Sentences with phrase «ongoing studies focus»

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Climate change was a key focus for the nuclear industry under the Obama administration, including treatment under U.S. EPA's Clean Power Plan and ongoing studies at DOE on how plant closures would affect U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

There are ongoing studies which focus on the discovery of molecular biomarkers of the VSV - ZEBOV vaccine in healthy individuals using omics - based technologies in combination with a systems biology approach,» says Ali Harandi.

Ongoing studies from the Discher lab are focused on finding that sweet spot with additional tumor models, as well as on how to engineer macrophages for longer - lasting effect.

«Our future field studies will focus on voluntary commitment devices in other health behaviors, such as gym exercise and smoking cessation, which can work in large - scale incentive programs and help people maintain self - control on an ongoing basis.»

Future studies could focus on boosting the response of liver and spleen macrophages in people with ongoing viral infections, Norbury said.

The ongoing study «Children and Parents in Focus» was launched in Uppsala, Sweden, in 2013.

Ongoing studies in her lab attempt to characterize the relations between sex and brain structure and function; other studies focus on gender identity and sexuality.

Ernst presented preliminary findings from an ongoing study she is conducting with Mary Hayden, PhD, a scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colorado, whose work focuses on the link between human behavior and climate - related health threats.

The team at Kit Out My Office, www.kitoutmyoffice.com, undertook the study as part of ongoing research into how furniture can affect productivity, with a particular focus on school children.

Using data from the U.S. Department of Education's ongoing study of 16,000 children who entered kindergarten in 1998, the report from the Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, focuses on what many disadvantaged children are lacking when they arrive at school.

Recent and ongoing projects include a researcher - practitioner partnership focused on familial and school - based relationships that support adolescents» emerging sense of purpose, academic engagement, achievement and post-secondary school transitions; Project Alliance / Projecto Alianzo, a multiethnic study of parental involvement in education during adolescence; and collaboration with a local school district focused on school choice policies to examine equity and access to high quality schools, along with demographic variations in parental priorities and experiences with these policies.

Most of the states we studied have created an infrastructure for ongoing principal professional development that focuses on the concrete skills of instructional leadership.

People who commute to work make up nearly 1/2 of all audiobook listeners and studies are still ongoing on how much is retained with not having 100 % focus.

Her research initially focused on the identification and characterization of juvenile dilated cardiomyopathy in Portuguese water dogs and has led to several ongoing studies, including most recently the evaluation of various candidate genes for use in a therapeutic gene transfer approach to improve cardiac function in failing hearts.

Responsible breeders are individuals who have focused their efforts on one or a select few breeds and, through breeding, historical research and ongoing study, mentoring relationships, club memberships, showing, raising and training of these breeds, have become knowledgeable about their health, heritable defects, temperament and behaviour.

«Since then, an ongoing focus on food safety has continued to benefit all things natural, and a steady stream of smaller - scale recalls has served to keep the issue of pet food safety high in the public consciousness,» wrote Shannon Landry Brown, a market analyst and the study author.

Harumi Ori's ongoing sculptural series on paper, «I was here,» focuses on time and space expressed in seemingly simple or forgotten moments of life — moments when people pass each other on a street corner that have significance and beauty that can be studied and admired.

When Do Ho Suh first left Korea to study at RISD, he didn't realize that the experience would inspire an ongoing body of work focused on questions of cultural and personal identity.

The financing allows Arsanis to focus on completing its ongoing Phase 2 study for ASN100, a potential new standard of care for the prevention of Staphylococcus aureus pneumonia in high - risk, mechanically ventilated patients.

Although it is our belief that improving the provision of effective developmental services can improve child developmental outcomes, the studies reviewed herein focus on the efficacy and effectiveness of specific services to identify signs and symptoms, educate parents, change behaviors, and connect children with appropriate ongoing care.

Here are some examples of ways that these research values are being put into practice: the ongoing Educare Randomized Controlled Trial and the Doula Home Visiting Randomized Controlled Trial measure myriad health outcomes; and two studies of Educare by embedded local evaluation partners have explored the relationship of adverse childhood experiences to various childhood outcomes, with a focus on social - emotional and behavioral health.

Currently, Dr. Wittenborn is studying the effectiveness of Emotionally Focused Therapy for couples with comorbid depression and relationship distress in an ongoing randomized clinical trial.

PMT may have significant preventive effects, especially if it is applied during the preschool period, 42 or is a component of broader preventive interventions for school - age children at risk for conduct problems.43, 44 An integrative review of 26 reviews and meta - analyses (1,075 studies) published between 1990 and 2008 found that PMT interventions had a larger effect size than either child focused or school / community based interventions (ds =.56,.41, and.28, respectively).45 If PMT can play a role in the prevention of conduct problems, that will have important implications for reducing the need for ongoing interventions throughout the developmental period and adulthood.

Although finding better ways to do things is a great quality in a team, true CQI is structured, ongoing, and measurable: «Quality Improvement is the use of a deliberate and defined improvement process, such as Plan - Do - Study - Act [PDSA], which is focused on activities that are responsive to community needs and improving population health.