Sentences with phrase «most programs of study»

Medical assistant programs vary in length, but most programs of study will last for a period of one to two years.

Not exact matches

Omada Health's first product, called Prevent, is essentially an online version of the Diabetes Prevention Program, which grew out of an NIH study proving the most effective means of staving off diabetes is rigorous lifestyle intervention, overseen by health coaches.

Most programs require 16 months of study, but a Fast Track MBA for people with a foundation in business takes only 10 months.

More than 16,000 associates have joined since its inception with roughly three - fourths of the employees residing in the U.S. Commercial truck driving, health care, and information technology are the program's most popular fields of study, Bezos noted in the letter.

During most MBA programs, business school students read numerous case studies, evaluating the strategies of many different kinds of companies, analyzing the cost of bringing new product lines to market and novel methods to cut expenses.

While industry partners have come together to fund various studies with regard to sustainability and water efficiency, one of the most promising programs currently in the works is in the Peanut Genome Initiative.

While there has been longstanding interest in the study of Asia and Asian languages in Canadian post-secondary institutions, the most promising development in «Asian studies» in recent years is not the expansion of «area studies» or linguistic / cultural programs, important as they are.

The research continued, and in May 1982 the National Institute of Mental Health released the findings of a ten - year follow - up to the surgeon general's 1972 study: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

The Northwestern study said most teenagers found the show was a positive contributor to an honest mental - health and trauma - centric dialogue, but these efforts show (thankfully) the program won't ignore the viewers not in that majority (or not in the study's target demographic of adolescents or young - adult viewers).

Most recently, an empirical approach to the study of these myths has been developing in the Cultural Indicators Research Program.

(5) Solt, in a study of religious program audience in a New York county, found significant differences occurring at age 44, (6) while Buddenbaum found that frequent viewers of religious television were most likely to be over the age of 62, while those who never watch are more likely to be under age 34.

One of the most in - depth studies of the reasons why people may view religious programs on television is that of Frank and Greenberg, published under the title The Public's Use of Television: Who Watches and Why.

But research continued, and in May of 1982, the National Institute for Mental Health released the findings of a 10 - year follow up on the Surgeon General «s 1972 Study entitled Television and Behavior: «After ten more years of research, the consensus among most of the research community is that violence on television does lead to aggressive behavior by children and teenagers who watch the programs.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.»

A study by researchers at the University of Michigan [15] views such suggestions as having «merit,» noting that, while sensors may currently be beyond the reach of most football programs, a «number of companies are developing innovative, low - cost technologies that will make instrumentation both practical and feasible.»

So far at least, the data, says Dawn Comstock, PhD, an associate professor of Epidemiology for the Pediatric Injury Prevention, Education, and Research (PIPER) program at the Colorado School of Public Health, MomsTeam Institute Board of Advisor and a co-author of a 2014 study on injuries in high school lacrosse [5], «is quite clear - boys most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 75 %) from athlete - athlete contact, the kind of mechanism we all know helmets don't always do a great job preventing - while girls most commonly sustain concussions (nearly 64 %) from being struck by the ball or the stick, the kind of mechanism that helmets are actually quite good at preventing.

Because most school districts do not keep detailed records regarding the cost and revenue associated with various components of the school food program, it is often difficult to gain a clear picture of how they use federal reimbursements (except where USDA has conducted rigorous studies).

Indeed, the 2014 University of Rochester study [23] suggests that, «rather than monitor total head hits, as [was initially suggested [by Sports Legacy Institute in its much publicized Hit Count program], it may be more effective to monitor those hits that are most likely to produce [white matter] changes, which Bazarian and his colleagues found were when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration of 4500 rads / sec2exceeded 30 - 40 for the season, and when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration.6000 rads / sec2 exceeded 10 - 15 for the season.

Research shows that families typically receive roughly half of the number of home visits expected.16, 17 For example, across three randomized controlled trials conducted of Nurse Family Partnership, average dosage of visits ranged from 45 to 62 percent.18 Research also shows that many, perhaps most, families enrolled in home visiting programs drop out before their eligibility ends.16, 19,20 Some home visiting studies have varied the dosage that families were offered and found that fewer home visits produced outcomes similar to higher levels of exposure.21

In most of the studies described, programs struggled to enroll, engage, and retain families.

Lay support has been associated with improved breastfeeding practices, but studies of programs that engage men in breastfeeding support have shown mixed results and most are from high - income countries.

We believe that the effectiveness of this particular program was owing to a careful design incorporating elements shown to be most successful in previously published peer counseling studies.

The peer counseling model was based on published studies that demonstrate that, among peer counseling programs for low - income mothers of term infants, in - depth, in - person peer contacts are most effective.13, 15 Emphasis was thus placed on face - to - face contact, with meetings lasting at least 30 minutes.

The background of the practitioner (education, training, and experience) also is important to study.7, 12 Most evidenced - based programs used credentialed and experienced practitioners to deliver the original program.

For example, the effect of early milking frequency on «programming» milk production capacity has been explored in bovine models [30], [40]--[42], but no human studies have been conducted, most notably due to the previous need for mammary biopsies.

A study of British children suffering from peanut allergy has shown that most can overcome their serious intolerance with a six month program of gradual exposure to the legume.

The findings of the experimental study, presented in the most recent issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, suggest that improving maternal DHA nutrition has a favorable programming effect on the fetus that influences body composition in early childhood.

The other most common approach, as laid out in the study, has been a more decentralized «entrepreneurial» strategy through which state programs promote private investment and the development of local networks, entrepreneurs and partnerships.

in mechatronics is by far the most popular program in engineering at the FH Ravensburg - Weingarten: More than 140 students from all over the world compete for one of 15 study places each year.

Aquarius must compete with other NOAA programs for a slice of the agency's annual budget of about $ 5.1 billion, most of it devoted to weather and satellite studies.

I was well prepared for graduate study in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, by the historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (AUC, consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown Colleges), as well as by Georgia Tech, an institution that graduates more minority engineers than most other engineering schools because of its participation in the dual - degree engineering program, a partnership with minority - serving institutions.

Most studies evaluating the efficacy of AA are not definitive; for the most part, they associate the duration of participation with success in quitting drinking but do not show that the program caused that outcMost studies evaluating the efficacy of AA are not definitive; for the most part, they associate the duration of participation with success in quitting drinking but do not show that the program caused that outcmost part, they associate the duration of participation with success in quitting drinking but do not show that the program caused that outcome.

The plan for science and technology proposed by the Obama campaign, for example, calls for «comprehensive immigration reform that improves our visa programs to attract some of the world's most talented people to America» and supports an increase in the number of foreign scientists and technical people permitted to study, work, and stay in the United States.

«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.

Even though evidence from other settings or populations would be useful to assess the generalizability of this study, Mogstad said it is highly relevant to policymakers in Norway and the United States, because disability insurance is now one of the largest transfer programs in most industrialized countries.

«We knew there were nutritional difficulties in teens who had undergone bariatric surgery, but everyone thought it was primarily the surgery that caused these problems since gastric bypass excludes the portion of the small intestine where many nutrients, especially iron, are most absorbed,» says Stavra Xanthakos, MD, medical director the Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens at Cincinnati Children's and a co-author of the study.

«The PHI model helps ensure that funding for prevention programs is proportionate to the health risks affecting the most people,» said Simoes, chair of the Department of Health Management and Informatics at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

An important reason for this is the current setup of most university programs: Although German students experience great latitude during their university educations, they study much longer than do their competitors in other countries.

Most of the program's students terminate their education at the bachelor's degree, which is considered a realistic entry point for a job with a racing team, but the program does offer master's degrees, Ph.D. s, and even an M.B.A. degree for students who wish to continue their studies.

The study of more than 7,000 students in 77 elementary schools in Finland found that one program greatly benefited the mental health of sixth - graders who experienced the most bullying.

«Anti-bullying program focused on bystanders helps the students who need it the most: Study reports on success of model used in Finland.»

The study focused on the impact of the two most popular NFL PLAY 60 programs: Fuel Up to PLAY 60 coordinated by the National Dairy Council; and NFL PLAY 60 Challenge developed with the American Heart Association.

This most recent study followed 260,493 girls, half of whom were eligible for Ontario's publicly funded Grade 8 HPV vaccination program in its first two years (2007/08 and 2008/09).

Students more likely to participate in free - and reduced - price lunch programs are among the same populations most likely to suffer from obesity and related health risks, said Janet Peckham, an economist in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lead author of the study.

«We hope that this study will highlight the marine species that are most in need of management and conservation actions under climate change,» said William Cheung, associate professor in the Institute for the Oceans and Fisheries and director of science for the Nippon Foundation — UBC Nereus Program.

The team says that this was one of the most compelling aspects of their study, because it speaks to the remarkable plasticity that exists in the genetic programs regulating inner ear development.

The Skills for Life program also includes two other major components — mental health promotional activities in all schools and referrals to mental health specialists for children with the most serious problems — which were not the focus of this study.

«While most past studies only demonstrate the applicability of similar solutions for small programs and «artificial bugs» [bugs that are intentionally inserted into a program for testing purposes], our approach can automate the debugging process for many real bugs that impact large programs,» Dr Lo explains.

AESEDA - Global Opportunities for Minority Earth Scientists by A. Sasso, 25 November 2005 Penn State's AESEDA program focuses on solving some of Africa's most pressing problems by engaging students in the study of earth sciences.

A 2 - year - old program in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences (EMS) called the Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering and Development in Africa (AESEDA), which focuses on solving some of Africa's most pressing problems by engaging students, particularly minority students, in the study of earth sciences.