Sentences with phrase «large degree this study»

They will note that almost half of the control group attended charter schools, so to a large degree this study is a comparison of how students do in vouchers relative to charters.

Not exact matches

One of the things young statistics students are supposed to learn is that results only count to the degree that your sample is representative of the larger group you study.

There have been a number of studies, some widely publicized, in which attention has been called to the large number of crackups of various degrees of severity among the clergy.

While we can infer from this study that some degree of contamination exists in naturally gluten - free grains, seeds, and flours sampling was not large enough to make any assessment on the overall percentage of contaminated product.

Finally, a Finnish trial of universal home visiting by nurses35 and two U.S. programs implemented by master's degree - level mental health or developmental clinicians have found significant effects on a number of important child behavioural problems.36, 37 Additionally, a paraprofessional home visitation program found effects on externalizing and internalizing behaviours at child age 2; however due to the large number of effects measured in this study, replication of the findings is warranted.38

«Certainly, medical school, residency, Ph.D. training, all those kinds of advanced degrees are set up with a lot of expectations, and by and large the people that are doing them are driven,» says Deborah Goebert, a psychiatrist at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and lead investigator of the study.

In August, for example, the journal Science printed a study showing that increasingly large numbers of women have been earning doctoral degrees in virtually every scientific discipline for many years but are still not proportionally represented on university faculties.

The UW study focused on six of the largest science and engineering fields with the most undergraduate degrees: biology, chemistry and math, which have the highest proportions of female participation, and computer science, engineering and physics, which have bigger gender gaps.

Laboratory studies suggest that explosive development of ice crystals can occur in these conditions, at temperatures between -4 and -8 degrees Celsius, and this «rime - splintering» mechanism is often invoked to explain past observations of the rapid development of large numbers of ice crystals in cumuli.

The UI study, which was the largest of its kind in the world to date, recruited and assessed 95 pathological gamblers and 91 control subjects, matched for age, sex, and level of education, from Iowa, as well as 1,075 first - degree adult relatives of the study participants (first - degree relatives include parents, siblings, and children.)

Researchers found a large degree of overlap between the two forms of victimization (i.e., victims of one form are likely to experience the other form), which the study's authors suggest means the two forms should be considered in relation to one another.

Coman and his collaborators are currently working toward studying larger group networks to see how group size influences the degree of mnemonic convergence.

Low fitness is associated with a larger waist size and a higher degree of inflammation, according to a study published January 17, 2018 in the open - access journal PLOS ONE by Anne - Sophie Wedell - Neergaard from the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and colleagues.

«It is [still] possible that a population of wolves remained relatively untamed but tracked human groups to a large degree, for a long time,» adds first author of the study Pontus Skoglund of Harvard Medical School and the Broad Institute.

The study, published in Nature Climate Change, suggests that nearly 4 million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming experienced.

The scientists then used statistical models to evaluate the distribution of cancer - linked DNA in the patients» blood samples over the seven - year study to find the largest degree of differences between patients with low and high levels of evidence of hypermethylation in their DNA.

Still, the biggest cross-European cold / heat study concludes that for an increase of 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit in the average European temperatures, «our data suggest that any increases in mortality due to increased temperatures would be outweighed by much larger short - term declines in cold - related mortalities.»

A new study shows clouds are playing a larger role in heating the Greenland Ice Sheet than scientists previously believed, raising its temperature by 2 to 3 degrees compared to cloudless skies.

Importantly, one large study found up to a 59 % reduction in risk in breast cancer in premenopausal women who had breastfed for any length of time, even though all of these women had a first - degree relative (mother, sister) with breast cancer.

For example, Lunnen et al. (1981) studied a much greater hip flexion angle (135 degrees) than many of the other researchers (e.g. Mohamed et al. 2002; Guex et al. 2012) and it is possible that the large stretch in this position moved the muscle up the passive arm of the length - tension curve, thereby reducing neural drive.

According to Fonarow, «this study quantifies the degree to which preventing the onset of high blood pressure, obesity, and diabetes can pay huge dividends in terms of lifelong health free from heart failure, cardiovascular disability, large health care expenditures, and premature cardiovascular death.»

One study found that career academy students from a large district who entered a local university were more likely to complete their bachelor's degrees than other students from that district.

The «Pathways to Prosperity» study, released in February, argued that job - market realities and college - completion patterns demand that schools pay more attention to the large swath of students who graduate from high school but might not earn four - year college degrees.

Russ makes three arguments: 1) A recent study that compared grit scores among fraternal and identical twins suggests that grit may be heritable to a large degree, which would make it unrealistic to expect schools or others to be able to alter it; 2) The twin study as well as a meta - analysis of grit research found that grit only explains about 2 - 3 % of the variance in achievement scores, which Russ thinks makes it a poor predictor of other outcomes; and 3) The meta - analysis suggests that grit may be highly correlated with conscientiousness, one of the Big 5 personality traits that psychologists have been studying for a long time.

Our study uses data from DeVry University, a large for - profit college with an undergraduate enrollment of more than 100,000 students, 80 percent of whom are seeking a bachelor's degree.

The evidence on these questions available to date comes from small - scale studies of specific school districts, making it difficult to reach general conclusions about the degree to which parents and the public at large are well informed about the performance of local schools.

The participants in this study were 9 preservice biology teachers (6 female and 3 male) enrolled in a masters of teaching (MT) degree program at a large public mid-Atlantic university.

The four largest colleges in Connecticut have Connecticut teaching license programs that award the bachelor's and master's degrees in education or education studies, for both pre-K through 12th grade.

Brian graduated with a bachelor's degree in Business from Virginia Tech where he studied Marketing and was a member of the largest student - run fixed income portfolio in the country.

Institutions involved in large scale studies, provide follow up whole body MRI evaluations at discounted or no cost, as a means of assessing CSF dynamics, degree of syrinx resolution, and for the development of other conditions that may result in clinical signs that imitate CLM.

She went to the University of Massachusetts Amherst for her undergraduate degree, where she studied pre-veterinary science and spent large amounts of time involved in large animal medicine and research.

Other studies of the Amazon climate tipping point The existence of an Amazonian climate tipping point is confirmed by other model studies, including the above - mentioned Climatic Change publication from 2008 — that suggests a large - scale die - back (70 percent) from about 3 degrees onwards, starting in the South of the basin.

While it is interesting to study waves with an amplitude of 0.1 degrees C, in the context of the conservative 2 C rise from CO2 or the less conservative 4 C rise by 2100, these amount to wiggles in a larger and growing trend that is playing out anyway.

[Hegerl et al, 2007]-RRB-, I obviously can see the large degree of uncertainty in the results from the different studies.

The study, conducted by climate change experts from the universities of Leeds and Exeter and the Met Office, all in the UK, and the universities of Stockholm and Oslo, suggests that nearly four million square kilometres of frozen soil — an area larger than India — could be lost for every additional degree of global warming the planet experiences.

They would comprise, to a large degree, a different study.

Though they were ultimately voted down, large blocks of stockholders voted for a resolution that would have forced Southern to respond directly to climate change by preparing a study for how the company can help keep global warming below 2 degrees centigrade, and another to study how its business may be affected by the potential stranding of its coal assets.

For example, the study found some of the largest effects in India's arid Indus River Basin, where irrigation may be cooling the climate up to 3 degrees C, (5.4 degrees F) and up to 1 - 2 degrees C in other heavily irrigated regions such as California's Central Valley and parts of China.

I find it amusing that they're referring to a.9 degree Celsius warming as being «unprecedented» considering that by comparison, there are larger temperature swings than noted in the study by the Brown University group.

Most scientists who study this suggest the change will be a few to several degrees Celsius, ambient global, with larger regional changes and shifts depending on region.

The very high significance levels of model — observation discrepancies in LT and MT trends that were obtained in some studies (e.g., Douglass et al., 2008; McKitrick et al., 2010) thus arose to a substantial degree from using the standard error of the model ensemble mean as a measure of uncertainty, instead of the ensemble standard deviation or some other appropriate measure for uncertainty arising from internal climate variability... Nevertheless, almost all model ensemble members show a warming trend in both LT and MT larger than observational estimates (McKitrick et al., 2010; Po - Chedley and Fu, 2012; Santer et al., 2013).

It is a confirmation of the results also found by other studies before, with varying methodology, that the recent alleged «pause» is very likely, to a large degree, nothing more than just a temporary downward deviation from the median trend by chance, mostly due to the chaotic ENSO variability imprinting itself on the global temperature trends, like the «acceleration» between 1992 and 2007 (with a trend of about 0.25 - 0.3 deg.

This potential inaccuracy can be seen in the very large error bars of such studies as the hockey stick (figure 4) of well over a degree.

Following her study of paralegals several years later, Paula Pevato observed that there was «substantial evidence... suggest [ing] that the legal profession's hostility toward paralegals is motivated, to a large degree, by a self - serving desire to maintain a monopoly over the delivery of legal services to the public.»

The study, conducted by property and casualty analysis specialists Quadrant Information Services, compared the average cost of auto insurance premiums in the 25 largest U.S. metropolitan areas and found a remarkable degree of difference based on location alone.

Graduates can join the graduate schemes of large insurance firms, and can have a degree in any discipline, although some employers prefer a qualification in mathematics, economics, law, management, business studies, accountancy or finance.

There are increasing concerns that students who are not from well - off backgrounds and who have already built up large debts funding their undergraduate degrees will be put off going on to study at postgraduate level.

Please apply directly to this positing Responsibilities • Provide level 1st & 2nd level technical assistance in analyzing, diagnosing, replicating and troubleshooting customers reported issues to resolution on Microsoft Windows 7 OS • Manage assigned support incidents and maintain up - to - date status in the Numara Ticketing Systems Console - Escalate unresolved issues that require more in - depth knowledge to engineering in a timely manner • Teach new employees on basic computer, Wi - Fi, and cell phone features & functionality • Create reproducible test cases, when necessary, for customer reported issues - Report and submit product defects in the bug tracking system - Create new knowledgebase articles and keep them up - to - date - Provide after business hour support on a rotation basis • Image and configure new PC equipment for deployment (MS MDT, SCCM, Numara) • Keep Technical Support equipment organized and readily available for deployment • Deploy hardware and software to employees Qualifications • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field of studies • Comfortable teaching large groups • Knowledge of Dell Laptops and repair • Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem solving skills • Extensive Windows 7 knowledge • Databases, preferably, SQL Server • Read and understand log and config files • Support, QA, training or field experience with enterprise software, preferably monitoring and / or performance suites, or system administration experience • Experience creating documentation, procedures, and knowledge base entries • Excellent written and verbal communication skills required • Excellent customer service skills required Please apply directly to this positing.

The dictionary describes commerce as «an activity of large scale buying and selling» — this definition involves a lot in itself so students who are studying for a commerce degree can apply for internships (or full time jobs if they have... Read More»

Studies in business, finance, accounting and economics are important to large firms, and often, a master's degree (MBA) is preferred and is rewarded with better compensation and other perks.