Sentences with phrase «increasing persistence»

One of the predictions of temporal chaos theory is that bifurcation approach would be compatable with the observation of increasing variance and increasing persistence (slowing down).

Goals affect performance by directing attention, mobilizing effort, increasing persistence, and motivating strategy development.

If it gets into water or air, it is resistant to breakdown by water and sunlight, increasing its persistence.

For example, the literature on financial aid often finds that $ 1000 in financial aid increases persistence rates by about three percentage points [8] and college mentorship increases persistence rates by five percentage points.

Mindfulness is a research - based practice that has shown positive outcomes of improved academic performance, improved academic task completion, reduction in externalizing behavior, decreased anxiety, increased pro-social behavior, improved self - efficacy, and increased persistence.

Results have demonstrated increased proficiency in math and English among high school students, reduced placement into remedial coursework in college, increased college enrollment, increased college persistence, and increased persistence of transfer students.

(d) Having a slightly higher magnitude of autocorrelation would slightly increase persistence but does not turn a stationary simulation into a non-stationary simulation.

See Merryfield for how the decreasing stability increases persistence.

Not exact matches

In his 2005 article, «Habit Persistence and Teen Sex: Could Increased Contraception Have Unintended Consequences for Teen Pregnancies?»

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

[17] Habit Persistence and Teen Sex: Could Increased Access to Contraception have Unintended Consequences for Teen Pregnancies?

So with the conversion experience: that it should for even a short time show a human being what the highwater mark of his spiritual capacity is, this is what constitutes its importance — an importance which backsliding can not diminish, although persistence might increase it.

The Gunners have been growing more frustrated with the ideology of Kroenke in recent years, with many growing frustrated with his attitude to spending, and some very frustrated with his persistence to stick with Arsene Wenger, but the latest reports have increased anger tenfold.

«Through this important event we recognize the many minority - owned companies that help fuel the region's economy through their persistence, commitment, and dedication to increasing opportunities for all MWBE businesses,» Rickey T. Brown, executive director of UMEA, said in a release announcing the finalists.

Analyzing longitudinal datasets (N = 2,926 and N = 1,255) of African American and Latino American college students Brannon's research demonstrates that such efforts to affirm identity is related to benefits among members of negatively stereotyped groups including better problem solving, increased task persistence, higher GPAs, and more positive health and well - being outcomes.

Libicki said the demand for cybersecurity professionals began to overtake supply in 2007, largely due to increased reports of large - scale hacking, including the leakage of credit card data, attacks on Internet connectivity, and the discovery of «advanced persistence threats» — teams of hackers who go after intellectual property by establishing a persistent presence in the networks of U.S. and other technology targets.

«This is because plant and animal pest numbers and vigour could increase under changed climatic conditions and at the same time impact on the persistence of native species.»

Rather than disc degeneration being the sole explanation for pain persistence, increased neural activity can manifest as pain hypersensitivity.

The hippopotamus had so far increased as to endanger the persistence of grazing.

An evidence - based framework offers a guide for efforts to increase student persistence in STEM majors.

By administering testosterone to traders before they trade financial assets for real money, testosterone directly increases the size and persistence of stock market bubbles.

«This increase in persistence that we're seeing in very many places is just as important as the decrease in persistence that Arctic inhabitants are talking about,» she said.

«By considering the niche when designing treatments, we can increase treatment effectiveness and persistence,» said Hawkes.

The study suggests that marijuana use — even in the absence of cannabis use disorder (characterized by problematic use of cannabis due to impairment in functioning or difficulty quitting or cutting down on use)-- is associated with increased odds of smoking onset, relapse, and persistence.

«Moving from a polluted neighbourhood to a clean area and vice versa would allow us to explore the persistence of the effect related to perinatal exposure and to evaluate the impact of exposure to increased air pollution concentration later in life,» says Heinrich.

With this increase in the persistence of open water and thus the availability of prey, the whales we recorded in Wilhelmina Bay could potentially consume an additional 3,225 — 7,224 tons of krill (0.16 — 0.36 % of the total biomass) during this period (Table 1).

This alteration likely can be attributed to a combination of decreased persistence of memory T cells (41) and enhanced homeostatic proliferation resulting from increased strength of signal downstream of the TCR (16).

After completion of her Ph.D. program and in order to increase the international dimension of her career, she subsequently joined the Ragon Institute as a postdoctoral fellow in Dr. Yu's and Dr. Lichterfeld's labs, where she has been working for almost 3 years in different projects related to viral persistence, including the characterization of the HIV - 1 reservoir in patients treated during the early phase of the infection and the identification of cells with stem - cell like properties contributing to HIV - 1 long - term persistence.

In the past 3 - 4 decades, there has been an increasing trend in high - humidity heat waves, which are characterized by the persistence of extremely high night - time temperature.1 The combination of high humidity and high night - time temperature can make for a deadly pairing, offering no relief and posing a particular threat for the elderly.

Positive selection on island alleles leads to a higher persistence against migrants, and thus critical migration rates increase with increasing strength of selection.

A good cut requires planning, programming and persistence — but stick with it and you'll soon start to see those abs shining through and your fitness levels increasing week by week.

«Long - term persistence of low cholesterol concentration actually increases the risk of death.

We do this with differentiated teaching in the classroom, it makes sense to also differentiate our behavioural expectations based on a child's capacity, while we also work on increasing this capacity building skills such as self - regulation and persistence.

The report goes on to say» [A child] who is very disciplined and persistent is likely to increase his or her maths skills more than a child with equal levels of maths skills but with lower levels of discipline and persistence.

The major long term consequence of adolescent obesity is persistence into adulthood and association with an increased risk of cardiovascular and metabolic disease in later life.

Our reflective planning led to the creation of the Urban Prep Alumni Program, a college access and persistence program aimed at increasing the number of our alumni who enroll in and complete college.

The Milwaukee study found increased high school degree and college persistence with voucher students, while the DC study found voucher students had increased high school graduation.

But we find little evidence that shifting student characteristics explain flat scores, or that periods of increasing high school persistence coincide with periods of divergent scores between older and younger students.

Connecting students to these services and opportunities can help increase postsecondary persistence and completion rates.

We work to remove barriers to higher education, promote college persistence, and increase post-secondary completion.

Data from this system show that using these programs: • increases educational achievement • encourages students to take more college - preparatory courses in high school • increases students» college readiness • promotes educational and career planning • promotes college readiness of underrepresented minority students • promotes educational achievement in college, college enrollment, and persistence in college

Tennessee College Access and Success Network aims to establish a college - going culture across Tennessee and works with member organizations and partners to remove barriers to higher education, promote college persistence, and increase postsecondary completion rates.

While Seattle educators have long been committed to this work, the persistence of inequity requires us to act with increased urgency.

Demonstrated outcomes of Check & Connect include: increased attendance, persistence in school, accrual of credits and school completion rates; and decreased truancy, tardies, behavioral referrals and dropout rates.

By increasing students» sense of ownership over their grades, the ARRT's work ultimately helped build students» persistence — an academic behavior necessary for students to tackle and complete challenging academic tasks.

This is coupled with increased prosocial behavior as well as increased confidence, persistence, empathy, and more engaged citizenship.

In 2010, the E3 Alliance received a grant from TG on behalf of the Austin College Access Network (ACAN) to develop community ‐ based, collaborative strategies to increase college student persistence and success in Central Texas.

ACAN has developed common goals and identified areas to leverage their resources to better serve students and their families with a variety of high touch and other supports; and, it developed Staying Powers: Central Texas» Strategic Plan to Increase College Student Persistence and Success — the first regional college persistence plan in the StatPersistence and Success — the first regional college persistence plan in the Statpersistence plan in the State of Texas.

Research also supports an explicit focus on building social and behavioral skills; increased task persistence and self - control often translate into improved academic performance.

Despite growing momentum to reform teacher evaluation in order to increase its impact on teachers» practice and persistence in the profession, very little research examines how current reforms influence teachers» attitudes or reported instructional practices.