Sentences with phrase «which academic groups»

The next step was to search the scientific literature to find out which academic groups were studying similar approaches to treatment for the same indications.

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The long - term vision is a country in which citizens, specialists, professionals, academics, community groups and even businesses can work together, developing innovative information access and visualization tools, better decision - making models, and more tools responsive to the needs of the citizens.

The variety ranges from cases in which faculty elect some members of the board of trustees from among their number, to cases in which faculty as a group is formally charged with certain responsibilities (say, nominating new faculty, or establishing policies governing the academic program of the school), to cases in which faculty effectively have neither responsibility, authority, nor power in the school's polity.

In the academic scene in the United States, the second group, which in this typology may appear to be extreme, is in fact the mediating one.

The university holds no secular academic accreditations, though the school has a number of accreditations from groups which accredit Christian schools.

Separate schools established along ostensibly functional lines (for example, «technical» and «academic») may turn out really to be social class schools which by totally segregating one group from the other accentuate social class cleavages.

The real danger comes from a much larger group of persons who believe that Notre Dame can strive for ever - higher standards of academic excellence — and use the same criteria of excellence by which the best secular universities in the land are judged to be excellent — without forfeiting the Catholic character of the University.

If such relatively affluent communities do in fact attempt to move beyond their technically and psychologically sophisticated understandings of themselves to tell their household stories, they will encounter there the narrative of groups deprived of technical and academic sophistication who have little but story by which to understand and modify their corporate existence.

It is an abstraction, the frame of reference of which, I have noticed in reading some of the literature, changes depending on who uses it, what intellectual tendencies he or she represents, what academic discipline he or she comes from, and specially what political persuasion, inclination or group he or she belongs to.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general election).

Also on Tuesday, Police Commissioner James O'Neill said the NYPD will form a 30 - day working group to address marijuana - related issues, which will consult several experts, including the Mayor's Office of Criminal Justice, advocacy organizations, those involved in academics, and attorneys.

Throughout the collection, we were keen to showcase the different parts of the UN system, not just its structures and programmes, but also the various actors who make up what is often lazily referred to as «the UN»: member states, staff and the host of groups — NGOs, academics, private sector companies, foundations, regional organisations, etc. — with which it works.

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

The decision, which has drawn protests from different groups and civil societies, has generated controversies within the academic circle.

The group, which now has more than 100 members (including Hatzikirou), was officially launched in June 2016 after an initial meeting of seven Greek researchers and academics, including scientists as well as legal scholars, economists, and strategic communication specialists.

The lack of detail about the criteria to be used in selecting which visa applicants would be subject to enhanced screening was particularly troublesome to the scientific and academic groups.

The tactic helped Balch draw a clear line between any intellectual property (IP) that might emerge from his academic research group, which would belong to Georgia Tech, and that possibly emanating from his financial work and owned by Lucena.

Still, an academic career will involve interacting with people, particularly if you progress into holding a lectureship — in which you'd be involved in teaching and departmental administration — or into running your own research group — where you would direct the work of students and postdoctoral researchers.

Three common misconceptions often get in the way, however, of creating work or academic settings in which individuals from underrepresented groups feel comfortable enough to engage productively and to remain committed to the enterprise.

Pentland participates in a group called id3, which brings together government officials, academics, and industry representatives to establish guidelines for such networks.

Elsevier Science, Nature Publishing Group (a sister company to Scientific American, which is not a peer - reviewed journal), Cell Press and Academic Press declined interview requests, and Springer Verlag, as well as Allen Press, did not return phone calls.

The UW On - Ramps workshops aimed to broaden the universe of women from which universities can hire — and ultimately to change the culture of STEM departments and make them more welcoming to underrepresented groups — by helping highly qualified women with nonacademic career trajectories navigate the transition to academic employment.

The academics surveyed a total of 238 people in two studies using traditional measures of risk and new questions which included more activities which were rated as feminine by a group of 99 men and women.

«I'm disappointed,» says Heather Joseph, executive director of the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a Washington, D.C. — based group which represents academic liAcademic Resources Coalition (SPARC), a Washington, D.C. — based group which represents academic liacademic libraries.

On the research applications front, Dr. Chia Tet Fatt, a young scientist from the Natural Sciences Academic Group at the National Institute of Education, revealed Singapore's very first genetically modified organism (GMO)-- a transgenic resveratrol producing red lettuce for the prevention of cancer and cardiovascular diseases — which was developed by introducing the stilbene synthase gene into a red plant and diverting the precursors into resveratrol synthesis.

The study effectively compared the academic performance of all four groups according to results of a general test of academic performance which all ninth grade students in Denmark (at age 15 - 16 years) complete.

The team, which also included academics from Essex University, York University and University College London, looked at a group of 9,500 white children born in 2000 and 2001, included in a project called the Millennium Cohort Study.

EuroStemCell, in partnership with the Future Science Group MEDLINE - indexed journal Regenerative Medicine, have launched a digital platform which provides free - to - access summaries of hot - topic articles from leading international academics published in the journal's recent two - part Special Focus Issue entitled, «Regenerative Medicine in Society: Interdisciplinary Perspectives».

The group is part of the Astronomy Unit, which has 19 academic staff and a dynamic postdoc / student community, with around 15 - 20 students at any one time.

The Industry Partnership Group is a working group set up by the BSI to identify ways in which immunology can benefit from a stronger academic interface and develop pragmatic recommendations which will influence government and partners, and create networking opportunities to foster more collaboraGroup is a working group set up by the BSI to identify ways in which immunology can benefit from a stronger academic interface and develop pragmatic recommendations which will influence government and partners, and create networking opportunities to foster more collaboragroup set up by the BSI to identify ways in which immunology can benefit from a stronger academic interface and develop pragmatic recommendations which will influence government and partners, and create networking opportunities to foster more collaboration.

In 1996, in response to these concerns, Varmus, then director of NIH, impaneled a group of experienced clinical investigators and academic health center administrators to make recommendations that might guide the NIH toward policy changes to alleviate the concerns in the clinical research community.14 Several of the panel's recommendations have been implemented, including increased support of the General Clinical Research Center budget, expanded support of training in clinical research, and the establishment of NIH - sponsored educational debt relief programs for clinical investigators.15 - 18 The panel also recommended restructuring of NIH peer review groups so that patient - oriented grant applications would be evaluated by study sections in which at least half the grant applications involve patient - oriented research.

Students who practiced the Transcendental Meditation program showed significant increases in math and English scale scores and performance level scores over a one - year period.A significant portion of the meditating students — 41 percent — showed a gain of at least one performance level in math, compared to 15 percent of the non-meditating students in the control group.Among the students with the lowest levels of academic performance, «below basic» and «far below basic,» the meditating students showed a significant improvement in overall academic achievement compared to students in the control group, which showed only a slight gain.

It is a field enriched by active discussion group lists like Kinema Club (6) which reach out for numerous motivated students of Japanese cinema worldwide, and, no less importantly, by the fact that there are more academic positions held by Japanese film specialists than ever before.

Watson is one of the first donors to the fund, which was set up by the 190 women who signed the open letter, along with a group of 160 academics, activists and charity workers.

Sri Lanka's National Institute of Education, is honoured for its «Open School Programme», which addresses the learning needs of disadvantaged groups and offers an alternative route for out - of - school youth and adults to resume academic or technical and vocational training.

Based on these statements, we can categorize the schools roughly into five groups: those that have a child - centered or progressive educational philosophy and typically seek to develop students» love of learning, respect for others, and creativity (29 percent of students); those with a general or traditional educational mission and a focus on students» core skills (28 percent of students); those with a rigorous academic emphasis, which have mission statements that focus almost exclusively on academic goals such as excelling in school and going to college (25 percent of students); those that target a particular population of students, such as low - income students, special needs students, likely dropouts, male students, and female students (11 percent of students); and those in which a certain aspect of the curriculum, such as science or the arts, is paramount (7 percent of students).

Even as school systems redrew their boundaries, fired black teachers and principals, and tore up foundational enrollment structures to comply with desegregation orders, they largely ignored Coleman's earlier research on motivation and academic achievement, which found that competition «has a magic ability to create a strong group goal.»

An interview published this week with NPR asks education professor Diane Schanzenbach of Northwestern University about her motivation to gather the research on academic redshirting in her recent article for Education Next «Is Your Child Ready for Kindergarten: «Redshirting» may do more harm than good,» which challenges Malcolm Gladwell's assertion that being among the oldest in one's peer group is always an advantage.

The piece I wrote illustrated the power of personalized learning powered by blended learning, which addresses the call by a group of business and academic leaders in their recent «Open Letter on the Digital Economy» and a corresponding piece that contained a set of public policy recommendations to «redesign how we deliver education at all levels using the power of digital technologies.»

When I was in I think it was Narrabri, I was in a consultation group there where what seemed to be very much alive and well was a very substantial and significant in - school professional development program — I think it was in a cluster of schools — a strong partnership between a regional university, some really good academics had done very appropriate and relevant research, and a school which was committed to that, to teacher development, and had made it a priority in a very targeted way.

Cincinnati — An Ohio citizen's group that studies school policies has recommended that the state — which was the first to mandate that every public high school offer vocational training — restructure its vocational programs to place more emphasis on academics and promote closer links between schools and the employers for whom vocational students are preparing.

Central to the new approach is the notion that this group of young people are turned off by traditional academic education with a focus on pathways into higher education and that these young people need to be energised by a different approach to education which sees the world of work at its core.

The group wanted to accomplish two things: improve academic achievement and reinvigorate arts education, which had begun to slip — most glaringly in schools with sizable poor and minority populations.

The hope is that this in turn will lead to schools providing more learning outside the classroom opportunities, as group leaders and parents can be more confident that school trips are safe; leading to better educational experiences, which are vital to the development and academic achievement of students.

If you're passionate about making a change and would like to take part in field studies in schools, or have access to education or academic establishments which would be willing to participate in further research, please contact the group to help collate existing research.

(d) other direct student services which may include, but need not be limited to, responsive services, crisis response, group counseling, individual counseling, appraisal, assessment and advisement, for the purpose of enabling students to benefit from the curriculum, assisting students to develop and implement postsecondary education and career plans, assisting students who exhibit attendance, academic, behavioral or adjustment concerns and encouraging parental involvement.

Unlike the former Academic Performance Index (API), which was based solely on testing results, this new accountability system uses multiple measures to determine performance and progress and emphasizes equity by focusing on student group performance.

These two groups of students are nearly identical in terms of academic skills and other characteristics, but differ in the extent to which they were exposed to this new approach to algebra.

A bipartisan group of governors and state school officials created the Common Core in 2010 as a way to inject some consistency in academic standards, which have varied wildly from state to state.