Sentences with phrase «primary focus of study»

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«Though we will continue to prosecute the campaign against terrorists that we're engaged in today, the great power competition, not terrorism, is now the primary focus of US national security,» Mattis said in his opening statements at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

The study's primary focus was to see how marketing is attempting to generate more demand and how well it supports the efforts of sales to generate revenue.

While the study's primary report did not explore religion, some additional analysis focusing on sexual activity and religious identification yielded this result: 80 percent of unmarried evangelical young adults (18 to 29) said that they have had sex - slightly less than 88 percent of unmarried adults, according to the teen pregnancy prevention organization.

«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.

Kang's primary research focuses on designing and developing effective vaccines against viral diseases such as influenza virus and RSV, but he partnered with a university and research institutes in South Korea that wanted international collaborative projects to study if ginseng can be used to improve health and protect against disease because of the potential benefit in fighting these viruses.

In addition to primary tumours which start in the brain, the secondary or «metastatic» tumours which originate elsewhere and which migrate to the brain have been the focus of this new study.

The study is investigator led and has therefore focused on clinical need, targeting patients with progressive multiple sclerosis in whom most disability is incurred... The study also reports a predominant effect on neurodegenerative rather than inflammatory outcomes, suggesting a novel mechanism of action that might be suitable as combination treatment with immunomodulatory treatments... Further phase 3 studies to measure the effect of simvastatin on sustained disability, particularly in patients with non-relapsing secondary progressive and primary progressive multiple sclerosis, are clearly needed, but this trial represents a promising point from which to develop trials of progressive disease.»

A new study focused on describing genetic variations within a primary tumor, differences between the primary and a metastatic branch of that tumor, and additional diversity found in tumor DNA in the blood stream could help physicians make better treatment choices for patients with gastric and esophageal adenocarcinoma.

The Rossi lab has as its primary focus studies on the functions and therapeutic applications of small RNAs.

The primary focus of the Weeraratna laboratory is the study of how melanoma spreads, or metastasizes.

The Laboratory of Protein Structure (LPS) started its activities in 2008 and focuses on structural and biochemical studies of proteins (e.g.: nucleic acid enzymes) using protein crystallography as the primary method.

Most studies of self - control development have focused either on very young children or adolescents, but there is a lack of research on children in kindergarten and primary school, a transition period that requires children to regulate their behaviour.

We believe CMB305's potential benefit to patients will be the combination of a favorable safety profile with improved survival, and as such are focused on overall survival and safety as the primary endpoints of these studies.

Bodyweight Overload is the culmination of my 10 years of experience along with thousands of hours of research and study... all with a primary focus of using ONLY body weight exercises.

As the Department Chair of Integrative Health Studies and Somatic Psychology at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California, her primary focus is preparing graduate students as catalysts for positive change in health care, wellness, and health promotion.

The study authors noted the importance of focusing on yoga as a new treatment that can be performed in the specific setting of a primary health care center.

Therefore, although we will still practice strong asana, and the pranayama techniques from the previous course, concentration and other mental techniques will be the primary focus of the training, and also we will finally combine all of the elements that we studied previously to achieve mudras.

I was a founding faculty member of Mid-Pacific Institute's eXploratory Program, a core subject curriculum with project - based learning as the primary focus of student work, with 10 years of experience in the Social Studies classroom.

There is also a research study open to participating Victorian government schools focusing on «Realising the Potential of Australia's High Capacity Teachers», which contains a substantial amount of pedagogical training on understanding and teaching self - regulated learning skills to primary and secondary schools students (Grades 5 - 8).

Case studies The increasing demands on space was a prime focus of two primary schools, St Stephen's RC and St Bartholomew's C of E primary schools in North Tyneside, which were integrated into one new build school site.

The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access (SCLDA)(formerly the Smithsonian Center for Education and Museum Studies, and even more formerly the Smithsonian Office of Primary and Secondary Education) focuses on making the Smithsonian more accessible to teachers and their students.

In these studies, selection was not a primary focus of the investigation; this was illustrative of the scant attention that selection has received as a feature of teacher leadership in the empirical literature.

The primary focus of each case study is a description of how the school's early reading program has been organized, developed, and sustained.

Achieve3000's LevelSet ™ assessment is the world's only universal screener for the reading comprehension of nonfiction text in both English and Spanish, a primary focus of the Alabama Course of Study for English Language Arts and the AL - Scantron and AL - ACTA assessments.

Similarly, in the schools we studied whose plans reflected a belief that teaching and leadership affect student achievement, achievement gains were three times greater than they were in schools whose plans reflected a focus on student demographic characteristics as the primary determinants of student achievement (Reeves, in press).

However, this study has a wider focus, as it discusses four areas, namely student evaluation of the primary sources, the impact on cross-curricular activities, skill development, and observations of the authentic challenges.

The academic program of KIPP WAYS Primary is focused on building core foundational academic skills in phonics, reading, writing, and math, enhanced by targeted exposure and instruction in science, social studies, enrichment and character skills.

SHARON M. FORD most recently served as an assistant professor in the graduate department of Administrative Leadership and Policy Studies in the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Colorado at Denver, where the primary focus of her work was the field of supervision.

Her primary focus has been helping districts design high - quality units of study that incorporate meaningful and engaging learning experiences for students.

Spreadsheets and graphing calculators are an integral part of the math education curriculum, but are less relevant to the social studies curriculum, which may focus on technologies such as use of online primary source documents to facilitate inquiry (for example).

PURPOSE The primary purpose of this study was to investigate child impacts following implementation of a comprehensive language curriculum, the Language - Focused Curriculum (LFC; Bunce, 1995), within

History Established in June 1991, Intuit is a nonprofit 501 (c)(3) organization dedicated to presenting intuitive and outsider art — with world class exhibitions; resources for scholars and students; a Permanent Collection with holdings of nearly 1,100 works of art; the Henry Darger Room Collection, a permanent installation; the Robert A. Roth Study Center, a non-circulating collection with a primary focus in the fields of outsider and contemporary self - taught art; and educational programming for people of all interest levels and backgrounds.

While she has described oil painting as her primary focus, watercolor has played a vital role in her process, as both a form of study for the larger oil paintings and as an outlet for a looser, more gestural style.

It seems that conflict, not circumstances that would tend to reduce conflict, would be the primary focus of military studies.

The research is based on fifteen country studies worldwide with a primary focus on good practice examples of how national policies for greening economies are complemented by identification of skills needs and efficient skills response strategies.

Earlier studies of climate change and corals have been done on a much smaller geographical scale, with a primary focus on total coral cover or counts of species as rather crude indicators of reef health.

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When Britney Bambace began her studies in medical assisting in 2011, her primary focus was to build upon her EMT background and pursue two of her passions: health care...

Her primary study focus was health promotion and the impact of the school environment on adolescent sexual behavior.

Primary Care Interventions to Prevent Child Maltreatment: U.S. Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement Moyer (2013) Annals of Internal Medicine, 159 (4) Analyzes a systematic review of interventions to prevent child maltreatment for children at risk, focusing on new studies and evidence gaps that were unresolved at the time of the 2004 recommendation by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force.

Managing the family factors mentioned in this study should be a primary area of focus for positive psychosocial development of adolescent students.

Specifically, the Center will study three primary focus areas: the relationship between stress, neurobiology, and genetics and drug abuse, the role of fathers in the child welfare system, and an economic evaluation of a set of child welfare costs related specifically to the placement of children in out - of - home care.

I think, as you note, one of the most interesting parts of the study is that the primary strength focus is on others.

Because this study is building on prior research that had already explored the impact of attachment styles in a primary care population of predominantly type 2 diabetic patients (23), and because the majority of patients in the DCC are type 1 diabetic patients, this study reports analyses that focus only on type 1 diabetic patients from this clinic.

As a Researcher at Chapin Hall, Byers collaborates on studies that include system - focused evaluation of child welfare, pediatric primary care, and early childhood service systems.

The universal parenting programme «All Children in Focus», offered to parents of children aged 3 and above, showed a positive effect on parental self - efficacy and child health.37 However, the programme had a low probability of cost - effectiveness.38 Another study of a nurse - led intensive home visiting programme for first - time teenage mothers found no short - term benefits concerning the selected primary outcomes.39

Notable limitations of the study include its sole focus on shelter - residing runaway youth with primary alcohol problems, as well as the findings being based upon data collected solely from the adolescents» perspectives.