Sentences with phrase «study team activity»

Suggested individual or study team activity: Research conducted by Wiliam (2010), Amrein & Berliner (2002), and Cizek (2005) has found that use of accountability tests has little effect on student achievement.

Suggested individual or study team activity: Identify specific unsound or unwise assessment policies that seem to reflect a lack of assessment literacy in the policymakers who set them (legislators, school board members, school leaders, faculty, etc.).

Suggested individual or study team activity: Share the list of «troubling realities» presented on pages 3 — 4 with a fellow teacher, principal, superintendent, or school board member and ask for feedback: (a) Does this list reflect reality as they see it?

Not exact matches

So his team at IBM's Healthcare and Life Science division began studying chess players to see if they could find a correlation between their brain activity and their proficiency.

In an editorial accompanying the study, Russell Pate and Dr. Jennifer O'Neil of the Department of Exercise Science at the University of South Carolina said the study showed the «need to learn ways in which the doses of physical activity provided during youth sports and activity programs can be most effectively increased by modifying the manner in which the practices and contests are conducted... [such as] by changes in instructional practices that produce greater emphasis on keeping youth active while they learn individual skills and team strategies.»

In this context, the team of researchers of UPM and UEM has conducted a study that reveals the existing relationship between physical activity and mental health in the population of Madrid.

In a previous study Hu's research team used neuron - disrupting molecules to prove the relationship between dmPFC activity and a mouse's decision to surrender to or push back against its cage mate in the tube task.

The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

In studies with human fibroblasts that make up connective tissue, Boger's team tested whether NOD1 activity could affect CMV replication in cultures of cells grown in the lab.

It seems sensible to continue using textbooks alongside activities, concluded the study authors, a team from the admissions test company Educational Testing Service.

Our research team studied the effectiveness of this program; we found that City Academies do meet their goal of increasing physical activity rates for adult women in these communities.»

In the study published in the journal Science Signaling, the team led by LLuís Espinosa, investigator of IMIM's research group into stem cells and cancer, have shown that inhibition of endosomal activity is a potential therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancers with the BRAF mutated gene.

Igoshin said that when the researchers set out to find how sporulation decisions were timed to the cell cycle, several studies including prior work by team members, provided a significant clue: Under starvation conditions, the activity of the master regulator gene had been shown to spike once per cell cycle.

The team embarked on a massive brain imaging study: Across 9 UK laboratories (University of Birmingham, University of Bristol, University of Edinburgh University of Glasgow, University of Kent, University College London, University of Oxford, University of Stirling, and University of York), 334 participants — 10 times the original amount — read sentences that were presented one word at a time, while electrical brain activity was recorded at the scalp.

Next up: the team plans to study whether human patients with early stage Alzheimer's or a mild cognitive impairment experience this same nonconvulsive seizure activity.

In the world's largest study to investigate how common lifestyle factors influence the size and shape of sperm (referred to as sperm morphology), a research team from the Universities of Sheffield and Manchester also found that sperm size and shape was worse in samples ejaculated in the summer months but was better in men who had abstained from sexual activity for more than six days.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» says Katrina Waters, a biologist at PNNL and a corresponding author of the study.

«Our team studied thousands of molecular clues in each of these samples, sifting through extensive data on the activity of genes, proteins, and other molecules to identify those of most interest,» said Katrina Waters, the leader of the PNNL team and a corresponding author of the paper.

In addition to analyzing the activity of individual neurons, Mehta's team studied larger groups of the brain cells.

These were the findings of a large - scale study by a research team at the University of Basel that focused on determining the gender - dependent relationship between emotions, memory performance and brain activity.

The team also recently obtained a grant from the National Medical Research Council in Singapore to pursue a study using the probe to examine the relationship between key Parkinson's disease - linked genes and MAO - B expression and activity to further understand the causes of the disease and illuminate the role of MAO - B in this.

(The research team, led by Uri Hasson and Kenneth Norman, professors in the Department of Psychology at Princeton, frequently makes use of movies and television shows to study brain activity; «Sherlock» is a particular favorite of the lab members.)

In this study, Dr. Giniger's team found that eliminating or increasing Cdk5 activity beyond normal levels shortened the lives of the flies to about 30 days.

Consistent with earlier studies, the team found that LOC activity increased when subjects perceived a coherent shape, such as a diamond.

Gallio and his team wanted to study the brain activity of a fruit fly while it performed a complex behavior, but this is not easily achieved under a microscope.

Using bioinformatics tools to identify and map out specific components and regulatory interconnections, the study team found highly dynamic activities during CD8 + T cell responses: a distinct repertoire of super enhancers — groups of enhancers that interact with promoters to drive gene transcription, new groups of enhancers that jump into activity only in the memory cell stage, and extensive re-wiring of regulatory circuits from one cell stage to another.

The series started in 2009, when the U.S. government funded a team of researchers to recruit and study participants for the Testosterone Trial — a group of seven long - term studies of how testosterone therapy affects sexual activity, energy level, memory, heart and bone health, and the ability to walk a certain distance.

In a recent study published in the December 15th issue of Human Molecular Genetics, Dr. Gangwani and his team of researchers at TTUHSC El Paso describe how mice with spinal muscular atrophy saw great improvement when the JNK3 enzyme was genetically inhibited to eliminate its activity.

In a new study, the team of researchers monitored the activity of the neurons that secrete a hormone in response to ingesting food and water.

By creating a way to correct for motion, the team was able to make a four - dimensional reconstruction of brain activity in moving subjects, opening the door for studies on subjects that don't stay still for long, like fetuses and small children.

The researchers teamed up with BYU neuroscientist Brock Kirwan to use functional MRI to monitor the brain activity of study subjects while they viewed images of food.

The Yale research team had demonstrated in a prior study that fructose and another simple sugar, glucose, had different effects on brain activity.

The team studied whether scuba diving activities have long - term consequences for shark populations.

Pollyea and his team caution that while earthquakes can not be predicted, the study indicates that geologists can test hypothetical wastewater injection scenarios before wells come online to estimate potential impact on earthquake activity.

In the current study, subjects who had the most negative emotional responses, as determined by high activity in the right prefrontal lobe, had fewer antibodies — a sign of a weakened immune response, the team reports online this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

To study their rhythms, Darrell Moore of East Tennessee State University and his team recorded the activity patterns of different orb - weaver species.

In this first study, the team followed lycopene activity in the blood of eight persons by feeding them lycopene labeled with the non-radioactive carbon - 13.

The research team is now conducting a three year study in community pharmacies across the country to see if engaging patients with this information and then offering them a web - based e-health program will help them adopt healthier lifestyles, including healthier diets and regular physical activity.

The research team behind the study, which is being published in the journal Epigenetics, also found strong links between these altered epigenetic patterns and the activity in genes controlling improved metabolism and inflammation.

The introduction of fluid pressure modeling of both industry activity and water table fluctuations in the Azle study represents the first of its kind, and has allowed the SMU team to move beyond assessment of possible causes to the most likely cause identified in this report.

Typically, evidence that disease activity is truly «on - target» with respect to the proposed mechanism can only be examined once appropriate, highly selective chemical tools have been designed, synthesized and iteratively modified by teams of Medicinal Chemists and biologists working with the studied protein.

The team's results demonstrate the importance of including a realistic irrigation parameterization in climate studies to improve the process - level understanding on the role of human activities in modulating land - air - cloud interactions and regional climate.

A new study carried out by an international team of researchers has shed light on how long Sun - like stars and their less massive cousins remain in this youthful phase before their magnetic activity subsides.

In neurons, though, such breaks can occur even under normal circumstances, for example, after increased brain activity, as shown by the team of Gladstone scientists in an earlier study.

In the new study, published online March 27, 2018, in Cell Reports, a team led by UCSF's David Raleigh, MD, PhD, found that increased activity of a gene known as FOXM1 appears to be responsible for the aggressive growth and frequent recurrence of these tumors.

«This advance is, in our opinion a crucial first step towards high density, full - coverage mapping of neural activity in a sizeable brain region,» says team member and lead author of this study Xiaoling Wei.

The research team at the University of Wisconsin - Madison studied the microglia activity of young (two months old) and middle - aged (nine to 10 months old) mice.

First, her team studied the inhibition of ribosome activity in eubacteria, i.e., «good» bacteria.

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