Sentences with phrase «designed impact studies»

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As EHS Today reports, the study, titled «Office Design's Impact on Sick Leave Rates,» considered almost 2,000 employees working in a variety of environments, and was carried out by a team of four Stockholm University scientists.

We will study and discuss the factors that impact a group's ability to act creatively, to innovate, and to produce practical and appealing designs.

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One way, I believe, to address the problem of under - reporting and increase the chances a concussion will be identified early on the sports sideline may be to rely less on athletes themselves to remove themselves from games or practices by reporting concussion symptoms (which the most recent study shows occurs at a shockingly low rate, [9] or on game officials and sideline observers to observe signs of concussion and call for a concussion assessment, but to employ technology to increase the chances that a concussion will be identified by employing impact sensors designed to monitor head impact exposure in terms of the force of hits (both linear and rotational), number, location, and cumulative impact, in real time at all levels of football, and in other helmeted and non-helmeted contact and collision sports, where practical, to help identify high - risk impacts and alert medical personnel on the sideline so they can consider performing a concussion assessment.

The contradictory opinions and the varying designs of scientific studies make it very hard to weigh the ecological impact of our decisions.

Comparison of two strategies to improve infant sleep problems, and associated impacts on maternal experience, mood and infant emotional health: a single case replication design study.

Our study illustrates that a randomized intervention trial with good socioeconomic information can help assess interventions designed to improve population health not only by examining the intervention effects on primary outcomes but also by evaluating the intervention's impact on socioeconomic inequalities.

The randomized intervention design is one of strengths in our study, providing less biased estimates of impact of the intervention on socioeconomic inequalities.

The small studies that chiropractors refer to as evidence have been criticised for having poor scientific design that may have impacted the results, for example there was room for unconscious biases and one study did not record the number of dropouts and reasons for dropping out.

Vanderbeek also served as Stony Point Town Engineer and was project manager and engineer in the development of sewer systems in western Ramapo, overseeing environmental impact study, survey and design.

This will impact some 28,000 people, and is designed to include students who use work - study jobs to pay tuition and bills while attending classes.

County to Conduct Paint Stabilization Pilot Study «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tStudy «Method of Cost - Effective Interim Lead Hazard Control Sought» The Oneida County Health Department's Lead Primary Prevention Program (LPP), through its New York State Department of Health grant, will conduct a pilot project designed to study the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced tstudy the impact of using new paints containing primer as a method of stabilizing deteriorating lead paint surfaces in Utica's pre-1978 houses, County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. announced today.

Dr. Salomon and his colleagues feel that such viewpoints may be too simplistic, and they would like to see studies designed to cautiously but effectively determine the true potential and impact of incentives of different kinds in the United States.

The study was designed to determine the impact of two organically approved liquid fertilizer sources applied through fertigation on plant growth, yield, fruit quality, and soil and plant tissue nutrient status of «Marion» and «Black Diamond» blackberry grown in an organic production system.

The study was designed by Robert Plomin of the Institute of Psychiatry at King's College London and his colleagues, to tease apart the impact of genes and the environment on educational achievement.

The current study was designed, he said, to shed light on the impact of so - called «bad trips.»

The Notre Dame study used expert elicitation, a process of formalizing and quantifying experts» judgments to estimate Asian carp impact to Lake Erie fishery biomass, a method designed by co-author Roger Cooke, senior fellow with Resources for the Future.

Teaming up with Shamsh Pervez, Ph.D., a professor of Chemistry at the Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University, India and a 2011 Fulbright fellow to DRI, Chakrabarty designed and executed a comprehensive study to investigate the nature and impact of pollutant particles emitted from the widely - prevalent cultural practice of open - air funeral pyre burning in India and Nepal.

The authors of the paper titled, «The Independent Effects of Personality and Situation on Real - Time Expressions of Behavior and Emotion,» designed their study to examine the degree to which personality and situations impact behavior with the goal of seeing how personality, situations, and behavior are related in real - world contexts.

The researchers used data from a five - year study that examined the negative consequences of students changing schools for reasons other than grade promotion and the impact of an outreach program designed to enhance relationships between families and school personnel.

The study authors point to a need for more well - designed studies assessing the impact of a combined exercise intervention and dietary intervention in frail and sarcopenic populations, and in populations suffering from nutritional deficiency or at risk of malnutrition.

The research, a major step toward bridging the gap between laboratory studies and industrial catalysis, could help improve the design and environmental impact of catalytic reactors, including tiny «lab - on - a-chip» devices, which are used in the manufacture of pharmaceuticals and other chemical products.

The bill also puts a roadblock in NIH's controversial plan to revamp how pregnant women will be recruited for the study: NIH can make «no changes to the current design or Vanguard pilot structure until at least 90 days after the IOM [Institute of Medicine] conducts a review of the proposed changes and impact on the results.»

The Maternal Vitamin D Osteoporosis Study (MAVIDOS) is the first randomised, placebo - controlled trial designed to measure the impact of pregnancy vitamin D supplementation on the bone health of babies using bone density scanning.

«Climate responsive design» «No studies had looked at how cities could mitigate those impacts through what we would call «climate responsive design,»» said Brian Stone Jr., an associate professor of city and regional planning at the Georgia Institute of Technology and lead author of the report.

This study examined the impact of an intervention designed to reduce the amount of time workers spend sitting.

Their methodology and findings can impact a range of fields from fundamental studies of single atom and single molecule magnetism to the design of spintronic device architectures.

«To demonstrate this, our results will need to be replicated in clinical studies also designed to test the differential susceptibility model, this time not only assessing the impact of more or less coercive parenting methods, but also the impact of intervention programs targeting parenting practices.»

The current study was designed to determine whether this immune response can impact the developing nervous system of infants.

We need to study it to make sure it is something that will have an impact on the care we provide and our results highlight the need to test any intervention or management in well - designed studies.»

• Community - based participatory research principles should be embraced in designing and conducting studies on environmental and health impacts of UNGDO so that a range of community perspectives are addressed.

The study wasn't designed to measure whether tumor profiling made a difference in how patients fared, but «it nonetheless lays the groundwork for more systematic study of the impact of genomics on clinical practice and patient outcomes,» the report said.

This Replication Study represents a cautionary tale concerning the impact of biological variability on experimental design.

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Most published studies entailed small number of subjects; well - designed studies with larger sample sizes are needed to ascertain how this test can reduce clinical diagnostic uncertainty or impact treatment planning.

To accomplish this, we have drawn upon our prior experience in designing and implementing rigorous studies of the outcomes of genetic testing and results disclosure, including the Impact of Personal Genomics (PGen) Study and the MedSeq Project.

This well designed study looks at whether diet can impact the rate at which brain shrinks, using a very well characterized group of people all born in 1936, and who have been carefully studied for decades (the Lothian birth cohort).

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

She researches individual and community approaches to better nutrition, and studies the impact of urban design on population health.

Some studies are designed to determine the impact of including resistant starch with a meal on metabolic parameters (single - dose), others are chronic dosing studies designed to determine if resistant starch elicits lasting effects.

Although the finding that the overall data on Dietary Fiber intake are negatively correlated with BMI is suggestive of a role for fiber in weight control, the studies designed to determine how fiber intake might impact overall energy intake have not shown a major effect.

Steven Kolb, president and CEO, the Council of Fashion Designers of America: «I worry about his position on immigration and how it will impact the workforce of our industry from garment workers to design students who come here to study and want to stay.

On the site, I explain and demonstrate instructional and classroom management strategies; explore technology, books, research and professional development tools that can make us better; help teachers fine - tune the design of their materials; examine the emotional and social forces that impact the way we do our work; and conduct my own little grass - roots studies on topics that I think need more attention.

For example, the Concept - Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI) approach, which has had positive impacts on literacy in a number of research studies (Guthrie, McRae, & Klauda, 2007), is designed to include five motivational practices:

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His interest in the impact of the value of the built environment within society led him to study the connection between the physical design of schools and academic progress.

In a more general sense, this is one of the first studies, if not the first study, to actually manage to connect design issues with the holistic impact on human performance.

The Queensland authors also point to studies from 2013 showing «tablets and literacy apps do not significantly improve literacy skills (phonemic awareness, alphabet knowledge),» although they caution that those studies do have their limitations and call for further empirically designed studies to clarify the impact of digital devices on emergent literacy development in pre-schools.

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James Noonan scholar.harvard.edu/jmnoonan Concentration: Culture, Communities, and Education James Noonan studies the design of teachers» professional learning environments and their impact on teacher practice and student learning.