Word: research
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...result of a partnership announced yesterday between a Japanese business association and the Kennedy School of Government (KSG), students will have newfound access to premiere international business research...
Lecturer on Education Vicki A. Jacobs, who co-authored with Chall The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind (1990), said Chall constantly applied her research to her work with the literacy...
Until about a year ago, Chall continued to visit campus regularly to research, teach and write. About two weeks ago, she finished editing her final work, a retrospective on trends in reading education. It will be published in February...
...thought of giving birth is daunting enough without the prospect of major surgery. Well, expectant moms can take heart in recent research pointing toward an overall decline in use of the dreaded C-section. A federal study released Thursday found that the percent of C-sections fell from 22.8 percent in 1989 to 20.7 percent in 1996. That drop followed national concern that too many caesareans were being performed, especially for mothers giving birth again after an earlier C-section. However, there was a slight increase in the procedure in 1997 following research that found a risk to mothers delivering...
...section's ability to prevent brain hemorrhaging during birth, sometimes caused when a baby is stuck in the mother's pelvis. While caesareans, which peaked at nearly 25 percent of births in the late '80s, were long held to be the best method for preventing such complications, the new research indicates that the procedure is no safer than nonsurgical alternatives, including the use of forceps or suction...