Sentences with phrase «younger than participants»

The 20 patients who did not enroll in the study were significantly younger than participants (mean, 29.8 vs 39.4 years; P <.003) but did not differ on any other measure.

Not exact matches

I'm thinking they'll have to go a lot younger than that — and hope their study participants are old enough to correctly read their survey forms.

More than 1,500 participants, including hundreds of young Jews, from across the United Statesand many other countries are expected to attend the Global...

The plan document requires that participants younger than 50 are required to invest their accounts in the Diversified Fund.

Mr. Andre Leu (President of IFOAM - International), Mr. Zhou Zejiang (President of IFOAM - Asia) and Mayor Na, Young Chan (holder of the Presidency of ALGOA) were among the VIPs as well as more than 100 participants.

While that's nice, the Yankees just care that they have something more than a warm body to support with their homers and large young sports participants.

Out there in the wings still is the huge army of young soccer players, more than eight million strong, according to an A.C. Nielsen survey, that far outnumbers the participants in any other team sport in the U.S.. You'll hear, of course, that these kids will grow up to be lawyers and then buy season tickets to baseball and football games.

However, noting that even their increased earnings barely took the participants» income above poverty level, the evaluators recommend that an early focus on education and training rather than on income - generation may be a more productive long - term strategy for these young men and their children (Spaulding et al, 2009).

The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.

Participants ages 18 to 29 were categorized as young; ages 30 to 60 as middle - aged; and older than 60 as old.

Study participants were younger, more educated, more affluent and fewer were Hispanic whites than in the U.S. population.

«Beauty and the Beasts,» page 24 «The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships: The Mating - Warring Association in Men,» by Lei Chang and colleagues, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, states that male participants primed by attractive faces or legs of young women were significantly faster in responding to images or words of war than those primed by unattractive faces or national flags.

They asked young and adult participants to search for numerical digits, a category of objects where school - entering children are more familiar first with their sounds than their shapes.

Consequently, the older participants were less able than the younger ones to solidify their memories of the word pairs.

About half of the study participants were younger than 1 year old when they were diagnosed with epilepsy.

However, younger participants were notably more upset by sexual infidelity than older participants.

However, new research by Kelli Canada, assistant professor in the University of Missouri School of Social Work, shows that although mental health court participants older than 50 adhere to treatment programs better than younger adults, they are just as likely to be reincarcerated or relapse into criminal behavior.

Backtracking into the data on these study participants, the researchers found that about 20 % of the relationship between credit scores and heart health was accounted for by the attitudes, behaviors and competencies displayed by the study members when they were younger than age 10.

Older test participants have a higher discrimination threshold than younger ones meaning their tactile acuity is worse.

There were no such effects, however, for participants who were younger than six or older than 20 when they experienced war.

More than 40 % of the participants are students and young researchers.

In a study that followed more than 13,000 young people from age 14 to age 20, researchers found that the prevalence of eating disorders in the male study participants rose from 1.2 % at age 14 to 2.9 % at age 20.

Researchers in Europe tracked the mental function of more than 7,000 British civil servants for a decade, and they found that even the youngest participants, who were between the ages of 45 and 49 at the outset, generally displayed slight yet measurable declines in short - term memory, mental reasoning, and verbal facility over the course of the study.

A 2008 study that followed a group of adolescent women with ADHD for five years found that the participants who had been treated with stimulants were nearly 75 % less likely to develop a substance - use disorder than those who were not, while other research has shown that the use of ADHD medication in young men reduces the risk of later substance - use disorders by 85 %.

The 2735 participants included in the present analysis were significantly younger than the 757 participants who had not provided a complete or plausible FFQ at baseline (median age: 65 y compared with 70 y), less likely to be current smokers (13.6 % compared with 17.4 %), and less likely to have diabetes (7.5 % compared with 9.7 %) or CVD (18.2 % compared with 24.9 %) at baseline; they were also less likely to die during the 13 - y follow - up of all causes (31 % compared with 52 %) and of inflammatory diseases (6 % compared with 10 %)(all P < 0.05).

Compared with the participants who consumed less than 10 % of calories from added sugar (same as in Q1), those who consumed above the thresholds of 10 % or 25 % of calories from added sugar were younger; more likely to be non-Hispanic black; less likely to be currently smoking; had lower levels of physical activity, total serum cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, HEI, American Heart Association healthy diet score, 44 and antihypertensive medication use; and had higher intake of sugar - sweetened beverages and prevalence of family history of CVD (Supplement [eTable 2]-RRB-.

In a recent report from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III, 8 higher protein intake was related to an increased risk for all - cause mortality among participants younger than 65 years.

Faced with broader opportunities to find dates through offline means, younger participants might then be more inclined than older adults to view those who «resort» to Internet dating as deviant.

Faced with broader opportunities to find dates through offline means, younger participants might be more inclined than older adults to view those who «resort» to Internet dating as deviant.

What is required, though, is that participants have a bachelor's degree and be younger than 35.

A new study that looked at a more than 20 - year - old program designed to build social and emotional skills in young children found a surprising outcome: Participants had a higher likelihood of voting later in life.

Early Childhood Milwaukee Public Library provides early literacy education for daycare providers and parents, resulting in more than 1,000 young participants who form critical reading connections and brain development during the first 1,000 days of life in Ready to Read early literacy programs for ages 0 — 5.

That strategy, which later came to be known as a «glidepath,» emphasized stock funds for younger participants and gradually shifted more of the portfolio into bond funds to reduce risk in later years, as preservation gradually becomes more important than growth.

For instance, a study examining the influence of implausible anchors found that participants who were asked if Gandhi was older or younger than 9 when he died estimated his age at death to be 50, whereas participants who were given the anchor age of 140 estimated his age as 67.

For example, among those not subject to automatic enrollment, 45 % of participants younger than 40 are full TDF users versus only 25 % of participants age 40 or older.

Because the ideal rivers for cave tubing are located deep in the jungle, many participants enjoy combining cave tubing with other complementary activities including zip lining through the canopy or spelunking one of the many sacred caves in the country, including ATM (Actun Tunichil Muknal) Cave that still hosts the complete skeletons of young children sacrificed to Maya gods more than 1,000 years ago.

As a participant rather than solely an observer, the photographer captured the community of the Young British Artists before they became household names.

Trecartin was included in the first New Museum Triennial in 2009, «Younger Than Jesus,» named for the cut - off age of its participants.

Even though we were much younger than many of the other participants, everyone valued our thoughts and opinions like we were adults.

In fact, the older readers, aged 66 - 77 years, were actually able to use the tablets better than younger participants.

Drivers ed in West Virginia is offered to teen drivers younger than the age of 18, who want to learn safe driving techniques and become better traffic participants.

Studies had to be published during or after 2000, involved 10 or more participants aged 12 years or younger with a diagnosis of ASD and could include studies with children younger than 2 who were at risk for ASD.

The rates of MDD and dysthymia were lower than those of a comparable study of adolescents (5.26 %), 1 but this study did not use concurrent parent assessments and the participants were younger.

This is in keeping with a cross-sectional study of Aboriginal children aged 14 or under living in Brisbane, which found more than half to have experienced a stressful life event in the last year.46 Living in a family that had experienced less than two stressful life events in the past year was associated with six times higher odds of good mental health among adolescents but was not significant in the final models for the cohort overall or among the younger participants specifically.

After parents (and 16 or 17 - year - old participants) signed an informed consent document and adolescents younger than 16 years assented to participate, the participants received either a standard psychosocial evaluation and standard disposition planning (AAU) or standard psychosocial evaluation, standard disposition planning plus a brief therapeutic intervention (TA).

Review: evidence - based psychotherapies are more effective than usual care for young people with psychopathology: effects are influenced by location of care and participant characteristics

A significant effect of age revealed that older participants were judged to express greater negative affect than young participants.

Comparisons within each age group revealed differences between the conditions: older participants showed less affect during both positive refocusing and expressive suppression conditions than they did in spontaneous expression, whereas younger participants showed less affect during the expressive suppression condition than they did in spontaneous expression and positive refocusing conditions.

Moreover, although the use of a community sample ensured a wider age range (18 to 65 years) and older average age (23 years) than are typically found in most (usually college) participant samples, the majority of participants in this study were still relatively young, with approximately 60 % falling in the 20 - 29 age range.

In particular, females and the younger participants seem to have a greater verbal self - concept than males and older participants.