Sentences with phrase «new study finds high»

New Study Finds High School Grades Are More Predictive of College Academic Performance than Standardized Tests A new study of students enrolled in the University of Alaska system found that high school grade point average (GPA) was a better predictor of students» success in college - level courses than standardized college entrance exams.

New Study Finds High Levels of Arsenic in Groundwater Near Fracking Sites.

The new studies find high activity with investigative drugs for advanced melanoma, and show for the first time that ipilimumab, a treatment already approved for advanced melanoma, can substantially decrease the risk of melanoma recurrence in certain patients with earlier - stage disease.

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New Jersey — a wealthy, educated state with ready access to world - class health care in Philadelphia and New York City — has «better access to higher - quality information that lets us be more complete» in screening, Walter Zahorodny, a New Jersey Medical School professor and director of the New Jersey Autism Study, said in a conference call about the findings.

Levy reported that in a 2004 study of suburban rail commuters taking the train from New Jersey to Manhattan, «Wener and his coauthor Gary Evans found that the longer their test subjects» journey was, the higher the levels of cortisol (the primary stress hormone) in their saliva, and the more difficult they found to focus on the task of proofreading assigned them at the end of their commute.»

«A high - fat, high - sugar diet causes significant damage to cognitive flexibility, a new study finds,» according to PsyBlog.

A study in the «Journal of Individual Differences» found that people who scored higher on IQ tests as children tended to be more curious and open to new ideas as adults.

The study, which surveyed 50,000 adults in 24 developed countries, found that «daughters of working mothers completed more years of education, were more likely to be employed and in supervisory roles, and earned higher incomes,» reports Claire Cain Miller in The New York Times.

Separate studies in New England, New York City, and California found similar results, high pollen counts correlate with more ER visits.

A new study from the National Bureau of Economic Research has found that tax policy has a dramatic impact on businesses and, if raised too high, could drive consumers to the black market.

Another study reported by The New York Times in 2008 found that men who did not take a vacation at least once a year had a «21 percent higher risk of death from all causes and were 32 percent more likely to die of a heart attack».

The National Institutes of Health also studied outdoor exercise, comparing it to indoor exercise, finding, according to The New York Times, that subjects scored «higher on measures of vitality, enthusiasm, pleasure and self - esteem and lower on tension, depression and fatigue after they walked outside.»

«Just as notable, however, are the widespread similarities between Millennial employees and their non-Millennial counterparts, all of whom aspire to a new workplace paradigm that places a higher priority on work / life balance and workplace flexibility,» the study, which includes findings from more than 40,000 survey responses, explains.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

A new study by Dalbar finds that passive funds achieve higher returns, but active fund investors are better behaved and may actually come out ahead over the long term.

Twitter Video Ads Deliver Recall, Receptivity (Study) New research finds, among other things, «Twitter was the only platform where cognitive effort, or information processing, increased for video ads, on both desktop and mobile, and attention levels remained constant on Twitter whether users were watching organic or branded ad content,» adding that mobile recall was «significantly higher.»

That's the upshot of a new study that finds the decline in church attendance since the 1970s among white Americans without college degrees is twice as high as for those with college degrees.

And of the highest importance have been my conversations, oral and written, with my American colleagues in the parables seminar of the Society of Biblical Literature and those with whom I have been associated in the founding of Semeia, a new journal established specifically to do biblical studies experimentally, drawing on tools from other disciplines.

A new study in Pediatrics found that pizza was the 2nd highest source of calories for ages 2 - 18.1 These numbers were for 2003 - 2010 but I don't think our pizza eating habit changed much for the better since then.

The peak body for winemakers has slammed a new study findings that higher taxes on cheap alcohol could reduce consumption.

Consuming high levels of fibre could help microbiota in the gut to limit blood - sugar levels, a new Rutgers University study has found.

A new study by USC and University of Oxford researchers indicates that large amounts of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS) found in national food supplies across the world may be one explanation for the rising global epidemic of Type 2 diabetes and resulting higher health care costs.

The use of muscle - enhancing behaviors among middle and high school boys and girls - including such unhealthy behaviors as using protein powders or shakes, steroids, and other muscle - enhancing substances - is substantially higher than previously reported, a new study finds.1

I worry that lost amidst the hoopla about the new CTE study is the fact that not every football player whose brain was donated to the CTE Center for pathological scrutiny was found to have the disease, and, that it was not detected in either the brains donated by the families of football players who died before they got to high school, and in only three of fourteen of high school players (and, in those, the disease had not progressed beyond the «mild» stage).

That the study found concussion rates for ice hockey (10 per 100,000) and football (8 per 100,000) among younger athletes (7 - to 11 - year - olds) much higher than the overall concussion rate (1 per 100,000), were «not surprising» to lead author, Lisa L. Bakhos, M.D., a Pediatric Emergency Medicine Attending at Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune, New Jersey.

Concussion in high school sports are increasing at a 15 % annual rate, finds a new study.

While many experts agree that the ideal time - frame is around six to eight months, a new study has found that babies who are breastfed for at least twelve months tend to have a higher IQ.

A baby's risk of death from being placed in an unsafe sleeping position or location is higher when they're under the care of a baby sitter, relative or friend, a new study found.

A new study from the University of Iowa finds that high school sports concession stands can improve the nutritional quality of their offerings — and without going broke!

In 2003, a study examining New York State health records found that for parents over 40, paternal contribution to Down syndrome could be as high as 50 percent.

It's important to note that the study did find that «high levels of fruit and vegetable waste continued to be a problem — students discarded roughly 60 % -75 % of vegetables and 40 % of fruits on their trays,» but the authors conclude that this finding means that districts must «must focus on improving food quality and palatability to reduce waste,» rather than seeking to roll back the new meal standards.

Another study tracking 108 French - Canadian children found that kids who were securely - attached at age 6 scored higher on communication, cognitive engagement, and motivation to master new skills at age 8 (Moss et al 1998).

«Dining out associated with increased exposure to harmful chemicals: New study finds burgers and other foods consumed at restaurants, fast food outlets or cafeterias, associated with higher levels of phthalates.»

Despite an increase in media attention, as well as national and local efforts to educate athletes on the potential dangers of traumatic brain injuries, a new study found that many high school football players are not concerned about the long - term effects of concussions and don't report their own concussion symptoms because they fear exclusion from play.

In a new study, researchers found that small babies have a higher risk.

The findings of a new study have revealed that breastfeeding could be linked to higher IQ in children, and yes, it may also be associated with increased earnings.

Findings in the new report warn that more than 40 percent of the species included in the study show «high vulnerability» to climate change.

Babies can be exposed to high levels of chemical emission from mattresses as they sleep, a new study has found.

March 27, 2017 • Prior research points to an association between breast - feeding and higher intelligence, but a new study finds no causal link.

New York State has the greatest gap between rich and poor in the United States.And the most rigorous research over the past 15 years, including studies comparing job growth trends in neighboring counties across state lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job losses.

In a high - flying illustration of how global warming appears to be changing New York's natural landscape, a new study by a state researcher and an experienced birdwatcher has found that more and bird species are being found higher and higher on a well - known Adirondack mountaNew York's natural landscape, a new study by a state researcher and an experienced birdwatcher has found that more and bird species are being found higher and higher on a well - known Adirondack mountanew study by a state researcher and an experienced birdwatcher has found that more and bird species are being found higher and higher on a well - known Adirondack mountain.

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

A study from Illinois State University released this week found New York is among the states with the highest perception of «legal corruption» in the country.

Out of the 27 states with MWBE programs, New York is one of only two states that experienced the highest scrutiny standard — a disparity study — that has included a personal net worth limit in its law, according to the disparity study findings.

A recent study found that Onondaga County has a higher rate of deaths by drug overdose than New York state and the United States.

Seven studies were included in the review that presents findings from 12,760 people in high - income countries including the UK, Australia and New Zealand.

As state officials seek a way to keep the struggling Fitzpatrick Nuclear Power Plant open, a new study finds that losing them could lead to higher electricity prices.

The lobbying group Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, or PhRMA, commissioned a study that found the tax would actually lead to higher insurance and medical costs for New Yorkers.

The superintendents cite a study from the fiscal watchdog group the Empire Center, which finds that if just 250 of the highest income New Yorkers leave the state due to the resulting higher taxes, the state could lose $ 500 million in revenue.

These new findings are consistent with numerous cross sectional and longitudinal studies showing that fruit and vegetables, together and separately, are linked with a lower risk of depression and higher levels of well - being assessed by several measures of mental health.