Sentence examples for the peer environment from inspiring English sources

And vice-versa, "scientists are more likely to move in a given year if the peer environment at other 'distant' places is better".

Using the presence and productivity of former co-authors and potential collaborators as a proxy to measure the quality of the peer environment, the authors show that, "all else equal, scientists are more likely to move (than not) in a given year if the peer environment at home is not very good," Ganguli says.

In this paper, we examine the determinants of mobility of elite academics within the life sciences, including individual productivity measures and for the first time, measures of the peer environment and family factors.

The results also suggest that the quality of the peer environment and recent funding are important factors in elite life scientists' decisions to move or to stay at their current institution.

The peer environment was rated positively by most students in terms of the degree to which students enjoyed being together, and were helpful and accepting towards each other.

He concluded that "the inequalities imposed on children by their home, neighborhood and peer environment are carried along to become the inequalities with which they confront adult life at the end of school".

Measures of peer influence would have enhanced the overall coverage of the adolescent's social environment and could have confirmed the adolescent's shift from family to peer environment.

To enhance the peer learning environment in the laboratory, activities based on the Learning Cell (Goldschmid, 1971; Goldschmid and Shore, 1974) were implemented in all sections.

Peer educators are assumed to have this role by influencing not only those for whom the activities are organized (their peers), but also others of relevance in the peer's environment (family, friends, etc).

It could be that for current smoking in this young adult sample, the main effects of the peer social environment and addiction to nicotine overwhelm the effect of other factors (film smoking exposure and parental smoking) typically found to predict smoking 'initiation' in young adolescents.

Their peer environment includes other students in the program, undergraduate and doctoral students, and postdoctoral fellows.