Sentences with phrase «whereas earlier studies»

First, whereas earlier studies mostly used maternal reports only, we assessed both teacher - reported and mother - reported behaviour problems.

The study is the first to demonstrate a clear causal effect, whereas earlier studies primarily have looked at correlations, which are difficult to interpret.

Not exact matches

Whereas Wesley came to his theology chiefly out of his study of the Bible and his personal experience, Whitehead was a mathematical physicist trying to make coherent sense of deep perplexities created by new discoveries in the early part of this century.

Whereas McCormack advances an historical study of Barth's early writings that emphasizes its dialectical transformation of the modern theology that preceded it, my own study of Barth's mature writings inquires into what his theology might contribute to a postmodern, nonfoundational theology that is yet to come.

Whereas Vermes first stakes out a topic and then works his way to particulars by adducing historical considerations, Crossan isolates a cluster of sayings on a topic, considers only the earliest and doubly attested, and then compares the treatment of the theme with Greek as well as Jewish materials in order to develop an interpretation based on anthropological studies of Mediterranean peasants.

Although early studies showed that saturated fat diets with very low levels of PUFAs increase serum cholesterol, whereas other studies showed high serum cholesterol increased the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), the evidence of dietary saturated fats increasing CAD or causing premature death was weak.

In addition, some recent cohort studies provided detailed information of adjustment for confounders, whereas some early case - control studies adjusted for fewer factors.

Whereas methodological concerns plagued those early studies, modern genomic techniques combined with the ability to extract DNA from well - preserved fossils are inching scientists ever closer to the elusive question of Fido's origins.

Luciano noted that earlier studies looked at brain measurements at one point in time, whereas the current study followed people over time.

The monkeys were treated early in the acute phase of their disease, soon after they were infected, whereas people in the studies had all been infected for many months or even years.

«These findings will give women with early stage breast cancer greater certainty that anti-estrogen therapy will decrease their risk of recurrence and increase their chance for survival whereas chemotherapy will not,» said breast cancer survivor Mary Lou Smith, JD, MBA, who helped design the study as a leader in the ECOG - ACRIN Cancer Research Advocates Committee.

The researchers write that figures such as these suggest that diseases which are non-fatal, or those which could be terminal but have yet to reach their final stages, could be becoming increasingly common reasons to seek assisted suicide in Switzerland — although they also note that the earlier study looked at Swiss residents whereas theirs looks at foreign visitors.

In another study investigating mother - child pairs, late in utero BPA exposure related to increased plasma leptin levels in boys, whereas early exposure was linked to higher plasma adiponectin in girls at the age of 9 years (182).

One study found that 3 - 4 % dehydration impacts anaerobic performance, whereas endurance performance is affected earlier, at around 2 % dehydration, a level at which you might not even feel thirsty.

Alzheimer's disease Studies on arachidonic acid and the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease is mixed with one study of AA and its metabolites suggests they are associated with the onset of Alzheimer's disease, [18] whereas another study suggests that the supplementation of arachidonic acid during the early stages of this disease may actually be effective in reducing symptoms and slowing the disease progress.

She also noted that earlier studies looked at brain measurements at one point in time, whereas the current study followed people over time.

The film struggles to create a context in which the climactic murder seems inevitable, but the facts don't support a psychological case study — all indications are that du Pont more or less lost his mind in the weeks leading up to the murder, whereas most of Foxcatcher takes place almost a decade earlier — and screenwriters Dan Futterman (who also wrote Capote) and E. Max Frye (Something Wild — this is not) never manage to build a series of petty rivalries and resentments into tragedy.

One study found that a child in a high - quality early learning setting who is poorly regulated will perform better than expected, whereas a child in a low - quality setting who is poorly regulated will do worse than expected — and continue to struggle over time.

In one of these studies they find: «Whereas the early math and reading tests focused mainly on procedural knowledge, the general knowledge test focused mainly on declarative knowledge (i.e., elementary knowledge or comprehension of the external world).

This contradicts findings by earlier studies that used aggregate data, whereas the vol effect for non-cross listed firms is consistent with previous evidence.

But neither the time nor the location of the first domestication is known: fossils place the earliest dogs anywhere from 33,000 years ago in Siberia to 11,000 years ago in Israel, whereas DNA studies of modern dogs put domestication at least 10,000 years ago, and in either Southeast Asia or the Middle East.

IPCC has stated (AR4 WG1 Ch.9) that the «global mean warming observed since 1970 can only be reproduced when models are forced with combinations of external forcings that include anthropogenic forcings... Therefore modeling studies suggest that late 20th - century warming is much more likely to be anthropogenic than natural in origin...» whereas for the statistically indistinguishable early 20thC warming period «detection and attribution as well as modeling studies indicate more uncertainty regarding the causes of early 20th - century warming.»

These results, based on long observed time series, do not confirm earlier studies claiming that the Hurst coefficient of temperature in continental areas is 0.5, which would imply temporal independence of continental climatic processes (Blender & Fraedrich, 2003; Fraedrich & Blender, 2003); this was also disputed in a discussion by Bunde et al. (2004), who found values 0.6 — 0.7, whereas, more recently, Alvarez - Ramirez et al. (2008) estimated even higher values in some periods.

This study provides evidence that a diversity of family background (socioeconomic deprivation, housing tenure, family disruption and parental interest), health and development (cognition and behaviour) measures gives powerful independent childhood indications for general health and mental well - being in early adulthood, whereas limiting long - standing illness in adulthood is most strongly indicated by health difficulties in childhood.

Several studies have shown that chronic and episodic irritability follow distinct trajectories; episodic symptoms are associated with mania, whereas chronic symptoms are strongly associated with unipolar depression and anxiety.12 Longitudinally, episodic irritability in early adolescence was associated with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and mania in late adolescence, and only mania in adulthood, whereas chronic irritability in early adolescence was associated with disruptive behavioural disorders in late adolescence and only major depressive disorder (MDD) in adulthood.13 Individuals with episodic and elated mood are up to 50 times more likely to develop mania than those with chronic irritability in a 3 - year follow - up.14

Early studies found EPQ - RSC to have high reliability and validity as a measure of personality traits in China.47 48 The total score for the extraversion subscale indicates introversion when it is less than 43.3, intermediate when it is from 43.3 to 56.7 «and extraversion when it is greater than 56.7.48 For the psychoticism subscale, tough - minded is defined as a total score greater than 56.7, intermediate is defined as a total score between 43.3 and 56.7 «and mild is defined as a total score less than 43.3.48 For the neuroticism subscale, a total score of less than 43.3 defines emotional stability, whereas a total score from 43.3 to 56.7 defines intermediate «and a total score greater than 56.7 defines emotional instability.48 For the lie subscale, a total score of 60 or greater indicates that information provided by the respondent might be unreliable.48 In this study, Cronbach's α for EPQ - RSC was 0.903.

An earlier study by Hofstede (1984) identified that people in Asian societies including Hong Kong, Singapore and Taiwan scored high on collectivism whereas the USA, the UK, the Netherlands and Australia scored high on individualism.

Whereas earlier RCTs of cognitive behavioural interventions studied individuals diagnosed with ASD, and were initiated within one month of the traumatic incident, 1 this study reduced the intervention length, started treatment at a later post-trauma phase (5 — 10 weeks), and did not require a diagnosis of ASD for inclusion.

Kavanagh39 reported the median proportion of high EE families in their meta - analysis as 54 % with a range from 23 % to 77 %, whereas figures are typically lower than 40 % in staff - patient studies.12, 23,24,27,28,40 — 42 It may be the case that psychiatric staff have both more experience and training in managing patients» problems than relatives which may be protective factors against the development of high EE.43 In support of this hypothesis, an early study which involved interviewing nurses about how they cope with patients» symptoms of schizophrenia found that more experienced senior staff used a greater number and range of coping strategies than less experienced staff.43 High EE ratings in staff - patient studies are also almost exclusively based on the presence of critical comments with infrequent hostility and very little evidence of EOI.