Sentences with phrase «concept study who»

More than 90 percent of those diagnosed with the syndrome are women, said Eshel Ben - Jacob, a lead author of the proof - of - concept study who developed the analytical method used to show the association between patients» improvement and changes in their brains.

Not exact matches

When Flombaum teaches computer - science courses, he uses storytelling skills acquired while studying creative writing, and incorporates history into his lessons, including highlighting the programmer who created the concept at hand.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Recently, while chatting with an old friend who happens to be a professor of New Testament and biblical Studies at a prominent Christian university, I asked him what he thought of the concept of «Christian Privilege» and whether or not he felt as if it existed in practicality.

For example, in a recent analysis published in an edition of International Studies in Catholic Education dedicated to the question of whether there can be such a thing as a Catholic curriculum, Therese D'Orsa argues from the Australian experience that «attempts to give meaning to the concept of a Catholic curriculum... have ranged across a spectrum familiar to those who lead in Catholic schools» and that such initiatives have had a «limited impact».

Indian music reveals much about Hinduism that is not conveyed by the written word or by reproductions of painting and sculpture; for an introduction to the music of India, Swami Prajnanananda has written Historical Development of Indian Music which, although it bristles with untranslated Sanskrit words, can be read with profit by anyone who has made enough of a study of Hinduism to be able to recognize its central concepts.

So those who studied Great Times with Eliade or who had great times with Mead were long being pushed to clarify the concept.

The biggest (explanation) is recency bias, a concept most often evoked in financial markets by people who study the intersection of psychology and finance.

The Park District began studying the concept of a landfill several months ago at the mayor's behest, according to parks General Supt. David Doig, who appeared with Daley at a news conference heralding the new Diversey bike bridge over the Diversey Harbor Inlet.

This concept is primarily based on a 1977 study published in the New England Journal of Medicine that showed women who got pregnant shortly after stopping oral contraceptives were twice as likely to have twins.

Local social - studies educators, who have been briefed on the design of the new exam, generally agreed with the concept.

«Nonetheless, the proof of concept studies we have obtained thus far are extremely encouraging, and we are confident that with proper support and efforts we could translate our findings into experimental therapeutics for a variety of solid tumors that are driven by EphA2 overexpression, including breast, lung, prostate, pancreatic, and ovarian cancers,» said Pellecchia, who serves as the founding director of the Center for Molecular and Translational Medicine at UCR.

But the researchers were able to show the concept at work in their experimental system, says biophysicist Xavier Trepat of the Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia in Barcelona, who was not involved in the study.

«The elegant studies here provide proof of concept that targeting LMPTP in the liver improves glucose control and liver insulin signalling in animals,» says Daniel Drucker of the Lunenfeld - Tanenbaum Research Institute in Toronto, Canada, who says that targeting enzymes like LMPTP has long been a goal for researchers tackling diabetes.

For this study, Guttridge, first author David J. Wang, who developed many of the study's concepts, and their colleagues monitored NF - kB activity during tumor development using mouse embryonic fibroblasts and two mouse models.

Director of the Henri Poincaré Institute in Paris, France, he studies kinetic theory, the mathematical interpretation of thermodynamic concepts like entropy, and was one of four mathematicians under 40 who won the medal last year.

Donald Sadoway, a professor of materials chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who was not involved in the study, says the new concept «opens our eyes to a class of liquids that has been understudied.»

Since the 1970s, when the concept of depressive realism first surfaced, some studies have suggested that people who are mentally healthy actually have overly optimistic ideas about their place in the world.

The researchers also found that dosing accuracy was actually better than standard injection, says Robert Langer who, with fellow study co-author Michael Cima, both of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, first started developing the concept of an implantable wireless microchip in the 1990s.

«The current study provides support for the interpretation of the previous study because the kids who chose to go on differed from those who did not in background and musical self - concept, but not in terms of ability,» Demorest said.

For those who aren't familiar with it, the «tipping point» is a concept from epidemiology (popularized by the best - selling book by Malcolm Gladwell) that suggests that small changes accumulate innocuously until a critical mass is reached, at which point a large - scale, irreversible change occurs in the system under study.

Dr Melvin Lobo, who led the study at Queen Mary University of London and is also Director of the Barts Health Blood Pressure Clinic, comments: «This is an entirely new concept in tackling high blood pressure.

The key to the discovery was applying the pure math concept of mean width, which is trickier to measure than its cousins — surface area and volume, says materials scientist David Srolovitz of Yeshiva University in New York City, who, along with mathematician Robert MacPherson of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., published the finding online today in Nature.

Peter Tsou, a former NASA engineer who has drawn up a concept for such a mission, calls it the low - hanging fruit of sample - return - style alien - biology studies.

Blackman The concept of antiaging is anathema to those who study the aging process, gerontologists or geriatricians.

«This work has brought the original concept one big step closer to reality,» says Y. Ethan Wang, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who helped develop the idea, but did not work on the new study.

Cassandra Extavour and her colleagues, who study the origins of multicellular organisms and the evolution of cooperation, still disagree on the meaning of key concepts such as cooperation, competition and fitness

«The last 10 years have been like a proof of concept,» says Justin Sanchez, director of the Neuroprosthetics Research Group at the University of Miami, who is also studying shared control.

Social mobility is an important concept for social scientists who study economic inequality and opportunity.

«The concept for the CCRC arose from the needs of young adult ICU patients who we saw leaving the hospital with functional impairments as well as a spectrum of disorders — memory, attention, depression, mood and anxiety — typically not seen in other patients of similar age,» said Dr. Khan, lead author of the study.

«This is a proof - of - concept study,» says Aurélie Pala, who received her PhD for this work.

And cancer research now involves collaborative efforts from researchers in disciplines such as physics, advanced mathematics, structural biology, nanotechnology, and many more, who have introduced new concepts and approaches to studying cancer.

Lengthy and expensive reviews that are «methodologically robust» but unusable in practice often fail to inform, inspire, or influence.55 A recent systematic review of diabetes risk scores revealed that the authors of most studies were primarily concerned with the intellectual concept of improving the predictive value of the score but had given little or no thought to how their score might be used, by whom, or for what — nor what the implications would be for real people who would be designated «at risk» by the score.56

The biological species concept, according to which a species is a set of interbreeding organisms, is the most widely used definition, at least by biologists who study vertebrates.

To describe the process, coauthor Tai - Hsi Fan, who studies fluids, developed the concept of the tongues as elastic micropumps.

The impact of your microflora on your brain function has again been confirmed by UCLA researchers who, in a proof - of - concept study, found that probiotics (beneficial bacteria) indeed altered the brain function in the participants.

A recent proof - of - concept study found that women who regularly ate yogurt containing beneficial bacteria had altered brain function compared to those who did not consume probiotics

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

... Ileana, who studied fashion, textile design, styling and visual merchandising in school, opened her shop with a very unique concept in mind.

Allied to this and extending the concept further, some schools also tap into their alumni who have gone on to work in some of the aforementioned industries and whose stories can be demonstrated in simple yet motivational and inspiring posters which detail their school and FE / HE qualifications, the courses or apprenticeships they studied after school and the careers they are now enjoying.

A set of three lessons designed to introduce key concepts in physics to students who are new to studying the subject.

The study — conducted by William L. Sanders, the statistician who pioneered the concept of «value - added» analysis of teaching effectiveness — found that there was basically no difference in the achievement levels of students whose teachers earned the prestigious NBPTS credential, those who tried but failed to earn it, those who never tried to get the certification, or those who earned it after the student...

A 2009 study found that eighth - grade students who were involved in hands - on science projects demonstrated a deeper understanding of concepts than students who were taught with traditional methods such as textbook readings, lectures, and tests (Riskowski et al., 2009).

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In a time when arts are being cut from many districts» budgets, bringing music into your classroom in an intentional way can inspire children who are struggling to grasp concepts, allow them to study in a fun way, and offer an opportunity for them to share educational content with their families, while fostering a love of learning.

They studied students who were learning about area and perimeter and concluded that «initial rote learning of a concept can create interference to later meaningful learning» (p. 537).

Educator Joe Nathan, for example, supports a pair of charter schools in the Twin Cities that educate mostly Somali and Oromo students, because the schools provide a space where children can retain their home language and knowledge of their home culture.59 Likewise, Letitia Basford's qualitative study of Somali youth concluded that «attending a culturally specific charter school promotes positive intercultural competence in which students are able to build a good self - concept and find comfort in who they are as East African immigrants, as Muslims, and as American citizens.»

However, from reading this post, I suspect that you — and your readers who agree about the importance of integrating reading and content instruction — may be much more interested in the way structured word inquiry is explicitly used as leverage for deepening understanding of terms and concepts of core units of study.

Studies have proven that children who play games to learn Math are more successful in retaining the concepts.