Sentences with phrase «new focus of study»

Starting Fall 2009, the incoming class at John Brown University, in Siloam Springs, Arkansas, has a new focus of study - a Bachelor of Science in Renewable Energy.

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But if that's not enough to convince you that soft and fuzzy abilities are as important as concrete competencies, then a new study out of Germany might just change the mind of even the most bottom - line focused business person.

As a young undergraduate, he focuses on his studies, but also educates himself on the complex politics brewing in colonial New York City on the eve of the American Revolution.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

«For all the media coverage of groundbreaking autonomous vehicle investments made to date, a surprising number of U.S. consumers are still looking for a new, focused player to enter this market,» Deloitte wrote in its study.

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

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, Start a Successful Business, by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.

In a 2014 study examining the career paths of more than 34,000 current and former regulators, New York Fed economists showed there was a revolving door, but not necessarily driven by the quid - pro-quo that critics are focused on.

«While some device vendors are hoping that strong consumer awareness will drive corporate wellness adoption for their products, they also need to understand and focus on the most influential parts of the healthcare value chain,» says Jonathan Collins, author of the new study.

- Marco Abele, founder and CEO of TEND Our latest case study tells the story of the birth of a blockchain company creating a new investment world, focused on developing a global, relevant, differentiating and ambitious value proposition.

Instead of commissioning a brand - new research study, create a new brief bringing results of previous research in a brief with a new focus.

Focus groups as well as usability studies can play a role in triangulating research by being used to gauge the reaction to prototypes and new concepts that may be born out of the combined quantitative and ethnographic research.

Leblanc, Richard, «Good Teaching: The Top Ten Requirements,» The Teaching Professor (June - July 1998), 1,7 and reprinted in: Insight: Advanced Learning Through Faculty Study, newsletter of the Teaching Excellence Centre, Rutgers University, Camden Campus (Fall 1998), 1, 2; The Point, newsletter of United Faculty of PBCC, (November 1998), 6; Briarcliffe College Faculty Newsletter, Briarcliffe College, Bethpage, NY (January - February 1999), 2; and Focus on Teaching, Newsletter of Buffalo State University of New York (Spring 1999), 2.

Study of the intellectual origins and ideology of crusading had been placed on a wholly new footing by Carl Erdmann's Die Entstehung des Kreuzzugsgedankens (1935), followed by studies into the spiritual and religious context of the First Crusade by Étienne Delaruelle (1941) and Paul Rousset (1945), both revealing the limitations of the materialist focus.

These new studies give some additional attention to Paul's orientation toward the Galatian audience and thus follow the advice of the classical writers.10 Emphases on Pauline exhortation, ithos, and example do turn the focus of study toward Paul's relation to the Galatians and away from Paul's answer to the charges of his opponents.11

The first effect of the modern view of history and human existence upon New Testament study was, as we have seen, to focus attention upon the kerygma as the New Testament statement of Jesus» history and selfhood.

In 1984 the study committee held three public hearings, one focused on the research findings (in New York City), a second on the views of the communications industry (in Los Angeles), and a third on policy proposals and alternatives (in Washington, D.C.).

The Guardian: University's new center to study rise in anti-Islam far right A British university has established a dedicated centre to study the extremist far right, with a particular focus on the increase in violent anti-Islamic sentiment and the possibility of a lone, Anders Behring Breivik style attack.

She is currently living in Los Angeles, California, and pursuing a Master of Divinity at Fuller Seminary with a focus on New Testament studies.

In fact our present Pope, whose pontificate hasbeen wholly focussed on the new millennium, has expressed his approval and encouragement to «all who in any way continue to foster, study and promote devotion to the Heart of Christ in the Church with language and forms adapted to our times».

U.S. communities and states that have implemented alternatives to extended producer responsibility (EPR) policies are achieving high municipal solid waste recycling rates at reasonable costs, while also addressing a wider spectrum of the waste stream than narrowly - focused EPR mandates, according to a new study conducted by consulting firm SAIC for the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA).

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At New Legacy, language arts and social studies are combined into integrated theme - based humanities courses; math is taught in a blended environment that enables teachers to effectively support and challenge a diverse group of learners; and science is taught in six - week modules that focus on scientific inquiry and the scientific process.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

The year - long study, conducted by Boston College Center for Work & Family researchers, focuses on both the career and paternal identities of new fathers; how the two integrate, conflict, and enrich one another.

For this study, the researchers focused on the total number of minutes the new fathers spent in positive engagement activities with their infants on the non-workday.

The speech, to be delivered at City Hall, will focus on a new City Council study that shows the city's middle class has been shrinking as a percentage of the city's workforce.

Cuomo said the $ 500,000 one - year study to be undertaken by the state departments of health and environmental conservation will focus on what factors might be behind the higher cancer rates on Staten Island, Long Island, Warren County, and parts of western New York.

Our new draft programmes of study in core subjects are both challenging and ambitious — focusing tightly on the fundamental building blocks of study, so that every child has the knowledge and understanding to succeed.

The attorney general said he is giving federal officials a month to agree to the study that would focus on the impact of hydrofracking in the Delaware River basin, which includes the New York City watershed and portions of Broome, Chenango, Delaware, Schoharie, Green, Ulster, Orange and Sullivan counties.

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They have conducted focus groups in suburban areas of the Midwest, and are studying key voting blocs in California and New York, two states that could in theory furnish half the seats they need to take the House.

Although the vast majority of research on the gut microbiome has focused on bacteria in the large intestine, a new study — one of a few to concentrate on microbes in the upper gastrointestinal tract — shows how the typical calorie - dense western diet can induce expansion of microbes that promote the digestion and absorption of high - fat foods.

Science Robotics covers new developments in robotics and related fields, with a dual focus on the science of robotics as well as introducing researchers more broadly to how robots can be used to accelerate scientific study.

covers new developments in robotics and related fields, with a dual focus on the science of robotics as well as introducing researchers more broadly to how robots can be used to accelerate scientific study.

Her research focuses on global change ecology and climate adaptation; she was among the first to propose and study ways to reduce the impact of climate change through new techniques in conservation management.

An initial focus group study that engaged U.S. - based scientists added clarity regarding the broad benefits of scientific progress relevant to the right and gave rise to a new conceptual framework for considering «access to science» in the context of Article 15.

A new study explores the legacy of these interspecies trysts, with a focus on Western Asia, where the first relations may have occurred.

We believe that it will also prompt new experiments focusing on the dynamical properties of the atoms at nanostructures, allowing us to understand the contribution of the previously little probed dynamical structure studies of atomic clusters, towards the physical properties such as catalytic relativities.»

A new study by a team of scientists from the University of Malta and the Institut de Génétique Moléculaire de Montpellier (CNRS / Université de Montpellier) could help develop treatment strategies for a crippling disorder that was the focus of the Ice Bucket Challenge, the world's largest global social media phenomenon.

Most studies of mouse social hierarchy have focused on more aggressive behaviors such as how male mice might pick on new cage members, says Helmut Kessels, a neurologist at the Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience who was not involved with the research.

The biologists behind the new research findings synthesized decades of studies on fossil beetles, focusing on beetles associated with the dung of large animals in the past or with woodlands and trees.

Instead, much of the work on permafrost degradation over the past few decades has focused on the widespread, slow melting of the icy soils from the top down, says Vladimir Romanovsky, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was not involved in the new study.

A new study in Neuron focuses on the role that a lack of the protein «CLOCK» plays in several forms of epilepsy.

The new study focused on two areas that are now losing trees: western North America, which is suffering from drought, heat and beetle infestations that span from the southwestern U.S. to Alaska, and the Amazon rainforest, which has been subject to decades of intense human development.

A new study focusing on the birds of the Ice Age has shed light on the long term response of birds to climate change.

To accurately test the hypothesis of a lower risk of recurrence with HRT, a new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital published in European Urology Focus, performed a systematic review and meta - analysis, pooling available data, to assess whether an improved risk of recurrence could be demonstrated using HRT compared with CRT, in addition to assessing the relative impact of these two treatments on bladder and rectal function.

«This new study was unusual in focusing upon the sexual and dating behavior of single parents rather than partnered parents of young children.»

Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.

The new study specifically focuses on highly elusive forms of this fish group that ate plankton.