Sentences with phrase «high performance study»

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Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

Studies have shown that more than 65 % of all competencies deemed essential for high performance in the workplace are related to emotional intelligence.

According to Forbes, studies conducted by University of Florida professor Timothy Judge found that «people with high core self evaluations, or positive self - concepts, had increased levels of job satisfaction, better job performance, higher income, higher work motivation and reduced stress and burnout.»

«If a lucky event early in a CEO's tenure is not balanced by an unlucky one is such a short time period, then that CEO could be wrongfully credited for high performance that would have happened no matter who was leading the company,» according to the study.

At the end of the study, the higher - intensity exercisers saw significant improvements in their heart's performance, while the stretchers and balancers did not.

In one study, he found that while neurotic traits were positively correlated with workplace performance when financial managers» intelligence was high, as it declined the relationship faded away.

According to a research paper from the American Psychological Association, setting specific goals led to a higher performance 90 percent of the time for companies studied.

A number of studies have linked this trait, proactivity, with better job performance, greater career success, and higher wages.

Follow - up studies that tracked employee performance over time as people shifted between lower - and higher - scoring managers confirmed that great leadership scores do indeed lead to high team performance scores and not the other way around.

In another study, customers reported a 10 % increase in performance from teams that had a high level of mutual work experience.

A recent study by University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along with Bonnie Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, found that high levels of emotional exhaustion that come from workplace anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.

Digging further into the outperformance of HML SMALL during this period, the study's authors note that the HML alpha can be tied more to horrible performance by the low - value small cap stocks for the period instead of great performance by the high - value stocks.

Editor's Note: Brian Ruddell, a New Zealander studying in Australia, was kind enough to write us about High Performance Liquid Chromatography tests that he performed on a number of chiles that he grew in his garden, as well as a famous hot sauce.

by Brian Ruddell Editor's Note: Brian Ruddell, a New Zealander studying in Australia, was kind enough to write us about High Performance Liquid Chromatography tests that he performed on a number of chiles that he grew in his garden, as well as a famous hot sauce.

She is part of the England Performance programme and super league outfit Hertfordshire Mavericks playing the highest level of netball in this country whilst studying for a medical degree.

Add an increasing number of studies examining how these bats achieve such high levels of performance, and the proliferation of such information through the game - changer that is The Almighty Internet, and the result is some heavily disseminated ways to tweak legal bats above the allowed performance levels.

We have previously described studies of pacing strategy using various experimental interventions, including faster and slower starts, higher temperatures, hypoxia, hyperoxia and altered energy substrate availability.1 We have proposed the presence of a complex, regulatory system that mediates changes to skeletal muscle motor unit activation and work rate in order both to optimise performance and prevent potentially harmful changes to homeostasis.

Studies have shown a relationship between postconcussion activity level and performance on neurocognitive tests, with athletes engaging in the highest levels of activity performing the worst on such tests.

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

«Study: High - stakes tests a likely factor in STEM performance gap: Findings suggest that changing how instructors assess students could help close the achievement gap in introductory STEM courses.»

In a separate study, instructors changed the curriculum in three different courses to place higher or lesser value on high - stakes exams (e.g., midterms and finals) and observed gender - biased patterns in performance.

«Advances in high performance computing are finally allowing us to understand the explosive death of stars, and this study shows that such models are needed to figure out new ways to measure dark energy.»

A new way to observe this deformation as it happens can help study a wide range of phenomena, from meteor impacts to high - performance ceramics used in armor, as well as how to protect spacecraft from high - speed dust impacts.

Song studies high performance computing at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with the goal of making computers smaller, faster and more energy efficient.

The researchers said this new way of watching plastic deformation as it happens can help study a wide range of phenomena, such as meteor impacts, the effects of bullets and other penetrating projectiles and high - performance ceramics used in armor, as well as how to protect spacecraft from high - speed dust impacts and even how dust clouds form between the stars.

Xiangjia Li, a PhD student on Chen's team and co-first author of the study, says one example of high - performance microdroplet manipulation could lead to more efficient blood analyses for patients.

But what [was] really interesting in this study of the sled dogs, of Larry the sled dog in particular, was the discovery that some of these high performance dogs appear to have the ability to draw fat directly out of their and blood right into their muscle cells and immediately burn it that way, which is a more efficient way than normally what you'd see.

Possible clues to the biological basis of these unusual states turned up in studies conducted in the late 1970s, when the Navy and the Air Force introduced a new generation of high - performance fighter planes that underwent extreme acceleration.

A second study showed that training in realistic environments, including practiced encounters with armed - opponent actors in buildings and streets, improved their shooting accuracy under stress Similarly, trials with 66 of the officers revealed that those who trained weekly on their own in a combat sport such as karate or kickboxing performed better under high - anxiety fights than those with no additional training, although both groups suffered performance decreases when conditions shifted from low to high anxiety.

The study used a range of player performance data gathered by GPS equipment worn by the players in training, including: total distance covered; distance covered at high speed; total load / forces experienced; and short bursts of speed.

In the study, Professor Kim and his research team have developed a new catalyst, using the cation ordered double perovskite with high electrical conductivity and catalyic performance.

Sigman, Milo and Bess performed such simulations in their study using the university's Center for High Performance Computing.

In June, researchers reported that office workers scored higher on tests of cognitive function when the room was better ventilated, but many studies have found that background noise impairs cognitive performance.

Study participants who were in the higher (second, third, and fourth) quartiles of vigorously intense physical activity performance in their lifetimes had about 25 percent to 30 percent lower risk for NHL, compared with those who were in the lowest (first) quartile of vigorously intense physical activity.

This study is the first to use a high - performance supercomputer to interpret the layers of complicated geophysical data underlying Yellowstone, Liu said.

You've done these vulcanoid surveys and studies of other asteroids, meteors, and comets from the backseat of a high - performance aircraft, like a WB - 57 or a F / A -18 Hornet fighter jet.

An earlier study by the same researchers found that Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) accelerated more slowly and had other performance falloffs at altitudes higher than the birds» home range.

The study is titled, «Assessing the Effect of High Performance Computing Capabilities on Academic Research Output» and was published in Empirical Economics.

«Conventional wisdom is that academic performance in high school is important for college admission, but this is the first study to clearly demonstrate the link between high school GPA and labor market earnings many years later,» says French, director of the Health Economics Research Group (HERG) in the Department of Sociology at the UM College of Arts and Sciences, and corresponding author of the study.

The study defined high - performing college students as those who demonstrate consistent, high - level performance during their six - year college enrollment.

In any case, and this is the second reflection, according to Castellano, that could be drawn from the study and it is that female football should not just be «a mirror of high performance masculine football,» and should therefore not aspire either to the speed, intensity or distance covered by men.

While the study focused on lithium - ion batteries, the scientists say the observed phenomenon may also occur in other high - performance battery chemistries.

In a preliminary study published in The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, researchers from the Department of Psychology at Cambridge found an association between high body mass index (BMI) and poorer performance on a test of episodic memory.

The days of a battery - powered exosuit for high - performance runners are still beyond the horizon, as the actuator unit (including motors, electronics, and power supply) in this study was off - board, but the authors say technology is moving toward making an untethered assistive exosuit possible in the near future.

«We know from one previously published study that ketone supplements may improve long - duration endurance performance but we're interested what happens during short - duration and high - intensity workouts, like running a 10k or cycling up a hill.»

Furthermore, in a previous study we demonstrated that group emotional intelligence is related to higher levels of academic performance.»

That decision followed a study requested by electronics companies on the availability of high - performance computers from outside the COCOM countries.

«There have been increasing demands for high - performance, inexpensive and safe batteries for portable electronics, electric vehicles and other energy storage applications,» said Hongjie Dai, a professor chemistry at Stanford and lead author of the study.

The study included three measures of lifetime earnings: gross lifetime earnings by majors; net lifetime earnings after accounting for demographic and high school performance related factors; and net present value at age 20 after applying a 4 percent discount rate.

The study showed that prediction of student graduation may be significantly improved by including in the college admission process consideration of AP exam performance and a small set of personality traits, along with traditional indicators of student abilities and high school grades.