Sentences with phrase «study groups for»

The LCA also cooperates with other trial, litigation and educational organizations in arranging meetings and study groups for Fellows in furtherance of the art of advocacy and the litigation process.

«This is a group of about 20 defense attorneys, 20 prosecutors, and 20 judges who serve on study groups for specific changes / additions in the criminal code and submit recommendations to the legislature by consensus, says Andrea.»

The program offers Dean's Fellow study groups for all first - year law courses; individual Writing Dean's Fellow support for upper - level writing courses as well as cover letters, resumes, writing samples, etc.; and regular workshops on law school achievement, exam taking skills and bar exam preparation.

Sustainable communities study groups for local business and civic leaders exist, as well as Earth Day celebrations, a downtown Farmer's Market, «smart growth» and farmland preservation workshops, and occasional sustainability columns in the Springfield Sun.

Central Banking Publications hosts several high - level study groups for central bankers around the world

The small increase in the high - dose group did not translate into beneficial effects because authors found no difference between the three study groups for changes in spine, average total - hip, average femoral neck or total - body bone mineral density, trabecular bone score, muscle mass or sit - to - stand tests.

In addition to getting learning much from my pasture I have been in Bible study groups for years and still believe I'm just scratching the surface of understanding the vastness and depth of the Bible.

To maximize its mental health impact, a church should have a wide variety of study groups for all ages.

Learning Circles are lightly - facilitated study groups for learners who want to take online courses together, in - person.

SAFSF offers a study group for funders interested in deeper learning and sharing around finance and investing for social change.

In considering a Sunday afternoon Bible - study group for gays from an evangelical background, Fowler said that he believes efforts to reinterpret Scripture to justify homosexuality are «unfair to Scripture,» but that he would «be interested in examining Scripture with those who believe they can be both gay and Christian.»

He started a service for children and a study group for boys in the sixth form (the last year) of their education.

He runs a Bible - study group for young adults, and together with a friend he founded a Christian scientific group.

Authors analyzed clinical data for patients from two large academic medical centers from 2005 through 2013, resulting in 845,417 hospital discharges in the study group for 458,053 unique individuals.

Come be a part of the study group for a panel and Q&A moderated by Chris Hardwick («The Nerdist») and find out firsthand what surprises are in store for the series when it returns to NBC for its fifth season.

For example, a group of students excelling in literacy might be formed into a book study group for independent reading and discussion.

This cohort of undocumented children and youth is fairly new, explains Roberto Gonzales, an assistant professor at the Ed School, who, as one of the nation's leading experts on undocumented youth and young adults, has been studying this group for 23 years.

Smashwords was also proud to announce that its founder, Mark Coker, was tapped by the Book Industry Study Group for nomination for its first - ever Disruptor Award, joining names like Dominique Raccah of Sourcebooks and Wattpad's founder Allen Lau in the nomination.

IQ is lower, as much as 8 points in the study group for kids who have been smoking cannabis.

I've been a participant in a meditation and psychotherapy study group for many years.

Just this morning I was thinking how nice it would be to host the ladies from my bible study group for a «getting to know each other better» evening during early December: mulled wine, sweet and savory treats, a few printed questions to start the conversations rolling: «What's on your car stereo right now?»

Not exact matches

A study of increases or decreases in rates of a disease across years, calculated for groups of people, is called an ecologic study.

Depending on what you plan to market and your budget, you can use formal focus groups (or simply host roundtable discussions with members of the target audience), employ online research or mall intercept studies, or distribute your product to a select group of users for testing.

Seth G. Jones, an expert on Afghanistan and a senior adviser to the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Business Insider that the Taliban and ISIS have been «at each others throats» since day one — but there is no question who the more threatening group is.

These numbers were determined by the National Transgender Discrimination Survey (NTDS), conducted by the advocacy groups the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force and the National Center for Transgender Equality, and reported in the UCLA study.

In a study published in March 2017, 7,500 men were split into four groups, and given vitamin E, selenium, both, or a placebo for 5 years.

If you're a dyed - in - the - wool extrovert, this study should be a caution to you for when you next participate in a group in crisis.

Recent research has looked into the health consequences of that mismatch, tracking a group of study subjects for more than six years.

«In a study of health care providers, we found that those who used WOOP were significantly more engaged with their work and less stressed than members of a control group,» Oettingen writes for HBR.org.

Studies commissioned by his group project that over the next decade, PBMs will save employers, consumers, and the government more than $ 2 trillion, and have already helped reduce by a third the projected cost of the Medicare Part D program, a largely privatized drug benefit for seniors.

Internal studies by a group of analysts within Shell known as the «scenarios» team had concluded that global demand for oil might peak in as little as a decade — essentially tomorrow in an industry that plans in quarter - century increments.

Tech writer Julia Gifford documented the study while working for The Draugiem Group.

Because observational studies look at groups of people and their behavior over time, it's hard to say for sure that other conflicting factors aren't influencing the outcomes they examine.

He also founded Carson Institutional Advisory and Peak Advisor Alliance — partnership and coaching programs, respectively, for financial advisors — and co-founded both registered - investor advisor study group aRIA and consulting firm Advisor Growth Strategies.

For the study, the researchers split socially anxious volunteers into three groups — one was asked to perform random acts of kindness, one was told to follow the usual course of exposure therapy and force themselves to participate in more social situations, and another was a control group who did nothing special.

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

For the study, the research team asked teachers to prepare and deliver identical lessons to groups of third graders.

But after five straight years of positive returns, sentiment among equity analysts neared an all - time high, with the Wall Street consensus calling for an 11.1 % gain, according to a recent study by Bespoke Investment Group.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

That's one of the takeaways from new research on drone laws published Tuesday by research group The Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.

The authors of the study wrote of their findings that they had «obvious industrial applications where an objective assessment of audiovisual material is sought from groups of people, for example, in advertising, video game design or in filmmaking.»

After performing the same happiness - inducing activities, the people who signed up for the happiness study — the group Lyubomirsky saw as more «motivated» to become happier — gained more from the study than those who signed up for the other exercise.

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.Anthony Ling — The Seasteading Institute

(Pillemer pulled together similar groups for studies on careers and regrets as well).

For schools, theater groups, young producers, directors and performers, BroadwayHD provides a crisp, clear digital way to study the craft from the best in the business — and even go backstage.

Another study asked a group of physically fit sailors to engage in interval running (you go fast, then slower to rest, then fast again, etc.) for a period of seven weeks.

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.

A report by Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul and C4ADS in Washington says it identified more than $ 500 million in trade from January 2011 to September 2015 between the North and the Liaoning Hongxiang Group, which states on its website that it trades heavily with the North.

A study by Nielsen Norman Group found that users stay on a website for an average of 10 to 20 seconds.

The attacks, which took place this year and have not been previously reported, jeopardized the communications of activists, journalists and other people in sensitive positions in Iran, where Telegram is used by some 20 million people, said independent cyber researcher Collin Anderson and Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri, who have been studying Iranian hacking groups for three years.