Sentences with phrase «follow participants at»

Rather than implementing a full - blown program, the president should propose a national demonstration project for pre-K in a selected number of cities and states, accompanied by a rigorous randomized evaluation that would follow participants at least into the third grade.

Not exact matches

Organized as a follow - up to January's Women's March on Washington, the one - day walk - out — called the International Women's Strike, or A Day Without A Woman in the U.S. — will see participants opting out of paid or unpaid labour, curtail spending (unless it's at women - or minority - owned businesses) and wear red.

The survey participants chose Clinton as the worst choice for president at 36.95 percent, followed by Sanders at 26.09 percent (Trump came in third, incidentally, at 23.74 percent).

Researchers had participants stop strangers on the Stanford campus and, following a simple script, request two favors: fill out a short survey and then, regardless of how the stranger responded to that request, drop off a letter at a nearby post office.

One study into memory found that participants did remarkably better on a test following a nap than those who didn't sleep at all.

This shift followed the Bank's introduction of a 50 - basis - point «operating band» for the overnight rate, which is the rate at which major participants in the money market borrow and lend one - day (or overnight) funds among themselves.

This includes quarterly press conferences by the Fed chair following FOMC meetings; publishing growth, inflation and short - term interest rate forecasts of FOMC participants on a quarterly basis; and a concerted effort to lay out the guideposts that the FOMC will look at in assessing progress towards our dual mandate objectives.

At the showcase event, each group of 2 - 5 participants gave a 10 - minute presentation of their work, followed by comments and questions from a panel of judges.

The Evolution of Workups in the U.S Treasury Securities Market documents the continued important role played by workups, whereby there is a short time window following the execution of a marketable order in which market participants can transact additional volume at the same price.

This includes regular press conferences following Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meetings by the Fed chair; the publishing of growth and inflation forecasts of FOMC participants; and a concerted attempt to lay out the guideposts that the FOMC will look at to assess progress toward our mandate.

Following the tragic death in August last year of Bank of America Merrill Lynch intern Moritz Erhardt, several top firms have been getting their acts together and setting rules and regulations to ensure that internship program participants aren't being overworked and putting their health at risk.

With respect to Awards granted to an Outside Director that are assumed or substituted for, if on the date of or following such assumption or substitution the Participant's status as a Director or a director of the successor corporation, as applicable, is terminated other than upon a voluntary resignation by the Participant (unless such resignation is at the request of the acquirer), then the Participant will fully vest in and have the right to exercise Options and / or Stock Appreciation Rights as to all of the Shares underlying such Award, including those Shares which would not otherwise be vested or exercisable, all restrictions on Restricted Stock and Restricted Stock Units will lapse, and, with respect to Awards with performance - based vesting, all performance goals or other vesting criteria will be deemed achieved at one hundred percent (100 %) of target levels and all other terms and conditions met.

The following chart, taken from the paper, relates actual (realized) past returns to the returns estimated by survey participants based on responses to: «Please try to estimate the past performance of your stock portfolio at your online broker.

When the U-3 unemployment rate suggested that the economy was approaching full employment, Chair Yellen held her ground and directed market participants to look at broader economic indicators for signs of labor market slack (please see: Yellen's opposition to following «simple monetary policy rules»).

Perhaps the most tangible result of these several conversations came when one of the participants approached me at church the following Sunday and exclaimed, «As soon as I left you, I called and we made up.

Furthermore, if by way of preparation for the meeting, some preliminary reading has been done by the participants, if the leader lets them feel that they are not just «lecture - fodder» but part of the whole enterprise, and if there is insistence on something more than being at the «receiving - end,» the discussion and the questions and the desire for further exploration will almost inevitably follow.

Every fantasy begins with asking the participants to get in touch with their bodies as follows (each ellipsis signifies a pause, the length of which remains at the discretion of the leader).

(As a general rule, concentrated growth meetings should be followed by a series of at least three or four weekly sessions to help participants continue growth work and apply their learnings to their everyday living.)

Each participant will have the opportunity to win a $ 100 gift card and become eligible for the grand prize of a trip to Boston for an exclusive Sam Adams Brewery Tour for two, followed by a 4 - course pairing dinner at the P.F.Chang's in downtown Boston.

Since consumption of whole grain products and dietary fiber has been shown to reduce the risk of high blood pressure and heart attack, Harvard researchers decided to look at the effects of cereal consumption on heart failure risk and followed 21,376 participants in the Physicians Health Study over a period of 19.6 years.

Researchers at the University of Tampa used Growing Naturals» Organic Rice Protein made with Axiom Food's Oryzatein ® and followed 24 college - aged, resistance - trained participants, observing how they built muscle and experienced rates of repair and soreness.

Following the Golf Classic, the public and participants are invited to an after - party and awards dinner reception at the Wesley Chapel WingHouse, located at 5510 Post Oak Blvd. Attendees will enjoy WingHouse's world famous chicken wings and award - winning hot sauces, while taking in the family - friendly atmosphere of WingHouse's newest location.

«Fathers at Work», a more recent multli - site US demonstration project which, like previous programmes, combined work around fathering with training / employment support reports participants earning $ 11,025 per year at follow - up (about twice as much as a comparison group and on average $ 4,602 more than before entering the programme).

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

Firstly, we filled out the questionnaire designed for mothers who had delivered at the maternity, subject of the study, following a face - to - face interview with participants from both groups at the delivery place.

Study participants provided infant stool samples collected at regularly scheduled maternal postnatal follow - up visits (6 weeks post partum).

Following the session, participants will be able to identify key elements of lactation programs of interest to hospital administrators; calculate hospital staffing needs; identify key elements of a hospital lactation service; and identify a hospital policy needed at the participant's facility.

Most participants had regular postpartum contact with their infant's physician, and all had contact with study nurses who offered help with breastfeeding at each follow - up contact.

None of the participants was lost to the follow - up both at 6 and at 12 months.

A previous study showed that in the Campania region, the prevalence of full breastfeeding at 6 months was 7 %.12 Assuming a 20 % loss to follow - up, we calculated that we would require ∼ 240 mother and father pairs to detect a statistically significant increase of 15 % (1 − α = 95 %, 1 − β = 80 %) in the rate of full breastfeeding at 6 months.13 To avoid communication between study groups, which would be likely if people who were admitted to the same hospital unit were exposed to different messages at the same time, we did not randomize the participants as it usually is done, 14 but we allocated the 2 study groups into 2 consecutive blocks of time, after having randomly paired the 2 study groups with the 2 blocks of time.

The research was prospective in design; participants were interviewed three times at specific stages of the pregnancy and following childbirth.

While the American Academy of Pediatrics now recommends breastfeeding for ≥ 12 months (1), expert support for extended breastfeeding was less pronounced both when participants breastfed and at follow - up (40).

«What we decided was to establish a committee to search for a formidable and credible national chairman following which all other national offices would be zoned,» a participant at the meeting said.

President Muhammadu Buhari Sunday evening touched down at Abu Dhabi following a three - day official visit to join Secretary General of the United Nations, and other participants as a special guest of honour at this year's edition of the World Future Energy Summit.

Over half of participants (57 per cent) had experienced violence at least once in the 18 - month follow - up period, from the first question session.

Participants also reported lower levels of subjective sleepiness and improvement in well - being at both follow - ups.

U.S. doctors enrolled 42,418 patients from 623 offices and clinics, treated participants with one of four commonly prescribed drugs, and followed them for at least five years to see how well the medications controlled their blood pressure and reduced the risk of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular problems.

She spent the following summer with David Schatz at Yale University as an HHMI EXROP participant.

Participants were followed at 34 sites in nine countries, including MCG and the Georgia Cancer Center in Augusta.

Specifically, the follow - up study found that 7.4 % of participants who had never used an e-cigarette at baseline reported subsequently using an e-cigarette, with 21.6 % among baseline current smokers, 11.9 % among baseline former smokers, and 2.9 % among baseline nonsmokers reporting use.

By comparing participants» mental health assessments at the time of the brain scans, and in a follow - up occurring on average seven months later, he found that these at - risk individuals were less likely to develop anxiety if they also had high activity in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex.

The study, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, analyzed biannual responses from 13,897 participants in the University of Michigan's Health and Retirement Study who were 54 or older and had at least one of the following chronic conditions: hypertension, diabetes, cancer, lung disease, heart disease or stroke.

His team followed up with the participants about 15 days later and found the benefit remained, according to another paper in press at Hippocampus.

While hooked up to an EEG that tracked brain activity, study participants looked at neutral or emotional words — table, desk, carpet, corpse, maggot, torture — followed by scrambled words.

The researchers followed 637 participants, up to age 20, recruited from the Trisomy 21 Program at CHOP and from community locations and pediatric practices, mostly in the greater Philadelphia area, between Jan. 2010 and July 2013.

They also ate almost a third more at a buffet meal compared with another occasion when the same energy deficit was created via exercise (participants ate an average 944 calories following food restriction compared to 660 calories after exercise).

Among the participants were 1,730 who had completed a self - administered questionnaire that included questions about leisure, recreational, household, and other categories of activity at enrollment, and had undergone a follow - up colonoscopy.

Tdap vaccination was assessed by tracking voucher redemption at the retail pharmacy and following up with participants by phone.

The 40 participants who remained in the study at this latest follow - up all reported that they continued some form of meditation practice over the seven - year period, equivalent to about an hour a day on average.

In the two surveys, participants rated their agreement with statements that represented four moral foundations: in - group loyalty (i.e., «I feel loyal to Britain despite any faults it may have»), authority - respect (i.e., «I think people should follow rules at all times, even when no one is watching»), harm - care (i.e., «I want everyone to be treated justly, even people I do not know.