Sentences with phrase «executive function at»

The measurement of executive function at age 5: psychometric properties and relationship to academic achievement.
The measurement of executive function at age 3 years: Psychometric properties and criterion validity of a new battery of tasks
Improve attention, focus, impulse control, social skills, and executive function at school by helping teachers give our kids the tools they need to succeed 5.
The guide, called Enhancing and Practicing Executive Function Skills with Children from Infancy to Adolescence, offers a broad range of age - appropriate activities and games to bolster executive function at different stages.
A secure base from which to regulate: Attachment security in toddlerhood as a predictor of executive functioning at school entry.
Our aim is to explore how physical activity and fitness are linked to academic achievement, cognitive functions, brain properties and executive functions at different ages, both in children and adults.»
A secure base from which to regulate: Attachment security in toddlerhood as a predictor of executive functioning at school entry.

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Boards need to be completely independent to function properly, and an executive's presence can exert «undue influence,» says Richard Leblanc, a professor at York University.
The executives had been in charge of key functions at BlackBerry, according to the report.
SAN JOSE, Calif. — At Facebook's annual developer conference, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to the social networking platform, including a function that allows users to delete information Facebook has gathered on them — and a dating tool.
Prior to joining EFH, Young was executive vice president of finance and markets at Exelon Corporation, one of the nation's largest electric companies, with responsibilities for the finance functions and the trading and marketing organization, the Power Team.
Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals is comprised principally of corporate secretaries and business executives in governance, ethics, and compliance functions at public, private, and not - for - profit organizations.
Prior to founding of The Value Alliance, Ms. Bloxham devoted nearly twenty years of her professional career in financial services posts encompassing the banking, investments and insurance sectors, holding executive positions at Prudential Financial Services and at Bank One (now merged into JPMorganChase), where she managed strategic, financial, operations, technology, and compliance functions and at KPMG where she ran a global practice.
Internal control at Municipality Finance comprises financial administration that handles financial reporting, a risk management function which reports on the company's risk position and any changes to it and is independent of the business of the company, and internal audit performed by business units which produce reports that are processed by supervisors, the President and CEO assisted by the Executive Management Team, as well as the company's Board of Directors.
As part of her research she visited the Japanese Consulate and chatted with the Trade Commissioner, attended a function at a local Japanese Cultural Center, and met with visiting Japanese executives who were part of an incoming delegation.
Since the 2016 settlement, Wells has taken steps to enhance oversight at the board level, centralize risk - management functions and install new executives to oversee key businesses and control functions.
At Facebook's annual developer conference, chief executive Mark Zuckerberg announced changes to the social networking platform, including a function...
Robert Rodriguez, retired Partner and Chief Executive Officer at FPA, wrote in his Letter to Shareholders in May of 2009, «I believe superior long - term performance is a function of a manager's willingness to accept periods of short - term underperformance.
These responsibilities include: (i) fostering processes that allow the Board to function independently of management and encouraging open and effective communication between the Board and management of the Company; (ii) providing input to the Chairman on behalf of the independent Directors with respect to Board agendas; (iii) presiding at all meetings of the Board at which the Chairman is not present, as well as regularly scheduled executive sessions of independent Directors; (iv) in the case of a conflict of interest involving a Director, if appropriate, asking the conflicted Director to leave the room during discussion concerning such matter and, if appropriate, asking such Director to recuse him or herself from voting on the relevant matter; (v) communicating with the Chairman and the CEO, as appropriate, regarding meetings of the independent Directors and resources and information necessary for the Board to effectively carry out its duties and responsibilities; (vi) serving as liaison between the Chairman and the independent Directors; (vii) being available to Directors who have concerns that can not be addressed through the Chairman; (viii) having the authority to call meetings of the independent Directors; and (ix) performing other functions as may reasonably be requested by the Board or the Chairman.
By nature, the present President of America has that element in him — I should not be saying this but I am being inherently made to convey this as comment of exception for America and for Obama whose whole (Obama and his better half) stand as an extension through the ex Presidential candidate's Charisma Of the Secretary Hillary Clinton that President Obama's Charisma has selflessly absorbed for function in the cabinet gracefully for America and the world.That shows the humbleness of President Obama and maturity of Hillary Clinton of acceptance without a feeling of high and low of ego regarded as exceptional in Divinity.I was not supposed to make this comment and I have done so to urge the Republicans to accept their Light within of consensus through individual projections under control as Obama's gesture of bipartisanship that will come to address.In short, this comment is all about health and health care where economics alone does not come into the picture with a rigorous analysis on it but should also extend as leverage to the person in play (Obama) who is also selflessly poised with corrections on it over the infra structure of it that he has proposed for approval as ego of his working element as the executive public ally chosen as the President that had appealed to the public at large voting even putting behind able dleaers like McCain?George W Bush was the last to steer America into the Light over the past of America and that stands as the subtle truth even today as on date with Bill Clinton the ex President of America giving support through his excellent independent caliber for Obama ultimately to head the show of America that was time bound of its reality that sees no barriers and to which he accepted well in his individual capacity as the free lance ex President of America.
«Executive Function: Skills for Life and Learning,» a video from the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University
The results of a recent randomized trial of CSRP showed that children who spent their prekindergarten year in a CSRP Head Start classroom had, at the end of the school year, substantially higher attention skills, greater impulse control, and better performance on executive - function tasks than did children in a control group.
Social factors in the development of early executive functioning: a closer look at the caregiving environment.
In particular, such stressors compromise the higher order thinking skills that allow students to sort out complex and seemingly contradictory information such as when the letter C is pronounced like K (what psychologists call «executive functioning»), and their ability to keep a lot of information in their heads at once, a skill known as «working memory» that's crucial to success in school, college, and work.
Prior to joining the Brooklyn faculty in 2016, she was a member of the faculty for nine years at The Waldorf School of Garden City, where she served as a class teacher, mentor, and lower school chair, and where her ability to plan, organize, and maintain a high level of executive functioning skills, within both her personal class preparation and her classes themselves, were highly recognized.
«Having executive function in the brain is like having an air traffic control system at a busy airport to manage the arrivals and departures of dozens of planes on multiple runways,» is how the Center on the Developing Child at Harvard University describes it.
Also to be inducted into office at the ceremony are Sandra Ankobea and Makeba Boateng who have been co-opted onto the Executive Committee to perform special functions as Legal Officer and Women's Commissioner, respectively.
A letter from Smith and the shadow welfare secretary, Debbie Abraham, to the Northern Ireland secretary, James Brokenshire, warns: «This measure is being introduced in the absence of a functioning executive in Northern Ireland... To impose such changes from Westminster, especially through the back door of a statutory instrument without scrutiny even by committee, is completely at odds with principles of the devolution settlement as agreed under the Good Friday agreement and subsequent agreements, including Fresh Start.»
Abass said the function of the committee was simply to examine the allegations levelled against Banire by concerned members of the party, saying the committee would be fair in arriving at its decision which would then be submitted to the ward executive of the party for onward delivery to the local government and then the state executive of the APC.
Also present at the function were high profile personalities like Julius Debrah, the Chief of Staff, Samuel Justice Adjei, the Deputy Brong Ahafo Minister, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, General Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Hon Akwasi Oppong Ababio, the Sunyani Municipal Chief Executive among others.
Mr Patrick Akpe Kwame Akorli, Group Chief Executive Officer of GOIL, explained at the launch that, GOIL's research has established that the professional petroleum driver performed potentially hazardous and important function in the distribution chain of petroleum...
However, in brains at rest in people with aphasia, networks involved in hearing, motor processing, attention and executive functions were not as strongly connected as the same networks in the control group.
'' [The fact] that executive function, even in children this young, is significantly related to early math performance suggests that if we can improve executive function, we can improve their academic performance,» says Adele Diamond, professor of developmental cognitive neuroscience at the University of British Columbia.
«FLEX would provide multiple means of obtaining power and water needed to fulfill the key safety functions of core cooling, containment integrity and spent - fuel pool cooling that would preclude damage to nuclear fuel,» explains Adrian Heymer, executive director of Fukushima regulatory response at NEI.
Whether you have multitudes of multigens or just a gaggle of Gen Xs on your team, take the time to properly articulate the goals of the group and how it will function, says Sandra Smith, 45, director of the Executive Master in Science and Technology Leadership program at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.
«At the very front were two enormous convolutions in an area associated with executive functions like planning ahead, again a complex feature.»
Using statistical models, the researchers looked at two factors in kindergarten — children's executive function and exposure to play in the classroom — and how they contributed to the students» participation in different extracurricular activities in 8th grade.
The child's executive functioning was evaluated at three years of age by using a range of adapted games that reveal a child's ability to delay gratification, the strength of their working memory and their capacity to think about multiple concepts simultaneously.
Similarly, the team found that children with lower executive function were not at a disadvantage in Montessori schools, and performed as well as those with higher executive function.
The researchers specifically looked at executive functioning, which refers to a range of cognitive processes that are essential for cognitive, social and psychological functioning.
«Problems with memory, executive function, and processing speed are common symptoms of bipolar disorder, and have a direct and negative impact on an individual's daily functioning and overall quality of life,» said lead investigator Eve Lewandowski, PhD, director of clinical programming for one of McLean's schizophrenia and bipolar disorder programs and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
Between 2004 and 2014, 477 patients treated with BMT at City of Hope underwent standardized neuropsychological testing before their transplant, and at the six - month and one -, two - and three - year marks after transplant; testing was conducted on eight cognitive domains, including executive function, verbal fluency and speed, processing speed, working memory, visual and auditory memory, and fine motor dexterity.
«Under this grant, we will utilize Lexicon's proprietary gene knockout technology to study genes that may impact the function of motor neurons to advance treatments for spinal muscular atrophy,» said Brian P. Zambrowicz, Ph.D., executive vice president of research at Lexicon.
Executive function requires good working memory to hold several pieces of information in the brain at once.
Dr. Gringeri spent over 14 years at Amgen in various executive positions, managing diverse functions including serving as Vice President, Product Development, Executive Director, Scientific Operations, Vice President, Scientific Outreach and Licensing Operations, and Vice President, Project Management & Strategic executive positions, managing diverse functions including serving as Vice President, Product Development, Executive Director, Scientific Operations, Vice President, Scientific Outreach and Licensing Operations, and Vice President, Project Management & Strategic Executive Director, Scientific Operations, Vice President, Scientific Outreach and Licensing Operations, and Vice President, Project Management & Strategic Planning.
«Problems with memory, executive function, and processing speed are common symptoms of bipolar disorder, and have a direct and negative impact on an individual's daily functioning and overall quality of life,» said lead investigator Kathryn Eve Lewandowski, PhD, director of clinical programming for one of McLean's schizophrenia and bipolar disorder programs and an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School.
Jill Tincher currently serves as the Executive Director in the Office of Research Administration at the University of Miami where she oversees all Pre Award functions serving all campuses including the Miller School of Medicine, Rosenstiel School of Marine & Atmospheric Sciences and Coral Gables.
But it looks at executive function, at cognitive function on my coffee versus a selection of other coffees and oh my goodness the difference is so big.
From the young to the well - aged, the athlete to the executive, to the injured and ill, everyone benefits from this gentle manual therapy designed to balance the body and help it function at its highest potential.
A 2013 study found that 1000mg / day improved cognitive function at 6 and 12 months post-stroke (specifically in areas of attention, executive function and temporal orientation), while another trial showed that initiating citicoline within 24 hours after the occurrence of a stroke «increases the probability of complete recovery at three months.»
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