Sentences with phrase «long group study»

ESM 401C - Masters Group Project [4 units] 3rd quarter of a year - long group study of an environmental problem.

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Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

It has also run pilot programs, with San Jose State University, and the University of Central Florida, that included week - long studies with small groups of students at each school.

Matt Hall, cofounder and president of Hill Investment Group, introduces his 2016 book, Odds On: The Making of an Evidence - Based Investor, by stating that: ``... the evidence - based movement has been studying market data and academic research to identify the groups of stocks and other investments that provide better odds of long - term success.

«Central clearing will play a critical role in correcting long - standing flaws in market structure caused by overconcentration of exposures among a relatively small number of dealers,» according to the TABB Group study, which was commissioned by the World Federation of Exchanges.

The study, by the National Registry of Exonerations, reviewed cases that happened over the last 30 years throughout the country and found that in addition to black people being wrongfully convicted, it took significantly longer for them to be exonerated than it did any other group, with black people having to wait an average of three years longer.

For over a decade I have wanted to have a «movie Bible study» where a group of people get together, watch a movie, and then point out where Jesus (or the longing for Jesus) shows up in the movie.

CNN: Baby boomers heading back to seminary According to a decade - long study of enrollment by the Association of Theological Schools released in 2009, the fastest - growing group of seminarians include those older than 50.

Though their course of study is longer and their debt load higher, rabbinical students, as a group, have most of the characteristics of «quality» that other groups say they want.

A Long Island church of which I was pastor used a modified therapy group approach in its continuing program of child - study for mothers of preschoolers.

I believe that the processes of reconciling that have been suggested through the group dynamics and the marriage counseling studies are generally valid beyond themselves — so long as the basic initial conditions can be met.

Not only are graduate theological schools producing more theses and dissertations on Wesleyan subjects, but Methodist periodicals (Quarterly Review, Methodist History, Proceedings of the Wesley Historical Society) are increasingly printing their articles, and new publishing enterprises are emerging to take up their longer monographic works (among these are Zondervan's Francis Asbury Press imprint, Abingdon's Kingswood Books imprint, and Asbury Theological Seminary's new series in Pietist and Wesleyan Studies) These scholars are quite likely to be found in the Wesley Studies Working Group of the American Academy of Religion.

Not long ago I gave a talk to a group of students studying for advanced degrees in education.

According to a decade - long study of enrollment by the Association of Theological Schools released in 2009, the fastest - growing group of seminarians include those older than 50.

A study involving two groups of women demonstrated that long - term consumption of dark chocolate helped protect their skin from the sun's rays, improve blood - flow to the skin, and aided hydration.

At the end of the study, the curcumin group had lower levels of three blood markers of inflammation, including C - reactive protein (CRP), along with lower fasting blood sugar and hemoglobin A1c (a measure of longer term blood sugar levels).5 For comparison, the placebo group had higher blood sugar levels and increased inflammation after the eight weeks.

Children with higher IQs in every age group studied slept longer.

But a later study — in which one group did slow pelvic rocking exercises on all fours for ten minutes twice a day from 37 weeks on and a second group did nothing — looked at the longer - term effect and found that an equal percentage of women (about 8 percent) in both groups had babies who were posterior at birth.

Interventions to improve breastfeeding initiation, exclusivity and duration are based on extensive evidence from both observational and intervention studies of short - and long - term health benefits of breastfeeding for both mothers and infants.13 — 15 Nevertheless, to our knowledge none of previous studies has systematically examined whether the increases in breastfeeding resulting from such interventions have equally benefited all socioeconomic groups.

One randomized controlled trial comparing home - visited families with control participants who received other community services found a statistically significant difference in mean depressive symptoms at two years post-enrollment, but this contrast was nonsignificant at three years post - enrollment.15 A second study of Early Head Start found no differences in depressive symptoms between intervention and control group participants post-intervention, although a difference was detected at a longer - term follow - up prior to children's enrollment in kindergarten.10 Other randomized controlled trial studies have not found effects of home visitation on maternal depressive symptoms.12, 16,17

In this study of 96 women, the untreated group breastfed the longest.

Results of the study showed that infants of parents from the first group went to bed earlier, had a more consistent bedtime routine, and slept for longer than infants from the second group.

I will need to read the paper more closely to comment on the relationship between immersion and duration of labor; in a prior study I found that women who had longer labors were more likely to be removed from the water for medical reasons and so would never be counted in the water birth group.2

The Cambridge Community Breastfeeding Group is arguing that in the long run this decision would add to hospital costs, an argument backed by at least one study which found each baby who isn't breastfed costs the health system on average $ 1500 more than a breastfed child.

One research summary found that after reviewing all available studies regarding the outcomes of using IBCLCs, mothers who had higher breastfeeding initiation rates, a longer duration of exclusive breastfeeding, a longer duration of any breastfeeding, higher breastfeeding rates for all infant age groups, AND better maternal and infant health outcomes as compared to those who didn't seek out IBCLC support (5).

It has been observed by several clinical studies and surveyed by awareness groups that this product is no longer safe to be used in small babies.

Most include links to longer more in depth kids Bible study lesson plans to use for classroom such as Sunday School or group lessons.

One research study concluded that women who used cabbage leaves to help with breast pain were likely to breastfeed for longer compared to a control group who had other care, but not cabbage leaves.

Long - term studies show once children get labeled in a group, clique or ladder on the social rung, that status tends to stick all the way through the high school years, Elias said.

Although there were insufficient data to explore the influence of the duration of feeding, exclusively breastfed persons are likely to represent a group who are breastfed for longer periods: ie, median breastfeeding durations of 4 — 9 mo were reported among the 3 studies with available data (24, 33, 35, 40).

Jamison Dague, director of infrastructure studies for the Citizens Budget Commission of New York, a nonprofit government watchdog group, said the MTA has long wanted to abolish some of the work rules.

Flanagan's comments, to a Woodbury meeting of the Long Island Association business group, came after the release of a feasibility study of a Long Island Sound crossing.

«Most property tax reform groups that have been studying the issue for a long time understand that a tax cap is smoke and mirrors,» Zimet said.

Even as the governor says a long - awaited study is nearing completion, a large group of local officials want the ban to continue.

, 1968 Zick Rubin, «The Social Psychology of Romantic Love», 1969 Elliot Aronson, «Some Antecedents of Interpersonal Attraction», 1970 David C. Glass and Jerome E. Singer, «The Urban Condition: Its Stresses and Adaptations — Experimental Studies of Behavioral Consequences of Exposure to Aversive Events», 1971 Norman H. Anderson, «Information Integration Theory: A Brief Survey», 1972 Lenora Greenbaum, «Socio - Cultural Influences on Decision Making: An Illustrative Investigation of Possession - Trance in Sub-Saharan Africa», 1973 William E. McAuliffe and Robert A. Gordon, «A Test of Lindesmith's Theory of Addiction: The Frequency of Euphoria Among Long - Term Addicts», 1974 R. B. Zajonc and Gregory B. Markus, «Intellectual Environment and Intelligence», 1975 Johnathan Kelley and Herbert S. Klein, «Revolution and the Rebirth of Inequality: The Bolivian National Revolution», 1977 Murray Melbin, «Night as Frontier», 1978 Ronald S. Wilson, «Synchronies in Mental Development: An Epigenetic Perspective», 1979 Bibb Latane, Stephen G. Harkins, and Kipling D. Williams, «Many Hands Make Light the Work: The Causes and Consequences of Social Loafing», 1980 Gary Wayne Strong, «Information, Pattern, and Behavior: The Cognitive Biases of Four Japanese Groups», 1981 Richard A. Shweder and Edmund J. Bourne, «Does the Concept of the Person Vary Cross Culturally?»

The amicus brief cited examples from an array of groups increasingly using public records laws to gain access to emails beyond those of climate scientists, including animal rights groups that have long waged legal battles against researchers who use animals in their studies and opponents of genetically modified organisms seeking to expose the emails of scientists in efforts to demonstrate links to industry.

While further study of larger patient groups with longer follow - up times is needed for this cohort of prostate cancer patients, this study is pivotal in providing evidence for change in practice.»

In March 2013, 30 years after the only Extinct DNA Study Group meeting, Hendrik strolled onstage before a standing - room - only crowd at the TEDx conference on de-extinction in Washington, D.C. With an image of an amber - ensconced insect from Jurassic Park on a giant screen behind him, Hendrik described how he and his father used to imagine long - gone insects waking up and crawling out of the resin.

The idea to specifically study this group of patients was based on groundbreaking research Garon published in the New England Journal of Medicine last year, which found that among patients who received pembrolizumab, those with PD - L1 expression on at least 50 percent of their cancer cells showed the longest survival and disease control.

Now, researchers are getting a second chance to study the species, thanks to a 1.7 - meter - long female captured by a group of rural workers in January.

This is important because current DNA studies, known as «molecular clocks», which are used to estimate how long ago a group animals originated, suggests the first animals appeared before these burrows.

The analysis, by researchers at Duke University, King's College London and the University of Otago in New Zealand, combined data from a long - term study of a group of people born in the same year in Dunedin, New Zealand with their electronic health records and governmental databases on such things as health, welfare and criminal justice.

Conservation groups challenge Bush - era «energy corridors» that threaten wilderness areas, including a long - term ecological study site

Promising results from the new trial would be a major step forward for a field that has long been criticized for studies that are poorly designed, incomplete or lack control - group comparisons, as well as for the peddling of unproved therapies in many clinics worldwide.

Introvigne has long studied one of the most famous of the New Age groups, the Federation of Damanhur, which emerged in northern Italy in the late 1970s and has gained considerable wealth and flocks of followers around the world.

To see if these variations could predict the risk of weak bones and fractures, British and Dutch researchers studied a group of 1778 postmenopausal women enrolled in a long - term investigation called the Rotterdam Study.

«Furthermore, given the continued use of psychotropic medications in very young children and concerns regarding their effects on the developing brain, future studies on the long - term effects of psychotropic medication use in this age group are essential.»

Three different groups that studied the California drought, however, did not come up with a clear picture of how long - term climate change might have driven that event.

This new study builds on previous research from this group showing that elevated blood levels of SNTF on the day of a mild traumatic brain injury treated in the emergency room predicted those patients who would go on to suffer diffuse axonal injury and long - term cognitive dysfunction.

The study found that collective narcissism, i.e. an unrealistic belief in the greatness of the nation, increased in response to group feelings of being disadvantaged, especially when this was long lasting.