Sentences with phrase «active study strategies»

Not exact matches

A 2013 study by Rick Ferri and Alex Benke actually showed that index investing outperformed similar active strategies anywhere from 80 - 90 % of the time.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.»

The increased socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding observed in the intervention group supports the argument that population intervention strategies could inadvertently exacerbate, rather than mitigate, socioeconomic inequalities, particularly when the intervention aims to change individual behaviours rather than targeting «upstream» structural changes.25 Our results are also compatible with an observational study from Brazil reporting that breastfeeding rates increased first among the socioeconomically better - off, followed by increases among the poor, over a 20 - year period of active breastfeeding promotion campaigns in Brazil.26

Studies to date have examined familial clustering of risk behaviors linked with accelerated weight gain in children, psychosocial consequences of obesity in children, parenting strategies that promote active lifestyles in children, and developmental and contextual factors that explain declines in adolescent girls» physical activity.

The principles and strategies in the Active Parenting program address the common risk factors that have been found in studies of abusive parents.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

McCallion's strategy to make sense of all this data looks at the active genes in cells affected by a disease, groups of genes that interact with one another, their vulnerability to mutation and information from past scientific studies to filter more than a thousand gene candidates for disease risk down to just a handful within any one implicated region.

The study is needed as prostate cancer treatment technologies have advanced, and as active surveillance has emerged as an important strategy for sparing low - risk prostate cancer patients unnecessary side effects.

The potential strategy — which targets metabolic pathways that are active only during intestinal inflammation — prevented or reduced inflammation in a mouse model of colitis while exerting no obvious effect in control animals with healthy, balanced bacterial populations, said Dr. Sebastian Winter, Assistant Professor of Microbiology and co-corresponding author of the study published online today in Nature.

... Finally, this study draws attention to the need for large controlled clinical trials to determine if a combination of fall prevention strategies and treatment with bone - active drugs might produce additive benefits on fractures, especially in high - risk populations such as those living in nursing homes.

Participants will reflect on their own instructional practice, examining existing units of study or planning new ones that integrate active learning strategies in their blended classrooms through posing challenge questions, problems, or scenarios in order to develop an authentic project - based learning environment.

If your study group has started a booklet of brain - compatible strategies, add examples of writing activities, mnemonics, and other active learning strategies.

Research shows that several active reading strategies can support students» comprehension and learning in social studies.

Strategic scaffolding is provided through explicit instruction in how to read various types of social studies texts and apply active reading strategies to support comprehension.

Participants study word - learning strategies and specific word instruction, and experience active ways to promote «word consciousness.»

Recommended Strategies: Intrinsic Provide constructive and consistent feedback Give choices, focus on interests Vary teaching styles to accommodate learning styles Provide for active and experiential learning (e.g., role plays, simulations, case studies, projects, internships) Use bibliotherapy and biographies Use mentorships and role models Adopt an education that is multicultural — culturally relevant and personally meaningful, an education that provides insight and self - understanding Have nurturing, affirming classrooms

Contributing to the active vs. passive management debate, this study of performance across Morningstar's allocation categories shows that active multi-asset managers outperformed passive strategies over time.

Certainly, an active implementation of a momentum strategy, which incorporates a careful study of liquidity, makes sense for some investors.

The project will be a joint affair between Qatar Airways, Qatar Science & Technology Park, and Qatar Petroleum: Based on feasibility studies on biomass - to - liquid jet fuel (think: second - generation biofuels) done by Seattle's Verno Systems, the trio have established the Qatar Advanced Biofuel Platform which will be active in the following areas developing: 1) an engineering and implementation plan for «economically viable and sustainable biofuel production»; 2) a biofuel investment strategy; 3) an advanced technology development program; 4) ongoing market and strategic analysis.

Good study strategies are active, not passive.

While this would also address a comment on the confusion of the term «eat well be active» because of multiple initiatives with that name, importantly this was a deliberate strategy by SA Health to create the sense of a common theme across a range of initiatives that included different activities and the confusion identified by Aboriginal workers in this study was an unintended consequence.

The study employed two active implementation strategies and one usual care control condition, the regular Western Australian Health Education Curriculum (Curriculum Council Western Australia, 2001).

Some of the previous studies examined the relationship between either burnout and coping strategies or burnout and the work's psychological demand, others more recent studies have argued the value of active coping or problem focused coping in a job strain context.

It is also possible that children with more severe ASD symptomatology or lower IQ, who were not included in the current study, would require even more active co-regulation strategies than reported here, because of children's lesser ability to take lead of the emotional discussion and their greater need for prompting and guidance from their parents.