Sentences with phrase «field study on»

The actual ruling was made earlier this summer, but received media attention as journalists connected the decision to a recent field study on police questioning practices.

The field study on the Teop people is one of the first to examine the effects that our real - life social image has on human cooperation,» emphasised the professor.

In one of the studies, Locke performed an analysis of 10 years» worth of lab and field studies on the effects of goal - setting.

«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

In addition to his regular research, Ridgway conducts field studies on the Kaibab Reservation in northern Arizona, where he helps study restoration programs on overgrazed land and builds awareness about careers in the sciences among local Native students.

Given the rapid spread of coastal pollution, field studies on their multi-faceted effects on ecological processes in coral reefs deserve a high priority.

In 1966 - 67 Gerd Koch, a German anthropologist, carried out field studies on the culture of Nendö and other Santa Cruz Islands.

Conduct field studies on several threatened and endangered species native to Alaska, including American eagle, Dall sheep and caribou.

One of the studies Finkel et al. (2012) cited that led to this conclusion was a meta - analysis of 313 laboratory and field studies on the effect of similarity (of attitudes and personality) on attraction and satisfaction (Montoya et al., 2008).

Not exact matches

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

Outside of the lab, Kilduff studied rivalry's side effects on the soccer field.

Positive psychology, which focuses on what makes individuals and communities thrive, has been an incredibly popular field of study.

The length and cost of your Laurentian MBA depends on your undergraduate field of study — business degree holders take an accelerated 11 - month, 33 - credit program while those without one take 57 credits over 20 months.

According to the CIBC study, which examined various reports that have attempted to compute an annualized average «return on investment» on education and found stark divergences depending on the field of study, the university premium over college has also narrowed and now comes to 0.7 percentage points.

You interest rate may depend on your field of study, profession or lend provider.

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

The lack of a level playing field and unaffordable home prices mean «you can be cut out of the China dream,» said Joseph Fewsmith, director of the Center for the Study of Asia at Boston University, who focuses on Chinese politics.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

This field of research which marries economics with biology and psychology studies certain types of investing decisions — including those made on emotional or speculative grounds, often made hastily without all the facts or because of what others are doing.

A brand new study fielded among Database Trends and Applications readers and members of the Independent Oracle Users Group reveals that database professionals are being tasked with managing more database instances and platforms, and in greater sizes, than ever before - both on premises and in the cloud.

1 Samuel: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible by Francesca Aran Murphy Brazos, 336 pages, $ 34.99 He has never seen another field of study quite like it, says a political philosopher who follows biblical scholarship.

To prove that he is correct and that the oven is pure, Rabbi Eliezer calls on God to perform miracles in the presence of his colleagues — a carob tree is uprooted and moves across a field, a river reverses its course, and the walls of the rabbis» study hall magically begin to cave in — but the rabbis remain unmoved.

Samartha's Christological reflections on the pluralistic theology of religions [60] remains to be one of the most original and in - depth studies on the field.

James Scherer has done a good analysis on how missiology is complementary to various other fields of study.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

Your entire belief system is trumped up on these kinds of lies spearheaded by charlatans claiming expertiese in fields of study way beyond their training and, frankly, intellect.

J have drawn heavily on the work of experts in the field of biblical studies: William Manson, G. F. P. Cox, Sherman Johnson, S. MacLean Gilmour and some others, in the guide to Matthew and Luke; Frederick C. Grant, A. M. Hunter, C. H. Dodd, Vincent Taylor, and some others, in the guide to Mark; and W. F. Howard, C. K. Barrett, William Temple, Sir Edwyn Hoskyns, and some others, in the guide to John.

For convenience the scientific method can be set out as four basic steps, although the degree to which they can be applied in this over-simple form depends very much on the field of study.

The studies done on «rape trauma syndrome» are an example of the research needed in the field.

One public school recently took kids on a field trip to a Christian festival and left all the other kids on campus in a day long study hall.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

But the studies that have been made suggest that attitudes learned in one field have limited influence on new situations in other fields; and outside their own area scientists can be as dogmatic as anyone else.

I was hooked on this emerging field of environmental studies and followed my interests throughout college.

More significantly, these studies tended to focus on «how - to» concerns, or the application of what was taught in the «theoretical» fields of biblical, historical and theological - ethical studies (each also separate from the others and supported by its own professional associations, journals, degree programs and faculties).

Stressing the relevance of a given course or discipline to the modern world, putting more emphasis on psychological and sociological studies, or locating students in field situations, while important, will not solve the problem.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studiesOn the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studieson behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

His philosophical and philological interests centered on studies in the fields of language, criticism, and aesthetics.

Of course, such negative impact of religious studies on religious faith is mitigated by many other persons in the discipline who entered the field as an extension of their religious calling and whose more positive perspectives are apparent despite pressures not to reveal any explicit religious commitment.

Religious studies, sociology, psychology and other fields take on much of this search now to understand ourselves.

Regenerus» [sic] paper is one of the most widely - discredited pieces of research in the field of LGBT studies because it relied on problematic methodology to achieve its findings.

On the other hand, «emphasis on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned»On the other hand, «emphasis on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned»on the importance of the traditional disciplines of theological study in the biblical, church - historical and systematic fields has been reinforced after a period in which their values were frequently questioned».

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

John Locke (1632 - 1704) made contributions to philosophy which profoundly influenced theoretical study in that field and as well had lasting repercussions on political thought and institutions.

Metaphysics has been a field of study on its deathbed since Kant, its few intellectual life - support systems having finally been unplugged by the very caretakers of the profession that gave it birth — philosophers of the positivist and linguistic schools.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and edustudies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and eduStudies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

And while many of these might appear to be merely semantic on the surface, there might not be any field of study where the meaning and use of words is more important than with theology.

Over the next four years, Rodale Institute will conduct a research project on Industrial Hemp through two field trials, a Variety Trial and Weed Suppression Trial, and one greenhouse study.

Improved postharvest practices: A recent research study undertaken by WFLO with funding by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation provides an great assortment of data on the results of 12 past projects, postharvest losses % for 26 crops, a description of the value chain for 30 crops in 4 countries (Rwanda, Benin, Ghana and India) and 21 field trials of postharvest technologies suitable for helping small farmers reduce losses and improve their incomes.

It provided a unique opportunity to learn from leaders in different fields of study, allowing me to separate myself from the tunnel vision of my degree, and enjoy different standpoints on what other people find truly important in food waste, and what needs to be done to prevent it.