Sentences with phrase «on particular populations»

Increasingly, scholars recognize that early childhood interventions have a stronger effect on particular populations of children, thereby contributing not just to overall increases in achievement for all participating students, but providing particular boosts to children who need it most.

One response has been the creation of a wide variety of public charter schools, almost all of which are small and with a distinct culture or focus on a particular population.

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In particular, «agricultural commodities are supported by the dynamics of water shortages in Asia and the Western United States, the declining payback from the green revolution in terms of improving crop yields and the increasing demand from Asia for a diet based more on grains and meat as the population becomes wealthier,» the group responded by e-mail.

Using this particular matrix, McQuaid's team quickly scans both the factual attributes (population, on the y - axis) and emotional attributes (accompanied by introspection, on the x-axis) of 16 potential customer segments for the health - and - wellness tool.

Vancouver's steady population growth, in particular its unusually high percentage of foreign - born residents, is the basis of this confidence, said Mario Lefebvre, the director of the board's Centre for Municipal Studies, in an analysis released on Thursday.

Both of these types of organizations, among others, tend to have diverse populations, it would be nothing short of doctrinaire to impose a particular religious dogma on the medical care of everyone who is a patient, a student or an employee.

Throughout the essays are scattered references to everything from ozone depletion to recycling strategies to the effects of American pet shops on the population of parrots in New Guinea — and recommendations of particular courses of action: Aeschliman's commendation of conservancy strategies, for instance, through which churches purchase endangered land to ensure preservation.

In addition, schools should be able to gauge the particular needs of their student populations on a case by case basis to determine which dates are ideal for scheduling major academic programs in the first place.

Your child will be exposed ONLY to children with his particular diagnosis, which means he will be quite isolated from the general population (this is true to some degree even if the school is eager to take your child on «outings» into the community).

In addition, all of their products are produced in fair trade settings, with a particular focus on improving opportunities for local populations.

Survey after survey has shown the population as a whole, and young people in particular, increasingly turning away from religious beliefs and influences entirely — and yet there has been no detrimental effect on the wellbeing of the nation.

So I clicked on it: «Because genetic association studies are generally performed in populations of a particular ethnic background [European, Asian, African], we can not know whether the associations will also apply to those of a mixed background.

In clinical sciences, pharmacogenetics, with a particular emphasis on Asian populations, would represent another niche area.

It focuses on reaching everyone, in particular critical population groups many of whom live in humanitarian and fragile settings — where a majority of these deaths happen.

«In particular, in a world with constraints on the funding and dissemination of ideas (e.g., a limit on the number of faculty slots, or, more abstractly, a limit on the attention span of the potential audience), large and sudden increases in the population of producers of knowledge can result in diminishing marginal productivity for a pre-existing worker,» it continues.

«Much of our past research has been conducted on tobacco use among disparate populations, in particular African American males,» said Dr. Ronald Peters and Dr. Angela Meshack in a joint statement.

Steve: Genetic drift refers to the fact that just by chance, some small percentage of Neandertals had this prominent ridge and then they became the progenitors of the population so it got passed on even though there was not any particular selection pressure, any particular survival advantage, to having it.

Depending on the particular route travelled by each ship, the researchers estimated the probability that a species survives the journey and establishes a population in subsequent ports of call.

Promoting wider access to genomic medicine in Mexico and Latin America by supporting discovery programs that focus on health problems with particular relevance to the region, and leverage its unique population genetics.

This will focus on reducing exposure through improved forecasting and systems for giving an early warning to vulnerable populations, in particular children with asthma and adults with atrial fibrillation.

Another branch of my work focused more on the role of evolution in genetic disease, and in particular understanding why certain genetic diseases persist in the population despite their obvious fitness costs, and what forces are respsonsible for shaping their underlying genetic architectures.

Our work combines computational analysis of high - throughput sequencing data, population genetics, and experimental work.We focus in particular on studying genetic effects on the transcriptome traits, which has further applications in other traits at the cellular and individual level.

And, of particular use for anthropologists working on historic sites, Ross has also shown that the differences between male and female skulls are becoming less pronounced in some populations.

Markovian models expect that the probability of an individual being in a particular state (within the population or as a migrant) is dependent on its previous state, whereas random models expect that the probabilities of temporary emigration and immigration are independent of the previous state [28].

Through long - established collaborations in Durban and Kimberley, these studies in particular seek to define: the immune responses that are effective in control of HIV infection; the impact of HLA - mediated selection pressure on HIV at the individual and population level; the mechanisms of HIV non-pathogenicity; the nature and consequences of ontogeny of the virus - specific immune response; and finally the prospects for interventions including antiretroviral therapy, alone or in combination with broadly neutralising antibodies and / or T - cell vaccines, to achieve HIV eradication.

Counting bees on a particular plot can show how many individual bees and bee species are visiting flowers there, but it won't tell ecologists what they really want to know: whether these plantings are helping to reverse population declines.

He has particular interests in (1) the use of ancient DNA methods to document changes in genetic variation through time and phylogenetic relationships of extinct or endangered organisms (especially of the recently extinct Hawaiian avifauna); (2) the use of highly variable genetic markers to measure genetic structure and relatedness, and to ascertain mating systems, in natural populations, and (3) the use of genetics to study the evolutionary interactions between hosts, vectors and infectious disease organisms (e.g., major projects on introduced avian malaria in native Hawaiian birds and invasive chytrid fungus in amphibians).

JAX has particular strengths in research focused on understanding aging, behavior and addiction, computational biology, cancer, development and disease, gene expression, genetics and genomics, immunology and hematology, metabolism, microbiome, neuroscience, reproductive biology, statistical and population genetics, stem cells, systems biology, and translational medicine.

However, the GVPs analyzed in this study originate from one position on the genome and genetic databases allow for accurate estimation of the distribution of a particular SNP in a sample population.

A good amount of the world population is returning to the office every fall, but this fall in particular, why not do it on a higher fashion level?

Every day population of members is increases on particular dating site.

He knows just how much to give and when to withold, and his choices — in particular how much of the population's problem to explain and how much to ask the audience to simply accept — allow the focus to remain clearly on Theo instead of how this future came about.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Create skits and plays focused on peer conflicts that are common among your particular population of students (consider age, gender, demographics, etc.).

In particular, the results are most useful for understanding the effects of charter schools run by education - management organizations on student populations that comprise largely low - income and racial / ethnic minorities.

The report was a demographic study outlining major demographic shifts in our population, focusing in particular, on the changes from early childhood education through college and career systems.

Amie's research interests focus on the prevention of problem behaviors in youth, with a particular focus on identifying malleable risk and protective factors associated with the development of problem behaviors, and examining the impact of evidence - based interventions on reducing or preventing the development of such behaviors within low - income populations.

In the pilot, state test score gains in a particular class were analyzed and scored relative to the student's predicted growth based on past scores, and relative to the average gains seen across the district and within different groups of the student population.

«We'll be looking very carefully at what's happening in those local authorities with the same sort of population, with similar levels of deprivation, similar numbers of children on free school meals, where one particular local authority does extremely well and another one doesn't.

Asked about her particular view on free schools, Dr Allen said she did not «have a problem with free schools opening» but felt that «given we are in a position where we have a rising pupil population I think it's important we focus on opening schools where they are really needed for children».

He works in the Higher Education division at ETS and, over the past several years, Markle has researched the role of noncognitive skills in student success and student learning with a particular emphasis on traditionally underserved populations.

California's disqualification in particular frees up more money for the participating states; final awards will be determined based on each state's student population.

The Texas waiver request is of particular interest to education leaders and policy experts, not only because of the state's considerable student population, but also because Texas has suggested that it would apply for a waiver without agreeing to all of the college - and career - readiness, school improvement, and teacher effectiveness reforms that the department is requiring in exchange for flexibility on key components of the law.

(e) The board shall establish the information needed in an application for the approval of a charter school; provided that the application shall include, but not be limited to, a description of: (i) the mission, purpose, innovation and specialized focus of the proposed charter school; (ii) the innovative methods to be used in the charter school and how they differ from the district or districts from which the charter school is expected to enroll students; (iii) the organization of the school by ages of students or grades to be taught, an estimate of the total enrollment of the school and the district or districts from which the school will enroll students; (iv) the method for admission to the charter school; (v) the educational program, instructional methodology and services to be offered to students, including research on how the proposed program may improve the academic performance of the subgroups listed in the recruitment and retention plan; (vi) the school's capacity to address the particular needs of limited English - proficient students, if applicable, to learn English and learn content matter, including the employment of staff that meets the criteria established by the department; (vii) how the school shall involve parents as partners in the education of their children; (viii) the school governance and bylaws; (ix) a proposed arrangement or contract with an organization that shall manage or operate the school, including any proposed or agreed upon payments to such organization; (x) the financial plan for the operation of the school; (xi) the provision of school facilities and pupil transportation; (xii) the number and qualifications of teachers and administrators to be employed; (xiii) procedures for evaluation and professional development for teachers and administrators; (xiv) a statement of equal educational opportunity which shall state that charter schools shall be open to all students, on a space available basis, and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, creed, sex, gender identity, ethnicity, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age, ancestry, athletic performance, special need, proficiency in the English language or academic achievement; (xv) a student recruitment and retention plan, including deliberate, specific strategies the school will use to ensure the provision of equal educational opportunity as stated in clause (xiv) and to attract, enroll and retain a student population that, when compared to students in similar grades in schools from which the charter school is expected to enroll students, contains a comparable academic and demographic profile; and (xvi) plans for disseminating successes and innovations of the charter school to other non-charter public schools.

District budgets determine how funds are distributed among the schools, and those funding allocations are most often made based on the allocation of resources (such as teachers) and not directly on the composition of individual schools» student populations and the particular educational needs of those students.

This report breaks down some of the broader demographics across district and charter schools, gives a profile of the special education populations, breaks downs suspension and attendance, and provides some reflection on particular disparities for African American students.

During the press conference, Cheatham also recognized how great the charge is to show academic improvement for the district's most vulnerable populations, with a particular focus on black students.

7.66 % of the population stated that price is most important while 7.23 % of the said that a particular e-reader brand, such as Kindle, Kobo or Nook weighed in on their decision.

In particular, the book will help the reader to discover underlying principles for the planning of future cities and peri-urban regions in relation to: (i) Balanced urban development policies and institutions for future cities; (ii) Understanding the effects of land use change, population increase, and water demand on the liveability of cities; (iii) Long - term pl...

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