Sentences with phrase «of meaningful research»

EducationWeek's newly released special report, «Blended Learning: Breaking Down Barriers» explores how K - 12 schools are grappling with blended learning — from districts providing wifi for students» homes to a review of meaningful research about technology's impact on learning.

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This type of technology, microfluidics, has the potential to transform biomedical research by allowing people to glean meaningful data from minuscule amounts of liquid — in this case, blood.
Decades of research comes to a fairly straightforward conclusion - focus on meaningful relationships and being of service instead.
«We believe that the commentary of the wireless operators over the past two days about iPhone pre-order activity is meaningful, especially in light of conservative Street expectations for Apple,» BTIG Research analyst Walt Piecyk wrote on Thursday.
«People find a lot of joy in rediscovering a music playlist from months ago or an old joke with a neighbor, even though those things did not seem particularly meaningful in the moment,» Columbia's Ting Zhang said of her research on the subject (done while she was at Harvard).
Prior research has shown that the use of social media may detract from face - to - face relationships, reduce investment in meaningful activities, increase sedentary behavior by encouraging more screen time, lead to internet addiction, and erode self - esteem through unfavorable social comparison.
The third line of research has to do with discovering and remembering meaningful moments.
But when you get to call them stocks and you get stock quotes daily on these pieces of paper that bounce around put people put numbers on it and volatility and all these other things where really it's not that meaningful, you know from one sense if you're investing in businesses and you did a lot of research and invested in eight different businesses with the proceeds of your sale, people would think you're a pretty prudent guy.
Strong communication skills are a key requirement of the equity research position, as the researcher needs to be able to translate difficult - to - understand financial coefficients to the portfolio manager and others to clarify why certain financial data is meaningful to the investment process.
Our research has shown that 50 per cent of the people questioned thought the sermon was the most meaningful part of the service.
Being a Crawford Fund Scholar provided a wonderful opportunity to meet and hear from a diverse group of people passionate about agriculture and food security, reminded me of the importance of collaborative research projects and reinforced my desire to make a meaningful contribution to agriculture's future.
Our research shows that sports investors should seek a meaningful line move (to avoid «noise»)-- but not too large of a move (or else the edge might be gone).
Drawing on their extensive experience and research, the authors emphasize the importance of children having significant time with both parents, allowing them to maintain meaningful relationships.
* Day 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 4:00 PM -5:00 PM Registration & Networking 5:00 PM — 6:00 PM Welcome Reception & Opening Remarks Kevin de Leon, President pro Tem, California State Senate Debra McMannis, Director of Early Education & Support Division, California Department of Education (invited) Karen Stapf Walters, Executive Director, California State Board of Education (invited) 6:00 PM — 7:00 PM Keynote Address & Dinner Dr. Patricia K. Kuhl, Co-Director, Institute for Learning & Brain Sciences * Day 2 Tuesday February 23, 2016 8:00 AM — 9:00 AM Registration, Continental Breakfast, & Networking 9:00 AM — 9:15 AM Opening Remarks John Kim, Executive Director, Advancement Project Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California Tom Torlakson, State Superintendent of Public Instruction, California Department of Education 9:15 AM — 10:00 AM Morning Keynote David B. Grusky, Executive Director, Stanford's Center on Poverty & Inequality 10:00 AM — 11:00 AM Educating California's Young Children: The Recent Developments in Transitional Kindergarten & Expanded Transitional Kindergarten (Panel Discussion) Deborah Kong, Executive Director, Early Edge California Heather Quick, Principal Research Scientist, American Institutes for Research Dean Tagawa, Administrator for Early Education, Los Angeles Unified School District Moderator: Erin Gabel, Deputy Director, First 5 California (Invited) 11:00 AM — 12:00 PM «Political Will & Prioritizing ECE» (Panel Discussion) Eric Heins, President, California Teachers Association Senator Hannah - Beth Jackson, Chair of the Women's Legislative Committee, California State Senate David Kirp, James D. Marver Professor of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley Assemblyman Kevin McCarty, Chairman of Subcommittee No. 2 of Education Finance, California State Assembly Moderator: Kim Pattillo Brownson, Managing Director, Policy & Advocacy, Advancement Project 12:00 PM — 12:45 PM Lunch 12:45 PM — 1:45 PM Lunch Keynote - «How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character» Paul Tough, New York Times Magazine Writer, Author 1:45 PM — 1:55 PM Break 2:00 PM — 3:05 PM Elevating ECE Through Meaningful Community Partnerships (Panel Discussion) Sandra Guiterrez, National Director, Abriendo Purtas / Opening Doors Mary Ignatius, Statewide Organize of Parent Voices, California Child Care Resource & Referral Network Jacquelyn McCroskey, John Mile Professor of Child Welfare, University of Southern California School of Social Work Jolene Smith, Chief Executive Officer, First 5 Santa Clara County Moderator: Rafael González, Director of Best Start, First 5 LA 3:05 PM — 3:20 PM Closing Remarks Camille Maben, Executive Director, First 5 California * Agenda Subject to Change
Therefor, if crying can be regarded as a meaningful «target behaviour» for intervention with depressed mothers, research needs to address how to identify it (cry), what aspect of its character is meaningful (to the mother and clinician), who should be the target of the intervention (mother and / or infant) and whether the crying infant or the mother's processing of the signal matters (i.e., mother vs. infant).
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The research network will produce meaningful impacts that will significantly extend the evidence - base of home visiting.
However, there is an emergent consensus within the divorce research community that in the great majority of contested cases of child custody, where family violence is not a factor, children's needs and interests are best served by preserving meaningful relationships with both of their parents.
Ron Campbell, Chief Policy and Research Analyst for National Energy Action said: «The original UK Fuel Poverty Strategy was described as «representing the start of the road to the end of fuel poverty in the United Kingdom», there is a consensus that in order to make meaningful progress in the right direction we are in urgent need of a «road map».
Such research would also define the smallest scale of intervention experiments that would yield meaningful scientific understanding.»
This shift can not only shape what research happens, but how research happens, making our science more relevant to policy outcomes and more meaningful to communities... Community engagement is not only outreach — it has the power to transform and improve our science,» said Kirsten Schwarz, associate professor of biological sciences and director of the Ecological Stewardship Institute at Northern Kentucky University.
At a meeting in San Francisco in 1991, exhausted after spending six months at sea on a research expedition, Delaney remembers sitting in a bar lamenting to a colleague about the difficulties of using human - occupied submersibles to study the ocean in a meaningful way.
Real energy, creativity, and labor must be directed — by scientists, institutions, and funding organizations — toward the integration of meaningful, well - conceived training into the research activities of every science trainee, at every level... including, notably, the nation's postdocs.
«An outline of plans for teaching and research needs to be specific to be meaningful,» says Stansbury.
As a practicing engineer, I have to say that all those involved in meaningful research relating to developing safer driving technology should be very proud of the results that are being obtained.
«Wildfires are a meaningful topic to research in and of themselves, but they also help solve this causality problem that is difficult in our studies of pollution,» McCoy said.
«You simply can not publish meaningful research in proteomics without collaborating,» said Stagljar, who is also a Professor in the Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics.
These statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvements in overall response and survival rates resulted from a phase Ib / II clinical study performed at the HonorHealth Research Institute, a partnership of HonorHealth and TGen.
«We've deciphered the mouse book of life, and translated this huge tome into a meaningful edition for the research community,» says Jane Rogers, head of sequencing at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute in Cambridge.
However, when we look across the agency, the data also reveal meaningful differences in patent productivity and downstream economic impact between various areas of NIH - funded research
The report, «Patents as Proxies: NIH Hubs of Innovation,» confirms an increased economic value of NIH patents as compared to private sector patents, as well as meaningful differences in the rate and quality of invention across different research and development (R&D) investments.
United for Medical Research, a Washington, D.C. — based lobbying group, says «this meaningful increase for NIH makes real progress toward catching up from the past decade of underfunding and keeping up with scientific advancements and public health needs.»
The 2018 spending bill approved by Congress this week gives a slight but meaningful boost to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA's) research accounts — including its competitive grants program for universities and other institutions.
Jim Gillogly, a computer scientist with the research organisation RAND in Santa Monica, California, says that if lots of people follow Canter and Siegel's example, the proportion of meaningful messages to irrelevant ones «will drop even further than it already has, and the Net will become unusable».
«We look forward to conducting further research through the STARTRK - 2 phase II trial and are hopeful that treatment with entrectinib in patients with a range of advanced or metastatic solid tumors harboring NTRK1 / 2/3, ROS1, or ALK gene fusions will result in very meaningful benefit.»
It is clear that the People's Liberation Army plays a major role in China's space missions, says Dean Cheng, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C. «It begs the question of whether there is a civilian manned space program in any meaningful sense of the word,» he says.
She liked the research environment, but «toward the end of my Ph.D.,» she says, «I wanted to find something that felt... existentially meaningful, something that connected me to the really important, big issues in life.»
«Our research suggests that contrary to stereotypes, games have the potential to be as meaningful to players as other, more esteemed forms of entertainment such as literature or cinema.»
Speakers from AJWS will discuss how its decision to use outcome harvesting aligned with AJWS's approach to research, learning and evaluation, including a dedication to feminist research and meaningful measures of progress when addressing issues that have complex root causes.
«Similarly 71 drugs approved by the FDA from 2002 to 2014 for solid tumours have resulted in median gains in progression - free and overall survival of only 2.5 and 2.1 months, respectively,» he says adding, «Also, only 42 per cent met the American Society of Clinical Oncology Cancer Research Committee's criteria for meaningful results for patients.»
«It is incredibly exciting to see these women doing meaningful, cutting edge research while also being deeply committed to engage with the next generation of scientists.
«Having a concentration of facilities and scientific insight in an environment where this group of talented researchers is given every opportunity to succeed — again, regardless of level — will ensure that CUNY generates top - level research outputs demonstrating very clearly that its students are making meaningful contributions.»
Reauthorization of the Zadroga Act by Congress will ensure that these observations will have an opportunity to translate into a meaningful and sustainable clinical and research impact.
Research into how social media websites define us socially and the influence that social media has on our personal welfare suggests that a lack of social participation on Facebook leads to people feeling less meaningful.
«There is a pressure on science education research to become more meaningful to policy and practice,» said Jan Van Driel, a professor of science education at Leiden University in the Netherlands and one of the mentors at the meeting.
Schlessinger taught me how to ask meaningful questions in my research, and I have gained much from his insightful directions and strong commitment to the education of his students.
The authors of these papers from several universities and members of the research team — which included community members in meaningful roles — affirmed the higher purpose of science — to expand knowledge and serve the common good.
«There has always been a sense of unease that we might be interpreting something incorrectly but this gives us confidence that resting state variations can be interpreted in a meaningful way and encourages us to continue the research we have been doing for a number of years.
In war, anticipating the enemy's next move is half the battle, and some of the most meaningful advances in Alzheimer's research in recent years have to do with reconnaissance.
The fact that nearly all of our kidney transplant patients are thriving one year later indicates the research and new treatment protocols we are developing and using can make the most meaningful difference for the people we treat,» said Jordan.
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