Sentences with phrase «own independent studies»

«What we're really concerned with is that there aren't very many independent studies out there that have gone for peer review,» said Tina Yamaki, president of the Retail Merchants of Hawaii.

According to an independent study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by about 5 percent.

(Today Blackboard is used by 42.2 % of U.S. institutions with more than 2,000 students, according to one independent study, compared to 11.4 % for Brightspace.)

Netflix has said BitTorrent use in Canada has been cut in half since the company set up shop and independent studies have found the same — that legal services such as Spotify curb use of shadier ones wherever they pop up.

NEI withdrew its resolutions after the banks agreed to commission an independent study on the issue, the results of which were published in December.

«If China fails, or even if this fixed investment model fails, countries like Australia and Canada are in deep trouble,» says John Lee, a foreign - policy expert at the Hudson Institute who is also a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia.

And an independent study by iStrategy Labs published in January said that 3.3 million fewer teens use Facebook today than did three years ago.

Renewable technology company Bombora Wave Power says an independent study has confirmed the viability of its first commercial project, a 60 - megawatt wave farm in Portugal, which it says will cost $ 180 million to develop.

Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»

One popular option at Brock is the Independent Study course, which allows students to take on a research project in an area of their own choosing.

«An independent study by Harvard University's Dr. Bruce Western found that Ready, Willing & Able graduates are 60 % less likely to be convicted of a felony three years after exiting the program.

During a Stanford independent study course, Bradford built the app's wireframes, essentially blueprints.

A China expert with the Centre for Independent Studies is warning of serious flaws in the Chinese economic growth strategy as its economy booms.

Because of public criticism, the Department of Finance commissioned two independent studies, one in 1994 and one in 2005 to examine the reasons underlying the inaccuracy of budget forecasts and how they might be improved.

In the interest of full disclosure and transparency, you might also have included (or at least mentioned) an independent study of fixed index annuities and their returns and benefits.

Two earlier independent studies both concluded that the forecasts of the Department of Finance were more accurate.

February 2, 2017 By Ann Perry http://mbd.utoronto.ca/ When Arif Aziz learned last fall about a new independent study project that was bringing together MBA candidates and PhD students in health sciences and engineering to map the global market for stem cell therapies, he jumped at the opportunity.

------- You got any independent studies to prove that statement?

Rather than just saying crap we hare 2nd - 3rd hand we should do our own independent study of what a Religion basically says or does not say.

There are numerous other countries with their own independent studies that have reached the same conclusions, they have proven that the APA made the right decision.

The Associated Press (AP) verified the abortion rate drop in an independent study last summer, which found that the decline was sharper in many pro-choice states...

@Doc The reason contraception is «special» is because a wide independent study that was recently done indicated that access to contraception is an integral part of «general good health» in the average American family.

Many students are engaged in independent study, and they show increasing interest in interdisciplinary studies that incorporate religious issues.

An independent study of banana farms in Ecuador showed that Rainforest Alliance Certified farms perform significantly better than non-certified farms in responsible land - management.

In Australia only 1.8 % of the daily intake of kilojoules for adults comes from soft drinks.1 In fact, recent independent studies by the Australian Bureau of Statistics have shown the amount of sugar consumed through soft drinks has dropped while obesity continues to rise.

I remain an «independent study» student of all things culinary.»

My name is Grace MacCallum, my partners and I are currently pursuing an Independent study for our Bioengineering course.

Independent studies show that Rainforest Alliance training leads to increased yields and income, as well as many other long - term benefits for farmers, families and communities that depend on cocoa.

RBT contracted Medicus Research, the premier contract research organization for the Dietary Supplement, Functional Foods and Botanical Drug industries, to perform a comprehensive analysis of independent studies conducted on behalf of RBT to substantiate numerous important health claims for its proprietary and process patented rice bran derivatives and products.

An independent study in Australia found that people who used traffic light labelling were five times more likely to be able to identify healthier food products than those who saw the single coloured counterpart promoted by industry.

The paper courses included both independent studies and courses listed as standard lectures but taught as independent studies.

She then spent her week connecting with her independent study teachers at Berkeley High, taking exams and turning in assignments.

Julius Nyang «oro, the professor in question, then negotiated with those same counselors to provide non-lecture or independent studies classes not originally scheduled:

Over the 18 years these classes existed, Crowder and Nyang «oro were responsible for offering 188 different lecture classes as well as hundreds of individual independent studies in the «paper class» format - with no class attendance or faculty involvement, and with Crowder managing the class and liberally grading the papers.

His transcript shows that he was enrolled in three independent studies courses and one lecture which had no instruction.

Julius Nyang» oro received football tickets, sideline passes, and other favors from counselors in exchange for help with independent studies scheduling, according to emails.

Other evidence shows the African studies department had been generous in enrolling athletes in independent studies.

The CIES is an independent study centre located in Neuchâtel, Switzerland.

The CIES Football Observatory, billed as an independent study center specializing in football statistical analysis, published the results of another study today - the top 50 value add list.

Expeditionary Learning schools have been shown, in independent studies, to have a significant positive effect on academic progress.

One parent may believe that helping their child with homework is both their parental duty and the right thing to do, while another may believe that their duty is to teach their child the value of independent study.

In an independent study conducted by the Good Housekeeping Institute, the Olay Regenerist Micro-Sculpting Cream outperformed 10 top creams, including one that with a $ 440 retail value!

Creative Nail Design disagreed and said an independent study showed UV nail lamps are safe.

Independent studies say there is no proven link between artificially added DHA and eyesight, and some studies have found possible negative effects of DHA supplementation.

An independent study from the Journal of Sports Sciences [1] shows that wearing graduated compression socks during strenuous running or activity can help with DOMS, Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness.

I kept detailed journal entries in graduate school for an independent study course on motherhood I designed while my son was a baby.

According to Bachtelle and Associates, in an independent study performed by NAMA (National Automatic Merchandising Association) Micro Markets averaged $ 51,416 per micro market per year.

At Case Western Reserve University, I served as Independent Study Advisor for Sarah Scott (educational pathways to midwifery).

The internship could be designed as an Independent Study course for which you could get credit from your own university; it can also be used as a «writer's retreat.»

I have served as an undergraduate independent study supervisor at the University of Texas for Kit Aldrich (anthropology: birth stories); Edith Ellwood (sociology); Jennifer Haas (anthropology: childbirth in Cameroon); Adam Ford (religious studies: labyrinths); Margaret Wardlaw (in - hospital birth centers), Laurel Ripple Carpenter (Burlington — the anthropology of reproduction) and many others.