Sentences with phrase «than programs designed»

He says that the budget crunch has contributed to his decisions on what to cut, and that his institute's priority should be to fund research proposed by investigators, rather than programs designed by the NIH.

Nothing will help you reach your goal quicker and easier than a program designed to meet your needs.

Responsive Classroom Responsive Classroom is a widely used, research - backed approach to elementary education that is a general approach to teaching, rather than a program designed to address a specific issue, and consists of a set of practices, such as morning meetings, that build academic and social - emotional competencies.

Not exact matches

This program was better designed than the current government program in three distinct ways:

When the research team used a specially designed computer program to evaluate the «brain age» of 50 meditators versus 50 non-meditators, it found «experienced meditators have brains that appear 7.5 years younger, on average, than non-meditators,» reports the British Psychological Society Research Digest blog.

Digitalundivided's FOCUS Fellow accelerator / incubator program has so far helped black and Latina founders raise more than $ 13 million in angel and venture financing, boosting to prominence a range of companies such as online design marketplace Zuvaa, food supply - chain data provider FoodTrace and postpartum - care developer Mahmee.

A «senior marketing manager» with 10 years of experience, an entrepreneurial background, and proficiency in both graphic design and basic programming is going to be worth more than a «senior marketing manager» with five years of experience and not much else on the table.

That program was designed to help insurers who set premiums too low, or had higher than expected claims, recover their losses.

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This a relatively new program designed to help low - income Americans build home equity faster than they would with a traditional 30 - year loan.

The program, which was first designed to address a shortage of skilled labour in Canada, brought 100,000 workers to Canada in 2002, to more than 330,000 in 2013, the C.D. Howe Institute report said.

Robert has taught executive programs for more than 20 years, including 12 years at Harvard's Graduate School of Design, 5 years for... Read more»

The Terminus Cloud for ABM, an invite - only partner program designed to provide marketers with a selection of web - based tools that support the execution of account - based marketing strategies at scale, has more than 35 vendors signed - on to the initiative.

If all programs are being designed to meet specific needs of specific people, it is logical to design the programs to meet small, achievable needs of a few people, rather than the vast, insurmountable needs of a few million people.

Most of us know better than to trust websites with black backgrounds, X-Files-green text and dancing alien head GIFs, but if a website or television program is slickly designed, we're inclined to believe it.

But these same people have no more expertise than others (and usually less) in designing practicable programs for political action.

As judicatory funding came under close scrutiny in the late»70s and early»80s, campus ministry staff and programs were good targets for cuts: clearly, it takes less staff time to refer and network than it does to design and implement creative ministry.

The new arrangement was designed as an experimental trial run whose consequences were to be evaluated after no fewer than nine and no more than 12 years, at which point the legislature had to decide whether to continue, alter or abolish the program.

In a catalog I recently edited of devices and instruments for congregational research, only a small minority of the hundred or so entries is designed to explore a congregation's narrative identity.20 Most doctor of ministry programs continue the tradition: perusal of the theses and essays these programs produce strongly suggests that projects that employ contextual, mechanist, or organicist methods are more likely to be accepted than those that delve into congregational culture and story.

«The most vulnerable children and women in hard - to - reach areas are often missed by existing interventions that can improve vitamin A status, including vitamin A supplementation, food fortification, dietary diversification, and promotion of optimal breast - feeding,» said Ms. Nancy Haselow, HKI vice president and regional director for Asia - Pacific, who has been designing, implementing, and testing vitamin A delivery programs for more than 20 years.

The Master of Wine program is designed to measure knowledge in a more academic form than the Master Sommelier.

Nominees in more than 50 categories in the Foundation's awards programs, including Restaurant and Chef, Restaurant Design, and Media will be announced.

There is no central program design theory other than to use exercises involving large muscle groups for maximal reps, weight, and speed.

A program designed for toddlers on the move and familes with more than 1 child.

She has received more than 40 grants from the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Institute on Drug Abuse to design prevention programs for children and families at high risk for HIV, mental health problems, suicide, and substance abuse.

In the early 1970's he was instrumental in the development of the organization's international Natural History Travel Program, one of the first of its kind in the world, designing and leading natural history explorations to more than 80 countries on all of the continents.

Legacy was designed as a model that allowed for the two sites to adapt the program to their communities rather than using a single prescribed, standardized program.

Some schools, like some gifted programs, are designed more for highly motivated high - achievers than for gifted children.

Programs designed for gifted children tend to present material at a faster pace and in more depth than is typical in the usual classroom.

They were designed to allow flexibility for state associations that collectively oversee the more than 15,000 high schools across the country that have football programs.

«A Better Me: Fit, Happy and Healthy Tracks Participants» Steps» More than 100 participants comprising teams from seven area agencies and the community - at - large will be taking part in a fitness program designed to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved women and girls, Oneida County Health... Read more

More than 30 law enforcement professionals from five counties are attending a three - day training session in Albany this week, participants in a unique initiative: a law - enforcement training program that analyzes how the design of buildings and public spaces can contribute to crime reduction and improve quality of life.

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, who heads the 64 - campus SUNY system, set the bar high last year when she outlined goals and strategies designed to move the system to the head of the educational pack: the crown jewel of 2013's address was the three - year program to graduate students faster than the traditional four years of study...

Oneida County Executive Anthony J. Picente, Jr. today announced that more than 500 Oneida County teen - agers will participate in a Work Readiness Day of activities designed to help them get the most out of their Summer Youth Employment Program work experience.

«A Better Me: Fit, Happy and Healthy Tracks Participants» Steps» More than 100 participants comprising teams from seven area agencies and the community - at - large will be taking part in a fitness program designed to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved women and girls, Oneida County Health Department officials announced today.

Community Walking Project Gets Underway «A Better Me: Fit, Happy and Healthy Tracks Participants» Steps» More than 100 participants comprising teams from seven area agencies and the community - at - large will be taking part in a fitness program designed to reduce health disparities among minority and underserved women and girls, Oneida County Health Department officials announced today.

Howie Hawkins, the Green Party candidate for Governor, said at the parade that «we must demand more than our present ineffective medical marijuana program which seems primarily designed to enrich a few well - connected business people.

«We must demand more than our present ineffective medical marijuana program which seems primarily designed to enrich a few well - connected business people.

Researchers surveyed 66 head soccer and basketball coaches from 15 Oregon high schools and found that only 21 percent of the coaches were using an injury prevention program, and less than 10 percent were using the program exactly as designed, said the study's lead author, Marc Norcross, an assistant professor of exercise and sport science in OSU's College of Public Health and Human Sciences.

JSPS also has a number of fellowship programs that are designed to engage international scholars at all levels in their careers, while JST offers a cofunding program in cooperation with more than 20 counterpart foreign funding organizations in order to promote bilateral and multilateral research collaboration.

So far, more than 30,000 students have had the experience of designing experiments for microgravity through the SSEP program, which is part of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education (NCESSE) in the U.S. and the Arthur C. Clarke Institute for Space Education internationally.

In other words, rather than combing through thousands of molecules seeded in thousands of bacterial cultures, a scientist may one day be able to design RNA with software akin to computer - aided drafting programs used by engineers and architects.

GPUs, originally designed for rendering highly sophisticated video game graphics, can now be programmed to process information between 10 and 20 times faster than CPUs.

The authors noted that original SAI guidelines gave community colleges incentive to expand short - term certificate programs, which are designed to be completed in less than one year, even though it was not one of the primary goals of the state's policy.

She suggests that inappropriately designed fitness programs and services put users at increased risk of injury and adverse health outcomes rather than providing them with the tools to build a healthy lifestyle.

The researchers used data from a five - year study that examined the negative consequences of students changing schools for reasons other than grade promotion and the impact of an outreach program designed to enhance relationships between families and school personnel.

More than 10,000 people participate in NHANES, a program of studies designed to assess the health and nutritional status of adults and children in the United States.

More than simply playing video games, Quest to Learn students also study game design using Gamestar Mechanic and other computer programs.

Design a postdoctoral program that allows you to work both in academic and industrial settings — even if it means that you have more than one PI and really confusing funding.

It is also the world's only quantum computer that can be programmed online by users, rather than exclusively by scientists in the lab — a fact that allowed Monroe's team to design the experiment.