Several years ago I read
about a study done on a group of small children who were taken to the top of a mountain where there was this wide open space that went on for miles and were told to go play.
I tell Gavrin
about a study done in San Francisco by Donald Abrams, an oncologist and prominent medical marijuana researcher.
You can read
about the studies done by Dr. Masaru Emoto's water blessings and how positive thought alters the crystalline structure of water.
I'm really curious
about this study done in University of Eastern Finland, which appears to say «High - cholesterol diet, eating eggs do not increase risk of heart attack, not even in persons genetically predisposed».
This is the way that students who are serious
about their studies do it; they hire our custom dissertation writing service and become worry free about their homework.
One that especially resonated for us was
about a study done at an Intel semiconductor factory in Israel.
You can read
about the study done in dogs in the US here and the one in the UK here.
Not exact matches
Specifically, I chose to stay open to learning in prison, which I
did, in terms of the specific subjects I
studied and the stuff I learned
about myself that I'd never known.
However, they declined to share the details
about the
study because
doing so may jeopardize «the integrity of the results.»
In one of these
studies, a group of students was instructed to think
about an important final exam while another group was told to make a specific
study plan with details of what they would
do, where, and when.
According to an independent
study done by nonprofit researchers SRI International, students who used Dreambox for four months improved their test scores by
about 5 percent.
You will need to
study it closely, and be prepared to devote a significant amount of time to
doing so»» the FDD will typically be
about 100 or 150 pages long (including attachments).
The
study found that, when it came to businesses thinking
about taking the plunge internationally, 46 % felt they didn't have the insights needed to identify markets for expansion, 63 % said they didn't know the steps required, and 24 % didn't even know where to start.
The
study looks at a range of incubators and accelerators, with the goal of understanding why these startup hubs are overwhelmingly white and male, and what can be
done about it.
Nevertheless, as the
study is the largest and longest
study of its kind, more research is likely needed before we reach any definitive conclusions
about how well it works — or doesn't.
It's an interesting model for rapidly educating software engineers, particularly considering that a recent
study about the New York tech industry found that half of New York City's technical work force doesn't have a traditional college education.
Prioritize customer service: According to a
study of last year's holiday trends, shoppers care as much
about the shopping experience as they
do about the gifts they buy.
Check out the Case
Study from our current issue
about about Able Planet, a Colorado - based audio technology company that had to figure out what to
do when its bank suddenly changed the terms of its $ 2.5 million line of credit.
Announcing your goals publicly is a tried - and - true way of dissuading yourself from weaseling out of them; one
study found people who talked
about their weight loss efforts on Twitter fared better than those who didn't.
And as the number of telecommuters increases (
studies suggest
about 35 % of employees
do some telecommuting, up from
about 20 % four years ago), attitudes toward productivity are also changing.
Academic
studies show that retail investors spend
about nine times as much effort in formulating buy decisions than they
do sell decisions.
A new
study showed that when it comes to cyber security, small business owners think its important to be prepared, but aren't really
doing anything
about it.
His worry is actually
about human testing in the field, but, he says, he's already talking to WHO
about how those
studies would be
done.
About 95 % of managers Jolly has
studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to
do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.
Lots of people are talking
about a
study put out this morning by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
about how the average Canadian CEO will earn as much by lunchtime today as the average Canadian
does in a year.
He has been
doing so for 10 years, a relationship that began when entrepreneurship professor David BenDaniel invited Keller to present a case
study about an instance in which Cascade was considering purchasing a plant in California.
I've culled the
studies that are neither useful nor funny - like the one that confirms women pretend to be happy
about gifts they don't like while men don't, causing fights - to offer you a quick guide to the science of the season:
O'Reilly says though the
study doesn't say anything
about viewers retaining the ads, knowing they're watching is half the battle.
«All of us grow up with a set of expectations
about what we're supposed to
do,» the
study's lead author, Harvard Business School professor Kathleen L. McGinn, tells Business Insider.
According to the Harris Poll's most recent «Reputation Quotient»
study, 60 % of consumers surveyed had decided not to
do business with a company because of something they learned
about how the company conducts itself.
The
study showed that women leaders have levels of life satisfaction
about equal to women who don't work outside the home.
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.
It doesn't take a carefully designed scientific
study to prove that bland, repetitive conversations
about the weather or your local sports team can bore you silly.
I got a scholarship to Oxford University to
study philosophy, but after
about a year, I decided I didn't want academics.
When asked specifically
about the green coffee bean extract, Oz cited a
study that found people who took the supplements
did lose weight.
But Darrell West, director of governance
studies at the Brookings Institution, has
done his best to comb through disclosure reports and, by combining that information with qualitative judgments
about softer forms of power, come up with a ranking of our new oligarchy.
«He's an extraordinary judge who is scrupulous
about getting the law right, and has the courage to
do that even when it angers powerful people,» says Minor Myers, a Brooklyn Law School professor who has
studied appraisal suits.
Passively listening to a lecture or even discussing a case
study about someone else doesn't provoke the anxiety, fear, exhilaration, and every other emotion that performing
does.
In the manufacturing industry, a recent
study by Boston Consulting Group found that by 2025, robots will
do about 25 percent of all industrial tasks — and that inexpensive robots are becoming increasingly available to smaller companies.
Rachel Clare: So lots of people have been talking
about the intermittent fasting diet recently mainly because there are small
studies that are showing that people
do lose weight on the intermittent fasting regime.
Business Insider previously spoke to Elena Belogolovsky, an assistant professor of human resource
studies at Cornell University, who said that you don't have to disclose salary information for every employee, but you need to give people concrete information
about how they can earn more.
It turns out that this
study by IBM and Digiday is just one of many recently published and illustrating just how disconnected companies have become between what they believe they are
doing to attract and retain their customers and how their customers actually feel
about them.
«If you have been living with a stress - is - debilitating mindset (like most of us), you don't have to be stuck with it,» she declares, citing a portion of the
study in which some participants were shown short videos guiding them to think more positively
about stress.
But great artists through the ages didn't need
studies to tell them
about the benefits of a little strategic disorder.
Think
about it — a certain amount of anxiety
about getting the job
done is often the motivating factor that actually gets college students to buckle down and
study for exams, or gets journalists to finally send something to their editor.
Much of what we think of as simple good fortune can be explained if we look hard, so forget
about a lucky horseshoe and
study what «luckier» people
do.
Grant once
studied a group of fundraisers at a phone bank where the turnover rate was 400 percent annually, «so the entire staff would quit
about every two months if you
do the math,» he says.
Those conditional gifts generated
about half the donations that high - quality unconditional gifts
did, according to the recent
study.
Richard Florida, the urban
studies theorist and author of «The Rise of the Creative Class» recently cited three particular Boulder ingredients that could help explain its start - up density: «talented people and a high quality of life that keeps them around, technological expertise, and an open - mindedness
about new ways of
doing things, which often comes from a strong counterculture.»
When researchers out of Russia examined the sleep and wakefulness rhythms of 130
study subjects (by keeping the obliging participants up for a full 24 hours and quizzing them periodically
about how they were feeling), the scientists found that some folks really didn't prefer early or late hours.