Sentences with phrase «shorter course of study»

Shorter course of study 3.

A veterinary assistant may be formally trained through a high school program or a certificate program offered by a college (which is not the same as graduating from that college — it's a short course of study) or through a distant learning program over the Internet.

Not exact matches

Students who have completed an undergraduate honours business administration degree at Ivey are eligible for an 8 - month accelerated course of study, making it one of the shortest MBA programs in Canada.

They tend, in short, to take on a life of their own, having the power to order and govern the courses comprising a course of study.

This home study course is broken down into six modules of innovative insights, practical advice, and more than 60 short comprehensive videos showing actual mothers in real life situations.

Although not directly comparable, our findings are in broad agreement with those from routine data in Scotland that have indicated a positive association between Baby Friendly accreditation, but not certification, and breastfeeding at 1 week of age.17 Our findings reinforce those of Coutinho and colleagues who reported that high exclusive breastfeeding rates achieved in Brazilian hospitals implementing staff training with the course content of the Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative were short - lived and not sustained at home unless implemented in combination with post-natal home visits.35 Similarly in Italy, training of staff with an adapted version of the Baby Friendly course content resulted in high breastfeeding rates at discharge, with a rapid decrease in the days after leaving hospital.36 In contrast, a cluster randomized trial in Belarus (PROBIT) found an association between an intervention modelled on the Baby Friendly Initiative with an increased duration of breastfeeding37 an association also reported from an observational study in Germany.38 Mothers in Belarus stay in hospital post-partum for 6 — 7 days, and in Germany for 5 days, with post-natal support likely to be particularly important in countries where mothers stay in the hospital for a shorter time, with early discharge likely to limit the influence of a hospital - based intervention.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA) has changed some of its guidelines for certain medications, based on recent studies that show shorter courses suffice.

The authors — Martin Llewelyn, a professor of infectious diseases at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, and nine British colleagues — point to recent studies that have shown shorter courses of certain drug classes such as quinolones are as effective as the longer courses that have been recommended in the past.

He cites a 2016 study of children's ear infections where a shorter antibiotic course led to relapse.

The real value of a short, intensive course like the boot camp, Gray says, is in learning the language and recognizing the gaps in your knowledge so that you know what to study in the future.»

Starting with his Ph.D. work and continuing with his many reviews, essays, and books (see «A Short Course on Aging»), Finch is one of the first people to offer a convincing argument that senescence can and should be studied in the same way that other developmental processes are, Mobbs adds.

A recent Penn State College of Medicine physician's study review suggests that shorter courses of radiation are preferable to longer ones for older patients receiving treatment for slow - growing skin cancers.

For the test study, Kendall's team based the model on experience in Southeast Asia, where the short - course regimen was originally developed by a group of researchers in Bangladesh.

[Box 19] AAAS OIS Monthly Reports 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1983 - 1984 AAAS Committee on Scientific Freedom and Responsibility 1977 1978 Meeting, 3 - 4 June 1978 Meeting 13 - 14 Oct. 1978 1979 Monthly reports, 1979 1982 1986 1987 AAAS Office of Opportunities in Science (OOS), 1977 AAAS Board of Directors Margaret Mead Memorial, 1978 - 1979 AAAS OOS, new director, 1979 AAAS, OOS, COOS, 1979 AAAS OOS, Women in Science, 1979 AAAS OOS, Handicapped Program, 1979 AAAS Office of Science Education (OSE) 1977 1976-1980 1979 Science Teaching Awards, 1979 Holiday lecture program, 1979 Section Q Study, 1979 Chautaugua - type short course program, 1979 Commonwealth Awards for Science Education, 1979

[Box 9] OIS - China - Chinese Science and Technology Policy Delegation Visit, 1978 Zhongshan University Delegation Visit, 1979 AAAS Popularization of Science Delegation to China, 1980 CAST Science Writers Delegation to US, 1981 AAAS Environmental Planning Delegation to China, 1981 US - China Conference on Energy Resources and Environment, 1982 Interferon Study (Proposed), 1982 CAST Delegation to US, 1982 CAST Quality Control Delegation to US, 1982 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - US Papers, 1983 Rumenant Productivity Symposium - Chinese Papers, 1983 Photo Album of Address by Song Jian, 1985 AAAS Board of Directors Delegation to China, 1985 Chinese Delegation Visit (IIE), 1986 US Fish and Wildlife Service Delegation to China, 1986 FASAS International Climate Change Symposium (Proposal), 1986 CAST Delegation to US, 1986 Background Political Information, 1987 Law / Science Short Course (Proposal), 1987 Collected Information and Papers on Chinese Water Management, 1987 CAST Water Management Delegation to US, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China, 1987 AAAS Water Management Delegation to China - Follow - up, 1988 CAST Petrochemical Engineer Delegation to US (Proposal), 1987 Pacific Rim Symposium (Proposal), 1987 Science and Technology Advising Seminar (Proposal), 1988 - 1989 AAAS / ABA Lawyers and Scientists Delegation to China, 1988 China Symposium at 1989 AAAS Annual Meeting, 1988 - 1989 Medical Instrument Maintenance and Repair, 1989 Fang Li Zhi, 1988 - 1989 Amnesty International Reports on Chinese Arrests, 1989 Correspondence re: June 1989 Events in China, 1989 Consortium of Affiliates for International Programs, 1989 China - FASAS Symposium on Environmental Protection in Developing Countries, 1989 FASAS Symposium Chinese Papers, 1989 PRC Joint Commission Visit, 1989 Tibet, 1987 Liz Levey Misc Correspondence, 1982 - 1990 Chinese Code of Ethics, 1986 China Tech Company Information, (undated) AAAS / CAST Exchange Programs, 1978 - 1987 Correspondence with CAST International Director Wang Zheng, 1981 - 1982 Correspondence with CAST, 1981 - 1989 James Hartnett Complaint to CAST, 1988 - 1989 Chinese Academy of Sciences, 1987 Hong Kong Association for the Advancement of Science and Technology, 1987 - 1988 Correspondence with Chinese Embassy, 1982 - 1987 NAS China Committee, 1982 - 1986 Financial Aid for Chinese Students, 1987 Misc Articles and General Background Information, 1978 - 1989 Misc., 1982 - 1989 Presentation Transparencies, 1988 Elzinga, Aant.

Several studies echo a high level of satisfaction among short course participants and found measurable impacts, but it is important for students to come in with realistic expectations and make an effort to further their learning after the program is done.

«This study arms us with information that may help us push toward shorter antibiotic treatment courses and minimizing the use of broad - spectrum antibiotics.»

Researchers in Europe tracked the mental function of more than 7,000 British civil servants for a decade, and they found that even the youngest participants, who were between the ages of 45 and 49 at the outset, generally displayed slight yet measurable declines in short - term memory, mental reasoning, and verbal facility over the course of the study.

In fact, studies show that even a short course of meditation can increase levels of IgA and improve immune function.

So when FMCA started to identify additional topics of study that are useful parts of a coach's education, but that didn't quite fit our curriculum, we decided to offer them as short courses.

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Studies show that poor, malnourished children in India, Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia experience shorter courses of infectious diarrhea after taking zinc supplements [61].

This, of course, explains why some short - term studies show weight loss.

Studies of contemporary hunter - gatherers show that gathered honey represented a relatively minor dietary component over the course of a year, despite high intakes in some groups during short periods of availability.

I have already mentioned in one of my earlier posts that I'll be attending a school this year to improve my technical skills as a photographer and now I can proudly tell you that I've applied and have been accepted to New York Film Academy and will be studying there for a short but very intensive course in photography.

AQA GCSE RELIGIOUS STUDIES B (SHORT COURSE) UNIT 6 - Worship and Key Beliefs Intended to help GCSE Students focusing on the religion of Islam and Christianity (and some Judaism) with revision.

As part of its work teaching human rights, the IHRC organises courses, specialist seminars, short courses for specific groups, studies and research work, analysis and evaluation projects, and conferences at the local as well as the international level.

Commenting on the figures, Rudolf Eliott Lockhart, chief executive of the Religious Education Council of England and Wales, said: «While it is fantastic to see increasing numbers of students opting to take the full course GCSE in Religious Studies, a reflection of the attraction of an academically rigorous subject that helps prepare students to understand an increasingly diverse modern world, we should not ignore the troubling news that declining entries for the short course mean that more than 100,000 fewer young people have studied the subject at GCSE level this year than in 2010.

In a new study, students in an introductory college statistics class who took a short online survey before each exam asking them to think about how they would prepare for it earned higher grades in the course than their peers — a third of a letter grade higher, on average.

I worked with a team of colleagues to develop short site - based travel - study courses for adult students in degree programs.

Students enrolled in the HGSE course will study how to recognize opportunities and assess needs for informal learning interventions; how to conduct, assemble, and synthesize research on media - based teaching and learning in a particular domain; how to design, test, and revise materials that are responsive to particular audiences and objectives; how to make diversity a fundamental component of the design process; and how to gauge the short - and long - term impact of an intervention.

His comments follow concerns from the Religious Education Council of England and Wales that a removal of short courses from the Department for Education (DfE) performance tables is «having a serious and negative impact on the number of pupils choosing to take religious studies at GCSE level, with an increasing number of schools having no pupils at all taking the subject».

Rather than administering separate social studies and English tests at the end of the year, Louisiana schools participating in the pilot will teach short social studies and English curriculum units in tandem over the course of the year, pausing briefly after each unit to assess students» reading, writing and content knowledge.

For instance, if you are planning to study Masters, then of course you do need to have at least a four years graduate degree in many cases, while if you like to study for shorter duration, certification or diploma courses may be better.

I designed this to go with the movie Life of Pi, as the first of a short series of lessons designed to keep students entertained who have finishd their exam course but have not been able to go on study leave.

But she said the rise had come at the expense of other subjects, such as GCSE citizenship studies, which saw a 45 per cent drop in short course entry and 18 per cent fall in the full course.

(2) provide short - term training and instruction in technical matters * relating to vocational REHABILITATION services, including the establishment and maintenance of such research fellowships and traineeships, with such stipends and allowances (including travel and subsistence expenses), as he may deem necessary, except that no such training or instruction (or fellowship or scholarship) shall be provided any individual for any one course of study for a period in excess of four years, and such training, instruction, fellowships, * and traineeships may be in the fields of REHABILITATION medicine, * REHABILITATION nursing, REHABILITATION counseling, REHABILITATION social work, * REHABILITATION psychology, physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech pathology and audiology, prosthetics and orthotics, recreation for ill and handicapped individuals, and other specialized fields contributing to the * REHABILITATION of handicapped individuals; and

When students start studying in colleges or universities, they have a vast course of study to complete within the short period.

The Wangari Maathai Institute for Peace and Environmental Studies was honored to award the certificates to six participants who successfully completed the short course in Integrated Environmental Impact Assessment and Environmental Audit in a ceremony held today the 15th May 2015 at 10:00 am at the Wangari Maathai Institute, College of Agriculture and Veterinary Sciences, University of Nairobi, Upper Kabete Campus.

The escalation of conflict in Syria may also provide a case study in geopolitical driven volatility in the short - run that is outweighed by stronger market fundamentals over the course of the year.

Slade students did begin their studies with a short stint of drawing plaster casts, but drawing and painting from the live model were the main focus of the course.

«Independent Curators International (ICI), New York, and Instituto Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil, are now accepting applications from curators working internationally to participate in a short - course training program.Organized from April 22 — 29, 2012, the Curatorial Intensive will employ Instituto Inhotim as a case study to explore how curatorial practices negotiate issues of commissioning and adaptation of site - specific works; interpretation and recreation of lost and unrealized projects; and concepts of the expanded museum and exhibition, such as curating through collection building; the spatial expansion of the institution; and new forms of outreach and audience development.

In the second study, volunteers went camping for a week in the Cache La Poudre Wilderness (Colorado) around the winter solstice, when the hours of daylight are the shortest, and then had their melatonin levels tested hourly over the course of 24 hours immediately after they returned.

This talk was part of The Sleeping Giant: Measuring Ocean Ice Interactions in Antarctica short course at the Keck Institute for Space Studies at Caltech on September 9, 2013.

The instructional sequence and assessments are discussed in detail in the next sections (B and C), but, in short, all students take an initial required formative assessment covering grammar and punctuation conventions.28 Students are provided with a recommended course of study based on their initial score, offered a variety of instructional opportunities, and required to pass a post-test demonstrating proficiency.

You can set the length of each study session; you could complete the course in one day or study for short periods of time over several days.

You have complete control over the length of each study session; you could complete the course in one day or study for short periods of time over several days.

The duration of online course is shorter compared with the traditional school because you can study anytime you want..

Within the North West we have one of the widest range of postgraduate study options; from part - time to full - time, short courses to CPD, Masters of Arts / Science and longer term Research and PhD opportunities across many subject areas.

Equally, if you took the time when you were out of the workforce to do some studying or short courses that helped to update your skills, you should also emphasise this in your resume as it can help to show that you remained active and focused.