Sentences with phrase «as study hours»

In recent decades as study hours have expanded, so has the country's rate of nearsightedness — to epidemic proportions.

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In K. Anders Ericsson's famous study of violinists, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell as the «10,000 hour rule,» Anders found that the best violinists spent more time practicing than the merely good students.

A recent study showed teens are spending as much as nine hours a day, and the average person is spending roughly two hours.

As the International Buiness Times points out, recent studies «found that disrupted sleep schedules of six - hour bouts decreased metabolism in volunteers, which could translate to annual weight gain of 10 pounds.»

Life is full of little annoyances, but study after study ranks facing rush hour traffic or a packed train as the absolute bottom of the barrel.

The average time spent on private activities, such as online shopping, checking social media and emails, personal phone calls, and chatting with colleagues sucks up an estimated 1.5 to 3 hours per day, according to studies cited by The Atlantic.

Building strategic pauses into your study schedule where you do as little as possible for a few minutes will likely help you memorize more information more quickly than endless unbroken hours at your desk.

And as a new study published in Health Physics recently explored, everyday foods and objects (yes, even the beloved avocado) emit a very small dose of radiation every hour.

The No - Facebook group experienced this hit to their life - satisfaction despite the fact they reported an average of more than two hours extra face - to - face socialising on the Sunday during the study period compared to the Facebook - as - normal group.

(PS - if you're having a low - energy day and don't feel like hitting the gym after a study session, you might want to know that previous research has also suggested napping for less than an hour helps cement memories as well).

This is unsurprising, both because executive compensation has become one of the hot topics of the day (or rather, of the post-Occupy era) and because the study highlights the fact that if you look at the Top 100 Canadian CEOs (in terms of salary), the average Top 100 CEO earns as much in four hours as the average Canadian makes in an entire year (i.e., about $ 46,000).

Bloom and Liang found study participants who worked from home also put in more hours and took fewer sick days, thanks to not having to commute as well as the ability to start earlier in the day.

The study found that there are 17.9 million «solopreneurs» in the United States, defined as those who regularly put in 15 hours or more of solo work per week.

A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage business owners from basing their businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their businesses outside of Washington.28

Productivity godfather Benjamin Franklin provides a bespectacled case study: As Green notes, the Founding Father enjoyed an air bath every morning, wherein he spent an hour of reading and writing whilst totally nude.

Per a recent Financial Planning Association's (FPA) study [2], the cost of developing and building an initial financial plan is coming in at around $ 2,600 on average (which includes the cost of the advisor spending up to 13 hours interviewing the investor as a basis for the plan).

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

In a study of his earlier pictures, Kolker notes that «Scorsese is interested in the psychological manifestations of individuals who are representative either of a class or of a certain ideological grouping; he is concerned with their relationship to each other or to an antagonistic environment... [and finally] there is no triumph for his characters» (A Cinema of Loneliness [Oxford University Press, 19881, p. 162) The Jesus of the Last Temptation fits this pattern (as do Travis Bickel in Taxi Driver, Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull and Paul Hackett in After Hours) By eschewing any reference to a resurrection — and, in an interesting theological note, allowing Paul to suggest that his preaching of the risen Christ is more important than the Jesus of history — Scorsese presents the crucifixion as the final willful act of a man driven by a God who makes strange demands on his followers.

The suspect in the shooting, identified as 21 - year - old Dylann Storm Roof, reportedly attended the evening Bible study for an hour before opening fire, according to CNN.

Taking into account viewing duplication and correcting for the fact that the diaries may underreport by as much as 15 per cent, the study says that the number of people who have watched at least one - quarter hour of religious television per week is about 13.3 million, or 6.2 per cent of the national television audience.

As caterpillars of faith, we happily munched through everything: Bible studies, home groups, prayer meetings, worship songs, four - hour sermons.

I have left the pastorate so that I can better learn and study theology, but some days, as I spend hours on boring paperwork and mindless meetings, I think to myself, «I could be studying theology right now.»

We vary it and have other topics on different Sundays but we have an interactive sermon with questions asked and answered as well as a second hour where we study lewis Sperry Chafer's book on 52 topics from the Word.

I think everybody else is learning just as much and maybe more, but I really miss those hours of intense study and sermon preparation.

They volunteer 7 times as many hours as does the general population, according to a 2012 University of Pennsylvania study.

As he glanced about the room straining to catch the expressions on his students» faces, they recognized a scholar who was almost blind from long hours of study.

It has been argued that the word «knoweth» is used in this verse because in the original language of the book of Matthew, the meaning was «to know instinctively» as in no man knoweth the hour nor the day instinctively but could possibly learn it through a study of God's word.

Coconut water rehydrated study subjects as effectively as a commercial sports drink after an hour of dehydrating exercise.

My sister is currently studying for exams and being the fab sister that I am I decided to make her bliss balls to cheer her up (and maybe earn some brownie points along the way...) Being as indecisive as I am I couldn't choose one flavour to make so a few hours later I ended up with seven different types of bliss balls (I might have gotten a little carried away!)

I want to learn how to be motivated and focused for 12 + hours a day for the next 5 months as I study for the Step 1 USMLE exam!

In between your long hours of classes, parties, studies, parties, dormitory filibusters, lectures and parties, as well as those interminable trips to the, ahem, library, you have undoubtedly noticed that the ancient notion — rehashed and bashed though it may be — that college life revolves around its athletic teams has never been more accurate.

I guess this cancer wasn't aware that I'm used to doing six - minute elbow bridges, have sat in the bow of a boat in eight inches of freezing water for an entire two - hour practice, have climbed Half Dome three times in under 3 1/2 hours, and can hold my own as 60 girls attack a feast of Kappa study snacks during finals.

Studies show children and teens who spend twice as many hours a week in organized sports than in free play are prone to injuries at a greater rate.

A second study, conducted by researchers at the University of Minnesota's Institute of Child Development, found that in children younger than age 3, levels of the stress hormone cortisol rose in the afternoon during full days in day care, but fell as the hours passed when they were cared for at home.

We spoke intensely about preparing for the future, and I started to wonder if I should have studied how to be better «wife material» as much as I studied ontology and the happy hour menu at The Heights.

According to a 2010 study, U.S. youth ages eight to 18 spend an average of seven hours, 38 minutes each day using entertainment media such as a television and computer.

• In UK studies (Herbert and Carpenter, 1994), fathers reported returning to work very soon after their child's birth and working longer hours than usual; in New Zealand studies (e.g. Ballard, 1994), fathers reported that they consumed more alcohol and more frequently as a way of dealing with their own emotional trauma.

One study found that preschoolers can ask 75 questions per hour, not as bids for attention but to «extract» information from the adults around them.

One study reported that waiting up to 24 hours, known as expectant management, didn't increase the risk of complications as long as mom and baby didn't have an infection.

When I finally had a chance to speak, we were already running over the 2 1/2 hours allotted for the roundtable, so I was only able to briefly touch on two of my many message points: one, that the game can be and is being made safer, and two, that, based on my experience following a high school football team in Oklahoma this past season - which will be the subject of a MomsTEAM documentary to be released in early 2013 called The Smartest Team - I saw the use of hit sensors in football helmets as offering an exciting technological «end around» the problem of chronic under - reporting of concussions that continues to plague the sport and remains a major impediment, in my view, to keeping kids safe (the reasons: if an athlete is allowed to keep playing with a concussion, studies show that their recovery is likely to take longer, and they are at increased risk of long - term problems (e.g. early dementia, depression, more rapid aging of the brain, and in rare cases, chronic traumatic encephalopathy, and in extremely rare instances, catastrophic injury or death.)

This study highlights that there are additional barriers for Asian fathers such as language problems, long unsocial working hours, supporting dependant elderly relatives in Pakistan and cultural barriers such as the mixing of unrelated men and women.

When eight volunteers were confined to darkness for 14 hours a day, they began the study by sleeping about 11 hours at a stretch, as if they were catching up on their sleep.

CARRYING: Studies indicate that babies who are carried by a parent in his or her arms or in a carrier for at least three hours during the day cry less than infants who aren't carried as much.

The study captured the opinions and behaviors of more than 5,000 moms and members of the general population as well as an ethnography study of 23 moms that included over 1,000 text logs, 200 video entries, and 32 hours of in - home interviews.

The amount of time kids spend in front of a screen today is frightening (recent studies show children ages 2 - 11 are watching as much as 32 hours a week!)

The study also suggest that the SAC may be best used and compared with baseline in the period immediately after a suspected concussion, as injured subjects have been found to demonstrate significant improvement in SAC scores 48 hours after injury.

One study found that the average young infant spends 5.7 hours / day in a car seat or similar sitting device.126 However, there are multiple concerns about using sitting devices as a usual infant sleep location.

As the Ontario study showed, by the time students reach Grade 11, only 25 per cent are getting at least eight hours of shuteye.

A very important study has come out that has shown that teenagers who watch 2 or more hours of television per day have higher rates of mood disorders such as depression and sleep problems.

But on visiting each of the three classrooms, I brightened — seeing the joy and hope on the girls» faces as they talked about what they loved studying (e.g., Amharic, English, science, math), what they hoped to be (e.g., pilot, doctor, engineer, driver, teacher, community mentor for BiruhTesfa), and what the best / worst parts of their days are (unanimously, best = being at school, worst = work hours).