Word: cohort
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...legal and not legal, what’s advisable and not advisable, in terms of how faculty and students interact,” Marine said.Putnam’s retrospective echoed a similar sentiment. “The women who are coming back to celebrate their 25th represent that cohort in American life as we were moving from one oldermale-dominated world into a world that is more gender-blind,” Putnam said.—Staff writer Edward-Michael Dussom can be reached at emdussom@fas.harvard.edu—Staff writer Danielle J. Kolin can be reached...
...cohort study enrolls a defined population and follows them over time. Besides the aforementioned lifestyle choices, participants may also be asked about environmental and occupational exposures, mental health, social relationships, living conditions, and economic circumstances. Biological samples such as blood, saliva, urine, and nail clippings can be collected to measure toxins, hormone levels, or genes. These observations over time allow for an in depth understanding of the reasons for health and risks for disease. A great advantage of cohort studies is that they enable scientists to study multiple diseases (for example heart diseases, cancer, stroke) and multiple risk factors (diet...
...Nurses’ Health Study, which has studied lifestyle factors of 121,700 female nurses for 33 years, down to what they drink and eat, how much they exercise or smoke, and detailing their family and reproductive histories exist. Harvard, with its unmatched experience in this and other large cohort studies, is uniquely placed to share this knowledge with African colleagues, and to jointly learn from them...
...Noah was an early patient of Lovaas', yet the success that Lovaas would have with some of the autistic children he worked with eluded Noah, who remained among the lowest-functioning cohort - nonverbal, unable to dress himself, not toilet-trained until he was 5. Lovaas soon told my parents that he had gone as far as he could with Noah, that he was now focusing on younger children. (I have since heard of numerous children who also, as one parent I know put it, "flunked" Lovaas.) It was an early disappointment but only a precursor of so many to follow...
...that Rosza last entered Bolivia in early September of last year. That's also when Rosza's regular broadcasting of his life via his half-dozen personal blogs comes to an abrupt end. He appears only in the online photo album of Michael Dwyer, Rosza's supposed Irish-born cohort who was killed in the hotel room next to Rosza's last Thursday. The photo shows him enjoying Carnival festivities in late February...