Sentences with phrase «of academic risk»

The well - documented benefits of academic risk - taking include gains in knowledge, metacognitive strategies and feelings of increased competence, enjoyment, and reduced feelings of learned helplessness (Cetin, Ilhan, & Yilmaz, 2014; Meyer, Turner, & Spencer, 1997).

In the midst of this environment, Kovacic made it her goal to create equitable learning conditions that successfully supported a culture of academic risk taking, intellectual curiosity, and development of both scholars and citizens — all in an effort to change the lives of students like Brittany.

Not exact matches

And Oxford academics Carl Benedikt Frey and Michael A. Osborne claim that almost half of U.S. jobs are at a high risk of being computerized over the next 20 years.

The willingness to risk the politics of potential failure within the corporate or academic environment are often a good indicator of the candidate's ability to be successful entrepreneurially.

Over the next two weeks, academics, innovators, business leaders, public officials and youth organization representatives will convene at workshops in San Francisco, Sao Paulo, London, Johannesburg, Oslo, Abu Dhabi, Mumbai and Shanghai to identify tangible opportunities related to five risks threatening our communities: extreme weather, continued lock - in to fossil fuels, urban breakdown, lack of fresh water and continued rise in non-communicable diseases.

Dr. Piwowar's first tenure at the SEC was in the Office of Economic Analysis (now called the Division of Economic and Risk Analysis) as a visiting academic scholar on leave from Iowa State University and as a senior financial economist.

«We disdain the academic notion than high investment returns can only be accompanied by high amounts of risk.

I think all this is pretty poisonous to having any chance of beating the market (in fact, I think this sort of thinking is one reason why so many active funds have become index huggers, with no chance of justifying their fees) so personally I don't go too far down that road myself, especially as I don't really respect the academic underpinnings of risk and the EMH to the very nth degree.

What's usually the case is the problem can't be solved in a way that keeps the current companies at the top of the charts, keeps the current academic «experts» at the top of their fields, and keeps the current venture capitalists on top of all risks.

«We steer clear of the foolhardy academic definition of risk and volatility, recognizing, instead, that volatility is a welcome creator of opportunity» Seth Klarman

Most of the persons of national visibility that we have named are academics, and such a listing runs the very risk of contributing to the bureaucratic historicism we have decried.

The group also challenged her to take the leap — at the risk of possible failure — by enrolling in one course to test and toughen flabby academic muscles.

At the risk of oversimplification, the incorporation debate has enlisted three warring factions, each supported by diverse academic armament.

Otherwise, First Things runs the risk of being starkly and ineffectively academic, bewitched by the temptation to create independent solutions separate from God's merciful, steadfast love.

And as always, teachers must use their discretion to determine when it is worth some level of student discomfort to push forward an academic conversation and when that conversation carries the risk of damaging classroom culture and student comfort beyond simple repair.

The Australian Beverages Council, representing the local energy drinks industry, has responded to research published in the journal Academic Pediatrics from the Yale School of Public Health which links the consumption of energy drinks to a more likely risk of hyperactivity and inattention symptoms in middle - school children.

After all, the company was founded in response to academic research proving that even small cash rewards triple the effectiveness of weight - loss programs; that people are more effective at losing weight when their own money is at risk; and that social dynamics play a large role in the spread of obesity, and will likely play a large role in reversing obesity.

No mention was publicly made about scholarships and recruiting and standards, but football observers thought it entirely unlikely that Kuharich would have left a five - year contract in Washington without assurances that he would have adequate scholarships and enough «academic risk» players to produce the kind of team that the more relentless Notre Dame alumni demand.

Since the fall of 2000 he has been working at Jefferson Senior High in the Denver suburb of Edgewater as an academic coach in the National Football Foundation's (NFF) Play It Smart program, which provides educational counseling and mentoring to football players in at - risk high schools.

Lack of breastfeeding risks a loss of 8 to 10 IQ points and children who are not breastfed experience reduced academic performance.

«Students who completed more hours of homework per night were at greater risk for these negative outcomes; they were also more likely to drop activities or hobbies they enjoyed in order to focus on their academic work.»

When children come from homes where there is abuse, domestic violence, an incarcerated parent, or a parent with drug or mental health problems, they don't get that kind of attention and suffer the consequences: higher risks of later - life depression, adolescent pregnancy, alcoholism, drug use, and poor academic performance.

Other factors that have led to a decrease in free play time include an emphasis on academic preparation, electronic media replacing playtime, less time spent playing outdoors, perceived risk of play environments, and limited access to outdoor play spaces.

(That's probably one of the reasons why simply eating dinner together has been linked to so many benefits for kids, including better academic performance, lower risk of obesity, and lower rates of substance abuse and depression.)

It is important to note that because ADHD has the ability to affect your child's academic performance and personal relationships, your child faces a higher risk of developing psychological issues like anxiety, depression, aggression, or anger.

The good news is that with early intervention, special education, and tutoring, the risk of cognitive and academic problems can be reduced, as can the severity of a learning disability.

Scores for externalization (the ability to express feelings, especially negative feelings), a trait associated with risk of juvenile delinquency, academic failure, and inadequate social adjustment, were 20 percent lower in the KMC group on average.

One final point I'd like to make at the risk of sounding self - serving is that another group that aren't listened to as often as I'd like is academics.

«I believe that an increase in pupil segregation on the basis of academic selection would be at best a distraction from crucial reforms to raise standards and narrow the attainment gap and at worse risk actively undermining six years of progressive education reform.»

A dozen public schools across the state, including two on Long Island, risk losing their chance to win coveted national «Blue Ribbon» awards for academic excellence because of the drop in the number of students who took standardized Common Core tests this spring.

Labour leader warns that «forgotten 50 %» of young people who choose not to follow a traditional academic route are at risk

«Cardiometabolic risk factors may be more important correlates of academic achievement in girls than in boys, but this warrants more research.»

The study investigated the associations of body fat percentage and other cardiometabolic risk factors with academic achievement among 175 Finnish 6 -8-year-old children.

This drive for academic achievement leads to high attainment in international academic assessments but has contributed to the curtailment of nocturnal sleep on school nights to well below the recommended eight to ten hours of sleep, putting students at risk of cognitive and psychological problems.

The influence academics like Al - Handal have among students and colleagues can be part of what puts them at risk, says Willcox.

Publishing their findings in the academic journal ACM Transactions on Information and System Security, the team — Ehsan Toreini, Dr Feng Hao and Dr Siamak Shahandashti — say the findings offer a new way to verify physical documents and reduce the risk of forgery.

A new summary of 12 years of research on North Carolina's pre-kindergarten program for at - risk 4 - year - olds shows that «dual - language learners» make the greatest academic progress in the program.

This is one of the first, if not the first, academic papers to confirm the low concern farmers place on climate risks over regulatory ones, said lead author Meredith Niles, a doctoral student in UC Davis» ecology graduate group.

«I know personally dozens of academic scientists... who have unanswered questions about the risk issues,» said Doug Gurian - Sherman, a senior scientist in the Food and Environment Program at the Union of Concerned Scientists, in an interview after the Lynas speech.

As documented in Free to Think: Report of the Scholars at Risk Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated Academic Freedom Monitoring Project, which tracked and analyzed attacks between January 2011 and May 2015, scholars and students may be persecuted for the content of their research or teaching or for exercising fundamental rights such as the freedom to express their opinions, whether on academic or unrelated academic or unrelated matters.

► In this week's issue of STM, Arthur Levine, senior vice chancellor for the health sciences and dean of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine in Pennsylvania, and 18 other U.S. academic medical center leaders wrote that «[u] nstable funding for biomedical research has created a hostile working environment that erodes the time available for investigators to conduct their research, discourages innovative high - risk science, threatens to drive established investigators out of U.S. academic biomedical research, and creates uncertainty for trainees and early - career investigators.

Of course, there can be risk in an academic career as well, as anyone knows who's ever pushed a risky piece of science past the funding hurdle and into publicatioOf course, there can be risk in an academic career as well, as anyone knows who's ever pushed a risky piece of science past the funding hurdle and into publicatioof science past the funding hurdle and into publication.

«Substance abuse is the topic of high public interest, yet little attention is given to the experiences of college students with disabilities,» wrote the study authors Steven L. West et al. «Given that binge drinking is highly correlated with academic failure, drop - out, and an increased risk for various negative health conditions, such use by students with disabilities may place them at extreme risk for various negative outcomes.»

The academics who came up with the idea, including UC Berkeley geneticist Jasper Rine, say they wanted to create an educational experience that would illustrate the risks and benefits of personal genome analysis.

Specifically, the authors — who include members of the International Spine Study Group (ISSG) from multiple academic centers — found that fusing the lower portion of the lumbar spine results in a decreased risk of PJK.

Although professionals and academics understand the typical attributes of entrepreneurs — risk - taking, innovativeness, initiative, and decisiveness — they have struggled to understand what makes a successful entrepreneur.

Given the pressures of competition for academic positions, to follow Einstein's path is to risk the price that he paid: unemployment in spite of abundant talent and skill at the craft of theoretical physics.

The latest products may bring joy to people around the globe, but academic researchers this week are highlighting the heightened health risks experienced by people in regions far downwind of the factories that produce these goods and on the other side of the world from where they're consumed.

The small study, based on a survey of 236 cardiologists and internal medicine physicians and trainees at a large tertiary academic medical center, found that although physicians rate nutrition to be as important as statins in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, only 13.5 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients.

Bilingual children from low - income homes are at greater risk of falling behind their peers in developing the appropriate language skills for their age group, leading to poorer academic achievement over time.