Sentences with phrase «first point research»

The survey of 1014 school teachers by First Point Research and Consulting — and commissioned by multinational education publisher Pearson — also highlighted that during a regular working week high school teachers spend, on average, nine hours a week working outside standard school hours.

«That said, most [teachers say] they're pretty satisfied with the support they have at their school, so that seems to have become the norm now, or accepted practice,» Jane Briggs, First Point research director told the publication.

Not exact matches

As the British Psychological Science Research Digest blog points out, this isn't the first study to link tea drinking with improved mental performance, but it is the first to suggest that a cup of Earl Grey or chamomile might enhance creativity specifically.

Companies with women in senior level positions tend to do better than those without any gender diversity, Smith pointed out, citing research by First Round Capital, a major VC firm with more than 300 portfolio companies.

In this in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

In this all - new in - depth research from BI Intelligence that updates our popular July 2014 report on programmatic, we find that the US digital - ad market will reach a programmatic «tipping - point»: For the first time this year, programmatic transactions will be a majority (52 %) of non-search digital - ad spend.

According to Harvard Business Review, «research first published in the Journal of Applied Psychology shows that even when the minority points of view are wrong, they cause the rest of the group to think better, to create more solutions, and to improve the creativity of problem - solving.»

Eliot Higgins, a researcher with Kings College London and Atlantic Council's Digital Forensic Research Lab, pointed out this was not the first time the Russian Defense Ministry's social media accounts were caught lying.

In a recent set of data released by research firm comScore for the second quarter, RIM with its BlackBerry OS is revealed to have lost 1.6 percentage points from its 12.3 percent share in the first quarter of the year in the US.

This means that your consumers are more likely to do their own research about your company before your first point of contact with them.

This goes back to our first point of doing research, so get started!

A case in point, for one organization I conducted buyer persona and insight research for, potential buyers in a mid-market segment made their first sales contact as part of their second step of evaluation.

But I have believed and believe, and have researched and found, that the first group in A.A. — Akron Number One, as Bill Wilson called it — provides the proper starting point for a look at A.A., its roots, its history, its nature, its successes, and its God — the Creator.

Do your research first before pointing a beam at another.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

To perform this analysis, we first researched all home dogs, then added the Spread filter to isolate home underdogs at various point spreads.

In this classic NFC East rivalry, the hometown Cowboys opened as 4.5 - point favorites at CRIS and were receiving 81 % of public bets when we first researched this game on Wednesday afternoon.

I'm not exactly sure at what point in my pregnancy I became interested in cloth diapering, but I do know that for the first few weeks of researching options, the terms and lingo were so confusing!

Recent research points to childbirth method as a predictor for the kind of bacteria a newborn first has in his or her body.

Some research shows that moms who are exposed to cytomegalovirus for the first time during pregnancy may have a higher risk of miscarriage, but the relationship of CMV to miscarriage is not completely clear at this point.

Recent research has concluded that television, computer games and video games are not necessarily harmful, but it is unlikely that a child under two will actually learn to talk sooner through that exposure (which was the point of the argument in the first place).

First, to choose the best high chair for toddlers today, you must do a comprehensive and comparative research first, compare customer feedback, read previous user reviews especially 3 - star - point reviews, and analyze the features you need from a particular type of high cFirst, to choose the best high chair for toddlers today, you must do a comprehensive and comparative research first, compare customer feedback, read previous user reviews especially 3 - star - point reviews, and analyze the features you need from a particular type of high cfirst, compare customer feedback, read previous user reviews especially 3 - star - point reviews, and analyze the features you need from a particular type of high chair.

We made our first baby carrier forty years ago when research began to point out the importance of closeness between children and parents.

In my latest round of marginals research I have looked at four constituencies where it has been suggested UKIP pose a challenge to the Conservatives: Boston & Skegness, which UKIP «won» in the 2013 local elections; Castle Point, where Bob Spink, the first MP to sit for UKIP, came second in 2010; South Basildon & East Thurrock, which is adjacent to one of the party's best prospects; and North East Cambridgeshire, where the Tories have had concerns in a county where UKIP have had some success in local elections (more...)

She pointed to the Research Triangle Park in the Raleigh - Durham area in North Carolina, which landed its first high - profile tenants like IBM back in the 1960s.

A recent Siena College Research Institute poll showed the Republican with a commanding 24 point lead over Eldridge and this was their first opportunity to discuss the issues in this format.

«For a long time, neuroscience researchers had to record activity at one point in the brain at a time and put many data points together without seeing the whole picture simultaneously,» says Lyle Muller, a Salk research associate and first author of the new work.

For his part, Collins, who has led NIH since 2009 and been kept on by the Trump administration, pointed to an array of promising NIH activities, including the development of new technologies to provide insights into human brain circuitry and function through the Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neuroethologies (BRAIN initiative) and the use of the gene - editing tool CRISPR - Cas9 to correct mutations and clear the way to develop and test a «curative therapy» for the first molecular disease: sickle cell disease.

As I stress in the first point, the most important thing is to have a PhD to offer — don't sacrifice research in order to build up a huge portfolio of employer - friendly qualities, as they are unlikely to eclipse a failed doctorate!

«What was specially relevant from a basic research standpoint was that, for the first time, the descent in levels of a plant hormone compared to control values as an answer to environmental stress could be a physiologically significant response — and data points in this direction,» adds Arbona.

A research team from Spain and Germany has now developed a first - of - its - kind algorithm that determines the minimal force it takes to reach the optimal bond breaking point (BBP) at the molecular level to mechanically induce a chemical reaction.

«This points to two possible explanations: There are protective measures we don't see, such as resilience, or we're not asking the right questions that address adverse experiences specific to immigrant children such as fear of deportation of separation,» says Tania Caballero, M.D., M.H.S., a pediatrics research and clinical fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the paper's first author.

Chances are, you will achieve your first job as an assistant professor (if that is your goal) with fewer years of research training than your «Ph.D. - only» compatriots, who typically do a couple of extended postdocs of three or more years before reaching the point where they can compete for a faculty appointment.

University research labs can behave just as aggressively as for - profits because they want to be the first to publish, she points out.

«Health - care providers are often the first point of contact for women and girls experiencing violence, «says Series co-lead Dr Claudia Garcia - Moreno, a physician at WHO, Geneva, who coordinates research and policy on violence against women.

This work represents «the first experimental demonstration of a ring of exceptional points,» Zhen says, and is the first study that relates research in exceptional points with the physical concepts of parity - time symmetry and Dirac cones.

«It's a very useful contribution in the sense that it's the first time a homogeneous data set of the entire moon, front and back, has been examined from the point of view of crater distribution,» says Jay Melosh, a planetary scientist at Purdue University who did not contribute to the new research.

Geneticist Robin Lovell - Badge of the U.K. Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research points out that now «we have come full circle,» since the field of ES research first arose from work on teratomas 40 yeResearch Council's National Institute for Medical Research points out that now «we have come full circle,» since the field of ES research first arose from work on teratomas 40 yeResearch points out that now «we have come full circle,» since the field of ES research first arose from work on teratomas 40 yeresearch first arose from work on teratomas 40 years ago.

Although as a postgraduate research student I have to admit that I wasn't even sure where the university careers service offices were for the first two and a half years of my PhD, they proved to be a great starting point for finding out about «alternative careers» for scientists.

«This evaluation is intended to point out where forensic practice is well founded in science and where it is not and to produce a research agenda to serve as the basis for arriving at forensic methods that will inspire greater confidence in our criminal justice system,» says the report, the second of two AAAS reports on the state of forensic science, the first focusing on the quality of fire investigations in the United States.

The Aditya - L1 mission of the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) will be a unique space - based Solar Observatory, which will observe the Sun from the vantage location of the first Sun - Earth Lagrange point (L1), about 1.5 million kilometres away from Earth.

Research by Sharon Dent and colleagues revealed for the first time that histone modifications - instead of being an end - point for transcriptional regulation - can actually relay information to non-histone proteins, and that the role of chromatin in these events is not limited to DNA - templated events like gene activation.

He also pointed out that SciLifeLab is still growing, both in number of researchers and the articles they publish, as well as in activities like the Science and SciLifeLab Prize for Young Scientists and the recently opened call for the first national research projects.

Issues Per Year: 12 issues per year Aims and Scope: Meet Trends in Cancer, a new Cell Press Trends reviews journal launching September 25th, 2015 that brings you: — Authorative and thought - provoking cancer reviews from leading researchers and clincians — Your guide to the forefront of cancer research with a point of view — First issue focus on «Big Questions in Cancer»

Sternberg & Williams (1997)[6] demonstrated that GRE scores fail to correlate with several key skills for graduate study, including analytical thinking, creativity, research acumen and teaching, and correlate only modestly with first - year grade point average.

«We are finally ready to break ground on this field with the first trials,» says Dr. Robert Lanza, «It's taken a decade of extensive research to get to this point.»

The MDI Biological Laboratory appreciates the valuable support of Star Point Society members and offers them the unique opportunity to interact with our scientific community and experience the thrill of research first - hand.

'» Another group of researchers agrees, writing in Dermatology Research and Practice that there are two theories for aging: the first «focuses on reduced cellular lifespan, decreased responsiveness and functionality, and dysfunctional immune responses,» while the second «points towards environmental damages, focusing on DNA damage, inflammation and free radical formation.»

The research is still mixed, however, first hand positive accounts, from the Paleo community especially, in ditching nightshades point to there being something there.

What I think the best point made on this and many other blogs is that first, the current research lacks that rigor and better research is needed.