Sentences with phrase «about than some of his colleagues»

Not exact matches

Traders are suddenly worried about interest rates (although anyone older than 30 has to be amused that 2.85 % on the Treasury 10 - year is a source of panic), worried about inflation (although after the last decade of stagnant wages, Friday's 2.9 % rise should be cheered, not jeered), and worried about a tax - fueled spike in growth (with this report from Powell's Atlanta colleagues leading the way.)

Today's workers are pretty entitled when it comes to Olympics - watching during the workday: More than three - quarters say it's «appropriate» for them to take work time to watch a competition or check scores — and a surprising 56 % think it's just fine for them or their colleagues to spend half an hour of the workday watching, listening to, or reading about the games, and almost 10 % think it's reasonable to spend an hour or more concentrating on the Games instead of their jobs.

Over 4,000 employees and 100 employers in the UK were asked about their relationships at work, and 48 % of said they had strong friendships with more than one colleague.

The Gallup study showed about two - third of employees in offices or other work settings spend a large part of their workday «killing time» rather than actively engaging with their colleagues.

The other day a colleague of mine, who came to America from Russia via Israel, told me a story about her son who is in the eighth grade in a renowned progressive school in Cambridge, Massachusetts (than which no community could be more progressive).

Since then, I've used Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone as reference and reassurance, and bandied it about as proof to my younger colleagues that, when it comes to information, books are way better than the goddamned internet... Read the rest of Bon Appétit food director Carla Lalli Music's ode to this vegetarian «treasure trove.»

The group with the highest sodium - to - potassium ratio had a mortality risk about 50 % higher during the study than the group with the lowest, according to the report by Elena V. Kuklina, M.D., and colleagues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University, and the Harvard School of Public Health.

MFM will be partnering with edie for the two - day event, providing more than 600 attendees with new ideas about how to make their own companies more environmentally friendly — not least by encouraging employees and colleagues to cut down on the amount of meat they eat; making a small change to their diets in order to effect a big change in the way we live.

More of his colleagues joined the movement after Trump fired back at the congressman on Twitter, saying he should spend more time fixing his «crime - infested district» than «falsely complaining» about the election results.

Shorty before midnight, the chamber's Republicans — who are outnumbered by their Democratic colleagues by a margin greater than two - to - one — began peppering Morelle with questions about the technical minutiae of making the chamber paperless.

«She would actually challenge Cuomo intellectually about the policies around progressive ideals because she probably knows the policies better than he does,» said Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal Democracy Forum and a colleague of Teachout's at the Sunlight Foundation, which promotes transparency in government.

House members running for a different office, most of whom are seeking promotions to the Senate, have missed about 10 percent more roll call votes this month through Sept. 22 than their colleagues seeking re-election, according to a Roll Call analysis.

At the center of the debate is whether the deficit is really $ 62 million or $ 80 million, except in Meyers» case, as he believes the deficit to actually be more than $ 80 million, and voted against the bond because he does not think his colleagues are serious about balancing the budget.

When the remnant reemerged from the sun's veil on December 4, it was about four times brighter than when it was last spotted, Daryl Haggard of McGill University in Montreal and her colleagues report January 18 in Astrophysical Journal Letters.

And in work Cappelluti and his colleagues are now preparing for publication, they show that some of the infrared and x-ray patchiness matches, across a swath of sky about three times larger than previously tested.

Botanist Richard Condit of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institution in Balboa, Panama, and colleagues systematically worked through six plots of 25 or 50 hectares each — for a grand total of about 715 soccer fields worth of terrain — in rainforests of Asia and Central America, keying out every tree with a trunk thicker than 1 centimeter.

In the first of three studies for their recent paper, Ehrlinger and her colleagues found that students who hold a fixed mindset about intelligence were more overconfident about their performance on a multiple - choice test than those with a growth mindset.

Nickerson acknowledged in her testimony that on more than one occasion she yelled at Perez - Melgosa in front of colleagues about problems with the research.

For example, Tamara Gurvits, Roger Pitman, and their colleagues at the Manchester VA Medical Center and Harvard Medical School have studied combat PTSD patients and reported that one side of the hippocampus was about 25 percent smaller than expected.

In a 2016 study, Kalra and a colleague showed that self - driving cars would have to trek hundreds of millions or perhaps billions of miles to demonstrate with comfortable certainty that they caused fewer fatalities than the average person (about 1.1 per 100 million miles driven).

Using food wastes rather than food What is new about the work of Lin and her colleagues is their success in refining food waste, rather than processing grains that might otherwise be used for food.

In January 2005, for example, Ohio State University geophysicist Ralph von Frese and his colleagues noticed a concentration of higher - than - average - density material in the rock about a mile under the surface of the East Antarctic ice sheet.

By comparing their gas cloud data with equivalent measurements made in laboratories on Earth, Webb and his colleagues have hypothesized that the fine - structure constant today is about a thousandth of a percent larger than it was 8 billion years ago.

But von Hippel, Gilmore and their colleagues used the Hubble Space Telescope, and this allowed them to identify and measure the temperature of white dwarfs as faint as 25th magnitude, which is about 100 million times fainter than any star visible with the naked eye.

Blumenstock and colleagues suggest that governments might use this sort of survey process, which costs about $ 10,000, rather than spend millions on a formal countrywide census.

In another 2011 study psychologist Stevan Hobfoll of Rush Medical College and his colleagues reported that of 763 Palestinians living in areas rife with political violence, more than 70 percent exhibited moderate PTSD symptoms and about 26 percent had severe symptoms.

An examination of millions of studies of molecules that play a role in biological function reveals that «scientists in this field were about 10-fold less efficient [at making new discoveries] than they could have been,» one of the paper's co-authors, computational biologist Andrey Rzhetsky of the University of Chicago (UC) in Illinois, told our colleague John Bohannon on publication day.

Looking to the future, Jbabdi anticipates having to work harder than British colleagues to find a fellowship because, as a non-European, he is not eligible for about half of those he might have applied for.

Miller - Struttmann and her colleagues then compared other decades - old data about plants visited by the bees with recent work on bee visits, and discovered that these two species had acquired broader tastes than their recent ancestors, taking nectar from many more kinds of flowers than before.

But he and his colleagues were looking for new ways to manipulate and assemble tiny pieces of tissue using magnets — a much harder feat, he says, because for an object smaller than about 20 microns, «the magnetic force scales so much down that it couldn't lift its own gravitational weight.»

R. J. Rayner and colleagues of the University of Witwaters - rand say that about 3 million years ago the Makapan area was much wetter and greener than it is today; the valley was shallower, the soil was more fertile and there was no pronounced dry season.

In one of the five studies, Junjie Liu of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and colleagues report a major increase in carbon release occurring in the tropics; about 2.5 gigatons more carbon was released from land into the atmosphere in 2015, when El Niño occurred, than in 2011.

Working with colleagues at LaamScience, Michielsen has found a way to transform ordinary cotton, nylon, polyester, and just about every other common textile into wearable weapons that could eradicate 99.9 percent of viruses and some bacteria in less than an hour.

Dr. Rajkumar and his colleague, Hagop Kantarjian, M.D., of MD Anderson Cancer Center, say the average price of cancer drugs for about a year of therapy increased from $ 5,000 to $ 10,000 before 2000 to more than $ 100,000 by 2012.

Atmospheric scientist Junjie Liu of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and her colleagues report that the tropics of Asia, Africa and South America together released about 2.5 gigatons more carbon into the atmosphere in 2015 than they did in 2011, a cooler and wetter La Niña year.

«One implication is that female legislators might talk about politics and deliberately engage the other party more than their male colleagues,» said Patrick Miller, assistant professor of political science.

When he and his colleagues at Scripps and Brigham Young University ran a methane reaction with thallium — a main group metal — alkanes pushed the solvent molecules aside 22 orders of magnitude faster than when the reaction was run with iridium, reducing the overall energy required by about one - third, they report online today in Science.

Chad Lembke and colleagues at the University of South Florida in St Petersburg have designed an algorithm that enables a camera to detect the true horizon — rather than the edge of a nearby wave — even as it is tossed about in the open ocean.

At the more moderate pace of 5.5 kilometers per hour, a 29 - kilogram load can generate about 4 watts, more than enough to operate a number of small portable devices at once, such as a cell phone, handheld GPS, PDA, and even night vision goggles, Rome and colleagues report 9 September in Science.

In 2009, Steven Goldman of the University of Rochester Medical Center in New York and his colleagues reported that human astrocytes are bigger, and have about 10 times as many fingerlike projections that contact other brain cells and blood vessels, than those of mice.

Dr Hedman and her colleagues questioned more than 30,000 people, who were randomly selected from the general population in Sweden, about their smoking habits, use of e-cigarettes and respiratory symptoms.

Trotti, Maness and colleagues didn't set out to dive into ME / CFS — they explicitly label this paper a pilot study, and the results say more about the «hypersomnolent» group of patients they have been seeing for the last several years, rather than the broader ME / CFS population.

According to a new analysis in the journal Ecological Monographs, by researchers at the University of Wisconsin — Madison and colleagues, the world's rivers and streams pump about 10 times more methane into our atmosphere than scientists estimated in previous studies.

But John Branda, associate director of the Clinical Microbiology Laboratory at Massachusetts General Hospital, and his colleagues published research in August about a test intended to detect Borrelia infection earlier than would any of the methods now commonly used for the diagnosis of Lyme disease.

We have found that LGBTQ - identified researchers are less likely to be open about their identities in professional or educational settings than they are in their personal lives, but that specific employer policies can improve openness and comfort in the workplace — and that LGBTQ - identified people are more likely to be open to their colleagues if they work in STEM fields with better representation of women.

He taught me a lot about evolutionary medicine and nutrition in general, opened many doors and introduced me (directly and indirectly) to various players in this field, such as Dr. Boyd Eaton (one of the fathers of evolutionary nutrition), Maelán Fontes from Spain (a current research colleague and close friend), Alejandro Lucia (a Professor and a top researcher in exercise physiology from Spain, with whom I am collaborating), Ben Balzer from Australia (a physician and one of the best minds in evolutionary medicine), Robb Wolf from the US (a biochemist and the best «biohackers I know»), Óscar Picazo and Fernando Mata from Spain (close friends who are working with me at NutriScience), David Furman from Argentina (a top immunologist and expert in chronic inflammation working at Stanford University, with whom I am collaborating), Stephan Guyenet from the US (one of my main references in the obesity field), Lynda Frassetto and Anthony Sebastian (both nephrologists at the University of California San Francisco and experts in acid - base balance), Michael Crawford from the UK (a world renowned expert in DHA and Director of the Institute of Brain Chemistry and Human Nutrition, at the Imperial College London), Marcelo Rogero (a great researcher and Professor of Nutrigenomics at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil), Sérgio Veloso (a cell biologist from Portugal currently working with me, who has one of the best health blogs I know), Filomena Trindade (a Portuguese physician based in the US who is an expert in functional medicine), Remko Kuipers and Martine Luxwolda (both physicians from the Netherlands, who conducted field research on traditional populations in Tanzania), Gabriel de Carvalho (a pharmacist and renowned nutritionist from Brazil), Alex Vasquez (a physician from the US, who is an expert in functional medicine and Rheumatology), Bodo Melnik (a Professor of Dermatology and expert in Molecular Biology from Germany, with whom I have published papers on milk and mTOR signaling), Johan Frostegård from Sweden (a rheumatologist and Professor at Karolinska Institutet, who has been a pioneer on establishing the role of the immune system in cardiovascular disease), Frits Muskiet (a biochemist and Professor of Pathophysiology from the Netherlands, who, thanks to his incredible encyclopedic knowledge and open - mind, continuously teaches me more than I could imagine and who I consider a mentor), and the Swedish researchers Staffan Lindeberg, Tommy Jönsson and Yvonne Granfeldt, who became close friends and mentors.

We spoke so much, that I know more personal details about him than I do most of my work colleagues.

Entertaining yet uneven, Easy A follows smart - alecky high schooler Olive Pendergast (Emma Stone) as she becomes the focus of gossip after word gets out that she lost her virginity to a college student - with the situation escalating as Olive agrees to perpetuate similar rumors about her exploits with several less - than - popular colleagues.

Of the bunch, Jennifer Ehle stands out as Maya's colleague Jessica, for while you can see her predicament coming from miles away, writer Mark Boal peppers the lead - up with so many intimate details that having the time to think about what's coming is more effective than the shock value of a surprisOf the bunch, Jennifer Ehle stands out as Maya's colleague Jessica, for while you can see her predicament coming from miles away, writer Mark Boal peppers the lead - up with so many intimate details that having the time to think about what's coming is more effective than the shock value of a surprisof a surprise.

By the time we meet one of Miss Peregrine's colleagues in the form of a dowdy Judi Dench, the film creates more questions than it answers about these women, such as the disparity in their age, and why, exactly is their kind always female?