Sentences with phrase «group focused their discussions»

An association of artists, architects, critics and academics, the Group focused their discussions on technology and contemporary culture.

Not exact matches

Depending on what you plan to market and your budget, you can use formal focus groups (or simply host roundtable discussions with members of the target audience), employ online research or mall intercept studies, or distribute your product to a select group of users for testing.

He co-founded a group called BetterTO to organize discussions on issues facing the city — the first, held in March, focused on housing.

Professional market researchers generally divide their work into qualitative studies (interviews and focus groups, with free - flowing and open - ended discussions) and quantitative studies (usually surveys).

He was able to keep the discussion largely on the topics he likes to focus on, and he made a number of points that will resonate with progressives, not a small voting group in New York.

They're found by using keywords in the search section on social sites as well as in groups and discussion areas in your area of interest or focus.

Although focus group interviews are informal, you should have a list of questions to help you direct the discussion.

«What we've been able to do through these online focus groups, through the live chats, through the mobile video discussions, is get a visual of what people are really thinking.

During their discussion on what's top of mind for advisors, Randy Conner, president of Churchill Management Group, noted that given the market turmoil, a «hyper - focus» of advisors» business should be on acquiring clients and building on those relationships — new and current ones.

The quantitative research was complemented with focus group discussions with consumers from each country, conducted virtually.

Our personalised agenda of private investment meetings, structured networking and interactive discussion groups and keynote speeches provides an exclusive opportunity for attendees to focus on the best global opportunities in an immersive two day event.

In a statement, the healthcare services company focused on providing stem cell services, noted that it has been in discussion with its financial advisers with a view to a fundraising, in the absence of which the group is at risk of not being able to continue trading as a going concern.

Sara Sutton Fell led a competency workshop on «Mobilizing Your Remote Workforce» as well as a discussion group on Digital Changes in Society focused on Employment to an international group of leaders from corporate, nonprofit, NGO, and educational organizations.

I can happily report that discussions have come back to the ontological centrality of Christ, the meaning of the sexes focused upon the Virgin birth, and the immediate relationship of mind and matter, enough times to make a Faith Summer Session discussion group leader glow.

After finishing its discussion of a passage from the Hebrew Bible, the group began focusing on a passage from Matthew's Gospel in which Jesus instructs his questioners to «render unto Caesar what is Caesar's.»

Mostly focusing on the group aspect for the more direct and fulfilling fellowship it allows, but the discussion does tend to be oriented around the weekly message.

As the constructive image suggests, my first focus of method lies in small group discussion.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

When our sermon formation group returned to our discussion table after our role play and shared further insights from our earlier historical - critical homework, two further revelations came into focus for the sermon.

In addition, I trained three of these five to serve as leaders of what I called peer - led discussion groups (focus groups organized and led by teens for which I was not present) and then directed three more focus groups with parents of teens.

Market Research Group, «Report on» 700 Club» Finances and Direct Mail Focus Group Panel Discussions, Detroit, Michigan,» Southfield, 1978, p. S - 12.

Learning to learn has become the primary focus of my classroom work, and this focus is expressed in such methods as dividing large classes into rotating discussion groups; assigning shorter, more frequent written work that can be rewritten; structuring group oral examination experiences; and stressing the application of what is learned to other disciplines and life situations.

This philosophy should be emphasized at these points and others during growth groups: in the publicity inviting participation — for example, «This retreat will have a double purpose, to provide opportunities for us to enrich our own marriages and to discover our capacities to strengthen and encourage each other»; during the establishing of the group contract, near the beginning, when the discussion focuses on the nature of marriage growth; during the evaluation — for example, «How did we support and encourage each other's growth?»

Each guest will participate in group and one - to - one discussions focused on strengthening food writing skills and exploring individual food writing goals.

Nine focus group discussions (FGD) were conducted with adult consumers to explore what types of HEL are preferred and why.

Residents and target groups including food outlets were asked for their views via surveys focus groups and discussions.

The structure of the group is facilitated discussion around a focused topic each week.

The program consists of a 20 - week intensive lecture, film, and experiential series that will utilize a combination of classroom - like discussions, auditory and visual aids, and on - going focus - group interactions, as outlined below.

Qualitative findings from interviews and focus group discussions with labour ward staff imply that providers do not necessarily know women's preferences, and are hesitant in allowing women to be mobile because of concern over their safety and the restrictive ward environment.

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The focus groups aimed to establish the social context about breastfeeding support and enabled interactive discussions to take place among participants.

The fathers of the control group were also offered a face - to - face 40 - minute training session about child care, such as accident prevention and vaccination, but discussion was focused on the health benefits of breast milk rather than the management of breastfeeding.

«Message bank» development was based on literature review and in - depth interviews / focus group discussion with pregnant women, new mothers and healthcare providers.

Each group was narrowly focused but participants invariably shifted discussions to the state of the country and the changing political scene.

Mr. Boateng who was speaking at a focus group discussion on the «Post 2015 District Level Elections», organized by the NCCE with support from the European Union, to refresh the minds of participants on the country's decentralization concept, stressed that the issue was detrimental to the decentralization process of the country.

«Focus group discussions and individual interviews revealed that most of the people who surrendered were directly or indirectly associated with Boko Haram.»

The particular harm is that underlying «trend factors» built in to projections on year - to - year spending changes become a self - fulfilling base from which the discussion on the budget begins... for example, a change from $ 9 billion to $ 12 billion in actual proposed spending on a program area doesn't become the focus, if the «projected out - year» for that program had its expected growth going to $ 13.5 billion — instead of anaylyzing why there is 33 percent growth in that program, the interest groups and journalists cover that as a «cut» of $ 1.5 billion.

While the discussions surrounding the impacts of the planned rezoning have focused on housing, the participating groups raised awareness about the ramifications for local businesses.

Grey - Owens told Gay City News at that time that transgender advocates were already in discussions about forming a trans - focused advocacy group — with the ability to make political donations — to ensure that GENDA and other issues of specific concern to their community would be prioritized by Democratic legislators in Albany.

Those tied to the coalition tell the Daily News there were serious discussions about having the ads target New York State Senate co-leader Jeffrey Klein and his group of breakaway Democrats, known as the Independent Democratic Conference, but they backed off Sunday evening, deciding instead to focus on the entire Senate.

Researchers conducted 3,269 household surveys, more than 100 focus group discussions and open interviews about the economic, social and cultural losses incurred by a changing climate in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Gambia, Kenya, Micronesia, Mozambique and Nepal.

The initiative included independent focus and discussion groups organized by the committee and the Duke Administrative Women's Network to identify the causes for gender disparities in the workplace.

In focus groups, he found that many patients still weren't entirely clear on the implications of certain financial arrangements after hours of discussion, and he worries that even simple statements might not be understood or taken into account properly when patients are deciding whether or not to participate in a clinical trial.

After the morning session on surveys, the meeting split into two discussion groups, one group tackling how to start a postdoc association and then keep it going and the second group focusing on the needs of administrative postdoc offices and programs.

They used in - depth interviews and conducted focus group discussions to arrive at their results.

The researchers used focus groups comprising homeowners who answered questions and participated in discussions.

The influence of lobby groups on the current public and political discussion does not bode well that we can prevent or substantially decrease their influence in the near future, when they may call to focus on geoengineering instead of emission reduction strategies (rather than focus on both, but in reverse order).

Maren Monsen, Director of the Stanford Program in Bioethics in Film, will present a screening of her documentary film «Rare», which focuses on a rare genetic disorder, and discussion of the importance of patient advocacy groups and clinical trials process in the United States.

The conference will feature leading experts on a range of topics including the latest in dementia science and care, presentations by people with dementia and their care partners, discussions on prevention, diagnosis, engaging minority groups and a unique focus on how technology and innovation is shaping the future.

During the day - long meeting, technical presentations and break - out discussion groups will focus on standards, automation and logistics, bioprinting, and cell manufacturing and scale - up.