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Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

Before performing her notable role as Selene in «Underworld,» Beckinsale studied French and Russian literature at Oxford University's New College, and she still fluently speaks French and Russian as well as German.

The study's lead author, Yorgi Mavros of Sydney University, was so impressed with the results that he has recommend twice - weekly weight training for all who want to keep their mental faculties sharp as they age.

Luskin's writing was influenced by one of the most cited academic studies on whistleblowers, a 1985 academic report by researchers at the Ohio State University, who conluded that «that whistleblowing is appropriately viewed as «prosocial» behavior, that is behavior that involves both egoistic and altruistic motives.»

After completing her gap year, she plans to attend Harvard University as a sociology and African - American studies double major.

Ian MacGregor entered the oil and gas industry in 1969, splitting his time between studying mechanical engineering at the University of Calgary and doing shifts as a night watchman at the machine shop where his father worked.

Encouragement and appreciation can also prompt employees to give you their best work, as evidenced by a study conducted at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

«It seems that as long as President Trump is in the White House, it's certain the North Koreans will be far more cautious,» said Andrei Lankov, a historian at Kookmin University in Seoul who once studied in Pyongyang.

As a junior studying geography at Colgate University, Jake extensively researched the negative effects of single - use plastic on the oceanic ecosystem for his final thesis.

In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

Ever new studies feed the flow of novelties, such as pillows and duvets filled with Swiss stone pine strands that, according to the University of Graz, induce better sleep.

For more about millennials» opinions of employee loyalty and long - term goals, as well as the importance of health care and working for an ethical company, check out the infographic below and Bentley University's study.

In 2014 — seven years after the suspected Russian hack — engineers at the University of Michigan studied Estonia's online - voting system and concluded that determined hackers — such as Russian operatives — could feasibly penetrate it, creating fake votes or altering the totals in order to rig elections «quite possibly without a trace,» they wrote in their report.

Melissa Surette, who has studied prisons and emergency preparedness as a researcher at Northeastern University, has documented a history of correctional facilities being hit hard by disasters.

In fact, he most likely would not be a millionaire today if it weren't for the advice he received from a former professor while studying as an undergraduate at Biola University.

Leahy agrees: Personality assessments conducted as part of the Texas A&M University study found that people who are more risk averse and who have more self control were more apt to choose and be successful with the snowball method.

SS: I went to the University of Toronto to study civil engineering with the idea that I wanted to be an architect, but as I talked to more and more architects, they all warned me I shouldn't go into the field — there was no money in it.

Wang Kao - cheng, the dean of the Tamkang University College of International Studies in Taiwan, said Mr. Trump's comments on the «One China» policy - and other recent changes to the trilateral relationship among Taiwan, the US, and China - might have triggered Beijing's efforts in São Tomé and Príncipe, as The Taipei Times reported.

Strebulaev offers that advice based on the results of a study he recently coauthored with one of his former Stanford doctoral students, William Gornall (now at the University of British Columbia), as well as Paul Gompers of Harvard and Steven N. Kaplan of the University of Chicago.

One reason may be because Cambodian companies have been able to position themselves as low - cost, reliable alternatives to Chinese factories, where wages are rising, according to Afshin Molavi, senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies.

A University of Essex study found individuals» sense of well - being was boosted by as little as five minutes of outdoor exercise.

Professional organizations can use mindfulness more thoughtfully to support goals such as change readiness, agility and resilience, according to a study from Cranfield University and The Institute for Employment Studies.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

«It's baked into their DNA to be focused on the long term, as their focus is to maintain the family business and wealth,» says Matt Fullbrook, manager of the Clarkson Centre for Business Ethics and Board Effectiveness (CCBE) at the University of Toronto, which has been studying the underlying reasons for the curious strength of family firms.

According to a recent study from PitchBook, the California - based public university has produced as many as 997 entrepreneurs since 2006.

Norrie, who studied geography and physical education at the University of Alberta, first landed at Mica's sister company, Island Lake Lodge, as a mountain guide in 1998.

Since moving to this country in 1967 to study history at the University of Manitoba, the former Scottish platoon commander has worked as a stock broker and an investment firm manager.

In 2009, researchers at Stanford University published a study revealing that online multi-taskers are more easily distractible, struggle more with organization and concentration and are not as dynamic as their uni-tasking counterparts.

After dedicating most of her college years to studying politics and government, she switched gears as a senior and decided to pursue an MBA at Vanderbilt University.

After he left the Army in 2008 and later finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he worked as a web communications specialist at the VA, helping to formulate the department's messaging at a time when the medical backlog issue was first becoming widely known.

Another coauthor of the study, Dr. Howard Falcon - Lang of the Royal Holloway University of London, noted in the release that although the juvenile shark teeth were found in the fecal matter of adults, there is still some question as to why.

«People have a false assumption that they're more productive working as a group than individually, even though all evidence shows it's the opposite,» explains Nicholas Kohn, co-author of the University of Texas study, published in the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology.

The original paper contains a wealth of links to studies conducted by businesses, universities, industry associations and the military that supported early - 20th - century leaders as they embraced the short week.

After studying accounting at the University of Colorado at Boulder, she worked as a CPA for Ernst & Young, first in Denver and then in L.A..

The study, authored by University of Wisconsin - Madison teaching assistant James Bonus, found that playing Pokémon Go can be linked to positive outcomes such as friendship formation and walking — which in many cases «predicted enhanced well - being,» the study said.

But two University of Utah studies found that it can take as many as 27 seconds to regain focus after using voice command technology.

A study conducted at the University of California, San Francisco, found a presence of cancer - causing chemicals in e-cigarette users as well as people who smoked traditional cigarettes.

At the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, Stewart Thornhill, who also serves as the executive director of the Samuel Zell & Robert H. Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies, says that while an MBA is by no means necessary to startup success, it can be helpful.

An Ohio State University study published in the scientific journal Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that acetaminophen, the painkilling ingredient in the Johnson & Johnson (johnson - johnson - 40) brand medicine, not only suppresses your own pain, but causes you to perceive other people's pain as being less severe.

So far, over 1.5 million Brazilian students have used Descomplica to study everything from physics to chemistry and history, as well as prepare for the Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio, or ENEM, Brazil's most common exam for those hoping to attend university.

As a matter of fact, in a study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, it was discovered that Millennials constitute 40 percent of the unemployed, as opposed to 37 percent from Generation X and 23 percent from the Baby BoomerAs a matter of fact, in a study by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce, it was discovered that Millennials constitute 40 percent of the unemployed, as opposed to 37 percent from Generation X and 23 percent from the Baby Boomeras opposed to 37 percent from Generation X and 23 percent from the Baby Boomers.

Another study of VR's empathetic powers by Stanford University's Jeremy Bailenson showed that participants were twice as willing to help a color - blind person when they experienced seeing the world through reduced pigment vision.

«According to a study from researchers at Harvard Business School, the University of Mannheim, and Yale University, wealthy individuals report that having three to four times as much money would give them a perfect» 10» score on happiness — regardless of how much wealth they already have,» reports the release.

A much discussed 2010 study by professors from INSEAD, the Kellogg School, and Tel Aviv University found that «travel and living abroad have long been seen as good for the soul.

Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in North Korea, handpicked and trained from as young as 17, said Jang Se - yul, who studied with them at North Korea's military college for computer science, or the University of Automation, before defecting to the South six years ago.

Professor Peter Tuthill, at the School of Physics, Sydney University, had his own close own encounter with Stephen Hawking as a Australian graduate student studying in Cambridge.

«States like Colorado and California are at the forefront of a growing trend,» says Genevieve LeBaron, who has studied the issue as a politics professor at the University of Sheffield in England.

Playing Pokémon Go adds days to your average life expectancy — as long as you keep up the activity indefinitely, according to a study by Microsoft and Stanford University researchers.

For example, in a 2012 study conducted by two researchers at the University of California at Santa Barbara, 145 undergraduates were asked to come up with as many uses for daily objects (clothes hangers, bricks, toothbrushes, etc.) as they could in two minutes — a standard exercise to measure creativity.