Sentences with phrase «from academic studies»

There are several themes that emerge from personal accounts and data from academic studies about issues that adopted persons may face.

We encourage parents to give their gifted children breaks from their academic studies by inviting them to choose extracurricular activities that peak their personal interests.

The main support for his position came from academic studies and Chief Justice Warren Burger's opinion in Swann.

It is part of their up bring to be well reversed in many different areas of interest from academic studies to art and fashion.

There are several themes that emerge from personal accounts and data from academic studies about issues that adopted persons may face.

The first was the jolt of moving from the academic study of religion and social science to the peculiar discipline of pastoral theology.

In this article, I'll share 6 lessons drawn from an academic study of 640 nurses» opinions about eLearning in continuing education published in the journal Home Health Care Management & Practice.

Here are the best practices for eLearning in continuing professional development drawn from an academic study.

He has been an extraordinary mentor to students, preparing them for a move from academic study to practice, in its broadest sense, and supporting them deep into their careers.

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Shorn of human weaknesses like the need to eat or sleep, computers are now speed - reading through not only the vast academic literature but also CT scans, electronic medical records, and mountains of data from clinical trials and genomic studies.

Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

A similarly structured study looking just at academic science jobs found that application materials from female candidates received lower rankings and lower starting salaries than male candidates, even when a job application reviewer was female.

An academic study from the country's largest university thus proclaims almost everyone in Canada's largest city in an apartment from the disco - era or earlier may soon find themselves out on the street.

In A First - Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness (Penguin), the Tufts academic psychiatrist and Harvard Medical School lecturer, offers a collection of case studies of revered political and business leaders from the past century and a half.

To conduct this work, GAO analyzed household financial data, including retirement savings and income, from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, reviewed academic studies of retirement savings adequacy, analyzed retirement - related questions from surveys, and interviewed retirement experts about retirement readiness.

We know a lot from various kinds of evidence: a) the experience of the real estate sector, where recent studies by Macdonald Realty and Re / Max have confirmed the dominance of foreign buyers at the top end of the market especially, as stated for years by individual realtors (accounts often denigrated as «anecdotal»); b) there is the digging of several investigative journalists, and most notably by Ian Young of the South China Morning Post who has boldly and effectively raised issues native journalists have sometimes shied from; c) academic work, including the books by Katharyne Mitchell (2004) Beyond the Neoliberal Line and David Ley Millionaire Migrants (2011).

The 4 % safe withdrawal rate (based on the so - called Trinity University study from 1998), is only one of several rough guidelines and has been widely criticized by other academics, as well as revisited by its original authors.

You'll develop your Personal Leadership Development Plan at the beginning of the program and use feedback from a variety of sources (academics and leadership courses, study team, co-workers and managers) to inform your development process and experiments.

For BTN's 2016 Corporate Travel Index, the 32nd annual, BCD Travel's Advito provided the average hotel and car rental costs paid by BCD corporate clients, BTN collected hotel taxes and surcharges from hotels, and eight New York University School of Professional Studies Advanced Research Seminar students, led by academic chair and clinical assistant professor Lynn Minnaert, called restaurants in October and November to gather meal prices.

Under the direction of Lynn Minnaert, academic chair and clinical associate professor in the Jonathan M. Tisch Center for Hospitality and Tourism, part of the New York University School of Professional Studies, eight students called restaurants in 200 cities from January 2018 to February 2018 to gather meal prices.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

This by now hoary bit of academic jargon marks Institutions of Modernism as the offspring of «cultural studies,» that popular pseudo-discipline that resulted from crossing Marxist animus with deconstructionist verbiage.

Far from transcending the «biasing» particularities of biographical experience, in conformity to some positivist notions of «value freedom» and «objectivity,» the academic contributions of each of the scholars studied in this book were profoundly shaped by early childhood experiences, distinctive personality traits, and, as noted above, particular theological or atheological visions, as the case may be.

Div.s got a theological master's from a seminary or divinity school rather than, or in addition to, an academic master's from a religious studies program.

A recently awarded fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities will make it possible for me to study and write at Princeton University next academic year.

Family needs «and my boredom with epistemology prompted me to forswear graduate study and the academic career to which it pointed,» he said.10 (Although he never earned a Ph.D. degree, he was awarded eighteen honorary doctorates, including one from Oxford.)

In 2005, the website Christian Today published the results of a joint study by academics from Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Ulster, which found

[6] At the academic level, the field of New Testament studies has shown its sensitivity to various theories emerging from diverse fields by wrestling with the challenges issuing from such theories.

Just as important, this standard curriculum eliminates theology from the core of both practical and academic studies.

It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

I walked away from church at around age 15, wandered through various experiments with pseudo-spirituality, academic study of religion and denominations until I found myself on the path of fully claiming faith in God for my own.

The fact that Atwill had neither scholarly credentials (he's a retired computer programmer) nor a jot of support from any academic in historical studies didn't seem to matter.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Hailing from Kilkenny, Ireland, Aine joined us at Manchester Metropolitan University this academic year, to study Physiotherapy after previously studying Public Health and Health Promotion at University College Cork in her home country.

For more than 30 years we have set the standard for extraordinary summer programs from elite sports camps to academic enrichment and study abroad programs.

Although you can certainly have a good head for marketing and advertising without having a marketing degree or other qualification, those hoping to build a good business working from home as a marketer or marketing consultant often find that academic study is important for furthering their career options and improving their chance of success.

I refer readers there because you get a synopsis of peer - reviewed research from a credible academic, and you get the citations to track the studies down if you want to.

I come from a background of high academic achievement in the area of Biblical studies.

From the grades classrooms, the quieter sounds of academic study are interspersed with the sounds of song and verse, flute and strings, woodworking and handwork activities.

All I have, of course, are anecdotes that come from my informal «study» of how our kids do in the wider world of education, but from where I sit, they certainly do no worse, and often better, than kids who have already been drilled - and - killed in «academic» preschools.

Data gathered from studies show that while there is a clear link between IQ and academic success, the correlation between high achievement and the character traits of conscientiousness and self - discipline is even more pronounced.

In addition, some studies have reported ethnic differences — that for African - American and Chinese - Americans, there is sometimes little or no difference in academic performance between kids from authoritarian and authoritative homes.

To address the issues above, this paper reports on the results of an 18 - year longitudinal study of the relationships between infant feeding practices and later cognitive ability and academic achievement in a birth cohort of > 1000 New Zealand children studied from birth to age 18 years.

They might choose regular text books from big educational bookshops if they want to study academics, and follow their children's interests.

Physical punishment is associated with a range of mental health problems in children, youth and adults, including depression, unhappiness, anxiety, feelings of hopelessness, use of drugs and alcohol, and general psychological maladjustment.26 — 29 These relationships may be mediated by disruptions in parent — child attachment resulting from pain inflicted by a caregiver, 30,31 by increased levels of cortisol32 or by chemical disruption of the brain's mechanism for regulating stress.33 Researchers are also finding that physical punishment is linked to slower cognitive development and adversely affects academic achievement.34 These findings come from large longitudinal studies that control for a wide range of potential confounders.35 Intriguing results are now emerging from neuroimaging studies, which suggest that physical punishment may reduce the volume of the brain's grey matter in areas associated with performance on the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale, third edition (WAIS - III).36 In addition, physical punishment can cause alterations in the dopaminergic regions associated with vulnerability to the abuse of drugs and alcohol.37

«Section 7.10.2 specifically excludes academic staff among whom I am from the mandatory one year service to the University before proceeding on further studies.

Such calls emphasise the importance of approaching the study of particular areas from the people directly implicated in such studies, rather than an academic sitting comfortably in a Western university, at a distance from the «area» in question.