Sentences with phrase «academics founded in»

The National Board of Review, a collection of film enthusiasts and academics founded in 1909, is better known for packing its annual awards dinner (to be hosted by Willie Geist on January 9) with big names than for predicting Oscars.

A few years ago, two pharmaceutical companies reported that they could not replicate the vast majority of academic findings in preclinical experiments.

Greater interactions with a range of people, regular working hours, generous compensation, and job stability are among the advantages academics find in the patenting world.

Not exact matches

His 2010 study found that students using goal - setting practices involving writing saw a significant improvement in academic performance.

According to the study, authored by Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian - American entrepreneur and academic, who is currently vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University, the proportion of immigrant - founded companies across the country has fallen nearly 4 % in the past seven years.

The company, founded in 2009, has developed a large clientele of academic research institutions, space agencies, mining firms and defence departments for its signature yellow - and - black products, thanks in part to the fact that Clearpath robots don't need someone holding a remote control to operate them.

Other academics have found that using benchmarked peer data results in a 17 % structural year - over-year increase in CEO pay, unrelated to his or her actual performance.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

«If you sincerely want the world to be a better place, and you believe business is a way to get there, then it's pure academic nonsense to set some arbitrary size limit above which you can not be a responsible company,» says Gary Hirshberg, who founded the organic yogurt maker Stonyfield Farm in Londonderry, N.H., in 1983.

A recent academic paper found that a 10 % decrease in house prices is associated with a 29 % drop in divorce rates among college educated couples.

Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»

In Kilduff's most recent research, which has yet to be published, he finds that U.S. universities engaged in a long - standing rivalry (Harvard vs. Yale, USC vs. UCLA) benefit from increased merchandise sales, as well as a a higher proportion of alumni who donate to the school, even after controlling for factors like academic and athletic ranIn Kilduff's most recent research, which has yet to be published, he finds that U.S. universities engaged in a long - standing rivalry (Harvard vs. Yale, USC vs. UCLA) benefit from increased merchandise sales, as well as a a higher proportion of alumni who donate to the school, even after controlling for factors like academic and athletic ranin a long - standing rivalry (Harvard vs. Yale, USC vs. UCLA) benefit from increased merchandise sales, as well as a a higher proportion of alumni who donate to the school, even after controlling for factors like academic and athletic rank.

According to The News & Observer, Wednesday's report «found a new culprit: the Academic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no actionAcademic Support Program for Student - Athletes... The report describes a fairly broad group of academic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no actionacademic and athletic officials who knew about athletes getting better grades in classes that only required papers, yet taking little or no action.»

There is strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats analysis (or SWOT thinking) and more than a fair share of theoretical or academic quadrants within which you can plug your business challenge and find a solution — in theory anyway.

The report also said that late in the academic year, the military found significant evidence of mismanagement and unprofessionalism at the sexual assault prevention office at the Air Force Academy.

And while these words are commonly found in everyday conversations, Steven D. Cohen, an award - winning speaker who leads career and academic workshops on public speaking at Harvard Extension School, argues that «they often detract from the listener's ability to understand a particular message.»

The notion promoted by the Canadian technology council that an arts education leads to better results in a wide range of other areas was repeatedly deflated: «There is no evidence for a link between theatre training and overall academic skill... We found no evidence that dance education improves overall academic skills or reading... There is no evidence that training in visual arts improves overall academic skills or literacy.»

An academic study from the country's largest university thus proclaims almost everyone in Canada's largest city in an apartment from the disco - era or earlier may soon find themselves out on the street.

What it's like: Karen Born finds a lot of flexibility in her role as a researcher and academic.

And various academic research has found Obamacare may actually lead to an increase in entrepreneurship, by providing an impetus for people to leave their jobs and start businesses without fear of losing health care coverage.

Founded in 2007, the cluster includes approximately 1,200 entities, ranging from large companies that develop finished products for sale (original equipment manufacturers, or OEMs) to academic research institutions.

Where copyright led to books being priced as luxury goods in the U.K., the threat of piracy forced German publishers to produce cheap editions for the masses alongside their premium - priced editions, resulting in a period that Höffner believes may have been the most lucrative ever for authors — he discovered, for example, that an obscure Berlin chemist earned more in royalties for a tract on how to tan leather than Mary Shelley did for writing Frankenstein — prompting more academics to publish their findings, and encouraging the spread of practical manuals in fields like medicine, engineering and agriculture.

My colleague Leslie Doolittle, assistant dean and director of academic support services at Bentley, has found that many millennials consider central to their lives the following priorities: family, friends and making a difference in their community.

Various academic and think tank studies have found that reductions in the small business tax rate disproportionately benefit wealthy individuals who incorporate their businesses in order to reduce their personal income tax burden, split income with family «shareholders» and avoid capital gains taxes.

Born in West Germany and raised in California, he became a chess prodigy, an academic star and a promising lawyer before settling down in the Bay Area to found companies.

Third, academic research has found that valuation metrics, such as the earnings yield (E / P) or the CAPE 10 earnings yield, and valuation spreads have predictive value in terms of future returns.

Coming back to the broader issue of data innovation, it is interesting to note that dataset merges have been behind a growing number of important academic studies and research findings in recent years.

The two left New York in 1980, spending an academic year in Philadelphia before settling in Western Massachusetts in 1981 — and founding Accurate Writing & More with an initial marketing cost of $ 12 and a total start - up under $ 200 (most of it for a 13 - year - old IBM Selectric typewriter).

Brittney Kaiser, a former employee for Cambridge Analytica — who left the company in January and is today giving evidence in front of a UK parliament committee that's investigating online misinformation — has suggested that data on far more Facebook users may have found its way into the consultancy's hands than the up to 87M people Facebook has so far suggested had personal data compromised as a result of a personality quiz app running on its platform which was developed by an academic working with CA.

Academic studies have found that a significant proportion of hedge fund interventions involve large increases in leverage and large decreases in investment, particularly in research and development.

MaRS was founded in 2001 by a visionary group of business, academic and community leaders.

DecisionWise research (as well as supporting academic studies) has found that those individuals who receive some type of coaching on their feedback, and set goals for development, experience significantly greater improvement than those who simply participate in the process and receive their reports.

In 2010, Dubroy founded the Shopper Marketing Forum, the largest conference in the country dedicated to shopper marketing, featuring retailers, academics, agencies and manufacturers from across North AmericIn 2010, Dubroy founded the Shopper Marketing Forum, the largest conference in the country dedicated to shopper marketing, featuring retailers, academics, agencies and manufacturers from across North Americin the country dedicated to shopper marketing, featuring retailers, academics, agencies and manufacturers from across North America.

By now you'll no doubt see the obvious correlations between them all as well, and the really interesting thing about it all is that in each and every one of them, both the ones I have reported on here as well as others we are yet to review, the lessons we take from them are not to be found in academic institutions.

We found the idea for the quality metric in an academic paper by Robert Novy - Marx called The Other Side of Value: Good Growth and the Gross Profitability Premium.

He was founding Editor - in - Chief of International Tax and Public Finance, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers from 1994 — 2001.

I found when our income dropped in our lower paying academic jobs the foreign tax credit got phased out.

In contrast to the above - noted businesses that you can literally start from scratch, freelance writing requires a relevant academic or professional background to find clients willing to give you writing assignments.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

«Although published academic research overwhelmingly supports passive management and finds that trading frequency is inversely correlated with performance, there are indeed instances where at least some degree of intervention may be warranted,» says John H. Robinson, founder of Financial Planning Hawaii in Honolulu.

Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

The functional meaning of this term (which is otherwise undefined) is found in the identity politics of our time, not in any academic pursuit.

«Additional research is required to have confidence in generalizations, but there are reasons to suspect that the broad findings are not unique to academic science,» said Ajay Agrawal, professor of entrepreneurship at the University of Toronto and one of the paper's authors.

Insofar as Crisis on Campus identifies pressing problems» the financial plight of universities and the difficulties graduate students have in finding permanent academic jobs» it can be useful.

Well, I can see in 2000 years, academics looking back at the «great persecution of Christians» and finding that the great persecutions of the early part of the third millennium AD were actually blog comments by anonymous people.

Lighter, more comic versions of this can be found in novels like Michael Chabon's Wonder Boys or Marisha Pessl's Special Topics in Calamity Physics, where bored students and academics wreck their lives or the lives of those around them in search of moments of excitement.

The variety of persons and views engaged, I confidently expect, is far greater than what might be found at a Jesuit seminary in Berkeley where academics churn out reviews unhindered by acquaintance with their subject.

Here the same opportunities for moral and spiritual building and the same dangers to academic freedom are found as are suggested in the preceding paragraph.

It is in this context that academic freedom finds meaning — it supports a plurality of voices and traditions (past and present) when debating what vision of human life maximizes flourishing, which is the ongoing project of any society that seeks to perpetuate itself.