Sentences with phrase «because of academic studies»

In most cases, the teams dissolved because of academic studies or to earn money with more «serious» work than games.

Not exact matches

Indeed, though an 2014 academic study of bridge failures found roughly 120 bridges collapse or partially collapse every year, most do so because of floods, fires and collisions rather than structural decline.

She doesn't read a lot of books or spend dozens of hours each week studying... but she always knows more theology than I do, and always asks penetrating questions which shoot holes through all my acadamagician ideas (Yes, I just coined that term... it's a cross between academic and magician... because that's what most theology is.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

I refer readers there because you get a synopsis of peer - reviewed research from a credible academic, and you get the citations to track the studies down if you want to.

«We were really surprised and disappointed because we had hoped that limiting pacifiers would improve breast - feeding rates,» says Dr. Carrie Phillipi, an associate professor of pediatrics at OHSU and co-author of the study, which was presented Monday at the annual meeting of the Pediatric Academic Societies in Boston.

The results of the new study are notable because positive effects of an intervention, especially one that aims to improve self - regulation and academic achievement, can be difficult for researchers to find, said McClelland, the Katherine E. Smith Healthy Children and Families Professor in the College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

«We studied soccer players because soccer is the world's most popular sport,» said Michael L. Lipton, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of Einstein's Gruss Magnetic Resonance Research Center and medical director of MRI services at Montefiore, the University Hospital and academic medical center for Einstein.

The academics studied afternoon bird numbers — which tend to be lower than birds generally seen in the morning — because are more in keeping with the number of birds that people are likely to see in their neighbourhood on a daily basis.

Young scientists studying or performing research in a country where the meetings have one or more official academic partners and who can not get nominated because of their nationality (so - called ex-pats) may apply via «Open Application».

«And even if you do get to the point of being committed,» said author Aditi Paul in an academic study on the effectiveness of online dating, «you can cop out easily, without too many mental scars, because you know you can reactivate your profile and there will be a bunch of others waiting for you.»

First, ethnographic studies have suggested that black students are less inclined to try hard in school because their peers may view academic effort as characteristic of «acting white.»

There is no national standard for a «high quality» charter school, but U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan wants one because recent studies have raised concerns that dozens of charter schools fall short of academic standards and are financially troubled.

Like ELA and math, SEL supports social studies instruction because it engages students in learning and deepens their understanding of academic material.

FairTest goes on to explain that schools are moving away from the use of standardized tests because academic studies have consistently shown that «Test Scores Do Not Equal Merit» and are not appropriate or correct indicators of how students will actually do in college.

Because the strategy is likely to work only in districts that have other schools with higher academic achievement and space for more students, the results of this Chicago study are not surprising.

Public school teachers in the District of Columbia are improving their performance because they're motivated by the possibility of substantial pay raises or because they don't want to get fired, according to an academic study of the groundbreaking teacher - evaluation system implemented by former schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.

It is also because students studying abroad have to bear plenty of expenses during their academic studies.

Also, a lot of students can not concentrate on their studies sometimes because of their tight academic and non-academic schedules.

You have engaged in death threats and board bannings and tens of thousands of acts of defamation and threats to get academic researchers fired from their jobs because you want to cover up the errors in the Old School safe withdrawal rate studies, right?

At the ripe old age of 29, I was learning a lot, and possibly more than the rest of my classmates, because I had spent a lot of time studying investments already, both on an academic and practical basis.

2 April: SMH: Peter Hannam: «Conspiracist» climate change study withdrawn amid legal threats Climate change academics say the decision by a publisher to retract their paper examining the links between conspiracy theorists and denial of global warming because of legal threats could have a «chilling effect» on research... «Sadly, it has turned into a routine for outsiders with no scientific standing to approach, bully, or intimidate journals, editors, and academics,» said Professor Lewandowsky, now at the UK's University of Bristol.

Reading the group's press releases it does seem that they even had a hand in getting the president of the United States to sic a taxpayer - funded agency on a foreign academic study about a foreign country's experience with its own policies, because said academic team and its writings threaten the welfare if the word gets out.

The researchers acknowledged the challenges involved with the study as well; they weren't able to use traditional methods of gathering data because most academics won't cite Wikipedia as a source.

Often children with these problems have trouble achieving in school, may have difficulty with peers, struggle with low self - esteem because of the academic and social difficulties, and may present with poor organizational and study skills.