Sentences with phrase «at academic data»

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After finishing three degrees at the University of Toronto, she co-founded Insight Data Science, a Silicon Valley education startup that helped PhDs transition from academic research to careers in industry.

«Through the defendants» activities, the Mabna Institute stole more than 31 terabytes of academic data and intellectual property from universities, and email accounts of employees at private sector companies, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations,» according to the indictment.

Many institutions still lack the technological infrastructure needed to harness their own researchers» mammoth data sets, let alone those at other academic centers; fixing that alone could present medical science with one of the greatest research opportunities in decades.

GSR was a company led by a seemingly reputable academic at an internationally renowned institution who made explicit contractual commitments to us regarding the its legal authority to license data to SCL Elections.

And while Kogan maintained he had never drawn a salary from the work he did for SCL — saying his reward was «to keep the data», and get to use it for academic research — he confirmed SCL did pay GSR # 230,000 at one point during the project; a portion of which he also said eventually went to pay lawyers he engaged «in the wake» of Facebook becoming aware that data had been passed to SCL / CA by Kogan — when it contacted him to ask him to delete the data (and presumably also to get him to sign the NDA).

Jackie has worked for governmental, academic, advocacy and commercial organizations in delivering ESG - related research and analytical data solutions and is a graduate of Rhodes University, Said Business School (University of Oxford), a Rhodes Scholar, and former Junior Research Fellow at the ESRC Centre for Business Research, University of Cambridge.

«You can't just have outside academics come in and look at people's data, right?

An academic researcher at Cambridge University built an app called thisisyourdigitallife, which offered to pay Facebook users to take a personality test and agree to share that data for academic use.

Aleksandr Kogan, a Russian - American academic at Cambridge University, got permission from Facebook to pull data via an app he created — but he reportedly claimed he'd use this data only for academic purposes, not commercial ones.

Since conceptual capacities needed to understand God include capacities that are «existentially» significant while at the same time fully as rational and as rigorously disciplined as any other capacities to understand anything else, can academic schooling be understood adequately simply as the acquisition of capacities for disciplined accumulation and mastery of data and capacities for critical and self - critical theorizing (cf the «Berlin» model)?

EFA has been also been working with provider associations during the 2014 to 2015 academic year on improving the quality of data received at R04 and R06.

EFA is currently looking at ways of allocating place funding in the academic year 2016 to 2017 and encouraging institutions to focus on recording accurate data on high needs students in 2014 to 2015.

This paper was discussed, and further examples of data breaks across the public sector were explored, at a seminar at LSE in April, attended by senior civil servants and academics.

At think tanks and policy shops, however, the more - academic dedication to thorough and detailed data is already there.

At the time, the company had access to Facebook data that had been obtained by a researcher for academic purposes and improperly shared with Cambridge Analytica, Facebook executives said last week.

Academics at Essex University have analysed the 2010 general election results together with survey data on voters» second and third preferences, and estimated that the Lib Dems would have gained an extra 32 seats under AV.

His colleague, MIT professor and Data - Pop Alliance academic director Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has called for a «new deal on data,» a set of workable guarantees that the data needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freeData - Pop Alliance academic director Alex «Sandy» Pentland, has called for a «new deal on data,» a set of workable guarantees that the data needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freedata,» a set of workable guarantees that the data needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freedata needed for public goods are readily available while, at the same time, protecting personal privacy and freedom.

For all its promise, though, big data also poses a real danger to academic science, warns Jake VanderPlas, a postdoc in astronomy and computer science at the University of Washington, in an illuminating essay on his Pythonic Perambulations blog.

Led by Dr Steven Marwaha, a clinical academic Psychiatrist, the research analysed data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children and found that teenage cannabis use at least 2 - 3 times weekly is directly associated with suffering from symptoms of hypomania in later years.

On 25 February 2002, a group of prominent academic and industrial scientists, funders, and journal editors gathered at the National Academy of Sciences headquarters in Washington, D.C., to discuss the sharing of scientific data and materials.

Experiments are conducted at the academic laboratory, and Lilly scientists contribute data analysis, project planning, and other virtual activities.

The survey, conducted by a health - policy group led by David Blumenthal at the Massachusetts General Hospital, found that almost 20 % of the 2167 academic life scientists who responded to a questionnaire said they had delayed publication of data by more than 6 months.

The data provided by the individual schemes presented at the conference should persuade other HE institutions that they need to adopt policies that increase the visibility of women in scientific academic posts.

The study analyzed data regarding surgical outcomes — complications, serious complications, and mortality — in over 345,000 patients treated between 2009 and 2013 at academic hospitals throughout the United States.

Schmidt, research group leader at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Environmental Sciences at the University of Zurich and academic associate for the Swiss Amphibian and Reptile Conservation Programme, says, «Our mark - and - recapture data shows that only 13 percent of the infected salamanders survive over a 10 - day period.»

The researchers, from academic medical centers and private practice, looked at insurance claims data from a large nationwide employment - based database of medical claims.

At the same meeting, Molly E. Reusser of Academic Network in Portland, Ore., and David A. McCarron of the University of California, Davis reviewed data on hypertension.

We have compiled a list of the 50 most followed scientists on the social media platform and their academic citation counts — and calculated their K - index by drawing on citation data from Google Scholar (A fuller explanation of how we compiled the list is below, at the end of the full story).

Data items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time studeData items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time studedata on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time students.

Eight of the 12 PDAs were at universities (five of which were private) and collected data from across academic departments, divisions, and schools.

But in the future, «general purpose search engines may become so advanced that there's no need for academic engines,» notes Daniel Himmelstein, a data scientist at UPenn.

Commercial work now accounts for 93 percent of the archaeological research done in the United Kingdom, and academics must take note of the data generated by contract units, says Kenneth Aitchison, head of projects and professional development at the Institute for Archaeologists, the body representing commercial archaeologists in Britain.

Stephanie Anzman - Frasca, Ph.D., of ChildObesity180, Tufts University, Boston, and co-authors used data from 446 public elementary schools in a large, urban school district in the United States to look at the impact of BIC on participation in the School Breakfast Program (SBP), school attendance and academic achievement.

In the current study, all data were collected at a single, large academic medical center in the U.S.

In the 2007 - 2008 academic year, for instance, awards supported research on topics such as the imaging of brain regions involved in the learning of words, the relation between memory and the growth of brain cells in adulthood, the neural activity behind birdsongs and the processing of sensory data in the brains of infants at risk for autism.

Over the past decade, my research has focused on the academic, social, and civic development of immigrant youth, specifically the ways in which schools Chief Architect and Vice President of Innovation, Phill Lawson - Shanks, to Present at The 6th Annual Provider Forum on Financing & Investing in Data Centers

In choosing which schools to cover, we review at least three years» worth of academic and behavioral data to see if the school is outperforming others in the state or showing strong growth.

Harvard Graduate School of Education will work with the Strategic Education Research Partnership and other partners to complete a program of work designed to a) investigate the predictors of reading comprehension in 4th - 8th grade students, in particular the role of skills at perspective - taking, complex reasoning, and academic language in predicting deep comprehension outcomes, b) track developmental trajectories across the middle grades in perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension, c) develop and evaluate curricular and pedagogical approaches designed to promote deep comprehension in the content areas in 4th - 8th grades, and d) develop and evaluate an intervention program designed for 6th - 8th grade students reading at 3rd - 4th grade level.The HGSE team will take responsibility, in collaboration with colleagues at other institutions, for the following components of the proposed work: Instrument development: Pilot data collection using interviews and candidate assessment items, collaboration with DiscoTest colleagues to develop coding of the pilot data so as to produce well - justified learning sequences for perspective - taking, complex reasoning, academic language skill, and deep comprehension.Curricular development: HGSE investigators Fischer, Selman, Snow, and Uccelli will contribute to the development of a discussion - based curriculum for 4th - 5th graders, and to the expansion of an existing discussion - based curriculum for 6th - 8th graders, with a particular focus on science content (Fischer), social studies content (Selman), and academic language skills (Snow & Uccelli).

Goldhaber and Walch use a variety of data sets to look at demographic and academic changes in the teaching profession.

And of the students who score well on the PSAT / NMSQT, indicating a 70 percent likelihood of thriving in an AP course, of those students, six out of ten Asians will take an AP course, [compared with] four out of ten white students and two out of ten African American students... In other words there is a racial break among kids who could achieve at a high level and are being propelled into more challenging academic experiences; that data needs to be understood.

According to the most recent data, 81 percent of high school students are taking an academic route; only 19 percent are «concentrating» in CTE (which means earning at least three credits in a single CTE program area).

Another research team at the University of Arkansas was simultaneously evaluating the same program and presenting early findings at academic conferences, but elected to hold off on publishing their results until they could include a second year of outcome data.

A Rising Tide Harvard Gazette, 6/12/14 «Researchers at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) have studied the first round of academic achievement data to come out of Lawrence since the turnaround effort started.

The effect of the Ebac in schools — the use of a metric calculated by awarding points to examination points at GCSE level in five key «academic» subjects in order to provide data to inform the creation of school league tables, has massively reduced the overall GCSE entry.

Through a web - based tool, they collect college financing, academic progress, and situational data from students at designated points during the academic year.

In a new study presented at the this year's fall research conference of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management in Chicago, we used data from CORE Districts, to assess whether there are systematic mindset differences present in the US population within and across schools, and whether holding a growth mindset predicts academic achievement gains of students.

Based at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and supported by the Ford Foundation, COACHE is committed to gathering the peer diagnostic and comparative data academic administrators need to recruit, retain, and develop the cohort most critical to the long - term future of their institutions.

In this webinar, the former chief academic officer for Partnerships to Uplift Communities Schools and now the current chief implementation officer at BloomBoard, Kelly Montes De Oca, will discuss how you can drive more effective professional learning across your school or district by using a framework for instructional improvement focused on data and mastery rather than seat time and credit hours.

Using data collected at EF centers in different parts of the world, the project focused on adolescents» academic writing proficiencies across different first languages / cultures (China, Russia, U.S.) and across different types of texts.

At NCES as well, the survey data collection is guided by the interests of the academic community.