Sentences with phrase «big states we studied»

We at the Fordham Institute did a study on education regulations a few years ago, and New York had the most red tape of the five big states we studied.

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In big markets in the United States, LTE's median speeds have dropped by as much as 50 % in the last year, according to a study done by TwinPrime, a startup that makes tools to speed up mobile apps.

For better or worse, this year's study hands a big talking point to the campaign of Top State Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, a Republican touting his economic record in his bid for a second term.

The state has touted its streamlined permitting system as a big advantage for facilities like Tesla's, a factor considered in our Top States study's Business Friendliness category.

In addition, the study states that in markets where Super Bowl viewing is higher in a given year, Budweiser sales increased during subsequent big sporting events such as the NCAA's «March Madness» and MLB and NBA matchups.

Our study collected quotes for a sample property of 1,000 square - feet from five big insurance carriers in the state, and we found that Farmers offered the cheapest average annual rate at $ 148 for our sample policy.

In a recent study by Salam Standard, it has been reported that the United States is the biggest beneficiary of global Muslim tourism spend, enjoying 24 percent share of the total Muslim travel spend worldwide or almost $ 35 billion.

Rachel Thompson graduated from California State University, with a degree in Communications Studies and spent 17 years working in Big Pharma.

The State Department should begin by supporting three initiatives: the development of an academic sub-discipline of international religious freedom studies, the engagement of big business, and the building of partnerships with other, like - minded governments.

Every year, the American Bible Society releases a big study on «the state of the Bible.»

Oh pity I was in the united states in May to see my son who is studying there, I could have made a leap to see you... From Ivory Coast a big kiss for your wonderful site.

According to a United States study conducted by the Organic Trade Association, Millennials are big buyers of organic products and becoming a parent will deepen their desire to purchase organic goods.

«The Institute for Fiscal Studies states that school spending is expected to fall by at least 7 % in real terms in the next four years, the biggest cut since the 1970s.

«Our biggest goal is to support the management of this non-curable disease in an animal that is an economically important resource for the state of Illinois,» says Michelle Green, research assistant professor in the Department of Animal Sciences at U of I and co-author of the study.

«It is a bigger decline than we had expected,» said Philip Mote, director of the Oregon Climate Change Research Institute at Oregon State University and lead author on the study.

«Many studies deserve praise for being the first of their kind, but if we actually began relying on the claims made by big data surveillance in public health, we would come to some peculiar conclusions,» said John W. Ayers, San Diego State University Graduate School of Public Health research professor and senior author of the study.

High - profile advances, from the Allen Brain Atlas to the Brainbow mouse, have injected an air of excitement into the study of the brain — an atmosphere that has been amplified by big funding initiatives in the United States and abroad.

«The only way to answer this is with a really big sample of cadavers,» says Sibyl Bucheli of the Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, who is also studying the death microbiome.

In order to meet the demands of the big data age, the study says, the United States must train 140,000 to 190,000 more quantitatively or analytically skilled people by 2018 than the country is on track to train.

Kansas State University researchers are involved in a study that found climate change is predicted to reduce big bluestem's growth and stature.

Researchers suspected that the big muscles in the animals» neck and shoulders and their low center of mass play a role, but no one had studied this, in part because of the difficulty of doing research in the goats» home territory — remote mountainous regions of the United States and Canada.

«On the contrary, employment commitment was much higher in all the studied groups in bigger welfare states.

«Understanding what sets the climates of other worlds has been one of the big puzzles of the last decade,» said Jason Wright, associate professor of astronomy at Penn State, and one of the study's co-authors.

Walsh and his adviser, geophysicist Mark Zoback, studied three areas in the central and northern part of the state that have seen the biggest rise in quakes.

The participants were M.I.T.'s Alan Guth, the developer of the inflationary model of the universe, Lawrence Krauss, a frequent contributor to Scientific American magazine and director of the Origins Initiative at Arizona State University, John Carlstrom from the University of Chicago, who studies the cosmic microwave background radiation left over from the big bang and Scott Dodelson of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, who studies the origin and structure of the universe.

Male live - bearing fish are evolving faster than female fish, according to a Kansas State University study, and that's important for understanding big - picture evolutionary patterns.

A new study by statistics professors at Oregon State University finds that the biggest impact a U.S. citizen can have on this climate change problem is perhaps not so much surprising as difficult to accept: have fewer children.

Several recent studies have looked at adaptation in up to 28 of the biggest cities in the United States.

Matt Liebman, who studies cropping systems at Iowa State University, is hopeful that a shift in agricultural practices in the Midwest could make a big difference for the Gulf of Mexico.

The first United States mission in history to launch a robotic spacecraft to an asteroid, retrieve samples, and return those samples back to Earth for study just passed a big milestone in its development this -LSB-...]

These types of studies could yield the biggest reward, revealing whether different organisms are correlated with different health states.

The study also states that women becoming pregnant within six months of having a C - section are four times more likely to experience a rupture, there are «significantly greater» risks for women who give birth to big babies, and women over the age of 30 were three times more likely to rupture than younger women.

Journalist Nina Teicholz, author of «The Big Fat Surprise: Why Butter, Meat and Cheese Belong in a Healthy Diet,» has also stated that when researchers went back and analyzed23 some of the original data from Dr. Ancel Keys» Seven Countries Study 24 (which was the basis for the saturated fat phobia) they found that heart disease was most correlated with sugar intake, not saturated fat as Keys claimed.

Ron Zimmer, of the RAND Corporation, and two colleagues studied the impact of charters in Michigan, one of the most chartered states in the nation, and determined that private schools were taking as big a hit as traditional public schools because of charters.

Alex Hill: I mean it was actually part of a big study looking at 160 academies [independent but state - funded schools], where we were given remote access to their systems so that we could actually observe what they did and how they operated, and we worked with them for seven to nine years, and during that time there was 411 different leaders who led those schools.

Officials from the island nation are eager to find ways to improve their education system by observing schools in the United States — despite this country's mediocre finish in that study, the biggest and broadest ever conducted comparing the math and science performance of 7th and 8th graders around the globe.

In a study for Education Next, Douglas Webber finds that Medicaid, which has increased more than $ 1,000 per capita since 1987, has been the single biggest contributor to the decline in higher - education support at the state and local level.

The reason there is a demand for this emerging technology is that according to studies done by the National Institute of Health, emotional state plays a big role in a person's ability to take on and process new information.

The project grew out of a practical problem we encountered when studying big city school systems: in many cities, the public school «system» is actually a collection of systems: school districts (often more than one), charter schools, and even state agencies.

The majority of states have not seen big changes recently in the rates of students they exclude from the National Assessment of Educational Progress because of disabilities, a new study finds.

Ku Kahakalau, the principal at Kanu o ka «Aina, a Big Island charter school, noted that a study last year paid for by the state Office of Hawaiian Affairs found that Native Hawaiian students in charter schools did better than Native Hawaiian students in traditional schools.

«As a huge advocate of social and emotional learning, Raymond is much more thoughtful and a big - picture kind of guy in ways that run counter to the tenets of the corporate reform movement,» such as merit pay, said Carl Cohn, a member of the State Board of Education, director of the Urban Leadership Program in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University and retired superintendent of Long Beach Unified.

The study also examined household incomes for private school families and public school families and found that Florida has one of the biggest income gaps in the nation, despite several state programs such as the Florida Tax Credit Scholarships and the McKay Scholarships that direct tax dollars, directly or indirectly, to private schools.

One of the biggest studies of charters came from Stanford University which was updated three times between 2009 and 2013, and covered urban charters in 22 states.

A study from Prof Chris James at the University of Bath, published as part of the Inspiring Governors project, provides the biggest profile of the current state of school governing bodies, based on a survey of about 7,700 governors in all types of state school.

Anyone who studies state and local government finance knows that the next big crisis is the sorry state of most state pension systems.

A new study concludes that one of the biggest contributions of the most effective charter schools is the extra help many of them give students, important information in Georgia as voters consider whether to change their state constitution in a way that could create more charter schools.

Five of the big states that were the focus of the task force study have reduced state and local government since the recession began, with most of the reductions occurring in just the past two years.

Ownership of tablets and e-book readers saw a big spike over the holidays — in fact, it nearly doubled in the United States, according to a new study from the Pew Research Center's Internet and Amer

As a publisher of a social studies textbook for our state's history, in addition to the challenges described in this article, one of the biggest challenges we face is there is no standard way to do business with K - 12 schools because they vary in their technology deployment, how students access the ebooks (e.g. whether each student receives an account) and selling enhanced ebooks, note: not ePub3 or iBooks, in the App Store.