Sentences with phrase «university study of»

But a new Duke University study of nearly 29,000 trees at two research forests in North Carolina reveals it's not always a swift or predictable end.

A Duke University study of treated oil and gas wastewater finds that current water quality regulations are inadequate to prevent accumulation of radioactive material in surface waters.

A rigorous Northwestern University study of a quarter - century of data has found that economic insecurity is related to the rate of gun violence at K - 12 and postsecondary schools in the United States.

Well they all hang upside down, but a Brown University study of three species of bats in the journal Experimental Biology found at least two completely different methods of landing in that upside down position.

A North Carolina State University study of middle school science classes explored whether teachers» beliefs about climate change influenced students» perceptions.

An Emory University study of 872 infants found mothers who excessively drank and smoked cigarettes were more likely to give birth to a newborn with an infection.

According to a Stanford University study of 7,804 students, some 82 percent of middle - schoolers couldn't distinguish between an ad labeled «sponsored content» and a real news story on a website.

In fact, one Boston University study of 19,000 people concluded that for every additional 10 micrograms per cubic meter of bad air, your brain ages about two years.

Not exact matches

In one study out of the University of Tennessee, researchers showed that eating three servings of dairy daily significantly reduced body fat in obese subjects.

Earlier this year, for example, Judy Zaichkowsky of Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business published a study indicating that the presence of just one woman on a company's board resulted in significantly higher standards of corporate governance (which has an established correlation to better financial performance).

A recent study from the Wake Forest School of Medicine and the University of North Carolina found that listening to music can help people focus their attention, but — and here's the catch — only if it's music they like.

Richard J. Reddick is an associate professor of educational leadership and policy at the University of Texas at Austin, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies, the Institute for Urban Policy Research and Analysis, and the Warfield Center for African and African American Studies.

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

This second part of the competition is the subject of a new set of studies recently completed by the Lawrence Centre at Western University's Ivey Business School.

A five - year study by Brittany C. Solomon and Joshua J. Jackson of Washington University in St. Louis found that a spouse's personality has a significant impact on one's occupational success.

Using longitudinal data from the nine - decade - long Terman life - cycle study, which has followed the lives and career outcomes of a group of gifted children since 1922, researchers Timothy A. Judge of Notre Dame and John D. Kammeyer - Mueller of the University of Florida analyzed the characteristics of the most ambitious among them.

(Scotiabank did, however, start a «digital factory» in 2015, which professed to partner with fintech startups to develop new technologies, and gifted the University of Toronto with $ 1.75 million to study «disruptive technologies,» while several big - bank CEOs acknowledged that AI needed to be harnessed within the industry at a recent conference.)

While studying at the University of Pennsylvania, the natural entrepreneur would throw house parties and charge a cover fee of $ 5 to help him pay his rent.

In 2004, a psychology study by researchers at the University of Florida and the University of North Carolina found that for every inch you stand above the national average, you could earn an additional $ 789 (unadjusted) per year.

Kevin Johnson, Dean and Professor of Public Interest Law and Chicana / o Studies, University of California, Davis

«Yes, some of its tech will be stolen,» says Crystal Chang, a lecturer at University of California at Berkeley who studies China's auto market.

His LinkedIn page claims he studied at the University of Oxford in the U.K but does not list which college there.

Sarah is a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where she studied systems engineering and entrepreneurship.

For instance, one study out of Southern Methodist University revealed that writing about future goals makes you happier.

In a study of more than 5,100 adults, researchers from the University of Illinois found that those who were the most optimistic were 76 percent more likely to have health scores in an ideal range.

Before she was an Emmy - nominated actress and Hollywood star, Banks studied communications and theater arts at the University of Pennsylvania.

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland recently published findings from a series of studies in which 480 people were shown portraits of faces manipulated to appear warm or cold and competent or incompetent.

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

Calling it the «privacy paradox,» University of Michigan School of Information professor Cliff Lamp says in studying social computing he has found that people make a lot of noise when it comes to privacy, but push concerns aside in favor of convenience.

James Dean, an economist at Simon Fraser University who has studied sovereign - debt crises in Latin America, Asia and Europe over four decades, says one of the great paradoxes of sovereign debt is that countries can manage heavy burdens for a long time.

A peer - reviewed study by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Simon Fraser University, published recently in The International Journal of Drug Policy, pegged the retail value of marijuana consumption in B.C. alone at between $ 443 million and $ 564 million.

The study's lead author, Yorgi Mavros of Sydney University, was so impressed with the results that he has recommend twice - weekly weight training for all who want to keep their mental faculties sharp as they age.

According to a study by George Washington University and Zignal Labs, Sanders is the only candidate whose «echo» across the Internet has actually increased since his initial announcement of his bid for the presidency.

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

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.»

She graduated from Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, where she studied magazine journalism.

Small businesses flocked to social media in 2009, with their adoption of the technology doubling from 12 percent to 24 percent, says a new University of Maryland / Network Solutions study.

Commentary by George A. Lopez, the Hesburgh Professor Emeritus of Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame's Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies in the Keough School of Global Affairs.

She is a graduate of the London School of Economics - Peking University double MSc in International Affairs, where she studied history and political economy with a focus on US - China trade disputes.

The study, by University of Texas researchers Hsiang Iris Chyi and Ori Tenenboim, is entitled «Reality Check.»

«If something seems to be a nice invitation to join a group, I might ignore warning cues,» said Natalie Ebner, a University of Florida psychology professor and one of the phishing study's lead researchers.

Zach Sims founded Codecademy two years ago, after dropping out of Columbia University, where he was studying political science.

Yet, according to a study by Deloitte University Press, more than a third of firms struggle to instil purpose and passion in their staff.

That's the finding of a joint study by researchers at Columbia University and California State University.

According to a new study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, self - appointed job titles could reduce «emotional exhaustion» among stressed - out employees.

Ian MacGregor entered the oil and gas industry in 1969, splitting his time between studying mechanical engineering at the University of Calgary and doing shifts as a night watchman at the machine shop where his father worked.

DeAngelis graduated Cum Laude from Cornell University with a B.A. in Asian studies and history and also holds a Juris Doctorate from Rutgers School of Law.

One of the three experiments in the study had 30 university students refraining from eating and drinking between 11 p.m. and the time they arrived to the study lab the next day, which was either 8:30 a.m. or 9:15 a.m. Half of the participants were served breakfast before the experiment, the others went straight to the Iowa Gambling Task.

Total would like to keep sparking it by effectively articulating society's current and future needs, to make them topics of study and work with universities.

«What we found is that those with the lowest vitamin D levels experienced the greatest benefit from supplementation,» Dr. Adrian Martineau, study author and a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London, told NPR.