Sentences with phrase «academic reports from»

The research included four academic reports from the United Kingdom and the United States about the possibility of errors in fingerprint identification.

While the latest academic reports from the LA Unified school district were positive overall, school board President Steve Zimmer expressed frustration at some of the data presented at Tuesday's board meeting and said he foresees potential problems ahead.

«We are accustomed to academic reports from around the world, including those from students who have been privately instructed and even self - taught,» said Marlyn McGrath, Harvard University's director of admissions, replying via email about the transcripts.

Welcome to Hot Seats, a series in which local academics report from the UK's marginal constituencies.

Hot Seats is a series in which academics report from the UK's marginal constituencies.

Hot Seats is a series in which academics report from the UK's most interesting marginal constituencies.

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Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»

Numerous other examples of Google influencing academics are highlighted by the Journal's report, including one from University of Michigan law professor Daniel Crane who declined to take money from Google to support his paper that argued against «antitrust regulation of internet search engines.»

That's according to a report released this week by a team of academics and researchers from Oxford University, Cambridge University, Stanford University, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, artificial intelligence research group OpenAI, and others institutes.

The annual report said 50 cases of sexual assault had been reported at the elite US Army academy during the 2016 - 2017 academic year, nearly double the number from the previous school year.

The Report Card on British Columbia's Elementary Schools 2018 ranks 946 public and independent elementary schools based on 10 academic indicators derived from the provincewide Foundation Skills Assessment (FSA) results.

Aleksandr Kogan, the academic who allegedly collected private information from up to 87 million Facebook accounts and then gave the cache to political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica, also bought access to Twitter data, according to a Sunday report from Bloomberg.

The Report Card on Alberta's Elementary Schools 2018 ranks 819 public, separate, francophone, independent and charter schools based on seven academic indicators derived from provincewide test results.

By now you'll no doubt see the obvious correlations between them all as well, and the really interesting thing about it all is that in each and every one of them, both the ones I have reported on here as well as others we are yet to review, the lessons we take from them are not to be found in academic institutions.

It was informed by a group of 24 Canadian experts, from the private, non-profit and academic sectors (the Canadian «National Advisory Board») and builds on the 2010 report of the Canadian Task Force on Social Finance.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Based on a high - level audit of all reports of sexual harassment or violence for three academic years from 2012 - 2013 through 2014 - 2015, Pepper found that the University's student conduct processes were wholly inadequate to consistently provide a prompt and equitable response under Title IX, that Baylor failed to consistently support complainants through the provision of interim measures, and that in some cases, the University failed to take action to identify and eliminate a potential hostile environment, prevent its recurrence, or address its effects for individual complainants or the broader campus community.

In the Youth Indicators, 2005 report from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), we can see that athletic teams is the favored school - related extracurricular activity for boys in 1990 and 2001 at 43.2 % and 45.3 % respectively, out of a choice of music / performing arts, athletic teams, academic clubs, student council / government, and other school clubs / activities.

A new report was released today from the Globe & Mail that outlines the academic impact that full day kindergarten has on our Grade 1s.

Both principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal reports from schools which have seen an improvement in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary problems when junk food is reduced in the school environment.

In addition, some studies have reported ethnic differences — that for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homes.

To address the issues above, this paper reports on the results of an 18 - year longitudinal study of the relationships between infant feeding practices and later cognitive ability and academic achievement in a birth cohort of > 1000 New Zealand children studied from birth to age 18 years.

-LSB-...] principals and teachers may swayed by anecdotal reports from schools which have seen an improvement in academic performance and a reduction in disciplinary -LSB-...]

The service focuses on academic essays, reports, reviews, theses, dissertations, etc. so you have a lot to choose from.

It then relied on evidence from voluntary and statutory agencies, prison governors, former prisoners, HM Inspector of Prisons, the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman, child psychologists and academics to put together today's report.

I remember that from some of the letters received by The Spectator in response to my article it was clear that the letter - writers simply did not believe what I wrote about British atrocities in India, even though I was reporting the findings of non-partisan academics.

Cuomo also will have input from a panel of his creation: The 15 - member Common Core Task Force, asked to conduct a sweeping review of the academic standards, curriculum and exams, is due to report its recommendations this month.

This was contained in the final report of the NIB on the state of schools in the country from 2013 to the beginning of the 2014/2015 academic year, which was disclosed at a dissemination meeting in Koforidua...

Reports from that infamous visit resulted to the termination of employment of about 6 of Uni Lag's senior academic staff members.

«We welcome the final report from Sir John Tooke, particularly its emphasis on promoting excellence and the importance of supporting academic careers.

The report — «If you could do one thing...» Nine local actions to reduce health inequalities — brings together evidence from a wide range of social sciences, and has been led by a steering group of academic and policy experts.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

ENDS Notes to Editors UK Alcohol duty context For a short video summary of the issues around alcohol pricing, please visit: https://vimeo.com/191959217 Following heavy lobbying from the alcohol industry, the last four Budgets have seen real terms cuts in alcohol duty Alcohol is 60 % more affordable than it was in 1980 — the alcohol duty escalator, introduced in 2008, which ensured that duty rose above inflation, helped mitigate this trend, but this progress has reversed since the duty escalator was scrapped in 2013 In real terms, spirits duty has halved, and wine duty fallen by a quarter since 1978 - 9 The Government estimates suggest that the duty cuts since 2013 will cost the Exchequer # 2.9 billion over four years The University of Sheffield estimated that an additional 6,500 people would be hospitalised each year as a result of the alcohol duty cuts in 2015 The report The report was peer reviewed by academic experts the fields of economics, public health and public policy prior to publication.

And read also this brilliant exchange between the author of the report and a sceptical academic from the University of Aberdeen:

Here in the Ctiy of Buffalo this year a report from the Council on Great City Schools on Improving the Academic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instAcademic Achievement of English Language Learners in the Buffalo Public Schools System cited that only 21 % of these students graduate from high school and the academic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instacademic achievement programs ignored them as a group as though they don't exist with as many as 100 never recieving their mandated language instruction.

Reports from the region indicate that as many as 30 school girls in the Daffiama - Bussie - Issa District have been impregnated within the 2013/2014 academic year.

The report drew criticism from two University at Buffalo academics, Lower West Side residents and the Clean Air Coalition.

► How intellectual property (IP) ownership is awarded to academics can have a significant effect on their commercialization efforts, according to a paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research that Mervis reported on (subscription required), also in this week's issue.

In most cases, the report explains, the attackers aim to silence or punish scholars and deter other academics from behaving in ways the attackers deem improper.

The 2004 University of California, Berkeley, Graduate Student Mental Health Survey, from the Berkeley Graduate and Professional Schools Mental Health Task Force, concluded: «Almost half of all graduate students participating in this survey reported an emotional or stress - related problem that significantly affected their well - being and / or academic performance in the last twelve months.»

Clauset and co-authors reported on the conclusions they drew from «complete and hand - curated data on the placements of nearly 19,000 tenure - track or tenured faculty, among 461 North American departmental or school - level academic units, in the disciplines of computer science, business, and history -LSB-, which]... represent highly distinct scholastic traditions.»

In a CGS survey, which produced answers from 857 deans, directors, and chairs representing 226 institutions, 62 % of respondents «indicated that their institutions and / or graduate programs offer some type of formal professional development program for graduate students in research degree programs to obtain skills beyond core academic research skills,» the report states.

One remains: whether Mann was involved in «any actions that seriously deviated from accepted practices within the academic community for proposing, conducting, or reporting research or other scholarly activities.»

The report examines scientific publication trends in the top 200 U.S. academic research and development institutions from 1988 to 2001.

This series, NL Job Market News will draw on a wealth of sources, including facts, figures and findings from the latest Arbeidsmarktmonitor, an annual report on the job market situation of Dutch academics.

The Federal Register notice, which has been expected for months, follows a Senate investigation that since last summer has identified several prominent academic psychiatrists who apparently failed to report to their institutions hundreds of thousands of dollars that they earned from drug companies.

According to the report, the average graduate tuition fee in 2001/2002 is $ 4360, a 9.8 % increase from the previous academic year.

According to a report from the University of California (UC), nearly half of graduate students said that a mental or emotional problem had interfered with their academic work in the past year.

Called «Primary care factors and unscheduled secondary care: a series of systematic reviews», the report has been compiled by researchers from the University's Centre for Academic Primary Care who looked at evidence from studies around the world.

One panel member, YoungSuk Chi, vice-chairman and managing director of global academic and customer relations for Amsterdam - based Elsevier, dissented from the report, saying that it supports «an overly expansive role of government and advocates approaches to the business of scholarly publishing that I believe are overly prescriptive.»