Sentences with phrase «thousands of participants in»

Perhaps the filmmakers were simply highly - paid double agents for big oil and big coal trying to undercut the global effort of the similarly named 10-10-10 campaign kicking off on Oct. 10 (the 10:10 group is one of thousands of participants in the international climate «work party»).

Researchers recently enrolled thousands of participants in a study via their cellphones and checked in with them at random moments about their thoughts and feelings.

Not exact matches

A show might have tens of thousands of attendees trekking through the event but participants need to figure out who specifically they are targeting and how they plan on reeling them in.

Participants in such electronic meetings may be within the same office or building, or thousands of miles apart.

In New York, the weekend's festivities began on Friday with a PrideFest street fair at which orange bandannas were handed out to the thousands of participants.

Festival participants — of whom there are tens of thousands — dress in elaborate costumes and spend significant amounts of time and money preparing accommodations for their stay in the desert.

Employee advocacy programs involving one thousand active participants can generate the equivalent of $ 1.9 M in advertising value.

It raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to bring in participants for an interfaith conference on women and global poverty in April that featured former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former Canadian prime minister Kim Campbell and former Irish president Mary Robinson.

Pope Benedict XVI (R) caresses a lion cub as thousands of participants to the «Pilgrimage to Rome» festival - circus professionals, carnival people, street artists, madonnari (pavement artists), bands and folk groups — gather in Aula Paolo VI (Paul VI Audience Hall) in the Vatican on December 1, 2012 for their audience with the pope.

Pressed by dissatisfied participants, Watson allowed that workers in the Human Genome Project should not forget the possible abuses of eugenics, such as in the coerced sterilization of thousands in this country in the 1920s.

CNN: Utah gay pride parade draws hundreds of Mormon participants A gay pride parade in Mormon - heavy Salt Lake City drew thousands of participants, including a few hundred Mormons, whose church has been criticized by gay rights activists for its activism against same - sex marriage.

In grassroots programs involving tens of thousands of participants around the globe, visionaries are using athletics to tackle the most pressing problems of the developing world — from AIDS in Africa to violence in RiIn grassroots programs involving tens of thousands of participants around the globe, visionaries are using athletics to tackle the most pressing problems of the developing world — from AIDS in Africa to violence in Riin Africa to violence in Riin Rio.

Bird - a-thon has grown to become Mass Audubon's single largest annual fundraising event, attracting thousands of supporters and raising more than $ 2 million since the competition began in 1983 with a mere handful of participants.

Yes, last Saturday was the Great Cloth Diaper Change, when thousands of families all over the world took part in a mass effort to break the world record (set last year, at 5,026 participants) for the most cloth diapers changed at one time.

Thousands of passionate volunteers and participants in the United States, Canada and beyond have helped us raise the profile of the need for human milk for vulnerable infants.

Participants in boxing are at risk of serious neurologic and facial injuries.3, — , 7 Despite these potential dangers, thousands of boys and girls participate in boxing in North America.

On April 22, 2017, thousands of participants joined together to promote the use of cloth diapers at 179 registered GCDC events, located in 18 countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Finland, Great Britain, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, South Africa and the United States.

«On the heels of thousands joining NAN in Tallahassee, FL for a «stand your ground» rally, participants will address additional key policy issues such as jobs, voter ID and immigration; which will be key in this midterm election year...»

Participants appeared thrilled to be there, joining with hundreds of thousands of like - minded opponents of President Trump in cheering each other on.

More than 80 AAAS volunteers deployed jelly beans, Braille lettering and auditory illusions to creatively demonstrate the science of the five senses to thousands of curious participants at the 5th USA Science & Engineering Festival in Washington, D.C.

Since none of the participants in the [Manhattan Project] had ever experienced an explosion of the anticipated size of Trinity (radically underestimated in advance as the equivalent of four thousand to five thousand tons of TNT), Kenneth Bainbridge, to whom [J. Robert] Oppenheimer had delegated the testing procedure, opted to conduct a scale model of the forthcoming atomic test by detonating one hundred tons of TNT off a thirty - eight - foot - high tower....

Using an approach called a genome - wide association study, researchers scanned complete sets of DNA in thousands of participants, looking for small variations that appear more often in people with the disease than in healthy individuals.

Microbiome research project American Gut hit the big time in 2013, garnering major media attention and drawing in thousands of participants.

Waber and her colleagues at hospitals in five other cities screened thousands of children in order to get a sample that was representative of the diverse demographics of the U.S. Study participants could not have behavioral or cognitive abnormalities or any risk of developing a mental or neurological disorder.

«Beauty and the Beasts,» page 24 «The Face That Launched a Thousand Ships: The Mating - Warring Association in Men,» by Lei Chang and colleagues, in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, states that male participants primed by attractive faces or legs of young women were significantly faster in responding to images or words of war than those primed by unattractive faces or national flags.

In Brighton, UK, thousands of participants came out to recreate the Viking King Canute who, according to legend, made a futile attempt to command the sea and got a soaking as a result.

The research team collected thousands of air pollution measurements in the study participants» communities and at their homes.

One way to correct for the gaps the gold standard leaves in our knowledge is the «N of 1» trial, where the number of participants (N) is one instead of hundreds or thousands of volunteers.

The standard pharmaceutical development path for products that target pathogens moves slowly from studying safety, dosing, and biological responses in hundreds of people to an expensive efficacy trial with thousands of participants at high risk of becoming naturally infected.

While each consortium alone is currently working with thousands of participants — including people with Alzheimer's and those free of dementia — scientists in the four groups recognize that only by working together can they amass a large enough collection of participants to accelerate gene discovery.

«This well - conducted study was able to take advantage of comprehensive health and address records for hundreds of thousands of people in Denmark to determine how much lithium each participant was exposed to through the water supply.

But deCODE can track the parental origin of virtually any SNP in the genome of the tens of thousands of Icelandic participants in the company's gene discovery work.

The authors wish to thank the thousands of patients and control subjects who participated in this study, and acknowledge the assistance of national cancer registries that worked to identify potential participants.

To find variants involved in complex diseases, thousands of participants may be necessary — a logistical and financial demand often beyond the capacity of an individual research team.

A research study by the University of Eastern Finland that spanned more than 20 years and included thousands of study participants showed a reduction in life - threatening cardiac events among participants who regularly used a sauna.

27 Studies cited by the 2010 DGAC Report demonstrate varied metabolic responses to lowered dietary saturated fat, with certain subpopulations exhibiting adverse rather than improved health outcomes.3 Two recent comprehensive meta - analyses indicate that saturated fat is not linked to heart disease.28, 29 In fact, in a definitive review of forty - eight clinical trials, with over sixty - five thousand participants, the reduction or modification of dietary fat had no effect on mortality, cardiovascular mortality, heart attacks, stroke, cancer, or diabetes.30 Yet, avoiding saturated fat remains a cornerstone of national dietary guidancIn fact, in a definitive review of forty - eight clinical trials, with over sixty - five thousand participants, the reduction or modification of dietary fat had no effect on mortality, cardiovascular mortality, heart attacks, stroke, cancer, or diabetes.30 Yet, avoiding saturated fat remains a cornerstone of national dietary guidancin a definitive review of forty - eight clinical trials, with over sixty - five thousand participants, the reduction or modification of dietary fat had no effect on mortality, cardiovascular mortality, heart attacks, stroke, cancer, or diabetes.30 Yet, avoiding saturated fat remains a cornerstone of national dietary guidance.

On April 22, 2017, thousands of participants joined together to promote the use of cloth diapers at 179 registered GCDC events, located in 18 countries: Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Finland, Great Britain, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, Panama, the Philippines, Puerto Rico, Singapore, Spain, South Africa and the United States.

The finding that daily sodium intake below 3 grams significantly increased cardiovascular disease risk was supported by two subsequent studies that involved over one hundred thousand participants.3, 4 When those with and without hypertension were evaluated it was found that sodium intake of about 7 grams per day increased the cardiovascular risk of hypertensives but not in those without hypertension.3

Of those twenty - three participants half of them took four - thousand IUs of vitamin D in supplement form, and the other half took placebOf those twenty - three participants half of them took four - thousand IUs of vitamin D in supplement form, and the other half took placebof them took four - thousand IUs of vitamin D in supplement form, and the other half took placebof vitamin D in supplement form, and the other half took placebo.

If one can avoid the distraction of a thousand participants in «movieoke», however, and focus solely on the incredible leading performance and striking depiction of one man's developing insanity, Taxi Driver is well worth the effort.

Those are just a few of the comments from past participants in the Earth Day Groceries Project — a project that brings together thousands of kids «to celebrate Earth Day and increase environmental awareness.»

In our live events with thousands of educators over the years, our work on the impact of nutrition on the body - brain system is one of the components that participants tell us they most appreciate.

John and his team surveyed a nationally representative sample of two thousand students in grades 10 — 12, exploring such topics as participants» backgrounds and characteristics, school and classroom experiences, and overall educational preferences.

Among the thousands of participants who engaged in professional education at HGSE this past summer, new college presidents worked together to prepare for their roles as leaders of higher education institutions; scores of academic librarians met to discuss the challenges facing their ever - changing field; and over 100 early career principals developed leadership skills to better support teacher development and student achievement.

If a self - published writer pulls down seven to eight thousand sales in pre-orders, and the majority of trade industry participants have no idea who that writer is — let alone that she exists!

Only so - called authorized participants (typically, large institutional investors) actually buy or sell shares of an ETF directly from or to the fund manager, and then only in creation units, large blocks of tens of thousands of ETF shares, which are usually exchanged in - kind with baskets of the underlying securities.

As a participant in the #ASFGIVINGTUESDAY Campaign, we are calling on our community to help us continue to reduce the number of unwanted kittens, puppies, cats and dogs in our area, and save the lives of thousands of local homeless animals.

Since then it has only grown in size and popularity as the years have passed, bringing a few thousand participants nearer to tens of thousands.

Her past work has involved thousands of participants, sometimes entire communities — from a Harlem neighborhood to a mining town in Sicily — and is rooted in thinking through the meaningfulness of a given context, and for what reasons.

Thanks to a variety of exhibitions, ranging from venues of National M. K. Čiurlionis Art Museum, to mid-sided galleries, such as Kaunas Photography Gallery, Meno Parkas gallery, Post Gallery, smaller adapted venues and outdoor exhibitions, KAUNAS PHOTO festival is the most attended photographic event in Lithuania, comprising 200 - 300 participants per year's program and counting its audience by tens of thousands of local visitors.