Sentences with phrase «stated goal of the study»

Concerns grew when news coverage stated a goal of the study was to find out if the geology was suitable for storing nuclear waste, he said.

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The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

In addition to calling for state laws mandating the use of helmets in alpine activities, the study also recommends such prevention strategies as securing and padding soccer goal posts, as well as enhanced education for coaches, trainers, parents, and the athletes themselves to promote increased reporting and proper management of sport - related concussion.

The goal of this study was to examine the incidence of concussions in fall athletics at secondary schools in the state of New Jersey.

Studies of schools in three states — Connecticut, Texas, and Washington — show that under the updated standards, children's eating habits are improving, which is a core goal of these strengthened policies.

In 2014, state officials said their goal was to complete the study process and decide on a preferred option by the end of 2016.

In her State of the City speech last week, Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito announced plans for a commission to study ways to shrink the population at Rikers Island — with the end goal of making the «dream» of closing down the city's jail compound a reality.

Dr. Henry L. Taylor, a professor at the University at Buffalo's Center for Urban Studies, said by lowering the goal the state was playing a «game that attempts to make you think progress is occurring when it's not, and people who play that game ought to be ashamed of themselves.»

Includes $ 250,000 to conduct a disparity study on state contracting with disabled - veteran owned small business owners, which will serve as the basis for a set aside goal of 5 % state contracts.

As the state plans to implement the governor's goal for double the amount of renewable energy on the market, a new study says losing upstate nuclear power plants would be a major set back for the initiative.

Brexiteer Tories called his excuses «utter nonsense», with the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies stating in March that Mr Osborne only had a «slightly better than 50 - 50 chance» of achieving his goal.

- Help New York reach its goal of 50 % of energy needs met by renewable sources by 2030 - «[T] he Department of Environmental Conservation and the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority to undertake a comprehensive study to determine the most rapid, cost - effective, and responsible pathway to reach 100 percent renewable energy statewide.»

Dina Silver Pokedoff, a spokeswoman for Saint - Gobain, said the company was cooperating «with federal, state and local authorities to review all studies, analyze all options and focus on the most important goal: to ensure the people of Hoosick Falls have a safe and healthy place to call home.»

«Our biggest goal is to support the management of this non-curable disease in an animal that is an economically important resource for the state of Illinois,» says Michelle Green, research assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the study.

It was a good move by both the federal governments and the Länder (states) to agree on two new goals: increasing the number of foreign students by 50 % and doubling the number of German students who spend time abroad during their studies.

A: I'm working on using solid - state defects in diamonds as magnetic field sensors, with the goal of using them as little nanoscale MRI machines that can study the structure and dynamics of single biological molecules (e.g., proteins).

«Our goal was to study a new and effective way to treat cancer patients after they have surgery,» said Zhen Gu, PhD, the senior author who holds joint faculty positions at the UNC School of Medicine, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and NC State University College of Engineering.

«Our goal was to show exactly how environmental protection can reduce poverty in poorer nations rather than exacerbate it, as many people fear,» says co-author Paul Ferraro, a professor of economics and environmental policy in the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

A new study from Michigan State University makes inroads in learning to «read» the genome, a key goal of modern biology.

Previous studies of resting state functional connectivity have demonstrated that the default - mode network (DMN) is negatively correlated with a set of brain regions commonly activated during goal - directed tasks.

As it is unclear whether sparse or nonsparse combinations of FC patterns are most appropriate, and as this affects their interpretation and use as markers of cognitive processing, the goal of our study was to evaluate the impact of sparsity by performing an empirical evaluation of simulated, task - based, and resting - state dFC.

Below we survey fMRI studies of ASD examining task - based functional connectivity and resting - state functional connectivity with the goal of providing an overview of the existing literature and highlighting the dearth of developmental studies of functional connectivity in ASD.

A study by researchers at California State University in Chico examined three decades of research and found that beef from pasture - raised cows fits more closely into goals for a diet lower in saturated fat and higher in «good fats» and other beneficial nutrients.

California students are unlikely to meet the meet academic goals for mathematics and English under the No Child Left Behind Act unless policymakers continue to improve the quality of the state's teaching workforce, a research study suggests.

«The writing task has then met multiple goals: practice for the state test, assessment of knowledge gained from the social studies unit, and practice with a specific genre of writing.»

«Even though our school is undergoing an accreditation study this year, is adopting a new math program, and has a significant amount of state mandated instructional in - service as a result of a court decision, our primary goal is to provide the best possible day — full of creative, profitable learning experiences — for each student!»

The study was based on the state's goal of having all students perform at or above «proficient» on the state assessment by 2014.

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This indicates that while there are many reasons why school districts and states might want to seek to integrate relatively advantaged and relatively disadvantaged students within the same school, it appears unlikely that a policy goal of reducing the test score gap between students in these groups will be realized through further socioeconomic integration (at least once there gets to be the degree of socioeconomic integration necessary to be part of this study to begin with).

Studies by the Fordham Institute and by researchers at the University of Virginia and the University of Michigan both found that states with high performance standards tended to weaken them in response to NCLB's goal of moving all children to a single standard.

Social Studies The following goals are included in the state of Arizona's Essential Skills for Social Studies:

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They had various opportunities to study Master Artists and Art History as part of my literacy goals and objectives as well; all while aligning with State and National Standards.

Funded by: Spencer Foundation Amount: $ 350,000 Dates: 1/1/16 — 12/31/19 Summary: This project expands the present research study by adding an ethnographic investigation of learning processes at the most promising no excuses and progressive schools with the goal of amplifying the value and effects of scholarship and practice of civic education in urban secondary schools across the United States.

Mission Through the use of Social and Restorative Justice Principals, Five Keys provides... Plans and implements a program of study following state and school goals / curriculum that as much as...

• Plan a program of study that meets the individual needs and goals of students; establish clear objectives for all lessons and units; ensure that lessons — as planned, delivered, and assessed — are aligned with state curriculum and school - wide curriculum standards.

PURPOSE The purpose of the current study was to describe the current state of practice for writing Individualized Education Program (IEP) goals for children with speech sound disorders (SSDs).

For instance, the academic intensity of a student's high school curriculum is one of the most important components in predicting whether a student will succeed in college, so a state may choose to focus one of its goals on students completing a college - and career - ready course of study.

Now we have a number of studies showing that states have dumbed - down their tests to meet the goals.

After all, the underlying theory behind the organization's Cut the Gap in Half approach (and the variations on the theme by Florida and other states)-- that states should aim for «ambitious» yet «achievable» goals instead of pushing for all students to be proficient in their studies — has always been, to be kind, intellectually problematic for any reformer worth his or her salt.

Lessons Learned in Sustaining Education Reforms: A Case Study on the State of Delaware [PDF, 354KB] This brief case study shows how one State — Delaware — identified priority goals and reforms and plans to sustain Study on the State of Delaware [PDF, 354KB] This brief case study shows how one State — Delaware — identified priority goals and reforms and plans to sustain study shows how one State — Delaware — identified priority goals and reforms and plans to sustain them.

High school graduates earning an Advanced Studies Diploma out of the total number of Board of Education - approved diplomas awarded (percent increases annually, state goal 60 %)

1) Introduction to the problem of the study (brief literary review) with the stating of goals and objectives, developing research programs,

You might have heard of the Harvard study that stated that the 3 % of graduates who wrote down their goals earned more than the other 97 % combined.

«The original goal of the study was 500 cancer diagnoses, based on our understanding of the prevalence of cancer in golden retrievers,» said Dr. Rod Page, Principal Investigator on the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, and Director of the Flint Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State Universtudy was 500 cancer diagnoses, based on our understanding of the prevalence of cancer in golden retrievers,» said Dr. Rod Page, Principal Investigator on the Golden Retriever Lifetime Study, and Director of the Flint Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State UniverStudy, and Director of the Flint Animal Cancer Center at Colorado State University.

So when the White House and State Department announced a new U.S. Study Abroad Office under the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs during the recent White House Travel Blogger Summit on Study Abroad and Global Citizenship, it was not difficult to embrace the administration's goal to increase the number of students who study abStudy Abroad Office under the Bureau of Educational & Cultural Affairs during the recent White House Travel Blogger Summit on Study Abroad and Global Citizenship, it was not difficult to embrace the administration's goal to increase the number of students who study abStudy Abroad and Global Citizenship, it was not difficult to embrace the administration's goal to increase the number of students who study abstudy abroad.

Funded through the $ 110 million Campaign for the Menil, which to date has achieved 70 percent of its goal, the MDI will be the first freestanding facility in the United States designed expressly for the exhibition and study of modern and contemporary drawings.

The World Resources Institute (via the Green blog) has done a study concluding that with a lot of heavy lifting, existing federal and state initiatives could come fairly close to achieving the United States» short - term climate goal, set by President Obama in climate treaty talks last December, of a cut in emissions by 2020 to a level 17 percent below that measured in 2005:

Demonstrate Clean Energy on the Ground: U.S. DOE, State, and USTDA will undertake a number of additional pilot programs, feasibility studies, and other collaborative efforts to promote China's energy efficiency and renewable energy goals.