Sentences with phrase «small number of sessions»

One review suggested that a small number of sessions were more effective than many.

Interventions with fewer than five sessions were as effective (d = 0.42) as interventions with 5 — 16 sessions (d = 0.38), but interventions with more than 16 sessions were less effective (d = 0.21) than interventions with a smaller number of sessions.

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Goldberg says the number may seem small — a news app isn't going to go viral — but touts a 4.5 - star rating in the App Store and an average session time of seven minutes.

It has historically made sense to hedge against market fluctuations based on much less restrictive definitions of market conditions, but at present, the market is in a set of conditions that has almost invariably been followed by deep and abrupt losses, though often only after a further marginal advance over a small number of trading sessions.

Or it can combine the two methods by having first a general session for one hour and after that a number of smaller groups for a second hour.

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

Conservative MPs are currently rebelling less often than Labour MPs (in around 11 % of divisions in the first three sessions of the 2005 parliament, less than half the rate on the government benches) and they are doing so in smaller numbers; although a slightly larger proportion of Conservative parliamentarians has rebelled compared to Labour, few have cast more than a handful of dissenting votes, and even the most rebellious would not find themselves high up the PLP's league table of troublemakers.

The report is so damning, Science has learned, that after a 13 February special session that reviewed and accepted the report's conclusions and recommendations, the ITER Council — the project's governing body — restricted its readership to a small number of senior managers and council members.

Having less muscle mass means less intense training sessions, which in turn translates to a smaller number of calories burned.

This will burn a small amount of calories per session but if you perform a regular number of sessions per week you will discover that the end result will be a very positive one.

This inspirational CPD session is designed for relatively small numbers of teaching staff (between 4 - 16) where focused discussion allows time for staff to reflect on their own practice, and consider strategies that may drive their own practice from good to outstanding.

For example, in some projects, administrators are expected to attend only a small number of strategically - selected sessions:

The number of people players, and length of average play session, has been far more than our small team could have anticipated.

Recently I was invited to attend an information session on the e-disclosure pilot project that is about to get underway for a small number of police divisions in Toronto's Metro North jurisdiction.

At the «Smartphones and Tablets: What's Right For You» session at the Law Society of Upper Canada's Solo and Small Firm Conference last week (archived webcast is available for purchase), there were a number of questions on syncing Android devices with MS Exchange / Outlook.

1x 45 - 60 minute small group or whole class sessions (depending on the number of facilitators), conducted weekly for 7 weeks.

Limitations include small sample size, lack of control group on specific number of sessions, and use of a no - intervention control group, and lack of follow - up.

Limitations include differences in the number of therapy sessions across groups and small sample sizes, particularly for the comparison groups.

It is designed as a 12 - session program to be used with small groups of parents, and as a one - day seminar for large numbers of parents.