Sentences with phrase «u.s. research quality»

While the federal component of research funding remains federal, state budget cuts threaten U.S. research quality, educators say.

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The discount sector, both in Canada and the U.S., has benefited from a more spendthrift consumer, adds Izabel Flis, a research analyst with Bissett Investment Management, but the stores have also been able to sell quality goods at below average prices.

On Tuesday, UBS Global Research analysts Jeremy Metz and Russ Nussbaum published research notes focused on the bevy of recent activity in U.S. institutional quality industrial and warehouse properties so far thResearch analysts Jeremy Metz and Russ Nussbaum published research notes focused on the bevy of recent activity in U.S. institutional quality industrial and warehouse properties so far thresearch notes focused on the bevy of recent activity in U.S. institutional quality industrial and warehouse properties so far this year.

Like Rebecca says, link builders from India typically work for wages that are * much * lower than those charged by their colleagues in Western Europe and the U.S., so there is * very * little incentive for them to do serious research and provide top quality work...

Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), the largest proxy advisory firm in the U.S., acquired research firm EVA Dimensions last month to improve the quality of the fundamental research it gives to its clients.

American Wine Consumers Overwhelmingly Prefer Cork Closures The Portuguese Cork Association and the California - based Cork Quality Council announced results from a joint study conducted by U.S. wine market research company, Wine Opinions...

Our research shows significant potential to attract U.S. consumers looking for a vodka with excellent quality and origin credentials at an affordable price, and with Crillon Importers under the leadership of Michel Roux, we have found the right route to market for the brand.»

Meta - analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety of research activities, many of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two - year follow - up of the Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy of home visitation programs with new parents.

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

As a possible guide for parental quality benchmarking, P&G research finds U.S. babies get their diapers changed on average 6.3 times daily.

Economists in the U.S. now largely agree that productivity and economic growth are dependent on the quality of human capital, the penetration of technology, the degree to which an economy fosters innovation and an economy's ability to translate basic research and development into commercial enterprises.

AHRQ, an agency of the Department of Health and Human Services, is responsible for improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S. Chesley's office oversees much of AHRQ's external research awarded through grants and small - business contracts.

Today, about 53,000 people in the U.S. have shoulder replacement surgery each year, according to the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

The authors contend that the Parkinson's community must come together and focus its activism in support of: developing a better understand the environmental, genetic, and behavioral causes and risk factors for Parkinson's to help prevent its onset; increasing access to care — an estimated 40 percent of people with the disease in both the U.S. and Europe do not see a neurologist and the number is far greater in developing nations; advocating for increases in research funding for the disease; and lowering the cost of treatments — many patients in low - income countries do not have access to drugs that are both lifesaving and improve quality of life.

In reality, «substantially more scientists and engineers graduate from U.S. universities than can find attractive career openings in the U.S. work force [and] the postdoc population, which has grown very rapidly in U.S. universities and is recruited increasingly from abroad, looks more like a pool of low - cost research lab workers with limited career prospects than a high - quality training program for soon - to - be academic researchers,» he continued.

And she scoffs at the idea that high - quality research is found only in the U.S. «The quality of research, laboratory facilities, and scientists that I have encountered outside of the United States are at least as good as what is available here,» she says.

Top - ranked programs attract more funding as well as high - quality faculty and students, while «low rankings can shrink or even kill off a program,» notes Vanderbilt University historian Hugh Graham, author of a well - regarded 1997 book on the history of U.S. research universities.

Into the Eye of the Storm: Assessing the Evidence on Science and Engineering Education, Quality, and Workforce Demand, released in October by the Urban Institute (UI), a policy - research organization in Washington, D.C., retains the U.S. National Academy of Sciences» report's meteorological metaphor but rejects its analysis and conclusions.

U.S. institutions, in particular, are very conscious of research funding statistics as a benchmark for judging the quality of research.

These qualities recently attracted the interest of the U.S. Army, which is researching wool's potential in clothing designed to protect combat troops from explosive blasts.

Fulbright scholar Muthiah Muruganandam, left, a senior scientist at the Indian Council of Agricultural Research Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, and fisheries biologist Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit, will examine how land - use changes affect water quality and fisheries resources in northeastern South Dakota lakes.

Examining how land - use changes may affect water quality and fisheries resources in lakes and rivers will help natural resource agencies manage wildlife populations, according to Steven Chipps, leader of the U.S. Geological Survey, South Dakota Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Research Unit at South Dakota State University.

An interdisciplinary team of scientists at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has uncovered a direct link between sample quality and the degree of valley polarization in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).

In addition, AHRQ funds annual reports on the quality of U.S. health care, supports training of health services researchers, and works to disseminate research findings on best treatments.

Although life in the U.S. is more expensive, «in Italy, the biggest problems are not in the quality of the research, but in the infrastructure that is made available.»

In 2001, the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) followed, rating this the second most relevant practice for improving patient safety, and a year later the American Heart Association (AHA) / American College of Cardiology (ACC) called for wider preoperative Beta - blocker use.

«The video surveys from this research mission verified the extent of rocky habitat estimated from sonar data collected several years ago, and the quality of rocky habitat in some areas exceeded expectations,» said Guy Cochrane, a U.S. Geological Survey geophysicist.

Methods: The team of scientists performed 17 research flights using the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) Gulfstream - 1 aircraft during the 2002 New England Air Quality Study field campaign.

The mission of the NPA is to advance the U.S. research enterprise by maximizing the effectiveness of the research community and enhancing the quality of the postdoctoral experience for all participants.

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has created a registry for evidence - based treatments that rates the quality of research supporting the treatment on a 0 — 4 scale, and some insurance companies and state health - care systems (such as the one in Oregon) have altered their reimbursement policies to favor evidence - based therapies.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality Planning and Standards and Office of Research and Development.

Dr. Kris - Etherton stated that a report on «Effects of Omega - 3 Fatty Acids on Cardiovascular Risk Factors and CVD» is pending from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

In honor of Made in America Month, we did some research and talked to some experts to learn more about the growing Slow Fashion movement in the U.S. Read on to find out what it is, plus 10 brands doing it well, keeping their production local, sustainable, high - quality, and... slow.

This year the list is topped by four major research pieces: an analysis of how U.S. students from highly educated families perform compare with similarly advantaged students from other countries; a study investigating what students gain when they are taken on field trips to see high - quality theater performances; a study of teacher evaluation systems in four urban school districts that identifies strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation systems; and the results of Education Next's annual survey of public opinion on education.

The Project on the Next Generation of Teachers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education is a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public schools.

This research is part of the Project on the Next Generation of Teachers, a multi-year research project addressing critical questions about the future of our nation's teaching force by studying how best to attract, support, and retain quality teachers in U.S. public schools.

In the U.S. higher education system, higher spending by institutions is often associated with greater quality, and research also shows that higher spending leads to more degree attainment, particularly at less selective institutions.

More than one - third of all U.S. children under the age of five are cared for outside of their homes by individuals not related to them.1 Research on early childhood education shows that high - quality child care experiences support the development of social and academic skills that facilitate children's later success in school.

Yet despite volumes of policy guidance, on - the - ground effort and research over the past decades, few comprehensive and representative portraits of teacher and teaching quality in U.S. mathematics classrooms exist.

Before joining Education Northwest, Fleischman was a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he created and led a number of U.S. Department of Education - funded school improvement projects such as the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, the Supplemental Educational Services Quality Center, and the Scientific Evidence in Education Forums.

The U.S. Department of Education should fund research and pilot demonstration programs that will provide empirical evidence of how effective different kinds of teacher tenure policies are on raising teacher quality and student achievement

Before joining Education Northwest in 2009, Fleischman was a vice president at the American Institutes for Research (AIR), where he created and led a number of U.S. Department of Education — funded school improvement projects such as the Comprehensive School Reform Quality Center, Supplemental Educational Services Quality Center, and the Scientific Evidence in Education Forums.

They also come at a time when new policy developments are shaping the future of the field once known as vocational training, including a series of reports from the U.S. Department of Education, the Council of Chief State School Officers, the American Institutes of Research's Center on Great Teachers and Leaders, Achieve and others that underscore the critical importance of teacher quality within CTE.

Right now, whether a parent has access to a high - quality preschool program in the U.S. has more to do with that parent's education than anything else, said Steven Barnett, director of the National Institute for Early Education Research, a U.S. think tank.

The National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), a research and advocacy group, has led the charge against low admission standards, frequently citing a 2007 McKinsey report that claims the majority of U.S. teachers are recruited from the bottom two - thirds of their class.

Dr. Brownell has secured multiple grants (totaling over 42 million dollars) from the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs and Institute of Education Sciences to support research and technical assistance aimed at improving teaching quality for students with disabilities.

Since then, Eckert has conducted research for the U.S. Department of Education, the National Institute for Excellence in Teaching, and the Center for Teaching Quality.

In 2007, the U.S. Department of Education sponsored an examination of 1,300 studies of development programs for teachers, which found that only nine studies matched high - quality research standards.

The bill would require the Institute for Education Science — the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education — to identify research topics focused on ensuring all students have access to high - quality education, provide easier access to timely information about successful education practices, and strengthen data privacy provisions.

The contents of this report were developed by the Comprehensive School Reform Quality (CSRQ) Center, which is operated by the American Institutes for Research (AIR), under a grant from the U.S. Department of Education.