Sentences with phrase «study approach used»

In this article, the authors describe a case study approach used to examine the complexities and contradictions of ways teachers perceive and implement technology in a seventh - grade social studies class.

Not exact matches

I use case studies with clients, and carefully explain the approach to our thinking.

As there is no established protocol for this type of work, existing studies use a variety of approaches.

A study conducted by the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College using data from the Federal Reserve's 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances found that the typical household approaching retirement is ill prepared financially.

I believe we have done a fair job of using reason as leaders from other countries routinely tour and study at our judicial centers in awe of the most fair and honest approach to justice the world has ever known.

This «shotgun» approach is what Dennis uses every Sunday and every Wednesday in his messages, and is what he calls «verse by verse» study.

A minister who wishes to use this approach should study John E. Bell's monograph, «Family Group Therapy» (Public Health Monograph # 64, U.S. Government Printing 0ffice, Washington 25, D.C. sec also Virginia Satir, Conjoint Family Therapy (Palo Alto, Calif.: Science and Behavior Books, 1964).

Current approaches to sexuality, for example, as Don Browning has pointed out regarding denominational studies — including the UCC's 1977 report — tend to use God the redeemer as their lead metaphor while neglecting references to God the creator and governor.

Careful use of Strong's numbers allows people without knowledge of the original languages a roundabout approach to word study of the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek vocabulary.

Performance studies uses some of the raw materials of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech and gesture.

A Long Island church of which I was pastor used a modified therapy group approach in its continuing program of child - study for mothers of preschoolers.

During this Year of Faith, this book could be read in sections as part of a more meditative approach to understanding the Creed or as a resource for use as part of a study group.

Another study uses a systems approach to analyze shared responsibility in the educational system of the Church.

Some church consultants — for instance, those of the London - based Grubb Institute of Behavioral Studies — again use a mechanist approach to the congregation, but with more attention to organicist methods than Schaller employs.

Whatever may be the case with the new theologians who are influenced by «secularization», by «the death of God», or the existentialist conceptuality provided by Heidegger — and here John Macquarrie is an exception, since his Principles of Christian Theology does include a consideration of the subject — not many theologians who prefer to approach the re-conception of Christian theology with the use of «process thought» have published extended studies of «the last things»; or, if they have, I have not come across them.

From my studies during that sabbatical and during each of five summers, I not only received necessary training in the Guild's approach for use in my own work but was able to articulate an alternative to the current scholarly paradigm which, I hoped, might be at least one way to release others who were caught on the snag.

I have already indicated the way in which literary criticism furthers the development of approaches used in Gospel studies, while at the same time it represents a major shift in orientation away from the longstanding preoccupation with historical questions.

Results of this study showed a decrease in total antioxidant capacity following the microwaving and boiling approach, and a slight increase in this capacity through use of the stir - fry method.

The nutrition study is necessary to determine the potential for Golden Rice to be used as a public health approach for reducing vitamin A deficiency.

In this study, we used a combination of state - of - the - art approaches to determine the vitamin A equivalence of Golden Rice in humans.

That quote is nowhere to be found in the study that Rosin linked to, so I have no way of evaluating the context (we know Rosin is good at taking things out of context) or the validity of the approach used.

Dr. Nina Kraus, a groundbreaking neuroscientist at Northwestern University, has been studying the effects of music training on brain development — with the use of non-invasive approaches in humans — and on the development of language skills.

One topic is studied for three or four weeks, allowing the teacher to cover a subject in - depth, using a variety of approaches.

Most research studies on teen boot camps that use a military - style approach show that they aren't all that effective.

Another study has reported on a unique intervention previously shown beneficial for preterm infants, using a «breathing bear» with gentle body motion rates that can be adjusted to match infant's breathing rates to serve as a comforting, nonintrusive crib friend for the infant, and a reassuring aid for the mother.47 As infant can use the bear at his own will, the infant can learn that he can either approach or withdraw from the bear providing him opportunity for positive reinforcement.

We made explicit judgements about whether studies were at high risk of bias using the GRADE approach.

A second study published in 1997 evaluated 482 children who had been toilet trained using the Brazelton approach and found that 88 percent of the kids were toilet trained at 3 1/2 and that 98 percent were trained by age 4.

This study employed a deductive approach using the codes identified through content analysis in the first two steps.

This study used a qualitative, descriptive approach to explore how women develop their initial birth plan and how changes made to the plan affect overall birth experiences.

The objectives of the study and the discipline of an on - site - investigation may vary, which leads to different approaches such as the use of primary sources and / or face - to - face interviews with relevant agents, or the consultation of local and regional publications.

The study uses four statistical approaches, which come to the same conclusion: «there is no significant correlation between dissolved methane concentrations in groundwater and proximity to nearby oil / gas wells.»

Subsequently, after consultation with Aral — another of Vosoughi's graduate advisors, who has studied social networks extensively — the three researchers decided to try the approach used in the new study: objectively identifying news stories as true or false, and charting their Twitter trajectories.

He is using his $ 100,000 prize to study a novel approach to treating bacterial infections that he believes will short - circuit antibiotic resistance, and he expects that the communication skills the Skolar competition helped him develop will boost his chances of additional funding in the future.

A University of Adelaide study showed that monitoring wildlife using drones is more accurate than traditional counting approaches.

They and other researchers have used game theory to study how to carry out and defend against cyberattacks, but the new research takes a broader approach by also factoring in the attacker's and victim's political strengths and weaknesses and how much they know about each other.

Using such a broad range of approaches «enabled me to get a very good overview of different techniques and different organisms that can be used to study complex problems in biology,» Outeiro says.

A related paper, involving Svendsen, his colleague Gad Vatine, PhD, and a team from University of California, Irvine, published the same day in the journal Cell Reports, used a similar approach to study Huntington's disease.

Contreras - Vidal said the approach to mapping cortical changes also could be used for certain assistive devices, such as powered wheelchairs, as well as to study how children learn to walk.

A genetics research team at Johns Hopkins Medicine has solved a dilemma facing researchers who use genomewide association studies (GWAS) by developing a new approach that strategically «filters» which genes are worth further study.

Our studies involve the use of a whole - cell patch clamp, an electrophysiological approach to measure the transmembrane current of a single cell, to identify the effects of herbs on the cardiovascular system.

In this study, the researchers applied this approach to examine whether simple visual and written cues could be used to encourage drivers to switch off their engines while waiting at railway crossings.

According to the researchers, the study demonstrates that quantitative approaches from Physics can be used to address fundamental as well as clinically relevant issues in Biology.

People with chronic opioid use disorders are more likely to relapse and do so sooner if they are treated in a compulsory drug detention centre rather than a voluntary drug treatment centre using methadone maintenance therapy, according to the first study comparing the outcome of both approaches published in The Lancet Global Health.

In this study, however, he and his collaborators took a different approach: analyzing micro-sized bacteria that hobble a widely - used chemo drug.

«The study took about seven months, and we identified the challenges, potential solutions, hardware options and algorithmic approaches that could be potentially used,» Najarian says.

In an effort to find out, Stephen P. Juraschek, M.D., Ph.D., research and clinical fellow in general internal medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, and his colleagues used data from the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) clinical trial, a widely popular and often - cited study whose results were first published in 1997.

In the future, studies are aimed at using novel molecular approaches to selectively delete AMPK in specific brain regions associated with nicotine dependence to better understand the functional role of this protein in addiction.

Using an approach called a genome - wide association study, researchers scanned complete sets of DNA in thousands of participants, looking for small variations that appear more often in people with the disease than in healthy individuals.

The authors chose to use computational methods to study the influence of intermolecular interactions between different types of molecules — in this case, they simplified the approach by limiting it to methane and activated carbon — on adsorption.

A study published in PLOS NTDs reports a new technique that could make one approach to mosquito control — using Wolbachia bacteria that reduce the mosquitos» ability to transmit viral pathogens — a whole lot easier and cheaper to implement and evaluate.