Sentences with phrase «about their effectiveness in»

Scientific studies have been inclusive about its effectiveness in direct consumption, and its claimed benefits are yet to be fully corroborated.

I have read about its effectiveness in germ fighting.

Examining the scholarly literature published since a seminal review in 2000, this working paper discusses the principles that underlie project - based learning, how it has been used in K - 12 settings, the challenges teachers have confronted in implementing it, and what is known about its effectiveness in improving students» learning outcomes.

When I retired from leading a portfolio of schools with 10,522 students K - 12 in December, I felt my job dealt mostly with compliance with law and less about effectiveness in the classroom.

It's mostly all about effectiveness in life insurance underwriting, but not quite.

Each issue is thematic and includes articles covering current research about effectiveness in practice, innovative services and practice, case studies, or integrative scholarly commentaries.

Although scores of parenting programs for young children have been and are currently being used in communities throughout North America, in only a relatively few cases has their long - term efficacy been tested using comparison groups, much less with a randomized control trial (RCT).17, 18 Thus, drawing firm conclusions about their effectiveness in improving young children's social and emotional outcomes is limited to a few investigators who have used more rigorous methods.

Not exact matches

For example, several research teams have criticised medical dramas showing heart resuscitation techniques for conveying misinformation about their effectiveness, such as far higher survival rates from a heart attack, or more younger people experiencing attacks than in real life.

Hudson's own research and observations are backed by similar work done by the University of North Carolina, which found that the most powerful factor in job satisfaction was how the employee felt about the effectiveness of the meetings he or she attends.

The endorsement came despite lingering questions about safety and effectiveness, but also followed a high - stakes pressure campaign in which the manufacturer accused the Food and Drug Administration of gender bias, since several pills were already approved for men with sexual problems.

Fukuyama has expressed concern about the quality of public administration in the United States, citing evidence from the Volcker Commission, which showed that the morale and effectiveness of the federal workforce has been weakening over the past two generations.

When the Jack Morton survey measured the effectiveness of experiential marketing across 14 product and service categories, in 11 out of 14, consumers said they preferred to learn about new products and services by experiencing them for themselves or hearing about them from someone they knew.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

I just think we all need to think about the effectiveness of that weapon in this context.

«Antidepressants are routinely used worldwide yet there remains considerable debate about their effectiveness and tolerability,» said John Ioannidis of Stanford University, one of the researchers, in a statement.

«Although jade eggs are slightly different than traditional kegels, goop is up front about the fact that there are no scientific studies proving or disproving the effectiveness of a jade egg,» a rep said in a statement.

Whatever the arguments about fiscal policy's effectiveness in countering deep and lasting recessions, of a kind the world faced in 2008, it was never envisaged that it should be wheeled out the minute economic growth fell below two per cent.

One way to think about Icahn is that he's a repeat player trying to maximize his effectiveness in all possible situations, not just whatever he's currently got cooking.

About MaRS Centre for Impact Investing The MaRS Centre for Impact Investing is a national hub designed to increase the awareness and effectiveness of social finance to catalyze new capital, talent and initiatives dedicated to tackling social and environmental problems in Canada.

Keep this in mind when looking at the effectiveness of ways people heard about credit cards.

After more than 10 years of measuring and rating the effectiveness of the boards of directors of widely held Canadian publicly traded companies, the Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness (CCBE) published a report in 2013 about the performance of family - controlled corporations (feffectiveness of the boards of directors of widely held Canadian publicly traded companies, the Clarkson Centre for Board Effectiveness (CCBE) published a report in 2013 about the performance of family - controlled corporations (fEffectiveness (CCBE) published a report in 2013 about the performance of family - controlled corporations (family firms).

In the final analysis, one's own deep feelings about mental illness and suicide will determine one's effectiveness in this type of pastoral carIn the final analysis, one's own deep feelings about mental illness and suicide will determine one's effectiveness in this type of pastoral carin this type of pastoral care.

Dick Tilton After writing a serious rant about all this, I reconsidered: This is — hopefully — about improving effectiveness in standardized testing, NOT about limiting pepperoni from school curricula.

I would then offer the courses in remediation to those students to enable them to enroll in introductory preaching or at least hold students to homogeneous standards of effectiveness, perceived to be floating about in the school's culture.

The effectiveness of the formation is evidenced by the fact that after three years some white male students are grateful to the institution for opening their eyes and leading them to the truth about racism and sexism in themselves and the church.

They read with reverence, humility, obedience and the presumption that difficulty in understanding reveals more about their limitations than the excellence or effectiveness of the text.

About 1971, however, there was a major turn in my pilgrimage as I gradually became painfully aware of the so - called outcome studies reporting the dubious effectiveness of average psychotherapy, whose cure rates barely match spontaneous remission, coupled with the frightening spectre of client deterioration (i.e., patients finding their condition worsening under the care of professional psychotherapists).

In this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status of theological education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministrIn this situation more than a hundred theological schools have agreed to examine themselves and the status of theological education in general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministrin general, to raise immediate and ultimate questions about their purposes, their methods and their effectiveness in discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministrin discharging their duties; to seek also ways of improving their own ministry.

Under the impact of the historical comparison of religions, undertaken with ever increasing effectiveness, and in consequence of a rational analysis of the dogmas and creeds, the church was about to lose its power over the hearts of men.

The development in the civil rights movement of doubts about the full effectiveness of non-violence may represent in part a yielding to emotions less disciplined by ethical considerations; but it also reflects the discovery of some complexities of effective social action.

If a minister or layman desires to maximize his effectiveness in any dimension of the alcoholism field; he must become competent in both skills and knowledge about the illness.

Eslinger first defines this situation as a «crisis» for both preachers and homileticians and clears the way toward news ways of thinking about preaching by suggesting that «the way out, toward new effectiveness in preaching, is not yet clear» (11).

I argued that the closing would affect only about 10 per cent of the total membership, many of whom could find other and more conveniently located churches to attend; and that in any case the net membership loss would be negligible while the increase in effectiveness and fiscal health would be great.

As for their effectiveness, in 1992, 1994 and, it appears, in 1996, they won about forty percent of the elections they were involved in.

In the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itselIn the present book I have spoken only incidentally of the «case» for prayer; my purpose here is to make suggestions about the actual practice of prayer, including the question of its effectiveness, the various kinds of praying in which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itselin which we may engage, the significant exercise of private prayer and of public prayer, the way in which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itselin which the Lord's Supper (or Holy Communion or Eucharist call it what you will) sums up all our praying, and finally the point of prayer in the total context of Christian faith itselin the total context of Christian faith itself.

If one has doubts about the effectiveness of a wide dissemination of realistic knowledge about alcoholism in encouraging earlier treatment, he has only to look at what has happened in AA.

Finally, the attendees talked about the power of and need for partnerships to solve the many reasons for food waste, including sharing stories of existing efforts like the three companies in the Midwest who are splitting the cost and use of an anaerobic digester, which turns food scraps into energy, and several food donation groups who highlighted the effectiveness of successful partnerships.

Senate Inquiry into the Effectiveness of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in Protecting Small Business 4.26 Submissions to the 2004 Senate Inquiry (The Effectiveness of the Trade Practices Act 1974 in Protecting Small Business) highlighted particular concerns about creeping acquisitions in the retail grocery and the retail liquor sectors.

As is typical in many medical questions, the experts disagree about the effectiveness of chile on ulcers.

Little is known about what factors differentiate frequent from infrequent users and the effectiveness of this scheme in helping Australians make healthier food choices.

Say what you will about Ryan Anderson's lack of defense — and it will probably limit his effectiveness in the postseason — but his elite shooting range is a key component of their offense.

I still have my doubts about their effectiveness but there were promising signs in the second half last week.

to provoke a condescending predictable response and maybe use a question about how their marketing department is planning on measuring the effectiveness of the operation in ROI terms... and comparative publicity costs etc..

Her work in systematic reviews has consistently addressed tough topics and has included documenting harms of episiotomy, the limitations of data about outcomes of fetal surgery, inconsistencies in results of programs designed to reduce use of cesarean, marginal effectiveness of medications for overactive bladder, and the burden on cervical cancer prevention programs introduced by liquid cytology collection for pap testing.

General article about how government regulation tends to decrease effectiveness in many areas.

If home - schooling is good for our children, it is for us to say (Telegraph, UK, 19-10-09) General article about how government regulation tends to decrease effectiveness in many areas.

In the Journal of Human Lactation, the scientists have mentioned about the rising debate on the effectiveness of exclusively using the breast pump as a substitute for natural nursing

One is that we should be thinking about value - added in a different way, and that there's maybe an innovative way to measure more broadly the effectiveness of teachers.

Parents choose to swaddle their little ones in cloth rather than disposable diapers for many reasons: most would like to raise their children with the least environmental impact possible; many worry about rashes or other conditions caused by the chemicals and fragrances in disposable diapers; others have done cost - effectiveness calculations and found that cloth diapers may be more economical for their family; and many are hoping that, yes, cloth diapers would lead to earlier potty training.

CHOP study offers updated evidence about the effectiveness of booster seats in protecting children age 4 - 8 in car crashes.