Sentences with phrase «rigorous study at»

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The PhD program at the Rotman School of Management provides a rigorous environment for academic research and study.

In a broader vein, those studies and intellectual interests simply did for Lewis Ford what the study of philosophy at Haverford and later Harvard had earlier done for Charles Hartshorne; namely, bringing to philosophically rigorous form the web of beliefs and commitments of religious faith that constituted the heritage of his upbringing.

Whitehead in this respect as in others provides a rigorous ontological grounding at the microcosmic level for the macrocosmic phenomena studied by biologists.

To be eligible to adopt, they have undergone a rigorous screening process called a home study that includes a series of at - home interviews, adoption education and parenting classes, plus medical exams and financial and security checks.

Third, efforts to augment existing home visitation services with mental health interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression should be further tested with rigorous research studies and scaled up as appropriate.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

A few longitudinal prospective studies provide rigorous insight but often at the expense of simplification of concepts (variables) in a limited number of countries.

In fact, the largest and most rigorous study of home birth internationally to date found that among 5,000 healthy, «low - risk» women, babies were born just as safely at home under a midwife's care as in the hospital.

«We expect them to look at more rigorous research, which includes other studies and hearing the real world experiences of other cities.»

This lack of scientifically rigorous studies on teaching and monitoring integrity was a common refrain at the meeting and in the report.

A federal board wanted study details redacted for biosecurity reasons but 22 experts convened last week at a WHO meeting disagreed and will create a system for more rigorous oversight of such research

The Animal Behavior, Ecology and Conservation Program at Canisius (ABEC) combines the rigorous scientific study of Animal Behavior with a values - focused curriculum in the liberal arts tradition.

Often clinical studies fall short of the rigorous methodology demanded by «gold standard» clinical trials, in which patients are assigned to treatment groups at random and nobody knows which group is which.

«Their work is very elegant and extremely rigorous,» says Radhika Atit, a skin biologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, who was not involved in the new study.

A rigorous Northwestern University study of a quarter - century of data has found that economic insecurity is related to the rate of gun violence at K - 12 and postsecondary schools in the United States.

By using meta - analysis, an advanced statistical technique that analyzes many studies at the same time, they performed rigorous testing to determine whether the beneficial effect of adding biochar depends on geography.

When I learned that one member of their team, Adrian Veres at Harvard University, was studying scientific fame, I teamed up with him to create a hall of fame for science based on rigorous culturomic data.

But a new study by sociologists at BYU, Cornell and LSU provides a rigorous new estimate.

But few rigorous studies have looked at the long - term costs and yields of organic farming.

Douglas Berg, a microbiologist at Washington University in St. Louis, while impressed by the new study, cautions, «Critical tests and rigorous proofs are difficult to obtain in their field of «microbial anthropology,» and some scientists will think that the authors rather overstated their case.»

But few rigorous studies have been conducted on them, and many researchers question whether even the best programs do anything more than make people better at the game itself.

At a conference near Boston April 5, 2014, Brown University researchers will describe how they've been able to integrate mindfulness experience with hard neuroscience data to advance more rigorous study.

«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.

My team at BSRI, and collaborators in the REDS programs (the American Red Cross and globally), have responded to numerous blood safety threats with rigorous studies in multiple countries to verify and quantify rates of infected donations, and consequent risks of transmission to and disease outcomes in recipients.

«Mathematics is good at rigorous definitions, but this isn't mathematics; it's chemistry and physics,» says Boris I. Yakobson, a Rice University theoretician and materials scientist who studies 2 - D materials.

As the associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, my work has been focused on the rigorous study of the optimal diet for the brain, not just to prevent or mitigate Alzheimer's (obvious from the name of our clinic) but also to maintain memory, cognition, and focus over an entire lifetime.

At least two rigorous studies failed to find any link between the two, including a landmark 2003 study investigating the higher - than - average breast cancer risk among women living on Long Island.

As the associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, my work has been focused on the rigorous study of how our lifestyle choices — especially our diet — influence the health of our brains.

There is some preliminary evidence that the effectiveness of the flu vaccine may wane over the course of a flu season, Dr. Barnett adds, but «at this time, this information does not represent a rigorous study of the phenomenon,» she says, and the research certainly isn't strong enough to warrant getting another shot.

In the past, a number of studies similar to White's that have found an apparent link between supplements and reduced cancer risk haven't been confirmed by more rigorous studies, says Jay Brooks, MD, an oncologist at Ochsner Health System, in Baton Rouge, La..

After a rigorous 4 years of study at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, I completed my clinical internship at the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic - with a full year rotation on the paediatric focus shift - and the LAMP Community Health Centre both in Toronto, Ontario.

Naturopathic doctors have undergone extensive training - four years of undergraduate pre-medical study and four years of graduate - level education at a U.S. Department of Education - accredited naturopathic medical school - before passing rigorous professional board exams to be licensed or registered as a naturopathic doctor.

Researchers reviewed 40 scientifically rigorous studies that looked at whether taking vitamin D in supplement form would bring health benefits.

And when the rigorous evidence is available from randomized controlled trials, often the results are at odds with the findings of the observational studies,» explains Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital, professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, and principal investigator of a large randomized trial known as VITAL (Vitamin D and Omega - 3 Trial).

Jennifer Lansford, PhD, a developmental psychologist at Duke University's Center for Child and Family Policy, in Durham, N.C., says the study was «rigorous and well - conducted» and that the findings make sense.

I've written about this at greater length elsewhere (see here and here), but we have eight rigorous studies of school choice programs in which the long - term outcomes of those policies do not align with their short - term achievement test results.

[This year's] results show that entries in the rigorous religious studies GCSE are at the highest since 2002 and entries at A level are up 20 per cent since 2010.

If a rigorous study found that K12 schools produced equivalent (or superior) learning outcomes to traditional schools, then it would be useful to determine whether the virtual schools were able to achieve the same (or better) outcomes at lower costs.

International comparisons should look at information from all countries and adjust for factors that affect student performance, even though such rigorous studies typically face their own challenges, including collecting the requisite data.

A US study titled Schoolwide intervention to reduce chronic tardiness at the middle and high school levels found that «instructional time lost to widespread tardiness is likely to significantly affect the capacity of the entire student population to meet rigorous academic standards».

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

At first blush, the most rigorous methodology, randomized field trials (RFT), appears not to fare well, since few such studies made the list.

Rigorous studies consistently show that the impact of a more - effective teacher is substantial A high - performing teacher, one at the 84th percentile of all teachers, when compared with just an average teacher, produces students whose level of achievement is at least 0.2 standard deviations higher by the end of the school year.

A meta - analysis (including 74 rigorous studies and over 56,000 K - 12 students) found that mathematics computer applications produce a small but positive effect on mathematics achievement, and, specifically, programs that supplement traditional math instruction with additional instruction at students» individualized assessed levels of need showed greater effects on math achievement.

The report, Strong Standards: A Review of Changes to State Standards Since the Common Core, found California and most of the other states studied maintained rigorous standards and expectations aimed at graduating students who are college - and career - ready after high school.

After the release of our December study — which found that just one percent of district and charter school turnarounds were successful, as defined as reaching at least the 50th percentile in state proficiency in reading and math — Bryan wondered whether charter start - ups in similar neighborhoods would fare any better against such rigorous criteria.

Looking at 35 methodologically rigorous studies, the LPI report, Effective Teacher Professional Development, identifies seven key elements these programs share, signaling how states and districts can design professional learning to make a positive difference.

Burris is most widely lauded for her ardent efforts to eliminate tracking at the high school — offering paths of more rigorous study and increased opportunity for each and every student.

And when you look at test scores, graduation rates, and rigorous academic studies, the results are in: New York's charters are working.

Rigorous studies (like this new study in Louisiana) often find at least some positive effects from voucher programs, and it is interesting and important to think about why the effects of voucher programs might vary across contexts.