Sentences with phrase «focus groups involve»

Based on anonymous surveys and focus groups involving 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines, the study revealed that only 56 % of soldiers would report a unit member for injuring or killing an innocent noncombatant, while a mere 40 % of Marines would do so.

The survey — based on an analysis of 20,000 calls to the Parentline helpline, along with nearly 200 questionnaires and four focus groups involving mums, dads and children — found that the experiences and feelings of mothers and fathers are very different.

The WIE committee also established focus groups involving 85 engineers — both men and women — in major Canadian cities, to discuss and find solutions to the issues facing women professional engineers.

The school convened focus groups involving students from diverse groups to learn what problems students perceived at the school and what types of support students needed.

The report, which finds some skepticism about reforms promoted by those behind the study, relies on teachers» statements at 30 focus groups involving 293 educators held around the state last fall.

In addition, 6 school - based focus groups involving 63 elementary teachers In these focus groups questions were asked which looked at; teachers» experiences of collaborative inquiry; factors that inhibit collaborative inquiry; factors that inhibited its effectiveness; and, perceived outcomes of collaborative inquiry.

Running a focus group involved a high - risk, high - reward roll of the dice: Rolling a one or a two meant that no one showed up and they learned nothing, but any other number would earn progressively more information.

The 72 community focus groups involved 670 participants from urban, regional and remote settings (table 2).

Secondly, four focus groups involving 27 community participants provided qualitative data.

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As the chart shows, the focus for products and making money during the next three years involves Facebook's ecosystems, while video, search, groups, and the family of apps such as WhatsApp, Messenger, and Instagram come into play in the next five years.

But we involved about 10,000 Canadians in online focus groups to help inform the decision, and when we asked what our brand meant to them, the colour orange was very important.

BERLIN, May 2 - Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters)- Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

A daughter to Cuban immigrants, Pestana is involved in various firm initiatives focused on diversity and is currently the Diversity & Inclusion Champion for the NY Banking and Capital Market Group.

The second stage of the project has focused on sharing these experiences — both amongst the various groups involved and to other groups currently facing forced evictions — through an international exchange event held in Istanbul, one of the participating cities, in February 2010.

This deep dive involves additional research, including customer and employee focus groups and call monitoring.

The third level of abstraction involves groups as foci of interaction.

Massive funding was available for groups to create materials and get involved in youth work, especially focusing on the areas of bullying [4] and sexual health services.

Tim i found it liberating to just do what the Lord wants you to do i work within his boundarys and yes i attend church and enjoy it.I love the people and i love hearing the word and worshipping the Lord even if others are still bound up with traditions thats not my walk thats theres.My focus is to do what the Lord wants me to do.There have been times i have said no to the pastor he does nt understand why i choose not to lead the worship.i query him as well regarding the idea that its not just performing a function because there is a need our hearts have to be in the right place so that the Lord can use us but he did nt understand where i was coming from and thats okay because of that i just said no until my heart is right i am better not being involved in leading.But i am happy to be an encouragement to others in the worship team i havent wanted to be the leader i have done that in the past.So my focus has been just the singing and being part of different worship teams i think the Lord has other plans as the groups i am in seem to be changing at the same time i am aware that i do nt to worry about change as the Lord knows whats best.I used to be quite comfortable leading the music but that was before when i was operating in my own self confidence and pride.The Lord did such a huge change in my life that i lost my self confidence and that is not a bad thing at all as my spiritual growth has been incredible.The big change was my identity moved from me and what i could do to knowing who i was in Christ and that he is my strength and confidence.Now i know that without him i can do nothing in fact i am dependent on his empowerment through his holy spirit all the time in everything.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music at another church i attend multiple churchs although i attend two regularly one has services in the morning and one has services in the evening so the two do nt really clash.In the weekend i was asked to lead the music its been two years since i did that and i was worried on how i would go.All i can say is that it went really well and because i stepped out in Faith the Lord really blessed the morning to the congregation.The difference is knowing that i serve the Lord with the gifts he has given me but my heart has to be right and when i do it in his way it builds up the body and it brings glory to him.May the Lord continue to show you what he wants you to do even though others may not understand your reasons i just want you to know that you do nt have to pull away completely just work within the boundarys that the Lord gives you and do nt feel pressured by others expectations to do anything that feel uncomfortable.Be involved just as you feel lead by the holy spirit even if it is in a very minor way take small steps.regards brentnz

The series focuses on a group of kids in the 1980s Indiana trying to solve a mystery involving a girl with super powers, secret government agencies and a monster from another dimension.

At the center, we're involved in training of mental health professionals and parent educators and direct service to parents where we provide groups focusing on helping parents to develop reflective and mindful ways and approaches to parenting.

The group is not exclusively focused on pregnancy loss but is involved in a lot of activities related to miscarriage and stillbirth awareness, such as the MISSing Angels Bills that have been considered or passed in many U.S. states with the idea of granting parents the right to receive a state - issued certificate of stillbirth recognizing the loss of a baby to stillbirth.

Part I is intended to help a responsible individual or group through the steps proposed, and focuses on the process involved in developing a national infant and young child feeding strategy.

However it is important to note that only a small proportion of civil society groups are involved in the protests; namely those groups that are based in Bujumbura who are focused on governance and human rights issues and regard themselves as watchdog responsible for holding the government to account.

Such participation could involve (i) explaining mainstream views on climate science (e.g. Realclimate or the Met Office); (ii) reading and disseminating such information; or (iii) taking part in invited focus groups, interviews, or surveys (e.g. work by Nick Pidgeon and colleagues).

This research — the biggest ever survey of UKIP support and potential support, involving a poll of more than 20,000 people and fourteen focus groups with UKIP voters and «considerers» — defines the UKIP temptation.

I am involved with several parent and community groups that are focused on improving our community's culture to benefit young people.

Few Americans were involved in the work, which included polling, focus groups and message development for the John Bolton Super PAC, conservative groups in Colorado and the campaign of Senator Thom Tillis, the North Carolina Republican.

Instead, Kink said, the focus will be on «people power,» organizing a network he estimates will eventually be several million people strong when you count all the unions involved — from 32BJ, CWA, 1199 and the AFL - CIO — to advocacy groups like Citizen Action, Communities for Change and the Center for Working Families.

In recent days, her campaign has held focus groups to try to determine what qualities undecided voters want to see in Mrs. Clinton's running mate, the people involved with the planning said.

Among the vast group of agencies involved in the creation of the clubhouses in Western New York are Prevention Focus, the Erie County Council for Alcohol and Substance Abuse, the Mental Health Association of Erie County, Compeer, Buffalo State College, Horizon Human Services, and Kids Escaping Drugs — each providing their own expertise and services to the program.

Flanagan quickly shot down Cuomo's efforts in a statement, rejecting the LLC loophole as a reform issue and insisting reform efforts should focus exclusively on reforms related to activities of Mayor Bill de Blasio, despite the fact that his predecessor, Skelos, was convicted on corruption charges that involved the influence of real estate groups that have flooded legislators» campaign coffers with donations through the loophole.

Animal personality researchers have historically focused on individuals while ignoring the way they behave in groups, and collective behavior researchers have focused on groups while downplaying individual differences, according to University of St. Andrews animal behavior researcher Mike Webster, who was not involved in the work.

«I made the case that we needed a group focused on data mining, machine learning, and visualization research to involve not just astronomers but also computer scientists and statisticians,» says Kirk Borne, who chairs the informatics and statistics team.

Over the course of 18 months, the Coalition conducted 17 focus groups, involving 145 participants from a diversity of scientific and engineering disciplines (Protocol: Appendix C).

Based on research involving focus groups and interviews in Appalachia, the research team reached these key conclusions about an industry that has seen employment drop by 71 percent since 1985:

This process, which will be the focus of much of the group's forthcoming research, will necessarily involve extensive trials.

Some DNA program efforts can raise complex legal and ethical questions, however, and Jennifer Wagner, a 2014 - 2015 AAAS Congressional Fellow and former research associate at the University of Pennsylvania's Center for the Integration of Genetic Healthcare Technologies, and Sara Katsanis, an Instructor of Science & Society at Duke University, are conducting interviews, surveys, and focus groups around two such programs to learn more about the perspectives of the people involved and to develop «best practices» guidelines.

To do so, he got the athletes involved early in the development process and framed them as advisers on the project instead of subjects in a focus group.

The study involved participants of European descent exclusively, but co-author Roy Perlis, a researcher at Massachusetts General Hospital, notes it's standard method to focus on one group as a starting point, since previous research shows genetic markers can vary by ethnicity.

AAAS has held 17 focus groups since 2010 involving 145 U.S. participants representing a broad range of scientific disciplines.

To see whether cancer stem cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two human breast cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups from mRNAs.

After several months of computer training, the participant pairs then joined to form a small group focused on social cognition, or thinking abilities involved in understanding others and processing social information.

When they focused on genes involved in drug resistance, the group found that C. krusei differs from C. albicans; many of the sites that are often mutated in the target of azole drugs in resistant C. albicans are not mutated in C. krusei.

Her group now wants to focus on understanding the signals involved in promoting the changes in skin they observed with calorie restriction.

They identified the key people involved using a narrative approach to interview in focus groups formed from those who were early adopters of process improvement methods.

The group has been involved in the development of TESS, as well as a separate project called ExoplanetSat, a suite of nanosatellites that will each focus on one bright star at a time to search for transiting exoplanets.

The Kops group studies the processes involved in chromosome segregation during cell division, with a focus on molecular mechanisms, evolution and chromosomal instability.

Their workout routine involves a wide array of exercises, each focusing on different muscle groups.

Lisa is also actively involved in several other groups and organizations which are focused on supporting and growing the field of contemplative education.