Sentences with phrase «past studies focused»

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A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

Based on his studies during the 1960s and his practical experience in the early 1970s, Milken was determined to focus, first, on future cash flow rather than the past as reflected in book value and reported earnings; and second, to consider human capital part of the balance sheet.

This study covers the history of Sino - US trade relations with a particular focus on the past decade, during which time each has been a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

Luton has had a renewed focus in Britain after it emerged that Taimour Abdulwahab, an Iraqi - born terrorist who blew himself up on a Stockholm street in December, had lived there over the past few years and studied at a local university.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

To provide some insight on female concussions, we launched a research study in October 2013, which focused on female athletes from all sports, and their past and present experiences with concussions.

In particular, much of our Division's past research has focused on vaccine studies and investigations into the cause of Kawasaki disease.

«Past studies have looked at the effects of differential parenting on the children who get more negative feedback, but our study focused on this as a dynamic operating at two levels of the family system: one that affects all children in the family as well as being specific to the child at the receiving end of the negativity,» explains Jennifer M. Jenkins, Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education at the University of Toronto, who led the team.

Focussing on the past decade, and systematically studying press output from across six European countries (UK, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Germany), this project uses advanced methods of qualitative content analysis and quantitative discourse analysis to understand patterns of European memory, the way the discourse is expressed and by whom, and how it has changed over time.

Four News stories focus on past and future impacts of climate change and the techniques that researchers are using to study them.

The biologists behind the new research findings synthesized decades of studies on fossil beetles, focusing on beetles associated with the dung of large animals in the past or with woodlands and trees.

Instead, much of the work on permafrost degradation over the past few decades has focused on the widespread, slow melting of the icy soils from the top down, says Vladimir Romanovsky, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was not involved in the new study.

Past studies have focused on a single species, place, or industry, she notes, «but this lays everything out on the table... we can start to see overlapping patterns, which will help us identify areas at greatest risk of most extreme change.»

Researchers for the past decade have focused on the T cell approach, based on studies showing that monkeys receiving such vaccines against simian immunodeficiency virus, related to HIV, lived longer or had lower viral levels than usual.

In the past, researchers have focused on studying the corona at ultraviolet wavelengths from space, and at visible wavelengths from the ground.

In the final study, participants also answered questions about the time period on which they focused — that is present, past, or future — and the emotions they experienced.

For the study, published in Sage Open, researchers started with 750 food paintings from the past 500 years and focused on 140 paintings of family meals.

Future studies will focus on improving knowledge of fault lines in the region and gaining a better understanding of fluid pressure, specifically how the amount of water injection (both now and in the past) has impacted the geological mechanisms at work in the area.

«Reduction in solar generation due to clouds has been a primary focus in the past,» said Denise L. Mauzerall, a professor of Environmental Engineering and International Affairs who serves as Li's faculty adviser and helped develop the study.

In the late 1990s psychologists Philip G. Zimbardo and John N. Boyd, both then at Stanford University, studied the degree to which people focus on their past, present or future.

Past programs have focused on botanical barcoding, fingerprinting and even using bioluminescent proteins of one organism to study the genes of another.

The South Asian population in the UK has a higher incidence of diabetes and poorer health outcomes from treatment than the general population, but studies in the past have not focused on the role of social networks or assessed beliefs about diabetes to explore self - management behaviours in this population.

Uncovering the genetic pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease has been a target of great interest over the past few years, and genome - wide mapping studies focusing on risk genes have led to significant advances in the field.

«Most effort in the past has been studying cancer cells and tumors themselves, but we're focusing on what precedes the tumor,» Backman says.

Regardless of past totals, the focus should be on reducing emissions, says Wang Yi, director - general of the Institute of Policy and Management at the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, who was not involved in the study.

Past studies of precision grasping in primates have focused on digit posture — contact between the hand and the object — or the length of the thumb relative to the fingers.

For the past 20 years, Zlotnick's lab has conducted research to stop viral infections by studying the physics of viruses, focusing on how capsids are formed.

The study differed from past research because it focused solely on the roles of parents, rather than the child or her mentors.

At least half of his studies during the past 10 years have focused on regions of the brain activated during moments of deep creativity.

Importantly, our study included analyses to assess cardiac arrest counts and survivor counts over time to add confidence that temporal results related to proportions are «true - true» and not a consequence of ascertainment bias.2 During the past decade, much focus has been drawn to increasing bystander CPR.

While past research has tended to focus only on specific sports or genders, this study examined whether the prevalence of symptoms varied between gender and across nine different sports: baseball / softball, basketball, cheerleading, crew, field hockey, lacrosse, track and field, soccer and tennis.

Focus of Study Glacier and rock interactions: how the underlying rock influences glacier flow and how past glaciations have affected tectonics.

In the past decades, scientists have increasingly focused on studying the potential effects of climate change on all aspects of life, including agriculture.

The focus of the new study is how researchers pieced together a record of extreme wet and dry periods across the northern hemisphere for the past 1,200 years.

Classic twin studies of the past focused primarily on the similarities in identical siblings, especially in the relatively rare pairs who were raised apart.

«Most of the past research into the harmful effects of low vitamin D has focused on the elderly, but relatively few studies have examined this association in the elite athlete,» Rebolledo said in a Scripps news release.

Exposure to the pesticides, known as organophosphates, has been linked to behavioral and cognitive problems in children in the past, but previous studies have focused on communities of farm workers and other high - risk populations.

Over the past few years, headlines from such studies have led to widespread dismissal of Dr. McCully's «Homocysteine Theory of Heart Disease» and renewed media focus on cholesterol, C - reactive protein and other possible culprits that can be treated by statins and other profitable drugs.

Over the past few years, headlines from such studies have led to widespread dismissal of Dr. McCully's «Homocysteine Theory of Heart Disease» and renewed media focus on cholesterol, c - reactive protein and other possible culprits that can be treated by statins and other profitable drugs.

At age almost 82, I have become much more focused on nutrition and doing alot of study in past 2 - 3 years.

In the past few years, the benefits of a Mediterranean diet have been the focus of countless studies.

In the past, we used to study a course, focus on our course books provided by the school, college, or organization, and learn from teachers only by attending classes in particular places at fixed times.

EnhanceTV spent the past year listening to more than 10,000 educators through surveys, research groups, diary studies and focus groups, then rebuilding its platform based on the expressed needs.

Here's the latest in a series of occasional case studies I've been doing the past few years, this one about an education - focused PAC called Democrats For Education Reform that was an early backer of Barack Obama and had lots of early success, but has struggled in recent years as its oponents (the teachers unions, mostly) have shifted tactics and politics have gotten more polarized.

Instead, as Innosight Institute's case studies over the past two years reveal, the majority of policy is still focused on rewarding the systems, providers, and operators that best meet certain input measures, most of which are inappropriate for judging this emerging disruptive innovation of online learning.

However, for the past 10 years, we have been studying a different approach to improving and reforming public education ---- one based on building strong relationships among teachers» unions and school administrations, and developing collaborative institutions in schools and school districts focused on improving teaching and learning.

A new study based on the Annenberg Institute on School Reform's (AISR) work with the Transatlantic School Innovation Alliance (TISA) adds to the emerging literature supporting the idea that peer networks among educational practitioners, both within and across schools, can improve teaching and learning.In England, there has been a focus over the past decade on developing formal peer networks, especially in urban settings that have traditionally underperformed relative to other areas of the country.

A national study conducted by the Fordham Institute found that 58 % of teachers have received no professional development focused on teaching academically advanced students in the past few years and 73 % of teachers agreed that «Too often, the brightest students are bored and under - challenged in school — we're not giving them a sufficient chance to thrive.

Five of the big states that were the focus of the task force study have reduced state and local government since the recession began, with most of the reductions occurring in just the past two years.