Sentences with phrase «university family study»

CRGGH published the first GWAS for blood pressure (BP) in AA using data from the Howard University Family Study, a population - based sample of ~ 2,000 related and unrelated African Americans from the Washington, DC area that was collected by Dr. Rotimi and his group.

The researchers analyzed blood pressure rates and the incidence of hypertension, a persistent state of high blood pressure, in a group of 515 African - American men enrolled in the Howard University Family Study (HUFS).

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The study was presented recently at the 2014 Babson College Entrepreneurship Research Conference at Western University's Ivey Business School in London, Ont., which set out to uncover the factors that «influence variance in entrepreneurial orientation» — risk - taking, innovativeness, pro-activeness — among family firms.

His family moved to Canada from Turkey when he was a child and, with the funds from the sale of a redesigned buzzer system for quiz show Reach for the Top, Lazaridis studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

«It's baked into their DNA to be focused on the long term, as their focus is to maintain the family business and wealth,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been studying the underlying reasons for the curious strength of family firms.

An accompanying press release from the university's media office explains the study comes from a «survey of more than 1,500 families with children living in rental high - rises built between 1950 and 1979,» a housing category that covers half of all rental units in metropolitan Toronto.

Another recent estimate was released in November of this year by Andy Yan of Bing Thom Architects, which conducted a case study of single - family home sales in the neighbourhoods of West Point Grey, Dunbar and the University Endowment Lands.

Some of the students come from very rich families, but many are from families that make immense sacrifices to send their children to study in American universities where they tend to major in STEM or business degrees, he said.

Dr. Clifford A. Hudis, Chief Executive Officer, American Society of Clinical Oncology Greg Simon, Executive Director, Cancer Moonshot Task Force, The White House Dr. Ken Robert Smith, Distinguished Professor of Family Studies and Population Science; Director, Utah Population Database, University of Utah Moderator: Clifton Leaf, Fortune

At the same time, climate - denier funding from family and corporate foundations — say, Exxon's foundation — has declined, according to Robert Brulle, a sociologist at Drexel University who studies the climate change «counter-movement.»

When compiling this report, EY worked extensively with Credit Suisse, the University of St. Gallen and family offices themselves, a few of which have provided illuminating case studies throughout the report.

Associate Professor of Sociology University of Texas at Austin Senior Fellow, Austin Institute for the Study of Family and Culture

The new study from University of Utah professor Nicholas Wolfinger analyzed data from the National Survey of Family Growth, dating back to the 1980s.

These efforts have culminated with his forthcoming study, Families and Faith: How Religion is Passed Down across Generations (Oxford University Press).

Now a new study from Cambridge University based on his writings suggests Saint Patrick was not brought to Ireland as a slave, as the legend has it, but that in fact he may actually have sold slaves his family owned to pay his way to Ireland - in order to avoid a job as a tax collector for the Roman empire.

A growing segment of society, the «engaged progressives,» as the University of Virginia Family Cultures Study calls them, is characterized by its firm rejection of transcendent norms.

While family scholars acknowledge that studies in Sweden and Britain have found more instability among same - sex couples, they would contend that research, such as a new study from Bowling Green State University, also suggests that gay and lesbian couples can enjoy more stable relationships when communities extend legal and cultural support to them.

Dr. James J. Buckley Loyola College of Maryland Dr. Peter Casarella Catholic University of America Avery Cardinal Dulles, S.J. Fordham University Father Thomas Guarino Seton Hall University Father Francis Martin John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family Father Richard John Neuhaus Institute on Religion and Public Life Edward T. Oakes, S.J. Mundelein Seminary Mr. George Weigel Ethics and Public Policy Center Dr. Robert Louis Wilken University of Virginia

Yours Faithfully (Prof.) William E, May John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family at the Catholic University of America Washington

His evangelical ties: Clinton directs the Center for Counseling and Family Studies at Liberty University, his alma mater.

Margaret Harper McCarthy, STL, STD Assistant Professor of Theological Anthropology, John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family at the Catholic University of America

Michael Fragoso is a policy analyst at the Family Research Council who studied classics and medieval studies at Princeton University.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and edustudies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and eduStudies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

Family holidays to the great wine regions of Europe consolidated this interest and Peter decided to pursue a career in the wine industry, commencing with a role at UK wine retailer Oddbins prior to returning to Australia to study wine marketing at Adelaide University.

Others enjoying the al fresco gathering were Diane Mulligan, former news director at 7News who is now president of M & C Communications; Mulligan's husband, Joseph Baghadjian, and their son, Marc; executive coach Kendall Colman; Denise Mickelsen, acquisitions editor for cooking, baking and gardening at Craftsy; McKenna Wecker, who is soon to begin her journalism studies at San Diego State University; and Michael Schultz, whose family started Schultz's Gourmet, a line of seasonings, hot sauces and snacks found at such outlets as Whole Foods, Costco and Kroger stores.

1 May 2015 Media Statement Australian beverages industry responds to Cambridge University study linking soft drinks and diabetes «Leading health organisations, including the World Diabetes Federation, agree that the known risk factors for type 2 diabetes include lifestyle factors, such as obesity and sedentary behaviour, as well as family history, age and ethnicity — not -LSB-...]

After a year sabbatical in Italy honing his culinary skills and studying Italian at Johns Hopkins University in Bologna, Christopher embarked on a career in wine importing, and national supply side management in New York City with Winebow, Inc., and as National Sale Manager with Stacole Fine Wines, Dutton - Goldfield Winery, and Jackson Family's Cardinale Estate in St. Helena.

As part of the partnership, the NFL will encourage players to sign up to donate their brains to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, and the league also will contact the families of nearly 100 former players known to have Alzheimer's and dementia and ask that they consider brain donations as well.

Boogaard's family announced that it would donate his brain to the Boston University Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy.

Born into an affluent family with a long tradition in Hong Kong, Fu said he spent too much time on sports during his secondary - school education at St Paul's College and failed to secure a place at the University of Hong Kong, forcing him to go to the US to further his studies.

Another study conducted at the University of Minnesota included 137 families with a documented history of child maltreatment.

According to Sara McLanahan of Princeton University, the principal investigator of the Fragile Families Study, if we were to design a system from scratch to ensure that a child's basic needs would be met, it would look remarkably similar to the two - parent family.

Two years ago, M. Christian Green, a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a former lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, wrote that divorce doesn't just affect a couple and their immediate family — friends, neighbors and entire communities are impacted as well.

«Age 1 is a key time for establishing the quality of the parenting and the relationship between parent and the child,» said study author Lisa J. Berlin, a research scientist at the Center for Child and Family Policy at Duke University.

As psychology professor and head of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver Howard Markman says, «Marriage has a unique ability to tap into emotional issues from the families of origin.»

Researchers don't say why, but perhaps it's for the reasons researchers Caron, a professor of family relations and human sexuality at the University of Maine, and Proulx, a marriage and family therapist, of the 2006 study discovered — society just isn't ready to accept December - May marriages as easily as it does May - December marriages.

«For around 30 years, researchers have studied how having children affects a marriage, and the results are conclusive: the relationship between spouses suffers once kids come along,» writes psychology professor Matthew D. Johnson, director of the Marriage and Family Studies Laboratory at Binghamton University in New York.

And those are the couples who, if they end up «sliding into marriage,» as research professor and co-director of the Center for Marital and Family Studies at the University of Denver Scott Stanley would call it, are more likely to divorce at some point.

It is so bad, that a recent study analyzing children of divorce over a 50 year period by Stanford University demonstrates that children of divorce actually live five years shorter lives than children raised in intact two - parent married families.

She is currently Associate Professor of Family Studies and Human Services at Kansas State University in Manhattan, Kansas.

«They'll want to hear how others feel, and they'll feel a wider range of feelings themselves,» says Judith Myers - Walls, associate professor of child development and family studies at Purdue University and an expert on talking to children about war.

Babies also can experience emotional trauma if they form a deep emotional attachment with a wet nurse who suddenly departs, said Alice Sterling Honig, a professor in the Department of Child and Family Studies at Syracuse University.

The emotional consequences of stress from colic alone have lasting effects on the child's development and life dissatisfaction of the family years later according to a Finnish Family Competence Study Project by researchers at the University of family years later according to a Finnish Family Competence Study Project by researchers at the University of Family Competence Study Project by researchers at the University of Turku.

Her adherence to feminist theory as it relates to birth was influenced while studying at the Frontier School of Midwifery and Family Nursing, Case Western Reserve University and Texas Woman's University, Denton.

Co-author of the study Mary Renfrew, Professor of Mother and Infant Health at the University of Dundee, said: «This is the first large - scale study to show an increase in breastfeeding in communities where rates have been low for generations, and where it can be particularly difficult for women to breastfeed without strong family and community support, because of strong societal barriers.

She was formerly a professor of family and human development at Arizona State University, where she developed and evaluated social - emotional learning curricula for early childhood classrooms and instructed courses in early intervention, child development, and gender studies.

Dr. Daniel Taber, the new study's lead author from the Institute for Health Research and Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, said students who receive free or reduced - price lunches from the government tend to be more obese, but that may be due to their families» low - income status.

Her current research at the Institute for the Study of Children, Families and Social Issues at the University of London reveals her continued dedication and commitment to replacing opinions with scientific evidence.

Jessica Yadegaran: «Marriages of 40 years or more account for 4 percent of divorces, according to Andrew Cherlin, a Johns Hopkins University sociology professor who studies families.

According to a large - scale study by researchers out of the Family Studies Center at Brigham Young University, having such thoughts are relatively «normal.»