Sentences with phrase «of studies children»

Research has previously shown that differences in cultural and social capital can have repercussions in areas as diverse as use of language by the time children enter school, preferential access to grammar and faith schools, the type of characteristics parents value when choosing schools, the kind of studies children undertake and their access to more prestigious universities, or even the adoption of cultural practices linked to substantial cognitive gains like reading for pleasure.

With 90 percent of the study children drinking milk, their average calcium intake was 550 mg.

A report of the National Coalition for Women and Girls in Education noted with alarm that in vocational programs girls comprise «only 4 % of heating, A / C and refrigeration students, 5 % of welding students, 6 % of electrical and plumber / pipefitter students,» while girls make up 98 percent of students enrolled in cosmetology and 87 percent of those studying child care.

In part 2, they will be asked to report on the academic behavior, mathematics performance, and classroom conduct of each study child in their classroom.

For students receiving special education services, their special education teacher will also complete a questionnaire similar in structure to the two - part mathematics teacher instrument, consisting of a teacher - level questionnaire and student - level questionnaire, but with questions specific to the special education experiences and services of the study child.

Home - based carers were defined as those who regularly provided care (more than 9 hours per week) for the Study child, either in their own home or in the home of the Study child.

Almost half (48 %) of the mothers in this sample reported some form of domestic violence since the birth of the study child (range, 0 - 225 incidents).

Some outcome measures were only collected at wave 3, due to the age of the study child.

Mothers reported their exposure to domestic violence using the violence subscales of the Conflict Tactics Scale.23 For the purpose of these analyses, we used a measure that consisted of the total number of times the mother reported having experienced any form of partner - perpetrated violence since the birth of the study child.

The following relates to the Non-Resident Parent Questionnaire: Target population: Non-resident parent of the Study child.

Moreover, the temporal context is organized around the age of the study child, as opposed to time of marriage.

At the conclusion of the study the children demonstrated increased ability to orient their attention, as measured by an objective computerized Attention Network Task, and decreased anxiety.

Child gender and birthweight (in grams) were also included, as were whether the child resided in a family with more than three biological children or not (large family size), and whether or not parents of the study child had experienced depression in the first 2 years of the child's life based on a score of 13 or more on the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale.

Not exact matches

The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

One deeply flawed, since - retracted study of 12 children made some parents fearful that there might be an association between vaccines and autism.

Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

Hours after the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 11 children studying in a nearby religious school, police said.

Since then, a long list of studies involving many thousands of children have shown that this alleged link does not exist.

The researchers drew their data from a number of British and American longitudinal surveys, including the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which includes nearly 5,000 participants born in big US cities between 1998 and 2000.

A new study shows that 74 percent of parents with adult children are continuing to help them financially.

... in 2015, University of Toronto sociologist Melissa Milkie published a study showing that the amount of time children aged 3 to 11 spent with parents had no measurable impact on their emotional well - being, behavior, or academic success.

Studies also show that the emotional costs borne by children of color being raised by white parents - which often occurs with international adoptions - are less dire than critics believe.

A new study from CreditCards.com found that 74 percent of parents with adult children, defined as 18 and up, are continuing to help them financially.

«It is an ongoing process where parents perform the activities with their children, and they talk with their children about how they felt,» said Dwight Burlingame, a professor of philanthropic studies at

His family moved to Canada from Turkey when he was a child and, with the funds from the sale of a redesigned buzzer system for quiz show Reach for the Top, Lazaridis studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

«It's all about shaping the child's behavior,» says Dr. Andrea Vazzana, clinical assistant professor of child psychiatry at New York University Langone's Child Study Cechild's behavior,» says Dr. Andrea Vazzana, clinical assistant professor of child psychiatry at New York University Langone's Child Study Cechild psychiatry at New York University Langone's Child Study CeChild Study Center.

Equal splits among siblings are still the norm in estate planning, yet a new study finds that more parents are writing wills that favor some of their children more than others.

«Thus, total restriction of touchscreen use may limit young children in terms of the potential benefits of these devices,» the study concludes.

Walter Mischel, Ebbe Ebbesen and Antonette Raskoff Zeiss» famous 1972 study of 92 kids, 3 to 5 years old, found that when given the option between getting a small reward right away or waiting for a larger one, the children preferred larger rewards but were more likely to accept a smaller reward instantly.

A study of vocabulary growth in children from eight months to six years old shows that the size of spoken vocabulary increases from zero words at age eight months to 2,562 words at age six years.

A study in the «Journal of Individual Differences» found that people who scored higher on IQ tests as children tended to be more curious and open to new ideas as adults.

We'll talk below about two studies involving school - age children, both led by Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University.

Kent came to mind this week when I read about the resignation of Yale lecturer Erika Christakis, an early childhood educator at the Yale Child Study Center.

In the study titled «What Would Batman Eat: Priming Children to Make Healthier Fast Food Choices» researchers at Cornell showed children pictures of role models before asking them to choose french fries or apple fries (raw apple slices) as part of theiChildren to Make Healthier Fast Food Choices» researchers at Cornell showed children pictures of role models before asking them to choose french fries or apple fries (raw apple slices) as part of theichildren pictures of role models before asking them to choose french fries or apple fries (raw apple slices) as part of their lunch.

The research out of Beijing Normal University studied the effects of anger by asking 73 male volunteers to memorize pairs of faces and unsettling images, like injuries or crying children.

In a study of 600 high risk children, only 3 % of those who were exposed to the snack developed a peanut allergy, compared to 17 % of those in the group that avoided peanuts.

The study is particularly encouraging because autism diagnoses are currently done on children between the ages of two and four, and earlier diagnoses allows for more effective treatment measures.

«One study compared the families of children who were rated among the most creative 5 percent in their school system with those who were not unusually creative.

Citing studies on the early lives of heroes who rescued people from the Holocaust and highly creative architects, Grant suggests parents «help children think about the consequences of their action for others,» rather than simply yelling «no!».

Just a few days ago, The Science Daily reported on a study conducted by the University of Michigan Health System, which concluded that «parents» use of mobile technology around young children may be causing internal tension, conflicts and negative interactions with their kids.»

More significantly, Catalyst found that unequal pay starts with the first job, and widens over time, even after accounting for job level, industry, child bearing and career aspirations, according to the results of the study by authors Nancy M. Carter and Christine Silva.

According to a study by the New American Economy, immigrants or their children founded more than 40 percent of the companies on the Fortune 500 list in 2010.

Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

Armed with seven of the most thorough and oddly specific studies our children's tuition can buy, we've selected the executives who best exemplify some overlooked but (apparently) important traits.

The fourth child and younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch went to Harvard to study film and history after graduating in 1991 from Horace Mann, an elite New York City private prep school.

Working with a third - party clinical testing group, Neba studied 275 children and adolescents ranging in age from 6 to 17 years old, all of whom exhibited signs of attention or behavioral concerns.

When it comes to the potential of Quebec - style child care, a 2012 academic study on the provincial system estimated it had allowed 70,000 more mothers with children under the age of 14 to hold jobs in 2008 than would have otherwise been the case.

An accompanying press release from the university's media office explains the study comes from a «survey of more than 1,500 families with children living in rental high - rises built between 1950 and 1979,» a housing category that covers half of all rental units in metropolitan Toronto.

Because ultimately, what the study proves is that we must increase the quantity and intensity of exercise both at schools and at home if we want our children to be more globally competitive.

The material was dispersed up to three meters away — nearly 10 feet — and a closer look at the study by Ars Technica found that about 70 percent of the dispersed material was at the height of a small child's face.