Sentences with phrase «individual studies focused»

In the first years of the center, researchers conducted individual studies focused on specific programs and content areas.

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Positive psychology, which focuses on what makes individuals and communities thrive, has been an incredibly popular field of study.

A study found when companies focused on employees» individual strengths and personality rather than emphasizing conformity and an organizational identity, there is greater customer satisfaction and employee retention after a six - month period.

In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $ 50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $ 100 or less), and from that group he's chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies.

It is interesting that this study focused on evangelicals (in the Christians most of the five were prominent evangelicals and most of the five atheists are almost evangelical in their atheism) rather than more moderate middle of the road individuals.

Because the individual congregation is such a rich expression of the church, studying it can focus theological education.

In addition, historical study keeps attention focused on important questions about our own history, including that of the individual reader.

[4] If a theological school wants more truly to understand God, surely it would be better — to make a counterproposal — to focus its study on that greater tradition than on individual congregations within it.

Later he focused on one program, the 700 Club, conducting extensive interviews with twenty individuals or couples that the study identified as heavy viewers.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

This is the first time scientific research has given an accurate picture of the long - term soil carbon storage on organic versus conventional farms throughout the U.S., since most studies focus on individual farms or total soil organic carbon.

Each year, in conjunction with The James Beard Foundation, a scholarship is awarded to an individual in the wine industry to travel, learn and study — all focused on Rhone varieties in America.

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.

There are about a million or more good things parents can do to help their children grow up to be stellar individuals, but study after study has found there are some simple, doable things parents can focus on to give their children the best chance at being successful and happy throughout their lives.

Therefore, future studies should conduct qualitative research among focus groups or individuals from multiple practices to gain insight into other important aspects.

«In addition to INSIGHTS» focus on individual children's strengths and needs, our study illustrates the importance of understanding and supporting classrooms as a whole at the transition to formal schools,» said McClowry, professor of applied psychology at NYU Steinhardt and the study's senior author.

Earlier studies have demonstrated that cocoa flavanol intake improves the elasticity of blood vessels and lowers blood pressure — but, for the most part, these investigations have focused on high - risk individuals like smokers and people that have already been diagnosed with conditions like hypertension and coronary heart disease.

Hatha yoga is an ancient spiritual practice that involves meditation and focused breathing while an individual moves through a series of stylized postures, said Neha Gothe, who led the study with University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Edward McAuley.

Hanna Granroth - Wilding, who led the study, said: «Our knowledge of disease in wild animals has tended to focus on the individual, but our study shows that we need to pay more attention to the broader consequences of disease to fully appreciate the role that it plays in wild populations, especially those whose numbers may be under threat.»

A few microscopic techniques can focus light deep into the intact brains of dead animals to study its structure without damaging the axons, but much of this light is scattered away by the fatty lipid membranes that surround individual cells, making the technique less than perfect.

Although the king of the jungle is fairly well studied, most research efforts have focused on individual populations rather than the entire species, which is down to perhaps as few as 20,000 individuals.

Luis Martinez studies the interactions of infectious microbes with the immune system, focusing on fungal and bacterial infections affecting immunocompromised individuals.

Earlier studies focused mainly on adults, while some looked at young people in more limited geographical areas, such as individual hospitals or cities, or used more limited surveillance data.

The work involved a collaboration between UC Berkeley neuroscientist Diana Bautista, Ph.D., who runs a lab focused on the molecular basis of the sensations of itch, touch and pain, and Buck Associate Professor Rachel Brem, Ph.D., a geneticist who studies how and why traits differ between individuals.

«Most studies on empowering leadership focused at the team rather than the individual level, and did not separate out the influence of the leader from the employee's personality,» says Guo.

Family studies researchers at the University of Illinois who study the science behind maintaining romantic relationships focus their work on the central organizing unit — the relationship — rather than on the individual.

The new study helps explain why the focusing power of accommodating IOLs differs between individuals, depending on their age and prescription type.

The study by Owen et al. is unique in that it focuses specifically on religious individuals compared to non-religious individuals.

During a three - year - long field study, Buchan and his colleagues focused on instances when an adult male intervened to protect an individual juvenile who was threatened or bullied.

There are ongoing studies which focus on the discovery of molecular biomarkers of the VSV - ZEBOV vaccine in healthy individuals using omics - based technologies in combination with a systems biology approach,» says Ali Harandi.

Participants of the study were employed by the GOV and asked to participate in a gender - specific focus group, a gender - mixed focus group and an individual interview.

«This study, led by my graduate student, Tamara Rosen, clarifies and focuses inconsistencies in previous research on the unique way error processing manifests and can impact anxiety symptoms in individuals with ASD,» said senior author Dr. Matthew Lerner, of Stony Brook University.

Caloric restriction became something of a fad two decades ago, when a few individuals set out to cut their calories by 30 percent to slow the diseases of aging, but the Wisconsin and NIA studies have a much broader focus.

Scientists studying which species will be able to colonise new areas commonly focus on how well an individual can move long distances.

Rutishauser added, «Our group is focused on pursuing neurosurgical approaches that allow us to study individual neurons.

Lead author Dr. Stefan Gravenstein, a professor at both the Warren Alpert Medical School and the School of Public Health at Brown University, said that while a prior study showed that older individuals could respond better to the high - dose vaccine, that study focused on relatively healthy older adults.

While prior studies of decision - making have focused on group effects, or the ways everyone's brains are similar, the new study focused on individual differences.

In the new study, the Penn team focused on 302 mostly Medicaid - insured individuals who had multiple chronic diseases.

«Prior research studies comparing brain structure in individuals who are deaf and hearing attempted to control for language experience by only focusing on those who grew up using sign language,» explains Olumide Olulade, PhD, the study's lead author and post-doctoral fellow at GUMC.

The recent study, published in the journal Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology, focuses on using a simple test of visual flicker to evaluate an individual's level of executive cognitive abilities, such as shifting attention between different tasks, planning or organizing and problem solving.

Studies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale — determining the origins, destinations and travel modes of individuals» daily commutes — or the very large scale, such as using air - travel patterns to track the spread of epidemics over time.

This study also shows that the importance of biological diversity has been underestimated because previous research only focussed on individual trophic groups: «Our extensive research programme demonstrates how important it is to study the broader context and that there is a need for action to protect ecosystems,» summarises Fischer.

Until now, most studies have focused on individual earthquakes and their connection to nearby wells.

She continued with doctoral studies, focusing on phonetics and the way people use them to express (usually subconsciously) individual differences.

«I had been very focused around issues of the individual until I met and started working with architects who study how the physical world around us influences our choices.

Previous studies have focused on understanding the behavior of individual terrorists (as people) rather than studying the different attacks by modeling their relationship with each other.

How can we ensure that the impact of individual scientists working on a myriad of small and focused studies that discover and probe new phenomena - is not lost in the Big Data world.

«At Penn State Hershey, an important cancer research focus is to develop molecular diagnostic tools that are tailored to individuals using a personalized medicine approach,» said Dr. Daniel A. Notterman, vice dean for research and graduate studies, Penn State College of Medicine and associate vice president for health sciences research, Penn State.

Our work combines computational analysis of high - throughput sequencing data, population genetics, and experimental work.We focus in particular on studying genetic effects on the transcriptome traits, which has further applications in other traits at the cellular and individual level.

The present study focuses on the individual's jaw, which was unearthed at a rock - shelter called Riparo di Mezzena in the Monti Lessini region of Italy.