Sentences with phrase «focused my study time»

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The striking example I focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.

With no time to convene focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and by reading various magazine studies.

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.

However, two separate studies focused on Seattle, a city that raised its wages to $ 11 per hour in 2015 and $ 13 per hour in 2016, showed «diverging results,» according the New York Times.

According to a study (PDF) of 1,000 full - time office workers commissioned by Energy Focus and conducted by Wakefield Research, 69 percent of participants reported problems with office lights including glare, brightness, and excessive flicker.

Choosing to photograph on the street as her way of studying the fashion world, Jeng focuses her time in NYC — and the city is as much a character as the stylish subjects on her blog «The NYC Streets.»

In one study of thousands of employees, researchers found a non-so surprising statistic: only 20 % of Americans can focus on just one task at a time at work.

Studies show it's impossible for our brains to focus effectively on more than one thing at a time.

With the Canadian government currently spending time and resources on supporting LGBTQ initiatives in Asia, this study is a first look at how exactly these resources are being focused.

Studies have shown half to two - thirds of the rise in non-participation is due to demographic changes as baby boomers reach retirement age and teenagers choose to focus on school rather than working part time.

Aberdeen's study found that websites that make content marketing their primary focus received six times more website conversions than websites that did not focus on content marketing.

The study focused on gross cash holdings rather than subtracting their debt in an effort to simplify comparisons over time and identify how much money companies have to hand.

Instead of pouring all your time and creative energy into blog posts, a better approach is to focus on client case studies that showoff your marketing skills.

This study covers the history of Sino - US trade relations with a particular focus on the past decade, during which time each has been a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

@ Chris At this point in my life I am comfortable with my current conclusions and, barring any new earth shattering evidence or sound deliberation, I will stick to this and focus my time and energy on other disciplines and studies.

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.

Every summer since 1992, Icthus has met at Ashburnham to get away from life's distractions and focus on a time of worship, Bible study and fellowship.

While I have seen no studies done on this, from what I have seen, dying people are more focussed on the kinds of things noted in the article (pain alleviation, cleanliness particularly in light of the huge issue toilet - time becomes) than on whether an afterlife or mere end of consciousness that awaits them.

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.

The discipleship area is focused on text and audio material, and so if you don't spend much time reading theology books, studying Scripture, or listening to theology podcasts or books on audio, you probably won't enjoy the discipleship area of this website.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

By this time I'd earned an M.S. in Criminal Justice, my focus in this degree was case law and judiciary process, which of course included an extensive study of policing histories and practices.

Ironically though, these same people who spend some much time studying the literal interpretations of the bible are the first to ignore its glaring inconsistencies and most only focus on the final 1611 compilation ignoring the inconvenient texts that were left out.

Experiences I had, subjects I studied, professional positions I held, people who had a profound impact on my thought — much of this, seemingly random at the time, came into focus as remote preparation for becoming the papal biographer I never intended to be.

In fact our present Pope, whose pontificate hasbeen wholly focussed on the new millennium, has expressed his approval and encouragement to «all who in any way continue to foster, study and promote devotion to the Heart of Christ in the Church with language and forms adapted to our times».

This is the first time scientific research has given an accurate picture of the long - term soil carbon storage on organic versus conventional farms throughout the U.S., since most studies focus on individual farms or total soil organic carbon.

If he broke up his study into 30 - minute chunks, he could focus on one aspect of the offense at a time.

The team at SportsInsights studied how our basic sports marketplace indicators performed during this time of «national focus» on «March Madness.»

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

Many parents focus attention on their children's grades and extracurricular activities, such as by making sure kids study, do their homework, and get to soccer practice or dance lessons prepared and on time.

Anyhow, as you can imagine my lady love (who was studying) was the entirety of my focus & i spent all my time with her.

Studying under this kind of schedule helps your kid establish a focused mindset when it's time to crack open the books.

Sometimes we get so focused on the latest study or research that tells us that the average child needs «x» amount of sleep for optimal brain development, or how many naps the average child needs, or what time the average child should go to bed or wake up that we forget we aren't growing an «average» child.

Numerous studies have identified possible negative outcomes of screen time to include: irregular sleep patterns, behavioral issues, focus and attention problems, decreased academic performance and negative impact on socialization and language development.

Once your child is old enough to have regular homework and study time, he or she needs an area designed for focused schoolwork and another area to relax and daydream.

IRB study shows using the mirror helped Moms focus on pushing and reduced their pushing time during labor.

As I had planned on studying for my pediatric board exams throughout my brief maternity leave, I was counting on this dedicated sleep time while I could focus on my studying.

However, given that the largest study on chiropractic treatment with the best scientific design showed NO DIFFERENCE in overall crying times, my suggestion would be to focus on some of the other more promising options instead.

Focussing on the past decade, and systematically studying press output from across six European countries (UK, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Germany), this project uses advanced methods of qualitative content analysis and quantitative discourse analysis to understand patterns of European memory, the way the discourse is expressed and by whom, and how it has changed over time.

The Broadsheets: — New York Times: — 1 col., above the fold: «ISRAEL STRIKES MILITARY ASSETS OF IRAN IN SYRIA» — 1 col., above the fold: «trump to Meet Kim for Talks In Singapore» — 1 col., above the fold: «In Niger Study, Junior Officers Are the Focus» — 3 col., above the fold: «A Tirade by Trump, Then a Resignation Letter» — Wall Street Journal: — 1 col., above the fold: «U.S. Raises Pressure On Iran» — 4 col., above the fold: «Buybacks Surge, Steadying Market» — 2 col., below the fold: «Fall of Malaysia's Ruling Party Shakes U.S. Ally» — See Them

The study focuses on an area bordering the Sundarbans, a UNESCO World Heritage site made up of about 50 islands that, the scientists note, were cleared over time and embanked as part of an effort to boost food production.

The study focused on the testing of methods which seek to reduce the imaging time and to correct image problems caused by a long imaging time.

The ability of the inorganic component of sea spray particles to take up water has been the focus of this international study where a large suite of well - controlled laboratory experiments have shown, for the first time, that the hygroscopicity of the inorganic component of sea spray is significantly lower than pure sodium chloride, a substance routinely used to describe their hygroscopicity in climate models.

The study, funded by Mayo Clinic, focuses on concussion specialists using telemedicine technology to determine if a player needs to be removed from play in real time.

«This time instead we focused on its electronic properties with special emphasis on the study of BSS.»

Zheng wants to wrap up his studies either late this year or in early 2012, at which time he hopes to focus on a start - up he formed with his advisor, Changhuei Yang, a Caltech professor of electrical engineering and bioengineering.

«I don't think the timing is right to start to scare the population, but I think it's important to focus on this and continue with studies,» she says.

With the gain in knowledge from [this trial], it may be possible to make the recruitment of patients less restricted, to incorporate education about self - measurement as a standard procedure and focus on which scheme for titration to use, or to study the timing of the home blood pressure recordings.

The study focused primarily not on recovery value, but on fluxes and mass balances: this is the first time trace elements in wastewater have been systematically surveyed for an industrialized country.

To design the study, he combined these two elements with the long - time focus of Horvath's lab on STAT3, which has been implicated in cancer in general, as both a causative agent and a survival factor.