Sentences with phrase «six cities study»

-- Dr. Douglas Dockery, Six Cities study, Dec. 9, 1993

The Six Cities Study showed that particulate matter in the air shortened lives.

On 1 August, the panel voted along party lines to approve a subpoena for raw data from the Harvard Six Cities Study and an American Cancer Society study known as «Cancer Prevention Study II.»

These didn't include raw data from either of the two major studies in question — one known as the Harvard Six Cities Study and the other by the American Cancer Society (ACS).

In 2013, the science committee subpoenaed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over communications related to a controversial study on the health effects of air pollution known as the Harvard Six Cities Study.

C. Arden Pope and Doug Dockery told a meeting of the American Lung Association in San Francisco last week that people in the most polluted of six cities they studied were 26 per cent more likely to die than those in the least - polluted city.

Not exact matches

The year 1993 saw the publication of an enormous study that followed over 8,000 adults for 15 years in six US cities.

Other research, like the Copenhagen City Heart Study, looked at healthy joggers and nonjoggers for more than a decade and determined that «the most favorable running regimen for reducing cardiovascular mortality» was six miles per week, broken down into three running days per week at a pace of seven miles per hour.

The National Institutes for Health also brought on six health - care groups in smaller cities to expand the study's reach and ensure a diverse roster of patients.

It is less than six miles from the second cheapest city in our study, Fitchburg, and less than 20 miles from the most affordable city, Gardner.

In 2014, the city and county joined with six nonprofit groups to form a Commission on Local Government Modernization, or Consensus, a 19 - member panel that is studying ways to streamline local government.

In a meeting at the Labor Temple on Third Street, both candidates said they wanted to reach an agreement, while also saying they supported efforts to contain health care insurance costs, including kick - starting the work of a six - year - old city committee that has been sporadically studying potential consolidation of health insurance coverage among the city's unionized workers.

In 1993, Harvard University scientists published a study in the New England Journal of Medicine looking at mortality rates among adults in six U.S. cities.

Critical care researchers from Intermountain Medical Center in Salt Lake City studied 616 patients who were treated for ARDS to determine what factors played the most significant role in their quality of life six months following discharge from the hospital.

The study, published in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, assessed the differences in preeclampsia and eclampsia rates among immigrants and native - born women in six high - immigration countries — Australia (Victoria), Canada (Ontario), Denmark, Sweden, Spain (Catalonia and Valencia) and the United States (California, New Jersey and New York City).

The study, «A Priority Health Index Identifies the Top Six Priority Risk and Related Factors for Non-communicable Diseases in Brazilian Cities,» recently was published in BMC Public Health, the journal of epidemiology and public health.

In reality, the effects of blanket news exposure isn't just a problem for children, says Houston, citing a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences last year finding that people outside Boston exposed to more than six hours a day of marathon bombing coverage experienced more stress than people within the city itself.

While Chicago is singled out in the study as one of the six cities with the most incidents from 1990 to 2013, Chicago schools are not any more dangerous than schools in other large cities.

The Harvard study tracked 8111 adults for about 15 years in six cities and took account of smoking habits, level of obesity, occupational risks and other variables.

The study, coordinated by the University of Granada, included a total of 3528 adolescents from southern Europe (four cities in Spain, Italy and Greece) and central - northern Europe (six cities).

The internationally - coordinated team of researchers who carried out the Behavioral Response Studies (BRS) in the Tongue of the Ocean, Bahamas in 2007 and 2008 recently presented six oral and poster presentations at the 18th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals in Quebec City, Canada.

The certification pathway that New York City teachers took to their classrooms seemed to have little relationship to how effective they were in raising students» scores, concludes a study that matched some 10,000 teachers with six years of test results.

The district also struggled to keep new principals on the job; a study of first - year principals in six cities hired in 2007 - 08 found that less than half of those in Baltimore — 41 percent — were on the job three years later, compared to 65 percent, on average (Figure 5).

A third report, Small High Schools at Work: A Case Study of Six Gates - Funded Schools in New York City, from the Academy for Educational Development, takes a close look a handful of these new small schools, focusing on particular practices associated with student success: intermediary support, personal and academic support, effective instructional practices, and college preparation.

In the next six weeks alone, each of our sixth - graders will be required to take 18 days of tests: 3 days of state English tests, 3 days of state math tests, 4 days of new city English and math benchmark tests, and 8 days of new English, math, social studies and science city tests to evaluate teacher performance.

Polikoff of the University of Southern California and Andrew Porter of the University of Pennsylvania looked at the value - added scores of 327 fourth - and eighth - grade mathematics and English language arts teachers across all six school districts included in the Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) study (New York City, Dallas, Denver, Charlotte - Mecklenburg, Memphis, and Hillsborough County, Florida).

This case study highlights three practices that were central to Creston Academy's success in consistently meeting the city's stated expectations and includes a six - step guide based off those essential practices to help leaders at other schools relate their own experiences of employing teacher leadership to those of Principal Pamela Edwards.

This study compared information about students at six inner - city elementary schools in the Bronx.

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Salaries in the oil towns can start at six figures and we found a healthy range of median incomes for the cities in our study.

Phase II: descriptive study of post-adoption retention in six shelters in three US cities http://www.americanhumane.org/petsmart-keeping-pets-phase-ii.pdf

Returning to New York in 1923, he finished high school and for the next six years studied at art schools in the city.

Earlier this year, Holten participated in a six - week research residency at A Studio in the Woods (ASITW) in New Orleans, during which time she studied the city's infrastructure, focusing specifically on the intersection of architecture and ecology.

The ceremony took place in Glasgow, which was chosen to host the ceremony after four of the previous six winners either came from or studied in the city.

When asked who has inspired him in his research and thinking about climate change and global warming, Roddy said: «I have been inspired by Mark Lynas» book «Six Degrees», the IPCC reports and supporting studies by Bill McKibben, Harte, and images of what future survivors cities might look like.

More than two decades later the Harvard Six - City Study of 1993 would remove serious grounds for doubting that roughly 1 percent of all deaths in the U.S. come from small - particle air pollution.

George Tselioudis, a climate scientist at NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies and Columbia University in New York City, was interested in which air currents were shifting clouds at high altitude — between about three and a half and six miles high — toward the poles.

The loss of forest area in the country has been a high six per cent between 1975 and 2005, according to a study by the city - based National Remote Sensing Centre (NRSC).

At Southwestern, we have also developed a variety of initiatives.21 One is a vehicle for me as dean to teach first - year students at the beginning and end of their six - credit legal writing course entitled LAWS (Legal Research, Analysis, Writing, and Skills).22 At the beginning, I present data from the After the J.D. study, which is a longitudinal study following close to 5,000 lawyers admitted to the bar in the year 2000.23 The project is headquartered at the American Bar Foundation and involves the NALP Foundation among others.24 We have data from three years and seven years and will soon collect a third wave of data.25 I do a PowerPoint presentation that shows our students what difference it makes in early careers where one attends law school; what city or region one chooses to begin the career; what law school grades are received; gender, race and ethnicity effects; earnings in various settings; and the job satisfaction of people in different positions.

It is less than six miles from the second cheapest city in our study, Fitchburg, and less than 20 miles from the most affordable city, Gardner.

In an attempt to further put Stockton's auto insurance into context, we also conducted a study on the auto insurance rates in the six nearby cities around Stockton.

A study by think tank Centre for Cities found that from all UK universities, 24 % of employed 2015 graduates were working in London within six months of graduating.

There is some evidence that children younger than nine months have negative consequences when their mothers work full time.9 In addition, there is some evidence from a six - city retrospective cohort study with cross-sectional surveys at urban medical centers, that terminating or reducing TANF benefits by sanctions, or decreasing benefits because of changes in income or expenses is associated with a greater probability that young children, under age three, will experience food insecurity and hospitalization.10

Tuning in to Kids is a six - session program that develops emotional intelligence, for parents who live, work or study in the City of Yarra and have children aged six to 10 years.

The study analyzed 15 in - depth, in - person, semi structured interviews with six participants between the ages of 18 and 29 from the city of Chicago.

This study identifies differences between the assessments of emotional regulation competence and ego - resiliency found through analyzing the rough and tumble play of two hundred and forty - six 5 year - old children at 8 kindergartens in G city.

A study of sales recorded on Propstats for the top cash - rich locations — the Atlantic Seaboard and City Bowl, Constantiaberg and Southern Suburbs and now also the Hout Bay, False Bay and Blouberg areas — for the six month period from October to the end of March 2016 shows that overall, as much as two thirds of all transactions have been cash.