Sentences with phrase «study groups where»

Encouraging users of your eLearning platform to join study groups where they regularly discuss learning goals and issues at hand will certainly result in an improvement in learning.

Not exact matches

In one of these studies, a group of students was instructed to think about an important final exam while another group was told to make a specific study plan with details of what they would do, where, and when.

After graduating first in her Manhattan High School class, Cool headed to Harvard in 2003, where she studied economics and quickly became a staple in campus women's groups.

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.»

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.

Grant once studied a group of fundraisers at a phone bank where the turnover rate was 400 percent annually, «so the entire staff would quit about every two months if you do the math,» he says.

A Harvard Business School case study of one of these «hangings» includes a video of a meeting that involves a «Maoist - like struggle session where a young male employee was berated by a group of peers and superiors for not being good enough.»

CEOs from the energy industry, who make up only 5 % of the group studied, are overrepresented in the top 100, where they occupy 15 % of the slots.

Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.

Dr. Sands was elected in 2017 to a two - year term as a member of the executive council of the Association for Canadian Studies in the United States, and he is a member of the American Political Science Association (where he served as treasurer and a member of the executive of the Canadian Politics Group from 2010 until 2017) and the International Studies Association.

Because I'll see this little group of people on Thursday night for our Bible study, and that is where we'll talk about the real stuff, show up, be disappointed and forgive, love each other a bit more every week.

For over a decade I have wanted to have a «movie Bible study» where a group of people get together, watch a movie, and then point out where Jesus (or the longing for Jesus) shows up in the movie.

Studies of the effectiveness of psychotherapy which offer persuasive evidence that this is not where it's at include one made in 1952 in which H. J. Eyesenck, an English psychiatrist, divided thousands of World War II veterans hospitalized for mental illness into three groups.

There is an increasing attempt by churches belonging to different confessional families, groupings of those oriented in a particular theological direction, or even by individual churches themselves, to engage in bilateral or multilateral dialogues, where specific issues regarding the doctrines and practices that continue to be both theological and practical irritants, like the practice of Baptism or the existence of mixed marriages are discussed, analysed and debated, and attempts made to produce consensus documents for further study and action.

Several years ago I read about a study done on a group of small children who were taken to the top of a mountain where there was this wide open space that went on for miles and were told to go play.

A solid friendship at 18 might look like late - night study groups and spending every waking hour together; at 30, married and maybe with kids, it might mean the occasional dinner, text or almost quarterly run - ins where you pick up where you left off (hopefully).

Listed as a Class A drug is marijuana and yet there have been numerous studies done that show where marijuana shouldn't be in that group.

«religion» is a group - study (where the re-Lidge — look over the ancient writings).

In 1963 he resigned his professorship at Wisconsin and moved to LaJolla, California, where he was one of the founders of the Center for the Studies of the Person, a loose - knit training - research group of persons from various helping professions.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

(c) Parish residencies where the pastor in training serves as a member of the church staff, engaging in a variety of ministries coordinated with intensive study, supervision, case conferences, training in group dynamics, pastoral counseling, and evaluations of his growth.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

Perhaps in more fundamentalist congregations where so much emphasis is given to the written word and what the preacher makes of it, it make weaken his hold on the largely ignorant, but in the Catholic and Episcopaelian congregations, it is much more about pomp and ceremony — where the scriptural readings take on much more of a musical resonance than a study group — it will have little impact.

The hospital birthing center where I had my baby offers it... My midwife was actually excited that I wanted to do water labor but no water birth... I was the only one of her patients who DID N'T intend to birth in the water and she needed people birthing out of the tub for a control group in a waterbirth infection study she was contributing to.

Although each of the teams using the PEP exercise program had a dedicated athletic training staff, the success reported in the earlier study in reducing ACL injuries among 14 - to 18 - year - old competitive female club soccer players - who ordinarily do not benefit from direct oversight from certified athletic trainers (ATCs) or physical therapists - suggest that the program may benefit other age groups and levels of play where direct oversight by medical professionals is far less common.

Now as a certified babywearing consultant through the Center for Babywearing Studies, and a certified kangaroo care consultant, through the US Institute of Kangaroo Care, Rachel owns a Babywearing and Kangaroo Care Consultation and Sales Business in Bellefonte, PA and admins in the Tandem Babywearing Facebook group, where she shares her passion and knowledge of kangaroo care / skin to skin therapy, tandem babywearing, and babywearing in special situations.

The studies often use a standard of «intent to treat» where they even don't monitor what the comparison group is doing.

Then they had to go out again in the evening - a Bible study at six o'clock with the visiting team from the USA, followed by the Lighthouse group for International students, where Daniel helps and Tim plays guitar to lead the singing.

When you design a study where you want to compare various groups, you have to have pretty strict rules for who belongs in which group.

Studies were excluded where the intervention (a) was aimed at prevention rather than treatment; (b) was aimed specifically at children, the whole family as a unit or at teachers; or (c) was non-structured, such as an informal support group or unstructured home visits.

Several of those studies were done in countries where they DO have hospital comparison groups, and they were no different.

Pacifier use was not associated with either study group assignment (educational packet received at first prenatal visit) or the obstetric practice where the women were recruited (P >.7).

In Sweden, where the current study was carried out, parent education groups are held during pregnancy and throughout the first year of the newly born child (Fabian et al., 2005, 2006; Barimani and Hylander, 2012).

We divided the studies into three groups: those carried out in settings where 80 % or more women initiated breastfeeding (high background initiation), where between 60 % to 80 % initiated breastfeeding (intermediate) or where breastfeeding initiation rates were less than 60 % (low).

In studies where there was randomisation at the clinic level, all women may have been exposed to the same intervention, and contamination between groups would thereby be reduced, but there may still have been a risk of response bias if outcomes were reported to staff providing care.

In particular, a formula - feeding group may be atypical in studies carried out at a time (ie, in the early part of the 20th century, when bottle feeds were predominantly cow - milk preparations)(15, 16, 24) or in cultures where breastfeeding was widespread (32).

I have been at presentations and discussions of UK attitudes to Europe where studies of UK public opinion seem to have found (perhaps counterintuitively) that there is relatively little sense among the public of there being a pro-EU so anti-US (or pro-US so less pro-EU) constituency among the public, though both are fairly common positions among certain elite opinion former groups on left and right.

Secondly, the finding calls for more qualitative studies, where we can document and demonstrate how different groups are affected by cuts and measures under IMF programmes.

There was one study where a group of people on one side of the planet were shown photos of candidates in elections on the other side of the planet.

In a group of patients who underwent surgery for epilepsy, over half had stem cells where healthy individuals do not have them, according to a study from Sahlgrenska Academy.

Instead, the study authors attribute the risk to «detection bias,» where the group of patients likely to take erection medicines also happens to be more health conscious, more likely to see a doctor, and so more likely to get diagnosed with melanoma than other men of similar age.

An earlier study using that model showed that the algorithms in the model can predict where in the brain a seizure will originate and which groups of neurons it will likely spread to as it grows.

Nadeau also studies the potential impacts of climate change on species around the globe, using modeling, field observation and experiments to predict where species are most vulnerable and determine how conservation groups can best mitigate the negative impacts of climate change on animal populations.

Stanford University researchers studying how the brain controls movement in people with paralysis, related to their diagnosis of Lou Gehrig's disease, have found that groups of neurons work together, firing in complex rhythms to signal muscles about when and where to move.

This allows us to reveal how drugs affect heart functions in a scenario where the two cell populations are closely coupled,» said Ben Maoz, Ph.D., a co-first author on the second study, who also is a Technology Development Fellow at the Wyss Institute and a member of Parker's group.

Dr. Caughey's group is continuing its development of RT - QuIC applications, including further studies of when and where the pathological prion protein appears in skin, and how to effectively inactivate its infectious forms.

Dr Grainger and his team are now working with other groups at The University of Manchester to carry out further studies on monocytes, particularly from patients with inflammatory conditions, and are focused on identifying situations where this gut information system may have gone wrong such as in inflammatory bowel diseases.

The Heart and Vascular Health study is a case - control study, where Group Health members who develop cardiovascular events are matched with control members who do not.

The study enrolled 36 men and 36 women from two age groups — «young» volunteers who were 18 - 30 years old and «older» volunteers who were 65 - 80 years old — into three different exercise programs: one where the volunteers did high - intensity interval biking, one where the volunteers did strength training with weights, and one that combined strength training and interval training.

The ANES collects data on Americans» social backgrounds, political predispositions, social and political values, perceptions and evaluations of groups and candidates, and other issues, according to the ICPSR, a data archive of research in the social and behavioral sciences where the studies are accessible.