Sentences with phrase «group of participants in»

Recognizing the value of the concept and the need to bring uniformity and guidance to it, a group of participants in an interdisciplinary international conference sponsored by the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association recommended that «professionals trained to manage chronic child - related disputes be provided as a service within the court system» (AFCC Task Force on Parenting Coordination, 2003).

Permissioned blockchain networks allow the network to appoint a group of participants in the network who are given the express authority to provide the validation of blocks of transactions or to participate in consensus.

Permissioned blockchain networks allow the network to appoint a group of participants in the network who are given the authority to provide the validation of blocks of transactions.

The Intensive is designed to immerse a peer group of participants in a rigorous schedule of seminars, conversations, and presentations that support the process of developing an idea for an exhibition into a full proposal.

After a brief small - group discussion and reflection, engage the larger group of participants in conversation about what they saw.

The AYF - 1 course is designed to provide you with the knowledge to safely and effectively instruct a group of participants in Aerial Yoga Fitness.

The researchers trained a group of participants in compassion meditation, a form of Buddhist meditation, for 30 minutes daily for two weeks.

There were three groups of participants in the research: a fasting control group (they ate nothing), a group (iso control group) that had carbohydrates with milk protein (same calories as the amino acid shake) and the group that had the amino acid mixture.

There are five status groups of participants in the MTO experiment: control group families, experimental movers (who received restricted vouchers), experimental non-movers (who were offered but did not accept restricted vouchers), Section 8 movers, and Section 8 non-movers.

There were two groups of participants in the study: pre-service and in - service early childhood teachers.

Not exact matches

The data sets aren't huge — 232 participants in October before the election and 152 after, with a total of 772 negotiations recorded — and there may be some other difference that explains the later group's more aggressive behavior, though Low tried to control for factors, like party affiliation, that might offer alternate explanations for the shift.

After two seconds of looking at each image the participants had to decide whether it was acceptable to exclude the person in the photo from a group.

In a study from the University of British Columbia, researchers assigned 124 participants — students, financial analysts, medical professionals and other adults — into one of two groups over two weeks.

«The participants who'd completed the gratitude task months earlier not only reported feeling more gratefulness two weeks after the task than members of the control group, but also, months later, showed more gratitude - related brain activity in the scanner.

Mills, who serves as Aequitas's chairman, and a colleague went about roping in partners and found plenty of willing participants outside the Maple Group: CI Financial Corp., Barclays Canada, IGM Financial, PSP Investments, OMERS, ITG Canada and even BCE.

Workshop: participants work in groups to discuss, map and present the structure of their supply chain - Supply Chain Performance Measure.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

«There were lots of times where we would have pitch practice or other group check - ins and only half the participants would show,» Sadler says.

If you'd still like to get a group together to bounce some ideas around, try to keep the number of participants limited to a very select group who are best suited to generate ideas on a specific topic — meaning they have some expertise in the area.

«You'd need almost every market participant» in the CLO market to agree to a deal, according to Kevin Kendra, managing director and head of Fitch's U.S. Structured Credit group.

Participants in the test group are mostly male with a 40 - plus average age and have taken to using the app quite quickly, according to Chestnut Global Partners VP of Sales Tom Shjerven and Orcas CEO Michael Mulvihill.

«With the financial support provided by Siva along with the strong base in the Dandaragan operations, the resulting quality of our extra virgin olive oil, the establishment of relationships with key bulk buyers, and the expansion of infrastructure and operating capacity, the Olea Australis Group intends to achieve its goal of an on going sustainable business that is a long - term participant in the continued growth of extra virgin olive oil in Australia and throughout the world.»

Nooyi was more vocal than many CEOs in calling out the racists at a rally in Charlottesville, where a participant rammed a group of counter-demonstrators with his car, killing one and injuring 19.

Standing before a group of heavy hitters, each participant pitched an idea in hopes of winning support for his or her brainchild.

In the study, a group of participants were shown a series of pictures they were not asked to memorize.

«It was awesome, a high - impact, high - energy, hackathon kind of environment,» says working group participant Mike Green, director of the ScaleUp Campaign, a nonprofit partnership to encourage local innovation based in Portland, Ore. «Since you were pitching multiple times, you had to have your game on.»

Researchers have also found that some participants of brainstorming sessions tend to engage in «social loafing,» meaning they put in less effort because responsibility is shared with other group members.

«Hedge funds today are on the same public perception track that mutual funds were, and in 20 years will similarly end up as well - understood investment vehicles — viewed as an essential participant in the global economy,» said Richard Baker, president and CEO of hedge fund trade group Managed Funds Association.

In the objective group, only one - third of the participants made the same recommendation.

In addition to big banks such as Bank of America Corp and Goldman Sachs Group Inc, there were 50 participants, including major exchanges, clearinghouses, the U.S. Treasury Department, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Department of Homeland Security and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Sixty - eight new participants were divided into 17 groups of four for a brief post-screening chat; in each group, one person had seen the highly rated film, while the other three had watched the not - so - great alternative.

And just how meaningful is the cortisol result when the participants didn't report feeling any less stressed, and considering that the cortisol levels for both groups were in the «normal range» at the start of the study?

In a 1959 study published In Human Relations, for example, participants were told that certain members of a group discussion would probably like them.

The participants then followed one of three protocols — the first control group did nothing in particular, the second exercised for 35 minutes 40 minutes after studying, while the third group exercised for the same amount of time four hours later.

In the next round of tests, the participants in the group that had been deceptive scored 20 percent lower than the team that did noIn the next round of tests, the participants in the group that had been deceptive scored 20 percent lower than the team that did noin the group that had been deceptive scored 20 percent lower than the team that did not.

PsyBlog explains the research on the subject: «In the study, one group of participants were allowed to get a full nights» sleep, while another had to stay up all night.

Participants in the latest round include Allegis Capital, a venture capital firm, which led the raise, as well as Blackstone Group (BX), the private equity firm, and angel investor Marc Benioff, the founder and CEO of sales - tool giant Salesforce (CRM).

The study simulated a negotiation in the context of resource allocation, in which one group of participants was given the opportunity to voice their opinions prior to the final decision, and the other group was not.

(Capito's office described her as an «active participant» in the process, but she was not a permanent member of McConnell's group.)

The researchers also performed MRIs on all the participants and found that compared with the low - flavanol group, the 900 mg - a-day flavanol drinkers showed more activity in the dentate gyrus (an area of the brain located in the hippocampus and linked to the formation of new memories).

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

In the second experiment, 109 participants, also business students, were split in half, with one group getting uninterrupted sleep, and the other deprived of iIn the second experiment, 109 participants, also business students, were split in half, with one group getting uninterrupted sleep, and the other deprived of iin half, with one group getting uninterrupted sleep, and the other deprived of it.

Lalonde said the group of companies selected him as a go - between with Montreal city officials, and he pointed at firms of varying sizes as participants in the system including: SNC - Lavalin, Dessau, CIMA, Genivar (TSX: GNV), Tecsult, SM, BPR and Roche.

In one lab study, a group of participants received emails from friends, family and co-workers describing a time they witnessed the individual performing at his or her best, while another group did not.

Participants in the experiment included Goldman Sachs Asset Management, the fund management arm of Goldman Sachs Group Inc (GS.N), Pfizer Inc (PFE.N) and Legg Mason Inc's (LM.N) Western Asset and other investors in the certificate of deposit.

Wagner: Cohen Milstein has obviously attempted to construct the broadest possible group of Intel employees as participants in the plaintiff class in order to ensure a large damages award.

Skeptics of the marches seized on the roles of major interest groups, suggesting that the students were unwitting participants in political warfare that should be reserved for adults.

He is also on the Advisory Council of the Crowdfunding Professional Association (CfPA) and a regular participant in the bipartisan Securities Regulation Working Group organized by the Heritage Foundation.

Principal Financial Group has been sued for allegedly loading its target - date funds with costly and underperforming in - house investments, in the latest example of 401 (k) participants targeting financial firms for purportedly enriching themselves...

Nick is a member of the Standards Australia Technical Committee on Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Standards and a participant in the International Standards Organisation Study Group on Identity on the Blockchain.