Sentences with phrase «directing a study about»

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At larger companies, the study's authors explain, engagement is largely a matter of an employee's relationship with his or her direct supervisor, and how the employee feels about the company's leadership.

If all it is about stories to understand God alone — to study God but not to have any direct relevance or influence in our lives then that's theology without applying theology.

At times, a reactionary, legislative, and disciplinary form of Thomism was deployed, directed inward at members of the Church, chiefly about uses of philosophy in the study of sacred doctrine.

The bibliography at the end of each chapter will direct the reader into deeper study, though even here, there are glaring omissions from the lists of books about the various topics.

What is remarkable about all of this is that a notion so elemental and blasé as this one had the potential, not alone to engage the minds of university scholars, but also to direct their subsequent studies!

* Preliminary results from an Oxford - based study suggest a higher proportion of infant - directed negativity in the way depressed fathers talk about, and to, their infants (Sethna et al, 2009) * Depressed fathers are less likely to read, sing songs and tell stories to their babies than other fathers — and than depressed mothers (Paulson et al, 2006), which may explain why fathers» depression has a more powerful negative impact than mothers» depression on their infants» language development in the first year.

Very little is known about the direct effects of drinking on breastfeeding; a 2017 study showed that over half of Australian women who breastfeed drink at low levels, and use strategies, such as timing when they drink and breastfeed, which does not seem to be harmful to babies at 12 months.

There are many used mattresses around that you can buy maybe for as low as half the price of a new one, but be very cautious about doing so, because a study published in the British Journal shows that there's might be a direct relation between SIDS (sudden infant death syndrome) and used mattresses.

In general, studies are lacking in details about the complexities of feeding multiples and do not specify details of the feeding method such as direct breastfeeding, use of tube, cup or bottle, the use of fortifiers, the use of supplementary milks, the use of donor breast milk or expressed maternal breast milk, and the differences in feeding method between different babies (Renfrew 2009).

Studies are overwhelmingly positive about the direct physical and emotional benefits moms get from breastfeeding.

And let's not forget the study where college students were directed to wear bathing suits and then made to feel self - conscious about their bodies.

«It's not possible to draw a direct conclusion about ezetimibe from this study,» Stitziel said.

When asked about what sparked the study, author Keith Anderson from the University of Montana commented «As a geriatric social work researcher, I've always been interested in finding creative, cost effective ways to improve the lives and well - being of older adults... My co-authors direct the Veterinary Outreach Program, affiliated with The Ohio State University, which provides mobile wellness care for the pets of older adults and / or homebound residents.

During a June news conference, shortly before the study was published in Nature, Hublin noted it's unlikely the Jebel Irhoud individuals, the oldest known Homo sapiens fossils by about 100,000 years, are our direct ancestors.

«We further theorize that the essential difference between collaborative group work and direct instruction is that students learn about the «self as agent and others as (the) audience,»» a hypothesis explored in another paper by Zhang's co-authors, Richard C. Anderson, director of the Center for the Study of Reading, and graduate student Joshua A. Morris, both of the U. of I.

She writes a bimonthly news column about notable twins in academia, the arts, and sports for the journal Twin Research, and she directs her own behavioral studies of twins from the helm of the Twin Studies Center at California State University at Fulstudies of twins from the helm of the Twin Studies Center at California State University at FulStudies Center at California State University at Fullerton.

Campbell stumbled across statistics about osteoporosis in the 1980s when he took a break from his animal studies to direct the China - Oxford - Cornell project, a massive investigation of diet and disease based on data gathered from 6,500 rural Chinese families.

The study yielded surprising findings about the relative importance of direct and indirect effects within such networks.

«There was some skepticism about whether a CD19 - directed therapy would work in this disease, since nearly all of these patients» cancerous plasma cells do not express CD19,» said the study's senior author, Edward Stadtmauer, MD, chief of Hematologic Malignancies and a professor of Hematology / Oncology in Penn's Abramson Cancer Center and Perelman School of Medicine.

A study led by Drexel University researchers suggests that survivors of sexual abuse who seek guidance and support in online forums may be doing so because they find comfort in the relative anonymity the forums provide, which allows them to speak candidly about their experience and be direct in asking for help.

«This could potentially change how we think about tumor growth and spread, but the direct clinical implications of this study may not be obvious on the surface,» said co-author medical oncologist Daniel Catenacci, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago.

As a direct result of a conversation about my CTR - IN pilot work that I had with a colleague who leads the nursing subcommittee of the Southwest Oncology Group, I was invited to be the nursing coordinator for one of their studies.»

His research team is interested in identifying genes that direct the development of the cerebral cortex, both because of their importance in human diseases and because studying those genes will help in learning about the normal development and evolution of the brain.

According to a study that appeared in Alcohol Health and Research World Journal, researchers initially attributed AW to nutritional deficiency (a common deficiency among alcoholics brought about by poor appetite and diet) and direct intoxication.

«We know very little about the genetics of what makes us attractive to mosquitoes,» said James Logan, who is directing the study.

If you want direct links to the studies Drs. Hyman and Malhotra talks about, you'll find all those in my three posts listed below.

The only piece of evidence we lack about witch hazel's power as an acne clearing topical treatment is a direct study on acne itself.

Scientific studies have been inclusive about its effectiveness in direct consumption, and its claimed benefits are yet to be fully corroborated.

We're not talking about artery damage here folks from saturated fat and cholesterol like you've been led to believe... as you can see, this study is showing direct damage to arteries from grains and sugar.

For the first 70 minutes, Adam MacDonald's feature directing debut is a keenly observed relationship study about a fractious couple spending time in the woods.

A number of other major restorations will have their World Premieres at the Festival: Carol Reed's atmospheric Graham Greene adaptation of OUR MAN IN HAVANA (1959), set in Cuba at the start of the Cold War, makes timely viewing as US / Cuba relations thaw; Ken Russell's reworking of D.H. Lawrence scandalous classic WOMEN IN LOVE (1970) stars Oliver Reed, Alan Bates and Glenda Jackson and shows two couple's contrasting searches for love, and was restored by the BFI National Archive working alongside cinematographer Billy Williams; A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS (1966) is directed by Fred Zinnemann from a script by great British screenwriter, Robert Bolt from Bolt's play about Sir Thomas More, a perfect companion piece to Wolf Hall; Henry Fonda stars in the ripe - for - discovery WARLOCK (1959), a seething study of vengeance and repressed sexuality in a Utah mining outpost; and Bryan Forbes» THE RAGING MOON (1971) starring Malcolm McDowell and Nanette Newman in a tender story between two young people in wheelchairs which was ahead of its time in its attempts to change attitudes to disability.

Written and directed by Mike Cahill, and starring Michael Pitt, Brit Marling, and Astrid Bergès - Frisbey, I ORIGINS follows a molecular biologist whose study of the human eye points to evidence with far reaching implications about our scientific and spiritual beliefs.

Other selections include «Wanda» (1971), a character study about loneliness and personal isolation written and directed by actress Barbara Loden, and a collection of home movies of the Fuentes family in the 1920s and 1930s in Corpus Christi.

In particular, these handouts cover the following specific content about tuberculosis in South Africa: Case study of one communicable disease, such as malaria or tuberculosis, at a country scale, either an LIDC or EDC, including: o environmental and human causes of the disease o prevalence, incidence and patterns of the disease o socio - economic impacts of the disease o direct and indirect strategies used by government and international agencies to mitigate against the disease and respond to outbreaks.

says Project Zero's Wendy Fischman, who is directing a national study on changing attitudes about the value and goals of higher education in the 21st century.

On Jan. 24, readers questioned three members of the Teacher Leaders Network — Corrina Knight, a 6th grade language arts / social studies teacher at Salem Middle School in Apex, N.C.; Linda Emm, an educational specialist with Schools of Choice in Miami, and a consultant with the National School Reform Faculty; and Carolann Wade, the coordinator for national - board certification and liaison for Peace College's teacher education program of the Wake County, N.C., school district — about their work with teacher - directed professional development.

As the name suggests, experiential learning helps students learn through an experience that involves a direct encounter with the phenomena being studied, rather than just thinking about the encounter.

The study finds that taken together, direct and indirect effects of school leadership account for about a quarter of total school effects.

The parallel for the Chetty propaganda is the non-peer reviewed Measures of Effective Teaching study, funded at about $ 64 million by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and directed by Thomas Kane, Professor of Economics and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and Director of Harvard's Center for Education Policy Research.

My comment is directed more toward the shortcomings of the study, not about your own conclusions.

Kane also directed the $ 45 million worth of Measures of Effective Teaching (MET) studies for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, not surprisingly as a VAM advocate, advancing a series of highly false claims about the wonderful potentials of VAMs.

According to the proficient essay helpers working 24/7, the most important single fact about Freud, perhaps, was his refusal to attempt to solve psychological problems by extrapolating the biological knowledge of his time; his insistence on the direct clinical study of the human personality.

If the only sales channel was direct mail order, we'd be at break even with the POD model, but how about distribution, which generated over 80 % of the sales for the case study title in 2003?

This guide provides definitive information about federal aid programs, including the Pell Grants, Federal Direct Loans, Federal Family Education Loans (FFEL), Federal Supplemental Educational Opportunity Grants (FSEOG), Federal Work - Study (FWS) and Federal Perkins Loans.

Rotations usually last about 3 - 4 weeks and involve observation, kennel and cleaning duties, and a small directed - study project.

She has studied animals most of her life through direct observation and maintaining a personal library about pets.

For example one study asked owners about the dog's direct response to particular methods.

The online survey in the Stelow et al. (2015) study aimed to quantify these perceptions in direct relation to cat guardians» observations about their pets» behaviors.

Users like mfb wrote about the way they studied - self - directed, independent, anti-establishment, that seems to reflect the way that games inspired them to learn.

They have made it possible for the thousands of Americans, interested in the art movements of the old world, but who have not had the opportunity of late years to visit Europe, to see, study and compare the work of the founders, leaders and the followers of the various cults and movements which have so stirred France, England, Germany, Italy, and even Spain and Russia and the Scandinavian countries, during the past decade, and which have brought about, if not an art Renaissance in Europe — a stirring of the dry bones of conservatism and conventionalism in art abroad, and have had their direct influence here.