Sentences with phrase «best group of participants»

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If you'd still like to get a group together to bounce some ideas around, try to keep the number of participants limited to a very select group who are best suited to generate ideas on a specific topic — meaning they have some expertise in the area.

«Hedge funds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Association.

Participants in the latest round include Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant Salesforce (CRM).

Groups of participants with varied testosterone levels were better at the cooperative task than groups made up solely of high - testosterone or low - testosterone indiviGroups of participants with varied testosterone levels were better at the cooperative task than groups made up solely of high - testosterone or low - testosterone indivigroups made up solely of high - testosterone or low - testosterone individuals.

In one lab study, a group of participants received emails from friends, family and co-workers describing a time they witnessed the individual performing at his or her best, while another group did not.

The Series A funding, which allowed the company to gain $ 10.2 million, saw a number of noteworthy participants: existing investors such as 1776 and BBG Ventures, as well as new investors that include Pritzker Group Venture Capital and Greycroft Partners.

Market participants convened by the Treasury Department and the Structured Finance Industry Group, a trade association, have made useful recommendations on how best to balance the demands of lenders, packagers and investors.

If you have a group of people who want to do that, who want to be a participant in that, who themselves want and know what it's like, then, what they're like, that you can do that in partnership with this radical transparency so they can know their strengths and weaknesses, and that you can put together teams of people better.

I am sure that the funding for the new Royal Alberta Museum will be a topic of discussion among the participants (as well as City Council's vote to allocate more than $ 450 million to support the proposed Katz Group Arena — more on that later).

A useful group - life checklist allowing participants to rate a group on communication, acceptance of persons, leadership, climate of relationships, and other aspects can be found in Philip Anderson's Church Meetings that Matter.10 Evaluation is not a frill; rather it is essential to discovering what you are accomplishing in groups and how you can do better.

This is much to be regretted, not for any reasons of personal ambition, which I abjure completely, but because in the cause of postpartisanship (if not postmodernism) I believe a participant from the Culture 11 group (may it rest in peace) would add immeasurably to the depth of the dialogue going on within the administration, mixing it up with the likes of Susan Rice and Samantha Power (reminding them there was a free election in Iraq on Saturday), or with Lawrence Summers (recalling to him, since he failed so conspicuously in stimulating the women at Harvard, how one might do better with the economy).

Challenging the best in Europe will indicate winning our own league and reasoning in the mind of Barca, Real M, Bayern M and more as a «major» treat to their European aspirations... Not just a silent participant pushed aside easily and just competing to get the rewarding money of exiting the group stage (which we are doing right now since we can not imagine winning the greatest trophy in club football).

Toward the end of the session, the well - caffeinated group of anxious participants became silent as the instructor moved on to the last topic of the session, shaken baby syndrome.

Consumers advocating for services that promote natural birth with the support of well organised consumer groups have become active participants in decision making regarding future policy direction.

This classic 2 hour lecture was filmed when Jane Nelsen had children at home and shared many of the personal stories of how she used Positive Discipline tools with her own family — as well as examples from participants in her parenting groups.

Additional participants in the Jamaica Now Planning Initiative include: 165th Street Business Improvement District, 180th Street Business Improvement District, Jamaica Center Business Improvement District and Sutphin Boulevard Business Improvement District, A Better Jamaica, A Better Way Family & Community Center, Addisleigh Park Civic Association, Alliance of South Asian American Laborers, America Works, Antioch Baptist Church, Brinkerhoff Action Associates, Inc., Center for Integration & Advancement for New Americans, Center for New York City Neighborhoods, Chhaya Community Development Corporation, Citizens Housing & Planning Council, Community Healthcare Network of New York City, Cultural Collaborative Jamaica, Damian Family Care Center, Edge School of the Art, Exploring the Metropolis, Farmers Boulevard Community Development Corporation, First Presbyterian Church in Jamaica, Fortune Society, Goodwill Industries of Greater New York & New Northern New Jersey, Greater Allen Development Corporation, Greater Triangular Civic Association, Indo Caribbean Alliance, Jamaica Center for Arts & Learning, Jamaica Hospital, Jamaica Muslim Center; Jamaica Performing Arts Center, Jamaica YMCA, King Manor, LaGuardia Community College Adult & Continuing Education, Mutual Housing Association of New York, Neighborhood Housing Services Jamaica, New York Alliance for Careers in Healthcare, Queens College, Queens Council on the Arts, Queens Economic Development Corporation, Queens Hospital, Queens Legal Services, Queens Library; Queens Workforce1 Center, SelfHelp, Sikh Cultural Society, Sunnyside Community Services, Inc., The Jamaica Young Professionals, The Jamaica Youth Leaders, The Tate Group, Upwardly Global, Visiting Nurse Service of New York, and Y - Roads.

This made for real involvement in the process and was a great way of breaking the ice between all the participants before our well - deserved dinner as one group.

«We hypothesized that yoga participants would show lower depression severity over time as assessed by the Quick Inventory of Depression Symptomatology (QIDS), as well as better social and role functioning, better general health perceptions and physical functioning, and less physical pain relative to the control group,» said Dr. Uebelacker.

Based on their scores, participants were divided into three groups — poor sense of smell, medium and good.

Researchers from Harvard Chan School and Brigham and Women's Hospital examined the relationship between types of fats in the participants» diets and overall deaths among the group during the study period, as well as deaths due to cardiovascular disease (CVD), cancer, neurodegenerative disease, and respiratory disease.

Study participants were randomly assigned to one of three treatment groups for six months: (1) oral estradiol and progesterone at a dose similar to that in many birth control pills (16 participants); (2) transdermal estradiol, better known as the estrogen patch, at a physiological replacement dose with cyclic progesterone (13 athletes); or (3) no estrogen (19 subjects).

The findings — gathered from just over 300 participants in three age groups averaging 8, 12 and 13 years old — have implications for marketers as well as parents navigating a world where children encounter cartoon characters in a variety of media, from books to graphic novels, TV shows, video games, movies and more.

In a presentation in January at the Society for Personality and Social Psychology conference, researchers Juliana Breines and Serena Chen described a set of experiments in which they asked one group of participants to give support to another person, such as writing down suggestions to make a friend feel better after causing a fender bender.

«Although electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling interventions may have effects on participants among subgroups of university students or among other groups, the results of this study and others suggest that the effect of this type of intervention among university students is modest at best,» write Timothy S. Naimi, M.D., M.P.H., of Boston Medical Center, Boston, and Thomas B. Cole, M.D., M.P.H., of JAMA, Chicago, in an accompanying editorial.

This showed that the two participant groups were similarly good at inhibiting interfering stimulus features in the bulk of their responses.

At the end of the study, the participants in the intervention group displayed significant improvements in their overall cognitive performance as well as in specific domains, such as cognitive speed, visual learning, and memory.

Moreover, the study group itself, in which 74 of the 96 participants were university students, may not be a good sample, she suggests.

In a follow - up study, the researchers were able to examine the word associations of a group of 324 participants and, by using machine - learning algorithms, predict their political leanings and what party they belonged to, as well as which candidate they were likely to vote for in the presidential elections.

On the last afternoon of each school, the groups presented their work to the other participants as well as special guests from local authorities, industry, and the RENKEI universities.

Study participants in all three groups had better blood glucose readings when they consumed less than an ounce of apple cider vinegar with a high - carb meal (a white bagel with butter and orange juice), compared to when they the had the same meal and drank a placebo.

You will also have the support of the other class participants each week as well as my private Facebook group that is just for RESTARTers.

The researchers studied the existing lifestyles of all of the participants in both groups as well as giving them various health tests, including weigh - ins.

Yoga group participants reported fewer nonfatal «device - treated ventricular events» compared to controls as well as lower reported shock anxiety at the end of the study.

To top it all off, participants in the intervention group noted an increased quality of life, better self - efficacy with nutrition, and higher self - esteem.

The female group, however, respond positively to the camu camu extract only in four of the ten participants, with lower blood pressure rates in general, as well as discrepancies between systolic and diastolic pressure.

The keto diet meal plan significantly reduced the weight, percentage of body fat and BMI of the participants who followed this dietary pattern, better than the group that did physical exercise.

The eclectic group of participants ranged from comedians like Nick Kroll, Paul Scheer, and Ben Schwartz to voice talents like Seth Green and Ralph Garman, and even Boy Meets World's Danielle Fishel was thrown in for good measure.

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Ask participants to talk in small groups about what evidence they saw of a good project (for example, the project revolved around a real - world topic; students were involved in project definition by suggesting questions; experts were included).

In this online course, participants learn how to create «cultures of thinking,» communities where a group's collective as well as individual thinking is valued, visible, and actively promoted every day.

For one group of participants, employees helped fill out the 102 - question Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) that serves as the critical application and gatekeeper for federal aid, as well as most state and institutional aid.

In the absence of well - considered, adequately funded programs, new teachers are thrust into a classroom, assigned a nominal teacher «mentor» who has a full teaching load of his or her own, and perhaps invited to attend a support group for novice teachers, where participants meet at the end of a school day and often sit in a circle and wonder why they don't get the professional support they need.

Announced live today on Blue Peter, participants aged 6 - 15 will have until Friday 10 February to submit their designs with the best ten entries from three age groups selected to go before a second round of judging.

The online curriculum vault includes thousands of videos of master teachers delivering lessons, and interactive web sites host discussion groups (most enable participants to view as well as hear and read each other).

A study that assessed the enduring effects of the Seattle Social Development Project — another elementary school program — on former participants at age 18 found lower rates of violent behavior, heavy drinking, and sexual activity, as well as higher academic motivation and achievement, for program participants relative to comparison group students (Hawkins, Catalano, Kosterman, Abbot, & Hill, 1999).

Academic data was collected on approximately 900 participants of the program in 2007 as well as a comparison group comprised of approximately 700 DPS students who did not attend the program and were of similar academic proficiency, grade level, gender, race / ethnicity and free and reduced lunch status.

President Trump and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with a carefully selected group of 10 teachers and parents at the White House on Tuesday, a list of participants that reveals a good deal about the administration's education priorities.

The effect of the Nurse - Family Partnership on African - American boys specifically has not been isolated, but in one study in Memphis — where the participants were overwhelmingly African - American (though not all boys)-- the children whose parents participated in the program performed significantly better during their first years at school than did those in the control group.

Participants will focus on team teaching and how to facilitate in a small group or pair to best serve the outcomes and goals of their programming.

Evaluation efforts included observations, surveys, and focus groups with face - to - face as well as online course participants, and in addition to examining the unique outcomes for each course offering, compared findings across programs of different lenghts and formats.