Sentences with phrase «individual study designs»

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A marital enrichment group, a family camp, a child - study group, a youth fellowship, a preparation for retirement group, a nursery program, a senior citizen club, premarital counseling, marriage counseling, pastoral care in bereavement, parent - child counseling, and the entire spiritual growth and educational thrust of the church — all these are examples of resources which are designed to stimulate the growth of personality toward the realization of each individual's potentialities.

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 mixed - design ANOVA model (PROC MIXED) was used to test the differences in glucose and insulin AUCi, measured meal GI and GL, calculated meal GI and GL, and II values in food challenges in each individual study.

Design Economic evaluation with individual level data from the Birthplace national prospective cohort study.

Individual data collection forms, designed as part of the cohort study, documented duration of labour, mode of delivery, some forms of pain relief, active management of the third stage of labour, whether an episiotomy was performed, clinical complications, length of stay for both mother and baby by type of ward and level of care, and transfers by duration and mode.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differestudy design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differeStudy is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Building on the newly - published pilot study, the team will conduct experiments using a windtunnel which measures the behaviour of mosquitoes towards odours and electrodes which track the response of individual odour - detecting cells from within the antenna of the mosquito in specially - designed secure laboratories at the School to measure the responses of malaria - infected Anopheles gambiae s.s. females to human odours.

We hope this leads to the ability to design, study and test new therapies for every patient on their own cells in the lab, leading to new treatments and breakthroughs in personalized medicine for individuals with a variety of lung diseases, including cystic fibrosis,» explained lead author Katherine McCauley, a PhD student at BUSM.

In considering strategies to prevent individuals with evil designs from misusing access to select agents, the board studied Personnel Reliability Programs in effect within the biological labs at the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and other organizations.

In a new study published in Science Advances, a group of University of Wisconsin - Madison researchers show that individual cells in the human body have an armament designed to prevent HCMV from achieving and maintaining this latency, to shine a spotlight on the virus so the immune system knows to fight.

«Studying argon gas trapped in two - dimensional array of tiny «cages»: Understanding how individual atoms enter and exit the nanoporous frameworks could help scientists design new materials for gas separation and nuclear waste remediation.»

«The knowledge gained through our study will pave the way to better understanding of eating behavior and facilitate the design of personalized dietary advice that will be more amenable to the individual, resulting in better compliance and more successful outcomes,» said Berciano.

Variability between individuals is typically attributed to genetic differences or exposure to different environments, but the researchers designed this study to account for these differences, using genetically identical worms in identical environments.

For participants in the prospective studies, the research team investigated how each individual's genetic risk score and lifestyle factors related to the incidence of heart attack, the need for procedures designed to open blocked coronary arteries, or sudden cardiac death.

They added that larger studies with longer follow - up specifically designed and carried out in CKD populations are needed to help inform recommendations to both individual patients and policymakers.

Pinpointing individual clock cycles could pave the way for personalized sleep and drug therapies, says Achim Kramer, a Free University chronobiologist who helped design the study.

Design, Setting, and Participants We used data from the Health and Retirement Study (HRS), a nationally representative, population - based longitudinal survey of individuals in the United States 65 years or older from the 2000 (n = 10546) and 2012 (n = 10511) waves of the HRS.

(in study design) To assign people in one group or another based on no particular reason; indeed, researchers often use a computer to make the decision without knowing anything about the individual.

We specifically designed our studies to identify the rare parasite antigens recognized by only resistant individuals.

The A4 study was designed to evaluate safety, tolerability and efficacy of Solanezumab in older individuals who have normal thinking and memory function but who may be at risk for developing dementia related to Alzheimer's disease (AD) in the future.

In the future, a Patient - on - a-Chip also could be used to predict how a disease progresses in an individual, allowing for the design of personalized preventive medicine and treatment regimens to promote wellness and prevent disease, said Robert Barrett, PhD, an assistant professor of Medicine at Cedars - Sinai and senior author of the study in Cellular and Molecular Gastroenterology and Hepatology.

My studies of cancer genomes have led to characterization of multiple pediatric and adult tumor types, to development of methods that identify and characterize changes in genomic heterogeneity, to defining acquired resistance mechanisms to targeted therapies and to designing novel, personalized vaccines for individual patients.

June 8, 2011 Grossman Institute for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior created The University has created a new institute designed to establish a group of scholars working at the intersection of quantitative biology, neuroscience, and the study of social and individual behaviors.

Here we sequence the protein - coding regions of 10,503 adult participants in the Pakistan Risk of Myocardial Infarction Study (PROMIS), designed to understand the determinants of cardiometabolic diseases in individuals from South Asia.

«This is the first study of its kind designed to test the effects of a diet on the decline of cognitive abilities among a large group of individuals 65 to 84 years old who currently do not have cognitive impairment,» says Martha Clare Morris, ScD, a nutritional epidemiologist at Rush and principal investigator of the study.

Physicians with the Personalized Medicine Program at The Tisch Cancer Institute have initiated a phase I proof - of - concept study, a fully personalized multipeptide therapeutic vaccine designed to target tumor - derived neoantigens for individual patients.

For the study, 10 individuals ran and walked at different speeds on a uniquely designed treadmill; several cameras captured their gait with monitoring reflective markers placed on different parts of the individuals» lower limbs as the treadmill collected data from the applied force.

She researches individual and community approaches to better nutrition, and studies the impact of urban design on population health.

In the JAMA < study, one of the key components that led to the positive results is that senior Iyengar teacher Marian Garfinkel carefully designed a therapeutic yoga program tailored to the specific needs of carpal tunnel patients and, when necessary, adapted it to the individuals in the group.

Gluten and casein free diets have been systematically studied in the autistic population, including in randomized trials; however, no such study design could account for the potential high yield outcomes in any given individual.

The herbal studies concentration is designed for individuals with a keen interest in herbs, wellness, and self - care.

Similar fructose increases have been reported in healthy volunteers who consumed fructose loads between 0.5 and 0.75 g / kg34 and in individuals who consumed fructose - sweetened beverages with mixed meals.35 Leptin and ghrelin levels were indistinguishable following acute ingestion of glucose or fructose, a finding possibly attributable to the short time interval of observation; leptin levels typically change 4 to 6 hours after glucose administration.36 Although fructose was previously reported to be less effective than glucose in suppressing ghrelin, such differences may be attributable to the different conditions and timing of ghrelin measurements.10 Little is known about the acute PYY response to fructose ingestion compared with glucose ingestion, although 1 study in rats found higher rather than lower PYY levels after 24 hours of glucose but not fructose feeding.11 Whether such disparities are related to study design or species differences remains uncertain.

In another recent study using a nonrandomized design in which participants served as their own controls (81), individuals were followed for a period of 4 wk on their usual diet, followed by 12 wk of chickpea supplementation (mean 104 g / d, which is just over 0.5 c / d), then another 4 wk on their usual diet.

RESEARCH DESIGN AND METHODS The prospective European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition (EPIC)- InterAct case - cohort study consists of 12,403 incident type 2 diabetes cases and a stratified subcohort of 16,154 individuals from eight European countries, with an average follow - up time of 12.0 years.

The What Works Clearinghouse reviews individual studies and assesses the quality of the research design and technical details about the study's design and findings.

Instead of an impressionistic study of the sort offered by Mirel, the kinds of reports that would be helpful to education professionals, and ultimately to students, include evaluations of designs that track individual student performance year to year; the percentage of students reaching local and state standards; a more widely disseminated study of design implementation so others can benefit from lessons learned; and the establishment of a district - wide roadmap for bringing comprehensive school improvement to fruition.

The Instructional Leadership strand is designed for individuals who have taught at least three years, seek to increase their knowledge of instruction and curriculum in their subject area (science, mathematics or social studies) or English Language Arts (ELA) at the elementary and secondary levels, and are interested in finding ways to extend their influence beyond the classroom into areas such as coaching, curriculum development or teacher research.

Meanwhile, in the United Kingdom, a recent study of the design principles of 153 primary classrooms concluded that «differences in the physical characteristics of classrooms explain 16 percent of the variation in learning progress over a year,» and that «ownership and flexibility» — the ability to adapt the surroundings to individual student preferences — accounted for a quarter of that difference.

This resource is designed to help schools, school districts, and educational program developers identify potential researchers (individuals and organizations) to conduct studies of effectiveness of educational interventions.

Analyzes sales training needs and designs learning products in multiple formats (e.g. instructor - led, self - study, web - based, video, and simulation) that support business goals and improve individual performance.

The Center for World Indigenous Studies Certificate programs are designed for highly motivated individuals who want to focus their education under the tutelage of scholar - practitioners in the fields of inquiry

Study Island is a web - based program designed as a supplemental educational tool geared specifically to each individual state's standardized assessments.

The purpose of Sandusky City Schools Regional Center for Advanced Academic Studies is to provide a world class education to identified gifted students through innovative curriculum and instructional models designed to meet the individual needs of each student.

PLCs aren't possible in every situation, of course, but individual teachers can still benefit from studying the nine design questions in Domain 1 of the Marzano model, outlined in The Art and Science of Teaching.

Carr's work with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) includes working with BOCES organizations and with school and district leaders to build capacity for successful implementation; creating protocols, tools, and templates for district - wide design of scope and sequence documents and units of study tied directly to the CCSS; facilitating summer Leadership Institutes for school teams to plan strategic actions to bring the CCSS and data - driven instruction to routine use in all classrooms; and conducting professional development through interactive keynotes, workshops for teacher leaders, leadership seminars, and individual coaching with school and district administrators.

QRT Part 2 examines the rigor of the research design of each individual study on a CSR model's effectiveness.

As findings from the individual studies emerged, the CREATE researchers considered ways to design an intervention that could be implemented school - wide.

The curriculum is designed to follow a natural progression of study beginning with the individual and then extending outwards to the study of community.

A subdivision really with individual houses, more accidental in design than planned, and in the last year of Richard Nixon's presidency with Watergate the most conspicuous of Washington's monuments, Witchita Hills was self - consciously democratic and middle class, a look of studied poverty about the place suggesting, or so it was assumed among the residents, a new intellectual freedom with responsibility born of the sixties.

Whether you're an undergraduate or graduate student (or a parent, relative, or other creditworthy individual helping a student pay for college), you can find a student loan designed for your field of study.