Sentences with phrase «more formal studies»

Here my love of plants, animals and all things natural was fostered through working with cattle, pigs, poultry, sheep, the market garden the orchard, and more formal studies in agriculture and biology.

A more formal study that did evaluate the effects of a ketogenic diet confirmed the efficacy of carbohydrate restriction: in a small prospective cohort, obese subjects began a ketogenic diet after undergoing a 24 - hour esophageal pH probe test (which measures the pH of the esophagus).

(http://www.profdev.com/) The other is a more formal study by The NALP Foundation, Leading Law Firm Professional Development, which surveyed law firm professional development leaders and associates in depth about the state of law firm PD.

Not exact matches

SMALL business managers need to focus more on the development of formal human resource management systems, a new study has found.

More than 80 % of the companies we have studied have at least one formal system for managing commitments across silos, including cross-functional committees, service - level agreements, and centralized project - management offices — but only 20 % of managers believe that these systems work well all or most of the time.

I discovered in that study that 55 % of self - made millionaires woke up three or more hours before actually beginning their formal work day.

While formal analysis opened up a space for the academic study of religion and art, the project soon sought and found more congenial theoretical underpinnings in hermeneutics.

Undergirding this kind of practical information and savvy there is undoubtedly a place for a more formal and systematic study program.

Robinson, in his study of the audience of religious programs in seven cities in the United States in 1964, found that the lowest levels of formal education were much more likely to listen to or view religious programs regularly.

I'm sure this will be done through a medium more suitable for such a study such as a more formal article.

To be sure, there is here the possibility of a greater degree of subjectivity than in the more formal linguistic and textual study, but even there pure objectivity is by no means possible.

While there have been no formal studies to determine how many child molesters have coached youth teams, a computer - database search of recent newspaper stories reveals more than 30 cases just in the last 18 months of coaches in the U.S. who have been arrested or convicted of sexually abusing children engaged in nine sports from baseball to wrestling — and this despite the fact that child sex - abuse victims, for reasons ranging from shame and embarrassment to love or fear of their molesters, rarely report the crime.

As Peter Gray outlines in his 2013 study of 75 grown homeschoolers, those children with the least number of formal schooling years (either in a classroom or homeschooled), were more likely to go on to post-secondary learning.

The longer a child has been in school, the more time he or she needs to unwind before beginning any formal study.

Home education is much more than formal academic studies, after all.

In the many responses to Gov. Cuomo's efforts to introduce formal and public teacher evaluation, teachers, union leaders and educational leaders have offered little but delaying tactics, such as more study is needed or how about conducting small trials.

Clancy thought that quantitative data would give her work in this area more clout, so she and several other researchers collaborated to conduct a more formal survey and interview study, which they called the Survey of Academic Field Studies (SAFE).

While study participants also were much less likely to use any formal sources of assistance or support in resolving problems with cannabis than those whose problems were with other substances, that finding was less common in those who resolved a cannabis problem more recently, which may reflect the increased availability and potency of cannabis in recent years.

Surgeons outside the United States have been doing ABI surgeries in children for more than 10 years, but there was never a formal safety or feasibility study under regulatory oversight.

Because a significant portion of the young people in this study seemed at risk in regard to privacy management practices, there may be a need for more formal training from career service organizations, libraries and others on best practices for maintaining self - presentation online, Hargittai said.

More than 1.1 million spouses, parents and friends are caring for the injured and disabled who have served in the U.S. military since Sept. 11, 2001, often doing so without a formal support network and putting their own well - being at risk, according to a new RAND Corporation study.

«Our present study was rejected by eight journals, usually without any formal review,» says Flegr, who had the same problem publishing an earlier one showing that infection more than doubles the odds of a person having a traffic accident.

Our study indicates that formal knowledge may get in the way of action, because it makes room for more doubt,» says Mathisen and Arnulf.

«The center has covered science - related issues in the past, but this marks our more formal commitment to studying the intersection of science with public life.

More than seventy species of macroalgae inhabiting the deep reefs were identified during the study, and several more new species have not yet been assigned formal scientific naMore than seventy species of macroalgae inhabiting the deep reefs were identified during the study, and several more new species have not yet been assigned formal scientific namore new species have not yet been assigned formal scientific names.

The understanding of the physics of greenhouse gases and the accumulation of evidence for GHG - driven climate change is now overwhelming — and much of that information has not yet made it into formal attribution studies — thus scientists on the whole are more sure of the attribution than is reflected in those papers.

Nonetheless, here we have a case of what appears to be a more than 50 % life extension - though note that the formal life span study has not been published, so you might assume the comments below to refer to the outliers amongst these mice rather than the average.

Her formal education + trainings, combined with years of deep self - study, have led Kate on a path of sharing tools + practices for a more balanced, holistic, and mind - body approach to wellness.

While it's been a few years since we've seen formal studies on low libido in young women, we are seeing more and more social studies coming out that suggest young people (women included) are having less sex.

Give a more finished look to an office, study or formal living area with silk drapes in a wide array of colors.

- «The Streets of London» Ralph McTell exploration - «London» by William Blake poem exploration - consideration of bullying - leaflet examples - investigation into homeless charities Resources provide opportunities to: - explore homelessness through case studies and exploring the law - write persuasively - structure formal letters - explore and create missing person posters - explore poetry - analyse texts - investigate and create leaflets # - debate whether more housing is needed

VET delivered to secondary students is a more formal program of learning through which students achieve, or make progress towards achieving, a nationally - recognised qualification through an industry - developed training package or a course of study that is accredited through national and state quality assurance processes.

Undergraduate respondents from the 1998 study generally had more formal music training and higher confidence teaching music than graduate respondents from the 2008 study.

For example, some teachers take a yearlong break from the formal evaluations to study a specific skill they want to improve, which allows the teachers more autonomy and frees up time for principals.

While a formal civics course is not offered until high school, kindergarten students learn to «identify personal traits, such as courage, honesty, and responsibility» and third - graders learn to «explain how local government officials are chosen, e.g., election, appointment,» according to the Idaho State Department of Education's social studies standards.22 By the time students reach 12th grade, they are more prepared to learn civics - related topics, such as the electoral process and role of political parties; the methods of public participation; and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship, than students with no prior exposure to a civics curriculum.

We do not need more evidence on whether publicly funded preschool «works» compared to no formal care — our study and numerous others (see here and here) provide convincing evidence that this is the case.

Our more formal event study analysis confirms this basic pattern, while zeroing in on the timing of school finance reforms to ensure that we distinguish the effects of these reforms from other factors.

The study seems to assume that shelters are the only source of homeless dogs, when in fact rescue groups, formal and informal, have become an increasingly popular option and are finding homes for more and more dogs.

And more often than not, they study the formal aspects of the Spanish language: conjugations, basic vocabulary, Spanish grammar....

This natural immersion experience was much more beneficial for her compared to previous formal studies at another Mexican school.

Although formally educated in art and graphic design, he attribute his development as a painter through experimentation and the actual process of painting more than any formal academic studies.

EN MAS» includes scholarly essays by leading art historians Shannon Jackson and Kobena Mercer along with the two curators Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson, which offer formal and theoretical analyses of the artists» projects as well as explorations of Caribbean aesthetic practices and their impact on art and performance studies more broadly.

You might find it useful and interesting to study a more formal way of approaching this — see http://www.itl.nist.gov/div898/handbook/eda/eda.htm

These flawed findings, for the most part, stem not from fraud or formal misconduct, but from more mundane misbehavior: miscalculation, poor study design or self - serving data analysis.

More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade More than other areas of law, the normative and practical framework dedicated to climate change has embraced new instruments and softened traditional boundaries between formal and informal, public and private, substantive and procedural; so ubiquitous is the reach of relevant rules nowadays that scholars routinely devote attention to the intersection of climate change and more established fields of legal study, such as international trade more established fields of legal study, such as international trade law.

Therefore, modelling studies suggest that late 20th - century warming is much more likely to be anthropogenic than natural in origin, a finding which is confirmed by studies relying on formal detection and attribution methods (Section 9.4.1.4).»

The Judicial Studies Degree provides a formal academic setting in which trial judges or juvenile and family court judges can integrate technical studies of the judiciary with more academic ones in an effort to provide an intellectual assessment of the role of the American judStudies Degree provides a formal academic setting in which trial judges or juvenile and family court judges can integrate technical studies of the judiciary with more academic ones in an effort to provide an intellectual assessment of the role of the American judstudies of the judiciary with more academic ones in an effort to provide an intellectual assessment of the role of the American judiciary.

Despite closing the formal SRL National Study in January 2013, we continue to hear every day from SRLs all... read more

More formal outcome studies are in the works, and we'll have to be cautious in our claims and hopes until we get the results.

We used EHCs as recruitment sites because they provide health - related information that can be used for eligibility screening purposes, and their clients are usually willing to participate in health - related studies endorsed by the Department of Health, HKSAR.37 Although EHCs» clients are representative of the general population of older adults in terms of age and SES, 37 they tend to be more health conscious.38 To examine the potential bias (better mental health) associated with recruiting participants from the EHCs, we recruited approximately 30 % of the sample (n = 258) from elderly community centres with no formal provision of medical and health services.