Sentences with phrase «part by academic»

Are schools are treated fairly, particularly those with a large share of students in poverty, and judged in part by academic growth, not just achievement?

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Castleberry and her colleagues are a part of an academic network created by the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration to assess challenges in commercial spaceflight.

A series of events, being co-hosted by the World Bank and WHO on 13 - 14 April, as part of the World Bank Group - International Monetary Fund Spring Meetings in Washington DC, is bringing ministers of finance, development agencies, academic experts and practitioners together to discuss how to put mental health at the centre of the health and development agenda globally and in countries.

As part of the application process, entrepreneurs must enter into a collaborative agreement with UMSL that describes how they will further the mission and goals of UMSL (such as by hiring or mentoring students, developing programs, contributing to academic research, etc., depending on school needs).

Numerous academic studies have shown that an analyst initiating coverage of a stock pushes share prices higher, in part by improving investor recognition of the company and increasing its liquidity.

Well, I can see in 2000 years, academics looking back at the «great persecution of Christians» and finding that the great persecutions of the early part of the third millennium AD were actually blog comments by anonymous people.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

Despite a public culture committed to diversity and tolerance, anti-Catholicism has grown measurably worse among academics and intellectuals over the past decade — driven in equal parts by sexual abuse scandals, gay rights, resurgent atheism, and lingering historical prejudice.

Rather, they resulted from an often ad hoc process in which the spiritual and physical needs of the poor, the teachings of Vatican II, the intentions of the Brazilian hierarchy (running both for and against the emerging agenda of liberation theology), the brutal repression perpetrated by Brazilian dictators, and the work of academics all played a part.

Whatever the drive for power on the part of the institution and its academic leadership, the desire to be free of the church was usually motivated by the belief that the Christian context and spiritual nourishment they regarded as a blessing could and would continue after the removal of any authoritative link with the church.

Dialogue with Nietzsche by Gianni Vattimo Columbia University Press, 247 pages, $ 29.50 It is part of academic folklore to defend philosophers against unskilled readings by nonspecialists.

Two articles by Gerald T. Sheppard provide greater detail: «Biblical Hermeneutics: The Academic Language of Evangelical Identity,» Union Seminary Quarterly Review, 32 (Winter I977), 81 - 94; «Word and Spirit: Scripture in the Pentecostal Tradition: Part One,» Agora: A Magazine of Opinion within the Assemblies of God [no longer published], I, No. 4 (Spring 1978), 4 - 22; and»... Part Two,» 2, No.

After acrimonious arguments about the judges and about the reporting of the debate; after a tedious procession to church, a new twelve - part Mass, and a long droned out and largely inaudible introduction by a local academic, the debate finally got under way on 27 July between Eck and Karlstadt in the great hall of the Pleissenburg Castle.

If as a pastor you have not had an opportunity to learn either kind of skill, you have several options: Arrange to get the training you need (perhaps your church will provide a sabbatical leave); or ask your church to employ a «minister of group life and lay training» (with academic and clinical training in pastoral care and counseling); or employ a part - time pastoral counselor or accredited chaplain supervisor to coordinate lay training; or simply find a competent supervisor in your community and get your own on - the - job training as a trainer by having him or her coach you as you do lay training.

Such is the first, superficial impression: our schools, like our churches and our ministers, have no clear conception of what they are doing but are carrying on traditional actions, making separate responses to various pressures exerted by churches and society, contriving uneasy compromises among many values, engaging in little quarrels symptomatic of undefined issues, trying to improve their work by adjusting minor parts of the academic machine or by changing the specifications of the raw material to be treated.

Every year an interdisciplinary jury, featuring some of the world's most influential chefs, academics and experts, chooses the candidate who best embodies the mission of this unique global award created by the Basque Culinary Center (BCC) with the support of the Basque Government as part of the Euskadi - Basque Country Strategy.

«b. Either (i) the player has NOT attended a college or university in the United States or Canada during the academic year that takes place during all or any part of the season; (ii) the player has attended a college or university in the United States or Canada during the academic year that takes place during all or any part of the season but is no longer eligible in the current academic year (including by enrolling) to play basketball for the college or university during the season at the time of signing the Player Contract; or (iii) the player has no remaining intercollegiate basketball eligibility.

I've written a lot over the years (really, A LOT - see the Related Links below) about junk food in school classrooms, whether distributed by teachers as rewards for good behavior and academic performance or served as part of birthday or classroom... [Continue reading]

But the revised draft (cerhr.niehs.nih.gov / chemicals / bisphenol / BPA (underscore) Interim (underscore) DraftRpt.pdf) also has generated heavy criticism by academic scientists, in part because it uses the raw data from SI.

The pervasive associations found between breastfeeding and measures of cognitive ability and academic achievement were, in part, explained by the fact that the outcomes described in Table 1 were all significantly correlated.

Place funding will already have been passed to the institution by EFA for the full academic year as part of their allocation and will not be clawed back because place funding is not associated with individual students.

Place funding will already have been passed to the institution by the EFA for the full academic year as part of their allocation and will not be clawed back because place funding is not associated with individual students.

If you find your child's teacher is the one focusing too much on grades and academics, try asking questions that address the parts of your child that can't be measured by test scores and homework, such as character and friendships.

In a survey conducted by the Quality Assurance Agency, the universities watchdog, more than 60 per cent of recruiters were unaware of the honorary nature of this apparently «higher» degree, and believed that it reflected an academic achievement and qualification on the part of the applicant.

Ironically, by his very examples, Prof. Pate projected his own different outlook, even from fellow academics, from other parts of Nigeria.

Battle of the Books is part of the overall Summer Reading initiative run by the 37 - site Buffalo & Erie County Public Library System where school age children are encouraged to read during the summer months in an effort to advance their academic performance.

As part of the CLS program — which is funded by the state, the city, the UFT and private donors — a full - time community school director is hired by each school to secure and manages services in six areas: health and wellness, educator supports, academic supports, expanded learning time, parent supports and community outreach.

Jenssen did his part to strengthen Helleday's managing style by «inform [ing] him about the unwritten laws within academic life.»

Academic boycott is only one part of a worldwide campaign including divestment and sanctions asked for by Palestinian civil society.

The authors did not find support for another possible outcome suggested in the academic literature: that black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs by both black and white teachers when those teachers are part of a racially diverse teaching force.

The # 1.3 m Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council - funded project will see academics working with newly - developed dynamic visual sensors, which drastically reduce computing power and data storage requirements by only updating the parts of an image where movement occurs.

By using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with their academic collaborators, have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printinBy using laser - generated, hologram - like 3D images flashed into photosensitive resin, researchers at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, along with their academic collaborators, have discovered they can build complex 3D parts in a fraction of the time of traditional layer - by - layer printinby - layer printing.

Bozon, an applied mathematician at the Agricultural and Environmental Engineering Research Institute (Cemagref) in Montpellier, France, is part of a new initiative launched by the French government in the summer of 2007 to broaden career avenues for academic researchers.

The cases against the eight academics are part of a series of high - profile political trials launched by the government since 2007.

Many universities in the southern Third World are in part staffed by academics from countries in the North.

It elicits the best ideas and best work from highly motivated scientists because it chooses the grantees through a competitive system of merit rankings done by peer committees composed of academic experts in each field who serve as part - time judges.

One can tell easily about a professor's academic standing and scientific merits through his publications and achievements by simple online search, but building trust between researchers in different parts of the world and sustaining it throughout the project is undoubtedly the biggest challenge facing global collaboration.

Convened in part by the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy, the meeting will bring together academics, government officials, industry experts, and patient advocates to discuss the use of naloxone both in and out of conventional medical settings.

Data items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time students.

More than 30 scientists and forest managers contributed to the report, which is part of the Central Hardwoods Climate Change Response Framework, a collaboration of federal, state, academic and private partners led by the Forest Service's Northern Institute of Applied Climate Science (NIACS).

Hope envisions a future that would free academics of such pressures, letting them develop a portfolio career where they would only be employed part time by an academic institution and complement their working lives and incomes as freelance writers, consultants, industry - based researchers, or entrepreneurs.

«Despite the difficulties, we have to adapt to an archaeological record that is massively expanded and, at its best, of far better quality than has been achieved by academics, who are often very part - time fieldworkers.»

The academics suggest that the melting of the ice sheet may have been caused in part by the fact that some of it rests in basins below sea level.

In announcing the union's decision in a memo to the campus community, Glassman wrote that «[t] he action by EIU's outstanding faculty and academic support professionals is a testament to their support of their colleagues and willingness to be part of the solution in the vital budget adjustments taking place on campus.»

This idea, which goes by the name of functional - trait ecology, had been part of his lab work for years but had always felt academic and abstract, says Duffy, now director of the Smithsonian Institution's Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network in Washington DC.

In large part, the move to organize has been fueled by decreasing academic job opportunities.

Scholarly articles published by over 20 researchers in Monographs, titled «The Relation of Childhood Physical Activity to Brain Health, Cognition and Scholastic Achievement» indicate that while physical activity in schools has diminished in part because of a growing emphasis on student performance and academic testing, decreased physical activity is actually related to decreased academic performance.

Trends in measuring academic performance are driven in part by funders, says Trine Buhl Monty, senior executive consultant for the University of Copenhagen's Faculty of Science.

This work was supported in part by the Center for Research in FOP and Related Disorders, the International FOP Association, the Ian Cali Endowment, the Weldon Family Endowment, the Penn Center for Musculoskeletal Disorders, the Isaac and Rose Nassau Professorship of Orthopaedic Molecular Medicine, and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB760 to P. Seemann and S. Mundlos); by Health and Labour Science Research Grants for Research on Measures for Intractable Disease Research and the Academic Frontier Project of Saitma Medical University Research Center for Genomic Medicine, both from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Sciences, and Technology of Japan (to T. Katagiri); and by grants from the Rita Allen Foundation and the NIH (R01 - GM056326 to M.C. Mullins; R01 - AR40196 to F.S. Kaplan and E.M. Shore).

This Project Idea, created by MIT as part of the Science Buddies Academic Outreach Program, lets students explore cutting - edge methods for storing renewable energy by breaking up water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen.