Sentences with phrase «who studies assessment»

But Polikoff, who studies assessment and accountability, says Duncan has a point.

Not exact matches

Leahy agrees: Personality assessments conducted as part of the Texas A&M University study found that people who are more risk averse and who have more self control were more apt to choose and be successful with the snowball method.

This odd coupling of open - eyed risk assessment and a willingness to dare anyway is a hallmark of great CEOs, according to Robert Scoble, who studies CEOs for Rackspace.

The study is patient - funded; participants, who range in age from late 30s through 80s, must pay $ 8,000 to take part, and live in or travel to Monterey for treatments and follow - up assessments.

What seems like a harmless and innovative assessment of basic income could end up being an economic Tuskegee, scarring the people who came to rely on the basic income offered during the study.

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

It's conclusions about safety of cytotec use for induction of full - term labor: «There was no difference in serious neonatal or maternal mortality between women receiving misoprostol and women who received prostaglandin E2 or oxytocin; however, most studies were underpowered for this assessment.»

In one study, parents who were shown what to look for more accurately diagnosed the TBS levels in their babies than doctors or nurses relying on visual assessment alone.

The co-authors of the study are Mollie Galloway of Lewis and Clark College, an assistant professor who is the director of research and assessment for the graduate school of education; Denise Pope, a senior lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Education; and Jerusha Conner, an assistant professor of education at Villanova University.

Comparison 2 All forms of support versus usual care: SUBGROUP ANALYSIS - who delivered the intervention, Outcome 2 Stopping exclusive breastfeeding before last study assessment.

The 4 +1 option would apply beginning with students who first entered ninth grade in or after September 2011 and thereafter or who are otherwise eligible to receive a high school diploma in June 2015 and thereafter and have passed four required Regents exams (or Department - approved alternative assessments) in English, mathematics, science and social studies.

Despite study limitations (e.g., low response rate, absence of physical assessment of respondents), Dr. Yosipovitch says the results are important for dermatologists who treat undergraduate - aged patients.

Bruce Collette, who studies ocean fish at the National Marine Fisheries Service Systematics Laboratory in Washington DC, and his colleagues conducted the first global assessment of the scrombids and billfish, groups of fish that include some of the species with the highest value as seafood, such as tuna and marlin, as well as staples such as mackerel.

The predictor that emerged as most powerful in both the UNC study and the UC San Francisco analysis was letters of recommendation from applicants» undergraduate teachers — in other words, subjective assessments from people who presumably knew both them and their subjects well.

For example, in a 2008 study psychologist Kelley Drummond and her colleagues interviewed 25 adult women who were referred by their parents for assessment at a mental health clinic when they were between three and 12 years old.

And we have done many validation studies where we compared our diet assessments to biochemical measures, say of, tansfat in the fat tissue of a person or the level of beta - carotene in the blood, and we found pretty good correlations — not perfect but they are pretty good — and that means that we are able to pick up meaningful differences in people, among people that we can tell someone who is eating a large amount of transfat from a person eating low amount of transfat.

«If we had just done traditional risk factor assessments, we would have missed each one of those firefighters who we discovered were at risk for a cardiovascular event,» says study leader Elizabeth V. Ratchford, M.D., an assistant professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Vascular Medicine.

This research suggests that exercising schizophrenic patients» awareness of themselves and their surroundings could improve their assessments of control, says cognitive neuropsychologist Sohee Park of Vanderbilt University, who did not take part in either study.

As part of the Concord Health and Ageing Project (CHAMP) in Sydney, the research included 1,318 men ages 70 and older who had health assessments when they entered the study from 2005 to 2007, and again two years later.

Researchers [Tyler Owens, Mark Allen and Diane Spangler, Personality and Individual Differences, http://bit.ly/aCnszw] at Brigham Young University studied women who seemed to have no major body image issues, based on a standard psychological assessment.

When the results of the first and the last assessments were compared for people who continued in the study through the entire follow - up, the results were almost identical suggesting hardly any decline in mobility.

«These are the best - done and largest assessments of how the microbiome may influence therapeutic outcome» from those drugs, says immunotherapy researcher Jeffrey Weber of New York University in New York City, who was not involved in the studies.

«It's far worse if people in need of a treatment lose the treatment because of a poor risk assessment that overestimates something that's a small risk to the environment,» said Frederick Bouder, a research associate at the King's Centre for Risk Management at King's College London who studied regulation of pharmaceuticals in the environment in the United States and Europe.

«Risk assessments have been built on the basis that light exposure is enough to break down these products,» adds Laura Vandenberg, an endocrinologist at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst who was not involved in the study.

Also, the new mortality estimates, while dramatically higher than the approximately 150,000 annual deaths attributed to climate change stress in WHO's last assessment in 2004, are not directly comparable to earlier studies, which relied on different models and different underlying scenarios.

The primary outcome measured for the study was cognitive deterioration among patients who completed assessments at study entry and 3 months.

«This study's findings offer important information regarding the risk - benefit assessment for men with testosterone deficiency who are considering treatment.»

Our new study is a pilot but it suggests that ultimately doctors might be able to use our pattern recognition software, alongside existing methods, in order to make more accurate assessments about who is most at risk and treat them accordingly.

«We have focused efforts for children who are deaf or hard of hearing on obtaining a language level that is often considered in the normal or average range on standardized assessments,» says Jareen Meinzen - Derr, PhD, an epidemiologist at Cincinnati Children's and lead author of a new study.

The study was designed as a preliminary assessment of the program's effectiveness in reducing overdose deaths among recently incarcerated people, meaning those who had been incarcerated within a year of their deaths.

«Everyone's working on risk assessment in route planning,» says Alex Bayen, an engineer at the University of California at Berkeley who studies traffic flow.

«Our assessment of the current water situation [in California] is bleak,» says Ellen Hanak, a PPIC economist, who co-authored the study.

Imaging of the coronary arteries with computed tomography (CT) angiography provides an accurate assessment of arterial plaque and could have a dramatic impact on the management of diabetic patients who face a high risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events, according to a new multicenter study published online in the journal Radiology.

That range reflects differences in diagnostic criteria and potential factors like the timing of the assessment, says Nicholas Tritos, a neuroendocrinologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who is studying such disorders among both civilian and military populations.

«I don't know of any studies that look at both active and former athletes with the type of breadth of assessment that is going on in the fighters study,» said Robert Stern, a clinical neuroscientist who oversees clinical research at Boston University's CTE Center and who is not involved in the fighters study.

In a 7 - year study at a Boston elementary school where half the students are English Language Learners (ELL), setting a school - wide goal of improved writing skills and using a genres - based instructional method improved the performance of ELL students on state and internal assessments, according to Boston College Lynch School of Education Professor Maria E. Brisk, who presents her findings today at the American Educational Research Association annual meeting.

So while material needs matter, self - assessments about being «savers» or «spenders» do «a phenomenally good job of separating those who save from those who don't,» says Jonathan Parker, the MIT economist who authored the study.

The Commission recently launched the MEDFISH4EVER strategy to improve the state of Mediterranean fish stocks, which is obviously a step to the right direction,» said JRC researcher Paris Vasilakopoulos, co-author of the study, who contributed to the analysis of the Mediterranean fish stock assessment data.

In summary, the results of this study show the potential for functional MRI to bridge the dissociation that can occur between behavior that is readily observable during a standardized clinical assessment and the actual level of residual cognitive function after serious brain injury.14 - 16 Thus, among 23 patients who received a diagnosis of being in a vegetative state on admission, 4 were shown to be able to willfully modulate their brain activity through mental imagery; this fact is inconsistent with the behavioral diagnosis.

«While more research is needed regarding to idea of tanning as an addiction, this study suggests that some people who tan also experience mental health symptoms that warrant further assessment,» said Dr. Erin Bonar, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Michigan Addiction Research Center and a BGSU alumna.

According to the authors of the study, who hail from the Hemholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ), assessments of rainforest loss has focused primarily on deforestation itself, estimating how much carbon is dumped back into the atmosphere by measuring how much forest was cleared away.

We also performed a control study with 35 age and gender - matched healthy control participants (HC) who performed the assessments for 6 weeks.

For example, one study involved more than 500 people who underwent annual cognitive assessments.

Maynard, who is not an astrobiologist but a physicist, turned the attention of the room to studies on risk assessment, urging researchers to consider risk not as something to be avoided but rather as «a complex landscape to be moved through to reach goals.»

The study included 236,739 men born between 1952 and 1956 who underwent extensive physical and psychological examinations at around age 18 years as part of compulsory military conscription assessments.

If you'd like to take a slightly more official self - assessment, check out this quiz created by Dr. Elaine Aron, who began studying the innate temperament trait of high sensitivity back in 1991.

Every 3 years, the 3,759 individuals aged 65 and older who were involved in the study, had a cognitive assessment which tested things like basic math skills and memory.

If you are unsure of what type of posture you have or what is causing your poor posture visit a professional for an assessment, this could be a physical therapist or even a fitness professional who has studied postural alignment and corrective techniques.

«Not everyone reacts to coffee in the same way,» says Andrew Maynard, who studies risk assessment at Arizona State University.

Reference librarian and guest blogger Paige Alfonzo cites EMS (experience sampling study) as a foundation for using social media as a formative assessment tool for students who already live in that world.