Sentences with phrase «assessment study of»

The MSF (Ministry of Social and Family Development), in an assessment study of 535 parents, discovered that Triple P actually decreased the cases of behavioral problems among schoolchildren up to 33 % according to The Straits Times.

Design of an ecological momentary assessment study of exposure to radiofrequency electromagnetic fields and non-specific physical symptoms

Mr. Annan says that while the initial plan of the Programme, which included assessment studies of renewable energy potentials and initiatives to boost investment in the area, was quite ambitious, the number of projects actually funded did not meet early expectations.

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The MIT - educated scientist recently told Patch he would bet a $ 10 million building he owns that the agritech giant Monsanto can't disprove his claim that there are no safety assessment standards for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), citing a recent study of his that suggests GMO soybeans may contain harmful levels of a chemical called formaldehyde.

The government said in March that it was studying the dangers posed to wildlife and the environment by the plastic microbeads, and on Thursday said the scientific review was still underway by Environment Canada along with an assessment of triclosan and phthalates.

The 10 - year, $ 25 million toxicological studies are the most comprehensive assessments to date of health effects and exposure to radio frequency radiation in rats and mice, according to the online notice from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, a unit of the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. medical research agency.

Leahy agrees: Personality assessments conducted as part of the Texas A&M University study found that people who are more risk averse and who have more self control were more apt to choose and be successful with the snowball method.

The alert noted that in a recent SEC Office of Compliance Inspections and Examinations study of 75 financial firms, 5 percent of broker - dealers and 26 percent of advisors and investment funds did not conduct periodic risk assessments of critical systems to uncover vulnerabilities, potential business consequences and other cybersecurity threats.

The authors of the study wrote of their findings that they had «obvious industrial applications where an objective assessment of audiovisual material is sought from groups of people, for example, in advertising, video game design or in filmmaking.»

An Ounce of Prevention is Worth a Pound of Cure According to the Kaiser study found that only 14 percent of small businesses offering health benefits to employees also offer health risk assessment.

This odd coupling of open - eyed risk assessment and a willingness to dare anyway is a hallmark of great CEOs, according to Robert Scoble, who studies CEOs for Rackspace.

What seems like a harmless and innovative assessment of basic income could end up being an economic Tuskegee, scarring the people who came to rely on the basic income offered during the study.

GDPR Study Shows 65 % Of Companies Unable To Comply MediaPost reports: «Data Applications provider Solix Technologies released the results Tuesday of a survey outlining the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) readiness assessment, revealing that the majority of organizations are not prepared for May 2018 GDPR enforcement.&raquOf Companies Unable To Comply MediaPost reports: «Data Applications provider Solix Technologies released the results Tuesday of a survey outlining the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) readiness assessment, revealing that the majority of organizations are not prepared for May 2018 GDPR enforcement.&raquof a survey outlining the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) readiness assessment, revealing that the majority of organizations are not prepared for May 2018 GDPR enforcement.&raquof organizations are not prepared for May 2018 GDPR enforcement.»

You are unable to think strategically Robert Kabacoff, Vice President of Research at Management Research Group, a company specialized in creating business assessment tools, conducted a study in 2013 in which 97 % of a group of 10,000 senior executives said that strategic thinking is the most critical leadership skill for an organization's success.

Our empirical studies on the analysis and assessment of entrepreneurial attitudes were conducted on the basis of data published by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development within the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study.

The study implies that transportation companies should start implementing in - depth assessment and treatment of sleep apnea among truck drivers.

Marking the 40th anniversary of the first formal meeting between Canada and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), this comprehensive study provides detailed snapshots of the 10 member economies of ASEAN as well as an assessment of the opportunities they represent for Canada.

This study analyses Canada's energy system, and provides an objective assessment of future options to maintain energy security and meet climate commitments.

The speech assessment exercise became one more action in the service of «contemplation»; it pointed to an individual's need for «perfection» or «purification» by getting minimal instruction in «effectiveness» before studying the more complex, theological act of preaching.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

Furthermore, according to Sen, the study of economics, though directly related to the pursuit of wealth, is at a deeper level linked to other studies which involve the assessment and enhancement of more basic goals.

An assessment of Douglass's contribution both to sociological method and to the study of the local church is contained in Jeffrey K. Hadden, «H. Paul Douglass: His Perspective and His Work,» Review of Religious Research 22 (1980): 66 - 88.

I will sketch my own assessment of the issues emerging from this group's study, thus indicating the type of reflection that is being fed into the World Council's process.

Thompson notes on her blog entry about the study that «sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

While we can infer from this study that some degree of contamination exists in naturally gluten - free grains, seeds, and flours sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

«This study is an inaccurate assessment of human behaviour.

Low - calorie sweeteners are some of the most studied and reviewed ingredients in the food supply today and have passed rigorous safety assessments.

Long - term studies of both problems and potential benefit of Kona coffee drank by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Bronwyn Gallacher,»Em erging characteristics of Australia's supermarket industry - a case study for the ACCC's first ex-post assessment» (2011) 39 ABLR 147

Long - term studies of both risk and potential benefit of drinking Kona by elderly people, including assessment on symptoms of Alzheimer's disease and cognitive impairment, are not conclusive.

Overall and income specific effect on prevalence of overweight and obesity of 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in UK: econometric and comparative risk assessment modelling study

>> Read the complete research study: Endocrine disrupting chemicals and other substances of concern in food contact materials: An updated review of exposure, effect and risk assessment in the Journal of Steroid Biochemistry and Molecular Biology.

The following principles guide and define our approach to learning and teaching: • Every child is capable and competent • Children learn through play, investigation, inquiry and exploration • Children and adults learn and play in reciprocal relationships with peers, family members, and teachers • Adults recognize the many ways in which children approach learning and relationships, express themselves, and represent what they are coming to know • Process is valued, acknowledged, supported, nurtured and studied • Documentation of learning processes acts as memory, assessment, and advocacy • The indoor and outdoor environments, and natural spaces, transform, inform, and provoke thinking and learning • School is a place grounded in the pursuit of social justice, social responsibility, human dignity and respect for all THE CREFELD SCHOOL 8836 Crefeld Street Philadelphia, PA 19118 215-242-5545 www.crefeld.org 7th - 12th grade The Crefeld School is a small, independent, coeducational school, serving approximately 100 students in grades 7 - 12.

While assessment itself is a fiercely debated topic and is the subject of many ongoing studies, the essential goal for any type of assessment is to allow the student to demonstrate her or his understanding.

Standardized Assessment of Concussion or «SAC», Sport Concussion Assessment Tool Version 3 or «SCAT3», the Balance Error Scoring System or «BESS», King - Devick Test», Maddocks» questions) already shown by studies to be reliable in making the initial remove - from - play decision, or one of a number of new assessment screens being developed and tested.

One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

Used in hundreds of research studies across the globe, the NBAS is the most comprehensive neurobehavioral assessment available.

Because kindergarten readiness assessments are not like the rigorous testing that your child will see in higher grades of school, don't worry about having your child study for these tests.

It's conclusions about safety of cytotec use for induction of full - term labor: «There was no difference in serious neonatal or maternal mortality between women receiving misoprostol and women who received prostaglandin E2 or oxytocin; however, most studies were underpowered for this assessment.»

King D, Clark T, Gissanec C. Use of a rapid visual screening tool for the assessment of concussion in amateur rugby league: A pilot study

Infant Mental Health Mentor — Research / Faculty (Level IV) You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.

The draft lacks a clear description of the criteria for eliminating an increasing number of non-GLP studies that indicate the possibility of toxic effects that are not mediated by interaction of BPA with the estrogen receptor, and the Subcommittee does not agree with the exclusion of the non-GLP studies in the safety assessment.

You will provide a research response to a Qualitative Question: You are encouraged to rely on your extensive research and teaching experience in the infant - family field related to the study of pregnancy, infancy, early childhood and early parenthood; attachment security and relationship needs; risk and resiliency in the early years; caregiving practices; early assessment and intervention strategies, and the mental health needs of infants and toddlers, to name a few.

As Larry Leverenz, Ph.D, ATC, a co-author of the groundbreaking 2010 study (4) that was the first to identify such athletes noted, because such athletes have not suffered damage to areas of the brain associated with language and auditory processing, they are unlikely to exhibit clinical signs of head injury (such as headache or dizziness), or show impairment on sideline assessment for concussion, all of which test for verbal, not visual memory.

The co-authors of the study are Mollie Galloway of Lewis and Clark College, an assistant professor who is the director of research and assessment for the graduate school of education; Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education; and Jerusha Conner, an assistant professor of education at Villanova University.

Currently, he has a four - year (ongoing) study that includes yearly assessment of injury risk and a prospective study of injury in Division I athletes across five different sports.

It will outline the highlights of the study but without the necessary emphasis to allow you to make a critical assessment of the results.

A subsequent study from the United Kingdom included additional subjects and additional follow - up assessments at 18 and 30 months.9, 10 Adjusted risk estimates revealed that the risk of ear infections at 18 and 30 months was related to infant sleeping position at age 1 month.

Methods: The current study surveyed fathers attending antenatal classes in public and private hospitals (n = 307) in New South Wales, Australia, using psychosocial questions derived from the questions commonly asked in assessments of mothers.

Another strength is that our results provide a more complete assessment of socioeconomic inequalities in breastfeeding rates, by estimating both relative and absolute inequalities, than common practice in inequality assessments.23 Finally, our study analysed effects of the intervention not only on an immediate, direct outcome (breastfeeding) but also on a long - term consequence of breastfeeding (child cognitive ability) that is associated with important health and behavioural outcomes in later life.27