Sentences with phrase «few studies designed»

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Participants were asked to not only guess what their partner's reservation price (the lowest price they would accept), but also questions that were designed to show how they perceived their partner — the study's authors were curious as to whether certain negotiation tactics might lead to a likability cost, even if they resulted in a few more dollars for the partner.

A few months ago, Davis left her job with plans to study design.

From a McKinsey & Company study designed mostly to demonstrate that the U.S. school system is letting the American people, and the American economy, down, let us snatch a few

Volvo introduced its interior design study, dubbed Concept 26, which shows its idea of what an autonomous car's interior could look like a few years from now.

The seven - year study was designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

So thinks the Pew Research Center, which today released the second wave of a massive study designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

In one of those interesting accidents of timing only a few months before Magic Johnson put human sexuality on the national agenda, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) tried to correct this institutional paralysis over sexuality when it considered a study document designed to confront the inadequacy of both an empty moralism and an arrogant secularity.

The few studies on meditation in school children are also hopeful — showing some improvement in social skills — but again contain too few children or too many design and measurement problems to be conclusive.

Reading, running, studying, drawing, natural living, cooking, anthropology, natural birth, medicine, photography, design, travel, theology, and writing are just a few of the areas that capture my interest.

Reading, running, studying, drawing, natural living, cooking, anthropology, natural birth, medicine, photography, design, travel, theology, and writing are just a few of the areas that capture Keren's interest.

This study was designed to determine if hand expression of colostrum (the early milk) in the first few days, combined with pumping mature milk using hands - on - pumping techniques (massage and breast compression while pumping) could prevent low milk supply, which is common in pump dependant mothers of pre-term infants.

What I find even more troubling is people with no scientific credentials whatsoever citing to a few studies that may or may not be well - designed, may or may not have been replicated, may or may not represent the scientific consensus.

Many of the submissions from doctors (she recognized a few of the names from questionable JAMA papers) read more like advertising testimonials than well - designed, well - executed scientific studies.

Few well - designed studies have been done on blepharospasm.

Postdoctoral researcher Anat Milo, the study's first author, says use of the new method «can assist the design of reactions with fewer byproducts and much less waste, and the reactions would be more efficient.

Milgram's original study design was simple: He gave 60 people in Wichita, Kansas, envelopes and the name of a target person — a stranger — along with a few details of that person's life.

The findings might have departed from prior studies because of the difference in size and study design, he said, explaining that much of the previous work in this area has been conducted in groups of 100 or fewer and mostly involved student subjects.

«Researchers have long studied ways to modify the molecular structure of polymers to engineer their mechanical, optical or electronic properties, but very few studies have examined molecular design approaches to engineer their thermal properties,» Pipe said.

With the help of some designing, a few grams of plastic filament and a 3D printer, researchers in the University of Helsinki made a unique device for studying chemical reactions, and improved their experimental processes.

The mission, which is scheduled to launch in a few weeks, is designed, among other tasks, to study the possible causes of solar flares, so it could help refine the data linking the vortices to the flares.

«More selective HIV screening is thought to miss more cases, but there have never been well - designed comparison studies on which targeting criteria are best,» he says, «so with this study, we hypothesized that by using very broad criteria and applying sufficient resources to test everyone who met those criteria, we could detect nearly as many cases as universal screening but still use many fewer tests.»

The few properly - designed studies that have been done find no difference in weight loss between vegetarian diets and meat - inclusive diets.

Furthermore, the studies were generally of poor study design with few participants and lack of control group.

The study had an excellent design and few methodological issues.

One study found that vitamin E was significantly depleted using conditions designed to replicate use for deep frying, and another study found that production of a toxic volatile compound called acrolein by canola oil at 180 °C was found to be around five times higher than acrolein production by either extra virgin olive oil or olive oil, most probably due to the high ALA content of canola oil and fewer antioxidants than olive oil.

Guest Blog by Designs For Health New study demonstrates curcuminoids increase HDL and lower lipoprotein (a) in type 2 diabetes patients There are only a few natural products that have demonstrated such a wide range of protective properties as curcumin.

Experiments can not faithfully represent a real world characterized by multivariate, nonlinear (and often reciprocal) causal relationships Moreover, few education researchers have much difficulty detailing contingencies likely to limit the effectiveness of a proposed reform that were never part of a study's design.

Though exact results vary from one study to the next, there is little doubt that credentials and additional years of experience (beyond the first few years) matter far less to teacher effectiveness than they do to teacher compensation as it is currently designed.

The study has received a great deal of attention, in part because it is one of the few evaluations of school resources based on random assignment of students to test policy effects while controlling for other conditions, a method that is generally thought to be a high - quality research design.

The few studies from a measurement perspective that are available on new statewide assessments (e.g., Maryland, Kentucky, Arizona) do not distinguish among reading, language arts, and mathematics in design or analyses, making it difficult for literacy educators to interpret the implications for curriculum, instruction, or research.

One of the few studies of on - demand assessment to report specifically by subject area is based on data from the New Standards Project, a multistate effort designed to involve educators in the creation of state and district performance - based assessments in reading, writing, and mathematics (Resnick, Resnick, & DeStefano, 1993).

Of the forty nine studies that were identified in the review of the literature that examined teacher leader preparation programs, few of these studies were designed to investigate the relationship between the specific knowledge and skills developed in a preparation program and the strategies employed by teacher leaders in their practice.

Few of the studies were designed to investigate the role of subject area (i.e. mathematics or science) in the shared work of teacher leaders and principal, indicating an area for future research.

Although our study was intended as a 1 - year proof - of - concept research design, we have demonstrated sufficiently positive results for other researchers to pursue longitudinal investigations that track preservice teacher behaviors into their first few years of practice.

You present evidence from a few well - designed and well - executed studies that suggest that money alone, when given directly to low - income families, can make a difference for their children.

In addition, «relatively few studies rely on experimental designs that enable us to attribute differences in student achievement and teacher retention solely to the compensation program, and not to other characteristics of the teachers, schools, or districts» (Glazerman).

In this chapter, we describe a methodology for conducting educational design research to support system - wide instructional improvement in mathematics and draw on one of the few design studies that

A study was put out a few years ago by Kathy Holmes of the University of Newcastle that examined asynchronous discussions, which we know are designed to facilitate conversation just like in the face to face classroom.

Tata Interactive Systems announces white paper on Instructional Design models Tata Interactive Systems Mumbai 11 Mar 2014 Explores learning models and approaches for the connected, networked learners in a complex world; Provides an overview of models like Pervasive Learning, Flipped Learning, Evidence - based Learning, Adaptive Learning Systems, and 70:20:10, with a few case studies.

At present, there are many K - 12 / university partnerships in place to support technology integration across the country (Hartshorne, Ferdig, & Dawson, 2005) but few rigorous, longitudinal studies designed to examine learning outcomes within them.

I wrote about the history of the four - door Porsche a few years ago, but seeing one of the obscure design studies in person was a treat.

For the money, a potential buyer expects a car with a difference, and the TType is — although its low - key, low - profile wedge silhouette will be familiar to anyone who has studied GM design trends during the past few years.

During a Porsche - sponsored press drive for the 2018 Panamera Sport Turismo, Vehicle Product Line Manager Christian Hauck said that after the design study, the company put that idea aside for a few years while working on other projects.

The Lexus LF - LC Concept has premiered at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit today so naturally that we now have an official press release and a few extra photos that show the new design study from different angles.

The latest BMW M concept is billed as a design study that previews the appearance but provides few clues to the technical package of the M4 coupe.

AZ: We both moved to Hamburg a few years ago to study illustration design, and there was a course in game design we both immediately felt excited about.

One star here is Julius Shulman, whose photos depict homes built for the 1945 Case Study Houses program that saw leading Modernist architects (Eero Saarinen, Charles and Rae Eames, and Pierre Koenig, to name a few) design prototypes for mass - produced housing.

Remember when Pam Beesly of NBC's hit show The Office temporarily ditched her day job to study graphic design at Pratt Institute a few years ago?

The show will also feature a few of George's childhood drawings, early cartoons made in the mid 1950s when he was a student studying commercial art at the School of Industrial Art (later the Manhattan School of Art and Design).

In the past few years, she has been developing her PhD as part of the Tate's «Art School Educated» research team, and she is a lecturer on the MRes Art: Exhibition Studies at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design.