Sentences with phrase «at work study»

I'm hard at work studying for my CFA, it's essentially a financial designation with various topics rolled up into one course.

Identify errors and students correct them - looking up spellings, definitions etc, reworking maths problems looking at work studied in previous lessons.

As the region's summer comes to a close, NASA is hard at work studying how rising temperatures are affecting the Arctic.

Anderson and his design teams are hard at work studying nature's delicate technologies — like the sticky feet of geckos — to make products better, cleaner, and more beautiful.

Not exact matches

«It is established that women receive more social support than men at work,» the study posits.

(One is working as a teaching assistant while studying for a master's degree in math; the other volunteers at an animal shelter.)

According to an American Psychological Association study, «Almost all employees (93 percent) who reported feeling valued say they are motivated to do their best at work.»

After studying at MIT, Chou worked at Goldman Sachs as a trader for four years.

«The work that they've done designing and executing on their engine is really impressive,» says Jory Bell, partner at Playground, which had former SpaceX employees study Relativity's architecture before deciding to invest in its Series A. «And every technical decision they've made is optimized not only to serve their initial market, but to scale up as well.»

That alone sounds like a pretty good case for letting fly with more humor at work, but the study goes on to identify further reasons to let more humor into the sometimes straight - faced world of business.

When he's not busy at work fixing the HR Software for a number of helpless staff members, Greg enjoys studying languages and fighting the good fight to keep bad disco dancing alive and well.

But a recent study from Tetyana Pudrovska, an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University, and Amelia Karraker, an assistant professor at Iowa State University, shows that, for women, it may not work that way.

-- Shannon O'Brien, ranked number one career coach and number one life coach in Boston on Yelp and founder of Whole U, a career and life strategy consultancy she started after seven years working and studying at Harvard and MIT

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.

«We were able to come up with a road map to achieving this and because it was so thoughtfully done, it was then very easy for other governments to look at it, study it, and say, «Wow, everyone can work with this?

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.

Having studied experimental psychology as an undergraduate at Cambridge, Hinton was enthusiastic about neural nets, which were software constructs that took their inspiration from the way networks of neurons in the brain were thought to work.

«We wanted to create a space where people were happy coming in to work,» says Longin, who previously studied psychology and color theory at the Art Institute of Chicago.

Hearing «thank you» at work, an array of studies have concluded, boosts happiness, reduces stress and generally improves satisfaction.

I was an environmental studies professor at Dartmouth and I worked on a ton of issues around sustainable development.

A new study looking at one of these types of fasting suggests that the method works roughly as well for weight loss as traditional dieting does.

A recent study published in Nature looked at thousands of different mammal species and worked out the percentage of cases in which animal fatalities were caused by their own kind.

Studies show that people who are able to pursue their passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state of mind that is five times more productive than the norm.

RI will be working with Honeywell, which is leading the suit avionics (the electrical and electronic devices that assist flight) and software development, to test its software application at what's called Desert RATS (Research and Technology Studies) in September.

Seeking entry into this field at mid-life meant competing with established professionals or those much younger than me, many holding a degree in journalism or another directly related course of study, an experience - rich resume to support their interest, and the freedom to work long hours in an office away from home.

According to a fascinating recent Nature article by Tom Clynes, science has been hard at work trying to figure out the answer to that question for more than four decades with the the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth.

In recent years, a few fascinating studies at Harvard, Princeton and other top universities shed new light on body language and how to use it at work.

Some retrospective studies and preclinical work have indicated that it might also lower a person's risk of cancer, though at least one clinical trial wasn't able to show that it had any protective effect on esophageal cancer.

A University of Iowa study found that workers who were provided with a portable pedalling device under their desk were able to concentrate better at work, more likely to report weight loss and take fewer sick days than co-workers who pedalled less.

In fact, according to one study out of Duke, exercise works just as well at treating depression as the common anti-depressant Zoloft.

A recent study by Accenture found that, for at least half of men and women, «work - life balance» is the number one determiner of whether or not they have a successful career.

Perhaps the findings of a study done by psychologists at San Francisco State University will encourage you to take time away from work and have a little fun.

«It's a farce to claim to be offering «free college» to employees when what's being offered is simply the chance to pursue a degree at one specific university, only online, only if you enroll full time and work at least 20 hours a week,» Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, told Think Progress.

At the same time, do all you can to study which tactics haven't worked for them.

We had two different studies done at San Diego State and by a private company that does work for NASA.

Kinney studied computer science in college and worked at Funbrain as a designer of educational games.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

His new study, «Hitting Rock Bottom After Job Loss: Bouncing back to create a new positive work identity,» looks closely at how losing everything isn't necessarily as bad as it seems.

Several Canadian universities offer specialized degrees in actuarial studies to enter the financial and insurance business; there are a smaller number of master's degrees cropping up aimed at applying data sciences to a wider range of fields, along with some certificate programs aimed at professionals already working in business.

Nearly 40 % of all openly lesbian, gay, or bisexual employees say they've experienced discrimination or harassment at work, according to a 2011 study by the Williams Institute.

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.

Einstein worked at Princeton University's Institute for Advanced Studies for approximately 20 years.

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.

In fact, while the average CEO had worked at just three different companies over the course of his career, a quarter of those included in the study had but a single employer.

The study looked at about 1,700 full - time employees who worked for an information services firm in the US from 2005 to 2009.

This study, combined with two internal military reports on the mental health of troops and interviews with two former Guantanamo guards, show that the invisible wounds of war largely associated with combat - related deployments also affected troops who worked at the detention facility.

A 2016 study by the RAND Corporation found that employees who slept less than six hours per day were 2.7 percent less productive — either while at work or due to absenteeism — than peers who slumbered for seven to nine hours per day.

Between 2008 and 2011, the joint task force that operates the detention facility secretly evacuated at least 19 troops who had worked in detainee operations due to severe «behavioral health reasons,» according to an Army Institute of Public health study obtained exclusively by VICE News.

This Harvard study showed that the overall performance of heart surgeons improved when they were able to consistently work with the same team at their primary hospital.

«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.