Sentences with phrase «examined key studies»

Her research, published in the International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health, examined key studies that included risk factors for developing breast cancer.

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Retail entrepreneurs can certainly learn from the key findings the study, which can provide guidance as they examine and refine their strategies this holiday.

We develop an analytical framework for examining these agency problems and apply it to study several key types of investment managers.

This comprehensive study examines key research findings that will help you ensure your clients» employees live healthier now and in their retirement.

In a recent study, WalletHub examined 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 12 key metrics, including the percentage of adults and high school students who are obese and the percentage of people who are physically inactive.

To test the validity of the method, a second study examined 10 key hazards under the purview of the Department, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornados, pandemic influenza, nuclear detonation, explosive bombing, anthrax attack, cyber-attack on critical infrastructure, accidents involving toxic industrial chemicals, and oil spills.

In the second study, researchers examined whether aspirin is associated with breast density, which is a widely accepted risk factor for both estrogen receptor minus (ER --RRB- and estrogen receptor positive (ER +) breast cancers, and can be a key factor in detecting tumors during routine mammograms.

«The key aspect of our study which gives us considerable confidence in our findings is that we were able to show that river flows and waterbird numbers were closely related, despite a range of other factors we examined, including the effect of duck hunting,» says study co-author and UNSW research fellow Dr Gilad Bino.

The team also recently obtained a grant from the National Medical Research Council in Singapore to pursue a study using the probe to examine the relationship between key Parkinson's disease - linked genes and MAO - B expression and activity to further understand the causes of the disease and illuminate the role of MAO - B in this.

Darimont's potent cocktail, dubbed «stink sauce» by his field crew, is key to a new study that examines the relationships among salmon and coastal grizzlies by mining their hair for unprecedented data on their diet and health.

The purpose of this review is to (1) summarize the current status of the field by highlighting key findings from studies using fMRI to examine task - related and intrinsic functional connectivity in individuals with ASD across various age groups, (2) reveal critical gaps in the literature which have led to an inconsistent characterization of functional connectivity in ASD, and (3) argue that a developmental perspective can help reconcile some extant contradictory findings, and is necessary for future progress in the field.

Two key weight loss ingredients in Menoquil that have been closely examined in clinical studies are guggul gum resin extract and green tea leaf extract.

Here was the key breakthrough: Since we can not examine research on «adrenal fatigue» per se, we have to search elsewhere for studies that have examined the link between cortisol levels and chronic fatigue.

The interesting article outlines the key decisions that have to be made when it comes to analysing data, contextualising the discussion with a study funded by eHarmony, which examined the success of relationships that began on online dating sites.

Of the more than 1,300 studies identified as potentially addressing the effect of teacher professional development on student achievement in three key content areas, nine meet What Works Clearinghouse evidence standards, attesting to the paucity of rigorous studies that directly examine this link.

The Institute's Director, Anne Hollonds said the data — from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children — examined the key factors in parents» decisions about the type of primary school their child would attend.

Although the body of research on these issues is growing, many key outcomes have not been adequately examined, or they have been studied only in individual cities and states.

In the study, to be published in the Spring 2011 issue of Education Next and available at www.educationnext.org, authors Stuart Buck and Jay P. Greene examined the key characteristics of performance pay plans currently in place in school districts, in light of increased attention given to merit pay in national debate and in the Obama Administration's Race to the Top (RttT) competitive grant program.

This case study also examined five key elements that were seen as contributive to the success of this pilot virtual field experience.

Earlier studies released by the MET project had examined three potential measures of teacher quality: observations of teachers keyed to teaching frameworks, surveys of students» perceptions of their teachers, and a value - added method, which attempts to isolate teachers» contributions to their students» academic achievement.

Mischaracterizes the findings of the study: According to MPS, «The authors admit that they can not conclude that the voucher program affected criminality...» While MPS would be correct if they only examine students who attend private schools with a voucher for a few years, the key findings of DeAngelis and Wolf are among students who attended MPCP schools for a full 12 years.

Using the Tailored Design survey methodology (Dillman, 2007), this study examines a national sample of 596 K - 12 online teachers and measures their knowledge with respect to three key domains as described by the TPACK framework: technology, pedagogy, content, and the combination of each of these areas.

This study examines whether teachers» knowledge exchange in social networks is related to key elements that have been associated with increased student achievement, namely teacher self - efficacy and commitment.

Informing Equity, an Education Resource Strategies (ERS) study commissioned by the Oakland Achieves Partnership, examines data for the 2014 - 15 school year from district - run and charter schools in Oakland across three key dimensions: student need, resource levels, and resource use.

Informing Equity, an ERS study commissioned by the Oakland Achieves Partnership, examines data for the 2014 - 15 school year from district - run and charter schools in Oakland across three key dimensions: student need, resource levels, and resource use.

This case study report examines how three key components of an Indigenous - centred program — land - based learning, spirituality, and the Medicine Wheel — have created a template for heightened student engagement and retention.

To find out, WalletHub, a financial services website, recently studied the programs and examined them across 21 key metrics.

I will explain how the study got the results it did, examine some key flaws in the methodology and explain why the conclusions are unsupported by the data.

Of them, he writes: «In a now - famous study published in the December 2004 Science, Naomi Oreskes at the University of California, San Diego, examined the abstracts of 928 articles published in peer - reviewed scientific journals between 1993 and 2003 containing the key words «global climate change.»

«Mozambique has made a good start in identifying its own way of realising REDD — in fact, this is key in order to ensure that REDD + is not getting hijacked by different interests,» said Sheila Wertz - Kanounnikoff, CIFOR scientist and co-author of the study which examined the political and economic context in which REDD + is emerging in Mozambique.

A new study examines the lasting impacts of social isolation on key health indicators including blood pressure and inflammation.

Whether discussing the patent work of an attorney at a boutique law firm or examining how the corporate counsel of a multinational corporation mitigates risk, the diverse collection of case studies in our first edition illustrates how firms provide analysis and guidance to clients and how in - house counsel are a key component of a company's leadership team and long - term success.

Written By ESR News Blog Editor Thomas Ahearn The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) will release a survey examining workplace policies and practices called the «National Study of Employers» on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, and one of the study's authors will talk about key findings of the research and answer questions about tStudy of Employers» on Wednesday, March 8, 2017, and one of the study's authors will talk about key findings of the research and answer questions about tstudy's authors will talk about key findings of the research and answer questions about the...

Although the studies mentioned above examined the relationship between individual - level characteristics and grandparental childcare, they did not explicitly consider whether national distributions in key demographic and socio - economic characteristics explain cross-national variation in grandparental care.

Children at Risk in the Child Welfare System: Collaborations to Promote School Readiness: Final Report (PDF - 1188 KB) Catherine E. Cutler Institute for Child and Family Policy & Oldham Innovative Research (2009) Provides an analysis of data from the National Survey of Child and Adolescent Well - being as well as a case study in Colorado involving interviews with key stakeholders and statewide surveys of caseworkers and foster parents to examine how collaborations between the child welfare, early intervention / preschool special education and early care and education services meet the developmental needs of children ages 0 to 5 who are involved in the child welfare system.

The study investigated these two groups of pre-kindergarten children on immediate (prekindergarten), intermediate (kindergarten) and longer term (first grade) outcomes as well as examined a number of key factors that may impact intervention including: child history of EI / ECSE and other educational services, child characteristics, and familial risk factors.

With this sample size, MIHOPE becomes one of the largest studies of home visiting ever conducted, and it will be able to reliably examine impacts of home visiting on key outcomes and for key subgroups of interest.

Because treatment enactment has been cited as a key aspect of treatment fidelity, this study examined the relationships between treatment enactment (i.e., home mindfulness practice) and alcohol and other drug (AOD) use and craving in the context of a larger study of mindfulness - based

The study was designed to: (1) identify and examine the key facilitative and inhibitive factors associated with the implementation of the programme in disadvantaged settings; and (2) to assess the level of implementation fidelity (IF) achieved within the RCT evaluation.

This experimental study examines the impact of five key features of the core story of early childhood development on public attitudes and policy preferences.

A recent random assignment intervention study examined whether mothers» responsive behaviours could be facilitated and whether such behaviours would boost young children's learning.6 To also examine the most optimal timing for intervention (e.g. across infancy versus the toddler / preschool period versus both), families from the intervention and non-intervention groups were re-randomized at the end of the infancy phase, to either receive the responsiveness intervention in the toddler / preschool period or not.22 The intervention was designed to facilitate mothers» use of key behaviours that provided affective - emotional support and those that were cognitively responsive, as both types of support were expected to be necessary to promote learning.

Postnatal depression, particularly in disadvantaged communities, has been shown to be associated with impairments in the child's growth, 36 and his / her social, emotional, and cognitive development.37 By school age, children of women who suffer postnatal depression are at risk for showing externalising and internalising behavioural problems, and they have lower social skills and academic achievement.38 A key way in which maternal depression affects children's development is by disrupting the mother - infant relationship as well as routine parenting functions, 37 and two studies have shown that HIV infection is associated with similar disturbances in mother - child interactions.13, 39 Currently, no studies in the HIV literature have examined maternal psychosocial functioning in relation to mother - child interactions or child development.

This study examines the role of maladaptive schemas, the key concept in schema therapy, as a mechanism of continued bullying victimization.

In a recent study, NAHB examines eight key housing statistics from the 2012 American Community Survey (ACS).