Sentences with phrase «rigorous focus on research»

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Consistent with Tocqueville's focus on capital preservation and value, their investment strategy emphasizes rigorous fundamental research to identify investment ideas that...

«RBC GAM's investment approach is characterized by fundamental research and rigorous discipline, along with a focus on risk management and portfolio construction, all within a team - oriented structure,» said Dan Chornous, chief investment officer, RBC Global Asset Management Inc. «Habib and his team fit seamlessly with our approach, as demonstrated by their strong investment results and stability of returns, with notably solid performance in down markets.»

Emerged from the International Journal of Wine Marketing in 2007, the purpose of IJWBR is to provide a forum for publication of timely, rigorous, technically sound, scientific and thought provoking research manuscripts that focus on all business aspects of the wine and alcoholic beverage industry.

But ««there is broad support for the idea of oversight and review and a rigorous focus on the highest priority science with our precious research dollars,» says Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Chris Beyrer, president of the International AIDS Society.

I spent the next decade completing rigorous basic science research training: completing a high school summer internship, attending the University of Maryland, Baltimore County as a Meyerhoff Scholar, and completing my Ph.D. in the Stanford immunology program, where my work focused on the mechanisms regulating hematopoietic and leukemic stem cells.

It focuses on 4 criteria: «i) the scientific premise of the proposed research, ii) rigorous experimental design for robust and unbiased results, iii) consideration of relevant biological variable and iv) authentication of key biological and / or chemical resources».

«Lila is a rigorous biophysical chemist, but unlike most chemists who avoid complexity and prefer reductionist type studies, Lila's whole career has been focused on applying chemistry and biophysical methods to the study of peptides and their role in biology as well as protein folding and trafficking in vivo,» says Jeffrey W. Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute.

UACIM research activities contribute rigorous scientific studies on the integration of complementary therapies with conventional medicine, with a focus on educational research, corporate health improvement research, and methods to study clinical outcomes in integrative medicine.

In the coming years, Muralidharan expects his research to focus on systematically evaluating the effectiveness of various policy options to improve education in developing countries through rigorous randomized evaluations.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

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Based at UCL's Institute of Education, and match - funded by the European Regional Development Fund and UCL's partners — UCL Engineering, the British Educational Suppliers Association (BESA), Nesta and F6S — EDUCATE offers a rigorous and comprehensive training programme focusing on pedagogical research to help EdTech start - ups, SMEs, entrepreneurs and educators develop, evaluate and improve their products and services with the use of research evidence.

The group's specific five - year strategy focuses on building an evidence base for rigorous project based learning by employing design - based implementation research.

Most of the rigorous research, now dating back more than a decade, focuses on programs in large urban areas, such as Milwaukee and New York City.

There still aren't many rigorous research studies focusing on the topic.

Developed in partnership with Dr. Robert J. Marzano, the Focused Teacher Evaluation Model draws on decades of research to simplify evaluation and bring rigorous, standards - based teaching and learning to every classroom, every day.

Our research - based programs have gone through rigorous studies and been endorsed by leading SEL evaluators like the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), so with a trustworthy curriculum, you can just focus on delivery.

The project included research focused on the development and delivery of rigorous curriculum supported by intensive and sustained teacher professional development that included in - school coaching, peer classroom visits and content intensive STEM Academies In addition to the school day component, the project offered a STEM - focused, out - of school day program where students completed engineering - focused projects relevant to local communities.

In addition to his K - 12 public education experience, Alan has also been the Program Director for the Center for Educational Leadership and Effective Schools at the University of California, Santa Barbara where he collaboratively supported the delivery of high quality services and research to school districts focusing on the rigorous examination of strengths, building leadership capacity, and facilitating the potential of systems for transformation.

There is research on teacher training program, sustained, rigorous training program, that focused on improving student teacher engagement that again showed not only that there were great academic gains, but the racial disparities were eliminated, as suspension rates came down.

It prepares teachers to help students meet higher, more rigorous standards by focusing on rigorous, standards - based learning, social and emotional learning, research - based instructional practices, and diverse learning needs.

The National Teacher Enquiry Network (NTEN) is a collaborative partnership of schools and colleges focused on innovation and improvement through highly effective and evidence - based staff professional development and learning, supported by rigorous research and development.

His current research centers on the development of methods that support rigorous and efficient observational, quasi-experimental and experimental designs in education and social sciences with a specific focus on multilevel structures such as those commonly seen in schooling (e.g., students nested within schools).

GW&K's founding principles of applying rigorous fundamental research, focusing on quality and maintaining a long - term view still guide its investment process today.

A prudent balance of stocks and bonds A balanced approach: The fund seeks conservative growth plus income through a mix of roughly 60 % stocks and 40 % bonds.Seeking reduced volatility: The fund's focus on undervalued stocks and primarily high - quality bonds is designed to reduce volatility for conservative and income - oriented investors.A rigorous process: The fund's experienced portfolio managers use rigorous fundamental investment research to find opportunities and manage risk.

Seeking to harness the growth potential of large U.S. companiesA large - company focus: The fund invests in large U.S. companies, targeting those with a competitive edge in markets around the world and the potential to produce strong profits.A rigorous process: The fund's manager uses rigorous fundamental investment research to find opportunities and manage risk.A focus on quality: The manager seeks companies with solid management, sound financials, and products or services that are benefiting from growing demand.

I enjoy discussions about loaded dice as much as the next person, but when we have rigorous research available on climate impacts, it seems to me that we should focus our discussions there.

Dr.. He has a rigorous research agenda on two interrelated translational research foci: personalized prevention and intervention for promoting healthy children and family functioning; and psychotherapy change process and outcomes.

It prepares teachers to help students meet higher, more rigorous standards by focusing on rigorous, standards - based learning, social and emotional learning, research - based instructional practices, and diverse learning needs.

Little rigorous research has focused on the correlation between child welfare experience and sex trafficking, yet estimates have been cited that the majority of victims of child sex trafficking have experienced the child welfare system.

The Child and Family Research Partnership aims to better understand the role that fathers play in shaping their child's health and wellbeing through rigorous research focused on Research Partnership aims to better understand the role that fathers play in shaping their child's health and wellbeing through rigorous research focused on research focused on fathers.