Sentences with phrase «so focused on their studies»

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Twenge and Campbell are drawing here on research from the so - called positive psychology movement, which recently has attempted to shift the focus of psychological research away from disease and disorder to a study of the character strengths that make for happiness and human flourishing.

Also, Bible study is still a huge part of my life, and I feel pretty certain that God has gifted me to study and write about the Bible, and so I will strive to focus on doing so.

God can not be studied directly, so understanding of God must come through a focus on something else whose study is believed to lead to better understanding of God.

Hence a theological school does focus study on congregations, but is not defined by an interest in doing so.

The discipleship area is focused on text and audio material, and so if you don't spend much time reading theology books, studying Scripture, or listening to theology podcasts or books on audio, you probably won't enjoy the discipleship area of this website.

Based on anonymous surveys and focus groups involving 1,320 soldiers and 447 Marines, the study revealed that only 56 % of soldiers would report a unit member for injuring or killing an innocent noncombatant, while a mere 40 % of Marines would do so.

Most studies so far have examined so - called focused - attention meditation, in which the practitioner concentrates on a particular subject, such as the breath.

As a result, we sometimes (I am speaking of me here) get so wrapped up in Scripture study, that we neglect the more important things in life, such as family, the poor and needy in our community, serving others in love, taking care of orphans and widows, and pretty much everything else that Jesus focused on in His ministry.

There were deep divisions, but there was also a strong focus on worship, regular Bible study and an agenda that focused on the big issues of the world as well as the church, so that no one issue was seen as dominating the entire church.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

The Parent's Corner allows you to see each child's progress and where they need help so you know which items to focus on during your other studies.

First, I could not solely focus my research on mathematics instruction; because the education I witnessed was so integrated and was indicative of best practices, I changed the study to be part of a growing body of knowledge on school restructuring and reform.

Psychologist Angela Duckworth, a protà © gà © of Seligman's, has done a range of studies — on college students with low SAT scores, West Point plebes, and national spelling bee contestants, among others — and has found that a determined response to setbacks, an ability to focus on a task, and other noncognitive character strengths are highly predictive of success, much more so than IQ scores.

Sometimes we get so focused on the latest study or research that tells us that the average child needs «x» amount of sleep for optimal brain development, or how many naps the average child needs, or what time the average child should go to bed or wake up that we forget we aren't growing an «average» child.

So a 1991 study of marriages that were unhappy and in which spouses did not consider divorce concludes, rather gloomily, that future research should «focus on... possible consequences for being in an unhappy marriage for which one sees no real alternative.»

The swim - lesson study, for instance, which focused on a small sample of parents teaching their kids to swim, found that «fathers tend to stand behind their children so the children face their social environment, whereas mothers tend to position themselves in front of their children, seeking to establish visual contact with the children.»

«So a study like this puts fathers on the map and where we need to focus our energy because ultimately as a pediatrician I see children thrive when parents thrive and if we can make sure that the moms and dads are doing well in that transition to parenthood, there's a better chance of the child doing well,» he said.

Most studies so far have focused on smoking marijuana and pregnancy instead of eating marijuana.

Our new draft programmes of study in core subjects are both challenging and ambitious — focusing tightly on the fundamental building blocks of study, so that every child has the knowledge and understanding to succeed.

The tool is the only one of its kind that is explicitly focused on the NGSS, so Roseman organized work to «road - test» the rubric with a set of three case studies.

The focus of studies so far has been on a part of myocilin that is the main culprit in a form of hereditary glaucoma, a protein structure called the olfactomedin domain, which Lieberman has also studied extensively.

In genome - wide association studies (GWAS), researchers focus on typical variations in genomes, so - called SNPs (single nucleotide polymorphisms).

With so much focus on Jakobshavn and the northwest, there was less attention to the northeast, said study co-author Michael Bevis, a professor at Ohio State University.

Studies on subliminal learning have poured cold water on the idea that knowledge can drift into the brain without any conscious effort, so it pays to focus intently on the details of the problem until all the facts are safely stored.

Susanne Schmid, PhD, associate professor at Western's Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, and principal investigator on the study explains that acoustic habituation is a common form of sensory filtering, which refers to the brain's ability to block out extraneous sounds, feelings or visual information so that we are able to focus on what's most important in our surroundings.

Although it has always been believed that sponges are so simple than their responses to stimuli are minimal, the study identifies some genes involved in nerve conduction in more complex animals: «This proves that sponges» responses to environmental changes or physical stimuli may be more complex than it was thought,» underlines Ana Riesgo, who also participates in the project Actiquim, focused on chemical ecology in Antarctica.

We decided to focus on this Achilles heel by containing them in the blood so as to prevent any resulting harm», explains Thomas Matthes, Professor at UNIGE, Faculty of Medicine, and Doctor at HUG, who supervised the study together with Beat Imhof, Professor at UNIGE, Faculty of Medicine.

So the team made their intentions public by preregistering their study and submitting the idea to a special issue of Social Psychology focused on experimental replication slated to come out in spring 2014.

«So far, much of our surface exploration by rovers has focused on ancient terrains and whether or not the environments they record were habitable,» said Sun, lead author on the study and a graduate student working with Milliken.

So our focus will be to study the genome through the transcripts in biological systems, to understand the genetic architecture of Pan-Asian populations, and finally to focus on the intersect between genomics and human medicine.

And while the focus has been on ensuring that the hospital staff responds to all alarms, studies show that it's more common for alarm errors to occur because alarms that should sound fail to do so.

Compared to studies that focus on the management of work and study time, very little has so far been done on how retirees manage their free time.

So in the new study, researchers led by physicist Duncan Forgan of the University of St. Andrews in Fife, U.K., focused on the regions far from a galaxy's center.

In the new study, Burrows and colleagues focused on the protein HIC1, or «Hypermethylated in cancer 1, «so named because it was first identified in cancer cells; however, it also helps regulate gene expression in normal cells.

«The original study only focused on how blood sugar control affected complications in the hospital, so we were interested in following those same patients over time to see if blood sugar control had any impact after discharge from the hospital.»

The researchers chose not to disclose the names of the manufacturers studied so that their results could draw general attention to the product segment without focusing on specific brands.

So geneticists have been focusing on the dog as a possible model for gene searches because this lack of sequence variation may help them circumvent a frequent problem with studies in humans.

The initial findings of the study nevertheless suggest that this enzyme may have other, as yet unknown, functions, so the scientists focused on the consequences of a deregulation of MOCOS synthesis.

So in a new study, published online this month in The Anatomical Record, researchers focused on one of the smaller species, minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata).

So Panero and Pigott focused their study on the depth where ringwoodite is found — a place 325 - 500 miles below the surface that researchers call the «transition zone» — as the most likely region that can hold a planet's worth of water.

Most studies so far have focused on how aviation may affect global warming (aircraft comprise about 2 percent of global greenhouse - gas emissions), not vice versa.

This is the result of one of the largest multicentre, international studies so far into difficult - to - treat rheumatoid arthritis, focussing on this new mechanism of action, an interleukin - 6 cytokine blockade.

So it can be more specifically the study of plants that people use for food, for clothing, for medicine, for construction, for ceremony, for decoration — any useful plant you might talk about and I've specifically focused on the medicinal plants and the edible plants and with my research on chocolate, I guess, the psychoactive plants too, you could say.

Future research will focus on refining the results in this study with longer time series, and extending the results to regional sea level, so they can better predict what will happen in your backyard.

The study analyzes patient transport data from the Maryland Medevac Helicopter Program, focusing on travel time equal to or less than 60 minutes, the so - called «golden hour» of getting critical - care patients to treatment.

Most similar studies to date have focused on heavily industrialized populations in the United States and Europe and on rare and so - called pristine communities of people living a traditional hunter - gatherer lifestyle.

The proponents of the BAM Project proposal focused on mapping large populations of neurons that would provide scientists an unprecedented understanding of the dynamics underlying this crucial middle scale at which consciousness and cognition emerge, but have so far lacked the tools to study.

«This mouse strain is great model for this research because they are otherwise healthy and normal, including in their vision, so it allows us to conduct studies focused on cell integration,» said the publication's lead author, Jie Zhu, PhD, a postdoctoral researcher who started in Lamba's lab three years ago.

So what we now want to pursue, now that we have that resolution, is to see how we can take advantage of that to study the function of the cell at that scale so that we can use that as a biomarker because many of the clinical measurements these days focus on structure and that is usually a very late indicator of the diseasSo what we now want to pursue, now that we have that resolution, is to see how we can take advantage of that to study the function of the cell at that scale so that we can use that as a biomarker because many of the clinical measurements these days focus on structure and that is usually a very late indicator of the diseasso that we can use that as a biomarker because many of the clinical measurements these days focus on structure and that is usually a very late indicator of the disease.

«My research,» she explains, «is focused on the study of galaxy formation and evolution — or, in other words, on how galaxies change their physical properties (color, luminosity and so on) in space and with time.»