such as when the teacher spends time teaching each one separately. Some universities sort students intocohortsbased on the year they first enrolled in order to better track graduation rates. The term can also be used in other ways, such as to refer to a group of students in the same progra...
We aim to estimate school value-added dynamically in time. Our principal motivation for doing so is to establish school effectiveness persistence while taking into account the temporal dependence that typically exists in school performance from one year to the next. We propose two methods of ...
Seven-year patterns in US cigar use epidemiology among young adults aged 18-25 years: a focus on race/ethnicity and brand. Am J Public Health. 2011;101(10):1955-1962. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2011.300209 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 18. Xie W, Kathuria H, Galiatsa...
The peak year in cigarette sales suggests that Germany will fall between the United States and France in the size of the disparities. The variation across countries in timing of the epidemic suggests another component of the diffusion process: The rate of change in the cycle may be faster for...
Depression, anxiety and loneliness are common among older patients. As a potential psychological buffer against these challenges, meaning in life (MIL) remains underexplored in longitudinal studies within this population. This study aims to examine the longitudinal relationship of MIL with depression, anx...
Drinkers were defined as participants who drank at least 12 alcohol drinks in any given year. History of CVD in the NHANES was based on the self-reported data of a previous diagnosis of congestive heart failure, coronary heart disease, angina pectoris, heart attack, or stroke. The CKD ...
There was no interaction between year of study at university and any outcome variable, and nor were there any differences between the four year groups at any time point for any variable (supplementary data 2). 3.3. Associations between changes in physical activity, sedentary behaviour, mental ...
BMI, age, frequency of antibiotics consumption in the last year, M01A, A06, and A02BC consumption in the last 3 months, gut emptying frequency, and stool characteristics (Bristol stool scale) were included as potential confounders in our analyses. Five women did not record data for age, 9 ...
Many novel metabolites associated with incident CHD, including N-acylamides, leucine, and lipid species, were replicated in a multiethnic cohort. Meaning This study found that African American individuals shared certain incident CHD-associated metabolites with individuals of other racial groups, although...
The two different Sample 2s were both recruited from campus B, one in 2015 and the other in 2020, but after the lockdown, meaning that comparisons between the two Sample 2s reflect the effect of the COVID-19 pandemic on the variables studied (see Table 1). From here on, in order to...