Sentences with phrase «rural communities study»

Meanwhile, California approves new laws to ditch fossil fuels, Florida's largest muni passes a solar plan, and rural communities study the economic impact of transmission projects.

Some rural communities we studied have approached the four - day week with caution, intending to go back to five days if results for kids are not good.

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For instance, studying the cooking and wardrobe habits of Indian mothers - in - law and daughters - in - law helped Lindstrom and his team make recommendations for how to design the packaging of a breakfast cereal and understanding the isolation of rural and suburban North Carolinians trapped in a car - centric culture sparked his recommendation that a local grocery store chain should double down on its feeling of community by emphasizing its homey roast chicken offering.

As part of the tie - up Internet.org and Unilever will carry out a comprehensive study to examine the opportunities to increase Internet adoption in rural communities.

At Edinburgh it would have been regarded as a side issue to study the organization of the rural community.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

Damning studies have also revealed that the live export trade is cannibalising Australian jobs and crippling some rural communities.

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technoRural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technorural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

The UK's largest shooting organisation has drawn on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism for rural businesses and communities.

The research is part of a broader study on developing sustainable rural communities, which will be showcased in November.

The UK's largest shooting organisation drew on national research and 11 case studies to evidence the social and economic benefit of shooting tourism for rural businesses and communities.

The Poverty Committee is comrpised of Rev. Kinzer M. Pointer (Committee Chair) of Agape Fellowship Baptist Church; Frank Cerny, PhD., Executive Director of the Rural Outreach Center; Anna Falicov, Esq., City of Buffalo; Dr. Myron Glick of the Jericho Road Community Health Center; Yvonne S. Minor - Ragan, PhD., YMRagan Consulting, LLC; Dr. Henry Louis Taylor, PhD., Center for Urban Studies at the University at Buffalo; and Marlies A. Wesolowski, Executive Director of the Lt. Col. Matt Urban Human Services Center.

The Ogallala Initiative, a U.S. Department of Agriculture project, funds studies designed to make the agricultural industry — and the rural communities that depend on it — more sustainable.

In a study, the share of college graduates — often referred to as human capital — and the quality of life in a community were found to significantly contribute to economic growth, said Stephan Goetz, professor of agricultural and regional economics, Penn State and director of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development.

«The rural Native American children, who so often are described as less talkative than their peers, were actually more likely to talk and act out activities with the diorama than children from the other two communities,» said Karen Washinawatok, lead author of the study and former chair of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

According to a recent study, the Summer Community Program offered by the University of Missouri School of Medicine has made a significant impact on physician access in rural communities.

The study reveals ecological knowledge in 4 - year - old children from urban Native American, rural Native American and urban non-Native American communities.

The study assessed the number of children born to 75 women from two neighbouring indigenous rural Guatemalan communities, and their telomere lengths.

The Legislature also directed it to study how other jurisdictions» programs control costs for businesses, as well as disadvantaged and rural communities.

She and Mack T. Ruffin IV, M.D., MPH, professor emeritus and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, studied excessive drinking behavior in women from rural Appalachian Ohio because of a surprising lack of empirical data.

The study, the first to examine outpatient quality of care between urban and rural communities, counters existing research, which suggested gaps in care for those living in rural areas.

«Land collectively owned by rural communities accounts for 60 % of China's forest land and the vast majority of China's newly - established forest cover» said Fangyuan Hua, a Newton International Fellow at the University of Cambridge and lead author of the study.

A new study by researchers from the World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF), Kunming Institute of Botany (KIB), Princeton University, and Sun Yat - sen University argues that rural communities could help reverse this trend if they were given incentives to protect and restore native forests on their own land.

«Payments to rural communities offer a new opportunity to restore China's native forests: Study says compensation schemes could help regrowth of biodiverse forests on collectively owned land.»

That means that local lending to individuals based on «relational» banking — with lenders being aware of borrowers» reputation, credit history and trustworthiness in the community — has dropped, according to a Baylor study published in the journals Rural Sociology and International Innovation.

The study, «Assessing the Potential Impact of State Policies on Community Health Centers» Outreach and Enrollment Activities,» is the first to examine efforts on the front lines to find and enroll uninsured people, many of whom are living in rural and urban communities that face high poverty rates, elevated health risks and a shortage of primary health care.

«This study helps to build our understanding of the problem by providing more detailed data on hospitalizations for firearm injuries in different pediatric age groups in both urban and rural communities.»

Although the initiative reached a limited geographic population, the HER Salt Lake team hopes to take this study further to increase access for women through provider training and stocking at community health centers and rural clinics.

The Health and Retirement Study consists of older volunteers sampled from urban and rural areas across the U.S., while the Southern Community Cohort Study focuses on African Americans in the South, particularly areas that have a disproportionately high burden of disease.

The three - month long study included about 300 Chinese men and women living in one of the most polluted areas of China, a rural community in the Jiangsu Province.

This led to years of studying Philippine nutrition and dietary patterns first hand while living in a rural farming community in the Philippines.

A discomforting, almost surreal study of a rural murder case, which offers fascinating insights about both family and community dynamics.

In his melancholy character study set in a close - knit community in rural Massachusetts, writer - director Kent Jones also surrounds Place with a deep pool of veteran female acting talent, drawing heavily from the New York stage.

The Shepherds of Disorder (Thanos and Despina) juxtaposes an anthropological and materialist study of a rigid rural community with the mythologically imbued, forbidden romance between a rebellious shepherd and the angelic and compliant daughter of a rich conservative family, engaged in an erotically charged power game.

Case study: Kempston Rural Primary Kempston Rural Primary School in Bedfordshire was in need of an expansion to serve both the existing community and also the families that had moved into a new housing development in the local area.

More recently, the Rural School and Community Trust, a national nonprofit organization, asked Bickel and Howley to study School Size, Poverty, and Student Achievement in Montana, Ohio, Georgia, and Texas.

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It must be said, however, that the digital divide (in terms of race, income and location in terms of rural communities) remains a key factor that some studies indicate are leading to even greater disparities between well - to - do and disadvantaged schools and districts.

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A recent study of urban, suburban, and rural schools in four states found that smaller schools helped close the achievement gap — as measured by test scores — between students from poor communities and students from more affluent ones.

The eight schools participating in the REL Northwest study represent significantly different communities — from urban comprehensive high schools to rural schools to schools on or near Indian reservations.

The pilot study quantifies the real costs of teacher turnover in five school districts, representing a range of communities, large and small, urban and rural.

The report also offers case studies of the America College Promise programs in state, city, urban, and rural institutions in order to provide communities with various design options and strategies.

The remarkable clarity and strategic scope of Professor Wangari Maathai's vision for the Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace & Environmental Studies (WMI) might be summed up in a single, but richly resonant, idea: To transfer knowledge and skills on sustainable use of natural resources from academic halls and laboratories to the citizenry in villages and rural communities throughout Africa.

When asked how the NS SPCA plans to use so much food, Director of Animal Care, Sandra Flemming said, «Last year we conducted a study and learned there are at least 60,000 feral or community cats in the Halifax Regional Municipality alone, and far more than that in the rural areas of our province.

Morris Animal Foundation has invested just over $ 500,000 in 15 research projects studying many different aspects of rabies infection, from vaccination strategies for bats to understanding the impact of rabies vaccination on the health or rural South African dogs and the surrounding community.

Her photographic studies have addressed AIDS, the rural community off the coast of South Carolina on Daufuskie Island, South African apartheid, and the urban experience.

From her earliest series, for which she responded to the deteriorating urban environments of New York and New Jersey in the 1970s, to her later works, which intertwine with oral history to excavate African American social life in rural communities of the American Southeast, Buchanan undertook a deep, empirically driven study of architecture in visual art.

Cinthya Santos - Briones: Before becoming a documentary photographer, Santos - Briones studied anthropology and history, which led her to work as a researcher in institutions in Mexico focused on the study of indigenous and rural communities.