Sentences with phrase «self study base»

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The study included over 200 employees at a variety of companies, and had participants self - report their performance on a daily basis.

But BresoDX, a self - administered home test for sleep apnea, developed by Toronto - based company Bresotec, is likely to complete the study portion of the process in early 2016.

A Stanford University study on rural water systems showed that workers with a stronger sense of psychological ownership have higher job satisfaction and organization - based self esteem.

Her argument is based on the work of Duke psychologist Patricia W. Linville, who studies «self - complexity.»

While the notion of self - awareness as a route to self - improvement can be traced as far back as 600 B.C., she says, it has been only in the past four decades or so that psychologists and others have truly studied it — and tried to understand it on a scientific basis.

The research team did a meta - analysis of 1472 studies, all of which were based on direct (not self - reported) measures of height.

Self - awareness, communication and faith - based study are three areas of importance to me.

Based on previous studies cited by these researchers, analytical thinking may «diminish the capacity for optimism and positive self - illusions that typify good mental health.»

My final conclusion, not based on studies, but based on my own body's ability to handle certain foods over years of personal dietary self - experiments is this: It's not wise to lump everyone together for guidelines.

As a part of the newly enacted membership process of the Alliance for Public Waldorf Education, Schools must do a self - study based upon the 7 Core Principles of the Alliance.

It makes sense that this study does not have much validity if the only women who participated in the study were those who agreed to document their experiences based out of their own interest (self - selection bias) rather than a random sample that covered a diverse range of experiences.

She helped her first son to leave high school in 10th grade to pursue a self - paced, interested - based course of study.

We fulfill this duty of parenting best when we engage in the hard work of self - inquiry and study / employ evidence - based parenting practices.

Effects of a mindfulness - based intervention on psychological distress, well - being, and maternal self - efficacy in breast - feeding mothers: results of a pilot study

Limitations of the study include that the study estimated exposure to pesticides based on women's self - reported intake combined with pesticide residue surveillance data rather than through direct measurement.

Wireless sensors could help scientists keep track of sleep patterns at home, instead of their having to rely on lab - based studies or self - reporting.

Among the women, who were mostly Catholic or Protestant, 17,028 attended more than once per week, 36,488 attended once per week, 14,548 attended less than once per week and 21,644 never attended based on self - reports at the study's 1996 baseline.

In addition, Rotheram - Borus, who was the study's first author, and colleagues found that having mentor mothers visit reduced alcohol use by mothers during pregnancy, based on self - reports by the mothers.

The October experiment was the latest of eight studies on Internet - based self - help for social phobia led by Nickolai Titov, director of the eCenter Clinic (www.ecentreclinic.net) at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.

The first study, published in the October 2010 issue of the Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, found that self - guided, Internet - based cognitive - behavior therapy (CBT) reduced social phobia symptoms in most of the participants.

As a follow - up to this study, our current grant from the NCI supports testing a tablet - based self - persuasion intervention to address the needs of different subpopulations at Parkland — adolescent girls and boys, Hispanics, and African - Americans,» said Dr. Tiro.

Nynke van der Laan of University Medical Centre Utrecht will replicate a study published in Science in 2009 that provided the first explanation for the neural basis of successful self - control in humans.

Study limitations included: Since no women were studied the results may not apply to them; results were self - reported, which could mean physical activity was over reported; results were based only on time outside of work and can't be applied to overall sedentary activity; and participants were members of comprehensive health plans, so results may not apply to men lacking health insurance.

Wilkinson noted that her study — which included individuals from ages 51 to 96 — differs from many others on the Great Recession because «financial strain» is a subjective measure that was based on self - reporting rather than on economic indicators.

«Our future field studies will focus on voluntary commitment devices in other health behaviors, such as gym exercise and smoking cessation, which can work in large - scale incentive programs and help people maintain self - control on an ongoing basis.»

«Short and long term effects of psychosocial therapy provided to persons after deliberate self - harm: a register - based, nationwide multicentre study using propensity score matching» was written by Annette Erlangsen, Bertel Dam Lind, Elizabeth A Stuart, Ping Qin, Elsebeth Stenager, Kim Juul Larsen, August Wang, Marianne Hvid, Ann Colleen Nielsen, Christian Møller Pedersen, Jan - Henrik Winsløv, Charlotte Langhoff, Charlotte Mühlmann and Merete Nordentoft.

The results should be interpreted with caution because the study relied on the participants» self - reporting what they ate and because participants consuming higher amounts of plant - based foods may be more health conscious in general.

In a 16 - year follow - up of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD (the «MTA»), they found that a combination of parent and self - reports plus a symptom threshold that is adjusted for adulthood (rather than based on traditional childhood definitions of ADHD) may be optimal.

«I think a lot of our success comes from delivering the intervention using home - based approaches and building up people's self - efficacy so that they rely on themselves,» said study lead author Wendy Demark - Wahnefried, PhD, RD, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center.

Most studies measured exposure to smoking retrospectively on the basis of self report, and definitions of smoking status were often not clear.

Our results are different from the results in the small case - control study by Deykin and MacMahon.15 They are also different from the results of Atladóttir and colleagues, 12 which were based on self - reported influenza infection data collected from women shortly after they became pregnant.

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of psychostimulant use in the French medical community and their motives.A population - based cross-sectional study using a self - administered online survey was done.A total of 1718 French students and physicians (mean age, 26.84 ± 7.19 years, 37.1 % men) were included.

Dr. Tracy Johnson is a life, career, study and self - protection coach, based in Bristol, England.

The study participants were evaluated based on their self - reported health, neuroticism, and behaviors like smoking, diet, exercise, and drinking as well as BMI, blood pressure, cognitive function, and more.

Identifying a group of central individuals using the method described in the study would provide a simple way of tracking and fighting epidemics, especially in self - contained settings such as college campuses and military bases, he says.

Many nutritional studies have the drawback of relying on self - reported consumption based on food questionnaires.

My final conclusion, not based on studies, but based on my own body's ability to handle certain foods over years of personal dietary self - experiments is this: It's not wise to lump everyone together for guidelines.

Jeremy's approach to manual therapy is informed by his studies of Ortho - Bionomy ®, an osteopathically - based system in which gentle movement stimulates the nervous system to self - correct difficult or painful movement patterns.

To take a specific case which will be a good example, you self identify as somewhat of an expert able to distinguish good studies from others and have concluded «The * only * diet proven to reverse heart disease is a low fat whole plant food based diet.

Montmorency tart cherry juice, compared to a placebo, was found to maintain greater functional performance, impact a key marker of inflammation and decrease self - reported muscle soreness among study participants following prolonged activity that mirrors the demands of field - based sports.

Given that the majority of evidence indicates that greater adherence leads to better outcomes, our study suggests that mHealth - based approaches to self - monitoring may enhance engagement and reduce the burdens commonly associated with other modes.

Physical health was defined as diabetes and cardiovascular disease (coronary heart disease and stroke, CVD) based on self - reports which were validated using the study clinical examination, Hospital Episode Statistics data, and by contacting general practitioners for confirmation when no other external source existed.

Although scholars working in a variety of academic disciplines have studied these earlier forms of mediated matchmaking (e.g., Ahuvia & Adelman, 1992; Lynn & Bolig, 1985; Woll, 1986; Woll & Cosby, 1987), current Internet dating services are substantively different from these incarnations due to their larger user base and more sophisticated self - presentation options.

In the postsecondary space, the Gates Foundation made a number of grants — both directly and through NGLC — to intriguing ventures with the potential to improve education dramatically, including some of my disruptive favorites: start - up MyCollege Foundation, which will establish a non-profit college that blends adaptive online learning solutions with other services at a low cost; University of the People, the world's first tuition - free, non-profit, online academic institution dedicated to opening access to higher education globally; New Charter University, a competency - based university that charges only $ 199 per month for students seeking a degree and for which NGLC will fund a research study of its online students and a comparative one of students enrolled in a blended - learning environment delivered through a partnership with the Community College of the District of Columbia; Southern New Hampshire University, which under its President Paul LeBlanc has already created an autonomous online division and will now pioneer the «Pathways Project,» which will offer a self - paced and student - centric associates degree; and MIT, which will use the funds to create a free prototype computer science online course for edX.

I measure student achievement with a composite of grade - point average (GPA) based on student self - reports of their most recent grades in English, math, history / social studies, and science.

But both studies, each of which is based on data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS), have a common shortcoming in that they depend solely on a self - reported measure of personal popularity.

In the year 2016, the focus remains on improving existing eLearning solutions by providing fun and interactive solutions based on the self - regulated study.

eLearning can offer effective instructional methods such as practicing with associated feedback, combining collaboration activities with the self - paced study, personalizing learning paths based on learners» needs, and using simulation and games.

Note that these self - reports are lower than transcript - based estimates since they are not cumulative over students» entire period of study, and because students don't always know which courses are remedial.

An assistant professor of education at the Rossier School, Immordino - Yang is an affective neuroscientist and human development psychologist who studies the neural, psychophysiological and psychological bases of social emotion, self - awareness and culture and their implications for development and schools.