Sentences with phrase «in study participation»

A research assistant will inform eligible participants about the study and will obtain information and signed consent from those who express interest in study participation.

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Our study found that female participation in the on - demand economy has grown from 37 percent in 2015 to 41 percent in 2016.

British - based GlaxoSmithKline, for example, conducts more than 100 studies a year in Canada, with the participation of some 10,500 patients in more than 1,000 medical centres.

Swiss drug giant Novartis is partnering with California - based Science 37 in an effort to expand clinical study participation (while lowering the costs of such studies) through «virtual» trials.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

If the 2006 study continues to be correct, the labor force participation will continue to drop, taking the unemployment rate, which hit 6.7 % in December, down with it.

Under her leadership, the average SAT scores of the entering freshman class increased by nearly 50 points, and participation in global semester study abroad rose from 25 percent to 75 percent.

The study, published in the journal Health Affairs, found that participation in Pepsi's workplace wellness program saved a monthly average of $ 30 per member.

I was studying the role of public participation in resource project decision - making in New Zealand, and came across a local group organized as Kiwis Against Seabed Mining (KASM) which had become the front of opposition to the Trans - Tasman mining proposal.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

See Ilona Babenko and Richard Sen, «Money Left on the Table: An Analysis of Participation in Employee Stock Purchase Plans, Review of Financial Studies, 27 (2014): 3658 - 3698; 4) Stock held after the exercise of granted stock options or grants of restricted stock.

According to Brandfog's 2014 Global Social CEO study, 77 % of US respondents believe that active participation in social media create more transparency and a more authentic connection.

A study by Rockport Analytics reaffirmed that government travel for meetings leads to greater productivity and efficiency and found that cancelling government participation in meetings and conferences can actually cost taxpayers more in the end.

In June 2008, Brent Kramer, a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York, now Ph.D., submitted a study, Employee Ownership and Participation Effects on Firm Outcomes, that «provides strong evidence that majority employee - owned businesses have a significant advantage over comparable traditionally - owned businesses in sales per employee.&raquIn June 2008, Brent Kramer, a doctoral candidate at the City University of New York, now Ph.D., submitted a study, Employee Ownership and Participation Effects on Firm Outcomes, that «provides strong evidence that majority employee - owned businesses have a significant advantage over comparable traditionally - owned businesses in sales per employee.&raquin sales per employee.»

Clarke studied in Europe for some time and incorporated into his own Thomism elements of participation and relationality which he believes are also implicit in Thomas» metaphysics.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

In the former the knower can not be merely a detached scientific observer but must also himself participate, for it is through his participation that he discovers both the typical and the unique in the aspects of human life that he is studyinIn the former the knower can not be merely a detached scientific observer but must also himself participate, for it is through his participation that he discovers both the typical and the unique in the aspects of human life that he is studyinin the aspects of human life that he is studying.

For Christians, in addition to active participation in the church, personal prayer and the study of the Bible are typical practices.

Studies show that the Americans most obsessed with the lives of celebrities are particularly unlikely to participate in civic life, but that may be because they're the Americans who are particularly unlikely to have easy access to significant forms of political participation.

Yet if they are to understand the arts significantly, they too must enter so fully into the works they study, by becoming familiar with the possibilities and limitations of the materials used and with the processes of transforming them, that they pass beyond passive receptivity to the practice of virtual recreation, through imaginative participation in the artist's constructive activity.

The disciplines of regular corporate worship, participation in Bible study, and prayer have traditionally been considered essential to Protestant spirituality.

The following facts support this belief: the participation of the churches in the theological conversations of the ecumenical movement, which perforce have had to find their common starting point and common vocabulary in biblical literature and theology; the growing body of specifically biblical theology, produced by the very vitality of fragmentary and monographic studies.

The courses of study in denominational as well as interdenominational schools are even more indicative of their participation in the common life of the whole Church.

When the people of God gather in a congregational setting, they are being formed into a people of God through participation in worship, study, fellowship, and mission.

The curriculum they suggest, along with participation in the community of faith, is designed to shape Christian identity by an intense study of how groups and individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with issues of ultimate significance in their age just as we do in ours.

The ease with which many disconnect their individual faiths from institutional belonging is revealed in a study of the unchurched in Appalachia: 80 per cent engaged in religious activities every week — activities ranging from prayer to reading, from watching religious television programs to conversations with others or visits to ministers (David H. Smith et al., Participation in Social and Political Activities [Jossey - Bass, 1980], p. 222).

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Our initial study, based on attendance counts in Protestant churches in one Ohio county and Catholic churches in 18 dioceses, indicated a much lower rate of religious participation than the polls report.

That Garber has written a competent and straightforward study of Shakespeare is a good thing, but her participation in the vulgarities of cultural studies and queer theory is not thereby cancelled.

Accordingly «the method of such study consists of intensive participation in the life of the Biblical, historical and contemporary churches in their encounters with God and interactions with the «world»».

I can imagine a different but equally significant consensus, about covenant and Christian supersessionism, emerging out of the new participation of Jewish scholars in New Testament study.

Curiously, for many years the main interaction with philosophers working in an Anglo - American mode has been through the active participation of Dutch philosophers of religion, led by Vincent Brummer, in the Society for the Study of Theology.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

But Biblical studies are in essence participation in the life of the Biblical communities that found their source and their focus in God.

But whatever convenience and expediency require about the way in which the unity of theological study be broken up into manageable parts, the first requirements laid on all the specialists in the community seem to be: that their intellectual participation in the life of the Biblical, the historic and the contemporary Church always have in view the common theological object — God and man in their interrelations; and that it always be carried on in acute awareness of the «world» in which the Church has been assigned its task.

The tendency toward pluralism and the participation of the schools in the confusion of churches and ministers becomes even more apparent in their efforts to add to the traditional core of theological studies new disciplines which are to serve as bridges between the heritage and modern men, or, more immediately, between it and the needs of ministers in modern churches.

These and other considerations underscore the significance of participation in church work by those who are engaged in theological study.

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I have often wondered how they cope with participation bias in these kind of studies, anybody know whats up with that?

A new study finds that, though participation in youth sports contributes to overall physical activity, fewer than one fourth of youth soccer, baseball and softball players studied obtained the sixty minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical exercise (MVPA) during sports practices that U.S. guidelines recommend.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

Not only was that assertion completely at odds with the uncertain state of the existing science, but it was contradicted by the study itself, in which Dr. McKee and her colleagues acknowledged that several other factors, besides prior participation in football, may influence CTE risk and disease severity, including factors other than cumulative hits to the head, and admitted that it was even «unclear» what roles concussions and repetitive subconcussive hits play in CTE risk, disease severity, and progression.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

A new study1 finds that, though participation in youth sports contributes to overall physical activity, less than one fourth of youth soccer, baseball and softball players studied obtained the sixty minutes a day of moderate to vigorous physical exercise (MVPA) during sports practices that U.S. guidelines recommend.2

Juliana F.W. Cohen, ScD, ScM, the study's lead author, concludes: «Our findings suggest that concerns about school revenues or participation in meals programs are not strong arguments for rolling back USDA's healthier meal and snack standards.»

One could surmise that those «forward thinking» operators would also be the early adopters and they also likely utilize cycle menus, taste testings, and the other positive approaches outlined in the study — all contributing to a net zero or positive participation bump.

As for plate waste and changes in participation, please check out this piece I wrote on The Lunch Tray, cross-posted in Civil Eats, which summarizes an in - depth Pew research study on how schools are adapting.

Studies show that parent participation in your kids» education, teen sports and any other extracurricular activities can help build self - esteem, raise grades, and improve test scores.

Studies are also showing that the enactment of Lystedt laws in 48 states and the District of Columbia (all since May 2009, a year after my speech), which require that parents receive at least some minimal head injury information as a prerequisite for their child's sports participation, is increasing awareness.