Sentences with phrase «major national study»

Recommendation 7: That the Australian Government conduct a major national study on the experiences of temporary migrants in Australia (workplace experiences, safety, experiences of racism, social inclusion)

Anti-lock brakes, touted by U.S. automakers as key to preventing traffic accidents, do not help much in cutting either the number or the severity of crashes, a major national study showed Thursday.

Wendy is a researcher at Project Zero and the project director of a major national study of higher education in the United States today.

Both a recent major national study and a Michigan - specific study show funding increases as efficacious when allocated primarily toward traditional investments (increased teacher salaries and smaller class sizes).

Student standardized test scores can accurately identify effective teachers, especially when combined with classroom observations and pupil surveys, according to a major national study released Tuesday.

This has been a good year for evidence on the effectiveness of charters, highlighted by a major national study from CREDO and a new study in the continuing work from New York City.

They said it's the first major survey research into churchgoers and domestic abuse in the UK, and hope it will lead to a major national study.

Not exact matches

The study, which surveyed senior individuals at 10 major London - based national and international executive search firms, found that recruiters relied on «more observable factors» like the quality of their references, the progression of their career path and their personality.

The most recent National Survey of Student Engagement revealed that «nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a week studying outside class.»

Their study (also in Southern Economic Journal) looked at how per capita income was affected by work stoppages in the National Football League and Major League Baseball over a nearly three - decade span.

«But basic field studies on ticks has never been a priority at the National Institutes of Health and the CDC has too little funding to support the major research effort that is needed for our academic institutions to solve the tick problem.»

These are some of the major findings of a Global Atlantic Financial Group national study of U.S....

Among the major studies that ensued from the enactment of the National Mental Health Study Act in 1955 was a comprehensive analysis of the role of clergy and the churches in mental health.

The National Center on Sexual Exploitation reports that since 2011, there have been 24 major studies that have revealed porn's detrimental impacts on the brain.

That's the alarming conclusion of a major new study of mainline congregations titled Effective Christian Education: A National Study of Protestant Congregatstudy of mainline congregations titled Effective Christian Education: A National Study of Protestant CongregatStudy of Protestant Congregations.

This conference followed a major study project initiated by the National Council of Churches in India to stimulate reflection on this theme in the current Indian context.

One major finding of the MTA Study conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (2) was that the children of parents who developed a disciplined yet positive approach to parenting were able to maintain treatment gains during the 14 month period of the sStudy conducted by the National Institute of Mental Health (2) was that the children of parents who developed a disciplined yet positive approach to parenting were able to maintain treatment gains during the 14 month period of the studystudy.

Seeking to understand the motivations of the key players who developed these certifications, I have interviewed over 30 members of the national boards and major divisions of both organizations, and have conducted case studies of midwifery politics and legislation in New York, California, and Washington state.

The last major study that looked at birth centers was published in 1989, when the national C - section rate was 18 %.

Although most studies of parental depression have focused on mothers, the impact of depression in fathers has received increasing attention.2, 3 Using data from the 2002 National Comorbidity Replication Survey, the Institute of Medicine report also estimated that 4.3 % of men with a child under 18 years old had a major depressive disorder within the previous 12 months.1 In addition, a recent meta - analysis4 suggested that the prevalence of paternal depression within the first year of a child's life was 10.4 %.

The National Institute of Mental Health has studies that show Americans with a major mental illness die 14 - 32 years earlier than the general population.

The Transportation Research Board of the National Academies is embarking on a major study to find out what drivers are doing that endangers them and others on the road.

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My colleague explained to me that the National Institutes of Health was no longer funding classical neuroanatomy studies, so he was pleased to be able to apply some of the money paid to him for the hair - growth experiments to fund his neuroanatomy research, his major interest.

The recently commissioned MicroBooNE experiment at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has reached a major milestone: It detected its first neutrinos on Oct. 15, marking the beginning of detailed studies of these fundamental particles whose properties could be linked to dark matter, matter's dominance over antimatter in the universe and the evolution of the entire cosmos since the Big Bang.

Scope of the problem A National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study released this spring shows that 14 percent of patients with drug - resistant major depressive disorder experience a remission of symptoms after rTMS treatment compared with a control group, which reported a 5 percent rate of remission.

In the second study, researchers used data from the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement and the National Survey of Student Engagement and found that the preferences of both STEM majors and non-STEM majors changed during the first year of college.

Dr. McCrea and his team are also co-chairing the Concussion Assessment, Research and Education Consortium (CARE) project, a major national effort that will enroll more than 30,000 college athletes, making it the largest study of concussions to date.

«In studying one of the most dramatic episodes of global change since the end of the age of the dinosaurs, these scientists show that we are currently in uncharted territory in the rate carbon is being released into the atmosphere and oceans,» says Candace Major, program director in the National Science Foundation (NSF)'s Division of Ocean Sciences, which funded the research.

The study, with its exceptionally large sample sizes, is «a major advance,» says David Goldman, chief of the lab of neurogenetics at the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism in Bethesda, Maryland.

«The findings of our study strongly suggest that DDT use increases pre-term births, which is a major contributor to infant mortality,» lead author Matthew Longnecker of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences says.

That is why a major study by the US Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1989 recommended reducing the safety limit for uranium in kidneys from 3 micrograms per gram to 0.3 micrograms per gram.

Since 1979, when the National Academy of Sciences undertook its first major study of global warming, «Americans have been alerted to the dangers of climate change so many times that reproducing even a small fraction of these warnings would fill several volumes,» writes Elizabeth Kolbert.

«It's remarkable, using a lowly house mouse to monitor a major milestone in human history,» says Melinda Zeder, curator of Old World archaeology at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., who wasn't involved with the study.

Researchers of the study - published in the latest issue of Journal of General Management - conducted extensive interviews with senior individuals at ten major London - based national and international executive search firms to find out how they identify suitable candidates for CEO posts.

Their data came from participants in the National Institutes of Health Women's Health Initiative, a major study to address common health problems, such as osteoporosis and cancer, in postmenopausal women.

A flash flood of the Ewaso Ng «iro River in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya, washed away a major research center devoted to the study of wild elephants this morning.

To examine the relationship between dietary intake of major sources of protein and kidney function, a team led by Woon - Puay Koh, MBBS (Hons), PhD (Duke - NUS Medical School and Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health in National University of Singapore) analyzed data from the Singapore Chinese Health Study, a prospective study of 63,257 Chinese adults in SingaStudy, a prospective study of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singastudy of 63,257 Chinese adults in Singapore.

Gardner's theory was rejected, however, by the authors of the last major study carried out by the National Radiological Protection Board and others (This Week, 15 November 1997, p 5).

The study, led by Darja Marolt, PhD, a NYSCF - Helmsley Investigator and Giuseppe Maria de Peppo, PhD, a NYSCF Research Fellow, and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, represents a major advance in personalized reconstructive treatments for patients with bone defects resulting from disease or trauma.

Caitlin O'Connell - Rodwell, who studies elephants at Etosha National Park in Namibia, sees evidence that elephants can sense the approach of major storms, but she is not convinced by the tsunami story.

The three papers remove a major stumbling block to a scientific consensus, says Benjamin Santer of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, lead author of the climate model study.

To overcome them, IOM / NRC recommends that the study's leader, the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), undertake some major changes, including fine - tuning the study's guiding hypotheses and bolstering scientific input and oversight.

The results have major policy implications and «add yet again to the armamentarium of data that indicate the multifaceted benefits of early treatment,» said Anthony Fauci, head of the U.S. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), which sponsored the 6 - year study.

In keeping with these potential health risks, Tapia's study found that deaths due to cardiovascular disease, which was the major killer in the 1920s and»30s just as it is today, peaked with national affluence.

An international partnership of the Northwestern University / Art Institute of Chicago Center for Scientific Studies in the Arts (NU - ACCESS), the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) and the National Gallery of Art, Washington, has used multiple modes of light to uncover details hidden beneath the visible surface of Pablo Picasso's painting «La Miséreuse accroupie» (The Crouching Woman), a major work from the artist's Blue Period.

A new paper published in Frontiers in Earth Science by archeologist Dr. David Wright, from Seoul National University, challenges the conclusions of most studies done to date that point to changes in the Earth's orbit or natural changes in vegetation as the major driving forces.

Dr. Varma is the principal investigator of many major National Institutes of Health (NIH)- funded studies, including the Multi-Ethnic Pediatric Eye Diseases Study (MEPEDS), African - American Eye Disease Study (AFEDS) and the Chinese - American Eye Study (CHES).

Esther Heckmann, a sophomore German and business management major, has been selected as a recipient of the 2018 Study Abroad Scholarship from the National German Honors Society.

Dr. Parsons had a unique talent to link novel approaches in analytical chemistry with sophisticated techniques in behavioral pharmacology and neurocircuitry, and this approach opens the door to novel, out - of - the - box studies of brain mapping that are recognized as the key to new advances in our understanding of the circuitry of the brain, a major new initiative of the National Institutes of Health.