The academic field of
Performance Studies considers performance as a sprawling category — one that encompasses social life and is inherently interdisciplinary and site - responsive.
Not exact matches
On top of the problem of unfair pay for women, a Harvard
study revealed that, when it comes to annual
performance reviews, women were 1.4 times more likely to receive critical subjective feedback, not positive feedback or critical objective feedback, and that traits that were
considered negative in women were often interpreted as positive in men.
Cain notes Brigham Young professor of management Bradley Agle, who
studied CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those
considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate
performance.
The criteria used to select which companies are included in the case
studies was not financial
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Previous
studies have shown that students who think they are smart often stop trying and their
performance declines over time, while those who
consider themselves hard workers get progressively better.
We
consider recent experiments correlating neuronal activity the medial temporal cortex (area MT) to
performance during two - alternative discrimination tasks [4, 5], and show how the different tasks used in these
studies either isolate the effects of «high - slope» encoding [5] or «peak - firing - rate» encoding [4].
Based on the results of this
study the researchers suggest that sprint athletes should
consider implementing a shorter as well as less strenuous warm up for improved
performance.
High - intensity training is traditionally
considered the primary approach for improvements in competitive
performance.5 However, some
studies demonstrate that lower intensity training also results in fitness improvements in endurance athletes.6, 7 Endurance competitions such as the Ironman triathlon do not rely on maximal efforts, but instead are typically much lower, such as 70 — 75 % of VO2max.
While high - intensity training is often
considered the main stimulus for improvements in competitive endurance
performance, 5 some
studies demonstrate that lower intensity training results in significant fitness improvements.6, 7 For example, Esteve - Lanao et al. 7 showed that endurance runners who trained in a polarized fashion, 8 where 80 % of their training time was conducted at a lower intensity and 20 % of training time at a higher intensity, had significant 10 km
performance improvements over those training 35 % of the time at higher intensities.
To try to examine the first issue, we can
consider the multiple
studies comparing low - carbohydrate with high - carbohydrate diets to test the hypothesis that «carbohydrate loading» can enhance physical
performance.
Students with increased NAPLAN scores are more skewed towards subjects such as interest in science, law, engineering, architecture, social work and arts, and students who
consider their academic
performance to be above average are more likely to choose medicine, a
study of 6492 students from years 3 to 12 across 64 NSW public schools has found.
Finally, the type of regression - based analyses used to support the
performance pay conclusion does not properly
consider that the background variables used in these analyses can vary in terms of relationships with student scores and have different definitions across the countries under
study.
Using student - level data on first - time students who enrolled from fall 2008 to spring 2012 in the University of Alaska (UA) system, this
study provides information on the degree to which UA students are
considered ready for college coursework based on their exam
performance.
This
study considers whether the traditional story comprehension or the theatre semiotics approach is a more effective means of preparing young children to experience and understand a theatrical
performance.
While prior evidence of strong academic
performance is essential, evaluators also
consider a candidate's course of
study, content assessment results, commitment to Boston's children, and work experiences.
When a student is screened for AAP, the school division
considers a student's
performance in the four core academic subject areas of language arts, mathematics, science, and social
studies.
Since 2005, Congress has
considered feasibility
studies and recommendations to implement a student - level record system that would evaluate educational trends to gauge degree - level
performance and post-college outcomes.
While IUL policies can boost the
performance of your cash account over that of traditional UL, the restrictions on how much you can benefit from market movements in the form of cap and participation rates should be
studied carefully when
considering a purchase of IUL, given their potential to limit the growth of these equity indexed accounts.
This week we've been examining the various
studies that have
considered book value as a predictor of future investment returns, and methods for «juicing» or improving its
performance.
When
studying compensation,
consider option grants, bonuses and base salaries in relation to business and management
performance.
Presentation / «Accumulated Wisdom: The Collector as Inventor,» with Melissa Catanese, Rutherford Chang, Carrie Cooperider, Tim Davis, Louise Harpman, Maira Kalman, Nina Katchadourian, Thomas Y. Levin, Harvey Tulcensky, and Penelope Umbrico The Morgan Library, 225 Madison Avenue, New York Saturday, 15 April 2014, 6:30 - 8:30 pm In an evening of short
performances and talks, artists and scholars will
consider the relationship between collecting and creating through case
studies of their own collections.
Bringing together artists and art historians who have extensive engagements with
performance in New York, this panel will
consider the participants» diverse approaches in answering these questions through several specific case
studies.
Consider adding new career marketing documents to your career portfolio, such as an Achievement Summary,
Performance Milestones, Leadership Initiatives Brief, Case
Studies Profile.
Innovation is
considered a good variable for mediation since most types of strategic orientation (i.e. market, technology, and entrepreneurship orientations) have been proven to have positive relationships with innovation and
performance, and innovation with
performance as indicated in the previous sections of this
study.
Improving the
Performance and Outcomes of Child Welfare Through State Program Improvement Plans (PIPS): The Real Opportunity of the Child and Family Services Review (PDF - 300 KB) Center for the
Study of Social Policy (2003) Encourages States to
consider the CFSR process as an opportunity to reform child welfare systems by outlining principles for improvement and examining the important components of PIPs.
The information from this
study is
considered to be critically important to the national debates on the effects of children's family, child care, and school experiences on their development and on their
performance and behavior in school.
• Strengths:
Consider strength as defined by the 1999 Gallup StrengthsFinder
study, which includes «consistent near - perfect
performance in an activity.»