Sentences with phrase «from close study»

In the first of the two sessions, «SEL Opportunities,» Nina Culbertson shared findings from close study of three districts in Massachusetts working diligently to strengthen their success at educating the whole child and developing student social and emotional learning.

«It created a new form of pictorial space that Braque arrived at from his close study of Cézanne's landscapes.»

Muniz has continued this tradition of copying as a legitimate creative act, learning from his close study of centuries of artistic practice.

Conceived as a process that would last six months, the exhibition has been structured as a symphony in three movements and an epilogue, each section deriving from the close study of a single key work.

Not exact matches

This year's study surveyed more than 240 human resource professionals from large employers (3,000 + employees) at the close of 2016 to identify the most notable trends companies are employing to improve the health and well - being of their employees.

As a 2006 study in the American Sociological Review found, the number of close confidantes a typical individual has shrank by a third between 1985 and 2006, to about two from three.

According to a new study, the 401 (k) accounts of workers closest to retirement actually shrunk from 2010 to 2013.

One study out of Duke University found a higher - than - average presence of methane in water wells located close to fracking operations, but methane in groundwater can come from a variety of sources, including organic decomposition near the surface.

Yet we know from studies that most deals will not close on the predicted date, or even at all.

Capital from the closing will be used by Renewable Properties to fund corporate and operating expenses, as well as, project specific expenses including project acquisitions and development related activities including securing land, interconnection applications and studies, permitting, environmental studies and reviews.

This same survey found that 46 % of Canadians support a free trade agreement with China, up from 36 % in 2014 — and a recent study by Paul Evans, research director of University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research, puts that support even higher, at close to 70 %.

For example, an Implisit study of hundreds of B2B companies found that the average length from lead to opportunity is 84 days, while it takes another 18 days to get from an opportunity to a close, for a total sales cycle length of 102 days.

(According to one study, close to 80 % of advisors use or recommend ETFs, up from 40 % in 2006.)

One study from retail - research firm IHL Group found that a mere 16 chains, including RadioShack and Payless, account for nearly half of all store closings, and that there will be a net increase of more than 4,000 stores in 2017 and 5,500 - plus in 2018.

This was the largest study of angel investment returns ever conducted, analyzing results from 86 organized angel investor groups throughout the United States, involving 539 individual angel group investors who have experienced more than 1,130 exits in which investment - receiving companies were acquired, went public, or were closed.

This is something that hits me rather close to home, because I tend to hang out with quite a few students from Saudi Arabia who are studying at the same university as me and the stories I could tell you are horrifying.

As reported by Steven Cohen in his study «A Tale of Two Jewries,» over only a decade, from 1990 to 2000, young Jews who claim other Jews as their close friends declined from 43 percent to 33 percent.

But a close study of America's religious history yields precedents and equivalencies to virtually everything that exists today, from the demythologizing deism of Thomas Jefferson and the séances of spiritualists to the utopian settlements that practiced everything from celibacy (the Shakers) to free love (the Oneida Community).

As summer comes to a close and we return to the rhythm of the school year, I've been hearing from a lot of readers who are interested in using Evolving in Monkey Town as a book study for their Sunday school, college group, or book club.

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.

«Even from the purely human point of view,» Sainte - Beuve says, «the phenomenon of grace must still appear sufficiently extraordinary, eminent, and rare, both in its nature and in its effects, to deserve a closer study.

While we all take some inspiration from ancient paganisms, there are some groups who are deeply dedicated to studying the primary texts and archaeological records of their chosen cultural framework to try to make their paths as close to their spiritual ancestors as reasonably possible in the modern world — this includes the use of bonfires and occasionally animal sacrifice.

Close study of this material suggests that the prototype of this story was originally a myth derived from Israel's ancestors.

Another published study found that the referee bias is larger if there is no running track around the stadium to separate the officials from screaming home fans in close proximity.

Let them look at you from up close, study your features.

The study suggests that sleeping close to your newborn is beneficial from birth until their first year.

Although there has been some controversy, studies indicate that if parents follow simple precautions (don't smoke, drink, or take drugs before co-sleeping, keep infants away from bedding and close any cracks between your bed and the wall), co-sleeping protects against SIDS.

The Little League report, as well as articles in the media since its release, appear to downplay the injury risk from curveballs, but a close look at the study reveals no categorical statement that throwing curve balls at an early age is not an injury risk factor; it says only that «baseline risk factors for injury to Little League - age pitchers did not point directly to throwing curveballs.»

Human babies appear to need more of a nutritional boost from breast - milk proteins than do infants of one of their closest primate relatives, suggests a study comparing human milk with the milk of rhesus macaque monkeys.

And I'm interested in the studies because every single mother over 50 (and that was close to 25 women and almost 70 children) that I talked to had the same experience that I did; cereal from a spoon helped them sleep.

Let's take a close look at the data behind the averages behind the charts in the books, for example, this study, one of the most complete baby sleep charts, published in the highly respected medical journal, Pediatrics, based on the average sleep times associated with 493 Swiss children tracked from birth (Iglowstein et al 2003).

Studies show that babies benefit greatly from this close contact, leading to calmer, less stressed newborns and a stronger bond with both mom and dad.

I think the closest look one can get on all the intersecting systems you mentioned (religion, business, social programs, politics) is studying systems theory (f.e. Introduction to Systems Theory from Niklas Luhman) in the first place.

Shutting FitzPatrick could remove some $ 500 million a year or more from the local economy, based on studies of other nuclear plants that have closed.

But it was not until that testimony on December 9th that Foye revealed there had been no traffic study — the stated reason from the Christie appointees (who have since been fired) as to why the lanes were actually closed.

Sixth form colleges and school sixth forms will see funding cut by close to 20 per cent, as shown last month by independent research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

And on this issue we have seen simply more scaremongering from the No camp, with Alistair Darling jumping on any study that even hints that the reserves are close to running out.

The study is in keeping with DNAinfo New York's reporting from last year, which detailed the plans to close Rikers Island's jail facilities and enumerated a plan to replace it with smaller jails across the city, which the mayor rejected as «untrue» at the time.

In closing, remember that this new interviewing style differs from the «normal» interview much like the difference between two types of tests — a test on an academic subject you have studied and a generalized intelligence test like an IQ test.

«In a superfluid... things which are very far away [from the center] move really slowly, whereas things [that] are close to the center move very fast,» explains OIST Professor Thomas Busch, one of the researchers involved in the study.

The study uses data from two NASA missions — Operation IceBridge, which measures ice thickness and gravity from aircraft, and Oceans Melting Greenland, or OMG, which uses sonar and gravity instruments to map the shape and depth of the seafloor close to the ice front.

In those regions, such as California, the faults that can result from that rock movement usually lie close to the surface, making them relatively easy to study.

The lead author of the new study, Guillem Anglada [1], from the Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (CSIC), Granada, Spain, explains the significance of this find: «The dust around Proxima is important because, following the discovery of the terrestrial planet Proxima b, it's the first indication of the presence of an elaborate planetary system, and not just a single planet, around the star closest to our Sun.»

Ellen Heber - Katz, a scientist at The Wistar Institute in Philadelphia, used to study autoimmunity — that was until she noticed something strange in the mice she was using to model lupus: The small holes that she had poked in their ears to distinguish the animals from one another kept closing.

Scientists are a step closer to discovering what determines the sex of Australia's iconic platypus and echidna, after an international study involving researchers from the University of Adelaide and UNSW Australia unravelled new genes contained on mammalian Y chromosomes.

«This study supports a growing body of work demonstrating that teaching students a contextual understanding of difference — i.e., recognizing that people's differences come from participating in and adapting to diverse sociocultural contexts — can be leveraged to foster student success and close achievement gaps,» summarizes Hamedani.

Planets that were rocky from the start should be smaller close to the stars, where studies of other young star systems suggest there should have been less material available when these planets were forming.

In a recent paper published in The Astrophysical Journal, Boorman (and colleagues from the NuSTAR active galaxies science team) described how data from NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has been used to study the intrinsic behaviour of a «hidden» supermassive black hole in a galaxy nearby to our own — IC 3639 — some 175 million light years from Earth, relatively close by in cosmic terms.

Scientists from Rice University and Texas A&M University - Corpus Christi's Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies have discovered that Earth's sea level did not rise steadily but rather in sharp, punctuated bursts when the planet's glaciers melted during the period of global warming at the close of the last ice age.

Researchers from Denmark demonstrate in a study that the large grazers and browsers of the past created a mosaic of varied landscapes consisting of closed and semi-closed forests and parkland.