Sentences with phrase «specific focus of study»

The Joan Diehl McCauley Study Center is available to researchers with a specific focus of study by appointment only.

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Term Sheet typically focuses on one very specific kind of entrepreneurial success study: The kind where startup founders raise giant piles of venture capital to fuel hypergrowth, and then ride said hypergrowth to an IPO or sale.

When biblical scholars have interested themselves in ethical studies, they have tended to focus on rather specific, narrow topics: social justice, the status of women, war, vengeance, property rights, ecological concern for nature and the like.

Over against these highly macroscopic designations, some studies have taken a much more specific spatial and temporal orientation, focusing for example on a specific event such as the overthrow of the shah in Iran or a series of related episodes such as the conflicts between Jews and Palestinians in Israel.

In it, Enns focuses on three specific problems / questions raised by the modern study of the Old Testament and uses those specific problems / questions to engage in a broader conversation about the nature of Scripture.

Research to quantify the influence of industry sponsorship on effect estimates can be improved by obtaining complete and accurate data on sponsors of research and conflicts of interest of sponsors and authors, and focusing on specific research questions and study designs.

Environmental studies are incorporated into many aspects of the curriculum, with specific focus in areas such as geography, science, creative arts, and the Gardening and Glen Brook Farm Programs.

Many people at an international conference in Baltimore represented organizations and groups that focus on specific aspects of pregnancy and infant loss, or families who have experienced specific types of pregnancy and infant loss, or researchers who are studying specific areas of pregnancy and infant loss.

Based on the main focus of the intervention, included studies were grouped into 1 of the following 6 categories: PC, professional support, breastfeeding team (PC combined with professional support), breastfeeding - specific clinic appointments, group prenatal counseling, and enhanced breastfeeding programs (program add - ons).

«Past studies have looked at the effects of differential parenting on the children who get more negative feedback, but our study focused on this as a dynamic operating at two levels of the family system: one that affects all children in the family as well as being specific to the child at the receiving end of the negativity,» explains Jennifer M. Jenkins, Atkinson Chair of Early Child Development and Education at the University of Toronto, who led the team.

Some of these have focused on case studies and specific questions — we call these mini-features — while others are stand - alone articles exploring a particular issue.

The study was a collaboration with IBM and offers a large - scale survey of the commonly used container management framework known as Docker, a platform that facilitates the deployment of microservices by providing a registry service that acts as a central repository for software components focusing on specific functionalities called images.

Current predictions of extinction risks from climate change vary widely depending on the specific assumptions and geographic and taxonomic focus of each study.

While other studies have focused on caregiving within the home or between specific groups, such as middle - aged parents and young children, most have not looked at caregiving by subgroups of people, or a range of caregiving scenarios both inside and outside the home — for example, babysitting a friend's children or taking a niece or nephew out on weekends.

The study focused on overall chronic pain as well as specific types of pain: musculoskeletal, headache, and abdominal pain.

A new study by MIT neuroscientists reveals how the brain achieves this type of focused attention on faces or other objects: A part of the prefrontal cortex known as the inferior frontal junction (IFJ) controls visual processing areas that are tuned to recognize a specific category of objects, the researchers report in the April 10 online edition of Science.

Until now, most studies of rose fragrance have focused on a biosynthetic pathway that generates pleasant - smelling alcohols, known as monoterpenes, using specific enzymes called terpene synthases.

The key to reducing readmissions may be focusing on the whole patient, rather than the specific conditions that caused their hospitalizations, according to a new study by Yale School of Medicine researchers.

This seemingly impossible task led most previous studies to examine randomly selected neurons or focus on a specific type of cell.

Participants of the study were employed by the GOV and asked to participate in a gender - specific focus group, a gender - mixed focus group and an individual interview.

«In our current study, we focused on the concentration of a specific peptide in the bee's central nervous system,» Charlotte Helfrich - Förster explains.

«This type of collaborative research focused on specific management and conservation objectives provides important information for resource managers and policy decision - makers who manage public resources,» said Eric Forsman, a coauthor on the study at the USDA Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station.

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.

Three new studies, published in the April 8 Pediatrics, land on the import of the «nurture» side of the equation and focus on specific circumstances in children's or teen's lives that potentially contribute to unhealthy bulk.

The small number of subjects and the limited geographic focus of the study make these findings very specific, Keating says.

«Most clinicians have felt that «more was better» when it came to blocking testosterone in prostate cancer patients, however, results for the specific endpoints we focused on, OS and DSS, indicate that this was clearly not the case,» said Amin Mirhadi, MD, lead author of the study and a radiation oncologist at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.

This makes the Flemish Gut Flora Project unique, since the majority of previous studies focused on specific diseases or featured a significantly smaller geographical scope.

But the intense focus on a specific topic, the monotony of bench work, the lack of control over which projects would be pursued, and the limited opportunities for advancement (without devoting several years to further graduate and postgraduate study) were sometimes frustrating.

This study is focused on three specific aspects: to assess the impact of vegetation density on energy efficiency of a roof located at a Mediterranean coastal climate; develop a simplified numeral model that can estimate thermal resistance values equivalent to plants and substrates, and finally, to verify the numerical model by using experimental data.

While past research has tended to focus only on specific sports or genders, this study examined whether the prevalence of symptoms varied between gender and across nine different sports: baseball / softball, basketball, cheerleading, crew, field hockey, lacrosse, track and field, soccer and tennis.

«Future studies are focusing on the molecular mechanisms underlying the ageing - related changes in skeletal muscle and the specific effects of HRT on the structure and function of the dominant protein in skeletal muscle, called myosin, which generates force and movement.»

Although the Badovinac study does mention that immunization of B6 Prf1 − / − mice followed by LCMV infection results in mortality with LCMV - specific CD8 T cell expansion (as do naive B6 Prf1 − / − mice), these data were not shown as the focus of the report was on the BALB / c model.

Pathophysiology (PAT): These studies will be focused on determining specific causes of disease and on physiological mechanisms responsible for disease development.

Many human traits other than sexual orientation have been the focus of modern, genome - wide genetic studies that attempt to find specific genes that contribute to those traits.

The project focuses on the study of human breast cancer cells, particularly if and how CNPs can target and deliver medication to specific cells.

The new study focused on the genetic profiles of a community of children living in a specific region in Pakistan.

Teel said their study and future efforts would focus on the development of clearer comparisons for Rhipicephalus ticks to provide ways to hypothesize specific cause - effect relationships, test tick abundance patterns and pathogen prevalence in the field, and simulate how these patterns might be interrupted to achieve tick suppression or eradication.

A recent study focusing on the interactions between the Fas - ligand protein and a membrane receptor has revealed that in order for the situation to become fatal, the ligand needs to be in contact with caveolin — specific membrane proteins of the cell.

Specific focus areas include: behavioral response studies, laboratory research on hearing and noise impacts; field research on pinniped vocal communication; noise exposure criteria and research recommendations; work with both conventional and alternative energy industries to understand and minimize environmental impacts of resource acquisition.

By focusing on a specific set of case studies to which genomic techniques might be applied we will be able to drill down on these scientific challenges but also open the larger conversation about the rights and responsibilities of these new technologies.

«This study provides specific evidence on long work hours and an increase [in] the risk of CVD, thereby providing a foundation for CVD prevention efforts focused on work schedule practices, which may reduce the risk of CVD for millions of working Americans,» study author Sadie Conway, of the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, said in a journal news release.

* Note: Most existing studies (see resources below) focus on the benefits of a specific extraction, Boswellia serrata extract (BSE), which is different from the essential oil.

The study authors noted the importance of focusing on yoga as a new treatment that can be performed in the specific setting of a primary health care center.

Many of these career - focused secondary school programs of study involve major projects of many weeks and hands - on learning experiences that combine strong content and skill development related to specific careers.

This study focuses on articulating possible solutions to specific problems and on providing a framework within which these problems can be identified and resolved by accentuating the concepts of moral and social responsibility.

This detailed and high quality unit includes: * 15 lesson plans (with 13 differentiation strategies) * 93 slide PowerPoint presentation (divided into lessons) * All resources and worksheets (21 sheets) Unit's lessons include: * Introduction to the AQA GCSE Media Studies course requirements * Introduction to the four key concepts * Activity focused on pupils» own consumption of media texts * Detailed research into the history of the media - creating a timeline of people, technology and institutions * Applying Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs to film media * Introduction of camera shots, angles and movement * Film terminology «speed - dating» to introuce key media language * Analysing a mise - en - scene * Analysing a film trailer: genre conventions and audience appeal * Creating genre - specific typography and writing a commentary * Analysing logos and slogans * Exploring stereotypes in the media * Music industry terminology and genre features * Analysing a CD album sleeve: genre conventions and audience appeal * The history ofvideo gaming * Video gaming genres and gratifications * Analysing a video game cover: genre conventions and audience appeal

Blacksburg, Va — Called together to comment upon what one speaker called «the current fervor to enhance the moral influence of the public school,» experts in the study of values suggested here this month that schools should resist external pressures to «narrow their focus» to the teaching of specific religious or moral doctrines.

Joellen Killion, the former NSDC director of special projects, added that a solid repertoire of professional learning is focused on student results — standards - based, school - based, and content - specific — and includes training, study groups, action research, and observation.

In the context of these deep whole - school changes, studies that focus on a specific micro aspect of the use (or non-use) of technology in schools, particularly in schools still operating within a paper - based paradigm (Lee and Broadie, 2015) adds little or nothing to the creation of apt digitally - based school ecosystems.

The survey focused on how these educational leaders use research to inform their decision making, identifying three types of research use defined in earlier studies: instrumental use of research to guide or inform a specific decision; conceptual use of research to inform the way a person views a problem or possible solutions; and symbolic use of research to persuade others or legitimate a decision already made.