Sentences with phrase «which subgroups»

Under the new law, states and districts are required to provide comprehensive support and improvement to: the lowest - performing 5 percent of schools, high schools that fail to graduate one - third or more of their students, and schools in which subgroups perform at the same level as students in the lowest - performing schools despite local interventions.

The ESSA also requires that, if students fall behind in meeting these standards, States and local educational agencies (LEAs) implement evidence - based interventions to help them and their schools improve, with a particular focus on the lowest - performing schools, high schools with low graduation rates, and schools in which subgroups of students are underperforming.

Under the new proposal, states would also be required to intervene in the lowest performing 5 percent of schools, have school - level interventions in schools in which subgroups of students perform poorly, and intervene in schools in which fewer than two - thirds of students graduate.

«We're definitely encouraged by these results, but we need to optimize the length of treatments, identify which subgroups of patients may benefit most, and determine if this approach works in patients who have nonsomatic forms of the condition that can't be modulated by head and neck maneuvers,» Shore said.

Further research is needed to identify which subgroups of infants with colic may benefit from probiotics, they add.

Clearly, additional large randomize trials are needed to further understand the possibility of using probiotics to manage infant colic crying and which subgroup of infant could potentially profit from such intervention.

A questionnaire study conducted to identify attitudes and behaviors that were of importance for weight maintenance in different subgroups of age, gender, and body - mass index (BMI) showed that there were major differencesin terms of which attitudes and behaviour that were of importance depending on which subgroup that was examined.

Identification of, and targeted, evidence - based intervention and support in, schools in which any subgroup of students consistently underperforms.

For instance, Title I, Part A, Sec. 1111 requires only that states «notify each local educational agency... in which any subgroup of students is consistently underperforming» and «ensure [that] such local educational agency provides notification» to schools.

Not exact matches

When you are looking at a collection (in math terms a distribution) of things which can be grouped into subgroups according to similar characteristics... a majority is defined not ONLY as the quant1ty of things in a subgroup in relation to the total number of all things, but as the quant1ty of things in a subgroup in relation to the quant1ties of things in other subgroups.

The school of social functionalism examines the ways in which society, considered as an organism, attempts to contain and manage conflict, integrating disparate members and subgroups into the whole.

It is the central problem of biological evolution in which groups of cells form larger and larger organizations by generating hierarchical constraints on subgroups.

It is questionable whether liberal churches can change rapidly enough to continue to serve the subgroups in the cultural spectrum for which they have primary evangelistic responsibility.

And at the organizational level Bellah foresees the emergence of «an increasingly fluid type of organization in which many special purpose subgroups form and disband.»

For we could not think of pure possibilities, if all eternal objects, of which the ideas of mathematics only constitute a subgroup, necessarily had to find an application in nature.

The summary relative risks were generally similar, however, no matter which method was used, and there was no evidence of heterogeneity between subgroups when stratified by the method used to calculate fibre intake.

The caloric content of all subgroups of Choices snacks were found to be significantly lower than the reference snacks, with the exception of fruit drink snacks and savory snacks, which remained the same.

It's interesting, too, that the absolute risk for patients treated by OBs doesn't seem to change by parity or other subgroup, which implies to me that overall, babies delivered in the hospital in the US have access to the best care possible when it comes to resuscitation.

New studies should be large enough to include assessment and reporting of impacts by important subgroups to improve our understanding of what works for which populations.

On the whole, there was no evidence of a difference between the caseload and team subgroups for any of the outcomes included in the subgroup analysis, which included caesarean section, instrumental vaginal birth, spontaneous vaginal birth, intact perineum, preterm birth < 37 weeks and all fetal loss before and after 24 weeks plus neonatal death.

In the subgroup analysis in which we excluded women whose labour was induced by outpatient administration of prostaglandins, amniotomy or both (118 [4.1 %] of women in the home - birth group, 344 [7.2 %] of those who planned a midwife - attended hospital birth and 778 [14.6 %] of those who planned a physician - attended hospital birth), the relative risks of obstetric interventions and adverse maternal and neonatal outcomes did not change significantly.

An understanding of the effects of birth weight and gestational age on the regulation of infant growth by genetic and environmental effects may assist in tailoring research, counseling, and possibly interventions in infant growth to specific subgroups in which attaining a health benefit is more likely.

Within the subgroup of studies which specifically focused on social support, they found that 14 studies showed no association between marital or partner status and depressive symptoms or diagnosis whilst 13 studies showed that women who were married or cohabiting with the baby's father had fewer depressive symptoms or a lower risk of postpartum depression compared to women separated from their partner or not in a relationship during the first postpartum year.

270 to 252 million years ago, the therapsids consisted of six subgroups, one of which, the cynodonts, gave rise to mammals.

As the use of big data becomes increasingly effective and popular, more universities are forming groups and subgroups that focus on big data problem solving, which in turn is spurring the creation of new employment opportunities for scientists with expertise in this arena.

Borodovsky and colleagues examined associations between provisions of legal cannabis laws (such as allowing dispensaries, home cultivation, etc.) and cannabis consumption patterns among youth using online surveys distributed through Facebook, which proved to be a reliable method for generating geographically diverse samples of specific subgroups of cannabis - using youth.

This imaging approach could also, in the future, help better define which patients with autoimmunity will likely progress to diabetes and classify subgroups of patients who might benefit from different therapeutic strategies.

Anomalies in DSM - IV criteria for autism and other pervasive developmental disorders (PDDs), which includes the subgroups of autistic disorder, Asperger's and PDD - NOS, have led to clinical inconsistency, leading to wide variations in how diagnoses of these are made.

The researchers found that, based on subjects» genetic profiles, the centenarians could be further divided into 19 subgroups, some of which were associated with delayed onset of age - related diseases such as dementia, hypertension and cardiovascular disease.

«We did not detect any clear change in the long - term time trends in the incidence of brain tumors from 1998 to 2003 in any subgroup,» the researchers wrote in the paper, which was published online Thursday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute (JNCI).

«On the other hand the US Food and Drug Administration has taken the more conservative approach which recognises that SQUIRE was designed for all - comers without prior selection, and this subgroup analysis is insufficient evidence to conclude that patients with EGFR negative tumours are not candidates.»

In this subgroup, vitamin E prevented pneumonia in 12.9 % of the participants by the time they reached the age of 74 years, which corresponds to one in eight getting a benefit from the vitamin.

They also performed comparative and genome - wide analyses, which provide insights into the evolutionary history of Asterids, a subgroup of flowering plants that includes potatoes, tomatoes and coffee.

Scientists exposed animals to M1 protein, which is a potent virulence factor derived from a subgroup of Streptococcus pyogenes that are associated with a high mortality upon infection.

Vitiligo is characterised by the accumulation of a subgroup of T cells called CD49a +, which recognise and are ready to kill pigment cells.

However, a pre-specified examination of the study's secondary endpoints, which included the rate of heart attacks, revealed that patients who received the methylprednisolone faced a 15 percent greater risk of death or heart attack and a 21 percent greater risk of heart attack alone, a pattern that was consistent across all subgroups.

The authors conclude that FL118 - based therapy may be beneficial for a subgroup of cancer patients with tumors such as chronic lymphocytic leukemia and melanomas, in which MdmX overexpression confers treatment resistance.

One of the most exciting recent advances in clinical cancer research was the discovery that this subgroup of patients respond — sometimes dramatically — to a new class of drugs targeting the MAPK pathway through which BRAF signals.

Star - shaped astrocytes are the most abundant subgroup of glial cells, which support and insulate neurons in the brain and spinal cord.

By January 2000, rising membership, which now includes men, forced the main group to split into several subgroups.

In every group there are four subgroups, each of which only responds to movements in a specific direction — to the right, left, upwards or downwards.

«We note that there are two subgroups of breast tumors by epigenome: one which we have called Epi - Basal, characterized by loss of epigenetic marks causing breakage of chromosomes and the other that we have called Epi - Luminal B, that presents epigenetic inactivation of genes that should protect us from cancer and these altered cells can no longer do it.»

He added: «The only positive and continuous result was in the subgroup of patients who took more exercise, which means regular exercise at least twice a week, plus the wine consumption.

The study involved a randomly selected subgroup of 413 racially and ethnically diverse postmenopausal women, ages 50 to 79, who were participants in the WHI estrogen - plus - progestin trial, which involved more than 16,500 women nationwide.

We sought to clarify the neural mechanism by which different tDCS montages improved WM performance in participant subgroups.

There were similar results across prespecified subgroups of patients including analyses of PD - L1 expression, which showed hazard ratios in favor of nivolumab.

A group at any level in the classificatory hierarchy, such as a family, is formed by combining a subgroup at the next lowest level (the genus, in this case) with the subgroup or subgroups with which it shares its most recent common ancestor.

«The use of 15 - mg / kg ATLG was associated with statistically improved event - free survival in the subgroups of children with acute leukemia or with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which represents the more frequent indication for an allograft in hematologic malignancies of childhood.»

Not all lung cancers are linked to ALK mutations, so the drug crizotinib, which inhibits the mutant enzyme, is prescribed only for that small subgroup of lung cancer patients.

Applying these strictures to modern animals is fairly straightforward, since these two characteristics are restricted only to members of the clade Ruminantia, which is the subgroup of even - toed hoofed mammals that includes the cattle, goats, sheep, antelopes, deer, pronghorn, mouse deer, giraffe (Zivotofsky 2000) and okapi (a clade is a taxonomic group whose members share a common ancestry; in this case it does not have a formal associated Linnaean level, such as family or order).