Sentences with phrase «by study groups»

The meeting notes and action plans completed by the study groups, along with the monthly notes and end - of - year report completed by the facilitators, were used to further describe the extent of implementation of the change process at the project schools.

As Darling - Hammond et al. (2009) argue: «The duration of professional development appears to be associated with stronger impact on teachers and student learning — in part, perhaps, because such sustained efforts typically include applications to practice, often supported by study groups and / or coaching.»

But even insiders now question the accuracy of numbers released by study groups.

Unsolicited adverse events were balanced by study groups and were representative of local patterns of childhood illnesses.

This report - prepared by a Study Group chaired by Denis Beau (Bank of France)- assesses changes in the supply of and demand for market - making services as well as their potential impact on fixed income markets.

2 The report, entitled Market - making and proprietary trading: industry trends, drivers and policy implications, was prepared by a Study Group chaired by Denis Beau (Bank of France).

Working with NASA on its Wide - Field Infrared Survey Telescope (WFIRST) mission, due to launch sometime after 2020 (see «Mapping the Dark,» page 47), Perlmutter will help choose between the different models by studying groups of supernovae that lie farther out in space than any yet studied, following the universe's expansion history back in time.

Another problem is that modeling studies, like this one, are inherently less powerful than other kinds of medical research: randomized clinical trials, the gold standard in medical research, in which patients are randomly assigned different treatments or no treatment; case - control studies, which compare patients who have a condition with those who do not; or cohort studies, which determine the risk of contracting a disease by studying a group of people with similar demographics.

There were also changes in the levels of plasma Aβ levels by study group.

Recently, researchers were able to identify consistent early changes in metabolism by studying a group of HD sheep.

Friday night we had a community holiday fest, followed by our study group meeting.

The challenging topics taken up by the study group — trauma, racial equity, and low - performing schools — have been at the core of educational opportunity for decades, and they aren't going away any time soon,» said Keith Poston, President and Executive Director, Public School Forum of North Carolina.

Overall, 29 % of women used EC during the study, and there were significant differences by study group (Table 2).

There were no significant differences in patterns of oral contraceptive use or the proportion of women switching their regular contraceptive method by study group (Table 2).

There were no differences in patterns of contraceptive or condom use or sexual behaviors by study group.

The number and percentage of participants who were positive for any STIs by study group are presented, and we also used multiple logistic regression to estimate the odds of acquiring an STI during the study.

There were no significant differences in frequency of unprotected intercourse by study group; 37.5 % of study participants reported having unprotected intercourse (Table 2).

Not exact matches

The new study will be led by outside researchers including the Dangerous Speech Project, a research group that studies how public speech could incite bad and even violent behavior.

These numbers were determined by the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), conducted by the advocacy groups the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, and reported in the UCLA study.

One study by Harris Group found that 72 percent of millennials prefer to spend more money on experiences than on material things, and I (Emmie Martin, Money reporter) can't argue with the majority.

Studies commissioned by his group project that over the next decade, PBMs will save employers, consumers, and the government more than $ 2 trillion, and have already helped reduce by a third the projected cost of the Medicare Part D program, a largely privatized drug benefit for seniors.

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

And a 2008 study by UK consumer group Which?

During the 81 - year period looked at by the study, the Top 10 companies have never, as a group, outperformed the S&P 500 in subsequent years.

According to a study published this week by the Pittsburgh - based market research group CivicScience, digital device addiction is at an all - time high: 59 percent of U.S. online consumers over the age of 13 consider themselves at least «somewhat» addicted to their digital devices.

With no time to convene focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and by reading various magazine studies.

A recent wide - ranging study by The Dieringer Research Group revealed that almost 21 million Americans work in their automobiles.

But after five straight years of positive returns, sentiment among equity analysts neared an all - time high, with the Wall Street consensus calling for an 11.1 % gain, according to a recent study by Bespoke Investment Group.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

In a pilot study, researchers will compare the skills, safety records, and performance of two groups of new drivers: those using virtual reality and those trained by traditional means.

According to a recent global wealth study by Boston Consulting Group, Canada ranks seventh in global «ultra - high - net - worth» households, meaning those with assets exceeding $ 100 million.

That's the good news from a study conducted by University of Virginia psychologist Rachel Narr and colleagues that tracked a diverse group of 169 teenagers from ages 15 to 25.

In a study conducted by Harvard Business Journal, they found that CEOs tend to favor the sales group when setting budgets.

A 2004 study by the U.S. Public Interest Research Group found that one in four reports contains an error serious enough to deny you credit or employment.

A 2011 study by consulting group Dinar Standard suggested that Ramadan slashes GDP by roughly 4 % per hour that the workday is shortened.

According to studies by the Hay Group and Towers Watson, engaged employees are 43 % more productive, and companies with the highest percentage of engaged employees, on average, increase operating margins 3.64 % and net profit margins by 2.06 %.

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

But apparently not, according to a recent study by Boston Consulting Group.

That's one of the takeaways from new research on drone laws published Tuesday by research group The Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.Anthony Ling — The Seasteading Institute

According to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as a group self - employed women differ from self - employed men in significant ways.

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.

A report by Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul and C4ADS in Washington says it identified more than $ 500 million in trade from January 2011 to September 2015 between the North and the Liaoning Hongxiang Group, which states on its website that it trades heavily with the North.

In the manufacturing industry, a recent study by Boston Consulting Group found that by 2025, robots will do about 25 percent of all industrial tasks — and that inexpensive robots are becoming increasingly available to smaller companies.

One potential source of help, once the chaos subsided, came from a community organization called «US» (meaning «as opposed to them»), which was formed by members of a discussion group called the «Circle of Seven,» led by Malcolm X's cousin Hakim Jamal and one of Malcolm X's disciples, a UCLA Africana Studies doctoral student who was born Ron Everett but changed his name to Maulana Karenga.

A study by Nielsen Norman Group found that users stay on a website for an average of 10 to 20 seconds.

The attacks, which took place this year and have not been previously reported, jeopardized the communications of activists, journalists and other people in sensitive positions in Iran, where Telegram is used by some 20 million people, said independent cyber researcher Collin Anderson and Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri, who have been studying Iranian hacking groups for three years.

A study by JPMorgan calculated median annual health - care costs for today's 65 - year - olds at $ 4,660, but they project annual increases of 6.2 percent to 7 percent as that group ages, so that by 2036, when those people are 85, their median annual health - care spending will reach roughly $ 18,000.

A 2014 study by the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS), a group that promotes tougher immigration laws, concluded that in New Hampshire the vast majority of job creation went to immigrants and not to native residents.

If your idea takes the group's fancy — medical products, consumer electronics, and packaging are the in niches — ADLE is prepared to take the up - front risk, by, for example, creating a prototype and shopping it around to potential licensees, or doing a full - blown feasibility study, which can cost ADLE at least $ 200,000.