Sentences with phrase «as a control group in»

Moreover, many were so pleased with the hospice care they were receiving that they did not pursue painful last - ditch efforts, visiting «the emergency room half as often» as the control group in traditional hospice.

Women participated in all the experiments sex dating services, while men were included as a control group in one.

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In 2015, less than a year after retiring as CEO of convenience store giant Alimentation Couche - Tard, the executive chairman, along with his three co-founders, put forward a resolution to extend their time - limited voting control — the group holds 22 % of the company's equity — to ward off any future takeover attempts.

Con artists are a crafty group of people who know exactly how to deceive and control their victims, but their methods are as obvious as a slap in the face if you know what to look for.

While the project is massive, it's just one of the Aquilinis» many high - profile, highly profitable ventures: Through Aquilini Investment Group, now more than 50 years old, the family controls one of British Columbia's biggest development conglomerates, as well as its NHL team, the Rogers Arena, blueberry and cranberry farms, restaurants and some $ 80 - million worth of vineyard properties in Washington state.

When the results of the folks who had recorded a positive memory — an intervention known as «self - affirmation» in psychology lingo — were compared with a control group from the same soup kitchen, they performed markedly better.

In 1999, Ferro joined ST as Group Vice President Corporate Finance, overseeing finance and accounting for all the Company's worldwide affiliates, tax planning, internal control, internal audit, and finance for M&A.

BERLIN, May 2 - Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

BERLIN, May 2 (Reuters)- Volkswagen's labour leaders should focus on staff - related matters and not get involved in other aspects of management, the head of the carmaker's controlling shareholder group was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

The idyllic Pacific coast town of Acapulco in Mexico's Guerrero state once welcomed Hollywood stars and honeymooners, but the city has suffered a wave of bloody violence in recent years, as cartels and criminal groups battle for control.

Tinder, the hookup app whose corporate parent, Match Group, is controlled by billionaire Barry Diller, has cited as evidence an October 2015 story in The Post that interviewed 3nder's founder.

The NEJM letter also analyzed the use of two drugs that remained stable in price over that time period, as a control group — nitroglycerin and dobutamine.

Electronic firearm tracking technology is defined as «a platform, system or device or a group of systems or devices that uses a shared ledger, distributed ledger or block chain technology or any other similar form of technology or electronic database for the purpose of storing information in a decentralized or centralized way, that is not owned or controlled by any single person or entity and that is used to locate or control the use of a firearm.»

In its lawsuit against ListHub, Zillow Group is claiming that its acquisition of Trulia was not technically a «change of control» because the acquisition was structured so that Trulia remained intact as a corporate entity, Walmsley said.

As manager of the firm's Corporate Governance Consulting Group with over 30 years of experience in the field, Bill has guided companies through a wide range of governance and takeover challenges, including contentious shareholder proposals and compensation - based initiatives, proxy contests, tender offers, and other corporate control matters.

Two weeks ago, the Antitrust Authority approved Levy as a partner with a 20 % holding in Cofix Group Ltd. (TASE: CFX), which runs a chain of discount cafes and discount supermarkets in partnership with Green Lantern, controlled by Richard Hunter.

In 2012, Delek Group reached an agreement to sell Gadot Biochemicals to FIMI Opportunity Funds, controlled by Ishay Davidi, but the deal fell through, as did deals with other reported candidates for a possible acquisition.

I think the issue here is whether any amateur fund manager (which I think is what we all are — including those financial advisers who create their own «homegrown» portfolios using trackers and bond funds) can seriously manage a portfolio for income or for growth and control against downside risk (in equities or bonds) as well as a good active management group like Invesco perpetual or M&G.

Founded in 1925, Erie Insurance Group provides insurance services to clients across a dozen states, and has offered remote jobs for positions such as property adjuster, material damage adjuster, nurse case coordinator, and senior risk control consultant.

Organizers at national gun control groups, who provided logistical support and public relations advice as the students planned the Washington rally, said they believed that the students would not become disillusioned by the lack of immediate action in Congress.

As well as acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in HoustoAs well as acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houstoas acting as tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houstoas tribute to the early leadership of the program and the group of young people that formed around the Mission Operations Control Room (MOCR) in Houston.

Ad Age's E.J. Schultz reports that Volkswagen Group «launched a global creative agency review for its namesake brand as executives at the German auto giant look to centralize marketing control and improve VW's image in wake of the 2015 emissions scandal.»

In recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselveIn recent weeks, racial justice activists and civil rights groups have noted that gun violence in black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselvein black communities, rather than inspiring reform legislation or prompting national outcry, is often framed as the result of black people being unable to control themselves.

1We chose the control group, because securities in the test groups have seen a substantial increase in fragmentation as market makers seek to improve their queue position when providing liquidity.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Many of the states affected by human - caused earthquakes have acknowledged the phenomenon, but, as The New York Times notes, «state regulators around the country have not gone as far in controlling industry practices as environmental groups have asked, and there is little sign that the new federal findings will goad them to go farther.»

As you suggested, the social pecking order then kicks in so that the group enforces the leader's control.

Thousands of Christians have fled Iraq's second - largest city as an Islamist terror group solidifies its control over Christianity's main remaining stronghold in the struggling nation.

In the Old Testament taken as a whole, the controlling and creative factor is the social group.

We controlled for a variety of other factors that may also have influenced STI rates in particular areas and we also used older age groups, unaffected by the schemes, as a further control.

Silcox and Fisher agreed that «philosophical differences» among the groups they studied were powerful, such as in arguments over birth control.

Generally defined as «dominating, restraining, or controlling another forcibly,» coercion involves interference with freedom, where «interference» means that the freedom in question is lessened in comparison with what it would have been had the interfering individual or group not acted at all, and this broad designation leaves open to dispute what kinds of interference are immoral.

Police and governmental controls on such groups — and they have in America always included a significant proportion of the common people as well as the upper classes — have been minimal compared to most European or Asian societies.

In elite capitalism, where a small group of families may control the vast majority of land, capital, or other resources, this openness to competition is seen as a threat and is not present.

If one asks, what are the possible roads to a world without war, that essential way - station on the way to freedom of information in anecologically organized world, Arthur Waskow answers that there are five: (a) Control of the nation - state system through stabilizing the balance of power and reducing international tensions but keeping the weapons; (b) Reform of the system through total disarmament without abandoning national sovereignty or the pursuit of national interest; (c) Extension of the system through the creation of a federal world government; (d) Fragmentation of the system through increases in the power of extra-national associations and Institutions across national boundaries, and corresponding decreases in state power as these occupational, industrial, scientific, and other groups gradually expropriate from the national governments the power to make decisions within their own fields; and (e) Abolition of the system through substituting love f or coercion.20.»

If you believe otherwise, you are (by default), stating that your deity is, in fact in favor of a special and elevated group of individuals (such as yourself and your favorite authors) who can and should control others faith by virtue of their special understanding of this god and his «inspired» word.

More emphasis needs to be placed upon the difference between the function of the purely voluntary group, such as one finds in a church, and the controlled and not so voluntary group found in the classes of a theological school.

Given a similar wave in November's mid-terms, with the GOP now controlling two - thirds of state legislatures and 31 governors» offices, 2015 appears just as promising to pro-life groups.

The Guardian: Mali: no rhythm or reason as militants declare war on music When a rabble of different Islamist groups took control of northern Mali in April there were fears that its rich culture would suffer.

(breeding and education designed to produce only the best individual types) and racial eugenics (the grouping or intermixing of different ethnic types being not left to chance but effected as a controlled process in the proportions most beneficial to humanity as a whole), both, as I well know, present apparently insuperable difficulties, administrative and psychological.

Broadly defined, such a system is one in which the decision - making process and control are concentrated in the hands of persons or groups whose interests are so fundamentally inimical to the well - being of life as a whole.

The plant is less coordinated as a subject than an animal and is more like a democracy of cells in which no particular group of cells has a central control.

However some groups with tightly controlled boundaries, that is, specific and demanding requirements for membership, are also highly conversionist, as in the case of Krishna Consciousness and Jesus

«Just as Catholics for a Free Choice and other such groups suggest to the general public that not all Catholics agree with positions adopted by their bishops on birth control, abortion and in - vitro fertilization, so will the Religious Right serve to suggest that not all Catholics accept the positions of church leaders in social justice matters,» writes Richard J. Dowling, executive director of the Maryland Catholic Conference.

And I am even more angry as a legislator who must endure the threats of every religious group who thinks it has some God - granted right to control my vote on every roll call in the Senate.

So while I don't like that religious groups attempt to control what others do, so long as they aren't doing it in government (or directly infringing on others rights, which is generally against the law anyway) they are free to do as they feel is right.

If I have made errors in the text (a knowledgeable correspondent for the Simon Wiesenthal Center pointed out several which he did not consider «alarming»), they still do not compare with Grossman's assumption that I hoped to convert Farrakhan's minions, Grossman's disregard for my warning to the reader that a lie must repeatedly be refuted, Grossman's invention that «according to him [Friedman], Jews as a group were never rich or powerful enough to control anything,» or the arrogance that informs Grossman's review.

Bioagricert srl was born in 1984 with the name of Bioagricoop scrl when a group of technicians and experts started to work as Independent Certification and Control Body.

Study participants were randomly assigned to one of two groups: those who were allowed to drink diet beverages, such as diet soft drinks, teas and flavoured waters, or those who were in a control group that drank water only.

Hakkasan Ltd., the prestigious global restaurant and nightlife group, announced today the acquisition of a controlling stake in Enlightened Hospitality Group (EHGRP), a San Diego - based hospitality development company, as well as a full acquisition of the renowned Stingaree nightclub in San Dgroup, announced today the acquisition of a controlling stake in Enlightened Hospitality Group (EHGRP), a San Diego - based hospitality development company, as well as a full acquisition of the renowned Stingaree nightclub in San DGroup (EHGRP), a San Diego - based hospitality development company, as well as a full acquisition of the renowned Stingaree nightclub in San Diego.