Sentences with phrase «studies with several»

So many kids, of all ages, are using the company's devices, but we're just beginning to see how heavy smartphone use impacts children and teens: The letter cited existing studies with several negative conclusions, from increased distraction in the classroom to higher risk of depression and suicide.

Joyce has completed years of advanced herbal studies with several highly respected teachers, including Amanda McQuade Crawford RH (AHG) MNIMH and David Winston RH (AHG).

However, in the past year, I conducted my own preliminary studies with several classes with serious bullying problems in different parts of the country.

The metabolic analysis of the mice could be combined with clinical assessments, by performing biochemical analysis in blood, plasma, urine and tissues (i.e, lipid and cholesterol content, glycogen content...) and by performing autopsy of the animal at the end of phenotyping study with several tissue collections (i.e, histology, mRNA anlaysis, protein analysis...).

In 1998, she began studying with several Yoga Masters and in 2002 she met her teacher, Yogarupa Rod Stryker of ParaYoga and was initiated into the lineage of Sri Vidya.

Although he has studied with several local artists, he is primarily self - taught.

Miles studied with several prominent sculptors in his early years.

A lifelong artist who was trained in fine arts at the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington, D.C. where she studied with several prominent members of the Washington Color School (WCS), Laget also worked as a professional artist and studio assistant to WCS painter Gene Davis.

Not exact matches

(Scotiabank did, however, start a «digital factory» in 2015, which professed to partner with fintech startups to develop new technologies, and gifted the University of Toronto with $ 1.75 million to study «disruptive technologies,» while several big - bank CEOs acknowledged that AI needed to be harnessed within the industry at a recent conference.)

Several large studies have also linked folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy with decreased rates of neural - tube defects, which are serious and life - threatening defects of a baby's brain, spine, or spinal cord.

We have now completed several health studies in partnership with the Geisinger Health System, which provides primary care to over 450,000 patients in Pennsylvania, including many residing in fracking areas.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

Additionally, several large studies have linked folic acid supplementation before and during pregnancy with decreased rates of neural - tube defects, serious and life - threatening birth defects of the baby's brain, spine, or spinal cord.

Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

Several studies have found that time spent with friends and family makes a big difference to how happy we feel.

«Reading text punctuated with links leads to weaker comprehension than reading plain text, several studies have shown.»

Several Canadian universities offer specialized degrees in actuarial studies to enter the financial and insurance business; there are a smaller number of master's degrees cropping up aimed at applying data sciences to a wider range of fields, along with some certificate programs aimed at professionals already working in business.

Several years ago they published a study in the influential journal Science that showed reading literary fiction was linked with an improved ability to better read fine emotional cues on people's faces.

Some studies suggest that for specific populations, like people who have been diagnosed with heart disease or are obese, fitness trackers can motivate them to move more, at least for several months.

Here, however, are those that can be boiled down for entrepreneurs, along with several case studies (purchase required) that Chisa recommends if you want to do further reading.

Zilca also notes that other research points in the same direction, with several recent studies showing that «being in your twenties is often confusing and lonely.»

Several studies attempting to pin down the precise relationship between drinking and overall health have come up short, with often conflicting results.

Some recent studies suggest that diets high in fructose are linked with several health problems, including heart disease.

Apple (aapl) just released an iPhone feature offering users in several big health systems instant access to their own medical record — an effort that joins its ongoing heart study with Stanford, testing if wearables can detect serious cardiac conditions.

Several large, recent, peer - reviewed studies have suggested a fascinating but seemingly counterintuitive idea: That the amount of fat you eat may not be as directly linked with how fat you are as we once thought.

Cannabidiol has been linked for years with different kinds of pain relief and even studied in several clinical studies.

Rozovsky basically said that having studied 180 teams at Google over the past several years and trying to determine what made some teams perform better than others (despite every team being filled with over-achievers who work at Google) one factor stood out more than others: Creating «psychologically safe environments.»

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

In one recent study, Choi and several colleagues wrote that smartphone addiction, like other impulse - control disorders, can «interfere with school or work; decrease real - life social interaction; decrease academic ability; and cause relationship problems.»

In a study with more than 3,000 Twitter users, Twitter found several benefits to replying to questions from customers9Twitter, 2016:

CATA, working with 6 other major industry associations, 5 federal agencies, 4 provincial agencies, 2 universities and several NGOs as key partners, has just completed a detailed study of the challenges that must be addressed.

Research from several sources, including a study by the American Sociological Review, has found that people with flexible schedules report that their overall sense of well - being increases with flexible work options.

(The well - funded company, which recently settled a lawsuit with one of its cofounders and several former employees, is currently engaged in numerous feasibility studies.)

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

Wheeler cites the research done by Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education in intensively examining theological faculties in several seminaries, with particular emphasis on whether such schools will be able to recruit enough qualified faculty to replace the many who are currently retiring.

Several Gallup poll studies of the general population have shown that those with higher IQ's tend not to believe in God.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

After the Methodist Church withdrew its funding from nine of its training institutions several years ago, Wesley House, Cambridge, and Wesley Study Centre, Durham, were threatened with closure in 2012.

Several years ago, the bishops» conference asked for a study of what is happening with RCIA, and it has now been issued.

The groups have bridged differences between several people, opened individual counseling opportunities, let parishioners express «beefs» directly, and given the minister support in his ministry.21 I concur with Robert Leslie's suggestion that the most natural, unthreatening way to introduce personal sharing in churches is to combine this emphasis with study.

I did not yet know what to do with this insight, and it took several years of reflection and eventually a study of Jesus» parables to work it out.

Héring, to whom I have been indebted at several points in this discussion, concludes his study of the appearances in the Synoptic Gospels of the phrase «Son of Man» in the eschatological sense with these three propositions:

Additionally, in one of his greatest gifts to the Church, he founded an eponymous pontifical institute (with several worldwide branches) devoted to the graduate study of marriage and the family.

The student of Hinduism who becomes familiar with those records by hearing them several times, who reads several Indian novels, and who becomes acquainted with some of the best examples of Indian art, will find that he understands Hinduism better and brings new insight to his study of the history of India.

After a long period of literary, historical, and form - critical study of the New Testament, along with more recent work on the «redaction» of its several books in the light of the motives that led their authors to select and arrange the material then available to them, it is clear that any claim to «simple historicity» is false.

Several studies of young unmarried mothers have found that between 20 and 25 per cent became pregnant again within two years (with the rate going much higher among certain minority groups) The repeat of pregnancy appears to be related to a lack of knowledge about the risks of sexual intercourse, limited opportunity for further education, boredom with homelife, and the unavailability of a strong female support group.

By the time I started to study with Paul Tillich, I had been told for several years that pietas and intellectus could not join.

The author of several well - received scholarly works on Spinoza, Steven Nadler has taken a step closer to the mass market with his new, tantalizingly titled study of the Theological - Political Treatise.

Several anthropologists, studying the difference between magic and religion in primitive peoples, have indicated that the latter (religion) is much more an intended conformity of things human with the divine, whereas the former (magic) is the effort, by use of formulae or rites, to bring the divine into conformity with things human.

The problem with this, however, is that the study of mass communication has passed through several stages and allows for several very different approaches.