Sentences with phrase «small study groups with»

«The courses are led by a highly qualified team of teaching staff, working in small study groups with plenty of individual attention and supervision for each student.

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It has also run pilot programs, with San Jose State University, and the University of Central Florida, that included week - long studies with small groups of students at each school.

Narr's study also found kids with broader friend groups tended to grow up with higher rates of social anxiety than kids with smaller numbers of closer friends.

A recent study by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. found that graduates with a debt burden greater than $ 25,000 are less likely to own a home compared to those with smaller financial burdens.

The study was then repeated with the PEs divided into smaller groups, i.e. deciles or 10 % intervals (see Diagrams A. 2 and A. 3).

Green Street's Advisory Group studied small and mid-sized REITs to compare return profiles with their larger peers and identify characteristics of the outperformers.

I can see how you may view my attendance at a small group Bible study affiliated with a church organization as a contradiction in terms (or at least an issue of semantics.)

Well, you and the members of your small group have the benefit of learning a great deal with this Christian History study.

Maybe to say «that is a good question but I cant give you a satisfactory answer» maybe put the ball back into his / her court by offerring an invitation to the Alpha course or to come along to a small Bible study group st your home or an invitation to a non Church tyoe activity with other Christians, walk, bike ride, five a side football or other sporting things, befriend them and truly love them without an agenda.

The fastest growing and largest churches in the world are cell - based, with all of the church ministry flowing out of small groupings of people who meet weekly, worshiping together, studying together, praying together and often engaging in highly imaginative service to people in their neighborhoods.

For years, I participated in small groups and Bible studies feeling like there must be something wrong with me.

While research by Barna Group has found that women are more involved than men in church «extracurriculars» such as Bible studies and small groups, plenty of today's churches lack robust women's ministries — perhaps due to lack of resources, or deliberate efforts to do away with stereotypical ladies teas and craft bazaars.

Let me illustrate with small - group Bible studies, which our church has found to be our most authentic and exciting evangelistic event.

While studying Hamlet in the West African bush, she was invited to drink beer and share a story with a small group of elders of the Tiv people.

Join us as we study preassigned readings from classic Western Civilization texts in small - group seminars limited to 15 participants per group, with discussion facilitated by faculty members from Northeast Catholic College.

But that's not all... As part of preparing this book for publishing as a paperback, it has been edited, revised, and expanded, and now includes a study guide with each chapter, which makes it perfect for small group discussions.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

I'm sure that sounds terrible to some but I was praying a lot at the time and attending a small bible study group with some of my friends anyway.

There are comfortable common areas like an outdoor courtyard and interior Living Room Lounge with community bar that beckon you to sit and relax — if even just for a moment, and a quiet study can accommodate small groups and private meetings.

A prospective, controlled study of the effect of breast milk on infection among low birth weight infants was conducted in India in 1981.18 Although the sample size was small, 62 infants, the study design was a randomized block design in which feeding schedules for breast milk or formula were randomly allocated within groups of infants that were determined to be relatively homogeneous with respect to factors predisposing to infection.

Supplemental resources associated with the film include a nearly 400 - page hardcover book, small group Bible study, Movie Event kit, youth version (called Young Explorers), homeschool curriculum and others.

A small 2013 study reported that infants with colic showed lower diversity and stability in their gut microflora than the control group.

The studies have been conducted with small groups, and results have been somewhat mixed.

That is, we found some evidence that small studies (i.e., those with higher standard errors, located to the right of the figure), compared with larger studies, reported larger mean differences in systolic blood pressure between infant feeding groups.

Small Business groups, farmers and others who employ low wage workers are organizing, and a fiscally conservative group is out with a study showing potential job losses.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences followed a small group of high - functioning people with autism and found that they responded more to social cues when given the hormone oxytocin.

The actual disparity in number of cases between the two groups was small, with 129 lung cancers in all, and the trial wasn't set up to study that disease.

In conducting their study, which includes detailed behavioral, medical and genetic observations of 14 boys with CS from 12 families, the team of scientists and physicians worked closely with families of the small but fast - growing Christianson Syndrome Association, including hosting the group's inaugural conference at Brown's Alpert Medical School last summer.

Although Marshall notes that the paper only includes a small group of people with no bipolar disorder but a history of childhood trauma, he hopes to continue assessing the question as the Prechter study continues.

«Although evidence suggesting the presence of cognitive deficits in children with sleep apnea has been around for quite some time,» said Leila Gozal, MD, MSc, from the University of Chicago, «the relatively small groups studied made it difficult to demonstrate a strong relationship between increasing cognitive issues and increasing sleep apnea severity.»

A new study shows that small groups with gender parity, or even a female majority, can help young female engineers feel less anxious.

Four small studies published between 2006 and 2012 by research groups in Europe and Iran found that adults diagnosed with depression who took aspirin or another anti-inflammatory drug called Celecoxib, along with an antidepressant, got more relief from feelings of sadness, hopelessness, guilt and fatigue compared with those taking an antidepressant alone.

On parent - reporting measures, girls with autism seem to struggle more than boys with performing routine tasks like getting up and dressed or making small talk, even when the study group is normalized to meet similar basic clinical diagnostic criteria across sexes.

«There is currently an imbalance, with most research initiated by individuals and small groups, and few resources devoted towards larger - scale synthetic thinking and study.»

In addition, their study with a small group of 20 patients with PD demonstrated that stimulation of the cortex of the brain using external electrodes corrected some of the distortion and temporarily improved some patients» motor symptoms.

In another study published this week the group investigated influenza pH1N1 virus - host cell interaction in detail and found that certain host function could be temporally inhibited with small molecule MK2206 to block influenza infection in cell culture.

Since most such studies have been small, the Purdue group decided to pool results from a host of experiments in which people were given a food with or without lactose and asked to record any gastrointestinal symptoms.

The pilot study — an autumn 2014 online survey complemented with focus groups — looked into the career paths of some 500 young scientists who had obtained a Ph.D. in the previous 7 years and done at least one postdoc with one of a small and diverse range of research and funding organizations.

They asked a nationally representative sample of over 1,800 Americans to say how much they agree with various statements, and compared their answers to a small group of experts — professors, polled at a psychology conference, who had been studying memory for more than 10 years.

In this study, Huganir's group worked to test many genes all at once using plastic plates with dozens of small wells.

«We initially thought there would be interbreeding, but past studies by Benkman and his group suggested that the smaller billed, nomadic visitors, didn't seem to interbreed with the South Hills birds.

To better predict how patients will respond to chemotherapy drugs before they begin treatment, researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine conducted a proof - of - principle study with a small group of metastatic colorectal cancer patients.

Far from there being a continuum of planets, the study found two distinct groups: one smaller than 1.5 times the size of Earth, the other bigger than twice Earth's size, with very few examples in the gap in between.

The major limitation of this study was the size of the group with bariatric specialist follow - up, which may be too small to identify a significant difference in the 10 - year anemia rates compared with preoperative rates.

Sam Watson adds: «Our study indicates that ensuring very preterm babies, particularly those born at less than 27 weeks, are delivered in hospitals with high volume neonatal units improves their outcome, but there could be a knock - on effect on other patient groups if smaller neonatal units are closed.

Perera began working with Weinstein on a small study comparing two groups of hospital patients: One group was suffering from lung cancer; the other was a group of orthopedic patients as a control sample.

In a separate paper, submitted to Physical Review D, a group of researchers at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J., Harvard University and New York University (N.Y.U.) also posits a new dark force, this one with a much smaller range, acting only on nuclear scales.

Fetuses from zinc - deficient mice in the study were 38 percent smaller on average than those from the control group fed a diet with zinc included.

The results of the current study provide a partial answer to this mystery: it is precisely because of their small brain that is densely packed with nerve cells that birds are able to reduce the processing time in tasks that require rapid interaction between different groups of neurons.

A year ago we started thinking, why don't we select a single family with an interesting disease and see whether studying a smaller group of related individuals makes it possible to identify the genes involved in that disease.