Sentences with phrase «of cities studied»

The study also found that none of the cities studied showed trends toward urban living among college - educated adults 45 or older, highlighting the fact that the shift toward cities is a young person's movement.

Some of the cities studied were: Kansas City, St Louis, Springfield, Independence, Columbia, Joplin, Cape Girardeau, Ozark and Branson.

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Here's a full list of the cities studied by the CDP (Climate Data Project).

The primary thing that helped Lexington make the top 20 is the city's overall affordability, which is in the cheapest 20 percent of cities studied.

Be advised though that despite those low taxes the overall cost of living in Charleston is a little higher than in most of the cities studied.

And of the cities studied, only in New Orleans did white students face longer school commutes than their black peers.

«So, what used to happen was every year or two years there would be an extender that would go to the governor and put police and firefighters back in tier 2, but Paterson vetoed it in [20] 09,» said Maria Doulis, director of City Studies at the nonpartisan Citizens» Budget Commission.

Not exact matches

As the study points out, the cheapest cities to live in may have the lowest average of combined expenses, but that doesn't mean everything there is cheap, like transportation or groceries.

Lythcott - Haims asks parents: If you drive or walk your kid everywhere, how will he or she develop the essential adult skill of finding «his way around a campus, the town in which her summer internship is located, or the city where he is working or studying abroad»?

The researchers drew their data from a number of British and American longitudinal surveys, including the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which includes nearly 5,000 participants born in big US cities between 1998 and 2000.

In one study conducted at the University of Missouri Kansas City, researchers asked college - aged participants to sort the emotional expressions of computer - generated images of male faces.

Around this time, Hsieh was studying urban development and was especially influenced by Harvard professor Edward Glaeser's «Triumph of the City.»

The year 1993 saw the publication of an enormous study that followed over 8,000 adults for 15 years in six US cities.

Choung's primary Korean bank was unwilling to study the credit ratings of New York City restaurants and hotels or to take on faith that receivables would eventually be paid.

«In this masterful study of urban warfare, DiMarco explains what it takes to seize and hold a city literally block by block and provides lessons for today's tacticians that they neglect at their own peril.»

Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

A recent study from ConsumerAffairs looks at the safety of Uber, Lyft and taxi cars in cities around the U.S.

One large European study, for example — which examined sewage from 60 cities in 19 countries — discovered an acute use of methamphetamine in two eastern German cities (Chemnitz and Erfurt), heavy use of cocaine in Zurich and Barcelona, and a notable level of MDMA (ecstasy) use in Amsterdam, Kelly reports.

It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.

He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by providing data.

«There are a lot of studies which have shown that lighting can actually impact on the mood of the students in their education and in their learning,» she told CNBC's Innovation Cities.

One set of presentations will be a series of case studies of 10 cities with thriving tech scenes, such as Jerusalem and Nairobi.

Making sustainability a de facto policy for U.S. cities would be a cost - effective design solution that could save millions, and even billions, of dollars, according to a new study.

In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

As a young undergraduate, he focuses on his studies, but also educates himself on the complex politics brewing in colonial New York City on the eve of the American Revolution.

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.

The study, by the District of Columbia's chief financial officer, found that among families earning $ 25,000 a year, Seattle had the fourth - highest tax burden among 51 cities when it comes to taxes paid for income, property, sales and automobile.

These capabilities could help cities improve the throughput of their transportation infrastructure — meaning they could move more people more quickly through their existing transportation networks, according to Scott Corwin, managing director of Deloitte's Future of Mobility practice, and co-author of the study.

San Francisco's Office of Economic Analysis released a study in May stating that the city would see an economic hit of $ 250,000 to $ 350,000 per year per home converted to a short - term rental unit, according to Re / code.

The study states that every city with an NFL franchise stands to lose about $ 160 million in revenue ($ 20 million per home game), $ 5 billion total, and an aggregate of 115,000 jobs.

A study commissioned by the city's economic development authority estimated that the bottom - line benefits of telecommuting for employers, employees and communities across Canada could be as high as $ 53 billion a year.

Mayor Bill de Blasio's administration wants to curb Uber's growth in the city until the completion of a study on the company's impact on NYC's already congested streets.

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.Anthony Ling — The Seasteading Institute

A design study for the Seasteading Institute, a group co-founded by Thiel that proposes to build floating cities beyond the reach of existing governments.

Our 2013 study with Fordham University in New York City showed our young people there had suffered similar levels of exploitation.

Nina McLemore, chair of NFWBO and president of Regent Capital Partners, a private - equity firm based in New York City, talked with Inc. about the implications of the study.

In recent years, polls and studies have put Canada and our cities at or near the top of places to get an education, establish a business, raise a family and live a long, healthy life.

The first two points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple study showed no decrease in DUI deaths on weekends, when the cost of UberX rides tends to rise with demand - based pricing, while the data from Seattle is only from that one city.

Luisa Gagliardi of the University of Geneva studied more than one million housing transactions in British cities between 1995 and 2001 and found that highly educated workers» «consumption of amenities» — restaurant meals, park visits, etc. — was 10 % greater than that of less educated workers who earned the same income.

The Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Mo., signed up to help finance some larger - scale studies.

The City of Toronto's Ontario Works program offers a case study though.

But the city had been rigorously studying the effects of ride - hailing since it debuted in Austin in 2014.

A study by Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business surveyed 150 small to midsize businesses in 19 cities spanning 13 product categories.

The fourth child and younger son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch, James Murdoch went to Harvard to study film and history after graduating in 1991 from Horace Mann, an elite New York City private prep school.

Indeed, in a 1999 study, Rolf Reber and Norbert Schwarz found that college students were significantly more likely to believe that statements that a particular city was in a particular town («Osorno is in Chile») were true when they were presented in highly visible shades of red and blue than when they were presented in moderately visible shades of green, yellow, and light blue.

«We are now talking significantly about engagement issues from the design perspective,» says Janice Barnes, who studies organizational behavior in her role as a principal at the New York City office of architects Perkins + Will.

Cities and states providing tax incentives to Amazon for warehouse construction may be getting a «bad bargain,» one of the study's authors, Ben Zipperer, told Business Insider.

Other research, like the Copenhagen City Heart Study, looked at healthy joggers and nonjoggers for more than a decade and determined that «the most favorable running regimen for reducing cardiovascular mortality» was six miles per week, broken down into three running days per week at a pace of seven miles per hour.

The study evaluated 1,268 cities with residential populations of between 25,000 and 100,000.