Sentences with phrase «wide variation at»

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I was struck by his illustrations of the wide SES (socioeconomic status) variation between his previous and current districts; at his old district there was a need for parents to receive nutritional education but at his current district they serve sushi at football games.

In Scotland, where wide variations in surgical deliveries have been found between units, four evidence based recommendations have been prioritised: clinicians and women should regard trial of labour as the norm after a previous caesarean; offering external cephalic version to women at term if their baby is breech; monitoring and regularly reviewing caesarean data with support for staff; and one to one midwifery care for all women in labour.20 The National Childbirth Trust — a UK parents organisation — is concerned about medicalisation and erosion of midwifery skills and confidence.

He was co-author of a recent study that looked at the concussion education program for six Division 1 men's hockey teams — and that found a wide variation on what colleges were telling athletes.

Taken together, groups of Conservative - Labour marginals in my research have shown swings to Labour at a similar level to those in the national polls, but there are wide variations between seats with similar majorities: in the first round, published in May, I found swings to Labour of 8 % in Amber Valley and just 2 % in Morecambe & Lunesdale.

The report also demonstrates that wide variations in regional performance and output have occurred since the 2007 recession, indicating the need for careful, integrated policy making at a local, regional and national level.

«Identifying which of these candidate genes actually causes variation in responses to cold snaps will give us the potential to understand whether evolution to climate change can occur in both wild and domesticated animals, allowing us to better predict which species or breeds will be «winners» and «losers» and to better mitigate the effects of anthropogenic climate change on a wide range of organisms from beneficial pollinators to invasive pests,» said Theodore Morgan an associate professor of evolutionary genetics in the Division of Biology at Kansas State University and senior author of the study.

Using different calibration and filtering processes, the two researchers succeeded in combining a wide variety of available data from temperature measurements and climate archives in such a way that they were able to compare the reconstructed sea surface temperature variations at different locations around the globe on different time scales over a period of 7,000 years.

In «User Reviews Variance, Critic Reviews Variance, and Product Sales: An Exploration of Customer Breadth and Depth Effects,» Feng Wang of Hunan University, Xuefeng Liu of Loyola University Maryland, and Eric Fang of the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign teamed up to explore how sales fare when online shoppers find wide variation in product reviews.

«There is wide variation between colleges in binge drinking rates,» explained Toben F. Nelson, associate professor in the School of Public Health at the University of Minnesota, as well as corresponding author for the study.

«Given the wide variation in the transmission of the disease — endemic areas, areas of low endemicity, hyperendemic areas, and sometimes these strata all occurring in the same country — we prefer to look at each country separately without aggregates over the entire continent,» Buj says.

A «pill on a string» developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge could help doctors detect esophageal cancer — cancer of the gullet — at an early stage, helping them overcome the problem of wide variation between biopsies, suggests research published today in the journal Nature Genetics.

«Broadly what we found is that state laws and regulations, as well as consistent enforcement, were crucial factors in preventing childhood motor vehicles fatalities — evidenced by the wide variation in child fatalities by state,» said Dr. Faisal Qureshi, Associate Professor of Surgery at UT Southwestern and a pediatric surgeon at Children's Health ℠.

«We wanted to examine the influence of both environment and the learner on language, so we included children from a wide socio - economic range to look at variation in learning environments, and children with early brain injuries to study variation in learners,» said Goldin - Meadow.

Even when examining only one racial group at a time, the researchers found wide variation in donation rates across the nation's donor service areas: consent rates among Caucasian patients, for example, ranged from 72 to 92 percent across the 58 donor service areas.

The genome - wide association strategy may not be the best approach for identifying these remaining variations, says Justine Ellis, a geneticist at the University of Melbourne in Australia.

An estimated 2.6 million children worldwide were stillborn at 28 weeks or more in 2015, with the wide geographical variation in prevalence suggesting that most of these deaths were preventable, say the study authors.

«There is wide variation in the strength of T - cell immunity when people are first infected with the virus, ranging from very strong and sustained to none,» notes Dr. Walker, who also is a professor of pediatrics and molecular virology, immunology, and medical genetics at The Ohio State University.

The research team, following up on a previous genome - wide association study by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, investigated genetic variations in a protein called FBN - 1, which is essential for a strong arterial wall.

The researchers, including Cleveland - based David Serre and Peter Zimmerman, Didier Menard (Institut Pasteur - Cambodia) and Arsene Ratsimbasoa (Madagascar National Malaria Control Program) are the first to sequence the genome of the parasite Plasmodium vivax, taken from patients at coverage needed to verify genome - wide DNA sequence variation.

«This unusually large variation in brightness means that the object is highly elongated: about ten times as long as it is wide, with a complex, convoluted shape,» said Karen Meech, who works at the Institute for Astronomy in Hawaii, in a statement.

By utilizing paired genome - wide high - throughput DNA sequencing (DNA - seq) with RNA - seq, we found that gene dosage, at the level of individual genes or chromosomal «somy» (a general term covering disomy, trisomy, tetrasomy, etc.), accounted for greater than 85 % of total gene expression variation in genes with a 2-fold or greater change in expression.

FUN ADDITIONS: Once you feel confident with building and maintaining balance in the pose, play with variations in the arms (out wide, asymmetrical, Anjali Mudra at the heart, etc.) or adding a subtle backbend by lifting the heart upward.

There's a wide variation in skin tone among Latina women,» says dermatologist Marta I. Rendon, M.D., a clinical associate professor of dermatology at the University of Miami.

But at the same time, we continue to see wide variation in the average growth of low - SES students for any given level of high - SES student growth, or the reverse.

Hopefully, prompting from the guidance to look at the variation in disciplinary responses by schools within the district would encourage the local school board to voluntarily eliminate suspensions for attendance violations and adopt (district - wide) those responses already working well in its less racially isolated schools.

There is wide variation in careers advice given at independent schools, compared with state and academy schools, research reveals.

At present, when parents have the incentive of free school meals, there are already wide variations in the level of claiming eligibility.

Ben Durbin, head of impact at the NFER said the report «clearly showed» that there was «no single solution for all the RSCs», adding: «Instead they each have different and challenging roles that reflect a wide variation in the education landscape of the regions.»

We know that there is wide variation in classrooms, with students reading below, at, or beyond grade level.

The wide variation in performance among schools serving similar students suggests that the widespread application of best practices observed at the system level could close the gaps.

This wide variation may be especially challenging for the 40 % of students who eventually enroll in more than one community college campus, as they could be deemed college ready at one college but referred to remediation in another.

Under both the IASA and NCLB, each state wrote its own academic standards and developed its own tests, leading to wide variation in content and rigor.11 But with the global economy growing increasingly competitive and connected, two - thirds of jobs will require at least some college training by 2020.12 State leaders, acknowledging this economic reality, began to recognize that schools needed to expect more of students for them to succeed and that these expectations need not be dramatically different among states.13

Over time you'll still experience a wide variation in results among your holdings, but you'll find that at the worst of times, you won't lose much by holding a portfolio answering that description.

In short, the more you stick to tried - and - true indexes that track wide swaths of the market at a low cost and resist the temptation to invest in every new indexing variation some firm churns out, the less likely you'll end up «di - worse - ifying» rather than diversifying your portfolio.

Not all target - date providers have moved at the same pace, and there is still wide variation in the range of international exposures across TDFs.

The problem is that different breeds mature at different rates due to the wide range of variation between breeds.

«Diana at the Bath», 1922, oil on canvas, 98-1/2» x 69-3/8» Custom - made variation of c. 1930s American Modernist painting frame, wide reverse wave profile, water gilded and patinated palladium leaf on wood.

Each repeats the same scene and is annotated with a brief caption and diagrammatic markings, but variations appear as the artist moves between a wide and focused view of the house, sometimes presenting both at once, thus combining differing eastern and western perspectival orthodoxies.

There was a wide variation in estimates but the mean was around  # 19 / tonne global damage cost - so a $ 30 / tonne global price for avoiding CO2 seems a good minimum to start at.

Whatever wide - ranging coherence one finds at multi-decadal frequencies is more likely the result of global - scale variations in cloud - regulated thermalization of solar irradiance and the lagged advection of heat from the tropics by winds and ocean currents.

This wide variation is because Earth's moon has no atmosphere to hold in heat at night or prevent the surface from getting so hot during the day.

The authors observe that wide variations in rates of tectonic uplift and subsidence in different locations around the world at particular times mean no effective coastal management plan can rest upon speculative computer projections regarding an idealised future global sea level, such as those provided by the United Nations» Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Climate models produce natural variations of Atlantic SSTs due to MOC variations at a similar timescale as the AMO, but with a wide range of frequencies (50 — 130 years), compared to the AMO frequency of 50 - 70 years.

Most measures are snapshots taken at a single point in numbers that have naturally wide variation.

She's careful to note, however, that the wide variation in firm cultures plays a strong part in whether overbilling takes place at a particular partnership.

At roughly $ 500 in staff time (with wide variations based on the size and complexity of the deal) x 3,000 closings per year, this single project is saving the firm roughly $ 1.5 million in labor that can be allocated to other value - add projects.

The Gear Sport is a little smaller than the Gear S3 at 42.9 mm, and it features standard pins for 20 mm bands with a wide variety of colorful Nato watch straps in both traditional nylon and a hybrid rubber and leather variation.

If your company has a wide variation in work environments by department (workshop, office, warehouse, lab, etc.) show pictures of employees at work in each environment.

Based on the findings from wide - ranging studies of community variation (eg, why Aboriginal teen suicide and Aboriginal employment levels vary hugely from band to band; why seniors die during heat waves in some neighbourhoods and not others; why some watershed communities maintain sustainable agriculture over a millennium while others do not; why the United States biogenetic technology industry is now concentrated in only three places, compared with thirty areas a few decades ago) there is now a strong evidentiary base revealing common underlying characteristics of groups, at the nongovernmental level, that successfully address these challenges.

There was wide variation between urban, regional and remote sites but more variation at the site level.