Sentences with phrase «studies count the number»

[7] The Fordham study counted the number of requirements for participating schools, with the goal of measuring regulatory burden.

Not exact matches

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

The study also accounted for the number of employee short - term and long - term illnesses, and employee total sick day counts per year.

I understand Tuteor implied this here by 1) saying that the study was wrong to count when who survived morbidity instead of women who experienced morbidity and 2) making a graph with the number of dead women being comparable to the number of sick women....

Indeed, the 2014 University of Rochester study [23] suggests that, «rather than monitor total head hits, as [was initially suggested [by Sports Legacy Institute in its much publicized Hit Count program], it may be more effective to monitor those hits that are most likely to produce [white matter] changes, which Bazarian and his colleagues found were when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration of 4500 rads / sec2exceeded 30 - 40 for the season, and when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration.6000 rads / sec2 exceeded 10 - 15 for the season.

In order to avoid «double counting» in studies involving one control group and two different interventions groups, we split the control group number of events and participants in half, so that we could include two independent comparisons, as per methods described the Handbook [section16.5.4].

COUNT DOWN From 1999 to 2015, numbers of orangutans on the island of Borneo declined by nearly 150,000 individuals, a new study estimates.

If that seems like a small number of subjects for a major study, consider the fact that each acoustic transmitter costs approximately $ 300 to $ 550, not counting the investment of researchers» time and the expense of chartering a boat for the implantation phase.

«They don't count and they have no number words,» says MIT cognitive scientist Edward Gibson, who headed a study published in the journal Cognition [pdf].

«The plant can judge, by simply counting the number of action potentials spreading over the trap, whether useless dead material has landed inside it or if useful animal prey has been caught,» says Sönke Scherzer, an electrophysiologist at the University of Würzburg in Germany, and one of the study's co-authors.

In the newly published study, Mount Sinai researchers from The Mindich Child Health and Development Institute and the Jaffe Food Allergy Institute report that by counting the numbers of one type of immune cell activated by exposure to a food, a simple, safe blood test can accurately predict the severity of each person's allergic reaction to it.

In a classic study often dubbed the «Invisible Gorilla» test, researchers showed participants a film clip of several people passing a basketball back and forth and asked them to count the number of passes between players in white and to ignore the players in black.

Working with the brains of six normal children and seven autistic children ages 2 to 16, most of whom died of drowning, Courchesne has studied neurons under the microscope and even counted the number of neural cells in different tissue samples.

After counting up tree species from 1170 research sites studied by hundreds of scientists, a team extrapolated the number likely to exist across the entire region.

Previous studies may have overestimated the numbers of animals by counting cheetahs just passing through an area as permanent residents.

Even in toddlers who can not yet count, these studies reveal, the brain automatically processes numbers.

But the research development of the techniques to count prey and tigers and doing studies in different sites across India with high and low prey densities show very clearly that the number of tigers is linked to the number of prey in a very, very strong relationship.

«But you can count on one hand the number of studies that have been done on what people actively do with the disposal of PPCPs — pharmaceutical and personal care products — for both themselves and their pets,» said Sam Chan, a watershed health expert with the Oregon Sea Grant program at Oregon State.

It is also well - known for some of its atypical qualities, such as a lack of counting numbers or relative directions, such as «left» and «right,» qualities which Everett worked out over years of study.

To do that, a Venus flytrap has to count the number of times its prey moves, a new study finds.

Analysis of changes in wintering bird numbers using the Knoxville Christmas Bird Count as a case study.

A number of doctoral committees counts this course towards the fulfillment of student's study obligations.

In this type of study, two researchers count the numbers of wild prey in a specific area at different times or from different places and compare their findings.

Number of studies suggest that this is due to pistachio nuts being fantastic source of monounsaturated fats that can lower bad cholesterol count.

There are also a similar number of these studies that have found greater or no difference in weight loss between high - and low - carb diets, but like most people who claim calories don't count, we're going to ignore those for now (and come back to them in a minute).

Other say that this is fine, just look at the numbers, and if all three samples come back as positive (especially 3 + count like Jean, the case study I just outlined to you) then you have a real problem on your hands.

To illustrate the effect of «bean counting» on disease data, recently revised guidelines for diagnosing Alzheimer's disease would reclassify nearly all patients who are currently diagnosed with mild or very mild Alzheimer's as having «mild cognitive impairment», a new study finds announced this morning by TIME magazine's Healthland: http://healthland.time.com/2012/02/08/why-a-new-definition-of-cognitive-impairment-may-confuse-patients/ So if you see numbers in the near future with Alzheimer's disease essentially eradicated, it wasn't necessarily a result of saffron mania.

But a new study of 6 - and 7 - year - olds shows that this may be a mistake — finger counting, when paired with number games, can boost math learning for second graders.

KS1 Fractions Bundle This KS1 maths teaching bundle contains the following 5 PowerPoint presentations with accompanying worksheets: Halves Quarters Fractions - Year 2 Equivalent Fractions Counting in Fractions Each of these maths teaching resources has been designed to help deliver lessons covering the Years 1 and 2 maths curriculum objectives as outlined in the maths programme of study (Number - fractions).

A new British study published in Frontiers in Education suggests that this may be a mistake because finger counting seems to boost math learning when paired with number games.

As she studied their work, Ms. Stewart wondered how these learners were connecting their counting to cardinality and how they were understanding that the last number name a person says when they count a set of objects tells the total number of objects counted.

Magnet Schools of America commissioned a study with the University of North Carolina — Charlotte's Urban Institute to compile a comprehensive and more current count of the number of magnet schools across the country, as many school districts have broadened what it means to be a magnet school.

A typical course of study for kindergarten math includes topics such as counting, number recognition, one - to - one correspondence, sorting and categorizing, learning basic shapes, and pattern recognition.

The take homes from this survey might not be hugely unexpected but the figures are most definitely worth studying (though the calculation of the number of books being read in the KU programme that they begin with seems to fail to account for the difference between the way numbers of pages are counted in print books and on Kindle, which makes one wonder a little).

I agree that the whole study - counting thing is no more than a numbers game, it does not really qualify as a literature review, but then where did they claim differently?

That listing is the original paper that the rebuttal paper is referring to, The rebuttal paper in this case is, Early Climate Change Consensus at the National Academy: The Origins and Making of Changing Climate (PDF)(Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences, Volume 40, Number 3, pp. 318 — 349, 2010)- Nicolas Nierenberg, Walter R. Tschinkel, Victoria J. Tschinkel Technically I am not counting any of those listed under this section anyway.

Some Thoughts about the Numbers: As noted above, the Stanford study's 2009 lawsuit count varies from previously published figures, including my own.

This was the conclusion reached in an oft - cited study at Columbia University, where researchers counted the number of verbal fillers used by professors during lectures given to undergraduate students in three separate academic divisions: the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities.27 The natural - sciences professors used the fewest verbal fillers, with a mean rate of 1.39 uhs per minute.28 The social - science professors had a mean rate of 3.84 uhs per minute, and the rate for humanities professors was 6.46 uhs per minute.

There doesn't seem to be any exhaustive study or official repository of the swipe failure of smart credit cards beyond the anecdotal stories found online — but Ben Einstein of Bolt, writing about «The Failure of Coin», explains why that's still a problem: it's not a huge deal if, say, your fitness tracker isn't 100 % accurate in the number of steps it counts, but even one or two failures with something important like a credit card or door lock can be incredibly costly.

A number of studies in the review indicated that the trackers» step - counting was accurate both in the lab and field, with only one study noting that Fitbit tends to overestimate at slower speeds and underestimate at the opposite.