Sentences with phrase «use of causal relationships»

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Having a greater understanding of this causal relationship could inform the creation of a diagnostic tool using the eyes to catch when a person's memory is headed down an unhealthy path, adds Dr. Buchsbaum.

There are nine criteria used to determine a causal relationship in disease, developed in the context of smoking and lung cancer in 1965 by British epidemiologist Sir Austin Bradford Hill.

«While randomized clinical trials are needed to test whether this is a causal relationship, these findings indicate doctors should consider using or re-starting ACEIs and ARBs as first - line blood pressure medications for patients undergoing peritoneal dialysis,» said Jenny I. Shen, MD, an LA BioMed researcher and corresponding author of the study.

Importantly, we can not assume that there is a causal relationship between maternal use of paracetamol during pregnancy and adverse effects in children from an epidemiological study.

The researchers hope that educators can use the findings to develop science, technology, engineering and mathematics curriculum that take advantage of young children's ability to learn through observation using less - than - perfect causal relationships.

«The findings of the study indicate that simple causal relationships between the evolution of brain size, tool use and tooth size are unlikely to hold true when considering the complex scenarios of hominin evolution and the extended time periods during which evolutionary change has occurred,» said Aida Gómez - Robles, lead author of the paper and a postdoctoral scientist at GW's CASHP.

Through Mendelian randomization analysis — a method that uses a person's genetic background to assess causal relationships between correlated variables — Nowak et al. discovered evidence that insulin resistance reduced circulating levels of the monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFAs) oleate and palmitoleate.

Though this research established significant increase of glaucoma risk for individuals with a history of cocaine use, it doesn't prove a causal relationship.

If, IF, there were some causal relationship between the anti-caking agents and some kind of illness that could be reasonably demonstrated, that might be cause for not using iodized salt, but so far it's just a whole lot of «this is bad because it doesn't occur this way naturally».

And although causal dating, dating multiple partners and one - night hook - ups aren't out of the equation in 2018, Spira says people who have been using apps in the last few years are going to move away from these types of relationships.

Of course, student groups were not randomly assigned to read or watch the movies, so we can't have the same confidence in identifying causal relationships, but we can use information about reading and watching movies to try to separate the extent to which the benefits we observed were produced by seeing a live theater production, or by having read and watched movies of those same works in schooOf course, student groups were not randomly assigned to read or watch the movies, so we can't have the same confidence in identifying causal relationships, but we can use information about reading and watching movies to try to separate the extent to which the benefits we observed were produced by seeing a live theater production, or by having read and watched movies of those same works in schooof those same works in school.

Further, they note that researchers have not yet established a causal relationship between the use of exclusionary discipline and either school climate or students» later lives — such as the school - to - prison pipeline.

Having estimated this relationship between Catholicity in the past and competition in the present, we then use that estimate to isolate the causal effect of private school competition on the achievement of individual students across 29 countries.

The researchers estimate the statistical relationship between the size of the Catholic population in 1900 and the extent of private schooling today and use this estimate to isolate the causal effect of private school competition on contemporary student achievement.

Although only relational data was used and no causal connection was established, the researchers did observe that a relationship existed between the use of computers and improved student behaviors.

It must be proven that there is a direct causal relationship between the insured person's impairments and the use or operation of the vehicle in question (the «chain of causation test» or, simply, the «causation test.»)

Strong numerical skills and understanding of the basic techniques that can be used to explore the causal relationships that exist within a set of research findings

Consistent with a previous article on SofR, I challenged the notion that there is a causal association between Facebook use and divorce; however, I did discuss the idea that Facebook may present new challenges to relationship commitment because Facebook increases the number of alternative partners we perceive to our current relationships.2 I also incorporated SofR writer Jennifer Bevan's research which indicates that couples who use integrative communication (e.g., explaining your feelings of jealousy calmly and constructively to your partner) report more satisfaction and commitment in their relationships.3

These comprised of established risk factors for conduct problems and depression outcomes for which we felt the assumption of a causal predictive relationship with parental alcohol use could be justified.

This study used Structual Equation Modeling (SEM) to test causal relationships among perceived teacher - student relationships, peer relationships, school engagement, student academic achievement in a sample of 5,944 middle school students.

The validity of this cross-sectional study is limited to correlations; therefore, further longitudinal studies using a more representative sample are needed to explore valid causal relationships.

Further research, particularly through the use of prospective studies, is required to empirically evaluate the temporal and causal relationships between gambling and familial violence.