Sentences with phrase «hold study groups»

Not just to read, but to hold study groups, exhibitions and lectures.

Classrooms can use the service to take quick polls and quizzes, filter messages, get news updates, take notes, and organize and hold study groups.

Later I was told that Vaclav Havel held a study group on this book, discussing it part by part in a mountain hideaway in the Czech territories.

• Collaboration: Students have opportunities to work together, whether through relatively simple activities, such as partner reading or peer editing, or more complex endeavors, such as holding a study group on a topic of interest or jointly developing a presentation or paper.

Not exact matches

Still, according to a study from Pennsylvania - based Vanguard Group Inc., Canadians persist in holding 60 % of their equities investments at home.

After studying a series of Western societies from ancient Greece and Iran through the history of Israel, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and on into the twentieth centuries, Polak concludes that the most important single factor involved in the generation of change is the image of the future held by a given group.

An American atheist activist group is trying to stop a pastor from holding lunchtime Bible study sessions for students at a school in Ohio.

Those two worlds will collide on May 16 when the nation's largest atheist group holds a rally on the steps of the Texas state capitol in Austin to protest proposed changes in the state's social studies curriculum.

When he studied the lives of those who gave themselves to the search for truth, he saw that they might be classified in four groups: the scholastic theologians, who proclaimed themselves the followers of reason and speculation; the Isma`ilis and other Shi`as who held that to reach truth one must have an infallible living teacher, and that there always is such a teacher; the philosophers, who relied on logical and rational proofs; and the Sufis, who held that they, the chosen of God, could reach knowledge of Him directly in mystical insight and ecstasy.

There is a third group who hold that the history of religions does not take seriously enough the subjective elements involved in the study of various religions.

Considering that she was the only one of the group who was not studying theology, she held her own very well in these discussions.

Responding to these concerns, the staff of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches has proposed that after the year 2000, the WCC and all the world communions hold their major world assemblies in the same place at the same time, doing their major theological study together but allowing time for each of the groups to have its own business meetings.

Perhaps in more fundamentalist congregations where so much emphasis is given to the written word and what the preacher makes of it, it make weaken his hold on the largely ignorant, but in the Catholic and Episcopaelian congregations, it is much more about pomp and ceremony — where the scriptural readings take on much more of a musical resonance than a study group — it will have little impact.

When the Azusa Street Mission (generally considered the cradle of modern Pentecostalism)[1] was born in Los Angeles, a Methodist congregation in Valparaiso had already taken its first steps toward Pentecostalism by holding prayer groups and studying the book of Acts.

We hold evangelism training, discipleship training, Bible study training, and small group training.

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To estimate additional resource use not captured on an individual level in the cohort study, we developed supplemental data collection forms after five focus groups held with midwives from all parts of England early in the project.

In Sweden, where the current study was carried out, parent education groups are held during pregnancy and throughout the first year of the newly born child (Fabian et al., 2005, 2006; Barimani and Hylander, 2012).

Without such understandings of the principles held by the protagonists, individuals, associations, parties, movements, and groups, along with the nature of the injustices they would not reconcile themselves to, the articulated desire to change a wretched present «for the happiness of all»: without reading their words, following their actions, we end up studying everything but republicanism and its revolutionary tradition.

The key themes and questions underpinning the narrative of this nascent «Northern regionalism» were unpacked and discussed at length in a symposium held at the University of Huddersfield (co-sponsored by the Centre for Research in the Social Sciences and the Political Studies Association and organised by the Britishness Specialist Group) on the 13th of February: «Decentralisation and the Future of Yorkshire».

On Tuesday, about 40 anti-fracking activists with New Yorkers Against Fracking (a coalition of 60 groups) held a rally in front of the Department of Environmental Conservation «s headquarters in Albany, demanding a human health study be added to the department's ongoing environmental impact study.

The BES Stakeholder Group compliments the input on the study from BES survey consultation events held in Edinburgh (in December 2013) and in Cardiff (in January 2014).

Former Chief Judge Jonathan Lippman announced the members of a commission he'll lead to study Rikers Island today — a group that does not include correction unions or management and that he vowed would take an independent and «no holds barred» look at the city's jails.

A recent study has found that we do not tend to hold individual members of a group responsible for their individual actions.

Extinct DNA Study Group holds its first (and only) meeting.

This tendency held true for both groups, despite different rearing histories, suggesting that their disinclination to barter is innate, says Sarah Brosnan of Georgia State University, the lead researcher in this study.

To conduct the study, Dr. Saphire and her group at TSRI collaborated with Yoshihiro Kawaoka, Ph.D., D.V.M., who holds joint appointments at the University of Wisconsin and University of Tokyo.

She accepted an offer from a group of astronomers at Berkeley, part of a collaboration studying a rare type of supernova that some believe holds the key to measuring the expansion of the universe.

Now, a new study from Temple psychologists Laurence Steinberg and Jason Chein, CLA» 97, has found that an inclination toward risky behavior in groups also holds true for another teen mammal — namely, mice.

Lee is hoping to do further work in countries such as South Korea to reveal any differences between ethnic groups, as well as to study more women who drink higher amounts of alcohol, to investigate whether the possible difference between genders holds up for heavier drinkers.

Other studies have attempted to determine how the research activities of MSTP graduates differ from those of other groups of MD and MD / PhD recipients.7 - 10 Although the data from these studies suggest that a large majority of MSTP graduates hold appointments in clinical departments, and that most have clinical responsibilities, MSTP graduates are less likely than other groups of physician - investigators to publish in journals containing high proportions of clinical observations and clinical studies.

During the 69th Annual Meeting of the American Physical Society's Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD), being held Nov. 20 - 22, in Portland, Oregon, Randy Ewoldt, an assistant professor who runs the Ewoldt Research Group in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, and Jeremy Koch, a doctoral candidate, will present their work studying bubbles within complex fluids.

The four - year longitudinal study involving 1,299 children and their parents finds the pattern holds true in 12 different cultural groups from nine countries across the globe.

The main types of communication are: (a) oral and written testimony before a congressional committee; (b) conferences and study groups held by AAAS committees and offices; (c) correspondence and meetings with Members of Congress and staff; and (d) reporting and information seeking from the Congress.

During the Biophysical Society's 62nd Annual Meeting, held Feb. 17 - 21, 2018, in San Francisco, California, Samuel H. Schneider, a graduate student in Stanford University's Boxer Lab, will present the group's research studying what happens when an enzyme is accelerating reaction and how an enzyme changes over time making it resistant to antibiotics.

The two ALS patients achieved 2.2 and 1.4 bits per second, respectively, more than doubling previous records (held by these same participants in a previous study from this group).

The study demonstrated that the participants» perceptions of how many teens in their direct friend group had consumed alcohol held more weight than the perceptions of how many of their peers overall were consuming.

Two leading international lung cancer organizations, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG), are partnering to use the BTOG annual conference, held January 24 - 26, 2018 in Dublin, Ireland, to highlight and inform about changes to the international system of staging lung cancer.

Based on our findings, the occurrence of cancer is much higher in adults over 75 years of age compared with the proportion of patients in this age group who enroll in clinical trials,» said lead study author Bindu Kanapuru, MD, medical officer in the Division of Hematology Products, Office of Hematology and Oncology Products in the US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, who presented the results at the 59th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting and Exposition, held December 9 — 12 in Atlanta.

Who: Two leading international lung cancer organizations, the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC) and British Thoracic Oncology Group (BTOG), are partnering to use the BTOG annual conference, held January 24 - 26, 2018 in Dublin, Ireland, to highlight and inform about changes to the international system of staging lung cancer.

In recently published studies of ad libitum, low - carbohydrate diets, experimental and control subjects consumed diets in which neither fat content nor protein content were held constant between groups (5 — 7).

She holds certifications as a Yoga Therapist - C - IAYT, 500 hr E-RYT in Hatha, 500 hr in Kundalini, iRest and continues her studies with Indigenous groups in Shamanism with Maria Elaina Martinez.

88, Ed.D.» 91, and Boston Public Schools Superintendent Carol Johnson — were held in a variety of formats such as large - group lectures, small - group discussions, and case studies.

This holds true not only for traditional forms of professional learning — seminars, study groups, workshops, conferences, mentoring, coaching, and so on — but also for «new» forms that include face - to - face or online professional learning communities, teacher exchanges, bug - in - the - ear coaching, data teams, individualized improvement plans, and unconferences.

The study found that students who participated in the Ninth Grade Academy outperformed the comparison group in reading and writing test scores as well as G.P.A.; additionally, they held higher attendance records and lower tardy rates and were less likely to be suspended or expelled.

I could see it happening during my visit as I wandered through CERAS to observe the various small groups holding their meetings: elementary school teachers («generalists») and literacy specialists, secondary school teachers of single subjects like math or social studies, all completely focused and engaged.

The group's new National Task Force for Quality Education — a group created after the call for a charter moratorium was approved to study and recommend education policy — just held its first public session hearing in New Haven, Conn..

We've also studied the most effective strategies that schools and nonprofits can use to engage families in guiding their child to and through college through conducting a literature review, holding focus groups with DC families, and piloting strategies at the local level.

The report, which finds some skepticism about reforms promoted by those behind the study, relies on teachers» statements at 30 focus groups involving 293 educators held around the state last fall.

The Automotive Science Group's 2016 Study found the Dodge brand to hold the best economic performance across all brand offerings for model year 2016, earning the unique distinction as ASG's 2016 BEST ECONOMIC PERFORMANCE BRAND.