Sentences with phrase «initiated study groups»

Students reported higher levels of engagement with the college - level statistics class, establishing more self - initiated study groups than students in the remedial algebra classes.

The student satisfaction survey asked about a student's activities during the semester, such as whether he or she had participated in a student - initiated study group or gone for tutoring (which was available to all students independent of the experiment), and about the student's satisfaction with those activities.

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«The association between marital history at midlife (in 1950) and mortality (as of 1991) was studied in a group of intelligent, educated men and women (N = 1,077) who participated in the Terman Life - Cycle Study initiated by Lewis Terman in 1921.

All women included in the study had initiated breastfeeding and intended to breastfeed post discharge (seven out of seven women in the home nurse visit group, eight out of eight women in the routine care group).

We divided the studies into three groups: those carried out in settings where 80 % or more women initiated breastfeeding (high background initiation), where between 60 % to 80 % initiated breastfeeding (intermediate) or where breastfeeding initiation rates were less than 60 % (low).

«There is currently an imbalance, with most research initiated by individuals and small groups, and few resources devoted towards larger - scale synthetic thinking and study.»

Using the findings of the TRIO study [2] as the basis for their recommendations, the Working Group recommends measuring serum PINP (procollagen type 1 N - terminal propeptide) and CTX (collagen type 1 C - terminal telopeptide) levels at baseline and after 3 months of initiating treatment.

Additional authors of the paper include Luigi Petrone, Ph.D., former Senior Research Fellow at NTU who initiated the study in the Miserez lab and is currently a Scientist at Brookes Bell Group; Steffi Sunny, a graduate student in the Aizenberg lab; Clarinda Sutanto, a Research Assistant in the Miserez lab at NTU; Shawn Hoon, Ph.D., a Research Fellow in the Molecular Engineering Lab at A * STAR, Singapore; Lucas Cohen, Co-op Student in the Aizenberg lab, and James Weaver, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the Wyss Institute.

«The Group is concerned that no action was taken on its findings last year regarding a Uranus mission study,» he would note in his study, urging NASA «to initiate such a study responsive to Decadal Survey science goals for the ice giants.»

The International Civil Aviation Organization's (ICAO) Technical Advisory Group on Machine Readable Travel Documents (TAG / MRTD) initiated a study to determine the «compatibility of currently available biometric technologies with the issuance and inspection processes relevant to MRTDs; and quantifying these compatibilities to determine whether one or more technologies could / should be adopted as the international standard for application in MRTDs.»

«Children have infections at the time they initiate large - group activities, whether they do it earlier or later,» says study author Sylvana M. Côté, PhD, of Ste - Justine Hospital and the University of Montreal, Quebec, in an email.

Of these cost studies, state courts initiated 7, state government agencies initiated 34, and independent groups initiated 17 At least 20 cost studies in 14 different states were undertaken between January 2004 and December 2005, with a potential for at least 5 additional studies in 2006.

Robert M. Worthington, ed assistant secretary for vocational and adult education, recently met with the Academy's National Research Council to initiate a study of the nation's unemployment situation, paying special attention to minority groups in job - scarce areas.

A study initiated by the Foresight Research group, which included as many as 7500 participants, concluded that new and used truck buyers are influenced as much as 12 % by their ability to customize the vehicles they buy.

At around the same time, the American Veterinary Medical Association (AVMA) Vaccine - Associated Feline Sarcoma Task Force initiated several studies to find out why 160,000 cats each year in the USA develop terminal cancer at their vaccine injection sites.3 The fact that cats can get vaccine - induced cancer has been acknowledged by veterinary bodies around the world, and even the British Government acknowledged it through its Working Group charged with the task of looking into canine and feline vaccines4 following pressure from Canine Health Concern.

The group is encouraging individuals and churches to initiate «ecocell» study courses in sustainable living.

Examples include the 1999 - 2001 Injured Worker Participatory Research Project led by Bonnie Kirsh, and its «Making the System Better» report; the 2002 community research project initiated by Thunder Bay & District Injured Workers» Support Group («Connecting for Change: Injured Workers in Northwestern Ontario and the Effectiveness of Peer Support») and its 2008 «Poverty in Motion» study; the Injured Workers» History Project (2005 --RRB-; Windsor's Legacy Costs: Burden or Benefit?

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Eight studies offered individual home visits, 44 — 46 49 — 51 55 — 59 three studies offered individual sessions (outside the home), 47 48 52 — 54 one study offered group sessions, 42 one study offered web coaching, 43 two studies combined individual sessions and group sessions, 36 and one study combined home visits and group sessions.46 Intervention was initiated prenatally in four studies, 36 55 56 59 and 12 studies initiated intervention after the child was born.36 42 — 54 57 58 The duration of the interventions varied from relatively short interventions (≤ 6 months) 43 44 49 — 54 to medium - length interventions (7 — 12 months) 42 45 46 56 59 to long interventions (≥ 24 months).36 47 48 55 57 58

«The association between marital history at midlife (in 1950) and mortality (as of 1991) was studied in a group of intelligent, educated men and women (N = 1,077) who participated in the Terman Life - Cycle Study initiated by Lewis Terman in 1921.