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We have been studying participation by small donors and volunteers in all state and federal elections, as well as in New York City.

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Under her leadership, the average SAT scores of the entering freshman class increased by nearly 50 points, and participation in global semester study abroad rose from 25 percent to 75 percent.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

Moreover, participation and maximization patterns by age and income suggest that asset shifting and income splitting are the primary sources of contributions rather than new saving, a new Broadbent Institute study has found.

A study by Rockport Analytics reaffirmed that government travel for meetings leads to greater productivity and efficiency and found that cancelling government participation in meetings and conferences can actually cost taxpayers more in the end.

One discerning study of modern uncertainties about historical practice, by Joyce Appleby, Margaret Jacob and Lynn Hunt, even began by pointing out that their own participation in the historical profession, as women from nonelite social backgrounds, could not have happened without the intermingled social and intellectual changes of recent decades (Telling the Truth About History).

As Gawande notes, a study conducted by Aetna Insurance permitting «concurrent care» — having access to both hospice and life - extending treatments — saw hospice participation rise from 26 to 70 percent of eligible patients.

Yet if they are to understand the arts significantly, they too must enter so fully into the works they study, by becoming familiar with the possibilities and limitations of the materials used and with the processes of transforming them, that they pass beyond passive receptivity to the practice of virtual recreation, through imaginative participation in the artist's constructive activity.

The following facts support this belief: the participation of the churches in the theological conversations of the ecumenical movement, which perforce have had to find their common starting point and common vocabulary in biblical literature and theology; the growing body of specifically biblical theology, produced by the very vitality of fragmentary and monographic studies.

The curriculum they suggest, along with participation in the community of faith, is designed to shape Christian identity by an intense study of how groups and individuals created themselves as Christians as they responded to felt needs and wrestled with issues of ultimate significance in their age just as we do in ours.

In fact, most of the interviewees, in my study who had had a time gap of more than a year between contact with AA and active participation in it were those who had been pushed in by well - meaning but misguided relatives.

Curiously, for many years the main interaction with philosophers working in an Anglo - American mode has been through the active participation of Dutch philosophers of religion, led by Vincent Brummer, in the Society for the Study of Theology.

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.

These and other considerations underscore the significance of participation in church work by those who are engaged in theological study.

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A 2014 study (1), however, found that, despite the 2010 endorsement of 6 national medical societies of a single PPE form as part of an effort to standardize the screening process, and nearly unanimous public support for PPE screening by a qualified health care professional before participation in a consistent manner across the country, the medical community is still largely unaware of national sports preparticipation physical evaluation guidelines and only 11 % of athletes at US high schools are guaranteed to receive a PPE fully consistent with the national standard.

Not only was that assertion completely at odds with the uncertain state of the existing science, but it was contradicted by the study itself, in which Dr. McKee and her colleagues acknowledged that several other factors, besides prior participation in football, may influence CTE risk and disease severity, including factors other than cumulative hits to the head, and admitted that it was even «unclear» what roles concussions and repetitive subconcussive hits play in CTE risk, disease severity, and progression.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

However, this population - based, case - control study was limited by a low participation rate of 50 % among eligible cases and 41 % among eligible controls and a small sample size of 185 SIDS cases.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.

Other strengths of the underpinning cohort study include high participation by midwifery units and trusts in England; the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias because of non-consent; and the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk.12 The economic evaluation was conducted according to nationally agreed design and reporting guidelines.15 26 Collection of primary unit cost data was thorough and accounted for regional differences in care patterns.

Park board President Steve Randich said the district, whose funding ability is limited by the tax cap, would have to study the costs before giving an answer about its participation.

What was more surprising was another finding: that participation in the NSLP also reduced the rate of obesity by at least 17 percent among the children studied.

A new study to appear in the Journal of Econometrics and reported by Science Daily has found that participation in the National School Lunch Program («NSLP») reduces food insecurity among impoverished children by 3.8 percent and reduces poor general health by 29 percent.

Overall, the study found that children benefited from their mothers» participation in Legacy, although the affected factors differed by site:

Participation in the school lunch program was calculated for each month of the study by dividing the mean number of daily meals served each month by student enrollment.

In another study, fathers with children enrolled in Early Head Start employed significantly more complex social play interactions with their 24 - month - olds than did fathers with children in a control group.17 These studies suggest possible benefits to fathers who become involved in Head Start, but more studies are needed to replicate these findings and to demonstrate how fathers and children are affected by participation.

The community meetings, led by Mason Tillman Associates, will inform the local community and businesses about the Study, which assesses the policies related to maximizing MWBE participation and outreach, its methodology and legal standard.

A public health study with public participation and with transparency represents a higher level of scientific rigor and so should be supported by the Governor in his quest to make the decision on the basis of the best science available.

Canadians are participating in a number of mission studies; however, none of these studies at this time are confirmed to result in participation in the actual missions by Canadians.

I was well prepared for graduate study in bioengineering at the University of California, San Diego, by the historically black colleges and universities in the Atlanta University Center (AUC, consisting of Clark Atlanta University, Spelman, Morehouse, and Morris Brown Colleges), as well as by Georgia Tech, an institution that graduates more minority engineers than most other engineering schools because of its participation in the dual - degree engineering program, a partnership with minority - serving institutions.

Gronke studied Oregon's motor - voter law, which enables people to register to vote when they apply for or update their driver's license, and found it increased participation by voters from both parties, in both rural and urban areas.

We urge the adoption of policies that ensure opportunities for people to participate in research studies and clinical trials without fear that the information generated by their participation will be inappropriately disclosed and adversely affect their health insurance status or that of their families, either as individuals or as members of a particular group.

In a new study published in Nature Human Behaviour, Eleanor Power of the Santa Fe Institute writes that active religious participation may benefit practitioners by strengthening social bonds.

The change creates an opportunity to raise what the report labels the «low levels of post-16 participation in science and mathematics» by encouraging students to continue their studies even if they are not planning to major in those subjects at college or attend university at all.

A new study shows that workplace wellness programs can be effective in helping people lose weight by providing healthier food choices and increasing opportunities for physical activity, particularly if these efforts are designed with the input and active participation of employees.

«By helping us understand that lower levels of RNF125 confer resistance to BRAF inhibitors, we have a new strategy to stratify patients for currently approved therapy versus participation for human clinical trials to investigate whether targeting JAK1 will be more effective in patients whose tumors exhibit reduced RNF125,» said Keith T. Flaherty, M.D., associate professor, Harvard Medical School, and director of Developmental Therapeutics, Cancer Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, and co-author of the study.

Funded by the National Institutes of Health, the study analyzes data on suicides and religious participation from 1981 to 2007 in 42 countries encompassing seven regions.

When it comes to clinical research, the participation of the people being treated — the patients — usually ends by the time the study is submitted to a journal.

Researchers, led by Dr Stephanie Tobin from The University of Queensland's School of Psychology, conducted two studies centred on «lurking» or passive Facebook participation and on ostracism, aiming to analyze how participants would feel when deliberately «snubbed».

An international collaborative study led by researchers at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute (SBP), with major participation from Yokohama School of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and UC San Diego, has identified the molecular mechanism behind lithium's effectiveness in treating bipolar disorder patients.

Public Participation in Research The public is not only a major beneficiary of genetics research, but is also an invaluable partner in its pursuit by volunteering to participate in research studies.

A multinational study of data from 130,000 people shows that inherited risk factors for schizophrenia and bipolar disorder also predict participation in the arts and creative professions REYKJAVIK, Iceland, 8 June 2015 — A study led by scientists at deCODE genetics...

A study published by researchers at the University of Utah in 1996 was the first to demonstrate clearly the benefits of exercise for people with MS. Those patients who participated in an aerobic exercise program had better cardiovascular fitness, improved strength, better bladder and bowel function, less fatigue and depression, a more positive attitude, and increased participation in social activities.

In California, for example, participation in music courses dropped 46 percent from 1999 - 2000 through 2000 - 04, while total school enrollment grew nearly 6 percent, according to a study by the Music for All Foundation.

Evaluating data from the 40 - year follow - up to the High / Scope Perry Preschool Program Study, Belfield and his colleagues show how preschool participation by low income children relates to significant economic benefits both to the children by the time they are in their 40s and to society more generally (Belfield et al. 2006).1 Summarizing over 160 studies conducted from 1960 through 2000, Camilli et al. found that preschool had a range of shorter and longer term positive relationships to cognitive gains, progression through school, and social - emotional development (Camilli et al. 2010).

As part of a two - year research project funded by the Office of the Chief Scientist to improve student participation in STEM - related disciplines, the Year 9 Agricultural and Horticultural Studies students were partnered with Lambley Nursery.

The conference, sponsored by The Cultural Agents Initiative, the Provost Office at Harvard University, the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, and the Harvard University Committee on Human Rights Study, attracted 96 artists, educators, and researchers, who identified and exchanged best photography practices to promote children agencies and civic participation.

A 2003 study of the program's impact by researchers at California State University, Los Angeles, found a correlation between yoga participation and better classroom behavior and grades.

It's true that the data - collection demands imposed by participation in such a study can detract from valuable instruction.