Sentences with phrase «school area studied»

In the school area studied, the number of 11 year olds getting higher marks in english and science rose after the healthy menu was introduced.

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Young women are simply losing interest in these fields as an area of study and a profession as they progress from middle school to high school to college.

At the event, which was hosted by the Yale Law School Center for the Study of Corporate Law in New Haven, Powell highlighted three specific areas where blockchain technology is affecting change in regard to the Federal Reserve's «broad public policy objectives»: the creation of real - time payment systems, use of blockchain technology for clearing and settlement services, and the issuance of digital currencies by central banks.

This change is reflected in the curricula of many seminaries and divinity schools today: ethics has achieved an independent existence as a department or area of study.

To solve its central problem as a professional school, the seminary must find some way to unify what it has to say to the churches, must make this clear to the student without letting the message get lost among dispersed areas of study, and must devise effective pedagogies aimed finally at the life of the church.

The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and important areas of study.

In a recent study, WalletHub examined 100 of the most populated U.S. metro areas across 12 key metrics, including the percentage of adults and high school students who are obese and the percentage of people who are physically inactive.

Researchers recruited 338 kindergarten students for the study, chosen from public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The number of students known to be home - educated varied between 0.09 % and 0.42 % of the total school population in the areas that were surveyed, and there was no hope, at the end of the study, of procuring better data.

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Although areas such as menu variety and food waste still have room to improve, these studies demonstrate that kids are accepting and benefiting from school lunches that meet today's strong national standards.

For example, a study of adolescents in the San Francisco Bay Area found that the authoritarian parenting style was linked with lower school grades for all ethnic groups (Dornbusch et al 1987).

A child hunger study released by the food depository last year identified Brighton Park as one of the area's most underserved neighborhoods in terms of food services available outside of school, Dolgan said.

He previously served as Pakistan Chair at St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, UK (2010 - 2015) as well as Senior Research Associate at Centre for International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford (2010 - 2015); Associate Professor, School of Politics and International Relations, Quaid - i - Azam University (2005-2010/2015 -2016); Vice Chair / Assistant Professor of International Relations at Eastern Mediterranean University, North Cyprus (1998 - 2005); and Senior Research Fellow at Area Study Centre, Quaid - i - Azam University (1996 - 1998).

Reza Hasmath is a Lecturer in Chinese Politics in the School of interdisciplinary Area Studies, and an Associate Professor at the University of Alberta.

«Given this, it remained to be seen whether the Coalition's plans to empower local areas would be realised», said Dr Ayres, who is based at the University of Bristol's School for Policy Studies.

Methodology: The two - and - a-half-year study involved collecting data over a period of 18 months from nine state primary and secondary schools situated in London and a rural area of England.

There are net benefits of immigration, studies show that migration brings economic gains, but those will be easily disregarded if people don't see effective responses to ensure schools or doctor's surgeries in areas which might face most churn can cope.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

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He received a full scholarship to study at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Virginia, through Carl Rowan's Project Excellence, a program founded by Rowan, a syndicated columnist who died in 2000, to aid African - American high - school seniors from the Washington, D.C., area who plan to attend college.

«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.

As part of the study, more than 250 students in two Waco - area school districts played iCivics games for six weeks, twice a week for 30 minutes.

Kraus and colleagues recruited 40 Chicago - area high school freshmen in a study that began shortly before school started.

People living in polluted urban areas are far less likely to be admitted to hospital with asthma when there are lots of trees in their neighbourhood, a study by the University of Exeter's medical school has found.

«When I started grad school, there was this idea that there were certain areas that people should study,» says Wager, now at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

The Children's Worlds study, co-ordinated in England by the Social Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at York, asked children about all key aspects of their lives including their family and home life, friendships, money and possessions, school life, local area, time use, personal well - being, views on children's rights, and their overall happiness.

There are four main areas where molecular imaging can have a major impact, according to the study's lead author David A. Mankoff, MD, PhD, the Gerd Muehllehner Professor of Radiology and director of the PET Center at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

«This study opens an entirely new area of discovery for many aspects of cell biology and biomedical research — how cancer cells metastasize, for example — and provides many new therapeutic targets,» said senior author Jack Dixon, PhD, professor in the UC San Diego School of Medicine and associate vice chancellor of Scientific Affairs.

«We know alcohol outlets can be associated with unsafe nuisance activities in urban areas, but this study appears to be the first to suggest U.S. tobacco shops may also impact public health,» said Andrew Subica, Ph.D., an assistant professor of social medicine, population, and public health in the School of Medicine, who led the study that focused on South Los Angeles, Calif. «Our analyses show that in South Los Angeles tobacco shops as well as liquor stores were associated with high levels of violent and property crime around their locations.

At the end of my high school education, I looked for a university course that combined all of my interests, and so I ended up studying chemistry or, to be more precise, pharmacology, an area that develops new medicines.

A new study led by the University of Utah School of Medicine and Chung - Ang University provides evidence that several regions of the brain are hyperconnected in adolescent boys diagnosed with Internet gaming disorder (lines between colored areas, colored areas represent specific brain networks).

Study co-author Nigel Bamford, a pediatric neurologist at the University of Washington School of Medicine, says that if similar changes occur in humans, it will indicate that an effective way to fight addiction may be to design therapies that target the affected area — the striatum, a forebrain region that controls movement but also has been linked to habit - forming behavior.

Professor Subbu Venkatraman, Chair of NTU's School of Materials Science and Engineering and Prof Wong's research partner, said the successful study of liposomal latanoprost can be hailed one of Singapore's early successes in the emerging area of nanomedicine.

This summer, hundreds of Washington area elementary school children donned lab goggles and gathered scientific data to study the science of sports as part of a free, hands - on summer program.

«These findings could lead physicians to advise women to avoid high pollution areas or use air filtration systems during the early stages of pregnancy,» says senior study author Judith Zelikoff, PhD, a professor in the Department of Environmental Medicine at NYU School of Medicine.

Ford, an associate professor in the Department of Anatomy and Neurobiology and an investigator at the Neuroscience Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and inteSchool of Medicine (MSM) in Atlanta, Georgia, says that when he came to the historically black MSM four years ago he chose stroke research as the area he wanted to concentrate on for two reasons: The medical school recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and inteschool recognized the racial and regional disparities of the disease and placed stroke high on its list of illnesses to study, and the field combines the several prongs of his varied academic training and interests.

Led by Jessica S. Merlin, M.D., visiting associate professor of medicine at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, the study pinpointed the common concerning behaviors, identified management strategies and established areas of consensus on the importance of each strategy.

For the study, students between the ages of 14 and 18 from three Los Angeles - area high schools were invited to participate, between spring 2010 and fall 2011.

«Synthetic biology is a new area that's really exciting to young scientists — to have things begin to work in this way is a sort of validation of the field,» says Pamela Silver, a professor of systems biology at Harvard University Medical School and co-author of a study demonstrating one of the first synthetic restructurings of a eukaryotic cell that is described in the journal Genes & Development.

The study finds that as parents are drawn to areas with what appear to be higher school scores, the demand for housing escalates and poorer residents are driven out.

«While there is information available about counties in the United States that exceed EPA air pollution standards, there has not been a similar source of information about how that air pollution actually affects the health of people living in those areas,» said lead study author Kevin Cromar, PhD, director of the Air Quality Program at the Marron Institute of Urban Management and assistant professor of population health and environmental medicine at the NYU School of Medicine.

The School of Ants project is a citizen - scientist driven study of the ants that live in urban areas, particularly around homes and schools.

Dr Rebecca Ghosh, co-author of the study from the School of Public Health at Imperial, said «Putting this in context, an individual who lived in a higher polluted area in 1971 had a 14 per cent higher risk of dying in 2002 to 2009 than someone who had lived in a lower polluted area.

Women exposed to high levels of fine particulate matter specifically during pregnancy — particularly during the third trimester — may face up to twice the risk of having a child with autism than mothers living in areas with low particulate matter, according to a new study from Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH).

«This study demonstrates that human infrastructure development along coastal areas have long - term consequences on the ability of coastal wetlands to adapt to sea - level rise and other processes that reduce the size of coastal wetlands,» said Talib Oliver - Cabrera, the study's first author and a UM Rosenstiel School Ph.D. student.

The study, published in the journal PLOS One, was carried out using video cameras installed in the washing areas outside latrines of four public schools in the sprawling Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya.

However, the study found marijuana use was predictive of poorer functioning across more areas, including lower academic functioning, being less prepared for school, more delinquent behavior and poorer mental health.

Lead author Maria Panteli, from Queen Mary's School of Electronic Engineering and Computer Science, said: «This is the first study to investigate outliers in world music with such a large scale and tracing the geographic origin of these recordings could help identify areas of the world that have developed a unique musical character.»

White families with children continue to live in predominantly white neighborhoods, in part to send their children to predominantly white schools, according to a new study on racial segregation in 100 metropolitan areas.