Sentences with phrase «studies standards for»

The course can be aligned to Common Core ELA or Social Studies standards for credit.

Further, no Old English Sheepdog should be bred without the owner having studied the Standard for the breed as set forth by the Old English Sheepdog Club of America, and approved and published by the American Kennel Club.

Not exact matches

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

The MIT - educated scientist recently told Patch he would bet a $ 10 million building he owns that the agritech giant Monsanto can't disprove his claim that there are no safety assessment standards for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), citing a recent study of his that suggests GMO soybeans may contain harmful levels of a chemical called formaldehyde.

Even the glitteriest of gold - standard clinical trials, for instance, are often undone by a leaden follow - up study that has the nerve to arrive at a different result.

For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativiFor example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativifor daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.

But Paul Zak, director of the Center for Neuroeconomics Studies at Claremont Graduate University, in Claremont, California, says that emotion - optimized products and services will be standard fare «very, very soon.

Gergely Szalka of MSCI's Valuation Research Group and I studied all U.S. convertible bonds outstanding over the two - year period ending December 31, 2016 for which the MSCI database had a rating from Standard & Poor's ¹ and a continuous price history.

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

For example, business professors Cristian Deszö of the University of Maryland and David Ross of Columbia University studied the effect of gender diversity on the top firms in Standard & Poor's Composite 1500 list, a group designed to reflect the overall U.S. equity market.

Even though starting a standard caustic production company can be capital intensive for an entrepreneur that is just starting out, but if you are able to conduct a thorough market research and feasibility studies before launching the business, you are sure going to breakeven before most businesses.

The Alliance was the first to list and chronicle MFOs in a publicly released study, and we released the first - ever published standards for MFOs.

Delaying retirement by three to six months has the same effect on a retirement standard of living as saving an additional one - percentage point of earnings for 30 years, according to the new study The Power of Working Longer.

Using standard statistical methods, it was found that the average sales advantage for the ESOP firms in the study was $ 44,500, or an average of an 8.8 % sales per employee advantage over their non-ESOP counterparts in the same industry and of the same size; 2.)

The purpose of the study is to show the size and nature of the UK's advice sector two years after the Retail Distribution Review (RDR) was implemented and commission - based sales were banned.The RDR had several aims — to improve the investment management service to clients, to increase the standards of professionalism for advisers, and to clarify the way advisers are paid for their services.

In a «Globes» interview today, Tal Inbar, head of the Space Research Center at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies, stated, «The backbone of Hamas's missile batteries is the Grad missile, a standard 122 - mm rocket with a 20 - 40 km range and a metal fragmentation warhead designed to cause casualties.»

In a second study reported by Der Standard, Iran's Health Ministry reported that prostitution has become a typical way for Iranian women to pay their university tuition.

The Azhar's traditional pattern of instruction was for the students to choose their teachers according to their inclinations and the standards they had achieved, continuing their studies for an indeterminate time with no examinations until they were ready to graduate.

Each biblical statement is a sentence which must be understood in terms of the vocabulary and grammar of its original language (Hebrew, Aramaic or Greek), but the better modern translations, such as the Revised Standard Version, have made it possible for one who understands English vocabulary and grammar to read and study the Bible without being seriously misled on most points.

Mack believes that a study of the sources Paul used to construct his authority also helps the interpreter to reconstruct and describe the social situation Paul addressed, one in which standards for authority were unclear and under negotiation.

In our readings this week for my Graduate study program we learned that there are six ethical standards for communication held in common in many religions:

Furthermore, all the various systems of theology seem to have their own rules for how to understand Scripture, which is not only confusing, but seems to suggest that theologians develop their rules of Bible study based on what they want the Bible to say rather than on some external, literary standard.

However, embryonic stem cells remain the «gold standard,» and studies of all types of stem cells should continue in parallel for the foreseeable future.»

One sees variations of it in many fields of study (for example, in trendy new movements like postmodernism) and everywhere it produces doubts among reflective people about the possibility of justifying belief in objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

According to the standard evolutionary view, the study of primate behaviour is particularly relevant for understanding the roots of our own nature.

@chad You will say something to get last word in so take it up with the courts It is illegal to teach creationism / ID or bible studies in public schools in US STEM science standards for 2013 They are making ears.

The study, which confirms that the «gold standard» for the rearing of children is the intact biological family, of married mom and dad staying together faithfully and raising their own offspring, naturally causes a furor.

For the early period, the studies by W. Montgomery Watt are standard, especially his Muhammad at Mecca.

One study of Catholic values on Catholic campuses disclosed that when administrators, faculty, students, and alumni were asked to identify core Catholic values in the culture of their institutions, «high academic standards,» «academic freedom,» and «respect for the individual» regularly ranked at or near the top, while «community of faith» trailed far behind.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

on revising the NRSV to meet Rome's objections and report that they have now received official approval for their rendering of the lessons used in Sunday Mass. (A further advantage of the Catholic edition of the RSV is that, unlike the Canadian Revised New Revised Standard Version, it is a complete Bible, meaning the same text can be used for study and for liturgical purposes.)

The standard for judging moral development was developed from the experiences and reflections of the male investigators — a perfectly good procedure, save that the masculine experience was not seen as a variable in the study, but a norm.

ISEAL member standards aim to improve smallholders» livelihoods and increase incomes by improving yield and quality — and studies have shown this to be the case for a number of different standards and context.

A double - blind, placebo - controlled food challenge was conducted for other participants (with a total of 9.4 g of peanut protein administered in increments) in accordance with standard dose - escalation procedures25 (see the study protocol).

Since this amount of flax can cause digestive upset for many who don't regularly consume lots of flaxseed (and some are concerned regarding studies of high flax consumption), I reduced the amount to a more standard serving size.

It was conducted in accordance with ISO 14040 / 44 standards and guidelines for life cycle assessment studies.

Another study released in February 2015 revealed that 100 percent of corrugated boxes from six different box suppliers tested at six different customer locations in three different U.S. regions met standards for clean packaging.

A study conducted from 2010 — 2014 showed that over 400 microbiological test results collected from 40 paper and box facilities all met acceptable standards for clean packaging.

A 2008 study published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry (56:10292 - 10302) found that of the commercial wheat starches tested, all were within the Codex Alimentarius Standard for naturally gluten - free foods.

• Revising how subsidies are allotted to producers, and how different practices are taxed across the value chain; • Influence the evolution of production standards so that they guide producers toward increasingly sustainable practices; • Refining public education regarding what are best practices of production systems (and accounting for them), and how to make them more widespread; • Studying the effects different practices and production systems have on society - wide challenges such as public health (and health insurance, whether it is publicly or privately provided), climate change mitigation, job creation and family income, etc..

For more than 30 years we have set the standard for extraordinary summer programs from elite sports camps to academic enrichment and study abroad prograFor more than 30 years we have set the standard for extraordinary summer programs from elite sports camps to academic enrichment and study abroad prografor extraordinary summer programs from elite sports camps to academic enrichment and study abroad programs.

I hope this study leads to hospitals adopting patient - controlled epidurals as standard practice for women who choose to have epidurals.

A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

Another study published in Social Psychological and Personality Science discovered that the gold standard for happiest couples are those that have sex once a week.

For the same reason, it is not easy to prove treatment efficacy by means of controlled, randomized studies, the «gold standard» for evaluating new therapiFor the same reason, it is not easy to prove treatment efficacy by means of controlled, randomized studies, the «gold standard» for evaluating new therapifor evaluating new therapies.

Alcohol: The Alabama Course of Study: Health Education (2003) sets the minimum content standard for teaching about the harmful effects of substance abuse and promoting positive healthful behavior in grades K - 12.

In fact the authors point out that there are no studies of meditationamong children in a general school population that are designed well enough to meet the standards of the gatekeeping organizations — like CASEL (Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning), the Department of Education, or the Society for Prevention Research — that would endorse program changes in schools.

The CPSC has recommended safety standards for bedside sleepers, but no studies have looked at whether these devices prevent SIDS and other sleep - related deaths or injuries.

Juliana F.W. Cohen, ScD, ScM, the study's lead author, concludes: «Our findings suggest that concerns about school revenues or participation in meals programs are not strong arguments for rolling back USDA's healthier meal and snack standards.»

Unfortunately, this study is tragically flawed, not even meeting standards for publication.