Sentences with phrase «of learning activities which»

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Superlative performance is really a confluence of dozens of small skills or activities, each one learned or stumbled upon, which have been carefully drilled into habit and then fitted together in a synthesized whole.

The briefing focused on a vision of STEM learning opportunities as a network of charging stations in which children power up their learning by plugging into activities at school, after school, at science centers and libraries, as well as online.

«Ultimately, we needed 20 years to learn how to supercharge these cells to deliver anticancer activity,» says Arie Belldegrun, president and CEO of Kite Pharma in Santa Monica, California, which is assessing CAR T cells in six trials for B cell leukemia and lymphomas, and glioblastoma.

Piaget believes the attitude of the child is what shows whether or not the child is playing, and he seeks to distinguish between «efforts to learn» and those activities which are «only a happy display of known actions.

There may be something to learn from all this about the way in which pious men rebel against the idea of divine, incarnational authority and activity living on down the centuries in the Church.

It is a surprise to most people to learn that there was a large and widespread Christian community throughout the whole of Central Asia in the first centuries of the present era and that such countries as Afghanistan and Tibet which are spoken of today as lands still closed to the Gospel message, were centres of Christian activity long before Muhammad was born.

With the help of prayer and debates I learnt that while sexual activity arouses and exchanges feelings, it's only focussing upon the twin ideas of Creator and procreation which frees us for loving union and communion.

For those new to winter activity, take advantage of one of the nest learning center programs in the industry during January, which is «Learn to Ski Month.»

Olympus Sports Coliseum offers week long multi-sport summer camps, which include fun games and activities, as well as an opportunity to learn and play a variety of sports.

One of the activities my children ask to do over and over again is our jumping frogs which are a great way to learn about static electricity, so inspired by Inspiration Laboratories moving ghost we made jumping ghosts instead of frogs.

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.»

Plants don't always seem like the most interesting of topics to study, but there are lots of brilliant, hands - on activities which are fantastic for learning about different types of flowers, trees and plants and the conditions they need to grow.

Rushing a child from one activity to the next doesn't expand her horizons; it stunts her creativity and inherent zest for life, which are the building blocks of a life - long love of learning.

Best baby push walker — Although it doesn't have any learning activities, the Hape — Galloping Zebra Cart Wooden Push and Pull Toy is a great push walker made entirely out of wood and which is a delight to carry around.

It's also one of the books we have revisited time and time again here on Rainy Day Mum creating activities and crafts from back from our first ever post which was creating butterflies from toddler process art through to more recently learning to read, spell and recognize the days of the week with my school age daughter.

Every child needs to learn to play outdoors and have fun, which is why if they haven't already been introduced to some of these games then its a great list of 11 fun outdoor activities for kids to enjoy.

The Montessori approach fosters children's love of learning and encourages independence by providing an environment of activities and materials which children use at their own pace.

A big cardboard box can offer dozens of play activities in which your kiddo is learning.

Your child will love this collection of activities which encourage letter learning.

The learning connection is a central tenet of the report, which posits that healthy school environments enhance learning through a combination of good nutrition and physical activity programs.

Your child gets to create the play dough (which is a fun activity itself) while also learning the value of making a gift for a friend (rather than watching mom buy one).

It was also learnt that the repair was embarked upon ahead of a programme scheduled to hold at the Redemption Camp on Friday which is aimed at stemming the tide of the protracted traffic that usually stalls vehicular movement during its activities.

«Primetime funding supports Cradle Beach Summer In The City, which provides opportunity, mentorship, structured recreational activities, and learning opportunities for over 275 children and families of Erie County.

Project Boost affords an added component of parent participation in the activities, which has also been proven to be a positive influence on our children's attitude toward education and learning.

The United States Government, through the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in collaboration with Ghana's Ministry of Education (MOE) and the Ghana Education Service (GES) will launch the «Partnership for Education: Learning activity», which will benefit over 2 million children in the country.

She handled day - to - day aspects for two federally - funded programs, GET SET (Global Education for Tomorrow in Science, Engineering, and Technology) which engaged students, teachers, and parents in a suite of learning activities designed to increase student interest in pursuit of advanced course - taking, and careers in engineering and other STEM areas, and DC ACTS (DC Advancing Competencies in Technology and Science), which provided CEU's from George Washington University to teachers furthering their science education and teaching pedagogy.

«What we saw was that during learning, different patterns of activity — which cells are active, when they're active — were evident in the motor cortex,» says Peters.

Nobody really knows how the activity in your brain reorganizes as you learn new tasks, but new research from Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh reveals that the brain has various mechanisms and constraints by which it reorganizes its neural activity when learning over the course of a few hours.

To truly see how neural activity changes during learning, we need to look bigger — at populations of neurons, rather than one neuron at a time, which has been the standard approach to date.

This region inhibits nearby reward areas, which can be useful in learning; for example, if a monkey pulls a lever expecting a treat but never receives it, the lateral habenula will reduce the activity of reward areas, and the monkey will be less likely to pull the lever in the future.

If it's a matter of me learning a particular rhythm, I know that that's going to be a basal ganglia / cerebellum activity, which means what's important is to tap into this unconscious, habit - learning system, so I can't just do the same thing over and over again if I'm making mistakes.

The fish facing off with their own reflections showed greater activity in an area of the brain tied to fear and negative emotional learning, which suggests they find themselves scarier than any real rival.

They used a somewhat bizarre technique in which two mice were sutured together in such as way that they shared a circulatory system (known as parabiosis), and found old mice joined to their youthful counterparts showed changes in gene activity in a brain region called the hippocampus as well as increased neural connections and enhanced «synaptic plasticity» — a mechanism believed to underlie learning and memory in which the strength of neural connections change in response to experience.

Scientists already employ fMRI, which uses changes in blood flow as a proxy for brain activity, to scan the brains of restrained monkeys, but Berns wanted to train dogs to willingly enter the machine and learn simple things, such as associating a hand signal with a reward of a hot dog, all the while staying still enough to collect interpretable brain scans.

Jerzy Szaflarski, M.D., Ph.D., professor in the Department of Neurology and director of the UAB Epilepsy Center, says the RNS system can be customized for each individual patient so that it learns which patterns of brain activity lead to seizures in that patient.

This was determined in a «generalization» test, in which the degree to which flies learned a generalized aversion to unfamiliar test odors could be predicted based upon the relatively similar activity patterns of Kenyon cells that the odors induced.

One of the most controversial types of therapy is what is known as neurofeedback, in which patients learn to control their brain activity patterns selectively, and in this way achieve an alleviation of their symptoms.

This may help us to understand how processes such as learning and memory formation, which require long - term changes in the brain, arise from the short bursts of electrical activity through which neurons signal to each other,» Greenberg said.

Long - term potentiation (LTP), a phenomenon in which brief repetitive activity causes a long lasting (many weeks) enhancement in the strength of synaptic transmission, is generally accepted to be a key cellular substrate for learning and memory.

Pointing to the change in amygdala activity, which is central to the brain's system of storing and recalling fearful memories (see How Fear Works to learn about this process), the researchers say the memory was not simply disconnected from fear, but that it was actually erased in its entirety.

Over hundreds of years, scientists have learned much about the brain, including the countless methods through which information is transferred from neuron to neuron at a junction called a synapse, and how hundreds — even thousands — of neurons can function together to form a larger circuit responsible for any given activity.

With her first research grant from the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Dr. Genova is studying cognitive fatigue in individuals with MS. With cognitive fatigue, individuals tire easily when performing tasks that involve thinking and learning, which can adversely affect their ability to work and perform the usual activities of daily life.

Research is beginning to show the connection In a 2005 study, researchers at Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif., used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), which measures activity in different areas of the brain, to see whether subjects could learn to control a brain region involved in pain and whether that could be a tool for altering their pain perception.

The researchers demonstrated that the repetitive disruption of normal lung activity which happens during sleep apnea activates a kind of learning which helps to breathe better.

Continuing — an ongoing process of learning after qualification Professional — relating to your specific therapy and any fields of specification Development — any activity which aids the progress of your professional credibility and identity

The study revealed that people who burned the most calories through activities had more gray matter in the frontal, temporal and parietal lobes of their brains, which are associated with memory and learning.

The Sensory Motor Assessment — is a series of physical activities designed to identify the areas where your child may have a developmental delay, which can lead to a multitude of learning and behavior problems.

Edit 2017: Recently, after learning about new research and working with even more women, I'm finding that plant - based phytoestrogens may promote ER beta activity, which can lower estrogenic potency in the body as a whole, thereby decreasing the risk for certain cancers (this is not true of synthetic estrogen, like that in hormonal birth control or estrogen replacement therapy).

Yoga and mindfulness are non-academic activities, which are typically considered of lesser importance than academic learning within the education system.

Dating is a stage of romantic relationships in humans whereby two people meet socially with the aim of each assessing the other's suitability as a Geology Labs On - Line was initiated in 1999 to develop Web - based activities which enhance the learning and teaching of earth science from middle school