Sentences with phrase «studies concepts in»

discuss social studies concepts in order to provide students with important knowledge to apply during more active social

Below are discussion questions to help you study the concepts in this book.

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The process is called interleaving: Studying related concepts or skills in parallel.

Some studies (and opinions) suggest that brand loyalty is a concept that's dying; for example, 79 percent of the millennials polled in one survey ranked quality as their most important purchasing decision, rather than the name brand involved.

They were pleased enough with the results that they ponied up another $ 10 million ($ 14 million) for LAPCAT II, a four - year study that launched in October 2008 with a mandate to refine two of the LAPCAT concepts based on engines that would burn liquid hydrogen, and to produce detailed development road maps for producing them.

And the European Union, perhaps still smarting from the mothballing of the Anglo - French Concorde in 2003, spent $ 7 million ($ 9.8 million) on the 36 - month Long - Term Advanced Propulsion Concepts and Technologies (LAPCAT) study, examining the possibilities of producing engines for aircraft that could far exceed the speed of sound.

Lamstein was planning to study for both law and business degrees when his mentor swayed him in another direction by suggesting that he start a company around an environmental concept.

«Some of the key concepts discerned in the study,» comments Jim Collins, «fly in the face of our modern business culture and will, quite frankly, upset some people.»

A recent proof - of - concept study published in the journal JCI Insight suggests that certain Alzheimer's symptoms can be diagnosed via an eye exam.

If you don't think you're in line to win a Nobel, the study authors say the concept still holds for other great achievements — people tend to do their most outstanding work in middle age.

The writers were studying a concept laid out by Homero Aridjis and James Ramey in the online World Post in December.

Cheon Seong - Whun of The Asan Institute for Policy Studies says denuclearization is too vague of a concept in Korean Peninsula talks and the focus should turn to nuclear «dismantlement» for Pyongyang.

Studypool specializes in on - demand Microtutoring, a concept which allows you to narrow in on a specific area of studies with no set price point or time interval so you don't have to shell out $ 100 for an hour of unnecessary tutoring.

For the study, one group was taught in the traditional way — a lesson about a single math concept — while a second class learned through interleaving, jumping around among different math skills to complete a task.

Angela grew fascinated by this «extra something» in her students and, since she had a fair amount of it herself, she quit her teaching job so that she could study the concept while obtaining a graduate degree in psychology at UPenn.

Psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky first introduced this concept more than 30 years ago in a study that built the foundation for what would become the field of behavioral finance.

Mark Cohen, director of retail studies at Columbia Business School and former Sears Canada CEO, discusses Macy's decision on buying Story, a retail entertainment concept, to implement in their stores as well as Amazon and Walmart in the race to acquire India's Flipkart.

Studies have found some differences in the structure of and activity in the brain, a concept known as sexual dimorphism.

Tan's book is both a case study for a western audience of the emerging Chinese approach to innovation and a text on innovation generally — still a concept poorly understood in concrete terms.

Using the concept of citizen representation as its main conceptual anchor, the study examines longitudinal patterns in two cities that underwent divergent institutional and political leadership experiences during the late 1990s and following.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Focus groups as well as usability studies can play a role in triangulating research by being used to gauge the reaction to prototypes and new concepts that may be born out of the combined quantitative and ethnographic research.

Though the concept of a persona, a fictional character used to understand a particular audience segment, has existed for years, this study sought to uncover why organizations fail to create, update, maintain or apply persona intelligence in meaningful ways, rendering them ineffective.

Corrosion of oxide dispersion strengthened iron - chromium steels and tantalum in fluoride salt coolant: An in situ compatibility study for fusion and fusion - fission hybrid reactor concepts

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

The principal value of the scientific study of race is to render the concept more exact than it is in common use and to demonstrate its severe limitations as a classification device.

The bottom line is this: Being «in» Christ is a special theological concept in the New Testament which takes some study to comprehend.

Dr. Streett argues that the concept of the Kingdom of God is not how it is taught or understood in most churches and Bible studies, namely, as equivalent to going to heaven when we die... as a pie in the sky in the bye - and - bye.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Yes robert brown... these are all HUMAN concepts... You will find similar passages in many other religions and or human studies.

My black colleagues in NCBC and the Society for the Study of Black Religion (SSBR) helped me to realize more clearly that theology is not black merely because of its identification with a general concept of freedom.

From the speculative endeavor of «On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World» (1906) in which Whitehead was showing how one could construct alternative concepts of the physical world, i.e., cosmologies, he moves into his nature philosophy in which his speculative work is infused with empirical Concepts of the Material World» (1906) in which Whitehead was showing how one could construct alternative concepts of the physical world, i.e., cosmologies, he moves into his nature philosophy in which his speculative work is infused with empirical concepts of the physical world, i.e., cosmologies, he moves into his nature philosophy in which his speculative work is infused with empirical studies.

In order to study these relationships, a summary of Kenneth Burke's rhetorical - literary concept of identification will be outlined below.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

In its original context the second important root of the presumption against war was a formulation of this concept of just war set out in the Jesuit journal Theological Studies in 1978 by James F. Childress, an American academic ethicist of Quaker backgrounIn its original context the second important root of the presumption against war was a formulation of this concept of just war set out in the Jesuit journal Theological Studies in 1978 by James F. Childress, an American academic ethicist of Quaker backgrounin the Jesuit journal Theological Studies in 1978 by James F. Childress, an American academic ethicist of Quaker backgrounin 1978 by James F. Childress, an American academic ethicist of Quaker background.

Buber's criterion of the uniqueness of the fact is of especial importance because, as in the concept of the historical mystery, it goes beyond the phenomenological approach which at present dominates the study of the history of religions.

In «The Nature of Metaphysical Study» Collingwood writes that, with regard to the status of a priori concepts, the metaphysician has to cope with a twofold question: «What are they, and what is the nature of the way in which we know theIn «The Nature of Metaphysical Study» Collingwood writes that, with regard to the status of a priori concepts, the metaphysician has to cope with a twofold question: «What are they, and what is the nature of the way in which we know thein which we know them?

If further study reveals that modifications must be made in the proposed concept of «social justice» in order for it to remain true to the Biblical witness, some of the conclusions of this chapter will no doubt be changed.

And Whitehead's reopening of the theme used this concept only in passing, as an arbitrarily chosen case - study of the difference between scientific abstractions and adequate common - sense.

Recently, while chatting with an old friend who happens to be a professor of New Testament and biblical Studies at a prominent Christian university, I asked him what he thought of the concept of «Christian Privilege» and whether or not he felt as if it existed in practicality.

For example, in a recent analysis published in an edition of International Studies in Catholic Education dedicated to the question of whether there can be such a thing as a Catholic curriculum, Therese D'Orsa argues from the Australian experience that «attempts to give meaning to the concept of a Catholic curriculum... have ranged across a spectrum familiar to those who lead in Catholic schools» and that such initiatives have had a «limited impact».

First off, the things you are talking about are paralleling in incredible ways with concepts we've been discussing in a Bible study class I'm attending.

My comment about avoiding the contemplation of the motivations of Satan was meant in comparison to spending time on studying more uplifting concepts, not avoiding understanding the enemy.

For one thing, the Bible does not claim to be a study in evolving human concepts; it claims to be revelation, a series of words from God of which human beings could never have conceived on their own.

This study also considers an important concept from René Girard's mimetic theory to see how a key concept is found in Genesis 3:6.

@Poltergeist — Not precisely sure of the intent of the original evolved ligase post or your response, but is it safe to say that this study, as with other in vitro evolution research, is proof of concept, i.e. random variation and selection can and does yield novel functionality?

A rigorous concept of form is developing around the study of emergent properties in nature and man - made systems.

Its an unprovable concept, and therefore it should not be taught in science classes, which aim to study those things that have been proven by scientific theory.

In his study of Goethe's epic Hermann und Dorothea Humboldt discusses the function of art as idealization by means of the imagination, the concept of artistic objectivity and artistic truth, the difference between classical and modern poetry, and finally, the epic as the genre of humanitas (Humanität).

For a discussion of this concept see his most definitive theoretical statement, «A Theory of Therapy, Personality, Interpersonal Relationships, as Developed in the Client - centered Framework,» Psychology: A Study of a Science, Sigmund Koch, ed.