Sentences with phrase «by young participants»

by Jefferson Robbins The skeleton key to George Lucas's American Graffiti isn't in its setting — the cruising culture of exurban southern California, 1962, as witnessed by young participants with the»50s at their back and Vietnam ahead.
The effects were also felt more strongly by young participants.
But this and other efforts should, at the very least, reduce the chances that the contributions made by the youngest participants of scientific studies will be lost.
Furthermore, while there were no differences between the three media employed in terms of rates of reading by the younger participants, the older participants exhibited faster reading times when using the tablet PC.

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Microsoft, which launched the YouthSpark initiative at last year's CGI to create jobs, education and entrepreneurship opportunities for 300 million young people by 2015, returned with a private dinner for young participants and nonprofit partners to discuss the progress so far.
By finding new, innovative ways to reach customers through event participants, festival organizers are gaining increased exposure and more success with today's young crowds.
This lovely young lady qualifies as WAG by virtue of having appeared on Soccer AM and as a participant on a Weakest Link episode which was dedicated to WAGS, any objections?
Because the Bird - a-thon is an event for birders of all ages and levels of experience, undoubtedly some of the more common species will be those longest remembered by some of the newer or younger Bird - a-thon participants - and therein lays the great joy of birding!
The participants saw themselves as being potentially the worst affected by spending cuts, not least because they perceived politicians to take less notice of the views of young people than of those of older generations.
«Beauty and the Beasts,» page 24 «The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships: The Mating - Warring Association in Men,» by Lei Chang and colleagues, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, states that male participants primed by attractive faces or legs of young women were significantly faster in responding to images or words of war than those primed by unattractive faces or national flags.
Vitamin E decreased the risk of pneumonia by 35 % in 7,469 participants who had started smoking at a later age, at 21 years or older, whereas the vitamin had no apparent effect on pneumonia for those who had started to smoke at a younger age.
The study, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, found 25 per cent of its young participants who had reading difficulties showed mild or moderate hearing impairment, of which their parents and teachers were unaware.
However, younger participants were notably more upset by sexual infidelity than older participants.
However, new research by Kelli Canada, assistant professor in the University of Missouri School of Social Work, shows that although mental health court participants older than 50 adhere to treatment programs better than younger adults, they are just as likely to be reincarcerated or relapse into criminal behavior.
Backtracking into the data on these study participants, the researchers found that about 20 % of the relationship between credit scores and heart health was accounted for by the attitudes, behaviors and competencies displayed by the study members when they were younger than age 10.
In this symposium, the participants shared the current status of various radio telescope projects such as ALMA, the Next Generation Very Large Array (ngVLA) under discussion in the U.S., and SKA which will be constructed in Australia and Africa, as well as the presentations given by young and senior researchers on the progress and challenges of their researches and ideas of new projects.
Lynn Kamerlin, Vice-Chair Young Academy of Europe Board, ERC StG 16:00 Panel discussion: Perspectives on widening European participation in ERC competitions moderated by: Jean - Pierre Bourguignon, President, European Research Council with panellists: Eva Kondorosi, Kostadin Kostadinov, József Pálinkás, Jozef Masarik, Jerzy Duszyński, Ionel Vlad, Pavol Šajgalík, Karel Aim, Konstantin Hadjiivanov, László Kontler, Ionut Epurescu - Pascovici, Monika Dietl Followed by discussion with participants.
I was especially impressed by the enthusiasm for science shown by the meeting participants, Nobel laureates and young scientists alike but I will also forever remember the open - mindedness and curiosity — without them a photo project like this wouldn't have been possible!
Jointly sponsored by the US National Academy of Sciences and The Kavli Foundation, the Kavli Frontiers of Science bring together some of the very best young scientists to discuss exciting advances and opportunities in their fields in a format that encourages informal collective, as well as one - on - one discussions among participants.
Once accepted as participants of a Lindau Meeting, young scientists are supported in all organisational matters by the executive secretariat of the Council.
Design, Setting, and Participants A controlled 3 - way crossover design involving 21 overweight and obese young adults conducted at Children's Hospital Boston and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, between June 16, 2006, and June 21, 2010, with recruitment by newspaper advertisements and postings.
A 2008 study that followed a group of adolescent women with ADHD for five years found that the participants who had been treated with stimulants were nearly 75 % less likely to develop a substance - use disorder than those who were not, while other research has shown that the use of ADHD medication in young men reduces the risk of later substance - use disorders by 85 %.
To identify the factors that influence educational assortment in an online dating setting, we analyse 219,013 participant contacts by 41,936 members of the If you're an older woman dating a younger man, is it doomed from the start or will you be happily ever after?
OPENING THIS WEEK Kam's Kapsules: Weekly Previews That Make Choosing a Film Fun by Kam Williams For movies opening March 23, 2012 BIG BUDGET FILMS The Hunger Games (PG - 13 for intense violence and disturbing images) Screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins» futuristic sci - fi novel about a 16 year - old girl (Jennifer Lawrence) who volunteers to take her unlucky younger sister's (Willow Shields) place in a nationally - televised fight to the death featuring 24 participants picked by a government lottery.
They are consistent with the result of a previous study done by the Intercultural Institute, using qualitative methods on participants in a project involving cooperation between Roma and non-Roma young people.
The Physical element allows young people to improve their fitness by undertaking an activity on a regular basis, whilst the Skills section helps participants to develop a new talent.
Unlike any other pillar of our society, public education is the only institution that reaches 90 % of every new generation, is governed by public authority, and was founded with the explicit mission of preparing young people to be thoughtful and active participants in a democratic society.
Mazda representatives said that while most of the participants are young males under 30, anyone is welcome to stop by the booth and take it for a spin.
When the United States Spoke French By François Furstenberg Penguin • $ 20 • ISBN 9780143127451 While you're celebrating the U.S.A.'s 239th birthday, take a look back at the early years of the young republic, when five prominent Frenchmen settled in Philadelphia and became active participants in the life of the city and the new nation.
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For the Dolphin Swim, participants must be a minimum of 8 years of age and 4 feet tall, and children 11 and younger must be accompanied by a participating adult.
CUE provides institutional guidance, a stipend, shipping budget, and an accompanying exhibition catalogue featuring an essay written by a participant in CUE's Young Art Critic Mentoring Program.
Moderated by Artistic Director, Elizabeth Ferrill, Esteban del Valle takes us on a journey through his experiences as a young art student, to gallery representation, to supporting himself as an artist, and answers your most burning questions about becoming a vital participant in the contemporary art world.
The show opens with a row of portraits from 1980 of Hoffmann, looking radiant and determined, by Andy Warhol, and then jumps back to the beginning, when she was picking up the work of the Belgian avant - garde, whose participants are seen infrequently stateside, like Floris Jespers and Frits van den Berghe, whose punchily colored works here from the 1920s — respectively, a dandyish scene in a cafe with burning red walls and a terrifyingly gigantic floating above a rainbow — look curiously on point with what so many of today's mischievous young figurative painters are up to today.
In the course of the 1950s, the movement's younger followers increasingly followed the lead of the colour - field painters and, by 1960, its participants had generally drifted away from the highly charged expressiveness of the Action painters.
Presented by Writers in the Schools, participants in their Houston Young Writers Reading Series will read original poems, stories and essays inspired by nature, community, family, history and art.
With this video about an ongoing climate lawsuit by a group of American high - school students against the government of United States of America, our participants observed how it is possible for young people to join decision - making processes as a part of the global climate change struggle.
The feedback raises a number of other issues, including: participation by young people who leave school to join CDEP; the involvement of non-Indigenous people in CDEP; CDEP participants» entitlements; and how CDEP can best encourage people to move into non-CDEP jobs.
Substance use disorders emerged in middle adolescence and increased in frequency through the middle 20s, becoming by far the most common psychiatric problems reported by the study participants.26, 27 We have already shown that early conduct problems predicted the onset of adolescent substance use disorders in this sample, 28,29 and it is not surprising that this is the aspect of behavioral problems that showed the intervention effect in young adulthood.
Review: evidence - based psychotherapies are more effective than usual care for young people with psychopathology: effects are influenced by location of care and participant characteristics
Likewise, the figures for the final cohort are probably conservative, as they assume that the risk that the youngest participants will face as they get older will be the same as that experienced by the older members of the cohort; the true cumulative risk may be higher.
Younger participants were rated by peers as being more involved in traditional bullying than older participants, yet no age differences were found in involvement in cyberbullying.
Along with young people as equal participants, Dr. Gray cofounded and codesigned EECN (a democratic educational model, shaped by Design Thinking), piloted as The Connect Group School.
The text includes content information, step - by - step instructions, and materials to support participant learning related to mental health of young children and their families as well as programmatic and service issues.
Here again, NAR is beginning to connect the dots by inviting young people to be active participants in our association.
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