Sentences with phrase «formal study by»

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The simple chalk lines used to demarcate football fields were the subject of an extended formal study by De Keyser during the «70s and «80s.

Not exact matches

A new study, backed by Facebook, wants to go beyond measuring the impact of internet shutdowns on the formal economy and measure the impact of internet cut - offs on «shadow economies,» namely economic activities that circumvent government regulation, oversight, and taxation.

During a year of study sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities, I have formulated a method for explaining the historical process that permits analysis of both the internal temporal structure of events and the external, formal relationships among them.

Consideration of examples such as this may help to dispel the prejudice against the study of manners within the formal curriculum, by showing that people in other well - developed and successful cultures have considered the refinement of interpersonal relationships the central objective of education.

That ministry is a group of persons who have exhibited «gifts and graces» for this special ministry, either by formal study or other evidence that they are fit and, therefore, specially called into the ministry of word, sacrament, and order.

Then in New Testament studies the form - critical method, championed by Rudolf Bultmann and Martin Debelius, stressed the similarity of formal structure in many sections of the synoptic Gospels, a similarity attributed to oral traditions previous to the Gospels» commitment to writing.

No formal comparative study has ever broken down child sexual abuse by denomination, and only the Catholic Church has released detailed data about its own.

To be sure, there is here the possibility of a greater degree of subjectivity than in the more formal linguistic and textual study, but even there pure objectivity is by no means possible.

In formal interviews with craft beer drinkers — those who were solicited for the study as well as patrons that visited Ballast Point's eight tasting room locations — Constellation discovered that 58 percent of craft consumers prefer to drink beers that range between 4 percent and 6 percent alcohol by volume.

Every piece of advice, whether a formal research study or a book by a popular parenting author or a comment made by your child's nurse or a quip from your mother - in - law, has a story.

We had planned to carry out formal subgroup analysis by whether support was proactive or reactive, but due to the fact that most interventions included at least one scheduled contact (proactive), we did not think that this way of categorising studies would shed light on types of interventions that were effective or ineffective.

In a wide - ranging study of UK central government, we found that not only did formal complaints and legal challenges to central government rise sharply over the three decades up to 2010, but government administration costs also increased by two - fifths in real terms — even though the civil service lost a third of its staff.

A study by the World Bank this year shows that less than 5 % of adults in Yemen have an account at a formal financial institution, which shows how difficult it would be for any monitoring and oversight authority to trace political finance within Yemen.

Furthermore, he says, his years studying yeast at the molecular level — supplemented by formal training and further research in the enology program at the University of California (UC), Davis — has sharpened his winemaking intuition.

«Conducting formal readability testing, as suggested by the study authors, along with use of patient reviewers from a variety of educational and cultural backgrounds may provide important feedback to enhance the value of materials across a larger spectrum of health literacy levels.»

By putting the spotlight on these fungal lineages, Dr Nilsson and colleagues hope to speed up the study and formal description of the underlying species.

The study, which was funded by the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) as a part of the SAPPHIRE Programme, looked at the effect of stigma on how individuals with mental health problems accessed and engaged with formal services, including GPs, specialist mental health services and talking therapies.

«Our present study was rejected by eight journals, usually without any formal review,» says Flegr, who had the same problem publishing an earlier one showing that infection more than doubles the odds of a person having a traffic accident.

Students studying at one of our partner universities with a formal bilateral student exchange agreement have the opportunity to be nominated by their home university for an exchange period at Lund University.

This is a unified scientific project that aims to study the behavior of human beings as evolved biological organisms who live in groups, form networks and coalitions, are governed by formal institutions and informal norms, produce and exchange scarce resources and are motivated by identities, ideals and beliefs.

Prior to this recent trial, there had been no formal measurements of pentagon angle by individual region, although it was ofen noted that fascicle orientaton difers across the muscle belly and that all studies agree that the middle fbers display a vertical arrangement (see review by Flack et al. 2012).

A recent study by Queensland University of Technology found that online daters tend to select partners who have completed the same level of formal education; in other words, like attracts like.

- «The Streets of London» Ralph McTell exploration - «London» by William Blake poem exploration - consideration of bullying - leaflet examples - investigation into homeless charities Resources provide opportunities to: - explore homelessness through case studies and exploring the law - write persuasively - structure formal letters - explore and create missing person posters - explore poetry - analyse texts - investigate and create leaflets # - debate whether more housing is needed

Denton and Lacina's 1984 study is cited repeatedly by advocates of certification because it was supposed to have found a positive relationship between formal teacher preparation and student achievement (Evertson, Hawley, and Zlotnik 1985; Darling - Hammond 1999).

85, Ed.D.» 93, was recently given a five - year CAREER award by the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Division of Research on Learning in Formal and Informal Settings, which will allow her to study how children's complex causal reasoning shifts over time and with different learning supports.

One of the studies cited by Mathews, by Jason Grissom of Vanderbilt University and Susanna Loeb of Stanford University, compares the formal district evaluations principals submitted with how those principals assessed the same teachers in confidential surveys.

* Because it contains no literature review, the MET report largely ignores many of the serious concerns about value - added established by this literature — these issues may not be well - known to the average reader (for the record, there are citations in the study, but no formal review of prior research).

The findings across these four studies suggested that demonstration lessons or modeling were employed by teacher leaders, but were not as widespread as less «formal» practices and that the occurrence of demonstration lessons decreased over time.

Phase 3» In April 1999, Hartwick College and Oneonta City School District (OCSD) entered a formal partnership sponsored by the New York Partnership for Statewide Systems Change 2001 / Higher Education Task Force on Quality Inclusive Schooling to study ways to meet the learning needs of all students in general education classes.

A 2004 randomized experiment, also by the Washington - based Mathematica, found score boosts among elementary students taught by TFA teachers, too, but that study was criticized in part because the control group of teachers had lower rates of certification, less formal education preparation, and less experience in student - teaching than a national sample.

Importantly, studies also show that strategies such as formative assessment (formal and informal assessments conducted by teachers during the learning process in order to modify teaching and learning activities to improve student attainment) and metacognitive (awareness and understanding of one's own thought processes) approaches — techniques typically employed in personalized learning classrooms — improve student learning.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

No animals were trapped or sacrificed for the purposes of this study and therefore, a formal approval by an Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee was not necessary.

Candida was born in 1944 in Cologne and after completing studies at the Cologne Werkschule, she enrolled in the Düsseldorf School of Art, where she was taught by Bernd and Hilla Becher, heavily influenced by the formal qualities of the austere documentary photography they endorsed.

Born in the Bronx, Campbell began formal studies in painting in 1939 attending an art workshop organized by the Works Progress Administration (WPA), and continued at Cooper Union and the Art Students League in New York City.

These studies were augmented by several trips to Europe between 1904 and 1909, during which he absorbed both European modernism, notably Cubism, and also the formal elements used during the era of Renaissance art (1400 - 1530).

As Senior Curator Anne Ellegood mentions, «Beasley's interpretation is also a study in the integrity of form, proposing that the formal innovations of an earlier period in art might be enlivened not through mere mimicry but by altering the materials and subject matter,».

Entering this space evokes the experience of stepping into a painting, informed by Baggesen's formal training as a figurative painter in the Netherlands in the 1990s (she studied at the Rijksakademie from 1996 — 1997 under painter Luc Tuymans).

After moving to Johannesburg, Veleko studied photography at the Market Theatre Photo Workshop (1999 — 2004), an organisation co-founded by David Goldblatt which aims to provide formal training to young photographers who would have otherwise not have access to such resources.

«While by no means a formal group, the now - celebrated African American practitioners at the heart of this study are linked generationally and conceptually by a shared investment in critical artistic strategies developed since the 1960s, and their nearly simultaneous turn toward slavery...,» Copeland writes.

EN MAS» includes scholarly essays by leading art historians Shannon Jackson and Kobena Mercer along with the two curators Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson, which offer formal and theoretical analyses of the artists» projects as well as explorations of Caribbean aesthetic practices and their impact on art and performance studies more broadly.

He studied at Stanford University from 1940 to 1943 and received his first formal art training with Daniel Mendelowitz (b 1905), who introduced him to the work of Edward Hopper, and to paintings by the artists of the Ecole de Paris.

At the age of 11 Motherwell was awarded a fellowship at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, and unlike many of his peers, he had formal education, which he got by studying painting at the California School of Art.

«Chief among these,» wrote Mann, «is the notion that just because somebody hasn't done a formal attribution study of a particular event, that event somehow must not have been influenced by climate change.»

Semantics is studied by a kernel of disciplines that are formal, or at the very least quite sturdy:

This study addresses the challenge by undertaking a formal detection and attribution analysis of SCE changes based on several observational datasets with different structural characteristics, in order to account for the substantial observational uncertainty.

Chief among these is the notion that just because somebody hasn't done a formal attribution study of a particular event, that event somehow must not have been influenced by climate change.

In this global study, Randers presents a forecast for the next 40 years, supported by «statistical data, anecdotal stories, impressions from traveling the world... formal analyses of particular developments,» and short essays by a variety of experts.

Therefore, modelling studies suggest that late 20th - century warming is much more likely to be anthropogenic than natural in origin, a finding which is confirmed by studies relying on formal detection and attribution methods (Section 9.4.1.4).»