Sentences with phrase «other than academic»

It is interesting that opposing viewpoints come without any substantive evidence (other than academic theory, which is wishful evidence only) supporting their positions.

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What do you consider to be your most significant achievement other than your academic results?

Furthermore the study itself points out that there's not enough data on minorities for the researchers to use the algorithm on anything other than well - lit Caucasian faces, which makes it virtually useless for anything other than academic discourse.

curryja: Why would anyone other than an academic employed by a university or govt lab bother to publish in the pal - reviewed scientific journals?

That more than 80 percent of those closures are for reasons other than academic performance raises concerns — among charter advocates and opponents alike — that authorizers are not holding poorly performing charters accountable for student learning; however, Consoletti argues that financial and operational problems often appear before academic data can be gathered.

States are required to choose one indicator other than academic achievement to evaluate schools and NYS chose chronic absenteeism, which refers to how many kids missed 15 or more days in a year.

Evidence confirms that student skills other than academic achievement and ability predict a broad range of academic and life outcomes.

While conventional wisdom, at least in some circles, holds that people judge schools on the basis of something other than academic quality — most odiously, the racial mix of their student body — here we have reassuring evidence that people evaluate schools on the basis of academics.

To date, there is no publicly recorded incident of hackers getting into the anonymized individual patient dossiers held by data miners, nor reported instances of re-identification of anonymized medical records in the United States other than academic experiments Even if thieves did hack such anonymized records, they would face the additional complication of re-identifying the records.

At least the Protestant concept calls for little insignia other than an academic or tradition - related distinction.

Not exact matches

None other than Charles Darwin wrote the first academic investigation into body language, his «The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals,» published back in 1872.

She explained that parents in China bought fewer toys than parents in other countries because they worried that playing would hurt academic performance.

The coalition is a cluster of more than 50 businesses, academic institutions and other organizations focusing on the state's flexible electronics industry.

For others, though, factors like academic culture, location or alumni networks may be just as, or even more important than pure finances.

The more I read the other comments the more I think this an academic, rather than a practical point.

Japan's academic AI footprint, however, is notably stronger than either South Korea or Singapore, since Japan has roughly 117 active researchers presenting at NIPS and other leading conferences.

Other U.N. and international bodies» critiques were widely lacking, even though it is the U.N. itself which will be challenged to contribute to the issue more than others, perhaps through its still widely unused academic instrument, the United Nations University (UNU).

Now, none other than the controversial academic Stanley Fish claims that doctors and nurses who don't wish to take human life as part of their medical work should just get over it.

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

She managed to prevent individuals from getting tenure (and fired others outright) if their own academic subspecialties drew more positive attention, grants, money, and attendance than hers.

More justifiable in academic contexts than in others.

and I know more than one full professor of English who tell me they are retiring because they have class after class who can not write academic papers... IN OTHER WORDS..

Sometimes the most secular of scholars found that what Frei was doing, with his attention to narrative and his interest in the language that shapes a particular community, made more sense to them than the work of many theologians much more systematically concerned to address other academic disciplines.

Even though many women, African - Americans and Asians are older than other students, there are no significant differences between them and other groups on various measures of academic performance.

Nevertheless, because it was located within an academic department, it did little more than argue with others in that department against dualism and in favor of the relevance of scientific knowledge.

But in fact they allowed theology to become one academic discipline among others, with theologians writing more for one another and for seminary students than for the church or the larger society.

On the other hand, his narrative of Louverture's tragic end — lured across the Atlantic by Napoleon and then locked away to die in a stone fortress in the Jura without so much as a trial — is told with more pathos than the average academic historian could manage.

In addition to hampering academic excellence, binge drinking also inhibits ethical development by focusing heavy drinkers inwards, on private self - indulgence, rather than outwards to service of others.

Although analogies drawn between civic and academic life are far from perfect, I would insist that something like Nash's analysis of Philadelphia better captures the fabric of his and others» academic lives at UCLA than does the language of Gesellschaft.

Especially offensive, it seems, are traditional Christian versions of such teachings, other than those Christian ethical teachings, such as special concern for the poor, that are already widely shared in the academic culture.

Apparently only 7 of the 13 letters of paul are considered undisputed, and the other 6 (which im pretty sure add up to more than 40 lines) lack any type of academic consensus.

This intellectual formation works against the metaphysical foundations of natural law reasoning, and therefore most people find the arguments remote and unconvincing — «academic» in the bad sense of being about something other than the real world we live in.

By placing ourselves in a setting other than the strictly academic, we recognize that spiritual formation and identity require.

Although not fully sympathetic with everything that some of the «deep ecologists» or «Gaia theorists» advocate, these works stand, more than any other works I know, as theological manifestos for an American Green Movement — one book is in a more academic form for the university and seminary, the other in a more confessional mode for the church and community study group.

Fourth, we must also encourage the development of ongoing cadres of persons within the academic community whose own deepest commitments are decisively other than its meritocratic and rationalistic ideology.

The first thing to bear in mind (especially if we ourselves belong to the clerico - academic - scientific type, the officially and conventionally «correct» type, «the deadly respectable» type, for which to ignore others is a besetting temptation) is that nothing can be more stupid than to bar out phenomena from our notice, merely because we are incapable of taking part in anything like them ourselves.

A leading UK vegan advocacy group is commissioning academics to research why some vegan «recruitment» campaigns are more effective than others.

Please furnish a resume, cover letter, names and contact information of two professional or academic references, and two of your own work samples (preferably one narrative written product and one other sample that uses a graphical, web, video, or other format to convey complex or technical concepts to non-technical audiences) totaling no more than 20 pages.

Since then, not much has really changed, other than it now being inconceivable that academics could ever stop a college football game from happening.

He argued that because athletes with lower academic scores are being admitted into better colleges than other students, the best colleges in the nation are not selecting and breeding top academics to compete with the rest of the world.

... it is more likely that good performance leads to high self - esteem rather than the other way around... (T) he researchers found that efforts to boost self - esteem have not been shown to improve academic performance and may sometimes be counterproductive.

As James Heckman and several other researchers have noted, certain, non-cognitive skills or character traits, such as «grit, self - control, zest, social intelligence, gratitude, optimism and curiosity,» have an even greater impact on student achievement than academic skills.

If it is other academics, then there are numerous advantages to this medium — it's faster and more effective than traditional academic journals.

The same could be surmised from the conduct and discourse of the Committee Chair himself, who recently chose to start up a «lively and passionate public debate» on codification on the academic blog of the United Kingdom Constitutional Law Association — hardly likely to be read by any «public» other than public law academics.

I think it will be more wonky (academic) than the ClickZ book, but if so, perhaps they will complement each other.

No group of academics, pollsters or campaign teams in the political parties before the election saw any outcome other than a hung parliament.

This generational disconnect is inevitable, in politics as in other spheres, but it affects the Labour Party worse than other parties because Labour was founded to represent a single class, and now it's arrived at a situation where the likes of Stephen Kinnock and Owen Smith, the children of peers and academics, have to dig up grandparents in the hope of connecting with that class they don't really understand.

«Some campuses could be more open than others in terms of what forms of academic alignment are sufficient for them,» Schryver said.

COPENHAGEN — Surely, one reason women scientists are relatively rare on university faculties — in academic leadership posts such as department chairs and deans, on the programs of scientific meetings, as experts interviewed by the media, on boards, and in other prominent positions — is that women are less visible than men.