• To describe the methodology, sampling strategy and preliminary results for the Aston Eye Study (AES), a cross-sectional study to determine the prevalence of refractive error and its associated ocular biometry in a large multi-racial sample of school children from the metropolitan area of Birmingham, England. (nih.gov)
  • Preliminary cross-sectional data on 213 South Asian, 44 black African Caribbean and 70 white European children aged 6-7 years and 114 South Asian, 40 black African Caribbean and 115 white European children aged 12-13 years found myopia prevalence of 9.4% and 29.4% for the two age groups respectively. (nih.gov)
  • A more negative mean spherical equivalent refraction (SER) was observed in older children (-0.21 D vs +0.87 D). Ethnic differences in myopia prevalence are emerging with South Asian children having higher levels than white European children 36.8% vs 18.6% (for the older children). (nih.gov)
  • These differences were pronounced in the severity of cutaneous, peripheral vascular, and cardiopulmonary involvement for male patients, whereas an increased prevalence of sicca syndrome and a specific autoantibody profile characterized the female sex. (unict.it)
  • International studies suggest that fall risk is lower in Asians, although data are limited in U.S. This study examines racial/ethnic differences in fall prevalence among older U.S. women within a large integrated healthcare delivery system. (kaiserpermanente.org)
  • Our study aimed to determine chlamydia prevalence in adolescents aged 15-20 years in a high-incidence area in Norway, and to identify gender-specific early sexual behaviours associated with infection. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We detected significant gender differences in chlamydia prevalence and sexual behaviours, and accordingly differing independent risk factors for chlamydia infection. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to explore the differences between the prevalence and impact factors of adolescent dissociative symptoms (ADSs) by using sex-stratification during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. (nature.com)
  • Gender differences in the prevalence and impact factors of dissociative symptoms seem to be significant among adolescents. (nature.com)
  • The objective of this paper is to assess the difference in the prevalence of epicondylitis, rotator cuff syndrome, and low back pain among immigrant Latino poultry workers at plants of three different employers. (cdc.gov)
  • The study objectives were to investigate the prevalence of HAND and associated factors among treatment experienced adults in Ethiopia. (who.int)
  • The prevalence of HAND was 75.3% and the difference was significantly more in those above 40 years of age (65.8% vs. 80.7%, p=0.003). (who.int)
  • Neuroscientists have long held out hope that bigger studies and better methods would finally uncover the "real" or species-wide sex differences in the brain. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Methods Cross-sectional study in Ayacucho and Lima, Peru. (bmj.com)
  • Extreme difficulty in developing methods for cultivation of these ehrlichiae and, until recently, the lack of molecular approaches to the study of uncultivated organisms partly explain why these far from rare diseases were not detected sooner ( 3 - 5 ). (cdc.gov)
  • The course unit aims to increase students' awareness of the complexity of analysing the meanings of lexical items and complex expressions, of cross-linguistic differences, and of methods of analysis in the field of semantics. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • It comprises conceptual work, applied case studies and the development of methods. (ufz.de)
  • Leslie WD (2012) Clinical review: Ethnic differences in bone mass-clinical implications. (springer.com)
  • The AES will allow ethnic differences in the ocular characteristics of children from a large metropolitan area of the UK to be examined. (nih.gov)
  • The continuation of the AES will allow the early determinants of these ethnic differences to be studied. (nih.gov)
  • Ethnic differences in. (bmj.com)
  • To identify ethnic differences in the incidence of first ever stroke. (bmj.com)
  • Ethnic differences in genetic, physiological, and behavioural risk factors for stroke require further elucidation to aid development of effective strategies for stroke prevention in multi-ethnic communities. (bmj.com)
  • 11 The south London stroke register was established to investigate ethnic differences in the natural history of stroke. (bmj.com)
  • Future studies should examine cultural and behavioral factors that contribute to these observed racial/ethnic differences in fall risk among U.S. women. (kaiserpermanente.org)
  • For this cross-sectional analysis, we used the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging baseline data (2011-2015) of 22,091 randomly selected participants of Black, East Asian, South or Southeast Asian (SSEA) and White race/ethnic backgrounds, aged 45-85 years with available information on the presence or absence of self-reported prevalent low trauma fractures and femoral neck BMD (FNBMD) measurement. (springer.com)
  • A longitudinal study of Mexican-origin youth The first study associated factors like gender, nativity, and cultural values with the symptomatic expression of ADHD and other behavioral disorders in a community sample of 674 Mexican-origin youth. (chadd.org)
  • For example, a study conducted by Lowe, Mayfield, and Reynolds (2003) examined sex differences among children and adolescents on various short-term memory measures. (wikipedia.org)
  • This study included 1,279 children and adolescents, 637 males and 642 females, between the ages of 5 and 19. (wikipedia.org)
  • Cross-sectional study using data on statin prescribing by age, sex and patient postcode for the period May to December 2002. (nih.gov)
  • In this cross-sectional study that was conducted at Abu Dhabi health care centers, we invited outpatients aged 18 years or over, who completed a telemedicine visit during the COVID-19 pandemic, to participate in our study. (jmir.org)
  • Design, setting, and participants: A secondary analysis was completed of cross-sectional study data collected on 2082 adults with chronic HF from the United States, Australia and Thailand. (nyu.edu)
  • The Association of Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype with Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Sex Difference: A Cross-Sectional Study in an Urban Chinese Elderly Population. (bvsalud.org)
  • In a cross-sectional study , a total of 2102 participants aged 60-95 years were recruited and classified into four phenotypes normal waist-normal triglyceride (NWNT), normal waist-elevated triglycerides (NWET), elevated waist-normal triglycerides (EWNT), and HTGW. (bvsalud.org)
  • A cross sectional study in 57 subjects. (horiba.com)
  • This cross-sectional study used data from 6277 women ages 65-90 who responded to the 2008 or 2011 Kaiser Permanente Northern California Member Health Survey (KPNC-MHS). (kaiserpermanente.org)
  • A population based cross-sectional study was conducted among all high school students in five towns in Finnmark county in 2009, using a web-based questionnaire and real-time Chlamydia trachomatis PCR in first-void urine samples (participation rate 85%, 800 girls/818 boys, mean age 17.2 years). (biomedcentral.com)
  • A school-based, two-center cross-sectional study was conducted in Hangzhou City, China, between January 1, 2021 and April 30, 2022. (nature.com)
  • Data were collected from a cross-sectional study among 286 poultry processing workers. (cdc.gov)
  • Relationship, differences, and agreement between objective and subjective sleep measures in chronic spinal pain patients with comorbid insomnia: a cross-sectional study. (medscape.com)
  • Objective: The purpose of this study was to determine if there are cross-cultural gender differences in self-reported HF self-care and to describe gender differences in the determinants of HF self-care. (nyu.edu)
  • Limited number of studies had explored the determinants of emergency room (ER) utilization by elderly patients on a population-based level. (cdc.gov)
  • In this study we assessed demographic, clinical, and behavioral determinants of ER visits in the elderly population. (cdc.gov)
  • The regional differences remained statistically significant after adjustment with gender and age of the patients. (news-medical.net)
  • A systematic review of genome-wide association studies for pain, nociception, neuropathy, and pain treatment responses. (medscape.com)
  • The empirical study is conducted on the basis of statistical data for 30 OECD countries. (researchgate.net)
  • The next section includes the empirical study. (researchgate.net)
  • Hypotheses with close to 100 percent semantic truth value will never be part of any assumed empirical study. (bi.no)
  • Cauley JA (2011) Defining ethnic and racial differences in osteoporosis and fragility fractures. (springer.com)
  • Public health policy should be developed to enable better access to care, especially for the oldest people, considering that nearly one third of the participants in this study had unmet healthcare needs and almost half had unmet social care needs. (who.int)
  • This study was based on a cohort of 118 stable outpatients with schizophrenia. (elsevier.es)
  • Multimodal hypersensitivity derived from quantitative sensory testing predicts pelvic pain outcome: an observational cohort study. (medscape.com)
  • A longitudinal cohort study by Rodriguez et al found the 4-year incidence of musculoskeletal morbidities (such as osteoporosis, sarcopenia, osteoarthritis, and fractures) to be 82.4% in adults with traumatic spinal cord injury, compared with 47.5% in adults without such injury. (medscape.com)
  • Cross-Cultural Consumer Behaviour. (grin.com)
  • Although small and clinically insignificant gender differences were found in self-care maintenance, gender was not a determinant of any aspect of HF self-care in multivariate models. (nyu.edu)
  • This research attracts lots of attention because it's just so easy to try to link any particular brain finding to some gender difference in behavior. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • The purpose of this study was to examine the presence of distorted body weight perception among middle-aged Koreans and identify gender differences and other factors that contribute to a distorted body image regarding body weight. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Further research on distorted body weight perception is needed to gain understanding of the gender differences between middle-aged men and women in Korea. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Particularly, gender differences regarding body weight perception have been found at certain ages. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Prior studies did not have gender differences as the focus of their investigation, in particular with regard to having a distorted body image in middle-aged adults. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This journal is the official publication of the International Association for the Study of Pain and publishes original research on the nature, mechanisms and treatment of pain. (medscape.com)
  • ABSTRACT Molecular studies have been successfully applied in evaluating epidemiological linkages in tuberculosis. (who.int)
  • Conclusion: Several possible reasons for the cross- cultural differences in HRQOL are proposed. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Cross correlation is the correlation of one signal with a different signal. (answers.com)
  • A person believes cell phones cause cancer despite scientific studies finding no correlation between them. (answers.com)
  • There was no difference in the leukocyte differential count parameters between both hematology analyzers and had a significant positive correlation with the morphology of the peripheral blood smear and bone marrow aspiration. (horiba.com)
  • The method employed is mainly based on comparative analysis of selected statistical parameters, a hypothesis test for difference between means as well as correlation analysis. (researchgate.net)
  • The Netherlands and Chile were compared to identify to what extent differences between both cultures have an effect on what consumers value, and how this influences their preferences. (hva.nl)
  • In a complement to international studies of income differences, we investigate the extent to which quality-adjusted measures of human capital can explain within-country income differences. (repec.org)
  • This has led some researchers to propose that the endorsement of specific conspiracy theories depends to a large extent on individual differences in the general tendency to adopt such beliefs, that is, a general conspiracy mentality ( Imhoff and Bruder, in press ). (frontiersin.org)
  • This study aims to investigate the predictive power of social media corresponding to ground truth well-being data in a psychological way. (jmir.org)
  • The current consensus is that efficiency is at least as important as capital in explaining income differences. (nber.org)
  • Accounting for Cross-Country Income Differences," Handbook of Economic Growth, in: Philippe Aghion & Steven Durlauf (ed. (nber.org)
  • Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States ," IZA Discussion Papers 9130, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA). (repec.org)
  • Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States ," Economics Working Papers 15112, Hoover Institution, Stanford University. (repec.org)
  • Human Capital Quality and Aggregate Income Differences: Development Accounting for U.S. States ," CESifo Working Paper Series 5411, CESifo. (repec.org)
  • We present the Conspiracy Mentality Questionnaire (CMQ), an instrument designed to efficiently assess differences in the generic tendency to engage in conspiracist ideation within and across cultures. (frontiersin.org)
  • In Studies 2-4 (total N = 476), we report (re-)analyses of three datasets demonstrating the validity of the CMQ in student and working population samples in the UK and Germany. (frontiersin.org)
  • We describe differences in prevalent fracture and bone mineral density patterns in Canadians of different racial/ethnic backgrounds. (springer.com)
  • Moreover, studies have found that media use is linked to lower PWB [ 8 ], so it is essential in modern society to sense people's PWB in time so as to provide a targeted intervention. (jmir.org)
  • having a voice for my own healthcare simply hadn't crossed my mind. (cdc.gov)
  • The journal is oriented to the study of mental illnesses, their pathological processes, and their psychosocial consequences and aims to disseminate scientific advances in all fields related to illness and mental health. (elsevier.es)
  • Our study has positive implications for the use of social media to predict mental health in nonprofessional settings such as self-testing or a large-scale user study. (jmir.org)
  • This study targeted one aspect of positive mental health: psychological well-being (PWB). (jmir.org)
  • In recent studies, there was increasing recognition that the mental harm reduction of COVID-19 pandemic caused the consideration of potential impact factors 17 . (nature.com)
  • We therefore investigated a wide-ranging and well-characterized SSc series with the aim of identifying sex differences in disease expression, with a special focus on demographic, clinical, and serological characteristics. (unict.it)
  • Results: Controlling for socio-demographic and clinical characteristics, significant between-country differences were found in scores on the perceived impact of epilepsy scale, on seven of the eight SF-36 domains, and on the feelings of stigma scale. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • It answers the question "how much of the cross-country income variance can be attributed to differences in (physical and human) capital, and how much to differences in the efficiency with which capital is used? (nber.org)
  • But there's no denying the decades of actual data, which show that brain sex differences are tiny and swamped by the much greater variance in individuals' brain measures across the population. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Osteoporosis in persons with spinal cord injury was first studied in relation to calcium metabolism and the associated hypercalcemia and renal calculi that followed. (medscape.com)
  • The differences between osteoporosis induced by spinal cord injury and other causes of bone loss (disuse), such as prolonged bed rest, space travel, and lower motor neuron disorders, have since become clearer. (medscape.com)
  • The popularity and proliferation of social media make it possible to sense and monitor online users' PWB in a nonintrusive way, and the objective of this study is to test the effectiveness of using social media language expression as a predictor of PWB. (jmir.org)
  • In addition, we will look at how context contributes to the resolution of lexical and structural ambiguity and the reduction of vagueness Students will also be introduced to empirical approaches to the study of meaning. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • This approach will be compared with more cognitive approaches to the study of meaning such as prototype theory. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • What's more, recent research has utterly rejected the idea that the tiny difference in connectivity between left and right hemispheres actually explains any behavioral difference between men and women. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Nor do any of the alleged brain differences actually explain the familiar but modest differences in personality and abilities between men and women. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Materialism has been studied both as a personality trait and a value. (acrwebsite.org)
  • This study explored how the Big Five personality traits, as well as measures of personality disorders, are related to two different measures of conspiracy theories (CTs)The two measures correlated r = .58 and were applied to examine generalisability of findings. (bi.no)
  • We aimed to explore the differences in patients' perceptions of, and satisfaction with, telemedicine between hospital OPDs and community clinics during the COVID-19 pandemic. (jmir.org)
  • These findings are consistent with studies of intelligence with regards to pattern, females performing higher on certain verbal tasks and males performing higher on certain spatial tasks (Voyer, Voyer, & Saint-Aubin, 2016). (wikipedia.org)
  • Findings from ASPE-Funded Leavers Studies (Appendix B) . July 2001. (hhs.gov)
  • Diverted and Applicant Populations , Synthesis of Findings from ASPE Grants to States and Localities to Study Welfare Reform Outcomes . (hhs.gov)
  • Welcome to our complete catalogue of reports and studies (which includes backgrounders, policy briefs, full-length research reports and books). (policyalternatives.ca)
  • The objective of this research is to show the impact of cultural differences on the consumer value system. (hva.nl)
  • But as a neuroscientist long experienced in the field , I recently completed a painstaking analysis of 30 years of research on human brain sex differences . (neurosciencenews.com)
  • Small, early studies which found a significant sex difference were likelier to get published than research finding no male-female brain difference. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • On the other extreme, we are dismissed by women's health advocates , who believe research has overlooked women's brains - and that neuroscientists should intensify our search for sex differences to better treat female-dominant disorders, such as depression and Alzheimer's disease . (neurosciencenews.com)
  • This study emphasizes the need for further comprehensive research in order that the position of people with epilepsy in different countries be more thoroughly understood in the social context. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • In general, there is a lack of chlamydia studies in young adolescent boys as most research has focused on girls [ 5 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A new research published in BMJ Open studied the frequency of endoscopic sinus surgery performed due to chronic rhinosinusitis. (news-medical.net)
  • Mediators of the association between childhood trauma and pain sensitivity in adulthood: a Multidisciplinary Approach to the Study of Chronic Pelvic Pain Research Network analysis. (medscape.com)
  • A 2004 study published in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology found significantly higher male performance on four visuo-spatial working memory. (wikipedia.org)
  • A 2006 review and study on working memory published in the journal European Journal of Cognitive Psychology also found no sex differences in working memory processes except in a double-span task where females outperformed males. (wikipedia.org)
  • Prior studies have identified that decline in characterized by relative decrement in incidence of cognitive function of HIV + patients were strongly the severe form of HAND (i.e. (who.int)
  • The paper contributes to the literature on optimal retirement age as well as comparative studies on pension systems, including pension regimes typology. (researchgate.net)
  • comparative studies on pension systems, including pens ion regimes typology. (researchgate.net)
  • Except for the simple difference in size, there are no meaningful differences between men's and women's brain structure or activity that hold up across diverse populations. (neurosciencenews.com)
  • When overall size is properly controlled, no individual brain region varies by more than about 1% between men and women, and even these tiny differences are not found consistently across geographically or ethnically diverse populations . (neurosciencenews.com)
  • 1 - 3 A study in the United States showed a twofold increase in the incidence in one black population, 4 but no data are available on black populations in Europe. (bmj.com)
  • 7 8 Previous studies in black populations are difficult to interpret because of methodological inconsistencies. (bmj.com)
  • Assays of 58 strains originating from sediment resting stages revealed no difference in the average tolerance to copper between the two populations. (lu.se)
  • Kostelijk, E , Alsem, KJ & Anli, S 2017, The influence of cross-cultural differences on consumer values: a case study . (hva.nl)
  • Waning of vaccine-induced immunity plays a role, but antigenic differences between vaccine and mumps outbreak strains could also contribute to reduced vaccine effectiveness. (mdpi.com)
  • In the present study, sequences of 40 CD8 + T cell epitope candidates, including previously and newly identified, obtained from Jeryl-Lynn mumps vaccine strains were compared with genomes from 462 circulating MuV strains. (mdpi.com)
  • An experiment is designed to compare the differences in health outcomes between people who are visited in the hospital by therapy cats and people who are not. (answers.com)
  • Cross Validated is a question and answer site for people interested in statistics, machine learning, data analysis, data mining, and data visualization. (stackexchange.com)
  • Corporate Authors(s) : Australasian Diabetes Data Network (ADDN) Study Group, the Prospective Diabetes Follow-up Registry (DPV) initiative, Danish National Diabetes Registry (DanDiabKids), National Pediatric Diabetes Audit (NPDA), Region Marche Registry for Diabetes, Diabeter Diabetes Database, Slovenian Childhood Diabetes Registry, SEARCH for Diabetes in Youth Study Published Date : 12 2022 Source : Pediatr Diabetes. (cdc.gov)
  • By confirming the availability and stability of the linguistic prediction model, this study verified the predictability of social media corresponding to ground truth well-being data from the perspective of PWB. (jmir.org)
  • The study group performed a cross-sectional nationwide evaluation of Finnish register data of all CRS patients who underwent ESS in 2013-2015. (news-medical.net)
  • The strength of the current study was that it comprised a population-based nationwide design including all patients undergoing ESS in both public and private hospitals in Finland and information concerning the diagnoses, procedures performed, and individual level patient history data. (news-medical.net)
  • Our study indicates that outpatients with cancer are quite satisfied with the care they receive. (lu.se)
  • The ADSs seemed to be prevalent in Hangzhou City, studied during the COVID-19 pandemic. (nature.com)
  • Then the conceptual framework for pension regimes typology employed in the study is presented. (researchgate.net)
  • This course unit will provide an introduction to the conceptual, empirical and formal foundations of the study of meaning. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • The course covers the following areas: The Introduction situates the study of meaning within linguistics and introduces the conceptual foundations of the study of meaning, most notably the principle of compositionality, the distinction between object and meta language, and the relationship between language, the world, and the mind. (manchester.ac.uk)
  • Overview: Linear panel event studies are increasingly used to estimate and plot causal effects of changes in policies. (nber.org)
  • In order to further understand why depressive symptoms are associated with negative goal appraisals, the present study examined the genetic and environmental correlations and interactions between depressive symptoms and career-related goal appraisals. (cambridge.org)
  • Hence, it does for the cross-section what growth accounting does in the time series. (nber.org)
  • In two different studies researchers have found that women perform higher on verbal tasks and men perform higher on spatial tasks (Voyer, Voyer, & Saint-Aubin, 2016). (wikipedia.org)
  • Same results have been also found cross culturally. (wikipedia.org)
  • Another 2010 study published in the journal Brain and Cognition found a male advantage in spatial and object working memory on an n-back test but not for verbal working memory. (wikipedia.org)
  • However, they still found greater male spatial working memory in studies published in the journals Brain Cognition and Intelligence. (wikipedia.org)
  • Also, even though they found no sex differences in verbal working memory, researchers have found lower brain activity or thermodynamics in the prefrontal cortex of females which suggested greater neural efficiency and less effort for the same performance. (wikipedia.org)
  • Studies have found a greater female ability in episodic memory involving verbal or both verbal and visual-spatial tasks while a higher male ability that only involves complex visual-spatial episodic memory. (wikipedia.org)
  • For example, a study published in the journal Neuropsychology found that women perform at a higher level on most verbal episodic tasks and tasks involving some or little visual-spatial episodic memory. (wikipedia.org)
  • In this respect, national registries provide large and homogeneous patient cohorts for analytical studies. (unict.it)
  • This essay will show the important role that language plays in the production of cross-cultural identity as can be seen in the development of Yolanda. (grin.com)
  • Cross-Cultural Considerations in Chan. (grin.com)
  • Cross-cultural Negotiation: Ireland-G. (grin.com)
  • Cross-Cultural Management and Communi. (grin.com)
  • Cross-cultural studies in the light o. (grin.com)
  • Cross-Cultural Differences in Electro. (grin.com)
  • Cross Cultural Management in the 21st. (grin.com)
  • Multi-group confirmatory factor analysis demonstrated cross-cultural measurement equivalence of the CMQ items. (frontiersin.org)
  • Sex differences in value priorities: Cross- cultural and multimethod studies. (bvsalud.org)
  • Purpose: To examine between-country differences in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) of adults with epilepsy across a large number of European countries. (ncl.ac.uk)
  • Furthermore, to the results of the study can be used as a basis for developing various education, health mediation, and public health promotion interventions and programs to address body weight perception in middle-aged adults. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Factors associated with neurocognitive impairment in treatment experienced HIV+ adults from a tertiary care center in Ethiopia: A perspective study. (who.int)
  • The instrument could therefore be used to examine differences in conspiracy mentality between European, North American, and Middle Eastern cultures. (frontiersin.org)
  • After 2 years, emotional exhaustion remained lower at the check-ins clinic, but this difference was not significant. (cdc.gov)
  • Neurobiological studies indicated that active, early and effective identification and treatment interventions on early stressful adolescent experiences were very important for the prevention and treatment of adolescent dissociative disorder (ADD) 16 . (nature.com)
  • Experts set national targets to improve prescribing-essential to protecting patients and slowing the rise of antibiotic resistance On March 18, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) published a new study in JAMA Network Open showing that in 2015, more than half of antibiotics prescribed in U.S hospitals did not follow recommended prescribing practices. (cdc.gov)