Sentences with phrase «thus less access»

This national effort includes a «Community Initiative» that calls for a focused, aggressive, multi-pronged approach in neighborhoods within select cities where for a variety of reasons there has been less consumer interest in — and thus less access to — bottled water, lower - calorie and smaller - portion beverage choices.

Not exact matches

Digital content tends to be lot less expensive thus, allowing lower - income students to get access to the same quality of learning material as other students.

There are substantial equity concerns with this forced feeding of technology - based testing, with substantial concerns that underserved populations such as English learners, students with disabilities, and socio - economic disadvantaged students having less access to technology and thus being at a disadvantage due to the premature forced technology - based testing protocol, thus widening the perceived achievement gap for these students.

Thus, while the federal government provides less than 10 percent of the national education budget, it can leverage that funding to ensure equitable access to a quality education for all children.

The disparity in access to AP programs across the interdistrict magnets could also play a role; the interdistrict schools with limited numbers of AP classes may have less of a school culture of taking AP, and thus engage less of the students in these predominantly black and Hispanic schools.

On Kobo it feels like the curated lists are overflowing with big name and big press titles simply because a staffer has easier access to them and knows it will take less effort to convince a reader to buy them (thus making Kobo money).

It is difficult to access the menisci and thus repairing a tear in the meniscus is problematic; furthermore, poor blood supply to the menisci also makes good healing less likely.

Thus, custody and access fights can become bottomless pits of time, money and such additional miseries as loss of productivity at work, more need for stress and depression related medical care, and less money to spend in the broader economy on, for example, new furniture for the kids's new bedrooms.

Thus it seems safe to say that a new journal like PLoS Biology would never have been able to achieve the highest Impact Factor in the field of biology after less than two years of publication, if it had not been open access.

Many trials used volunteers or people selected by referrers as willing to take part in parenting projects, thus excluding many disorganised, unmotivated, or disadvantaged families, who have the most antisocial children.2 A review of meta - analyses of published trials of psychological treatments for childhood disorders found that in university settings the effect size was large, from 0.71 to 0.84 SD.12 In contrast, a review of six studies of outcome in regular service clinics since 1950 showed no significant effects, 12 and a large trial offering unrestricted access to outpatient services found no improvement.13 Reasons suggested for the poor outcome in clinic cases include that they have more severe problems, come from more distressed families, and receive less empirically supported interventions from staff with heavier caseloads.