Sentences with phrase «goal of the recent study»

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In other words, even when home visitation programs succeed in their goal of changing parent behaviour, these changes do not appear to produce significantly better child outcomes.21, 22 One recent exception, however, was a study of the Home Instruction Program for Preschool Youngsters (HIPPY) model with low - income Latino families showing changes in home parenting and better third - grade math achievement.23 Earlier evaluations of HIPPY found mixed results regarding program effectiveness.

The goal of the study, which was discussed at a recent conference but is not yet published, was to try to break down obstacles that keep health messages from pregnant women.

A recent study found that such actions, carried out on a global scale, could provide a cheap and easy way to accomplish a third of the CO2 mitigation needed in the next decade to be on track to meet the Paris goals.

But the implications of a recent study demonstrating this relationship are anything but simple and could influence both the design of future clinical trials and the goals of oncologists treating cancer.

Recent studies show that this property can be exploited for the delivery of fused antigens into the major histocompatibility complex class I - restricted presentation pathway, with the goal of eliciting a specific immune response.

In a recent study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers examined participants» brains in an MRI scan during a craving and found that paying attention to a goal, such as getting in shape, activates the prefrontal cortex — a part of the brain that can inhibit the reward region.

Some of it is personal preference and goals, while recent research may offer more insight: A study by researchers from Loughborough University in Britain (Rollo I and Williams C, 2010) showed that carbohydrate and / or protein during exercise shorter than one hour in duration is only required under certain conditions.

Recent publications include «Inclusivity for all applicants: An admissions case study,» in Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Racially and Ethnically Underrepresented Students (2013); «Stressors in college choice, application and decision - making — and how to reduce them» in the Journal of College Admission (with S. Friedfeld, 2013); and «Diverse student groups: Teaching with a goal of inclusivity,» in The Routledge International Handbook of Higher Education (with M. Gasman, 2009).

From a literature review of approximately 160 recent studies, developmental psychologist Stephanie Jones and her research team at the Harvard Graduate School of Education find that EF is a set of mental processes that are used to carry out goal - directed behavior.

A recent study in students with disabilities showed the effectiveness of self - graphing to improve math fact fluency (PM Figarola, «Effects of self - graphing and goal setting on the math fact fluency of students with disabilities.»

Most of those were selective - enrollment schools in CPS, including Skinner North Classical School, where, on a recent day this month, fifth - graders were working on sixth - grade material in social studies, weaving in the literacy goals and nonfiction text of the Common Core standards.

The recent case study literature provides illuminating accounts of change at the level of district ethos, goals for improvement and restructured organizational infrastructures to support reforms.

A recent study commissioned by Discover Personal Loans found that many respondents understand the importance of paying off debt and increasing their savings but aren't making near the progress on those goals that they'd like to.

So when the White House and State Department announced a new U.S. Study Abroad Office under the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs during the recent White House Travel Blogger Summit on Study Abroad and Global Citizenship, it was not difficult to embrace the administration's goal to increase the number of students who study abStudy Abroad Office under the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs during the recent White House Travel Blogger Summit on Study Abroad and Global Citizenship, it was not difficult to embrace the administration's goal to increase the number of students who study abStudy Abroad and Global Citizenship, it was not difficult to embrace the administration's goal to increase the number of students who study abstudy abroad.

This update on the Study of Environmental Arctic Change (SEARCH) program includes recent news from each of SEARCH's three Action Teams as well as highlights from other activities that contribute to SEARCH goals, including the Sea Ice Prediction Network, the Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook, and the Arctic Observing Open Science meeting.

So it is little wonder that the recent findings of the OECD study, Climate finance in 2013 - 14 and the $ 100 billion goal, were lampooned rather than lauded by many developing countries and civil society.

The author contends, based on a recent NASA study by Drew Shindell of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York, that reduction of particulate emissions is hurting efforts to reduce global warming from CO2 — an own goal by the Green Team.

The popular savings target of $ 1 million that's needed to retire on comfortably can seem completely unreachable for anyone living hand to mouth; a recent study showed that to reach this goal, you'd need to save 22 percent of your salary throughout your entire working career.

In sum, the goal of our study was to examine the pathways between the couple's shared possible selves and the psychological well - being of husbands with a recent prostate cancer diagnosis and their wives.

Reports from parents and teachers about peer functioning, as well as self reports, are often collected in the form of rating scales, for example, the Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) 21 or the Self - Perception Profile for Children.22 Recent studies examining self - reports of competence in children with ADHD, however, indicate overly inflated reports that are at odds with both others» perspectives23, 24 and inconsistent with actual performance.15 These studies question the utility of self - report measures for children with ADHD when the goal of assessment is to obtain accurate competence information.