Sentences with phrase «are graduated models»

Most compression socks are graduated models.

The best compression socks for large calves are graduated models.

Not exact matches

Gandhi is a young Georgia Tech graduate and fan of Google who modeled his résumé after the Google's iconic style and search results.

A graduate of Bunbury Cathedral Grammar, Andrew Hall admits he was hardly a model student when he started a science degree in the early 1990s at the University of Western Australia.

This is what makes our business model so unique and our graduates so successful.

Whereas prior to World War II liberal arts colleges provided the model for higher education, and universities were liberal arts colleges with graduate and professional schools attached to them, now the heart of higher education became preparation for a job.

It is not clear, however, whether Brown's constant stress on high academic expectations simply assumes the canons of critical, orderly, disciplined inquiry that the research university model had made commonplace in the 1930s in American graduate education outside of theological schools, or whether he is rather calling for theological school teachers who are very learned but are not necessarily themselves engaged in original research.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

The Expeditionary Learning model was developed 25 years ago out of a collaboration between the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Outward Bound USA, and the Outward Bound principle of building confidence and knowledge through shared challenges is still at the heart of the EL model.

The new policy, modeled after one that shook up the Chicago Public Schools in the mid-1990s, requires 8th graders to demonstrate comprehension of fractions, percentages and ratios in math and broad themes in reading before being allowed to graduate.

Graduated models are more common, since they are excellent in preventing and treating most circulatory diseases found in the limbs.

They are toeless models, and they put between 15 - 20 mm Hg graduated pressure on your legs.

Their excellent, graduated compression models are popular among nurses.

However the model also has to be breathable, must have antibacterial qualities, and it must apply adequate graduated compression on your legs.

Although this means some larger babies may be ready to graduate to a rear - facing convertible car seat, there are several models of infant - only seats with 30 - to 35 - pound weight limits that should get you to the next car seat safety milestone.

Most models on the market are so called graduated products.

If the model is a graduated compression hosiery, the pressure decreases as the product gets higher on the legs.

Graduated models are the most common, and the one we recommend.

If your toddler is already a budding athlete who chases after his older siblings or friends and races to the tops of climbing structures with ease, we encourage you to choose a lean - to - steer model that will challenge his motor skills to develop even more (before, of course, he or she graduates to an electric scooter or a go - kart!).

Although this means that some larger infants and toddlers might have to graduate to a rear - facing convertible car seat, there are also several models of an infant only seats with higher, 30 - to 35 - pound weight limits that should get you to the next car seat safety milestone.

I'm no expert, but in addition to the vast amount of research I did before my 2nd child (homebirth), my experience with an ob before I switched to a midwife with that same child, my experience with a medicated vaginal hospital birth w / my first child, my experience in talking to dozens of women that have had surgical births, in addition to all that anecdotal «wisdom», I have taken a graduate level Sociology of Medicine class that was an in depth look at our current medical system from a sociological perspective and we spent a couple of weeks talking about the medical model of birth and the alternatives.

«It is worthwhile to reflect our collective attribute of role models for the youths being responsible graduates who had been found worthy in character and learning in the various citadels of excellence.

«There is a troubling view taking hold that to set high standards and achieve good outcomes, we must rely on a closed, top - down model of government,» Stringer told the packed house at CUNY Graduate Center in Midtown.

Her interest was piqued: Upon graduating in 1999 she joined the lab of Ding Xue at the University of Colorado, Boulder, to study how cell death is regulated in the model organism Caenorhabditis elegans.

Modelled after a program at the University of British Columbia, the research student category is aimed at recently graduated bachelor's students who are considering a career in research but haven't yet decided to pursue one.

«Our model's not saying the water would have definitely overtopped the levees at Cairo,» said UCI professor and chair of civil & environmental engineering Brett Sanders, an author of the study led by UCI graduate student Adam Luke.

Using geological observation, laboratory impact experiments and computer modeling, Schultz and Brown graduate student Stephanie Quintana have offered a new explanation for how those streaks were formed.

«The old model was about generating interest,» says STARS co-director and neurogeneticist Robert Wyman about the former program, which paired first - year students with graduate students for 1 year.

The Brain Science Institute (BSI) at RIKEN, Japan's largest research organization, and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University (OIST), an interdisciplinary graduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and simuGraduate University (OIST), an interdisciplinary graduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and simugraduate university located at the southernmost tip of Japan, have been collaborating with the HBP since 2013 and applying their expertise in supercomputer - based models and simulations.

In the PNAS study, Si said he and postdoctoral fellow Hsin - Hua Lai and graduate student Sarah Grefe were working with a set of models to examine questions related to quantum criticality and high - temperature superconductors.

Elsewhere, Freese tells of using the «nuclear shell model» to calculate how certain dark matter particles might be scattered by an atomic nucleus, and how this led her to regret skipping lectures on the shell model as «uninteresting» while a graduate student at Columbia University.

But the behavior of these reservoirs is not solely determined by physical laws of the water cycle, but also by demands and what these reservoirs are being used for,» says Caltech graduate student Armeen Taeb, lead author of a paper about the model that will be published online on November 22 in the journal Water Resources Research.

Two years out of graduate school and keen on becoming a professor, Kaltenbacher was passionate about her work on inverse problems, which she describes as «mathematical modeling in a reverse way,» starting with observation rather than first principles.

«We are beginning to see that melanocytes integrate signals from several receptors to modulate pigment production, which will help us build a more complete model of how pigmentation is regulated,» said Christopher A. Natale, a graduate student in the Ridky Laboratory, and first author of the study.

Science graduate study, based on a 19th century model, needs serious reform to meet modern needs, but trying to «revitalize the doctorate is like moving a graveyard,» added another conference speaker, former NSF Director and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (publisher of Science Careers) Rita Colwell, currently a Distinguished Professor at both the University of Maryland, College Park, and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

I chose environmental engineering as opposed to environmental science because I wanted a math - and - modeling focus on the hydrologic sciences... and because, quite frankly, more full graduate scholarships were available for women engineers than for women scientists.

«As a powerful model system for studying adult stem cells, Drosophila female GSCs have revealed many novel regulatory strategies which have been later confirmed to be generally true,» adds Su Wang, a co-first author of the paper and also a graduate student in Department of Anatomy and Cell Biology at University of Kansas Medical Center.

Paula Stephan, an economist at Georgia State University in Atlanta and a member of the current report's modeling subcommittee (Stephan was also a member of that 1998 NRC committee), writes to Science Careers in an e-mail that it's «disappointing to see that NIH did not figure out a way to shift more funds into training grants and fellowships and away from research assistantship stipends» or «implement any requirement for limiting the amount of salary that can be written off of grants — something that could dampen the demand for graduate students.»

Based on earlier observations and modeling by Falke and a team of graduate students and faculty at CSU, the Arikaree River in eastern Colorado, which is fed by the aquifer and used to flow about 70 miles, will dry up to about one - half mile by 2045.

One big obstacle is that, although an adviser is envisioned to be an Adviser / Teacher / Role - Model / Friend (that's the title of a guide to mentorship published by the National Academy of Sciences), your adviser is also your boss — the person who pays you — and, in the case of noncitizen graduate students, your visa sponsor.

The report itself did not recommend imposing any ceiling on graduate training, however, and report co-chair Sally Rockey, NIH deputy director for extramural research, said yesterday that «we did not say we should reduce the numbers» of scientists being trained because that would require a modeling study.

To determine how ESRP1 mutations cause hearing loss Alex Rohacek, a graduate student in the Epstein lab, evaluated embryos in which Esrp1 was deleted in a mouse model developed by the Carstens lab.

The similarities led MBI Principal Investigator, Associate Professor Ronen Zaidel - Bar and graduate student Ms Tan Pei Yi to use the spermatheca as a model to study epithelial tube contraction.

Of the two available models, a dual - degree program is probably the best approach for students interested in basic science, because the choices available for research training are likely to be wider and include more opportunities for basic science and bench research into molecular mechanisms, compared to graduate programs or postdoctoral fellowships linked to post-MD clinical training; the latter is more likely to be focused more on clinic - based studies.

I will eventually go to graduate school, but first, I'd like to help students of color by being a role model and dispelling the myths about majoring in science.

For the study, which was funded by the National Institutes of Health, the researchers followed the progress of 989 graduates of the Chicago Public School District's CPC program, which provided intensive instruction in reading and math from preschool through third grade as part of a school reform model.

«I was shocked at the profound effect phosphorylation had on the Huntington's model mice,» said first author Ian Kratter, MD, PhD, a former graduate student at Gladstone and the University of California, San Francisco.

In our paper — led by University of Arizona graduate student Yifan Zhou — we proposed a model in which HST's detector is like a slope with hidden obstacles (traps).

The NIMBioS GRA program has been dedicated to supporting graduate students in high priority areas, including, but not limited to, computational biology, conservation and natural resource management, STEM education and evaluation, spatial biology and infectious disease modeling.

«I was shocked at the profound effect phosphorylation had on the Huntington's model mice,» said first author Ian Kratter, MD, PhD, a former graduate student at Gladstone and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF).