Sentences with phrase «academics found there»

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But hark, there's some good news for office muckrakers: Increasingly, academics are finding that gossip might actually be good for business.

«If you sincerely want the world to be a better place, and you believe business is a way to get there, then it's pure academic nonsense to set some arbitrary size limit above which you can not be a responsible company,» says Gary Hirshberg, who founded the organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm in Londonderry, N.H., in 1983.

There is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis (or SWOT thinking) and more than a fair share of theoretical or academic quadrants within which you can plug your business challenge and find a solution — in theory anyway.

The notion promoted by the Canadian technology council that an arts education leads to better results in a wide range of other areas was repeatedly deflated: «There is no evidence for a link between theatre training and overall academic skill... We found no evidence that dance education improves overall academic skills or reading... There is no evidence that training in visual arts improves overall academic skills or literacy.»

«Although published academic research overwhelmingly supports passive management and finds that trading frequency is inversely correlated with performance, there are indeed instances where at least some degree of intervention may be warranted,» says John H. Robinson, founder of Financial Planning Hawaii in Honolulu.

«Additional research is required to have confidence in generalizations, but there are reasons to suspect that the broad findings are not unique to academic science,» said Ajay Agrawal, professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto and one of the paper's authors.

So it will go on, I suppose, till we find someone with enough courage, enough learning, enough public standing to undertake the synthesis; there is a battle royal, long overdue, which still has to be fought out at the level of academic debate (p13).

On page 18 of her book can be found the following assertion: «In academic circles some scholars spoke of relative truths, rejecting the notion that there was one version of the world that was necessarily right while another was wrong.»

Kernan climbed almost to the top of the greasy academic pole, and found there not the bright sun of understanding but a greater darkness.

Omar Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and voice of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel says this about negotiating: «I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.»

The opportunity to explore our world and the people we find there lays the groundwork for the development of vital academic and social skills.

However, we found that a disproportionate number (44 %) of academics appearing at select committees were based in London — in fact there were more academics from the rest of England put together.

He not only found that a significant percentage of the academic units still need to come into compliance with the standards, but that there was sufficient concern about academic rigor to warrant consideration of issuing a third warning.

As noted earlier, there are fewer high - ranking women faculty members at academic medical centers, so finding established women physician researchers to serve as mentors can be difficult.

On a more positive note, Alison has found a new workplace where she feels «there is no prejudice» and as a whole she feels accepted within the academic community.

«I think that there are a lot of advisers out there who suffer from a failure of imagination in two ways: One, they can't imagine a life outside of academics; and two, if they can imagine a life outside of academics, they don't have the resources or information required to help their students find that place.»

By reviewing over 90 academic studies on consumer response to process labels, the researchers found that while these labels satisfy consumer demand for quality assurances and can create value for both consumers and producers, misinterpretation is common and can stigmatize food produced by conventional processes even when there is no scientific evidence those foods cause harm.

There were some exceptions, but in general academic integrity did not feature, and where we did find relevant content, the language used («cheating», «plagiarism») was not reflective of an academic integrity - based approach.

An index below one indicates that there are fewer women than individuals with mustaches, and the authors found that «[t] he overall moustache index of all academic medical departments studied was 0.72.»

There is a great need to find new, effective ways for collaboration between academic research and innovators, in order to develop better medicines and improved diagnostic methods.

He further notes that there is ``... significant discordance between preclinical findings and clinical results» and ``... inefficient partnerships between academia and industry,» two challenges that must be addressed if academic research is to yield maximum clinical benefit and attain the ultimate goal of saving patients» lives.

Before I go into what my lipid results were, I thought it would be a interesting to do a literature search to find what data there is in the academic literature looking into the effect of a ketogenic diet on cholesterol.

There you can find tutors, academic advisers, and other studious people to help you.

There is little in the way of academic research on the erotic fixation on baldness, and even less can be found on kinky websites or porn that specifically caters to these women.

Whether there truly is a demand for the high - fidelity thrills found on other formats among shooter - starved Wii owners is largely academic, because Conduit 2 - like its predecessor - just isn't up to the task of providing them.

Most of the stuff I find myself creeped out by no matter how many times I see it (e.g., Cure, the Winkie's scene in Mulholland Drive) is just on the border of the irrational, but slasher movies — in which the narrative is almost always a process of elimination — are really easy to rationalize, which is probably why there's so much academic literature about them.

For example, a recent study conducted in urban middle schools found that there were more similarities than differences in the reading profiles of struggling students from non-English-speaking and English - speaking households, and that low academic vocabulary knowledge, a major component of advanced literacy skills, was a shared source of difficulty.

Public Opinion A YouGov poll found that only 38 per cent of people believe the government should build more grammar schools and encourage more schools to select on academic ability, which suggests there isn't a huge amount of public support for the idea.

A new study from academics at Queensland University of Technology has found there's a gender gap when it comes to the behaviourial skills of children starting school.

The authors wrote that, overall, the results of 46 articles published between 1985 and October 2008 found that «there is substantial evidence that physical activity can help improve academic achievement, including grades and standardized test scores.

JE: You say you found «clear evidence» there then of well - designed primary schools, this is, actually boosting academic performance in reading, writing and maths.

We found evidence that specific art forms support specific kinds of thinking and learning, but in other cases there's no clear link between the arts and academic skills.

While I find students are generally strong in recognizing alternative perspectives in an academic way — for example, analyzing different arguments on why the American Revolution took place — I think there is a shortfall when it comes to empathizing with people outside their demographic,» he says, adding that he saw the same pattern at other high schools where he has taught in the past.

Their summary of the sector's academic outcomes, which draws heavily on a series of studies by the Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) at Stanford University, is likewise relatively uncontroversial: there is a positive achievement effect for poor, nonwhite, urban students, but suburban and rural charters come up short, as do online charters, about which the authors duly report negative findings.

However, some complaints include the variety of the content found there as well as the need for schools to register on YouTube under the academic section in order to show their videos, leaving out many academics, professionals and students not formally associated with mainstream schools which contribute with great videos.

Researchers at MIT and Harvard University even conducted a study to explain this pervasive phenomenon and found that there's a link between family income, brain anatomy, and academic achievement.

Measures of teachers» academic skills, such as their verbal ability, may more accurately predict their effectiveness, but there is far less evidence on this issue, and these findings are also not conclusive.

Not only are there academic benefits but studies have shown that both parents and children find reading together as a

As an «academic» student I felt praise for my ability to write essays, but there was no time in such a rigorous academic schedule for me to find my own real ways to; help people, experience what we discuss, or be part of the world we're taught to analyse.

We have found that there are opportunities for charter and district schools to work together to improve shared spaces and complement each other's academic programming.

«This finding demonstrates that students» academic performance improves when there's a balance between time spent on physical education and time spent on learning,» said Stacey Snelling, dean of American University's School of Education.

Two academic researchers from the University of Southern California and the University of Pennsylvania looked at these value - added measures in six districts around the nation and found that there was weak to zero relationship between these new numbers and the content or quality of the teacher's instruction.

When it comes to academics, the report found virtual charters lagging there too, with both schools receiving an overall performance grade, gleaned from testing, of «D.» Some subjects were worse than others.

There's more but most of the findings were summed up in a simple conclusion made in the report, that the results «leave little doubt attending an online charter school leads to lessened academic growth for the average student.»

While there is not a clear causal effect between a teacher's own academic record and his or her ability to achieve the kinds of learning gains that help students excel, most studies do find a correlation between higher GPA and teacher effectiveness.43 Taken in aggregate with other factors, such as experience and rank of undergraduate school, some studies have found larger positive impacts, especially for math achievement.44 For this reason, a high GPA should not be the only factor that determines entry into the profession.

There's a lot of innovation around using music and the arts through technology in finding academic and social breakthroughs in this area.

There are some studies that connect teacher perceptions to their development and professional practices (Aguirre - Munoz et al. 2008; Huang 2004; Hart and Okhee 2003), such as Aguirre et al.'s study that provided clear evidence demonstrating the effectiveness of a systemic functional linguistic approach to teacher development for attention to academic language / literacy in teachers» instructional practice, but the findings are limited to teacher development in the area of middle school language arts.

Although there are mixed findings about whether homework actually increases students» academic achievement, many teachers and parents agree that homework develops students» initiative and responsibility and fulfills the expectations of students, parents, and the public.

If we were to teach ALL students at their own level or pace, we'd find that there already is a classroom in the building where children are learning the level of academic subjects that the gifted children need.

«If there's no partnership (with a school district), and they find their own facility and provide their own transportation, then the district gets no money,» said Steven Gering, Spokane Public Schools» chief academic officer.