These differences are also almost impossible to estimate with any reliability, as estimation errors will often be larger
than the differences researchers are trying to estimate.
Not exact matches
Researchers Debra Roter and Judith Hall have suggested that
differences in patient communication and attentiveness may play a role: In one analysis, in fact, female physicians spent two minutes (10 %) longer with patients
than male doctors did.
While it's not surprising that it is more difficult to replace a founder
than a professional CEO, the
difference between the two is surprisingly large, the
researchers commented.
In fact, the
difference and overall impact was much more significant
than researchers had anticipated.
The major
difference between McClung and most other retirement
researchers is that McClung has subjected these formulas to more tests
than a talking ape.
According to a 2017 analysis of fatal and nonfatal childhood firearm injuries compiled by
researchers from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, black children face the highest rates of firearm mortality — a
difference largely driven by black youth being more likely to be shooting victims
than children from other racial groups.
In the study that established the
difference,
researchers looking at people two years after they first showed up at a hospital for care found that they scored significantly better on most outcome measures
than a comparable group in the West....
When family
researchers look at how families function, i.e., how competently they handle tasks, challenges, and conflicts, rather
than how families are structured, the encouragement and support of individuality and
difference emerges as a key factor In other words, what is important is how people treat each other within families rather
than who they are or how they appear.
Combined with data showing that a substantially higher percentage of hits to the helmets of youth players are to the side of the helmet - which the
researchers attributed to a
differences in the styles of play between the different age groups, as well as the fact that youth players have a tendancy to fall to the side when tackled - these factors may result in a youth player being more susceptible to impacting his head on the ground while being tackled
than a high school or college player, knowledge, they said, that could aid in the design of better youth - specific football helmets.
As reported by Reuters, Dr. William Copeland, a psychiatry
researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, USA, stated that: «This study is about righting a longstanding error and prejudice about the
differences between these common childhood adversities,» adding: «It suggests that whether we are talking about prevention, screening or treatment, our notions of childhood mistreatment need to be broader and more holistic
than they have been.
The authors reported that
researchers and quality improvement executives tracking outcomes for very low birthweight infants (those born weighing less
than 1,500 grams) have increasingly used the general term «human milk feeding» to refer to both MOM and DHM, seemingly ignoring the fundamental, scientific
differences between the two.
Some women's biological clocks tick faster
than others, and now,
researchers have uncovered the first genetic evidence to explain
differences in the length of women's fertile lives.
A team of
researchers in Edinburgh analyzed more
than 10 hours of speech from Scottish members of the United Kingdom's House of Commons, measuring the acoustic qualities of their vowels and examining what factors could explain broad
differences.
The
researchers have looked into whether children who have been exposed to the mother's anti-epilepsy medicine have contact with their general practitioner (GP) more often
than other children — and there are no significant
differences.
The
researchers analyzed more
than 1,200 papers about women's underrepresentation in STEM, and from those identified 10 factors that impact gender
differences in students» interest and participation in STEM.
There proved to be much greater
differences in these networks between early, mature and advanced plaques
than what
researchers had believed.
Although the
researchers don't know precisely how the chaperone molecule works, the
difference was unmistakable: Less
than 40 % of cells treated with gene therapy had clumps, compared to 70 % of controls.
Moreover, the
researchers found no
difference in leg swing times between the two limbs, suggesting that — even though the prostheses are lighter
than biological legs — amputee sprinters don't move their legs faster.
Although the exact masses remain unknown,
researchers estimate neutrinos to be two million times lighter
than the next heavier particle, the electron, and this large mass
difference is one of the great puzzles of neutrino physics.
While there are regional
differences in the poleward movement of cyclones, the fact that every ocean basin other
than the northern Indian Ocean has experienced this change leads the
researchers to suggest, in the paper, that this «migration away from the tropics is a global phenomenon.»
While there were no significant
differences in the responses of residents based on how far along they were in their training, the
researchers were surprised to discover some significant
differences among supervising physicians, with senior attendings being more likely
than junior attendings — who could be fellows or attendings in practice less
than five years — to prefer immediate notification for situations including patient falls, new or worsening pain, an angry parent or family member, or the need for restraints.
Studying these mechanisms provided the
researchers with «a source of variation that we think is effectively random,» says Doyle, adding that it represents «hopefully a better apples - to - apples comparison» of patients
than prior studies that did not try to control for
differences in which kinds of patients visit which hospitals.
Interindividual
differences in the opioid system could explain why some individuals react more strongly
than others to someone else's distress,» says
Researcher Tomi Karjalainen from Turku PET Centre.
Researchers found that language
differences between cultures create significant barriers to the diffusion of folk tales, and that these barriers are stronger
than those for the exchange of genes
Considering that children average more
than 40 hours of screen time a week, not counting time spent on a computer at school, even small changes can make a
difference,
researchers said.
Racial
differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more
than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford
researchers.
Researchers» findings underscore that this accounts for more
than half of the
differences seen across countries and over time for certain leading causes of DALYs, including maternal and neonatal disorders.
Given how mobile giraffes are, one would expect a lot of interbreeding, so the
researchers were surprised by how different the DNA could be — some genetic
differences greater
than those between a grizzly and a polar bear, which are separate species.
The authors reported that
researchers and quality improvement executives tracking outcomes for very low birthweight infants (those born weighing less
than 1,500 grams) have increasingly used the general term «human milk feeding» to refer to both MOM and DHM, seemingly ignoring the fundamental, scientific
differences between the two.
The
researchers report today in the journal Public Library of Science: Medicine that people who consistently slept less
than five fours a night had significant
differences in the hormones leptin and ghrelin as compared with people who slept an average of eight hours a night.
But if most of Earth's water was delivered via later meteorites, this would have shown up as a greater isotopic
difference than what the
researchers measured — as water - bearing meteorites have unusual mixtures of oxygen isotopes.
Slightly more phenols and other antioxidant compounds were detected in beans taken from monoculturally grown trees
than those that came from trees grown with agroforest methods, but the
differences were not significant, according to the
researchers.
As
researchers study the genome in more depth, they hope to find the genetic
differences that make bonobos more playful
than chimps, for example, or humans more cerebral.
For example, the
researchers were able to identify previously unknown gene expression
differences between the neural stem cells that give rise to the brain's deep structures versus its neocortical surface, and to show that molecular signatures of different neural cell types arise much earlier in brain development
than previously realized.
In a series of experiments described in the September 24 issue of Science,
researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Boulder, Colo., registered
differences in the passage of time between two high - precision optical atomic clocks when one was elevated by just a third of a meter or when one was set in motion at speeds of less
than 10 meters per second.
In the new study,
researchers analyzed DNA from more
than 180,000 people, looking for genetic
differences that dictate height.
At the species level, one major
difference the
researchers found was in the abundance of E. coli — these bacteria were three-fold more common in advanced NAFLD patients
than early stage patients.
When it comes to mathematics, girls rate their abilities markedly lower
than boys, even when there is no observable
difference between the two, according to Florida State University
researchers.
The
researchers also found evidence that the protective effect of 10398G is stronger in women
than in men — hinting at a possible explanation for the sex
difference doctors have seen.
During that time, strenuous exercise was prohibited so that the
researchers could narrow the explanations for
differences in the number of calories burned rather
than deposited in fat.
This
difference, the
researchers say, suggests that tropical species may be more vulnerable to rising ocean temperatures
than are temperate or polar species.
Getting at a mechanism for how DNA sequence could influence protein function, the
researchers found that ribosomes density on β - actin RNA is more
than a thousand times higher
than on γ - actin RNA, and indeed all six actin genes had
differences in ribosome density.
This large a
difference implies that the populations haven't interbred for more
than 2 million years, the
researchers report in the 22 December Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series B.
Men are smarter
than women, according to research published in 2006, which the study
researchers say could be due to men having relatively larger brains, a
difference of about 0.2 pounds (100 grams).
The
researchers found that people who used the pumps achieved a significantly greater reduction in average blood sugar levels
than those who used multiple daily injections at 6 months (HbA1C
difference of -0.7 %).
The vast
differences between humans and chimpanzees are due more to changes in gene regulation
than differences in individual genes themselves,
researchers from Yale, the University of Chicago, and the Hall Institute in Parkville, Victoria, Australia, argue in the March 9, 2006, issue of the journal Nature.
Overall, the
researchers calculated that passive rather
than active behaviour caused a
difference of about 4.6 years in the age when symptoms developed - that's the maximum that could be «rewound» if an active lifestyle prevents the effect of passive behaviour.
However, these apparent risk
differences among races almost disappeared (dropping from twice as likely, a significant
difference, to no more
than one - and - a-half times as likely, an insignificant
difference) when
researchers used statistical techniques to exclude the two traditional risk factors for heart disease.
When
researchers studied the genetic material of 825 white American couples, they found fewer
differences in the DNA between married people
than between two randomly selected individuals within the same race.
At the end of the five - year study, the
researchers found no overall
difference in breast cancer recurrence — even though the women in the intervention group consumed about half of the fat and had a 31 % higher fiber and 54 % higher intake of fruits and vegetables
than other study subjects.