Sentences with phrase «performance studies who»

As a practitioner of performance studies who teaches communication arts at a theological seminary, my aim is to challenge the casual way that others use «performance» is used to demean and devalue preaching and the other arts of ministry.

I am a practitioner of performance studies who, by choice and circumstance, keeps professional company with those who teach and practice preaching.

Not exact matches

In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

People appear to function normally, says Hans Van Dongen, a professor in the WSU Sleep and Performance Research Center who directed the study.

Rosekind, the scientist who studied the benefits of naps and developed a «fatigue countermeasures» program for NASA, put it in terms business people can understand: «Which person do you want on the job, the one with 34 % better performance [after a nap] and 100 % more alert — or the other guy?»

So Schnidman Medbery, who studied computer science at Columbia University before spending two years with Teach for America in rural Arkansas, decided to create software to help teachers track and analyze student performance.

Studies show that CEOs who overestimate their abilities tend to overpay for acquisitions, take undue risks, introduce more unsuccessful new products, and have more volatile firm performance.

Then, let's go one step further and look at how companies who have hired women on their own have fared: in those situations, a 2010 McKinsey & Co. study found that companies actually have better financial performance.

«If a lucky event early in a CEO's tenure is not balanced by an unlucky one is such a short time period, then that CEO could be wrongfully credited for high performance that would have happened no matter who was leading the company,» according to the study.

Cain notes Brigham Young professor of management Bradley Agle, who studied CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance.

Studies have shown those who were happily dating a co-worker saw a significant boost in productivity, job performance and overall satisfaction.

A study found that people who work in offices filled with natural light experience substantially less eye strain, headaches and blurred visions, all of which deter focus and performance.

Recently, the Mount Holyoke College women's - studies department reported that it will not longer stage an annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, having felt its feminism outflanked by the exclusion of «women» who lack the body part so prominently put forward by the play.

The study thus challenges the conventional wisdom that a more demanding school will improve the performance of students who are already performing well, but only at the cost of forcing out poor performers.

The CEA Study Abroad Performance of the Night certainly went to Garrison Sanipass who was 4 for 4 and hit THREE Home Runs (and drove in 7).

According to German federation head coach Richard Sch √ ∂ nborn, who coordinated the study, the muscles of many juniors had developed «inadequately, irregularly or weakly, leading to deformity, serious impairment of performance, stagnation and, eventually, the inability to play — all at an age when excessive physical stress should be omitted.»

Studies have repeatedly shown that kids who eat breakfast have better «cognitive performance.»

«Studies show better cognitive performance by kids who eat breakfasts with more protein or healthier cereals like oatmeal.

The study also recognized, however, that the fact that those who specialize early may experience a more rapid improvement in performance provides some support for those who argue in favor of early specialization, at least in the case of sports, such as figure skating and gymnastics, in which athletic careers are shorter and attaining peak performance at a younger age may be advantageous.

He found the studies linking school breakfast with improved student performance compelling, and brought the idea to his superintendent, who was new to the position in the previous school year.

«Studies show that kids who eat breakfast do better in school, their overall performance in school is greater,» said Susan Mitchell, a dietitian and author of «I'd Kill For a Cookie» (Dutton).

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

«The networks don't seem to affect academic performance,» said study co-author Norm Fruchter, who serves on the city Panel for Educational Policy, in addition to his academic work.

But NYU professor and performance artist Karen Finley, who famously pissed off Jesse Helms by smearing chocolate on her nude body, is sure to effectively blow everyone away at tonight's sixth annual meeting of the Cultural Studies Association at NYU.

Following the performance, psychiatrist and author Richard Restak, and Stephen L. Macknik and Susana Martinez - Conde, scientists who study various aspects of visual, sensory and cognitive neuroscience, discussed the science underlying what the audience had just experienced.

«This well - designed set of experiments shows that chronic THC pretreatment appears to restore a significant level of diminished cognitive performance in older mice, while corroborating the opposite effect among young mice,» wrote Susan Weiss, director of the Division of Extramural Research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, who was not involved in the study, in an e-mail.

A U.S. study of healthy young and older subjects who took donepezil for only 14 days found that performance on short - term memory tasks actually deteriorated slightly.

«Past research has found a link between violent crimes and performance on tests, but researchers haven't been able to say why crime affects academic performance,» explains Jennifer A. Heissel, a PhD graduate in human development and sociology at Northwestern University, who led the study.

Researchers who have studied blade prostheses disagree fiercely over the net impact of these pros and cons on overall performance.

In the first of three studies for their recent paper, Ehrlinger and her colleagues found that students who hold a fixed mindset about intelligence were more overconfident about their performance on a multiple - choice test than those with a growth mindset.

Dr Allan Debelle, who conducted the study as part of his PhD under the supervision of Dr Rhonda Snook at the University of Sheffield, said these results suggest that mate choice can be an important driver of the evolution of motor performance, «Our research shows that when, at each generation, females are given a choice among several mates performing energetically costly courtship, the motor performance of males in that population can respond to this selection process and progressively improve.»

The study details a promising approach for pinpointing more athletes who play «impaired» on the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT, a computerized tool consisting of eight subtests that gauge neurocognitive performance.

«This study is very intriguing — it's the first to show that metacognition can be selectively enhanced by drugs in the absence of differences in task performance,» says Steve Fleming, at University College London, who wasn't involved in the study.

The results of the study suggest that «people's performance on various cognitive tasks is better the fewer changes they have to their brain connectivity,» said John Dylan Haynes, a neuroscientist at the Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience in Berlin who studies cognition and was not involved in the study.

A second study showed that training in realistic environments, including practiced encounters with armed - opponent actors in buildings and streets, improved their shooting accuracy under stress Similarly, trials with 66 of the officers revealed that those who trained weekly on their own in a combat sport such as karate or kickboxing performed better under high - anxiety fights than those with no additional training, although both groups suffered performance decreases when conditions shifted from low to high anxiety.

asks Jason Kring, who studies human performance in extreme conditions at the Embry - Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida.

Torkel Klingberg, who develops cognitive training progams at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm, Sweden, says the study shows that training in basic cognitive abilities can improve everyday performance too.

Scientists who studied long - lived diving birds, which represent valuable models to examine aging in the wild, found that blood oxygen stores, resting metabolism and thyroid hormone levels all declined with age, although diving performance did not.

However, these experiments are the first to show that activating this motivation can influence performance on complex, real - world behaviors,» said Greenberg, who was another co-author of the studies, along with UA psychology doctoral student Peter Helm.

In a previous study, Lifshin and his colleagues showed that when people who enjoy playing basketball are reminded of their mortality, they improve their performance on the basketball court, and thereby their self - esteem, to manage their fear of death.

Study participants who were in the higher (second, third, and fourth) quartiles of vigorously intense physical activity performance in their lifetimes had about 25 percent to 30 percent lower risk for NHL, compared with those who were in the lowest (first) quartile of vigorously intense physical activity.

The study is co-authored by Jeff Russell, an assistant professor in Ohio University's College of Health Sciences and Professions and director of the Clinic for Science and Health in Artistic Performance (SHAPe Clinic), and Brooke Daniell, who collected data for the study as a senior athletic training undergraduate in the School of Applied Health Sciences and Wellness honors program.

«We found that the majority of students were being jet - lagged by their class times, which correlated very strongly with decreased academic performance,» said study co-lead author Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral fellow who studies circadian rhythm disruptions in the lab of UC Berkeley psychology professor Lance Kriegsfeld.

Previous studies have shown that students who think they are smart often stop trying and their performance declines over time, while those who consider themselves hard workers get progressively better.

Konrad, who had become a memory athlete to improve his academic performance, helped connect Dresler to other top memory athletes for this study.

«We've found that there are universal psychological characteristics amongst those who are aspiring to get to the top,» says Professor Dave Collins, lead author of the study, as well as Chair and Director of the Institute of Coaching and Performance at the University of Central Lancashire.

The study defined high - performing college students as those who demonstrate consistent, high - level performance during their six - year college enrollment.

The trial evaluating natural feedstuffs for their impact on growth performance and carcass yield is just the first phase in evaluating production methods for heritage turkeys, according to Patterson, who pointed out that few studies evaluating the feed intake and performance of heritage - breed turkeys have been done.

In addition to determining the number of players who resumed playing after their injuries, the study assessed players» level of performance using objective data: specifically, offensive and defensive power ratings.

In a study of older adults who completed cognitive tasks while cycling on a stationary bike, UF researchers found that participants» cycling speed improved while multi-tasking with no cost to their cognitive performance.