Sentences with phrase «various study groups»

There are also various study groups and outreach programs available within our growing community.

Not exact matches

With no time to convene focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and by reading various magazine studies.

The other group dedicated an hour a week to studying Kundalini yoga with breathing exercises, meditation and various poses.

Given the considerable number of background studies and the solid work of various groups such as the Jenkins Panel, the Mowat Centre for Policy Innovation, and the C.D. Howe Institute, CATA argues that it is time the Government considers and tables an action plan and commits to milestone deliverables in the 2012 Budget to foster an effective environment for successful commercialization of Canadian innovations.

There is no need to prove anything at this stage, but it is necessary to do more than cite press reports and various studies claiming that hedge funds, as a group, are risky and have underperformed.

During her undergraduate studies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, she joined various Christian fellowship groups and majored in Religious Studies and English Litestudies at the University of Colorado in Boulder, she joined various Christian fellowship groups and majored in Religious Studies and English LiteStudies and English Literature.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

The study of how persons and society choose resources which have alternative uses, to produce various commodities over time and distribute them for consumption now and in the future, among various people and groups in society.

Economics is the study of how men and society end up choosing, with or without the use of money, to employ scarce productive resources that could have alternative uses, to produce various commodities and distribute them for consumption, now or in the future, among various people and groups in society.

I have asked the following six questions to various Bible study groups and discipleship classes over the years.

In 1963 he resigned his professorship at Wisconsin and moved to LaJolla, California, where he was one of the founders of the Center for the Studies of the Person, a loose - knit training - research group of persons from various helping professions.

Moreover, the analytical aspects of the history of religions must depend on psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, philology, and hermeneutics in its study of various features of religions, such as scriptures, doctrines, cults, and social groupings.

There is a third group who hold that the history of religions does not take seriously enough the subjective elements involved in the study of various religions.

The Lisansky study compared the women outpatient clinic patients with a group of women alcoholics who had been committed to a state farm for various offenses.

The first thing people do around here is try to get them into the various programs of the church or pressure them into a Bible study group, or make it their mission to get the unbeliever saved.

The committee included an international group of academics with expertise in various aspects of food culture and gastronomy such as Joxe Mari Aizega, General Manager of Basque Culinary Center; Jorge Ruiz Carrascal, Professor of the Department of Food Science at the University of Copenhagen; Marta Miguel Castro, a Research Associate at the CIAL Institute of Research in Food Science, who studies how food components could prevent disorders such as diabetes and obesity; Melina Shannon Dipietro, executive director of Rene Redzepi's MAD project; and Dr F. Xavier Medina, author, social anthropologist and leading scholar of Food and Culture at the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona.

A review of studies evaluating various therapies utilized in rehabilitation from anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction surgery provides additional support for guidelines issued by a multi-center group of 20 clinicians in 2001 (dubbed the MOON guidelines), and establishes that most have a sound basis in science.

When you design a study where you want to compare various groups, you have to have pretty strict rules for who belongs in which group.

The Waldorf School of Princeton's comprehensive program begins with the observation of children and also may include child studies, consultations with parents as well as additional educators and / or specialists, various assessments, and individual and / or group lessons with other students.

The many studies about it were performed by various independent scientific groups and universities.

Classroom study was complemented by on - site instruction in which our group would practice guiding various stops within the sites we studied.

«It is untrue that non-religious people do less for charity; various studies and surveys have confirmed this and is insulting to hard - working secular charities and voluntary groups (which make up two thirds of the voluntary sector) to suggest otherwise.

But especially with further studies in older age groups, mesopic vision testing could be an important means of testing or screening of various conditions — especially for patients with conditions known to affect night vision.

The other dependent variable of the study, foregone medical care, also showed differences between various groups.

This hypothesis is supported by studies of comparative morphological and functional anatomy, which are based on the recognition of structural similarities between the basic body plans of the various animal groups.

Taking into consideration non-communicable diseases, numerous studies point out differences among the various migrant groups.

PaMZ's potential emerged from a study in which various permutations of its three constituent drugs, plus one newcomer, bedaquiline, were tested on sputum samples from groups of people with TB in Cape Town, South Africa.

Saxena's findings are corroborated by a recent study from the University of Iowa, involving a group of people who had suffered lesions in various parts of their brains as a result of strokes or other neurological diseases.

In the study, which included a series of laboratory experiments, field surveys and mathematical modeling, the presence of various species of dragonfly larvae reduced the infections in frogs caused by parasitic flatworms called trematodes, said Val Beasley, professor and head of the department of veterinary and biomedical sciences, Penn State, who worked with Rohr and whose research group collaborated with Lucinda Johnson, senior research associate and director of the Center for Water and the Environment, University of Minnesota Duluth, to complete the field study.

By studying the evolutionary relationship between the various species, the team found that vertical and circular pupils evolved several times in different groups of snakes, and that hunting behaviour was the strongest driver for pupil shape.

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.

The scientists studied the rib plates, so - calledcostals, of turtle shells and the ribs of various fossil and living vertebrate groups, including mammals, crocodiles and even dinosaurs.

To deal with this poverty of riches, Ioannidis proposes that researchers cooperate more to confirm one another's findings Toward that end, he and other genetics researchers two years ago established a network of research consortia now consisting of 26 groups, he says, each with a dozen to hundreds of members, for investigators studying various cancers, HIV, Parkinson's disease and other disorders.

In previous studies, the same group along with others had demonstrated that microRNAs (miRNAs) produced by eukaryotic cells and viruses are present in human blood in highly stable, cell - free forms and these so called circulating miRNAs can serve as non-invasive biomarkers for the early diagnosis of various diseases, including viral diseases.

They asked a nationally representative sample of over 1,800 Americans to say how much they agree with various statements, and compared their answers to a small group of experts — professors, polled at a psychology conference, who had been studying memory for more than 10 years.

In the current study, which was carried out in cooperation with various research groups and technology platforms at the Biozentrum, his team has now solved the structure of the «ready to fire» speargun.

This is the inaugural meeting for TESS, which is a first of its kind: uniting the various research groups that study the sun - Earth connection from explosions on the sun to their effects near our home planet and all the way out to the edges of the solar system - a research field collectively known as heliophysics.

The group of imaging specialists led by Prof. Michael Schäfers, Coordinator of the Cluster of Excellence, labelled the cells thus obtained with various fluorescent dyes in order to be able to study them in living organisms — initially with the optical method of fluorescence reflectance imaging.

An American team of researchers, led by Dr. Caroline S. Chaboo, University of Kansas, have studied the various substances and their sources used in different San groupings from Namibia and have their paper published in the open - access journal ZooKeys.

Led by Kulahci, the researchers studied the vocal interactions and grooming networks of various groups of ringtailed lemurs living at Duke University's Lemur Center and on St. Catherines Island in Georgia.

The study also found that race played a pivotal role in the high IMRs found in the south, but that various groups impacted states differently.

Although the study was designed to shed light on group performance in the context of army combat teams, the researchers believe these findings are relevant across various settings, including restaurants and retail stores, which employ a relatively high proportion of adolescents.

The study used combinations of locations and nut sequences on various groups of fox squirrels.

«We're looking forward to longer - term results to come in the next five years from various ongoing observational studies,» Dr. Arterburn said: The Utah Obesity Study, the Michigan Bariatric Surgery Collaborative, and large cohorts from Veterans Affairs health system and the HMO Research Network (including Group Health) and should yield important long - term information comparing the efficacy, safety, and costs of surgical and non-surgical care for severe obesity.

The material will enable researchers across the nation to do detailed genomic and other studies that can help parse more about how and why these cancers occur differently in various racial and ethnic groups.

The study was randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled, and enrolled 160 patients divided evenly into four groups, three receiving various doses of active drug and one receiving placebo.

Various types of meditation have been shown to improve well - being among different populations such as physicians and the general public.14, 15, 16 Preliminary evidence suggests that meditation - based interventions may slow cellular aging rates by increasing telomerase activity, but many such studies lacked an active control group.17, 18 Recent randomized trials in breast cancer suggest that long - term intensive meditation interventions might have positive effects on telomerase activity.

The specific goal of this international meeting is to bring together a diverse group of scientists studying various aspects of Hegdehog - Gli signalling.

Many groups have since studied this receptor in breast cancer, finding various levels of it, and various correlations to clinical parameters, however this has not led to any clinical advances.

The purpose of this review is to (1) summarize the current status of the field by highlighting key findings from studies using fMRI to examine task - related and intrinsic functional connectivity in individuals with ASD across various age groups, (2) reveal critical gaps in the literature which have led to an inconsistent characterization of functional connectivity in ASD, and (3) argue that a developmental perspective can help reconcile some extant contradictory findings, and is necessary for future progress in the field.