Sentences with phrase «chosen based of studies»

The name was chosen based of studies that indicated that the maximum safe level of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere would be 350 parts per million (ppm).

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According to a study by Steelcase, 88 percent of employees will choose where to work in the office based on their task.

«If choosing a major is solely based on students» wants, some majors will be overcrowded and others will have difficulty enrolling enough students,» Lu reportedly said, adding that other institutions have adopted similar policies and that among the 400 or so students who have to leave their majors to fate, the highest achievers can apply to change their specializations after a year of study.

A new study in the CFA's Financial Journal showed the underperformance / diminishing alpha of stocks chosen purely based on their quantitative value, and explains why value factors taken alone aren't great indicators.

They do nt want to exclude anyone from being a member or from coming to a Bible study they just want the freedom to choose their leaders based off of their values and beliefs.

For each study (home birth) subject, a comparison subject was chosen on the basis of matching according to the following criteria:

This is why the Bernese scientist chose an alternative approach for his study, which is published in the journal «Astronomy & Astrophysics»: Based on the mass and radius of a planet Yann Alibert was able to determine criteria that exclude the possibility of life as we know it.

«For the study, we chose a decision analysis design because we could use a mathematical model to simulate the outcomes and costs of each treatment path based on results and costs that have already been published in the literature,» Dr. Dodwell explained.

The researchers chose their range of sea level — rise projections based on what is most likely to happen to the west coast, according to dozens of regional and global studies.

The study's first author Yun R. Li, a fourth - year MD / PhD candidate in the Perelman School of Medicine was chosen to receive an AACR Scholar - in - Training Award to attend SABCS based on her highly rated abstract by the Abstract Selection Committee.

The exposure levels used in the rat study were chosen to produce increases in manganese intake (relative to the normal intake of baby rats) comparable to the relative increases that would be experienced by infants and young children exposed to contaminated drinking water, soy - based formulas, or both.

Potential cardioprotection was based on generally supportive data on lipid levels in intermediate outcome clinical trials, trials in nonhuman primates, and a large body of observational studies suggesting a 40 % to 50 % reduction in risk among users of either estrogen alone or, less frequently, combined estrogen and progestin.2 - 5 Hip fracture was designated as a secondary outcome, supported by observational data as well as clinical trials showing benefit for bone mineral density.6, 7 Invasive breast cancer was designated as a primary adverse outcome based on observational data.3, 8 Additional clinical outcomes chosen as secondary outcomes that may plausibly be affected by hormone therapy include other cardiovascular diseases; endometrial, colorectal, and other cancers; and other fractures.3, 6,9

They chose to study a plant - based diet because of ample evidence showing that reducing animal product intake (high in nutrients known to promote insulin resistance, including fat, protein, and heme iron) can not only improve diabetes health, but reverse diabetes altogether (8 — 14).

Given the existence of intervention based studies such as those by Dean Ornish, and the absence of convincing evidence of the contrary, I don't see why the shortcoming from one study would grant taking the risk of eating animal products anyway, unless it's the least unhealthy addiction someone can choose to distract themselves from whatever they find challenging in their lives.

In the film's dominant plotline, Cummings plays Julie, a scientist loosely based on Brizendine, who believes that by studying the brain she can conquer her own impulses and avoid messy complications like falling in love or having to choose what food to eat (she prefers to get her nutrients from a steady diet of Soylent).

A study of 648 seventh and eighth graders enrolled in Kids Voting USA found that participation in the program increased their political knowledge and their ability to choose a political candidate based on the issues that the candidate and student agreed on.

This question is shown as a word fill opposite and helps support the next question: (d) CASE STUDY — A non-UK based natural weather hazard event - Discuss the place - specific causes of your chosen natural weather hazard event.

Even if we accept the dubious proposition that 200,000 studies provide a scientific basis for the authors» 13 nebulous standards of good teacher practice, we can't be sure that the ways in which the authors have chosen to measure these standards necessarily replicate those of the underlying studies.

The study also highlighted that Catholic primary schools were particularly socially selective, choosing pupils purely on the basis of faith, while Church of England schools included a quota of pupils from non-religious families.

In presenting qualitative data here, we have chosen to illustrate our findings with fuller cases from four representative districts, although our analysis is based on all of the more elaborated case studies.

Findings presented in the study are based only on the experiences of 26 teachers in three schools who chose to participate in the Wolf Trap PD program.

At its first meeting in October, the Joint Legislative Study Committee on School - Based Administrator Pay reviewed a proposal to eliminate the current complicated salary schedule for school principals and the insufficient salary schedule for assistant principals in favor of a new system that would pay principals a base salary with a structure for locally chosen bonuses.

Based on a review of similar efforts being conducted by the What Works Clearinghouse and in consultation with our advisors, we chose 1980 as the earliest year for studies to qualify for our review.

This sample was chosen because these teachers had specific access to an arts - based professional development opportunity and the researcher concludes that the findings in the study can not be more broadly generalized because of the lack of knowledge about how many schools actually provide arts - based professional development for teachers.

We chose the six defining characteristics of Collaborative Lesson Research listed above based on findings from research on Lesson Study outside of Japan and jugyou kenkyuu in Japan, and our own experience of working with schools.

These resources are chosen on the basis of the institution, Geo - location, and country you are studying in.

Thus, doing a thorough chart study of each investment that is chosen to buy or sell and using these levels based on many specific technical indicators may help.

During the two year period under study [1], both account types chose from the same list of top ranked stocks based on the formulas described in The Little Book that Beats the Market.

It has been reduced simply by studying the litters instead of just choosing a male or female to breed based solely on their colors or attributes alone.

Upon enrollment, each student is assigned to an industry professional based on their chosen course of study.

«This study indicates that we might be able to make predictions about someone's personality based on the breed of dog that they choose to own,» study author Lance Workman said in a society news release.

Different estimates of past forcing in the literature may later be identified as problematic through more study of the physics of solar output, and future reconstructions may improve on that basis, but what you are doing is choosing which reconstruction to believe because it agrees with your desired conclusions.

In light of these findings, the recommendations from the authors of the study are rather straightforward, and call for consumers to pay special attention to avoiding waste when buying and preparing meat products, and to minimize the negative environmental impacts of wasted food, «if consumers choose to prepare extra food «just in case,» they should use plant - based foods.»

This committee studies issues that affect those who choose to practice law on a part — time basis, including opportunities, compensation and education of employers.

If you are looking into becoming a pharmacy technician, then set small attainable goals such as: 1) identify requirements for becoming a pharmacy technician in my state and create plan and timeline for achieving them, 2) identify dates for PTCB national pharmacy technician certification near my city and registration deadline for taking exam on the date you choose (this will give you specific targets), 3) Obtain PTCB study guide or enroll in formal pharmacy technician training program, and 4) complete pharmacy technician registration by «date of your choice based on what you have learned about how long it will take, and apply for at least five open pharmacy technician positions.

Proven effective in 3 studies, RTR has been chosen as an effective evidence - based program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Office of Adolescent Health and other national organizations recognized as authorities on teen pregnancy prevention, including Emerging Answers 2007 and What Works 2010: Curriculum - Based Programs That Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; Programs That Work, 2010, Promising Practices Network; and Science and Success, Second Edition: Sex Education and Other Programs that Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections, Advocates for Ybased program by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Office of Adolescent Health and other national organizations recognized as authorities on teen pregnancy prevention, including Emerging Answers 2007 and What Works 2010: Curriculum - Based Programs That Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; Programs That Work, 2010, Promising Practices Network; and Science and Success, Second Edition: Sex Education and Other Programs that Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections, Advocates for YBased Programs That Help Prevent Teen Pregnancy, The National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unplanned Pregnancy; Programs That Work, 2010, Promising Practices Network; and Science and Success, Second Edition: Sex Education and Other Programs that Work to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, HIV & Sexually Transmitted Infections, Advocates for Youth.

If a home study is already completed in Washington, Florida, Louisiana, Texas, Massachusetts and Utah, CHI can choose to accept a completed home study on a case by case basis if the home study meets the requirements of the country from which the family desires to adopt.

Investigators have used it as the criterion for diagnosis of behavior disturbance against which to gauge the validity of both screening instruments27 and psychological interview measures.28 The published Spanish version of the CBCL used in this study has been found to have good internal consistency and concurrent validity in Spanish - speaking populations.29 The CBCL was chosen as the standard of comparison to avoid basing the calculation of PSC validity on a small subset of the data as done in previous studies using structured interviews as the standard24,30 - 32 and because the CBCL has been widely used as the criterion standard in previous PSC research in both middle - class30, 33 - 35 and low - income minority populations.8

For those who present research on successful concurrent groupwork models, understanding the researcher's or agency's rationale for choosing it as a model would be helpful in developing more detailed data to analyze, would build upon the limited studies currently available, and would provide a rich addition to the knowledge base of group social work for children and their families.

In one study, men were rated as more attractive when standing in front of an expensive car (believed to be theirs) as compared to when standing in front of a less expensive car.4 Just as an aside, if you find the thought of choosing a mate based on material possessions distasteful, you're probably more interested in a long - term partner.

Candidate explanatory factors were chosen on the basis of empirical studies suggesting their potential contribution to the gradient and data availability.2 The ECLS - B data set contains rich longitudinal data on various family, health, and home environment variables, along with direct measures of cognitive abilities at school entry.

Cut - points were chosen based on the spread of results to reflect three knowledge groupings that appeared in the data, to reflect knowledge levels within the study population.

Two reviewers will independently assess the suitability of the preference - based instruments for measuring outcomes in palliative care using the ISOQOL, minimum standards for patient - reported outcome measures (conceptual and measurement model, reliability, content validity, construct validity, responsiveness, interpretability of scores, translation of measure, patient and investigator burden), 43 and the CREATE checklist (descriptive system, health states values, sampling, preference data collection, study sample, modelling, scoring algorithm).44 The ISOQOL minimum standards were chosen as these standards were developed from a systematic review of published and unpublished guidance on patient - reported outcome measures, including the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN).46 To the authors» knowledge, the CREATE checklist is the only published guidance on what key components should be reported in a valuation study.44 Information on how the contents of the instruments were developed, psychometric properties and valuation will be used to assess the suitability of the instruments for the palliative setting; instruments will be scored on whether the domains or dimensions were developed using input from informal caregivers of people receiving palliative care (yes / no) and whether each of the reporting checklist items has been evaluated for this population (if yes, then a score of one will be allocated) and a total score calculated.

In a recently released study of title services and title insurance based on RESPA settlement statements for FHA loans, HUD and the Urban Institute estimated that borrowers in some jurisdictions could save several hundred dollars if they searched for and purchased title services and title insurance of their own choosing.

Depending on the fabric chosen, we have chosen the base range fabric from each product, then selected a common size window for the study — 175 cm width with a drop of 110 cm.