Sentences with phrase «systematic studies by»

Global knowledge assessments such as those undertaken by the IPCC call for carefully documented systematic studies by trained ethnographers.

«Teacher Inquiry», also referred to as «Action Research», is defined as a systematic study by teachers of their own practice.

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A study of the results of separating the chair and CEO roles in Swiss companies by professors Markus M. Schmid and Heinz Zimmermann from the University of Basel reached similar conclusions: «We find no evidence of a systematic and significant difference in valuation between firms with combined and firms with separated functions.»

Understanding of the teaching - learning process can be enhanced by systematic study of Nathaniel Cantor's volumes, Dynamics of Learning and The Teaching - Learning Process.

By focusing on «the religious practices of today's undergraduates,... and the extent to which the study and the practice of religion are made available to undergraduate students,» they offer a systematic report of each campus's ethos, inherent religious practices and religion courses.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

He is a sampling of their programs: systematic study of Dorothy Baruch New Ways in Discipline, (New York: McGraw - Hill Book Company, 1949) a mental health film entitled «Angry Boy,» a talk by a pediatrician, a trip with their children to a zoo, a talk by the minister on «Handling a Child's Fear of Death,» an a panel of members on «Sex Education of Young Children.»

Two good examples of the confusion of philosophical and systematic concerns occur in a recent issue of Process Studies in articles by John B. Cobb, Jr. and David Lull.

Christian ethics is defined as the systematic study of the way of life set forth by Jesus Christ applied to the daily demands and decisions of human existence.

Modern Trends in World Religions, edited by Joseph M. Kitagawa, is not a systematic introduction to world religions but is useful as a general introduction for it is a collection of essays on current trends and problems in the study of world religions as seen by competent scholars who have been reflecting on the results of their research.

Since contemporary practices profoundly shape both historical retrievals and systematic articulations of Christian faith, studies in these branches of theology properly proceed by way of a prior movement of description.

They assume, and present their statements, as if they are backed up by systematic studies that prove that parents are not intelligent nor capable enough to take care of the sleep environment within which they «co-sleep» and that during sleep parents all become insensitive to their infants need, and are incapable of responding to their infants needs or conditions when scientific studies published in the best medical scientific journals contradict and refute their claims.

Olsen & Clausen: The first study listed, by Olsen and Clausen, was from 2012 and was published in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.

Leslie & Romano: The second study listed was a systematic review of nonhospital birth studies by Leslie and Romano, published in the Journal of Perinatal Education in 2007.

A third meta - analysis was published in 2007 by Ip et al. 31 The researchers combined socioeconomic status — adjusted ORs of only 3 studies that were determined by the systematic review conducted by Guise et al32 and published in 2005 to be of good or fair quality: the UK Childhood Cancer Study, 23 Shu et al, 20 and Dockerty et al. 19 Based on their analyses, they concluded that breastfeeding for more than 6 months was associated with a 20 % lower risk for ALL (OR, 0.8; 95 % CI, 0.71 - 0.91).

[iii] Changes in health in England, with analysis by English regions and areas of deprivation, 1990 — 2013: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2013 Lancet 2015; 386: 2257 — 74 Published Online September 15, 2015 http://thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736 (15) 00195 - 6.

We are startled to see that the new GCSE and AS and A level Religious Studies criteria, currently being consulted on by the Government, do not propose to allow for the systematic study of non-religious worldviews.

BY DYLAN SKRILOFF At a meeting of the Rockland County Legislature's Economic Development Committee on Wednesday, Rockland Commissioner of Planning and Public Transportation Thomas B. Vanderbeek said a study by Cambridge Systematics on the MTA Value Gap in Rockland County, shows that the county should seek to cooperate with neighboring Orange County in withdrawing -LSB-..BY DYLAN SKRILOFF At a meeting of the Rockland County Legislature's Economic Development Committee on Wednesday, Rockland Commissioner of Planning and Public Transportation Thomas B. Vanderbeek said a study by Cambridge Systematics on the MTA Value Gap in Rockland County, shows that the county should seek to cooperate with neighboring Orange County in withdrawing -LSB-..by Cambridge Systematics on the MTA Value Gap in Rockland County, shows that the county should seek to cooperate with neighboring Orange County in withdrawing -LSB-...]

In an accompanying editorial, Elliott Bennett - Guerrero, M.D., of the Duke Clinical Research Institute, Durham, N.C., comments on the results of the systematic review performed by the authors of this study.

To accurately test the hypothesis of a lower risk of recurrence with HRT, a new study led by investigators at Brigham and Women's Hospital published in European Urology Focus, performed a systematic review and meta - analysis, pooling available data, to assess whether an improved risk of recurrence could be demonstrated using HRT compared with CRT, in addition to assessing the relative impact of these two treatments on bladder and rectal function.

A recent study contains the first systematic review of 17 known cases where criminal behavior was preceded by the onset of a brain lesion.

That's one conclusion drawn by the authors of a new study published in Systematic Biology.

There have been many studies looking at the number of people affected by anxiety disorders and the groups that are at highest risk, and in an attempt to synthesise the various studies, researchers from the University of Cambridge's Institute of Public Health carried out a global review of systematic reviews.

Traditional molecular systematic studies have progressed by sequencing genes one by one, a time - and cost - intensive task that has limited the amount of data a researcher could feasibly obtain.

The study was carried out by the Vision Loss Expert Group, led by Professor Rupert Bourne of Anglia Ruskin University, and shows the prevalence and causes of vision loss in high income countries worldwide as well as other European nations in 2015, based on a systematic review of medical literature over the previous 25 years.

The study was dismissed by the APA task force on multiple grounds, and held as an example of the systematic scientific problems of SOCE today.

Until now, studies that challenged the existence of Planet Nine using the data available for these trans - Neptunian objects argued that there had been systematic errors linked to the orientations of the orbits (defined by three angles), due to the way in which the observations had been made.

What is unclear is whether that abundance reflects the frequency with which co-option occurs in nature or whether it is the result of ascertainment bias (systematic sampling errors introduced by how biologists study evo - devo).

Although some specific insect migrations have been extensively studied, the new work, by taking a more systematic and quantifiable approach, reveals just how common they are.

Called «Primary care factors and unscheduled secondary care: a series of systematic reviews», the report has been compiled by researchers from the University's Centre for Academic Primary Care who looked at evidence from studies around the world.

Budimirovic says the current study updated the 2013 recommendations by using a more systematic approach that classified existing outcome measures as either being able to detect shorter - term changes (measures in FXS placebo - controlled trials lasting less than 12 months) or longer - term changes (lasting longer than 12 months) changes and by grading the measures» quantitative properties using the COnsensus - based Standards for the selection of health Measurement Instruments (COSMIN) system, an initiative that aims to improve how health measurement tools are selected.

The study is the first Cochrane systematic review to focus on zinc as a means to prevent childhood death, including deaths caused by diarrhea, one of the biggest killers of under - fives.

In this study, the scientists analysed 35 frailty scores — identified by a systematic literature review — on their ability to predict mortality, cardiovascular disease and cancer.

Before this study, there had been no large ‐ scale, systematic longitudinal analysis of suicide in Greece, and suicide data were lumped by year, not month, making it harder to test the short ‐ term relationship between specific events and deaths.

A systematic review of studies from 2011 - 2016 led by Katherine Courtright, MD, MS, an instructor of Medicine in the division of Pulmonary, Allergy, and Critical Care and the Palliative and Advanced Illness Research (PAIR) Center at Penn, found that among more than 795,000 Americans who were part of 150 different studies, 63 percent had not completed any advance directive.

We address these questions by studying an animal that is capable of complex behavior and yet simple enough to allow systematic genetic manipulation of all parts of the neural circuitry.

Follow - up studies by George Gatewood (University of Pittsburgh) and John Hershey (also at the Sproul Observatory) found systematic errors in van de Kamp's work.

Lengthy and expensive reviews that are «methodologically robust» but unusable in practice often fail to inform, inspire, or influence.55 A recent systematic review of diabetes risk scores revealed that the authors of most studies were primarily concerned with the intellectual concept of improving the predictive value of the score but had given little or no thought to how their score might be used, by whom, or for what — nor what the implications would be for real people who would be designated «at risk» by the score.56

A parallel study was performed focusing on the exploration of amino acid residues of cyclic pentapeptides by systematic substitutions of various aromatic amino acid residues [62].

van Hecke O Neuropathic pain phenotyping by international consensus (NeuroPPIC) for genetic studies: a NeuPSIG systematic review, Delphi survey, and expert panel recommendations.

This study describes the identification of candidate functional ncRNAs from among the RIKEN mouse full - length cDNA collection, which contains 60,770 sequences, by using a systematic computational filtering approach.

Determining the true burden of typhoidal Salmonellae infections is hindered by lack of population - based studies and adequate laboratory diagnostics.The Strategic Typhoid alliance across Africa and Asia study takes a systematic approach to measuring the age - stratified burden of clinical and subclinical disease caused by typhoidal Salmonellae infections at three high - incidence urban sites in Africa and Asia.

The aim of the Deciphering Developmental Disorders (DDD) Study is to advance clinical genetic practice for children with developmental disorders by the systematic application of the latest microarray and sequencing methods while addressing the new ethical challenges raised.

Now, if he was a more experienced athlete, he would harness far more positive results in term of brain function, as shown by other studies that have used a more efficient systematic progression in the training routines, applied to subjects with intermediate or advanced levels of experience with training.

An epidemiological study of people in Northern Italy reported that vitamin C intake has «possible protective activity» against skin cancer202 and greater consumption of antioxidants was associated with less aggressive prostate cancer in the United States.203 A 2014 systematic review by Chinese researchers concluded that low doses of vitamins, specifically vitamins A, C and E, can significantly reduce the risk of stomach cancer.204

A systematic review of all the dietary trials showed that much of the benefits of a low carbohydrate approach faded by 1 year.In the follow up to the DIRECT study, it was found that by 12 months, weight had started to regain in all patients, including the low carbohydrate group.

They hypothesized that mind - body interventions reverse the expression of genes involved in inflammatory reactions caused by stress, and so they conducted a systematic review of 18 different studies that used gene expression analysis in mind - body interventions.

Now, another study delivered by the Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz delivers a study asserting that Carnitine, a compound found in red meats, appears to be cardioprotective in a systematic review — a finding that comes barely a week after a Nature Medicine study sounded an alarm about the heart risks of carnitine in the form of derivative TMAOs.

Studies linking omega - 3s to a wide range of other health improvements, including reducing risk of dementia, are inconclusive, and some of them have major flaws, according to a systematic review of the evidence by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality.

Design: A systematic review of the published literature through January 2015 was performed by using sensitive search strategies to identify randomized controlled clinical trials that evaluated the effects of fasting on either clinically relevant surrogate outcomes (e.g., weight, cholesterol) or actual clinical event endpoints [e.g., diabetes, coronary artery disease (CAD)-RSB- and any other studies that evaluated the effects of fasting on clinical event outcomes.