Sentences with phrase «several key studies»

His written submission highlighted several key studies we have conducted on school partnerships and cooperation.

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The growing number of people who have the disease is troubling, because there are only four approved drugs that treat symptoms of the disease, and several hopeful treatments have failed key studies in 2017.

Unfortunately, I can not, however, after studying several comedians, comedy writers and lyricists, I can give you 11 key ingredients of comedy that can help your speech, blog post or anything else you want to brighten up.

Hiring Managers Say Millennials Surpass Prior Generations In Several Key Business Skills, New Study Reveals Millennials are projected to become the largest generation in the U.S. workforce in 20151 The majority of hiring managers now say hard skills trump personality... Continue reading →

CATA, working with 6 other major industry associations, 5 federal agencies, 4 provincial agencies, 2 universities and several NGOs as key partners, has just completed a detailed study of the challenges that must be addressed.

We develop an analytical framework for examining these agency problems and apply it to study several key types of investment managers.

Hiring Managers Say Millennials Surpass Prior Generations In Several Key Business Skills, New Study Reveals

We have studied a wealth of statistics and have keyed in on several indicators that really seem to focus in on the «strength» of each of the twelve playoff teams.

2011 Pedestrian count study (Currently being updated)(view here) This report studied several key areas of downtown for pedestrian activity.

Several studies have also attempted to understand the role of breastfeeding on IQ, and although some authors conclude that the observed advantage of breastfeeding on IQ is related only to genetic and socioenvironmental factors, a recent meta - analysis showed that after adjustment for appropriate key co-factors, breastfeeding was associated with significantly higher scores for cognitive development than formula feeding.6 Longer duration of breastfeeding has also been positively associated with intelligence in adulthood.22 We also observed the benefits of long - term breastfeeding on mental indices, along with the indirect benefit of balancing the impact of exposure to p, p ′ DDE after adjustment for some socioeconomic variables.

Much of the reason for this centers around limitations in several key aspects of study design that have possibly confounded study outcomes.

«Temperature was a key cause of reef collapse and modern temperatures are now within several degrees of the maximum these reefs experienced over their 6,750 year history,» said Lauren Toth, the study's lead author, who was a graduate student at Florida Tech during the study.

Researchers from the National University of Singapore (NUS) have established several key trends in wildlife trade following an in - depth study on international wildlife trade data.

«There's been a drive over the last several decades of trying to understand and improve biocatalysts from this key enzyme family,» said Gregg Beckham, group leader at NREL and senior author of the study.

A key insight of the study is that the future fuel mix will depend in large part on whether oil and natural gas prices decouple at globally over the next several decades.

In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists from The Field Museum and colleagues from around the world describe several new amphibian species and a reptile from northeastern Brazil that help fill this key geographic gap and reveal how animals moved among regions in the supercontinent.

«We found evidence reduced levels of circulating testosterone were associated with increased phthalate exposure in several key populations, including boys ages 6 - 12, and men and women ages 40 - 60,» said one of the study's authors, John D. Meeker, MS, ScD, of the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, MI.

«The real story here is that we probably need sea otters more than they need us, as they play key roles in the functioning and resiliency of kelp forest and estuarine ecosystems that provide a wide range of services to human societies,» said Dr. M Tim Tinker, a research scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey who is presenting an overview of the latest research on southern sea otters and is coauthor of several other new studies presented at the conference.

Now a new study published in Neurology may help scientists further understand how the disorders overlap and differ by revealing several key differences in the brain activity of Tourette's patients with and without OCD.

Phytoplankton play key roles in several chemical and nutrient cycles, including taking up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and either cycling it through food chains or sequestering it in the deep sea, says marine ecologist David Hutchins of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, who wasn't involved in the current study.

Objectives: We propose to develop best - practice guidelines and minimal reporting standards specifically in the context of several regulatory toxicology case studies; e.g. (a) chemical grouping and read - across to supplement ECHA's Read - Across Assessment Framework, (b) discovery of mode of action / molecular key events (within the AOP framework), (c) derivation of Benchmark Doses from concentration - response relationships, and (d) cross-species extrapolation within environmental toxicology.

Remarkably, recent studies from several laboratories including Dr. Kim's lab identified Nurr1 as a key modulator of (neuro) inflammation functioning as a transcriptional repressor for neurotoxic cytokine production.

Sternberg & Williams (1997)[6] demonstrated that GRE scores fail to correlate with several key skills for graduate study, including analytical thinking, creativity, research acumen and teaching, and correlate only modestly with first - year grade point average.

These extended, cool and hence red stars are key targets for stellar evolution studies as well as galactic studies for several reasons: a) many stars go through a red - giant phase; b) red giants are intrinsically bright; c) large stellar internal structure changes as well as changes in surface chemical abundances take place over relatively short time; d) red - giant stars exhibit global intrinsic oscillations.

Funding provided by the Cancer Center Support Grant (CCSG) supports several types of pilot projects (1) highly innovative pilot projects focusing on proof - of - concept or translational research; (2) preliminary collaborative investigations that lead to multi-investigator grant awards or clinical trial; (3) projects that closely align with the Cancer Center's strategic plan and enhance key initiatives; and (4) pilot funding for junior investigators to jump - start independent projects or for more senior investigators looking to study a novel idea derived from discovery.

This is of concern, since several reports have indicated an increase in the incidence of male reproductive disorders over the recent decades (Swan et al., 1997; Boisen et al., 2004, 2005; Richiardi et al., 2004) and the geographical distribution together with migration studies (Hemminki and Li, 2002) have suggested that lifestyle and environmental factors play key roles in the pathogenesis.

Since then, several studies have identified the components within this complex and have revealed that this structure is key in regulating meiotic processes.

The systematic review methodology has several key principles: transparency, comprehensiveness and evaluation of the primary research study design.

Then I'd hit my own bed with a book, rather than watch TV or movies, which several studies reveal will make you feel too keyed up to wind down.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

The results of this study highlight several key takeaways for those of us interested in implementing yoga in school settings:

And several studies in women have shown that higher intake of lignans, the key phytoestrogen in flaxseeds, is associated with reduced risk of breast cancer.

Several studies suggest that (DHA) one of the key omega - 3 fat found in fish oil or through eating a diet rich in omega - 3s such fish and nuts, has been proven to improve eye health.

Below are several of the key areas where studies expose a concerning link between sweeteners and our health.

Less cohesive documentary than feature - length red flag, The Bleeding Edge assembles a range of talking heads and upsetting case studies to target several key villains.

Where «Roots» and «Roots: The Next Generations» were extensive studies on, not one character, but a series of members in a bloodline that spans about a century or so, this series centers around one character, thus the unevenness that plagued this series» sisters has been thinned out tremendously, though unfortunately still not quite to the point of dissipation, because as generally comfortable as this story's flow is, Halle Berry's titular Queen Jackson character extensively faces several dynamic events and characters, yet still doesn't take the time that it should to meditate upon the full exposition and depth of this story's range, thus leaving certain key story aspects to come off as unnecessary and, of course, supplementary to focal inconsistency.

Several HGSE faculty members recently traveled to Mexico to study four key education policy initiatives.

Key also included.Addresses several common core standards in social studies and language arts.

While students at both groups of schools did better than the trends projected in the years studied, closures produced positive and statistically significant impacts on several key outcomes for displaced students versus those in the comparison group (Figure 5).

Since the mid-1990s, in addition to Sir Ken Robinson and Heidi Hayes Jacobs, several key figures have stoked the discussion of integrated studies through their own work and influential books, including James Beane, author of Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education; Julie Thompson Klein, author of Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities and Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies; and Robin J. Fogarty, author of How to Integrate the Curricula and Integrating Curricula with Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads (the latter coauthored with Judy Sstudies through their own work and influential books, including James Beane, author of Curriculum Integration: Designing the Core of Democratic Education; Julie Thompson Klein, author of Crossing Boundaries: Knowledge, Disciplinarities, and Interdisciplinarities and Mapping Interdisciplinary Studies; and Robin J. Fogarty, author of How to Integrate the Curricula and Integrating Curricula with Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads (the latter coauthored with Judy SStudies; and Robin J. Fogarty, author of How to Integrate the Curricula and Integrating Curricula with Multiple Intelligences: Teams, Themes, and Threads (the latter coauthored with Judy Stoehr).

Our study indicates that New Orleans parents can choose from among schools that vary on several key dimensions, and that these differences are not necessarily driven by the decisions of charter governing agencies or large CMOs.

After receiving her PhD under V.O. Key in 1962, she taught at several institutions including Stanford and Harvard but spent most of her career at the Brookings Institution, serving as director of its Governance Studies Program from 1978 to 1983, and at the University of Virginia, where she was the Julia Allen Cooper Professor of Government and Foreign Affairs until her retirement in 1999.

Over the last 5 years, several studies have documented a key area of change that is critical for educators — the students themselves.

Although vouchers and tax credits can be debated on several fronts, research (in part from a 2007 study of vouchers by RAND and a 2015 study by the National Bureau of Economic Research) has suggested key design safeguards for those states still wishing to proceed with one of those privatization options:

Sixteen pilot schools along with several other Lead schools in the English sector experimented with the key concepts of the program of study, as well as school organizational approaches that could be best suited to the strategies required to maximize the effectiveness of the learning environment.

In a separate study conducted by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, Amanda Olberg and Michael Podgursky looked at alternative retirement plans offered by charter schools in several key states where participation in the state system was optional.

In their synthesis of several dozen studies of after - school programs, Little, Wimer, and Weiss (2008) identified three key features necessary for successful programs: sustained attendance, quality programming and staffing, and strong partnerships between the program and other places where students learn, including schools, families, and community institutions.

Key examples include Cawelti and Protheroe's (2001) study of change in six school districts in four states; Snipes, Dolittle and Herlihy's (2002) case studies of improvement in four urban school systems and states; Massell and Goertz's (2002) investigation of standards - based reform in 23 school districts across eight states; McLaughlin and Talbert's (2002) analysis of three urban or metropolitan area California districts; Togneri and Anderson's (2003) investigation of five high poverty districts (four urban, one rural) from five states; and several single - site case studies of district success (e.g., Hightower, 2002; Snyder, 2002).

Programs usually include print and digital study materials, as well as several key grooming tools like dog nail trimmers.

Key Takeaway: Several studies and experts point at the negative consequences from the use of shock collars.