Sentences with phrase «students studying population»

This outstanding lesson has been designed to help students studying population movement 1750 - 1900.

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One German study, for instance, showed that participants who had listened to music with prosocial lyrics (such as Bruno Mars's «Count on Me» or Aretha Franklin classic «Respect») were equally likely to help students with German and Turkish - sounding last names (there is a large population of Turks living in Germany).

«It is my desire and my purpose to further the education of the people of Texas and elsewhere in wildlife conservation, in the knowledge of the breeding and living habits of our wild creatures and in the relationship of wildlife to domesticated livestock on our ranches and farms; to afford students and others interested in wildlife betterment and propagation and in the raising of wildlife along with domesticated animals a place for research and an opportunity for the study thereof; and to develop scientifically methods of increasing the wildlife population of the state and nation for the benefit of future generations... who may not have the opportunity to know and appreciate our wildlife, as I have, unless methods of increasing and conserving our wildlife are scientifically developed.

The study notes that there are limitations to the sample of students used in the study — with all of them attending privileged, high - performing schools — but they said they felt it was worthwhile to investigate the stresses of homework on this population of students.

The number of students known to be home - educated varied between 0.09 % and 0.42 % of the total school population in the areas that were surveyed, and there was no hope, at the end of the study, of procuring better data.

But SUNY Chancellor Kristina Johnson, in a hearing on the budget before state lawmakers Tuesday, pointed out that while full - time enrollment may be down at SUNY's community colleges, a large chunk of their population is made up of adult learners, who are far more likely than fresh - out - of - high - school students to study part time and require more services.

A similar study that specifically addressed the relationship between burnout and suicidal thoughts found half of the 4287 surveyed medical students were feeling burned out and 11 % had thought about suicide in the previous year, a figure substantially higher than that in the general population.

In the new study, led by graduate student Steven Briscoe, the team found that other populations of neurons in the bird DVR share molecular signatures with neocortical intratelencephalic cells, or IT neurons.

The study, «Spectrophotometric analysis at the single - cell level: elucidating dispersity within melanic immortalized cell populations,» was supported in part by the Mizzou Advantage program, an initiative that fosters interdisciplinary collaboration among faculty, staff, students and external partners to solve real - world problems in four areas of strength identified at the University of Missouri, including Food for the Future, One Health / One Medicine, Sustainable Energy and Media of the Future.

During Kushlev's and his colleagues» study, 221 students at the University of British Columbia drawn from the general student population were assigned for one week to maximize phone interruptions by keeping notification alerts on, and their phones within easy reach.

«This study provides the first good evidence, with a large and diverse population of students, that such exposure through undergraduate research has dramatic benefits for all students, substantially improving both graduation rates in STEM and overall graduation rates.

Society's increasingly pervasive use of digital technology may be causing ADHD - like symptoms even among the general population, according to a new study of college students presented this week in San Jose, California at the Human - Computer Interaction conference of the Association for Computing Machinery.

Juan Esteban Rodríguez, a graduate student in population genetics at the National Laboratory of Genomics for Biodiversity (LANGEBIO) in Irapuato, Mexico, initially planned to study a recent thread in the global tapestry that is Mexican ancestry.

In the field results of a study by Brianna Lam, a graduate student in the J.M.U. Department of Biology, published in the journal Biological Conservation in 2009 (as well results published by Vredenburg and Harris in 2008 in Abstracts of the General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology), revealed that wild mountain yellow - legged frog populations in the Sierras differed greatly in their amount of cutaneous J. lividum.

College students make a convenient study population when you're a researcher at a university.

The same year that Creel published his study, Middleton, then a Ph.D. student at the University of Wyoming, was put in charge of an ambitious research project to investigate more directly the effects of wolves on the elk population.

«Genomes from these more remote populations really can tell us a huge amount about human evolutionary history,» says Evelyn Jagoda, a Harvard University evolutionary genetics Ph.D. student and co-author of one of the studies.

«This study is a great first step in understanding our student athlete population, the type of sports they play and other clinical conditions so we can better help those student athletes with the sport they're playing,» Borchers said.

Until, like France, Britain has a baccalaureate system, with all students studying six subjects up to the age of 19, with science students also studying a foreign language and some humanities and arts students also studying maths and some science, we will continue to have a divided and partially educated population.

«It's population based,» said Rachel Yucuis, a masters student at the University of Iowa and lead author of the new study.

The Canadian Healthy Infant Longitudinal Development (CHILD) Study, directed by Malcolm Sears, MB, ChB, professor in the Department of Medicine at McMaster University, is believed to be «the first to determine the effects of timing of food introduction to cow's milk products, egg, and peanut, on food sensitization at age one in a general population - based cohort,» said lead investigator Maxwell Tran, a research student at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

«Some of the students in our study didn't know that what they were experiencing was different from the rest of the population, and it blew their minds,» says Jared Medina, assistant professor in UD's Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences.

«We knew it was important to understand the viral populations driving the epidemic, which motivated us to tackle the challenges of sequencing Zika,» said study co-first author Hayden Metsky, a graduate student in the Sabeti lab.

This is the first study to show that sleep duration has increased among broad segments of the United States population (students 15 and older, people who are employed, and retirees) over this period.

Says Hákon Jónsson, PhD - student at the Centre for GeoGenetics, co-leading author of the study: «The recent near extinction of the Przewalski's horse population resulted in the persistence of deleterious mutations in the population, following the same mechanism that once led to the accumulation of deleterious mutations in the genomes of domesticated horses.

Patient recruitment is an enormous problem in many medical studies, and researchers often end up paying for the participation of students, poor people, drug abusers, the homeless, illegal immigrants, and others who may not adequately represent the population in terms of health or lifestyle.

As a consequence, the number of students receiving the public study allowance has dropped from nearly 40 % of the student population to only 15 %.

Mr William Symes, a PhD student from the Department of Biological Sciences at the NUS Faculty of Science, who led the study, said, «Increasing our understanding of the drivers of international wildlife trade is critical as unsustainable harvesting of wildlife can lead to population decline and the extinction of species.

«This is particularly important when you want to look at a species» ability to cope with change,» said Jennifer Pistevos, a master of research student at the Marine Biological Association, who studied clone populations of Celleporella hyalina, a tiny organism she found to have an amazing ability to reproduce in both more acidic and warmer water conditions.

The study included 273 third - to eighth - grade students in schools on the Tohono O'odham reservation — a population with a high prevalence of astigmatism.

A team led by Prof. Fumitaka Homae studied a rarely targeted population for this subject: Japanese junior high school students learning English as a second language in a school environment.

Students more likely to participate in free - and reduced - price lunch programs are among the same populations most likely to suffer from obesity and related health risks, said Janet Peckham, an economist in the Office of the Commissioner at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration and lead author of the study.

That curtain began to lift a bit a few years ago, when Doody and student Philip Paull of Monash University in Australia began studying a population of delicate skinks (Lampropholis delicata) in a park near Sydney.

Kleb is a research assistant for an ongoing study tracking the spread of respiratory viruses through a student population.

«Monkeys are cute, but can devastate systems that don't have the proper predators or other ecological means to keep their populations in check,» said Jane Anderson, a doctoral student in wildlife ecology and the lead author on this study.

«The 32 percent of CTE we found in our brain bank is surprisingly high for the frequency of neurodegenerative pathology within the general population,» says the study's lead author, Kevin Bieniek, a predoctoral student in Mayo Graduate School's Neurobiology of Disease program.

«We wanted to know what it would mean in terms of the size of an outbreak, how long an outbreak lasts, how likely an outbreak is to occur and the reproductive ratio of the parasite, a measure of how effectively the parasite transmits in populations,» said the study's lead author John Vinson, a doctoral student in the Odum School.

«Bolstering a hidden population of an endangered species is better than starting a new population in the area,» said Ethan Kessler, a graduate student of natural resources and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois and a co-author of the study.

In a new study published in the journal Scientific Reports, Hasegawa and his students, including Saori Watanabe, investigated how population growth of aphid morphs differs with or without the presence of ants.

«We found there is little diversity in skin tone in these textbooks,» said the study's lead author Patricia Louie, who began the research at UBC and is now a PhD student at U of T. «Proportional to the population, race is represented fairly accurately, but this diversity is undermined by the fact that the images mostly depict light skin tones.»

«Little research has looked at this severely impaired population — most is aimed at improving relatively mild movement impairments — and, as a consequence, no validated treatment is available to help those with the most severe disabilities,» says Rachael Harrington, a fourth - year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) who will present the study.

The researchers caution that as all participants in this study were university students, further research is needed to be able to generalize the findings to individuals with high levels of psychopathic traits in other populations.

In more recent years, Mark has been involved in an ongoing study of population genetics with box turtles, in collaboration with scientists at Princeton University, and has worked with the Princeton Neuroscience Institute to guide his students through the process of peer review for the online neuroscience journal Frontiers for Young Minds.

January 4, 2013 Study identifies strategies to help minority students in med school While minority populations are rising throughout the country, enrollment by minority students in the nation's medical schools has stagnated.

The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence of psychostimulant use in the French medical community and their motives.A population - based cross-sectional study using a self - administered online survey was done.A total of 1718 French students and physicians (mean age, 26.84 ± 7.19 years, 37.1 % men) were included.

Richard serves as a research consultant studying the efficacy of the Integrative Restoration — iRest Yoga Nidra Meditation protocol he's developed for health, healing, well - being, and awakening with populations including military, students, and the homeless, with issues including sleep, PTSD, TBI, pain, chemical dependency, and well - being.

Most of the studies use younger populations, (often including college students).

al, 2005), studies of Internet dating that rely exclusively on students as participants may paint a biased portrait of Internet dating because their samples may enjoy greater natural access to dates than the broader population of Internet users looking for romance.

The following important dates and deadlines apply to the entire student population, whether you are studying at the undergraduate, graduate or postdoctoral.

«Only a small proportion of the children of our college - educated population is equipped to compete with students in a majority of OECD countries,» wrote Eric Hanushek, Paul E. Peterson, and Ludger Woessmann in their study, «Teaching Math to the Talented.»