relative to baseline, and remained significantly higher than in the control group throughout the 12 months of the study.

The numbers of Foxp3 + cells in the control group were even slightly greater than in VPA recipients on day 14 (Fig. 3C).