My proposal is that what unifies this set of practices, making them genuinely «theological» practices and providing criteria of excellence, is that they are all done in service of one end: To understand God more truly by focusing
on study about, against, and for Christian congregations.
Note: This post was written in 2007, and launched
me on a study about the church, much of which is found in various other posts on this blog.
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on this study about coconut oil & colon cancer Thanks!
She is a Graduate Research Assistant for the National Education Policy Center working
on a study about charter schools and access.
This article reports
on a study about the achievement of secondary school students who worked in classrooms where teachers were given the time to develop formative assessment strategies.
Wind Turbine Sound and Health Effects: An Expert Panel Review An expert panel review
on studies about the health effects of wind turbines.
University of South Carolina law professor Colin Miller posts
on studies about eyewitness suggestibility, proposed legislation related to penalties for withholding or falsifying evidence and much more.
However, we should stop spending billions
on studies about animal behavior and bonuses for Fannie Mae directors and their staffs and other government and quasi-government organizations.
Not exact matches
«Through clever research
studies and engaging writing, Dweck illuminates how our beliefs
about our capabilities exert tremendous influence
on how we learn and which paths we take in life.
About 100 years after Dickinson's death, scientists began to formally
study the power that a smile confers
on the closing of a deal.
The economy could lose out
on about $ 280 billion if the Trump Administration deports the nearly one million undocumented who qualified for the program, according to a January 2017
study from the CATO Institute.
Steven Cook, senior fellow for Middle East and Africa
Studies at the Council
on Foreign Relations, said higher oil prices lessen all the worries from 2015 and 2016
about the Saudi government's ability to maintain its commitments, but the consolidation of power in the hands of the Crown Prince also is significant for the market and investors as his reform program is widely regarded as critical for Saudi Arabia's future prosperity.
She
studied English and archaeology at Yale — taking the kind of classes that make you feel like «lying
on the ground thinking
about things,» she said.
The
study involving
about 1000 Facebook users in the US found that those who spent relatively more time
on Facebook and had a strong network
on social media were more likely to have lower credit scores and more credit card debt compared to those who used it less and had a comparatively weaker network.
The duo is seen together out and
about together often, including to Bible
study and to the movies, so people assume that they're back
on.
Rather than relying
on high - profile examples that everyone is writing
about, such as Steve Jobs, consider case
studies of other successful people who may be under the radar.
In an appropriately titled
study called Impact of Color in Marketing, researchers found that up to 90 % of snap judgments made
about products can be based
on color alone (depending
on the product).
But if the nice, thick - walled building would take
about 15 minutes travel time, it's better to hole up in the flimsy shelter for awhile — but you should probably leave for a better shelter after roughly an hour (and maybe pick up some beers and sodas
on the way: A
study in the»50s found they taste fine after a blast).
I hadn't had anyone come in in a couple hours and was brushing up
on my class notes for the week feeling pretty good
about being paid to
study.
«If investors spent less time listening to the talking heads
on BNN and CNBC and more time
studying history, they would realize that there is little value added by obsessing
about economic growth,» Murray Leith, an analyst at Odlum Brown in Vancouver, wrote last fall.
And many of these
studies are small, so these are preliminary hypotheses
about what might be going
on, not ironclad conclusions.
Prophet was really, really excited
about a new Salesforce
study on values - driven leadership trends.
At the companies with the most overpaid CEOs, the 25 funds listed in the
study went along whatever the compensation committees recommended
about 80 % of the time,
on average.
«There have been times when I've had a really busy week and a lot has been going
on and I'll sit down
on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad
about this one thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to think
about it; I was zipping from one thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has
studied at Insight Meditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in the country.
In a
study of 16 countries, Americans had the greatest disconnect
on the income gap, believing that top executives make
about 30 times more than average workers.
Announcing your goals publicly is a tried - and - true way of dissuading yourself from weaseling out of them; one
study found people who talked
about their weight loss efforts
on Twitter fared better than those who didn't.
I know there are countless
studies, but this new research
about how the brain works and how we express emotions sheds new light
on the topic.
But a recent
study conducted by Vision Critical
on behalf of Rogers found that
about three quarter of Canadian enterprises» IT teams are simply too busy to innovate.
The average fund lost
about 1 percent in 2015, the
study found, noting that many actively - managed funds focused
on macro strategies were beaten by computer algorithms.
«While no decisions have been made
about Department of Defense activities
on the islands based
on the
study, DOD continues to focus
on ensuring its installations and infrastructure are resilient to a wide range of threats.
The Army and Air Force wanted a two - year delay to further
study the issue, said the officials, who were not authorized to talk
about the internal discussion publicly and spoke
on condition of anonymity.
Dubbed the 2016 Label Insight Transparency ROI
Study, the survey targeted more than 2,000 consumers
about the impact transparency has
on their trust in and loyalty to brands.
According to a 2017
study by Flurry, the average American spends five hours a day
on smart devices and
about two and a half of those hours are spent in social, messaging, media and entertainment applications.
Premiums for health plans sold
on Obamacare exchanges are
about the same or cheaper than premiums for employer - offered plans, a
study finds.
The
study estimates that U.S. workers across all sectors
on average were better off by
about $ 431 million in 2010 when you take into account the increased productivity and innovation within the tech sector due to foreign workers.
Within the last year, only
about four in 10 mid-market companies have conducted a formal cost analysis
on payroll, time and attendance and employee benefits administration alone, according to the 2014 TCO
study.
«We make a big deal
about the controversial nature of our business and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles
on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological
study of human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.
Their «From Mad Men to Sad Men»
study noted the following — «Think
about how many people
on the agency team, at all levels, communicate with the client.
TORONTO, April 23 (Reuters)- Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations will create a working group to
study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns
about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said
on Monday.
That view is likely biased —
studies have shown interviewers tend to prefer candidates similar to them, judge candidates
on fewer criteria than they think they're judging them
on, and tend to let biases
about matters like race and gender get in the way.
In his 1994
study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough
about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.
The Center for American Progress reviewed 30 case
studies in 11 of the most relevant research papers
on the costs of employee turnover and found that it costs businesses
about one - fifth of a worker's salary to replace that worker.
The
study was based
on 166 volunteers who were recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk, where you can make money by completing «Human Intelligence Tasks,» and it looked at their entire Instagram histories, which came out to
about 43,950 photos.
The
study showed that
on average, American women grew just five centimeters over the century to 163.5 cm — or two inches, to
about 5» 4»
on average, while men grew
about 6 cm, to approximately 177.1 cm or 5» 8».
In fact, one Yale
study suggests that those not participating in the lunch - line prattle may be missing out
on crucial information
about people's trustworthiness; to refuse to engage in gossip at all can be» unhealthy and abnormal.»
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!».
A new Gallup
study released Thursday sheds new light
on worker - manager relationships, finding that
about 50 % of the 7,200 adults surveyed left a job «to get away from their manager.»
Frind's account of his own exploits, published
on his blog in 2006 under the title «How I Started a Dating Empire,» says a lot
about his worldview: «I spent every waking minute when I wasn't at my day job reading,
studying, and learning.
It's a subject most of us could benefit from
studying up
on, but in an interview Vanderkam explained that when it comes to thinking
about personal finances in a constructive way, entrepreneurs generally have a leg up over salaried workers.
On October 19, it released the results of an online panel
study of
about 46,000 adult participants, comparing them to a similar
study conducted at the beginning of the year.