Sentences with phrase «several pilot studies»

The team has been busy exhibiting the game to a range of different groups, including carrying out several pilot studies in hospitals.

NHTSA is completing several pilot studies, some of which included Denso's aftermarket safety device presented at last year's SEMA Show, to provide enough data to decide whether the government should mandate communication technology in cars.

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Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

We're heading to the remote village of Veal Roulem, which means «rainy field» in Khmer, one of several sites where a team from the Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit in Bangkok is wrapping up a pilot study of a radical approach to eliminating malaria.

Trotti, Maness and colleagues didn't set out to dive into ME / CFS — they explicitly label this paper a pilot study, and the results say more about the «hypersomnolent» group of patients they have been seeing for the last several years, rather than the broader ME / CFS population.

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.

There are also plans to pilot the program in Myanmar, starting with a feasibility study in several internally displaced - persons camps.

Several years ago, a colleague and I conducted a pilot study that involved teaching 24 gifted elementary students how to meditate and practice other...

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 this study, we estimate the causal effects of an ethnic studies curriculum piloted in several San Francisco high schools.

MCPER researchers and Central Texas teachers jointly developed the 18 - week STRIVE lessons based on several years of experimental pilot studies.

Several pilot field studies will also be developed in phase one that link modeling advances with field observations.

Bernardi Human Resource Law is participating in the Mental Health Commission of Canada's 3 - year pilot study tracking the rollout of the standard in several participating organizations.

In a recent informal pilot study I reported at the Brief Therapy Conference in Anaheim in 2015, I noted the rate of symptom reduction per hour of therapy in several hundred sessions conducted by four experienced TEAM - CBT therapists at the Feeling Good Institute in California.

VAWI was developed in collaboration with several networks and expert groups and was based partly on the original6 and revised Conflict Tactics Scales, 7 as well as on work that originated from its critics.8 Extensive pretesting, independent back translations and piloting of the questionnaire were conducted.9 The prevalence rates from the ten countries included in the Multi-country Study vary greatly, with lifetime estimates ranging between 20 % and 75 % for psychological violence, 13 — 61 % for physical violence and 6 — 59 % for sexual violence.5 Since the Multi-country Study was performed, VAWI has been used in several more countries.10 — 15