Sentences with phrase «focus of study for»

Long a source of wonder (and occasional conspiracy theories), the white plumes that trail behind aircraft are a focus of study for NASA scientists testing the effects of biofuels.

Bottom line: All 7 of the TRAPPIST - 1 planets are Earth - sized and terrestrial, making them an ideal focus of study for planet formation and potential habitability.

This was discovered in the 1960s, and has made sand rats the focus of study for biologists interested in understanding nutrition - induced diabetes in humans.

Not exact matches

Though for many of us, studying for a big test or completing a grade - determining project can lead some to lose focus.

Depending on what you plan to market and your budget, you can use formal focus groups (or simply host roundtable discussions with members of the target audience), employ online research or mall intercept studies, or distribute your product to a select group of users for testing.

When you're deciding where to study, keep in mind that the role of nurse practitioners differs somewhat depending on the region — for instance, Quebec nurse practitioners tend to focus more on acute care than those in Ontario.

Steve studied politics at the University of London, with a focus on world economic development, IMF, World Bank and WTO; and journalism at the National Council for Training Journalists.

The study found that those who have taken part in mindfulness training were able to remain focused for longer periods of time on visual and listening tasks.

«It's baked into their DNA to be focused on the long term, as their focus is to maintain the family business and wealth,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been studying the underlying reasons for the curious strength of family firms.

Hall's coral studies focus on the effects of heat, acidification, and disease, which help scientists find and breed particularly resilient candidates for replanting on reefs.

One University of California, Berkeley study that focused on restaurant workers found that wages rose 1 % for every 10 % increase in the minimum wage.

«For all the media coverage of groundbreaking autonomous vehicle investments made to date, a surprising number of U.S. consumers are still looking for a new, focused player to enter this market,» Deloitte wrote in its stuFor all the media coverage of groundbreaking autonomous vehicle investments made to date, a surprising number of U.S. consumers are still looking for a new, focused player to enter this market,» Deloitte wrote in its stufor a new, focused player to enter this market,» Deloitte wrote in its study.

«The DEA appears to be dragged into this kicking and screaming,» said Sanho Tree, director of the Drug Policy Project at the Institute for Policy Studies, a progressive think tank focused on social - justice issues.

Cheon Seong - Whun of The Asan Institute for Policy Studies says denuclearization is too vague of a concept in Korean Peninsula talks and the focus should turn to nuclear «dismantlement» for Pyongyang.

For the January study focused on heart health, researchers split 53 adults into two groups, one of which did two years of supervised exercise four to five days a week, while the other simply did yoga and balance exercises.

Last year, for example, a study conducted by Unilever — a company that does have an admittedly vested interest in knowing this kind of information — polled 20,000 consumers in five countries and 33 percent said that given the option, they would choose to buy from brands that are focused on sustainability.

There's no shortage of tips and tricks out there to help you learn faster and recall more, but nearly all them focus on how to study — try spacing out study sessions a particular way, for instance, or test yourself rather than reread.

A recent Temkin Group study found that 84 percent of companies surveyed expected to increase their focus on customer experience metrics for this very reason.

By studying thousands of people, Rock found that we are truly focused for an average of only six hours per week.

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

But it comes as more of a shock to some bosses that study after study shows remote work can actually increase productivity as team members find the right conditions for focus and creativity.

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, Start a Successful Business, by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.

Buxton says the study's results point to a need for a culture shift in organizations toward a provision for greater flexibility and a change in mentality from a focus on congratulating those who burn the candle at both ends to an appreciation of the benefits of sleep.

To evaluate the potential for eruption, conventional studies have focussed on interpreting the major unrest of 1982 — 1984 (refs 4, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16).

Tom's studied hundreds of millionaires over the years whose habits are the main focus of his blog (RichHabits.net) and his book (same name — Rich Habits), so I feel like if it's working for them it would work for us too;)

Economists have analyzed extensively how platform markets may pose unique challenges for antitrust analysis.377 Specifically, they stress that analysis applicable to firms in single - sided markets may break down when applied to two - sided markets, given the distinct pricing structures and network externalities.378 These studies often focus on the challenge that two - sided platforms face in attracting both sides — the classic coordination problem of having to attract buyers without an established line of sellers, and vice versa.379 Economists tend to conclude that — given the particular challenges of two - sided markets380 — antitrust should be forgiving of conduct that might otherwise be characterized as anticompetitive.381

«While some device vendors are hoping that strong consumer awareness will drive corporate wellness adoption for their products, they also need to understand and focus on the most influential parts of the healthcare value chain,» says Jonathan Collins, author of the new study.

The Career & Technical Education (CTE) Working Group is focused on creating public dialogue around programs of study pathways for students interested in entering the STEM workforce.

«For now, the focus of this technology innovation centre will be on Visa Checkout and mVisa, but for certain, India will soon have teams that will jointly work with our two research labs in US and Singapore in studying the many aspects of blockchain disrupting technologies&raqFor now, the focus of this technology innovation centre will be on Visa Checkout and mVisa, but for certain, India will soon have teams that will jointly work with our two research labs in US and Singapore in studying the many aspects of blockchain disrupting technologies&raqfor certain, India will soon have teams that will jointly work with our two research labs in US and Singapore in studying the many aspects of blockchain disrupting technologies»

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.

BOEM's Marine Minerals Program (MMP) is multi-faceted, focusing on coordinated leasing of sediment for extraction, inventorying sediment resources through geological and geophysical surveys of the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS), and environmental studies and reviews to inform decisions.

Of all the segments of content marketers we've studied over the last year, technology marketers are the most focused on lead generation as a goal for content marketinOf all the segments of content marketers we've studied over the last year, technology marketers are the most focused on lead generation as a goal for content marketinof content marketers we've studied over the last year, technology marketers are the most focused on lead generation as a goal for content marketing.

Whereas Australia has made Asia an important focus of its national curriculum, Canada, where education is a provincial matter, could follow the model practiced in the US, where a network of universities across the country acts as hubs for teachers to deepen their understanding of Asian geography, history, social studies and arts, so they can introduce that content into their classrooms.

The study emphasizes controlling for any self - selection bias associated with the type of investors who seek advice, and focuses on common stock holdings to avoid any conflicts associated with mutual fund incentives.

Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.

Most agnostics and atheists were in your shoes, have studied the bible and more importantly the history behind it's composition but at some point most realized that the reason for the current focus of worship was no more valid than worshiping any other god.

For me it was a course in northern baroque art that focused on a study of Rubens.

Our church is doing this study because we want our focus to be for the good of all in our community, church, and world.

This could be one of the reasons for why pastors have deep personal friendships — the spirituality of Protestant ecclesiology largely sees personal / dyadic friendships as preferrential — and for years upon years, spirituality focused on sermons, quiet times, Bible studies, etc. in the church.

My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly by focusing on study about, against, and for Christian congregations.

The areas of study, that if people focused on these areas, they may have more opportunities for greater jobs.

A Christian theological school is defined, we have repeatedly stressed, by its interest in truly understanding God by focusing study on the Christian thing; but as a matter of contingent fact it happens that the Christian thing is most concretely available for study in and as Christian congregations.

By engaging people in the effort to understand God by focusing study of various subject matters within the horizon of questions about Christian congregations, a theological school may help them cultivate capacities both for what Charles Wood [2] calls «vision,» that is, formulating comprehensive, synoptic accounts of the Christian thing as a whole, and what he calls «discernment,» that is, insight into the meaning, faithfulness, and truth of particular acts in the practice of worship (in the broad sense of worship that we have adopted for this discussion).

(The misconception hardly needs exposing for readers of Process Studies, but reference to it serves to bring into focus the basic point at issue.)

Academic theologies (with their focus on such questions as method, the disciplinary status of theology in the modern university, the relationships of theology and religious studies, and the development of public criteria for theological language) are obviously related principally to the public of the academy.

One of the consequences of the focus on the role of interpretive communities has been a renewed appreciation for the forms of interpretation practiced by Jewish and Christian communities before the rise of modern biblical studies during the Enlightenment.

When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical studies, they have tended to focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern for nature and the like.

The genuine conflict between theological paradigms operative in the debates of the Second Vatican Council during my own formative years of theological study in Rome focused the question for me initially as one within my own Roman Catholic Church community.

It is important to underscore that the writers who focus on this issue stress that fragmentation of the course of study is unacceptable in a theological school not simply because it makes for bad schooling, but because it makes for bad theology.

Focusing on the challenge to make theological schooling adequate to pluralism seems to require us to deny the usual basis for unifying the course of study.