Sentences with phrase «populations of research subjects»

Not exact matches

Our goal for this new program is to provide in - depth and customized education in ethical issues that arise in research conducted with human subjects, such as informed consent, genetics research, and in the study of vulnerable populations.

Just how often and why, and what that means for their populations» survival, is the subject of intense research.

While it is still a subject of research how the Arctic under climate change impacts the rest of the world, this study lends further support that a changing Arctic impacts the weather across large swaths of the Northern Hemisphere population centers.

«Arctic populations are often identified as being highly vulnerable people, but that's not necessarily what the research shows,» says James Ford of McGill University's Geography Department and the lead author of an article on the subject that was recently published in Nature Climate Change.

As pressure mounts for farmers to grow enough healthy crops to meet a burgeoning population's needs, and for new land management strategies that improve soil carbon storage to reduce atmospheric CO2 and produce healthy soils, the soil microbiome is the subject of more in - depth scientific research than ever before.

In fact, because of the rich genetic variety in different African populations, the continent has long been subject to mining of genetic samples for pharmaceutical research.

That research brought a lot of attention to the subject and since that time, there has been more epidemiological studies and observational studies that have taken place to look at what's happening on a population level.

Anyone who has tried to do fieldwork with very poor populations understands that often the research itself is subject to the chaos and unpredictability of life in the inner city.

In our book, we point out that the research methods, most valued by American researchers, which involve the random assignment of research subjects to «treatments,» can not be used when researching entire national education systems, because it is not possible to randomly assign national populations to the national education systems of other countries.

We have summarized the research on how well value - added measures hold up across years, subject areas, and student populations, but the evidence is based on a relatively small number of studies.

That is, bias (a highly controversial issue covered in the research literature and also on this blog; see recent posts about bias here, here, and here), does also appear to exist in this state and particularly at the school - level for (1) subject areas less traditionally tested and, hence, not often consecutively tested (e.g., from one consecutive grade level to the next), and given (2) the state is combining growth measures with proficiency (i.e., «snapshot») measures to evaluate schools, the latter being significantly negatively correlated with the populations of the students in the schools being evaluated.

Topics include (1) research design: elements of the research process, types of designs, program evaluation; (2) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (3) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; (4) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation.

Topics include (1) elements of the research process; (2) types of designs, program evaluation; (3) ethical considerations of research: informed consent, research with diverse and vulnerable populations, research with children, human subjects review; (4) basic measurement concepts: validity, reliability, norms, score interpretation; and (5) basic statistical concepts: frequency distributions, central tendency, measures of variability, correlation, normal curve, hypothesis testing, significance tests.

It can also show which areas have been subject to a great deal of research (e.g. formal group - based parenting programmes and home visiting programmes) and which have received less attention (e.g. low cost general population approaches).