Sentences with phrase «using detailed studies»

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As detailed in a study by Harvard Business professor Dennis Campbell, TD revolutionized the way it measured the in - bank experience, streamlining its customer satisfaction survey and using a massive pool of customer data to find out not only how customers felt about their banking experience, but also what specific elements of «satisfaction» mattered most to them.

In fact, we have an entire section of our site dedicated to case studies — many of which include a video component — that detail how customers from all types of industries use our product to their advantage.

The paper details the data used for the study, identifies the suspicious trading activity and notes that these sorts of manipulative practices may still be possible today, especially in the altcoin markets.

But I am hopeful that God will use my detail - oriented and creative - thinking brain in the field of Bible study and theology to help others see that God may not be like what many of us have been taught, and that the Bible may not say what we have always thought.

For detailed instructions for using this exercise in sexual therapy (and enrichment) see William Hartmann and Virginia Fifthian's Treatment of Sexual Dysfunction (Long Beach, Calif.: Center for Marital and Sexual Studies, 1972), pp. 98 - 138.

In further detail Robert Funk has analyzed the parable and the epistle as oral speech.33 It will not take a lengthy exposure to such studies of the lively modes of discourse used by Jesus and the early Christian evangelists to cause the average preacher to look upon his own standardized sermon outline with a new lack of appreciation.

Dreweke pointed to a study detailing the increased use of long - acting reversible contraceptives (such as IUDs and implants) among teens; although the study was only conducted among women who already used contraception, the efficacy of longer - acting contraceptives is higher than those of other birth control methods.

The whole book is gluten - free and I was especially excited to receive it and study the thorough and detailed instructions for the Gluten - Free Sourdough Starter that is used in the Brown Rice, Millet and Chia Sourdough Bread.

Click here for more details on the case studies and the Full Disclosure modeling tool used to analyze costs.

In a series of studies (3 - 6) my colleagues and I observed the same findings of excessive alcohol use among athletes observed in the UCLA study, as well as gaining a more detailed understanding of the role sports participation plays in heavy drinking.

Because most school districts do not keep detailed records regarding the cost and revenue associated with various components of the school food program, it is often difficult to gain a clear picture of how they use federal reimbursements (except where USDA has conducted rigorous studies).

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

In general, studies are lacking in details about the complexities of feeding multiples and do not specify details of the feeding method such as direct breastfeeding, use of tube, cup or bottle, the use of fortifiers, the use of supplementary milks, the use of donor breast milk or expressed maternal breast milk, and the differences in feeding method between different babies (Renfrew 2009).

The researchers used next generation sequencing technology, RNA sequencing, to reveal «in exquisite detail» the blueprint for making milk in the human mammary gland, according to Laurie Nommsen - Rivers, PhD, RD, IBCLC, a scientist at Cincinnati Children's and corresponding author of the study, published online in PLOS ONE, a journal of the Public Library of Science.

To examine whether improved room ventilation by use of a fan or an open window affects the risk of SIDS, we analyzed data from a population - based case - control study of risk factors for SIDS that included detailed information on sleep environment.

And, even the photo prize would be great for her to use to detail her upcoming school field study trip to NYC.

One study found that bedroom heating, compared with no bedroom heating, increases SIDS risk (OR: 4.5), 235 and another study has also demonstrated a decreased risk of SIDS in a well - ventilated bedroom (windows and doors open)(OR: 0.4).296 In 1 study, the use of a fan seemed to reduce the risk of SIDS (adjusted OR: 0.28 [95 % CI: 0.10 — 0.77]-RRB-.297 However, because of the possibility of recall bias, the small sample size of controls using fans (n = 36), a lack of detail about the location and types of fans used, and the weak link to a mechanism, this study's results should be interpreted with caution.

While our work has used mouse models because we can study the process in detail this way, we do know that milk cells cross into human babies as well.»

For each included study, we described the method used to generate the allocation sequence in sufficient detail to allow an assessment of whether it should produce comparable groups.

Also Wednesday, the council greenlighted legislation requiring used car dealers to disclose details about a vehicle's recall history, regulating commercial bicyclists, studying the feasibility of allowing pedestrians to cross in any direction while vehicle traffic is stopped, and extending a prior legal limit on the conversion of hotels into non-hotel use — a bill backed by the city's hotel worker labor union.

A comprehensive state Department of Conservation report detailing potential solutions to address single - use plastic shopping bags has been sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the Legislature for further study and potential action.

Their new methods for using laser light to «trap» and slow down atoms to study them in greater detail «contributed greatly to increasing our knowledge of the interplay between radiation and matter,» the Nobel Committee said in 1997.

The case - control study, published online in of the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, used a large clinical database of electronic medical records to collect detailed data of cutaneous melanomas developing in 462 women aged 49 years or younger.

By using two of the world - leading VLT spectroscopic instruments, MUSE and X-shooter, they could carry out a very detailed study of the properties of the emitted light to determine its source.

Pacella, who was lead author on the study, used the detailed data he collected to create a model to estimate the daily carbonate chemistry weather during the summer dry season back to the year 1765, and also projected conditions ahead to 2100 altering the amount of anthropogenic carbon in the system.

Last spring, Geha and Josh Simon, a colleague at Caltech, used the 10 - meter Keck II telescope on Hawaii's Mauna Kea to study the mass of eight newly discovered satellite galaxies, detected over the last two years by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, an ongoing effort to make a detailed map of a million galaxies and quasars.

Although tarantula hobbyists have endured the hairs for decades, the details of their use for defense were not studied until the 1970s, when researchers discovered that some of them seem to be designed to defend against a single species.

Drs. Vincent Pasque and Jason Tchieu, postdoctoral fellows in the lab of Dr. Plath and co-first authors of the study, developed a roadmap of the reprogramming process using detailed time - course analyses.

As it is so close to the Sun, Mercury is difficult to study in detail using telescopes on Earth.

«The data are highly relevant to studies using free - electron lasers, because they show in detail what happens when radiation damage is produced.»

Bellotti says his organization already has a mailing list of 350,000 names, which he'll use to pressure Congress to require federal agencies to provide more details about the studies they conduct — and to defund labs or programs engaging in what the group considers wasteful and unnecessary research.

A younger generation of paleontologists, in contrast, has focused on reconstructing intimate details like growth rates and behaviors using modern techniques normally associated with the study of living organisms.

We carried out detailed genetic studies and used whole genome sequencing to look at every part of the DNA at diagnosis, and every part of the DNA at relapse,» says Dr. Dick.

«We used a technique known as high - throughput sequencing to gain an exquisitely detailed view of the relationships between the various strains,» said study co-author Mark Pallen, MD, Ph.D., Professor of Microbial Genomics, Warwick Medical School, the University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.

In December 2011, the board said that experimental details of the two studies should be redacted from any publications, because of concerns that the information could be used in a bioterror attack.

Although scientists have used a whole array of experimental techniques in the past to investigate the atomic scale details of surface diffusion, they have generally studied the surfaces of traditional three - dimensional materials and have supported the notion that diffusion involves a simple random walk on the surface.

Further certainty about the source of that particular FRB, if it ever comes at all, is likely to only emerge through more detailed follow - up studies using other facilities, such as the Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) in New Mexico or the yet - to - be-built Square Kilometer Array in Australia and South Africa.

The team of researchers was the first in the world to use modern genetic, molecular and biochemical methods to study tooth enamel defects in detail.

Lark and colleagues at Michigan State University (MSU) recently published the results of a nationwide, multiple - case study in The American Biology Teacher detailing how Avida - ED curriculum was used in high school and college classrooms.

Importantly, the study also showed that parents who recalled receiving more detailed explanations from their health care providers were more likely to use antibiotics only if they were truly needed.

More detailed studies can be done by measuring blood flow in the brain, using the scanning technique known as positron emission tomography (PET).

A curious detail also shown by the study is a reduction in atmospheric pollution from lead during the last few decades, which, as Lozano concludes, «suggests that the global measures taken to reduce lead emissions, such as the use of lead - free gasoline, have helped to reduce the levels of this metal in the atmosphere.»

Varban and his colleagues studied first - year surgery results using detailed data from the medical charts of 27,320 Michigan residents who had some form of bariatric surgery over a 10 - year period ending in mid-2015.

Dr. Cheer suggests that this approach may need to be used more often, and should certainly be studied in more detail.

Webb — custom - built to study these murky epochs — could use gravitational lensing to unveil these and even older galaxies in sufficient detail and number to pin down exactly how these ancient objects arose and first brought light into the universe.

For the study, survey participants answered 36 detailed questions about their mobile phone and app use, all posed by digital survey firm Toluna, based in Wilton, Conn..

Large ripples, loops and arcs embedded in the starry outer envelope were first observed in the 1970s, and they remain an active field of study for contemporary astronomers, who use the latest telescope technology to observe the finer details of NGC 1316's unusual structure through a combination of imaging and modelling.

«Our study has several distinct strengths compared to prior studies including the large number of participants, long - term follow - up, large number of cardiovascular events that were confirmed by medical record review, detailed information about diet and other cardiovascular disease risk factors, and repeated assessment of calcium supplement use over the 24 - year follow up period,» said Julie Paik, MD, MPH, BWH Channing Division of Network Medicine, Department of Medicine, lead study author.

Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are widely used to study protein motions at an atomic level of detail, but they have been limited to time scales shorter than those of many biologically critical conformational changes.

Winfried Schlee of the University of Konstanz in Germany and his colleagues have been making some of the most detailed studies of tinnitus ever, using a method called magnetoencephalography (MEG, for short).