Sentences with phrase «subject of a study from»

Recently, the NYT reported that such screens were already subject of a study from 2004 showing anomalously high returns between 1999 and 2002.

Not exact matches

A study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine found that the more time subjects spent sitting during the day, the greater their chances of dying from all causes, including cancer and heart disease.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

The classic study from Anthony Bastardi of Stanford and Eldar Shafir of Princeton presented research subjects with scenarios in which they needed to choose between two alternatives.

It's a subject most of us could benefit from studying up on, but in an interview Vanderkam explained that when it comes to thinking about personal finances in a constructive way, entrepreneurs generally have a leg up over salaried workers.

After dosing study subjects with approximately the amount of tryptophan you'd get from a turkey dinner, the researchers paired up participants and asked them to play a simple game involving dividing a small pot of money.

PsyBlog recently rounded up a long list of them culled from a journal article on the subject (though the post notes that some of these ideas are only supported by preliminary studies and require more research).

To figure out what can relieve our sense of time pressure, Norton conducted a series of experiments that gave some study subjects an unexpected block of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.

Helpfully, University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign professor Brian Ogolsky has waded through more than 1,000 studies from 50 years of research on the subject, so you don't have to.

The question of whether shareholders benefit from such activism beyond an initial bump in stock price is likely to remain unresolved, given the methodological problems plaguing studies on the subject.

From what I remember, in the second stage of study, they «pushed» the subjects to be «critical».

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archaeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archaeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archaeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

Debby Applegate, who holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale, is well qualified to tell the story of Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), having spent nearly two decades researching and writing on her subject.

Most important, though lacking theoretical self - consciousness, I nevertheless acted as a theological subject attempting to rethink theological constructions from the marginal location of a «lay» woman engaged in the study of theology.

Criteria will be available for distinguishing essential from nonessential subjects of study and for wisely apportioning available resources of time and talent.

If the goal that makes a school «theological» is to understand God more truly, and if such understanding comes only indirectly through disciplined study of other «subject matters,» and if study of those subject matters leads to truer understanding of God only insofar as they comprise the Christian thing in their interconnectedness and not in isolation from one another, then clearly it is critically important to study them as elements of the Christian thing construed in some particular, concrete way.

All of the disciplines actually employed in the study of various subject matters in a theological school are also used in a variety of types of schooling that do not claim to be and are far from being theological.

They come from a variety of church backgrounds, from Pentecostal to Roman Catholic, and are studying different subjects at university or college.

Queen Victoria, the Empress of India among many other things, was eight years from her death, but it was evident that Indians were no longer, could no longer be, simply colonial subjects: Gandhi was arriving in South Africa after completing his studies in London, and Indian independence, which stands as the very paradigm of the end of empire, was only a little more than fifty years in the future.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

The great interest of the study arises from the fact that, as the years went by, the researchers noticed that many of the children they had identified as «at high risk» (i.e., children subject to four or more serious disadvantages) were able to lead satisfying and socially productive lives as adults.

(iii) you are a complete blowhard who has never studied one subject of university level biology, never been on an archeological dig, never studied a thing about paleontology, geology, astronomy, linguistics or archeology, but feel perfectly sure that you know more than the best biologists, archeologists, paleontologists, doctors, astronomers botanists and linguists in the World because your mommy and daddy taught you some comforting stories from Bronze Age Palestine as a child.

Both of them are now believers, which is their choice as adults, but they fully understand my position on religions and we sometimes have some wonderful discussions on the subject, but I usually just get them confused because I know so much more about the Christian faith than they do because I have studied it from a secular point of view.

Implicitly the study moves to counter the three sorts of change in Schleiermacher's model of a wissenschaftlich «professional» school that we found in the Kelly and May - Brown studies: the abandonment of a specifically theological account of the subject matter of the Wissenschaft; the individualistic and functionalist understanding of «professional»»; and a separation of Wissenschaft from professional training that leaves both incapable of internal critique of ideological differences.

Is there nothing about the subject matter of classical speculation that distinguishes it from the study of philosophy today?

Most studies displayed faults ranging from lack of control groups to use of biased and unreliable measuring instruments to the use of subjects who were either self - selected or selected by abortion clinic personnel.

While the bulk of evidence indicates that Plan B does not have an abortion - inducing effect, and that it functions by preventing fertilization from occurring (and is ineffective if it has already taken place), the fact that its mode of action has been the subject of multiple studies could be taken as an indication that the question is not extremely far - fetched.

Such institutions can be very large, and the subjects they offer may include all branches of Islamic theology from elementary Qur» an recital up to the three constituents of Islamic science — law, creed, and Sufism — as well as the accessory sciences such as instruction in the correct way to recite the Qur» an, Arabic grammar, exegesis of the Qur» an, and the study of the Hadith.

He was also full of affection and when Brother Gerard died said «You have my thanks, dear brother, for any good that may come from my own studies of divine subjects.

In all studies, analyses with glucose AUCi, insulin AUCi, measured meal GI and GL, and II values, with the exclusion of a possible outlier (which was defined as any data point beyond 2 SDs from the mean value), did not alter results, and therefore, the data for all subjects who completed all interventions are reported.

Tara received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Environmental Studies from Sonoma State University and a California Multiple Subject Teaching Credential from Chapman University.

They welcome students from all ability levels who can study a range of subjects, from Key Stage 3 through to A-levels.

Students have the chance to study each subject thoroughly and from a number of vantage points, which contributes to their enjoyment — and their understanding — of the subject matter.

... will examine the subject of maternal empowerment from the perspective of both scholarship and activism, drawing from and building upon Motherhood Studies research and the activism of the 21st century Motherhood Movement.

A subsequent study from the United Kingdom included additional subjects and additional follow - up assessments at 18 and 30 months.9, 10 Adjusted risk estimates revealed that the risk of ear infections at 18 and 30 months was related to infant sleeping position at age 1 month.

Potential subjects for the breastfeeding study were selected from an existing prospective cohort of fluoxetine - exposed pregnant women who previously had been enrolled in the California Teratogen Information Service (CTIS) pregnancy outcome study.

We hypothesized that: (a) detection of HR by auscultation or palpation will vary by more than 15 BPM from actual HR; and (b) the inability to accurately determine HR will be associated with errors in management of the neonate during simulated resuscitation.Using a prospective, randomized, controlled study design, 64 subjects participated in three simulated neonatal resuscitation scenarios.

The aim of this study was to evaluate adherence to the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm by subjects working from memory as compared to subjects using a decision support tool that provides auditory and visual prompts to guide implementation of the Neonatal Resuscitation Program algorithm during simulated neonatal resuscitation.Healthcare professionals (physicians, nurse practitioners, obstetrical / neonatal nurses) with a current NRP card were randomized to the control or intervention group and performed three simulated neonatal resuscitations.

Firstly, we filled out the questionnaire designed for mothers who had delivered at the maternity, subject of the study, following a face - to - face interview with participants from both groups at the delivery place.

In numerous lab studies, subjects who were awakened from the first stage of sleep often denied that they were asleep at all (Dement and Vaughan 1999).

This block can be used to cover a variety of subjects from science to writing to art and social studies.

A study by the Harvard School of Public Health published earlier this month found that subjects who drank liquids from plastic bottles containing BPA had a 69 percent increase in the BPA in their urine.

The authors conducted a systematic review of published studies from which estimates of a mean difference (standard error) in blood pressure between breastfed and bottle - fed subjects could be derived.

In total, we were able to extract mean differences in total cholesterol between those breastfed and formula - fed from all 17 eligible studies (representing 17 498 subjects); of these differences, 13 were based on the response of individual authors (11 703 subjects), whereas 4 were obtained from the published literature (Figure 1 and Table 1 for both).

Although the restriction of analysis to exclusive feeding groups resulted in the omission from analysis of more than half of the studies (10 of 17, 14 388 of 17 498 subjects), the effects observed were homogenous and based largely on contemporaneous ascertainment of exposure (either from birth records at the time of feeding or by maternal recall within 6 y after birth).

Although data were obtained directly from the first author for one of these studies (10), the other smaller study (with 109 control subjects) was excluded from the meta - analysis (20).

«The digital library will provide a repository of contents which include 2,000 study aids on core subjects from primary to senior secondary school curriculum, over 1,600 tutorials, instructional videos and selected e-books for primary to SS3 approved texts, brief history of Lagos State, online forum, podcasts and exam - mate (A Test Resource).

In closing, remember that this new interviewing style differs from the «normal» interview much like the difference between two types of tests — a test on an academic subject you have studied and a generalized intelligence test like an IQ test.

This interdisciplinary project convened a working group consisting of subject matter experts in archaeology, anthropology, and other allied fields; specialists in conflict studies from political science, geography, and sociology; and methodological experts from the data sciences.