Sentences with phrase «than the control group in»

A study of mental functioning in alcoholic patients found that they performed less well than a control group in choosing the correct punchline for a joke.

The CTBA report ignores entirely previous research from the Brookings Institution, a random - assignment study — the gold standard of social science research — that found voucher students in Milwaukee scored six Normal Curve Equivalent points higher than the control group in reading and 11 points higher in math.

Second graders who had participated in the SFA program for three years significantly outperformed their peers who were not in the program on a measure of phonics skills, but on average did not perform better than the control group in reading fluency or comprehension.

After two years of enrollment, LSP scholarship users scored 0.18 standard deviations (roughly six months of learning) lower than the control group in English Language Arts (ELA), but this point estimate was not statistically significant, meaning that we can not rule out no effect or a positive effect;

In fact, treated programs had lower ratings than the control group in 2016.

The providers that took part in this program were ranked higher than a control group in a number of important child care areas including providing basic care, learning activities, social development, opportunities for language and listening to improve childhood development and space and furnishing.

Not exact matches

In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

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.

«In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group,» Oettingen writes for HBR.org.

«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

Some opposition lawmakers oppose the deal, saying Murdoch, the owner of The Times and The Sun newspapers, would wield too much power if he had full control of a pay - TV group present in more than 12 million British and Irish homes.

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.

«The children in the group who did a task in a way that made them laugh learned the target actions more than those in the control group who were not laughing during the learning period,» she reports.

Representatives of two gun control advocacy groups, Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America and Everytown for Gun Safety, plan to speak at more than 20 pride events around the country this weekend, according to a statement from the groups.

Those in the happiness control group were up to 12 percent more efficient in completing the tasks than their sad, stressed counterparts.

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.»

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselveIn recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselvein black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

It is better to stay at home and bask in the Father's love than to join with a group of power - hungry, controlling Christians.

It has been my experience that those church leaders who are more into control and performance will get very uncomfortable and irritable when someone joins the group who actually want to talk with God in order to learn from Him, rather than talk (or yell) at Him in the hopes of sounding super-spiritual and maybe even manipulating something out of Him.

What I am calling the «core groups,» those actually trying to live a new vision, give hope in that they are actually working out a new balance of impulse and control, energy and discipline, rather than abandoning all control and discipline.

The plant is less coordinated as a subject than an animal and is more like a democracy of cells in which no particular group of cells has a central control.

Only 28 % of the women in the date eating group needed prostin / oxytocin (for inducing / augmenting labour), which was significantly lower than the 47 % who needed induction in the control group (p = 0.036).

Casella acquired a controlling stake in Peter Lehmann from Hess Group for US$ 49.5 million, significantly less than the $ 103m Hess paid for the brand in 2003.

After 12 weeks, the researchers observed a larger reduction in blood glucose levels than in the control group.

A 2008 study published in the British Society for Investigative Dermatology found that participants who consumed tomato paste for 12 weeks experienced over 30 % more protection from UV light than the control group.

The Orioles are not an easy group of heroes to control, though it is probably unfair to place any significance in the fact that they played better at night (60 - 41) than all the other teams in the American League.

This was not exactly a defensive masterclass from either side, as the 4 - 2 scoreline suggests, but at least it was Arsenal who scored more than the home side BATE Borisov to give the Gunners a second Europa League win and put us well in control of the group.

The crushing victory was more than enough to put Chelsea in early control of the group with Atletico slogging out a 0 - 0 score in Rome.

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.

• A Randomised Controlled Trial in which depressed pregnant women received twice weekly massage therapy from their partners found those who received the massage reporting less depressed mood, anxiety and anger and better relationship quality than women in the control group (Field et al, 2008).

The most recent findings of the Belarus study (an excellent, large scale, randomized, first world study) were recently published and show that 11 year - olds have a 17 % GREATER chance of being obese or overweight if they were in the breastfeeding group than in the control group.

The results are encouraging, even many years down the road — at age 15, kids whose mothers went through the program are 59 percent less likely to have an arrest record than teens in a control group.

There is experimental evidence that this old standby really helps: In a study that randomly assigned fearful children to receive a toy «huggy puppy,» kids exhibited fewer nighttime fears and sleep problems than did children in a control grouIn a study that randomly assigned fearful children to receive a toy «huggy puppy,» kids exhibited fewer nighttime fears and sleep problems than did children in a control grouin 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.

According to one study published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood found that among babies who had experienced prolonged crying at a very young age (either from colic or other causes) had an average IQ at five years old that was nine points lower than the control group.

Thus, I strongly support the critical statement «human milk is the recommended source of nutrition for infants» in the FDA's proposed guidance, and urge a guidance revision that any breast milk comparison claims (e.g., «closer than ever to breast milk») made by formula companies must also be substantiated by studies that use a control group of exclusively breast - fed infants.

When researchers randomly assigned some primary school students to perform three acts of kindness each week, those kids became more popular than did children in a control group (Layous et al 2012).

Mothers in the intervention group (77 %) reported enjoying breastfeeding more than mothers in the control group (69 %) whose partner did not receive the antenatal education session intervention.

Despite the widened socioeconomic inequalities by the intervention in rates of prolonged exclusive and any breastfeeding, breastfeeding rates were even higher among mothers with the lowest education (secondary school or less) in the intervention group than they were among mothers who completed university in the control group.

Verbal IQ deficits among children of mothers with lower education compared with those who completed university were somewhat smaller in the intervention group than in the control group: 5.2 (95 % CI: 3.1, 7.3) vs 6.5 (95 % CI: 5.6, 7.4) points deficit among mothers with partial university education and 10.7 (95 % CI: 8.4, 12.9) vs 11.7 (95 % CI: 10.2, 13.2) points among those with secondary education or less.

No socioeconomic inequalities were observed in the control group, whereas a small gradient was seen in the intervention group (RD = 0.06, 95 % CI: 0.03, 0.09 for mothers with partial university education; RD = 0.10, 95 % CI: 0.06, 0.14 for mothers with no more than secondary education).

Because mean child IQ scores at age 6.5 years, verbal IQ scores in particular, were higher among children in the intervention than the control group, 16 we might expect that socioeconomic inequalities in child IQ would be widened in the intervention group, owing to the increase in observed inequalities in breastfeeding.

Mean verbal IQ scores of children in the lowest maternal education category in the intervention were also substantially higher than those of their counterparts 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.

One 7 - year followup study showed that children enrolled in a high - quality home visiting program were more likely to participate in a gifted program and less likely to receive special education services or report skipping school than were children in the control group.

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 developmenin 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 developmenIn 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.

In the study by Merewood et al. (27), the rate of any breastfeeding at 12 wk PP was considerably higher in the intervention group than in controls (OR: 2.81, 95 % CI: 1.11 — 7.14; P = 0.03In the study by Merewood et al. (27), the rate of any breastfeeding at 12 wk PP was considerably higher in the intervention group than in controls (OR: 2.81, 95 % CI: 1.11 — 7.14; P = 0.03in the intervention group than in controls (OR: 2.81, 95 % CI: 1.11 — 7.14; P = 0.03in controls (OR: 2.81, 95 % CI: 1.11 — 7.14; P = 0.03).

Given the desirability of breastfeeding, it is possible that women in the intervention group felt more guilty about discontinuing breastfeeding than control women because of relationships developed with the peer counselor, and thus, they did not answer telephone calls when the research assistant called to ascertain feeding status.

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.