«The commercial production tax credit provides subsidies to an industry that has strong ties to the state and is already well - established,» said David J. Friedfel, director of
state studies at the independent Citizens Budget Commission.
Elizabeth Lynam, director of
state studies at the fiscal watchdog Citizens Budget Commission, said she knows of no other business in the state that is claiming the property tax credit without paying taxes.
This spring, the evangelical world was roiled when Francis J. Beckwith, a professor of church -
state studies at Baylor University, decided to return to the faith of his childhood and was received back into full communion with the Catholic Church on April 29 at St. Joseph's Catholic Church in....
Not exact matches
He can only regain credibility if he abandons such public naivete, said Steve Sestanovich, a senior fellow for Russian
studies at the Council on Foreign Relations and a former
State Department official.
Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited academic
studies on whistleblowers, a 1985 academic report by researchers
at the Ohio
State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»
But a recent
study from Tetyana Pudrovska, an assistant professor
at Pennsylvania
State University, and Amelia Karraker, an assistant professor
at Iowa
State University, shows that, for women, it may not work that way.
That's the finding of a joint
study by researchers
at Columbia University and California
State University.
Research conducted
at Sam Houston
State University in Huntsville, Texas, found that
study participants asked to complete a survey were significantly more likely to do so if the survey included a Post-it note with a handwritten message asking for their help, akin to a favor.
She later went back to school and graduated with a master's in Chicano
studies from California
State University
at Northridge in 2013.
I attended a spectacular conference Friday
at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business, whose Stigler Center for the
Study of the Economy and the
State hosts an annual discussion of antitrust and competition issues.
Studies show that people who are able to pursue their passions
at work experience flow, a euphoric
state of mind that is five times more productive than the norm.
Matt Zimmerman, assistant professor of sports media
at Mississippi
State University, who has been
studying the growth of the gaming industry in recent years, sees the potential in a company meant to help e-sports devotees improve.
The
study looked
at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United
States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.
A 2012
study from the Centre for Retirement Research
at Boston College in the United
States found that the greater number of older persons employed led to better outcomes for the young, including reduced unemployment and a higher wage.
But a new
study from a team of researchers
at Michigan
State University found that when a boss frequently bullies one employee, the entire team's productivity decreases.
In a
study published earlier this month, researchers
at Michigan
State University monitored the brains of 79 female and 70 male students, who were asked to fill out a survey about their own anxiety levels.
Companies are becoming increasingly more committed to gender diversity once
studies began exposing the uncomfortable truth: «Women remain underrepresented
at every level in corporate America, despite earning more college degrees than men for thirty years and counting,»
states the report.
In fact, multiple
studies conducted by Dr. Brad Bushman, a professor of communication and psychology
at The Ohio
State University, reveal that venting is not beneficial, reports Elizabeth Bernstein in the Wall Street Journal.
Researchers who conducted months of aerial and underwater surveys of the 2,300 - kilometer (1,400 - mile) reef off Australia's east coast found that around 35 percent of the coral in the northern and central sections of the reef are dead or dying, said Terry Hughes, director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef
Studies at James Cook University in Queensland
state.
Another fascinating
study recorded physiological reactions like pupil dilation in volunteers as they looked
at their Facebook accounts to find that browsing Facebook can evoke what they call flow
state, the feeling you get when you're totally and happily engrossed in a project or new skill.
Perhaps the findings of a
study done by psychologists
at San Francisco
State University will encourage you to take time away from work and have a little fun.
We had two different
studies done
at San Diego
State and by a private company that does work for NASA.
Heidi Shey, a senior analyst
at Forrester who
studies the cyber insurance space, says insurers are in an excited «land - grab»
state, gobbling up as many customers as they can because insurers believe most businesses will not file a claim, or there could be a cyber event that doesn't get covered due to an exemption, such as human error, credit card fraud, or email fraud.
Last year,
at least 24
states reviewed or made decisions to
study the value of rooftop solar, according to the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center, which compiles a database of
state renewable energy incentives.
And a year is not soon,» says Emily Godbey, an associate professor
at Iowa
State University who
studies and writes about how humans respond to disasters.
But the most comprehensive
study was conducted in 1994 by Timothy Bates, professor emeritus
at Wayne
State University.
But what was surprising,
at least to me, was how many of those app users consented to participate in the
study: 48,968 of them — which included individuals in all 50
states and the District of Columbia.
Saddington, who
studied computer science
at Florida
State before earning three master's degrees in counseling, education and theology from Luther Rice College & Seminary in Georgia, stumbled across bitcoin in 2011.
People who marry and don't divorce have about double the net worth of their peers who never wed, according to Jay Zagorsky, an economist and research scientist
at Ohio
State University, who
studied the financial patterns of thousands of adults born from 1957 to 1964.
«I was pretty depressed about the
state of the global economy,» says Lubin, who
studied computer science and electrical engineering
at Princeton.
«America must remain a beacon for entrepreneurs like Tom Szaky, who left his home in Hungary following the Chernobyl disaster, and ultimately moved to the United
States to
study at Princeton University.
Kelly Campbell, an associate professor
at California
State University, San Bernadino, who
studies interpersonal relationships, told me the quality of your relationships generally matters much more than the quantity.
According to a
study conducted
at Oregon
State University, people who have more sex are also more productive
at work.
A July 2012
study by researchers
at Duke University and California
State Polytechnic University
at Pomona found that salty water from deep underground could make its way into drinking water near the surface.
A roundup of gun control and violence
studies by writer German Lopez
at Vox shows Americans represent less than 5 % of the world population but possess nearly 50 % of the world's civilian - owned guns, police are about three times more likely to be killed in
states with high gun ownership, countries with more guns see more gun deaths, and
states with tighter gun control laws see fewer gun - related deaths, among other sobering statistics.
«We found that in general, the more you engage in creative activities, the better you'll do,» said the
study's lead author Kevin Eschleman, an assistant professor of psychology
at San Francisco
State.
According to a
study conducted
at Oxford University in the U.K., roughly 47 percent of the jobs in the United
States could potentially be replaced by automation over the next 20 years.
«
States like Colorado and California are
at the forefront of a growing trend,» says Genevieve LeBaron, who has
studied the issue as a politics professor
at the University of Sheffield in England.
In a 2010
study, researchers
at Washington
State University and the Desert Research Institute had college students play a computer game with four other players, who were really manipulations by the researchers.
In a 2008
study, Michigan
State University researchers asked college students to look
at fictional Facebook profiles and decide how much they liked the profiles» owners.
Salon reports that scientists
at Penn
State University
studied the atmosphere of Kepler 13Ab and discovered that the planet's atmosphere «snows» titanium oxide.
No
study like this is perfect, but we hope we've brought some attention to the perpetual battle among
states for economic development, and answered the question we posed
at the beginning: Why do some
states do it better than others?
«Paradoxically, creativity thrives on the tension between freedom and constraint,» says Brent Rosso, an organizational psychology professor
at Montana
State University who
studies the balance between freedom and constraint in the product development process.
As a 2013
study led by Susan Sprecher
at Illinois
State University suggests, simply sharing details about your hobbies and your favorite childhood memories can make you seem warmer and more likable.
He attended
state schools in London, then
studied computer science
at the University of Westminster.
Steffanie Wilk, co-author of the
study and associate professor of management and human resources
at The Ohio
State University's Fisher College of Business, said the reason was that these employees who cultivated more diverse friend networks on the job simply had more people to help.
The research, led by Michigan
State psychologist Zachary Hambrick, combed through six previous
studies looking
at the achievement and practice history of more than 1,000 chess players.
Welcome to our second annual look
at America's Top
States for Business — a
study that shows you can't sit still if you want to stay competitive.
CNBC, America's Business Channel, looks
at the best
states for business — and the worst — in our exclusive
study.
It has also run pilot programs, with San Jose
State University, and the University of Central Florida, that included week - long
studies with small groups of students
at each school.