Sentences with phrase «scale study out»

However, I say «virtually» because all we have to go on is one large - scale study out of the UK [2] which did examine long - term outcomes.

Not exact matches

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

Holiness for me was found in the mess and labour of giving birth, in birthday parties and community pools, in the battling sweetness of breastfeeding, in the repetition of cleaning, in the step of faith it took to go back to church again, in the hours of chatting that have to precede the real heart - to - heart talks, in the yelling at my kids sometimes, in the crying in restaurants with broken hearted friends, in the uncomfortable silences at our bible study when we're all weighing whether or not to say what we really think, in the arguments inherent to staying in love with each other, in the unwelcome number on the scale, in the sounding out of vowels during bedtime book reading, in the dust and stink and heat of a tent city in Port au Prince, in the beauty of a soccer game in the Haitian dust, in the listening to someone else's story, in the telling of my own brokenness, in the repentance, in the secret telling and the secret keeping, in the suffering and the mourning, in the late nights tending sick babies, in confronting fears, in the all of a life.

A recent study of Wang by Tu Wei - ming brilliantly lays out the psychological aspects of Wang's journeys through Taoism and Buddhism.3 Julia Ching's To Acquire Wisdom: The Way of Wang Yang - ming is an excellent full scale study of his thought.4

This MADM scale and MOR index are free for use in academic settings, however for any study carried out by a commercial group or if the study is wholly or partially supported by a commercial organization a fee may be payable.

According to a large - scale study by researchers out of the Family Studies Center at Brigham Young University, having such thoughts are relatively «normal.»

In fact, it appears the sheer amount of time parents spend with their kids between the ages of 3 and 11 has virtually no relationship to how children turn out, and a minimal effect on adolescents, according to the first large - scale longitudinal study of parent time to be published in April in the Journal of Marriage and Family.

(As I point out in the book, a recent study by the National Center for Education Research found that none of the many large - scale character - education programs in use in American schools produces any significant positive outcomes.)

As Jennifer Block mentions in her response to the Daily Beast, we know from more than half a dozen large - scale studies carried out in several different countries, including England and the Netherlands (where almost a third of babies are born at home), that planned home birth with competent attendants is as safe as or safer than hospital birth.

Last year the Royal Academy of Engineering carried out a major study into the implications of large - scale rollout of electric vehicles.

More large - scale, randomized controlled studies are needed to tease out the risks and benefits.

The study does not rule out the possibility that large - scale organic operations eventually will reduce greenhouse gas emissions, but, for now, McGee said, higher emissions are likely to continue unless actions are taken to correct course.

To further investigate the prevalence of the phenomenon, the researchers carried out the first large - scale online study of this barely - known effect, and recruited 4,128 participants to answer a survey, with 1,058 of these also answering additional trait - related questions.

«It's funny to think of it now,» he says, «but really, at the time, I set out to do a long - term, large - scale debunking study.»

A recent study found that such actions, carried out on a global scale, could provide a cheap and easy way to accomplish a third of the CO2 mitigation needed in the next decade to be on track to meet the Paris goals.

Following a brain study on an unprecedented scale, an international collaboration has now managed to tease out a single gene that does have a measurable effect on intelligence.

First, the research team asked over 200 volunteers to fill out a survey about «recent affective experiences;» what the volunteers didn't know was that a well - known measure of depression — the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression (CES - D) scale — was embedded within this survey.

In the meantime, Lukanova — herself a leanie — points out that whatever benefits may trace to obesity here, this study should not lead heavy women to become complacent at how they tip the scales.

A larger - scale study looking at how this plays out in a more - diverse group of children throughout the U.S. is underway.

The study was supported by, and conducted in collaboration with Synairgen, a University of Southampton spin - out company, and formed part of U-BIOPRED, a large - scale European project using information and samples from adults and children to learn more about different types of asthma.

Mass drug administrations have rarely been carried out on such a large scale, and this study reports the first to occur during an Ebola outbreak.

However, ethical and safety limitations make it difficult for such studies to be carried out on a wide scale.

Being able to study quantum systems with a large number of components — or «qubits,» as they are often called — also has important implications for future quantum technologies, as Carleo points out: «If we want to test quantum computers with more than a handful of qubits, that won't be possible with conventional means because of the exponential scaling.

In the study, «anger» was qualified as 5 and above on a 1 - 7 scale, referring to «very angry, body tense, clenching fists or teeth, ready to burst», up to «enraged, out of control, throwing objects».

While the majority of plantations in West Africa are still in the early stages of development, several studies have suggested development on the scale seen in Asia would wipe out forests that are home to primates, posing a greater threat than mining or logging, which are more narrowly destructive.

In 2002, the research team for TRIGR (Trial to Reduce IDDM in the Genetically at Risk), led in the U.S. by principal investigator Dorothy Becker, M.D., professor of pediatrics at Children's Hospital and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, embarked on a large - scale study of 2,159 infants with a family member affected by type 1 diabetes and with genetic risk for type 1 diabetes to find out whether delaying the exposure to complex foreign proteins such as cow's milk proteins would decrease the risk of diabetes.

In the present study, the researchers carried out a large - scale analysis of sympathetic nerve cells, from which they were able to demonstrate that there are many different types of sympathetic neurons and that the different types are associated with a particular functions.

The study was carried out by Abertay graduates Esther James and Shauny Jenkins and used a measurement scale common in face perception research, which calculates the first - impressions of the participant group as a whole, working out an average verdict.

«Holger has ruled out chameleons that interact with normal matter more strongly than gravity, but he is now pushing his experiment into areas where chameleons interact on the same scale as gravity, where they are more likely to exist,» Khoury, co-author of the study published Friday in the journal Science, said in the statement.

«Back in 2011, my student Xiaoshu Chen, who has worked with us again on this study, figured out how to make vertically oriented gaps as small as 1 nm over a centimetre length scale.

We aim to carry out studies that are of a design and scale that can not be conducted in most biomedical research institutes.

I looked to all the available instruments, and none of them could study materials on such a fine scale to find out.

The study included 231 Chinese adults with subthreshold depression, meaning they scored between five and nine out of a total of 27 points on a standard depression scale.

A large - scale study was done recently on 83,000 men [3] found out men who their level of testosterone was reversed to an optimal level, 24 percent were not likely to be diagnosed with a heart attack.Whereas, 36 percent of them were less likely to get affected by stroke.

SLAVE MARKET FOODS: Studies, and a bit of common sense, show that classifications on the socio - economical scale such as low income, inner city and / or ethnic minority [Hispanic / Black] predisposes consumers (who are equal under the law to protections against harm) to diabetes, obesity and other health risks as grocery stores in their area tend to sell lower qualities foods while food producers price high quality (or even halfway decent) foods out of reach.

They used two measurements to gauge a drug's effectiveness and tolerability: the percentage of patients who showed at least a 50 % improvement in their symptoms as measured by one of two scales, or who scored «much improved or very much improved» after eight weeks of treatment (or from 6 to 12 weeks if eight - week data wasn't available) and the percentage of patients who dropped out of the study before eight weeks for any reason.

We look forward to some large - scale studies in this area, and we expect to see a clear role being carved out for garbanzo beans in terms of weight loss and weight management.

The large - scale study, which was carried out by dating site EliteSingles, analysed anonymous, randomly selected data from 44,000 single New Zealanders aged 18 - 45.

The book Click: the Magic of Instant Connections also points out that studies have shown that openness and sharing at the highest levels of the vulnerably language scale help to promote sexual and relationship satisfaction.

Last month, researchers convened in Washington, D.C., to find out what we can learn from large - scale education studies that show no impacts.

To find out, we'd need a sophisticated, large - scale study that sent real - live humans into hundreds or thousands of classrooms to see what's going on, and collected data that might allow for some strong conclusions.

Some studies developed by JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee) in the UK pointed out that there are interesting innovations in assessment methods being performed in limited circles, but these have not yet been transferred to a larger scale.

The study, carried out by researchers Alice Bradbury and Guy Roberts - Holmes from UCL Institute of Education, University College London, involved more than 1,400 teachers and leaders who took part in focus groups, interviews, and a large - scale survey.

The academic explains the approach used in the UK pilot study grew out of an initial, small - scale trial in Melbourne involving 30 teachers and students with disabilities.

That's one of the messages to come out of a research report into a small scale UK study on the teaching method.

[xliii] However, the achievement effects of many current scaled - up programs seem to fade out as students enter public school, [xliv] and one Tennessee study suggests achievement benefits may turn negative.

The paper grew out of their work on a National Academy of Education steering committee, chaired by Singer, that studied the purposes, methods, and policy uses of so - called international large - scale assessments, or ILSAs — tests like the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) or the Progress in International Reading Literacy Study (PIRLS).

In seven essays, Elmore lays out his provocative views on the topics he has spent a lifetime studying, including «scaling up» good educational practice, responding to accountability measures, and the challenge of boosting the knowledge and skills of teachers in the face of obstacles.

«He is, from initial study design to the bringing of interventions to scale, an exemplar for any scholar who sets out to do high - quality experimental work in education, and to do it in partnership with educators.»

Empty Promises: A Case Study of Restructuring and the Exclusion of English Language Learners in Two Brooklyn High Schools Since 2002, the New York City Department of Education (DOE) has attempted to reverse the city's severe drop - out crisis through a large scale restructuring of high schools, focused mainly on closing large, comprehensive high schools and replacing them with small high schools that offer a more personalized learning environment.