Sentences with phrase «reading researchers at»

Reading researchers at the University of Virginia (UVA), in conjunction with the local school district, developed Book Buddies as one part of the district's goal to meet the needs of the growing number of children requiring supplemental literacy instruction (Invernizzi, Juel, & Rosemary, 1996; Invernizzi et al., 1997).

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His family history is part of the connect - the - dots Parker plays without end, reading late into the night, swimming in medical papers, diving into conversations with researchers of any stripe — discussing malarial vectors with Sir Richard Feachem at UCSF and checkpoint inhibitors with Jim Allison, a groundbreaking immunotherapy researcher at MD Anderson in Houston.

For Carlos Vargas - Silva, associate professor and senior researcher at the University of Oxford's Migration Observatory, the economic impact of migrants can be read in two ways: a fiscal impact — taxes and contributions that new arrivals will make, minus the benefits and services they receive — and the impact that they have on the labor market, which is essentially whether native workers will be displaced from their jobs or not.

Researchers at the University of Sussex found that reading is a more effective way to beat stress than listening to music or taking a walk.

Researchers at Emory University in Atlanta conducted functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scans of 21 undergraduate students all tasked with reading the novel Pompeii by Robert Harris.

Researchers at the New School for Social Research in New York have determined that reading literary fiction — books that have literary merit and don't fit into a genre — enhances what scientists call «Theory of Mind (ToM), or an ability to understand the mental states of others.

Researchers at Goldman Sachs took an interesting, deeper dive into... Read more

I await confirmation from the researchers at Think Progress, but I suspect that the religious right's obsession with morays in particular and eels in general, derives not from the canonical Book of Job but from the non-canonical early church writing, The Epistle of Barnabas, which in verse 10:5 reads:

«You may have heard about a quiz app built by a university researcher that leaked Facebook data of millions of people in 2014,» read the ad, which featured black text on a white background, with the Facebook logo at the bottom.

Hacked e-mails from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at England's University of East Anglia (UEA) showed that CRU researchers were defending the thesis that humans are causing global warming by suppressing contrary evidence... Continue Reading

Researchers at Texas A&M University have turned their attention to a very significant academic and scholarly pursuit: creating a paper called «Reading Religion in Internet Memes.»

I was reminded of this with particular poignancy a few days ago, when I read that the Japan Science and Technology Agency had awarded a grant of $ 3.4 million to a group of Japanese and American researchers in «evolutionary science and technology» for a project to be conducted at Monash University, the ultimate aim of which is to determine — based on models provided by Integrated Information Theory (IIT)-- whether it is possible to create «artificial consciousness.»

Now, governments in more than 20 countries around the world are taking action to reduce food waste, according to a new report from researchers at the Johns Hopkins... Read more»

Some time ago, I read about a study performed at a prestigious university — MIT, I think — in which the researchers invented a toy that had several «functions» built into it.

She read Daphna Oyserman, a multidisciplinary researcher at the University of Southern California who found that a student's level of motivation is highly dependent on her sense of her own identity as a student.

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania tested boxers and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters before and after sparring sessions or bouts using the King - Devick (K - D) test, a simple, two - minute test in which the athletes were shown a set of three index cards with a series of numbers scattered across eight lines and asked to read the numbers as quickly as possible without any errors from left to right.

Researchers found that autonomy - supporting parents were able to «read» their child's mood, provide feedback on their child's sports performance at the right time (which the child often invited), and maintain open two - way communication.

Dr.Sharron Bransburg - Zabary, an International Board Certified Lactation Consultant and researcher in the field of the immune system at Tel Aviv University, read and responded to the study.

Researchers at Ohio State University studied how often parents in the 1990s spanked their children, read to them and showed affection.

Researchers in this field can read the same papers, look at the same data, and come to different conclusions.

A recent study conducted by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation looked at differences in brain activity comparing the times children spent on screens (TV, smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers) versus reading a book.

Caroline Flint — born and currently lives in London, read American Literature and History combined with Film Studies at the University of East Anglia, spent 2 years in student politics, 8 years in local government and 3 years as a trade union researcher between University and Parliament

Researchers at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, reported this week in Nature on their struggle to get journals to correct mistakes in papers they had published; the researchers had discovered many of mistakes simply by reading thResearchers at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, reported this week in Nature on their struggle to get journals to correct mistakes in papers they had published; the researchers had discovered many of mistakes simply by reading thresearchers had discovered many of mistakes simply by reading the articles.

But for voyages on which the seafarers took sunstone readings at intervals of 3 hours or less, ships made landfall between 92 % and 100 % of the time, the researchers report today in Royal Society Open Science.

Lead researcher Sunny Consolvo, a computer scientist at Intel, read up on classic psychology theories before starting the project.

In 2010, Yaniv Erlich was leading a group of researchers at Whitehead Institute when he read about using pedigrees, essentially family trees, as a means to study genetics.

The sheer number of logs made it impossible for researchers to transcribe the data themselves, and computers are famously bad at reading human handwriting.

In some tests, a researcher read the storybook that showed two distinct pictures at a time.

The researchers believe that these higher readings may indicate excitement at seeing the animals, rather than any nervousness or apprehension.

In the study, researchers looked at 80 English - language educational materials that were designed to be printed and read by patients in the United States, Australia and the United Kingdom.

After reading Morrison's work, Siddaraju Boregowda, a stem cell researcher at the Scripps Research Institute in Jupiter, Florida, was reminded of genetically altered mice that don't gain body fat or develop diabetes, even when fed high - fat diets.

Reading e-mails, text messages and other information without having to get your mobile phone out of your pocket could soon be possible via technology being developed by researchers at Ulm University in Germany.

Jockers developed his techniques at Stanford University in California, where he worked with literature researcher Franco Moretti, who pioneered the use of automated large - scale analyses of digitised texts, a process he calls «distant reading».

In one compelling study researchers at Purdue University tested four reading strategies on 80 college students.

In the study, researchers examined brain scans of 38 kindergarteners as they were learning to read formally at school and tracked their white matter development until third grade.

In the scans at age 8, the researchers precisely defined the VWFA for each child by using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to measure brain activity as the children read.

At the same time, researchers will be testing the School Reform's positive effects on other academic skills, such as reading.

Researchers at Kessler Foundation and Rutgers University correlated neuroimaging data with reading deficits in patients with subacute left hemispheric stroke.

Researchers at the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center at McLean Hospital in Belmont, Massachusetts, only noticed the thaw — on 31 May — when they opened the freezer door; the temperature display still read -79 °C.

Researchers from the University of Birmingham and the University of Reading looked at the traits of over 17,000 children born in 1970, who were surveyed again aged 38.

Larry Hjelmeland, a blind researcher at the University of California, Davis, who studies the biology of eye ageing, says that Apple's latest operating system has made it much easier for him to read everything from e-mails to scientific papers.

Optometrist and lead researcher on the project, Associate Professor Scott Read who is the director of research at QUT's School of Optometry and Vision Science, said children need to spend more than an hour and preferably at least two hours a day outside to help prevent myopia from developing and progressing.

While parents use DVDs and other media in an attempt to teach their infants to read, these tools don't instill reading skills in babies, a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development has found.

But researchers at the briefing cited studies that are probing how a lack of «cognitive nurturing» — talking and reading to a child, for example — and sustained exposure to «toxic stress» set off a cascade of hormonal and neural responses far different than those in a child who is raised in a more secure, stimulating environment.

Great - ape watchers may have become accustomed to reading about habitat loss and population declines, and indeed, researchers have previously engaged in a range of site - specific efforts and landscape surveys aimed at assessing the decline of suitable environmental conditions for African great apes.

A program aimed at reducing behavior problems in order to boost academic achievement has improved performance in math and reading among low - income kindergartners and first graders, according to a study by researchers at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development.

Surprisingly, this is true even when the immigrants lack proficiency in English or French, which might be thought to hamper their ability to read prescription labels or instructions, said lead author Dr. Joel Ray, a physician and researcher at St. Michael's Hospital.

Researchers find that even at low levels, lead exposure is associated with lower reading and math scores in young children.

The researchers estimate that childhood lead levels at or above 5 micrograms per deciliter of blood accounted for as many as 25 percent of the children in the study failing reading and math standardized tests.

And hopes are raised even further when one reads that researchers at the American Red Cross in Bethesda, Maryland, have developed a sophisticated mixture of formamide, dimethyl sulphoxide and propylene glycol (the so - called «antifreeze» in the blend) with which it may soon be possible to preserve human organs outside the body almost indefinitely (Technology, 31 July).