Sentences with phrase «areas including study»

Within the resource I've covered the most common target areas including study skills, behaviour and communication.

Other topic areas include studying materials that form in temperatures above 2000 °C, using quantum physics to create better computers, and studying how microbial communities may help host organisms respond to stress.

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We have now completed several health studies in partnership with the Geisinger Health System, which provides primary care to over 450,000 patients in Pennsylvania, including many residing in fracking areas.

Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

According to the study, millennial parents are most likely to report having made sacrifices to increase their savings, including cutting back in big spending areas such as dining out, vacations, and entertainment.

Its undergraduate college puts an emphasis on four areas — arts, sciences, international studies, and writing — and offers more than 70 majors, including astronomy, theater studies, and economics.

Additionally, important areas for further study include employment for older workers and individuals with disabilities.

[153] His civic work has involved serving on the boards of several organizations in the New York - New Jersey area, including the New Jersey Performing Arts Center, the New York Philharmonic, the New York Child Study Center and the NYC Partnership.

Their study only went as far as Burnaby and did not include the area from Burnaby to the coast... what kind of study is that when only half the information is provided.

Directing emergency funds to areas hit by natural disasters had traditionally been quick bipartisan exercises, but that changed after Hurricane Katrina in 2005 — when the Republican Study Committee, a group of House conservatives, pushed spending cuts to compensate for the approximately $ 200 billion expected in Katrina relief — including cutting farm subsidies, Amtrak funding and postponing the Medicare prescription - drug bill Republicans had approved two years earlier.

Several denominations have programs through which they encourage their clergymen to engage in continuing education, including clinical training and study in the area of counseling.

Some of the areas to be covered will include economic realities in the global village, capitalism and the distribution of wealth, an examination of the multinational corporation, a case study of neocolonialism, power realities with a developing country, educational realities in the third world, a comparison of values — particularly East Africa and North America.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

It includes on - site and area training, e-learning, self - study courses and professional certifications.

To be included, a study had to compare organic and conventional planting across similarly - sized areas, had to report on the sample size and error margins, and had to use organic methods that complied with the guidelines of certification organisations (such as the UK's Soil Association).

These will include studies of non-game species of birds and mammals and investigation of the rich reptile and amphibian fauna of the area.

In a recent study, WalletHub examined 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 12 key metrics, including the percentage of adults and high school students who are obese and the percentage of people who are physically inactive.

The dates of the twelve studies included within the Wax (2010) analysis is also an area of concern, with eight dating prior to the birth certificate data set change that identified planned from unplanned home births.

Facilities at the site in addition to the lake include: a boathouse, a 2.4 mile bicycle / pedestrian path, picnic areas, playgrounds, boat dock, boat storage, and a nature study area.

For the purposes of this economic evaluation, the forms were initially used in a related study funded by the National Institute of Health Research (NIHR) research for patient benefit programme «assessing the impact of a new birth centre on choice and outcome of maternity care in an inner city area,» which will be reported in full elsewhere, comparing the costs of care in a free standing midwifery unit with care in an obstetric unit in the same trust.16 The data collected included details of staffing levels, treatments, surgeries, diagnostic imaging tests, scans, drugs, and other resource inputs associated with each stage of the pathway through intrapartum and after birth care.

The researchers, which included Emily Garth, BSN, and Abigail Messer, BSN, both graduates of Penn Nursing, collected data by compiling a list of child care centers — a total of 166 in all — in the areas of study (Center City, Philadelphia and West Philadelphia).

The one study they included to try and argue that travel time matters even in highly integrated areas was based in the Netherlands and looked at travel time for all births (not home versus hospital) and was based on travel time of 20 minutes or less versus more than 20 minutes [9].

The study includes: an analysis of the state needs assessments that were provided in the state MIECHV applications and an effectiveness study that includes an impact analysis to measure what difference home visiting programs make for the at - risk families they serve in areas such as prenatal, maternal, and newborn health; child development; parenting; domestic violence; and referrals and service coordination.

The Little Sprouts Cabbage Academy set includes 1 doll and 3 play areas: Flip Up Study Hall, Classroom and Slide Out Playground.

One 2010 study found that women undergo changes in areas of the brain, including the hypothalamus and amygdala, that are critical for emotional regulation.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

More than 100 volunteers have served on nine committees to gather information on proposed improvements to district parks and their facilities, including building natural and local history exhibits at Peck Farm; building athletic fields and environmental study areas; constructing a new swimming pool; repairing the retaining wall around Island Park on the Fox River; renovating old playgrounds and building new ones; restoring tennis courts and building new ones; and expanding the community center.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

The study of North Korea has become academically marginalised into an outlier position in the field of area studies (yet while many specialists, including Robert Litwak in his 2012 compendium, would perceive North Korea as an «outlier state», this assertion is questionable).

The field of political geography — including geopolitics — has witnessed lengthy definitional and procedural debates around the field of area studies.

Program sponsors include UUP Oneonta, SUNY Oneonta Department of Secondary Education and Educational Technology, Hartwick College Education Department, Oneonta Area for Public Education, Gilbertsville - Mount Upton Teachers Association, UUP Cobleskill, Tri-County Women's Coalition, SUNY Oneonta History Department, Sidney Teacher Association, SUNY Oneonta Political Science Department, SUNY Oneonta Department of Africana & Latino Studies, Sherburne - Earlville Teachers Association, SUNY Oneonta Sociology Department, Sidney Teachers Association, Cobleskill - Richmondville Teachers» Association, Norwich Educators Organization, Morris Teachers Association, and Bainbridge - Guilford Teachers Association.

The study goes on to suggest that casino gambling will boost other areas of the economy as well, including the purchases of goods and services, and the horse racing and breeding industries.

The Brookings study found that Buffalo Niagara fared well in exports of services, a category that includes money spent by foreign residents to be educated at area colleges and universities and to receive medical care at institutions here.

Items before the Board included $ 75,000 in funding for Buffalo Niagara Enterprise (BNE) to conduct a Labor Market Assessment study that will shed new light on area talent attraction, underemployment, workforce development, training and employer costs.

During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.

Armed with the feasibility study, the Town of Halfmoon will next discuss a number of issues critical to enabling development in the area, including infrastructure expansion, zoning and permitting.

An education activist in New York for years, Ms. Nixon has also been studying up on other policy areas, including transportation, according to people familiar with her activities.

The study noted limitations, including that because there is no established reference range for total lip surface area modification in the general population, the surface area percentage reduction and augmentation extremes in the morphed faces were generated based on clinical experience of what seemed to be feasible.

The researcher team agreed that including extreme sea levels into coastal impact studies is imperative in helping vulnerable parts of the world effectively protect themselves by adapting through new or upgraded infrastructure such as dikes, pumping systems, barriers, or other tools like new building codes or flood zoning that prevents new infrastructure from being built in high - risk areas.

Global change research encompasses a wide variety of study areas, including atmospheric sciences, ecology, global carbon cycles, climatology, and terrestrial processes.

The study included 3 992 patients who had a cardiac arrest outside hospital in a large urban area and were treated by physician - based emergency medical services between 2002 and 2011.

In their next project, the scientists want to expand their study to include a number of other brain areas that are also active for body recognition.

Other areas of study include tinkering with nanoparticles» shape (a more elongated design could more easily navigate the body) and materials that have a lower molecular weight but pack the same punch.

For example, 10 of the 14 burned areas in the study, which include well - known wildfires like the Moonlight (2007) and Power (2009) fires, did not meet Forest Service stocking density thresholds for mixed conifer forests, making them good candidates for replanting and restoration efforts.

A new University of Colorado Boulder study comparing dissolved black carbon deposition on ice and snow in ecosystems around the world (including Antarctica, the Arctic, and alpine regions of the Himalayas, Rockies, Andes, and Alps) shows that while concentrations vary widely, significant amounts can persist in both pristine and non-pristine areas of snow.

The maximum amount of the 2 - year scholarship will triple, to $ 10,000 a year, and the areas of study that can be supported will be expanded to include more fields in which job demand is high, McBride says.

Bowen's lab studied several sigma receptor areas, including signal - transduction pathways, novel binding elements (both agonists and antagonists), and clinical applications.

The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single - cell level: elucidating dispersity within melanic immortalized cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.

In a related study published recently in the journal Child Abuse and Neglect, Valentino found that maltreating parents, many of whom had experienced childhood trauma, could successfully be taught to use more elaborative and emotion - rich reminiscing with their preschool - aged children, which has been linked to a children's subsequent cognitive abilities in a number of areas including memory, language and literacy development.

The study included 2,520 older adults (65 to 84 years) from September 1993 through July 2003 from the greater Salisbury, Md., area.