Sentences with phrase «evaluation findings at»

This article describes HSP, its ongoing evaluation study, and evaluation findings at the end of two of a planned three years of family program participation and follow - up.

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IPwe is working with the computer science team at the University of Minnesota, led by Professor George Karypis, which has previously provided patent evaluation technology to clients of IP Navigation Group, a previous company founded by Spangenberg.

A summary of the extensive Mathematica evaluation of U.S. abstinence and related programs can be found at www.mathematica-mpr.com/welfare/abstinence.asp.

The detailed long term intervention monitoring and evaluation reports for the Lachlan River system can be found at:

The detailed long term intervention monitoring and evaluation report for the Junction of the Warrego and Darling Rivers can be found at:

The detailed 2015 — 16 long term intervention monitoring and evaluation report for the Lower Murray River can be found at:

An independent evaluation of the impact of the Fathers Reading Every Day programme on more than 300 children at nine south London schools, found that for children who participated in FRED there was marked improvement at above expected levels in reading, writing and numeracy, when compared to peers who did not take part.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

I got back in touch with the case worker at the rehab center and found out the speech evaluation would cost $ 441 -LRB-!)

The King - Devick (K - D) test measuring the speed of rapid number naming is an accurate and reliable method for identifying athletes who should be removed from a game or practice for further evaluation, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania found.

I found out today from Jennifer at CIGNA that speech evaluations for developmental issues are NOT COVERED.

The evaluation can be found at the bottom of this article, under RELATED DOCUMENTS.

With specific reference to the Florida Institute of Technology study, the authors found that that, «although a detailed neuropsychological evaluation may have detected a subtle difference, it was unlikely that the daily lives of the players were at all affected.»

Of note is that we don't know the effect or possible effect of BPA in infant milk at this time, but studies that have found that BPA leaches from bottles into milk recommend further evaluation.

The latter can be found in more successful teaching programs — like the one at Waldorf School of Baltimore — that are based on inquiry - based learning, and on students» self - evaluation of their understanding of mathematical formulas and theories.

This type of person is never satisfied, is furthermore the sort most likely to leave negative evaluations at every venue they can find to do so, and they get the doctor behind schedule so that every other patient after High Maintenance Patient has something legitimate to complain about.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

At the same time as you ask the doctor for a referral to a specialist, call your state's public early childhood system to request a free evaluation to find out if your child qualifies for intervention services.

This book covers: - The need to advance exclusive breastfeeding - Obstacles and opportunities for exclusive breastfeeding during the reproductive health continuum - Findings related to the obstacles, opportunities, current interventions, and gaps at eight time periods during the reproductive health cycle - Suggestions for innovative implementation to advance exclusive breastfeeding - The Surgeon General's Call to Action to Support Breastfeeding - Monitoring, evaluation, and research needs - Considerations for expansion, replication, and scaling up of activities - Next steps

Given the relatively young ages of children at follow - up assessment, longer term evaluations of these cohorts will be important to see if these findings remain as children enter the more behaviourally challenging late middle childhood and adolescent years when emotional and behavioural problems often become more pronounced.

The American Chemistry Council denied last week's report, saying in a statement that it was «distinctly at odds with the findings of other comprehensive evaluations of the safety of bisphenol - A, in which government and scientific bodies worldwide examined the same scientific information.

The new teacher evaluations were approved in the state budget, but the State Board of Regents has found a way to delay their impact at many schools for at least another year, if schools can demonstrate that it would be a hardship for them to meet this year's November deadline.

The new teacher evaluations were approved in the state budget, but the New York State Board of Regents has found a way to delay their impact at many schools for at least another year, if schools can demonstrate that it would be a hardship for them to meet this year's November deadline.

Richard Curreri, Director of Conciliation for PERB, wrote that «given that the parties have unquestionably bargained to impasse regarding evaluation procedures under the Transformation / Restart model, I find that the appointment of a mediator at this juncture is appropriate.»

A divided state Board of Regents on Sept. 16 proposed three changes to the state evaluation system aimed at making the process fairer: an appeals process to address aberrations in growth scores, ensuring that privacy protections to bar the release to the public of individual teachers» growth scores will remain in force and the creation of a hardship waiver for school districts who find it difficult to hire outside evaluators.

The overall figures aren't the most important finding anyway, she says; the paper looked at other aspects of the application process in more detail, including NWO's instruction and evaluation materials, which they found to contain «gendered» language favoring male applicants.

So in 1997, he founded what is now known as the Institute for Technology Assessment (ITA) at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) in Boston to do these types of evaluations.

Compared to attending scheduled in - person lectures, 57 percent of respondents to the end - of - course evaluation found watching video lectures at home to have a positive impact on their time management.

Despite this, they found that the lower the level of testosterone or either of the estrogens, the higher the chance that the men had worse functional abilities at the two - year follow - up evaluation.

The recommendations may also fail to find sufficient proof that routine screenings work because they're only looking at research done in primary care, not studies of outcomes from evaluations done by vision specialists, noted Dr. David Parke II, chief executive of the American Academy of Ophthalmology in San Francisco and author of an editorial in JAMA Ophthalmology March 1.

«This is an extremely hopeful finding,» said lead author John Foxe, Ph.D., professor of pediatrics and in the Dominick P. Purpura Department of Neuroscience, as well as director of research of the Children's Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center at Einstein.

When you look at criteria used in science to hire people — for example, recommendation letters, number of citations, and teaching evaluations — all these metrics have been empirically found to be biased by gender, she says.

«Our findings demonstrate that people naturally assign different weights to the pluses and minuses of interventions to improve cardiovascular health,» said Erica Spatz, M.D., M.H.S., the study lead author and an assistant professor of cardiovascular medicine in the Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. «I believe we need to tap into this framework when we are talking with patients about options to manage their blood pressure.

An evaluation of the program, the Vajpayee Arogyashree Scheme (VAS), funded by the World Bank Group and led by Neeraj Sood, professor and director of research at the USC Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics found that:

The report [pdf] by the U.S. Department of Energy (DoE) inspector general reveals that the lab had failed to address problems pointed out three years ago in an evaluation that found at least 800 fire prevention «deficiencies».

«Our findings clash with the American dream of expecting that the quality of life will continue getting better for future generations,» says lead author Gary Freed, M.D., M.P.H., a pediatrician at University of Michigan's C.S. Mott Children's Hospital and a member of U-M's Child Health Evaluation and Research Center.

The team found that the infant most likely died between 42,300 and 45,600 years ago, and an evaluation of the site's archaeological levels suggested that it was very unlikely that any Neandertals survived at the cave later than 39,000 years ago.

«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.

D31 Elements of Evaluation This report presents a series of findings emerging from the experiences gathered by Pencil's fourteen pilot projects in carrying out educational programmes at the intersection between formal and informal learning environments and methodologies.

Based on our findings, the occurrence of cancer is much higher in adults over 75 years of age compared with the proportion of patients in this age group who enroll in clinical trials,» said lead study author Bindu Kanapuru, MD, medical officer in the Division of Hematology Products, Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who presented the results at the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, held December 9 — 12 in Atlanta.

In June 2017, Drucza presented the findings of her meta - analysis of evaluations of gender in Ethiopian agricultural development at a senior staff meeting of the Ethiopia office of CARE, the global humanitarian organization.

Effectiveness and Impact: Evaluation findings and impact statements: Full evaluation reports are posted at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/resouEvaluation findings and impact statements: Full evaluation reports are posted at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/resouevaluation reports are posted at: http://kepler.nasa.gov/education/resources/eval/

Hospitalists typically work in shifts; therefore, within the same hospital, patients treated by hospitalists are plausibly quasi-randomized to a given physician based on when patients become sick and based on hospitalists» work schedule.34 We defined hospitalists using a validated approach: general internists who filed at least 90 % of their total evaluation and management billings in an inpatient setting.35 Second, to evaluate whether our findings were sensitive to how we attributed patients to physicians, we tested the following 2 alternative attribution methods: attributing patients to physicians who had the largest number of evaluation and management claims and attributing patients to physicians who billed the first evaluation and management claim for a given hospitalization.25, 36,37 Third, within some hospitals, male internists may be more likely to work in intensive care units and have severely ill patients.

At age 43, when she experienced episodes of imbalance, memory deficits, word - finding difficulties, slurred speech, and difficulty concentrating, she underwent neurologic evaluation and testing, which led to the diagnosis.

And at Mega Mathematics, you'll find activities for kids, with key concepts, background information, and evaluation suggestions provided for each activity.

The independent evaluation by researchers at the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the National Children's Bureau found that Year 2 children in schools with a breakfast club made two additional months» progress in reading, writing and maths compared with a similar group whose schools were not given support to offer breakfast.

This evaluation confirmed the positive outcomes found in previous studies, especially for students considered at high risk of dropping out when they entered the programs.

From James Coleman's early observational studies of high schools to the experimental voucher evaluations of the past 15 years, researchers have routinely found that similar students do at least as well and, at times, better academically in private schools than in public schools.

At first glance our findings seem inconsistent with evaluations of Chicago's program ending social promotion, to our knowledge the only similarly designed retention policy to be evaluated using comparable methods.

Since the release of our report, my co-authors and I have received inquiries about how our findings fit into the accelerating spate of legal actions aimed at teacher evaluation systems similar to the ones we examined.