Sentences with phrase «goal of the current study»

The goal of the current study was to conductg a brief review of the available scientific evidence for various therapies included in the MOON guidelines, and to provide the guidelines in their current form.

One of the original goals of the current study was to learn from the plants to identify ways to increase the absorption capacity of nanofur, but the results also suggest other opportunities.

The goal of the current study was to explore the bioavailability and safety of the anti-androgen agent enzalutamide alone and in combination with the existing agent fulvestrant (FDA approved for use in metastatic hormone - receptor positive breast cancer).

The goal of our current studies is to understand the role of nitric oxide (and other markers in exhaled breath) in lung physiology and in the pathophysiology of lung diseases like pulmonary hypertension and asthma.

The goal of the current study was to address some of the weaknesses of previous studies, which suffered from small sample sizes, lack of long term follow up, lack of random assignment to groups, and reliance on owner recall rather than frequent surveys of current kitten behavior.

The goal of the current study was to investigate whether peer rejection and peer victimization mediated the relation between children's aggressive behaviors and depressive symptoms.

Hence, the goal of the current study was to investigate the relation between the amounts of normativity and deviance during sexual communication among the16 — 21 - year - old friendship dyads and individual dyad members» perceptions of four types of sexual peer norms (i.e., descriptive, injunctive, and risk norms, and peer pressure).

Using clinical data from 137 caregiver - child dyads, the main goal of the current study was to test the psychometric properties of an adapted version of the Crowell Procedure among preschoolers.

The goal of the current study (N = 164, 50.9 % boys, M age = 47.75 months, SD = 7.37) was to test a bifactor model of aggression, which allows for aggression to be assessed dimensionally, and postulates a co-occurring aggression factor as well as unique relational and physical aggression factors, during early childhood.

Not exact matches

From Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Experiments at Stanford University beginning in the 1960's to a current study from the Graduate School of Education at UCSF, the conclusions have not changed: Impulse control, or the ability to plan ahead and defer gratification, enhances a child's ability to fulfill long - term goals.

This is an obvious hurdle for longtime study» if the goal is to follow brain development for longer than a trimester or two prenatally, the stage at which the current crop of brain organoids start to wither.

The primary scientific goals of the Phoenix mission are to study the history of water on the Red Planet and to search for habitable zones by sniffing out any signs of current liquid or frozen water and traces of organic and biological material.

The new study includes other strategies beyond current policies to help reach the 2025 goal: staunching methane leaks (121 million tons), reducing the use of refrigeration chemicals that are powerful greenhouse gases (67 million tons), and increasing efficiency standards for appliances and buildings (29 million tons each).

The negative effect of imported pollution on the US's ability to achieve its air quality goals is not wholly unexpected, according to Owen Cooper, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado and the NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory, who is familiar with the current study but not directly involved.

Dr. Shemtov - Yona conducted this study for her Masters of Science degree, and recently enrolled in a PhD program in the Department of Mechanical Engineering to get an even better understanding of the problem Her current goal is to find what leads to the development of cracks to determine whether the causes lie in manufacturing, use, or both, in order to prolong the service life of implants.

Because most clinicians are likely to see smokers at times when a quit date in the next month is not planned, the current study indicates that prescription of varenicline with a recommendation to reduce the number of cigarettes smoked per day with the eventual goal of quitting could be a useful therapeutic option for this population of smokers.

An important step towards this goal is the first highly contiguous genome assembly of Schmidtea mediterranea that researchers at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics (MPI - CBG) in Dresden in cooperation with the Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) report in the current issue of Nature.

In further studies, Kumar and his colleagues are developing technology to switch spin currents on and off in the materials, with the ultimate goal of creating a spin transistor.

The current study was designed to identify the expected return on investment for the programs required to achieve NHAS goals, as well as highlight the significant toll in terms of illness and deaths if those goals were not achieved.

The current study is analyzing the results of a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Innovation Challenge grant to determine the effects of the intervention on nearly 1,000 early, moderate and late preterm infants, with a goal of improving care, improving outcomes, and decreasing costs.

With input from experts, the goal of this meeting is to overview the current studies of the microbiota and its interaction with the host.

The study's researchers advised that considering the current epidemic levels of insulin resistance as seen in the massive numbers of type 2 diabetes cases and obesity, reducing intake of refined carbs and sugar along with weight control should be a top priority in the public's dietary goals.

Whether your life goal is political action, raising a family, studying science, or any other worthy endeavor (even if you don't have it all figured out just yet), my question is why let current events get in the way of that?

About Blog Explorations of Empirical and Formal Research in Political Science.The goal is to discuss, elaborate, critique, and announce current and emerging research in the subfields that is relevant to the study of international relations and comparative politics.

The report compares current data with national goals and explores best practices through several in - depth case studies of struggling school districts.

PURPOSE The purpose of the current study was to describe the current state of practice for writing Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals for children with speech sound disorders (SSDs).

The goal of this study is to increase the capacity of schools to prevent Dating Violence / Harassment (DV / H) by evaluating the effectiveness of current multi-level DV / H prevention programming in middle schools within a large urban school district.

Not according to a number of financial experts, including Robert Abboud, an Ottawa — based CFP and the author of No Regrets: A common sense guide to achieving and affording your life goals, our very own Canadian Capitalist blogger, Ram Balakrishnan, and Dr. Moshe Milevsky, the York university professor whose initial 2001 study became the impetus behind the current belief that you'll always save with a variable rate mortgage.

About Blog Explorations of Empirical and Formal Research in Political Science.The goal is to discuss, elaborate, critique, and announce current and emerging research in the subfields that is relevant to the study of international relations and comparative politics.

Using current exhibitions, collection objects and an array of public programs, education staff members work with assigned readings, special learning objectives, thematic units of study to achieve the specific goals defined by faculty members.

«Limiting total CO2 emissions from the start of 2015 to beneath 240 billion tonnes of carbon − 880 billion tonnes of CO2 — or about 20 years of current emissions would likely achieve the Paris goal of limiting warming to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels,» says study leader Richard Millar, a climate system scientist at the University of Oxford.

A new study from researchers at the Oxford Martin School at the University of Oxford has warned that a fifth of current global power plant capacity is at risk of becoming stranded assets under a scenario in which the planet reaches its climate goals of halting warming at 1.5 to 2 °C above pre-industrial levels.

Thinking about the problem in terms of temperature increase for a doubling of atmospheric CO2 (which we will probably exceed with current policies and energy trends), even studies that reinforce the skeptical narrative of low mean climate sensitivity leaves some chance of warming greatly exceeding international goals and historical boundaries (say a 5 percent chance of warming exceeding 4 °C).

The Pan-Canadian Wind Integration Study is timely, given the commitments by Canada and the provinces to shift to a low - carbon economy and the current North American goal of 50 per cent clean power generation by 2025.

Some studies suggest that current climate finance provides between 30 % to 60 % of the 100 billion USD that countries have pledged, and this represents only a fraction of the financial requirements to meet global mitigation and adaptation goals.

to distill programmatic lessons from process studies and field campaigns to help current and future observational programs to effectively meet the broader goals of improving the understanding of physical processes in the ocean and the atmosphere and to translate this understanding into improved observational and modeling capabilities.

While the overarching purpose of the survey was to study lawyers» use of case, matter and practice management systems, the survey asks about a wide range of technology issues, from word processing to Software as a Service, all with the goal of documenting the current technology environment within the legal profession.

The management consultant studies the work processes of a firm and understands the gap that exists between the current processes and the set goals.

The goal of family studies are to ensure that the basic needs of children are met within their current household, and may include time to rectify any problems before a final determination is made.

The current study examined beliefs, social goals, and behavioral strategies for conflict in romantic relationships and their associations with relationship quality among a sample of 494 college students.

About Blog Explorations of Empirical and Formal Research in Political Science.The goal is to discuss, elaborate, critique, and announce current and emerging research in the subfields that is relevant to the study of international relations and comparative politics.

The results of this study reinforce the need for solutions that both reduce education debt levels for future students, and enable current borrowers to make that debt manageable, so they don't have to put the rest of their financial goals on hold.»