Sentences with phrase «level view of a subject»

The «Great Courses» are not academic courses in the usual sense, but are intended to provide a college - level view of a subject for those outside the field, with no homework or tests.

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I would be very interested to hear your views on the subject of sweeteners, in particular whether you recommend using them at all (as they all definitely have an impact on blood glucose levels) and if they are being used, which are «best» from your perspective.

In the next half, as the election moves into view, Corbyn must form a detailed policy programme that will be subjected to brutal levels of attention, while winning the support of all parts of his party for the policies and, let us not forget, the backing of the wider electorate.

That the Parliament recognises that contract research staff in Scotland's universities and research institutes are one of the most significant assets in Scotland's knowledge economy; notes that more than 90 % of such staff are employed on insecure fixed term contracts, resulting in a systematic failure to properly exploit our science and social science base to the benefit of the Scottish economy and society; further notes that this highly educated human resource, comprising graduate, postgraduate and postdoctoral level workers, is subject to constant wastage, to the detriment of Scotland's universities and economic potential; and believes that the Scottish Executive should act with clarity, urgency and determination to secure a complete overhaul of the management of the contract research workforce with a view to eliminating the current insecurity and wastage and establishing a radical new approach in partnership with higher education employers and representatives of the research staff.

Immediately after the subjects viewed the slide shows, researchers drew their blood, exposed each sample to bacteria and then measured the levels of a substance known as interleukin - 6 (IL - 6), which is secreted by white blood cells as a response to stress or trauma.

The fMRI scans revealed significantly higher levels of activation in the amygdala, which controls emotion and motivation, in the brains of the male subjects compared to the females, despite the fact that both males and females expressed similar subjective assessments of their levels of arousal after viewing the images.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

To gauge public views on this subject, we asked half of our respondents to indicate which level of government should play the biggest role in three areas: 1) setting educational standards for what students should know; 2) deciding whether or not a school is failing; and 3) deciding how to fix failing schools.

Commenting on the findings, Chris Keates, general secretary of the NASUWT, said: «The findings of this survey paint a shocking picture of what is happening in our schools, where on a day - to - day basis teachers are getting no support despite being subjected to appalling levels of online abuse, while pupils» ability to view and share inappropriate online content seems to continue virtually unabated.

Worksheets include optional assessment slips and areas for: Name, date, subject, learning objective, grouping, level of help, on / off task, feedback given / not given, comments, pupil / teacher view on how they found the task.

Cohen's story is misguided on several levels, but the basic problem is that she claims to be writing about «the culture of poverty,» but instead writes about the revival of academic interest in the dysfunctional African - American family, the subject of a controversial 1965 report by Daniel Patrick Moynihan («The Negro Family: The Case for National Action,» which can be viewed here.).

(i) a failure of a private entity which operates a demand responsive system and which is not subject to section 304 to operate such system so that, when viewed in its entirety, such system ensures a level of service to individuals with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs, equivalent to the level of service provided to individuals without disabilities; and

-- If a private entity which operates a fixed route system and which is not subject to section 304 purchases or leases a vehicle with a seating capacity of 16 passengers or less (including the driver) for use on such system after the effective date of this subparagraph that is not readily accessible to or usable by individuals with disabilities, it shall be considered discrimination for such entity to fail to operate such system so that, when viewed in its entirety, such system ensures a level of service to individuals with disabilities, including individuals who use wheelchairs, equivalent to the level of service provided to individuals

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Japanese researchers found that after viewing images of cute animals, test subjects performed at a higher level when given a specific task to complete.

But because the setting was transposed to the apartment and implied a level of intimacy not normally associated with viewing art, the vulnerability of the artist as the subject of such a discussion could be both acknowledged and diminished.

Everything I've read on the subject leads me to accept that the high level of confidence expressed by the IPCC on the broad questions of whether AGW is real and likely to be a threat is representative of the view of the large majority of climate scientists and of the underlying science itself.

As for appeal to authority, well the wide body of literature has authority (although individual papers may be badly flawed), so although it would be wrong to say that because it supports AGW then AGW must be true it is still perfectly legitimate to present it as indicative of our current level of scientific understanding of the subject and evidence that the skeptical view is, rightly or wrongly, a minority one.

According to the view of HHJ Serota QC: «The question of whether or not an individual is «assigned» to the organised grouping of resources or employees that is subject to the relevant transfer will generally require some level of participation or, in the case of temporary absence, an expectation of future participation, in carrying out the relevant activities on behalf of the client, which was the principal purpose of the organised grouping.»

Alternatively, it might prove to be purely speculative, with little or no scientific foundation... In our respectful view, the materially different levels of scrutiny to which the evidence of the two experts was subjected — none for the Crown expert and intense for the defence expert — was unwarranted, and it tended to shift the burden of proof onto the appellant.

As an entry level adjunct professor, you have much on your side — updated information regarding your subject matter and a crisp view of the world can make you go places.

This study is important in that it views international marriage migrant women as the main subject of acculturation, explores their acculturation levels and cultural competence in a multi-dimensional manner, and draws research findings on the effects of cultural competence on acculturation.