Sentences with phrase «small cohort of»

Why give equity stakes to a small cohort of moneymen when instead you can let the people who will be using the network, the ones creating the value, have stakes in the project?

Sossin says that the majority of courses requiring TAs at the law school are a small cohort of first - year tutorials that will be suspended and one of which is already complete and only requires grading.

Regarding the Hockey Stick of IPCC 2001 evidence now indicates, in my view, that an IPCC Lead Author working with a small cohort of scientists, misrepresented the temperature record of the past 1000 years by (a) promoting his own result as the best estimate, (b) neglecting studies that contradicted his, and (c) amputating another's result so as to eliminate conflicting data and limit any serious attempt to expose the real uncertainties of these data.

The island regions threatened by the Vek are small tactical boards, and you control a small cohort of giant, Pacific Rim - style robots who are there to smash and push their enemies around.

With support from Maddie's Fund, our program offers a one year Fellowship to a small cohort of working shelter veterinarians interested in mentored shelter medicine - training.

A small cohort of your peers identified issues for inclusion into an informational document created specifically for those in the veterinary profession.

The Center for Innovation in Education, with then Deputy Commissioner Paul Leather and Mariane Gfroerer, from the Department of Education, enlisted me to facilitate a small cohort of educators across PACE schools to begin to explore what it might look like to integrate our Work Study Practices into curriculum, instruction, and assessment within teachers» classrooms.

Additionally, this teacher will serve as an Advisor to a small cohort of students to facilitate the school's program in social - emotional learning and mentorship.

Most of the 11 states want to focus on low - performing students as a whole — a U-turn from the NCLB law, in which poor performance by a small cohort of at - risk students could sink a school's rating.

-LSB-...] I had the opportunity to meet with a small cohort of new teachers and a veteran, henceforth Ms.. A (not her real name), who was implementing AFL during my first year in district.

program, a three - year, practice - oriented degree aimed at preparing a small cohort of leaders who can effect major changes in K - 12 education.

You'll react when you eat a steak, and a small cohort of victims will even react when they drink a glass of milk.

Jerant and colleagues44 analyzed a small cohort of relatively healthy outpatients (who are, in general, healthier than hospitalized patients) and found no associations between physician sex and patient mortality.

Outlier - based identification of copy number variations using targeted resequencing in a small cohort of patients with tetralogy of fallot

Using ddPCR, the team detected and quantified five strains of HPV cfDNA in blood samples from a small cohort of patients with recurrent metastatic HPV - positive OPSCC, who were undergoing either conventional treatment or immunotherapy.

As such, the team has investigated a small cohort of individuals in this sector to see whether or not there are benefits to standing workstations.

Head cautions that these results are to some extent exploratory due to the small cohort of 30 participants.

And for researchers studying the organ, new questions are emerging about how the environment, lifestyle or genetics of this small cohort of patients might predispose them to appendicitis even as it becomes less common.

But behind the scenes, a small cohort of researchers embarked on a years - long journey to understand why it hadn't worked when immunology suggested it should.

It is relevant because the blog is retrospectively comparing idealized birth outcomes of white women in hospitals to a small cohort of homebirths with unclear race or socioeconomic status.

Meanwhile, Coast Mountain Bus Company, the Translink subsidiary that provides transit services in the Lower Mainland and employs over 3000 bus drivers, is enthusiastically complying with the new law, and already has a small cohort of over-65 drivers in its fleet, with eight full - sized buses now being driven by the older drivers, and 17 of the company's van - sized smaller buses.

Why give equity stakes to a small cohort of moneymen when instead you can let the people who will be using the network, the ones creating the value, have stakes in the project?

As of the early 1960s, each birth cohort of males was followed by a smaller cohort of females, thus reducing the competitive market value of what males had to offer.

«We hypothesized that the various physiological functions of the vagus nerve were being regulated by different small cohorts of these 2,500 neurons,» Strochlic said.

Among a smaller cohort of patients for whom serum sRAGE levels were available, there were lower levels seen in those taking short - acting CCBs compared with any other type of antihypertensive medication (P =.032).

Very recently, a rather limited number of retrospective studies, utilizing whole genome sequencing (Talkowski et al., 2012) or whole exome sequencing (WES) in small cohorts of neonates and aborted fetuses with various ultrasound and / or post-mortem structural abnormalities (Carss et al., 2014; Drury et al., 2015; Alamillo et al., 2015; Westerfield et al., 2015), provided initial proof - of - principle of large - scale prenatal next generation sequencing (NGS).

But this time, we looked for different effects on math scores in schools with more and fewer math teachers and different effects on reading scores on schools with larger and smaller cohorts of reading teachers.

In the program's first year, the bonus program boost to math scores was 3.2 points on the New York state test, or 0.08 standard deviations, in schools with small cohorts of teachers with tested students (approximately ten or fewer such teachers in elementary and K - 8 schools and five or fewer such teachers in middle schools).

In addition to the larger institutes, Leadership Academy participants were also grouped into small cohorts of about 15 — organized by region — to do «learning walkthroughs» or classroom visits, to observe teachers in area schools and provide feedback.

The three cycles, in reverse, Myers said, will draw in smaller cohorts of young people to replace older peers, accelerate job success and career mobility, and open up more housing options — both rentals and homes for purchase.

Not exact matches

«Gen Y's are aging into the important «pre-family» cohort of riders and Boomers are increasingly handing over their keys to the smaller Gen X population.»

«When you are a startup, there is relatively little to lose, mistakes are fixable and a small amount of cash and a cohort of committed colleagues can go a long way.

There is still a small, imperiled, and largely segregated cohort of Catholic magazines such as Commonweal, America, and Crisis, as well as serious ecumenical publications such as First Things and Image, and scholarly ones such as Christianity and Literature and Renascence.

A study published in 2000 by the ELCA revealed that of the cohort of newly minted pastors, 71 percent placed constraints upon where they could move due to the needs or desires of a spouse; 58 percent restricted their first call to a location in or near a large city; 36 percent were opposed to serving in a small congregation; and 32 percent were opposed to serving in a rural setting.

Republicans do better among whites and whites make up a smaller share of younger age cohorts, but I think that media ecology plays a major role in the Democratic tilt of younger voters.

Coming from Melbourne University, which has a large majority of my cohort desiring to enter Small Animal Practice, it was refreshing to talk to people who were passionate, interested and knowledgeable about agriculture.

I gathered a cohort of dreamy parent - artists and non-parent artists whom I have long admired, and together we each contribute a small, meaningful piece of art to root & star magazine that is rigorous in its technique while also inspired by the children we love, the little ones we read to day and night (and night and day).

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Friesen says, «Freshman Academy allows students to go through their classes in a small cohort with the support of their professors, a faculty Learning Coach, and their classmates.

* Please note that the information we provide regarding expenditure of our Pupil Premium and results of end of stage Assessments is presented in a manner that reflects the fact that we are a small rural academy and that because of the low cohorts we will omit information that has the potential to identify individuals or specific families

Our data agrees with that of others, 1223 that suggest that delaying the introduction of formula milk protects against the morbidity associated with respiratory infection, illness, and associated hospitalisations in the first year of life.24 Prolonged breast feeding was only marginally associated with less respiratory illness when examined in a New Zealand birth cohort to 2 years of age, 25 and the Dundee study8 showed a small, yet significant protective effect of breast feeding against respiratory illness at 0 — 13 weeks and 40 — 52 weeks after adjustment for social class, maternal age, and parental smoking.

First of all, let's not get too carried away — this is a small sample of the overall total, not the entire cohort.

It is the smaller cohorts coming up behind that have lost out, which one would have thought should have been advantaged by the laws of scarcity.

A small but growing cohort of scientists suspects that if this style of misfolding is a generic property of proteins, it's likely to play a role in normal biology.

Andringa is one of a small but growing cohort of scientists who take time off from postdocs to complete internships outside of academia.

Unemployment increased slightly in the more recent group, compared with the 2004 — 05 cohort analyzed by Vitae in 2008 (from 1.7 % in 2008 to 2.4 % in 2010), but the economic crisis seemed to have only a very small effect on the employment prospects of recent Ph.D. graduates.

It shows the central starburst galaxy AzTEC - 3 along with its labeled cohorts of smaller, less active galaxies.

One of the toughest tasks is replicating these studies — an especially difficult proposition in diseases that are not overwhelmingly heritable, such as asthma, or ones that affect fairly small patient cohorts, such as certain childhood cancers.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

«The common perception that Zika is associated with a very mild clinical course compared with dengue or chikungunya was not borne out in this small cohort,» states Dr. Andrea Boggild, Clinical Director, Tropical Disease Unit at the University Health Network, University of Toronto and Public Health Ontario, Toronto, Ontario.