Sentences with phrase «background studies on»

There's also a background study on the whole Alien versus Predator phenomenon as well as a 16 - page teaser for the upcoming AVP graphic novel.

So, make sure to take up a background study on the company so that you can explain confidently how will fit in the structure.

Here's my advice: If you find an announcement that seems right for your qualifications, do some background study on the announcement or office.

adoption service (s)(in intercountry adoption) The six major services provided by adoption service providers: (1) Identifying a child for adoption and arranging an adoption; (2) Securing the necessary consent to termination of parental rights and to adoption; (3) Performing a background study on a child or a home study on a prospective adoptive parent (s), and reporting on such a study; (4) Making nonjudicial determinations of the best interests of a child and the appropriateness of an adoptive placement for the child; (5) Monitoring a case after a child has been placed with prospective adoptive parent (s) until final adoption; or (6) When necessary because of a disruption before final adoption, assuming custody and providing (including facilitating the provision of) child care or any other social service pending an alternative placement.

Performing a background study on a child or a home study on a prospective adoptive parent (s), and reporting on such a study

Not exact matches

Law professor James Kwok, for instance, recently cautioned on this blog that, while a humanities degree from a top - tier school often opens doors, if you don't come from the sort of background that allows you to study at an elite institution and undertake a few prestigious (probably unpaid) internships, then the calculus rapidly becomes much more difficult.

We luxuriated in an uber - comfortable king - size bed and took reading breaks on couches in the nearby study as a water fountain babbled peacefully in the background.

(poetsandquants.com)-- After what it said was a multi-year study, Wharton faculty voted on Friday to overwhelmingly approve revisions to an MBA program that will offer students greater customization and flexibility based on their backgrounds and experience.

I spent five years studying 177 self - made millionaires Rich Habits Study — Background on Methodology and I have to say, they are among the most courageous, fearless individuals I have ever met.

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

«We need more security, we need more firearms on campus, we need better background checks, and we need to study more on mental health.»

There are number of alternatives that are discussed in [the SEC staff study on accredited investors] that are being considered as, again, proxies for sophistication and being able to fend for yourself depending on your background, your professional qualifications, how much you have been involved in investing.»

A more recent study is even more striking: «The achievement of students in Catholic high schools was less dependent on family background and personal circumstances than was true in the public schools.»

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

For example, a study on Celtic Christianity includes historical background but also suggests a broad lesson:» «I don't understand you» can become «How can I learn from you?»

Another is the study of the social background and situation of the members composing the group, these factors having a bearing on its nature and structure particularly in the case of transitory phenomena (meeting, festival).

So again, even if we were doing a «Historical - cultural background» study on our very own day and our very own culture, it is impossible to give a blanket statement and say, «Well, in the 21st century, Christians believe that...» Whatever you put there, some Christians will believe it, and some won't.

One source that really provided some background details for my study was a series of blog posts by Ron Goetz on gays and lesbians in Luke.

You might be interested in this online commentary «Putting God on Trial: The Biblical Book of Job» (http://www.bookofjob.org) as supplementary or background material for your study of the Book of Job.

Kenneth Bailey is one of the leading scholars in the world on cultural background studies of, and his books on Jesus and the parables have been extremely helpful in my own research of Scripture.

it COMMUNICATES ideas... to read the SCRIPTURES in context does NOT limit itself to the Bible ALONE... one needs to study JEWISH CULTURES... the Bible does not contain every piece of informaiton on the Jewish culture (The Jews already knew their own culture) nor does any ONE Book... get the background, the culture..

Thanks for your civility and thoughtfulness, for shedding new light on things I thought I'd already figured out, for opening cans of worms that often made the discussions much more interesting than my original posts, for listening to my occasional rants, and for bringing your own unique backgrounds, studies, experiences, and links to the conversations.

Finally, there are still others who rule out the possibility of religio - scientific approach to the study of religions on the grounds that each investigator is incurably conditioned by his own religious and cultural background.

Background: A health care professional recently sent out a mass email with a link to the aforementioned study abstract on PubMed.

Based on the preliminary positive results of Fibregum, Nexira also has conducted a new study to reinforce and demonstrate all the scientific background of Fibregum as a new natural alternative to protect the gut barrier.

There was a study done at the time on successful ADs and the numbers with any background in management or even as an assistant ADs was so small it couldn't have stood out more.

I would love to see a study with a matched control group... that is, a group with equal risk factors (education level, socioeconomic background, etc.)... that looked at breastfeeding and its effect on neglect.

First, a little background on the study, Outcomes of planned home birth with registered midwife versus planned hospital birth with midwife or physician.

We are supposed to believe that obstetricians (with 8 years of higher education, extensive study of science and statistics, and four additional years of hands on experience caring for pregnant women), the people who actually DO the research that represents the corpus of scientific evidence, are ignoring their own findings while NCB advocates (generally high school graduates with no background in college science or statistics, let alone advanced study of these subjects, and limited experience of caring for pregnant women), the people who NEVER do scientific research, are assiduously scouring the scientific literature, reading the main obstetric journals each month, and changing their practice based on the latest scientific evidence.

The background information on the study is both sobering:

Where background rates of «ever breastfed» were not reported, we have used either rates published in the WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding (www.who.int/nutrition/databases/infantfeeding/countries/en/index; accessed July 2016), or those published in the supplementary material to Victora 2016, and for the two studies from Scotland (Hoddinott 2009; Muirhead 2006), we used www.isdscotlandarchive.scot.nhs.uk/isd/1914 (accessed November 2016).

The Effect of Skin - to - Skin Contact (Kangaroo Care) Shortly After Birth on the Neurobehavioral Responses of the Term Newborn: A Randomized, Controlled Trial Sari Goldstein Ferber and Imad R. Makhoul Pediatrics 2004; 113; 858 - 865 - DOI: 10.1542 / peds.113.4.858 This information is current as of March 25, 2007 The original version of this article, along with updated information and services, is located at: http://www.pediatrics.org/cgi/content/full/113/4/858 Background: The method of skin - to - skin contact (kangaroo care [KC]-RRB- has shown physiologic, cognitive, and emotional gains for preterm infants; however, KC has not been studied adequately in term newborns.

The current British Election Study has collected data from about 4,000 Scots on a variety of political issues — one of which is Scottish independence — and also includes a large amount of background information, including each respondent's placement on the «Big Five» personality dimensions.

The project is studying the records of East European and German migration to the United States in the 19th and 20th centuries, data on the backgrounds of returning migrants who took political positions in post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe, and quantitative and qualitative data on contemporary Polish and Ukrainian migrants.

Kenyans who have a strong undergraduate background and have not yet gone on to do a PhD and are interested in studying at Oxford University should apply.

Interestingly, Carol's background was in TV ad targeting based on set - top box data, not politics, and she and her team bought television time in a way that future campaigns should study.

While the media has reported on the air quality studies, the trial and community concerns, the stories of individuals and their families have, for the most part, remained in the background.

Spurred by Trump's announcement in September that he planned to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, members of the chamber wrote a letter to the Florida congressional delegation urging them to «quickly find a legislative solution before the program expires»... «Without a legislative solution, 800,000 DACA recipients will lose their ability to work and legally study, and it will leave many Florida employers, workers and students without certainty,» the chamber's CEO Mark Wilson wrote in the letter... «The Florida Chamber supports an earned pathway to citizenship for immigrants that pass criminal background checks as well as supports policies that reduce illegal immigration and improve on border security.»

The study provides evidence that patients of various ethnicities and religious backgrounds will be seeking information from their physicians on the issue, many of them at what may be the most vulnerable time in their lives, she said.

While other studies have examined the tanning habits of college students, no study has examined the availability of tanning salons on or near college campuses, according to background information in the study.

In the study, published in the Journal of Children and Media, parents of toddlers aged 12, 24, and 36 months were observed interacting with their children while they played during a 60 minute session, with a TV program on in the background for half of that time.

Author of the study, Tiffany A. Pempek, comments «Our new results, along with past research finding negative effects of background TV on young children's play and parent - child interaction, provide evidence that adult - directed TV content should be avoided for infants and toddlers whenever possible.

By using pairs of sisters who spent differing amounts of time living with their fathers, the study was able to control for inherited genes and environmental conditions, such as socioeconomic status or religious background, to isolate the effects of fathering quality on daughters.

A US study from 2011 showed high levels of methane in water wells close to shale gas wells, but has been criticised for lacking data on levels of background natural methane in the water.

So I clicked on it: «Because genetic association studies are generally performed in populations of a particular ethnic background [European, Asian, African], we can not know whether the associations will also apply to those of a mixed background.

A proof - of - concept study finds that it is possible to identify an individual's ancestral background based on his or her fingerprint characteristics — a discovery with significant applications for law enforcement and anthropological research.

«The current study provides support for the interpretation of the previous study because the kids who chose to go on differed from those who did not in background and musical self - concept, but not in terms of ability,» Demorest said.

The ANES collects data on Americans» social backgrounds, political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, and other issues, according to the ICPSR, a data archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences where the studies are accessible.

Once in space, the two will go their separate ways: Planck to study in detail the cosmic microwave background, and Herschel to spy on the cool gas and dust clouds that are the nurseries of stars and galaxies.

New studies of what these infants hear and don't hear during their weeks in the hospital suggests that some may be missing out on the positive impact of a mother's voice and heartbeat, and are instead training their brains to prioritize background noise over human voices, said Amir Lahav, an assistant professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School.