Sentences with phrase «of volunteer participants»

Their study, published in Brain: A Journal of Neurology, is unique in that it enlisted an extraordinary pool of volunteer participants: 182 Vietnam veterans with highly localized brain damage from penetrating head injuries.The research team included scientists from the University of Illinois, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid; Medical Numerics, in Germantown, Md.; George Mason University; the University of Delaware; and Kessler Foundation, in West Orange, N.J.

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Who can volunteer: Participants must have an undergraduate degree from an accredited college by their first day of training; have a minimum grade point average of 2.5; and be a citizen, legal permanent resident, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals recipient.
A few participants were veterans of as many as two dozen volunteer trips.
What there is is finding other ways of exercising that call: interim pastor, parish associate, stated supply, teaching church school, worshiping always, serving on presbytery committees, being volunteers in mission, and by being a participant as an «honorary layperson» in the ongoing life of a congregation — all these and more are ways by which we respond to the enduring calling by God through the church.
Still in draft form, the Code of Conduct commits signatories to faithful compliance with Charitable Choice; to straightforward and consistent communication about their religious identity among their volunteers, service beneficiaries, donors and government partners; to refraining from using government funding for «confessional activities»; to winsome and gentle witness; to love of neighbor; to freedom from religious coercion; to nondiscrimination toward program participants; to faithfulness to their mission; to credible and objective evaluation procedures; to avoidance of «turf wars» with other FBOs and nonprofits; and to rigorous financial accountability.
Participants may not necessarily give up their regular jobs or studies but they commit to a programme of prayer, worship, study, volunteering and spending time together.
TEMECULA — Led by reality television show personality Gillian Larson («Survivor: Gabon»), throngs of volunteers and participants are planning the 8th annual Reality Rally, set for May 3rd - 5th 2018 which is 3 days of unique events, lots of fun and conducted completely to benefit Michelle's Place, Breast Cancer Resource Center.
So, to the members of staff, sport scholars, club members, activators, participants and volunteers, thank you — have a wonderful New Year!
Troy serves as a member of our chapter's junior council and volunteers with its golf inclusion programs and participant recruitment events.
** 10 tote order minimum * SF BAY AREA PARTICIPANTS ONLY In order to better manage the large distribution of Night Night Packages in the San Francisco Bay Area, volunteers may be requested to deliver (or mail) their completed Night Night Packages to one of our drop - off locations rather than to deliver them to the shelter offices directly.
The volunteer survey invites participants to list individual species and the greatest number of each seen at one time at feeders and in yards during that weekend.
It may also help you to attract more participants and volunteers since everyone likes to be part of the winning team.
Youth sports coaches, many of which are volunteers, are the foundation of youth sports in the U.S. Those who are trained and educated on the many different aspects involved with coaching kids are best prepared to provide participants with a fun - filled, safe and rewarding experience.
This policy assures that participants and volunteers will receive the type of medical treatment that they deserve.
Youth sports programs collect a wide variety of sensitive data — including personal, financial and health related info about the participants, volunteers and parents.
Thousands of passionate volunteers and participants in the United States, Canada and beyond have helped us raise the profile of the need for human milk for vulnerable infants.
for training, practice and reference, December 2007 IBFAN Training Courses on the Code ICAP, 2010 Improving Retention, Adherence, and Psychosocial Support within PMTCT Services: Implementation Workshop for Health Workers IYCN Project, The roles of grandmothers and men: evidence supporting a familyfocused approach to optimal infant and young child nutrition IYCN Project Mother - to - Mother Support Groups Trainer's Manual - Facilitator's Manual with Discussion Guide IYCN Project, 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Trainer's guide and participant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the contparticipant's manual for training community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project 2010, Infant Feeding and HIV: Participant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the contParticipant's manual for community - based workers and volunteers IYCN Project, Infant and Young Child Feeding and Gender: A Training Manual for Male Group Leaders and Participant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the contParticipant Manual for Male Group Leaders IYCN Project 2012, Helping an HIV - positive breastfeeding mother decide how to feed her child at 12 months: A checklist for health care providers IYCN Project 2012, Community interventions to promote optimal breastfeeding; evidence on early initiation, any breastfeeding, exclusive breastfeeding and continued breastfeeding; literature review, January 2012 UNICEF 2011, Community IYCF Counselling Package - The technical content of this package reflects the Guidelines on HIV and Infant Feeding 2010: Principles and Recommendations for Infant Feeding in the Context of HIV and a Summary of Evidence related to IYCF in the context of HIV.
Trained chef instructors and community volunteers teach participants to follow recipes and prepare low - cost, healthy meals with the goal of increasing the knowledge and skills needed to develop lifelong healthy eating behaviors.
Because of the expected size of the March, we are not organizing an official Nature Museum group — but please say hi if you see our staff, volunteers and Trustees among the participants proudly carrying Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum signs.
It's open to all the families at the school, run by parent volunteers — many of whom also participate — and allows participants to choose what they want from the day's selection.
The Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary is one of Mass Audubon's largest sanctuaries, serving 35,000 - 50,000 people annually as visitors to the Nature Center, participants in our natural history programs, volunteers, Outer Cape students in the local schools, and summer day campers.
The volunteer survey invites participants to list the bird species and greatest number of each seen at one time at their feeders and in their yards during that Saturday and Sunday.
Beginning at 5:00 am GMT and facilitated by accredited volunteer counselors (LLL Leaders), in more than 15 languages, participants can log in from the comfort of home to join in the conversation at LLLI 24 - hour Global Online Meeting.
Oneida County Youth Bureau and Office for Aging, today, announced that volunteers and participants can sign up for the 5th Annual Intergenerational Spring Clean - Up that will take place the weekend of Saturday April 20th and Sunday April 21st.
Using the Google Hangout's chat function, participants such as Joe Kerns, co-founder of the start - up Roundview.co and a volunteer with the New York City Code for America brigade betaNYC, and Chris Whong, a data solutions activist at Socrata who is co-captain of betaNY, asked questions about the degree to which information about constituent services prompted by social media and other avenues is available as public data for analysis.
They gave these volunteers three types of cereal bars containing gluten, fructans, or neither, and the participants ate one of these every day for seven days, with week - long spaces in - between each type of bar.
More than 80 AAAS volunteers deployed jelly beans, Braille lettering and auditory illusions to creatively demonstrate the science of the five senses to thousands of curious participants at the 5th USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.
Whatever the motivation, or the logistics of the stay, few volunteering experiences ever leave their participants unchanged.
In households where women between the ages of 15 and 40 were pregnant, volunteer participants were administered either influenza vaccine or placebo as part of a randomized, placebo - controlled Phase 4 clinical trial.
And unlike Heaney and Fisher, whose teams limited their efforts to the 4 - hour rally on the mall that preceded the march, Klinsky's team of student volunteers plunged into the march itself, surveying participants as they walked 15 blocks down Constitution Avenue to the U.S. Capitol.
Volunteering also gives participants a sense that they are valued and needed, which may ward off thoughts of being worn out or useless, says psychologist Benjamin Gottlieb of the University of Guelph in Ontario.
At the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Washington DC last week they announced that while they saw hippocampal shrinking in four of the volunteers, the region grew in the remaining two participants.
Although Milgram's tests upset some volunteers, most participants identified with his scientific mission to understand human behavior and wanted to prove themselves as worthy of the project, Haslam and psychologist Stephen Reicher of the University of St. Andrews in Fife, Scotland, conclude in a research review scheduled to appear in the 2017 Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
Marshall got the idea for the study after noticing that a sizable portion of the bipolar disorder patients who had volunteered for the study at U-M discussed problematic childhoods in the questionnaires that all participants fill out.
The researchers recruited over 800 volunteers to participate in the study and asked each participant to guess the number of gumballs in a jar, which ranged over several orders of magnitude from 54 to more than 27,000.
To ensure that the original memories were not influencing the participants» recall of the future scenarios, the experimenters had a different set of volunteers generate lists of familiar people, places and objects without calling up memories — for instance, using Facebook to find the names of 110 familiar people.
Participants were given the volunteer ratings for two - thirds of the odors, along with the chemical structure of the molecules that produced them.
The subject pool was more than 2,000 undergrads from multiple sections of an introductory psychology course who volunteered as research participants over the past few years.
Participants included 10 people with post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome (PTLDS); 10 who had high levels of an antibody against B. burgdorferi after antibiotic treatment; five who had erythema migrans (a bull's - eye rash) and had received antibiotic treatment in the past; one person with erythema migrans who began antibiotic therapy at the time of tick placement; and 10 healthy volunteers.
Freeman and colleagues including lead author Justin Centi and co-senior author Alice Cronin - Golomb, PhD, director of the Vision and Cognition Laboratory and Center for Clinical Biopsychology and a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Boston University, divided 55 volunteers into three study groups: 18 patients with both PD and OH, 19 patients with PD but without OH, and 18 control participants with neither PD nor OH.
One way to correct for the gaps the gold standard leaves in our knowledge is the «N of 1» trial, where the number of participants (N) is one instead of hundreds or thousands of volunteers.
The volunteers will undergo these tests after each session of Mozart:» [They] will give us an idea as to the listening skills of each participant in terms of the language being learned and allow us to chart their progress,» Cristina Pérez of the UPV tells us.
In the first phase of the study, participants read four random pieces of information about different American Peace Corps volunteers.
The scans showed that half of the participants who believed they were receiving painkillers reported feeling significantly less pain than did other volunteers.
This means the current pool of psychology research volunteers — generally, college students — could expand since participants would no longer need to travel to a researcher's lab to perform tasks common in psychological research.
Once participants completed this part of the experiment, the volunteers were scanned during a resting period.
Professor of Medicine, said phase I testing will assess drug safety and tolerability in healthy volunteer participants, a process that could take a year.
Yet, many long - running volunteer efforts did not originate with the specific purpose of understanding the consequences of global climate change, and as a result, most of these projects were not designed to foster communication of scientific findings back to project participants; this is particularly true for studies using data from online repositories.
Working with seven female volunteers, all between the ages of 19 and 35, the researchers asked these study participants to chart their menstrual cycles using basal body temperature.
To apply as a student volunteer for Science Buddies, or as a participant in one of our student mentoring programs, visitors need to provide us with personal information so that we are better able to place participants in a suitable role or mentoring environment.
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