Sentences with phrase «brief studies by»

After a series of brief studies by infrared instruments carried on sounding rockets had detected about 4,000 celestial sources of infrared radiation, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands built IRAS to map the sky at infrared wavelengths of 12, 25, 60, and 100 micrometres.

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An early, outsourced clinical research study with real patients was encouraging, but there are many potential pitfalls yet to come, said University of North Carolina diabetes researcher Dr. John Buse, who was briefed by Google on the lens last week.

Conveniently, that post links to studies, but not the IWPR's analysis, but rather to a brief commentary by a researcher from the Economic Policy Institute in 2011 that doesn't mention what a higher wage will do to poverty levels.

Written by NCEO founder Corey Rosen, this issue brief discusses as of mid-2016 the extent and growth of employee ownership; survey data on ESOPs and corporate governance as well as ESOPs and executive compensation; research on the effect of ESOPs on corporate performance; the 2012 shared capitalism study of Great Place to Work applicants; data on employee ownership and employee financial well - being; the NCEO's analysis of data on ESOPs and default rates; trends in broad - based equity compensation plans; equity compensation and corporate performance; the impact of ESOPs and other broad - based plans on unemployment; legislative and regulatory issues for employee ownership; and international developments in broad - based plans.

This course aims to assist entrepreneurs looking to bring their innovative medical devices to market, either locally or abroad, by providing «market backgrounders» for these six countries, along with brief case studies.

In Japanese Music and Musical Instruments, by William P. Malm, there is a brief chapter on Buddhist religious music, and a little information can be gleaned from the notes accompanying recordings of Japanese music by Folkways (FR8980), but the study of music in the Buddhism of China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet has not yet been written.

In attempting to look at that issue I must begin with a very brief summary of what has happened to the Bible, thanks to a hundred years of careful critical study by experts who have brought to their study all the resources available, including linguistic, historical, literary, and many other types of knowledge.

Camus's image has been somewhat distorted, especially in the United States, by the fact that many students who study French only read — often fruitlessly — his brief existential novel The Stranger.

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New study shows father - inclusive perinatal classes improve births New research has shown that Family Foundations — the brief series of classes for first - time parents offered in the UK by the Fatherhood Institute — improves birth outcomes as well as easing the transition to parenthood.

Yes, there is common non-compliance of WHO Code and Yes, the audit found that Nestlé provided free Infant Formula to a hospital in a study carried out in a very brief period of 5 days (17 - 22 August), by Bureau Veritas.

The Yale researchers who conducted one of the studies his research pulled from responded to his use of their work by saying, «Our paper is not referring to routine, brief stressful experiences, but to abuse and neglect.

The charity First Steps Nutrition Trust critically appraises studies cited by companies and has produced a briefing on Partially hydrolysed whey based infant formula and the prevention of allergy: A summary of current evidence and policy.

A recent study shows that a brief intervention encouraging teachers to respond with empathy to misbehaving students was able to reduce middle school suspension rates by half.

This study was excluded as it examined a brief educational intervention by midwives advising mothers on the correct positioning of the baby for breastfeeding.

A prospectus highlighted by the British Humanist Association said: «If and when teachers are required by the curriculum to convey teachings that are totally against Islam (Darwinism, for example), the director of Islamic Studies will brief the relevant teachers and advise accordingly.»

We must equally take collective interest in the annual national budget to ensure that states in the southwest are adequately taken care of as this must be done by using our technical people to study the budget on our behalf and brief us appropriately.

He added that «having studied the petitions submitted and the detailed briefing by the Hon. Minister for Regional Reorganization and Development, it is of the unanimous opinion that there is a substantial demand for the creation of new regions.»

Spokesman of the opposition political parties in the state, Umar Farouk Ibrahim, while briefing newsmen in Kaduna said that after a critical study of Mallam Nasir Ahmed El - Rufai's activities and programmes as regard the local government elections in the state and SIECOM's activities directed by governor El - Rufai, it was very clear that the governor is not interested and willing to conduct local government poll within the period of his administration.

This latest research by HKU astronomers promises a new era in our ability to study and understand this fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

By studying these chemical signatures in the ash layer, Lane's team was able to estimate that Toba's eruption caused a minor, brief cooling of about 1.5 °C over a period of 20 to 30 years (PNAS, doi.org/mdw).

«Based on previous studies published by our group and others, we predicted that a brief sleep disturbance prior to surgery would worsen postoperative pain,» Vanini says.

In a study published by the psychologists Kurt Gray of the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and Daniel Wegner (now deceased) in 2012, participants watched a brief video of a robot's head either from the front, where they could see its «human» face, or from behind, where they saw electrical components.

The study, conducted by the BICEP2 team that claimed the discovery and scientists with the Planck space telescope, nullifies a result that would have provided the first direct evidence of cosmological inflation, a brief moment after the Big Bang when the universe rapidly ballooned in size.

First, allthe news reports for this study are based on a short presentation at a nationalmeeting, accompanied by only a brief written description of the study.

The crisis response plan was a central ingredient of another successful treatment developed by many of the same researchers at the National Center for Veterans Studies — brief cognitive behavioral therapy — which contributed to a 60 percent reduction in suicide attempts among active duty soldiers.

Previous studies have proven the benefits of vigorous stair climbing over sustained periods of time — up to 70 minutes a week — but scientists set out to determine if sprint interval training (SIT), which involves brief bursts of vigorous exercise separated by short periods of recovery, was an effective and time - efficient alternative for improving cardiorespiratory fitness.

David Harris, co — editor - in - chief of The Journal of Brief Ideas, which publishes 200 - word papers, says he is not surprised by the study's findings.

The March 31 briefing, «The Business Case for Carbon Capture and Sequestration,» was sponsored by the Center for Strategic and International Studies in partnership with the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, the British Foreign Office, and the Mission of the United States of America to the European Union.

The scale of bleaching has been rising steadily in the last four decades, a study author tells Carbon Brief, with the global proportion of coral being hit by bleaching per year rising from 8 % in the 1980s to 31 % in 2016.

This policy brief is based on findings from a two - year study of how L.A. County residents eligible for Cal MediConnect made their decisions, conducted by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research in partnership with the Westside Center for Independent Living and a community advisory group of five consumers and five stakeholders.

Studies on brief «interpersonal» therapy (which emphasizes current stressful events and better coping strategies) and cognitive therapy (which addresses our negative thoughts about ourselves and our lives) show that these approaches, by themselves, have benefits that are at least as impressive as those that may come from drugs.

One study from the University of California, Irvine, found that a brief workout can improve memory in older men and women (50 to 85 years old) due to the enhanced release of the hormone norepinephrine, which is an important chemical messenger in the brain, while another study from the Georgia Institute of Technology has proven that working out regularly for as little as 20 minutes can boost the long - term memory by around 10 %.

A 2006 study by Martin Gibala, a physiologist at McMaster University in Ontario, showed that a 3 - minute sequence on a stationary bicycle — 30 seconds of maximal effort pedaling, followed by a brief rest, repeated five or six times — led to the same health benefits as 90 to 120 minutes of steady - state cycling.

In a study involving rats, researchers discovered that young male rats respond to normal episodes of hypoxia, or brief periods of oxygen deprivation, during sleep by increasing brain activity to take deeper and more frequent breaths.

One study found that 10 - 15 minutes of brief muscle contractions increased lymph flow by 300 - 600 % [4].

Fronted by Namkje Koudenburg and her colleagues at the University of Groningen, the study found that uninterrupted conversations are connected with feelings of belonging and self - esteem, whereas those bedraggled by brief silences conjure up negative emotions and feelings of rejection.

RESEARCH BRIEF — May 5 — Among a new study «Exploring the Link Between Customer Care and Brand Reputation in the Age of Social Media,» by the Society for New Communications Research, there is a growing group of consumers using social media to research companies.

The studies, commissioned by The Civil Rights Project at Harvard University, will be presented at a policy briefing in Washington, D.C. on January 7, 2000 cosponsored by the American Youth Policy Forum.

The brief progress report on student performance in those subjects, released last week by the U.S. Department of Education, is the latest study of scores in the long - term trends analysis that uses National Assessment of Educational Progress tests.

The girls are studying a picture of two characters named Gerry and Perry who, according to a brief narrative written by another group of students, have been fighting.

In these studies (separated by a year and composed of a separate set of students), seventh - grade students at a racially diverse middle school in the northeast United States were randomly assigned to self - affirm or not to self - affirm as part of a brief classroom exercise.

This brief, distributed by MDRC, summarizes findings from the four - year random assignment study, which involved 952 youth.

A 2015 research brief by the Texas Center for Education Policy surveyed voucher studies finding that the most - disadvantaged students do not access vouchers (Jabbar, 2015).

A 2011 meta - analysis study of more than 30 studies (including the oft - cited 2011 Friedman Foundation Report) by the Center for Education Policy found that «the empirical evidence on vouchers is inconclusive and further found that any gains in student achievement are modest if they exist at all» (amicus brief, Schwartz v. López, 2016).

Their results have just been published as a policy brief (not a peer - reviewed study) by Johns Hopkins.

Summary: This article reports on a research brief — the product of a year of work by 28 academic researchers who study issues like student motivation, school climate, and social - emotional learning.

View brief vignettes, or use the search engine at right to find more in - depth case studies, filtered by grade level, demographics, subject area, and more.

This week's brief includes new research from a February 2018 study that found «that the implementation of DACA significantly improved attendance and graduation rates among Hispanic high school students, with the gap in high school completion between undocumented Hispanic young people and their citizen peers shrinking by 40 percent.