Sentences with phrase «big studies on»

Two new big studies on SEL have recently been released, and while one is pretty much a rehash of older studies on it, the other is the same rehash along with a potentially damaging call for SEL tests and «accountability.»

The University of Michigan did this big study on 14,000 college students and what they found was, with the rise of social media and technology, there's actually a sharp decline of empathy and compassion.

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

The biggest study on bowel movement frequency in history was recently published, comparing the bowel habits of 15,000 meat eaters to 5,000 vegetarians and 1,000 vegans.

The biggest study on vegans in human history found that not only are vegans leaner than everyone else — leaner than vegetarians, who are leaner than omnivores — but vegans get less of that age - related weight gain.

Back in 1968, when I was seven years old, the same age my daughter is now, a big study on radioactive emissions from cathode ray tubes had just come out, and so our new color Philco had become the enemy.

Not exact matches

A study on waiters and tipping published in the Journal of Applied Social Psychology demonstrates how even tiny gifts can make a big difference, finding that: «Customers who received a small piece of chocolate along with [their] check tipped more than did customers who received no candy.»

A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

It's this last point that has the biggest effect on private versus public company returns, says Tim McPeak, director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a company that studies financial information of privately held companies.

But a new study on patent infringement, one packed with lots of great data on things like the law firms and courts most involved, pulls back the curtain on fantasy and reveals the role of big businesses in the fast - changing patent law landscape.

«So it definitely wasn't as big of a transition as I thought it might be, because we get to take classes with and study with people and live in the dorm with people who are all your age, but then still get to be on a regular - aged college campus and be involved with all of the regular campus events,» Corinne said.

«We make a big deal about the controversial nature of our business and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological study of human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.

The «high impact firms» that BDC studied are ones that have disproportionate effects on the economy given their size — usually established businesses that have grown big enough to invest in above - average growth.

Studies show that 54 percent of marketers think «producing engaging content» is their biggest hurdle; 49 percent say the greatest obstacle is measuring effectiveness, and 50 percent struggle to generate fresh content on a consistent basis.

«I wanted to find a way to create the buzz and excitement of Black Friday shopping frenzy, while also not offending customers who will see a big discounted price list that they missed out on after the sale is over,» says Pritchett, vice president of marketing at Logos, a Bellingham, Wash. - based online bible - study resource retailer.

Out of 1,000 companies covered in its most recent study, the group found that the most innovative organizations were in fact rarely the biggest spenders on R&D.

Even if the ambitious targets of the world's biggest economies are met, and internal combustion engines give way to electric or other zero - emission vehicles by 2040, the total impact on global carbon dioxide emissions will be minimal, according to a new study released Tuesday.

«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

Though only 9 % or so of consenters (4,552 people) uploaded a full week of reports on their physical activity, that's still a big sample size for an objectively measured, data - driven research study.

Big data, virtual teams, and synergy are on the out, while a new crop of buzzwords is climbing in popularity, according to a study by startup Textio.

Previously, while Alison was working in marketing at Google and Dan was studying at Stanford, the siblings had started a private tutoring business, but quickly realized two big problems: the high cost of tutoring and its dependence on the physical presence of tutors for instruction.

We all know that music can affect our mood — pumping us up before a big event, helping us get in the productivity zone, or providing a soothing soundtrack to our lowest moments - but a stack of recent studies also shows music can affect us on an even deeper level, making us more generous and empathetic, and less biased, reports Summer Allen in Greater Good Magazine.

Pippen, on the other hand, was a late bloomer who played college ball at a small NAIA school via a work - study grant, not a full ride at a big time school.

The number of workers on big projects in Western Australia is likely to stabilise at just one quarter of the peak level recorded during the mining construction boom, and that's only if planned projects get approved, a new study has found.

A new study revealed that boosting worker wages could have a big impact on the public health threat.

«Study after study has shown that overwork is one the biggest problems for teleworkers,» wrote the company on its Study after study has shown that overwork is one the biggest problems for teleworkers,» wrote the company on its study has shown that overwork is one the biggest problems for teleworkers,» wrote the company on its blog.

Marsha Dickson, a professor of fashion and apparel studies at the University of Delaware, said that part of the problem is the pressure that big brands put on their manufacturers.

I wrote an improvement of Alicia's email based on these concepts: — specificity of: target b2b and expected results — be educational with numbers and reference to a case study — do nt talk bad about outbound marketing, but tell him how to do it better — write even shorter to the point — social proof: drop big companies of other industries — scarcity: this email is sent to 10 competitors but we only work with the first per city

Studies have shown that your asset allocation has a bigger impact on your long - term returns than any specific fund you pick.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

He did a «stress test» study with the data available to him on all big public pensions.

* + - Source: CoinTelegraph.com The Digital Currency Council's recently released study on UK citizens reveals that Bitcoin's biggest challenges are around adoption and communications, and that digital currencies have got a persistent reputation problem.

Generally speaking, the culture at boutiques works more in favour of clients than the big firms, but there are some terrific funds at the big firms — ultimately you need to study each fund in turn and decide on their individual merits.

Last Thursday, the Office of Financial Research (OFR), part of the Federal boondoggle created under the Dodd - Frank financial reform legislation in 2010 to foster the illusion that the government was reining in risk on Wall Street, released a new study showing almost unfathomable levels of systemic and interconnected risk among the too - big - to - fail banks that cratered the U.S. financial system in 2008 and has left our economy still struggling to right itself.

While studies show that mergers and acquisitions as a group are value neutral or negative for shareholders (on average the selling company gets all the excess returns), The Outsiders explored how some management teams focused on driving shareholder value with their M&A rather than simply using it as a mechanism to get bigger, have shown extraordinary success.

We studied S&P 500 total returns since 1945 based on their starting valuations, and found that valuations have a big impact on returns, as expected.

Welcome to a new installment of our «Ask Big Ern» series with case studies on safe withdrawal calculations.

So naturally I'm envious that Ken Masugi and John Presnall made major contributions to BIG BANG STUDIES before I could get around to posting on the show.

Plenty of research and study has been done on the subject, and all you children living in fear of the big, bad hell can relax.

the three religions may have all started in Genesis with Abraham, but they don't end up in the same place... if you want the study the differences in the religions, look to the book of Revelation on one side and islamic end - times / last day studies on the other hand... the big difference between Islam and Christianity is the mirror image of the end time personalities mentioned in Revelation...

But now the Canadian Press reports on a big study involving thousands of people in 49 countries.

From choosing salads for a fundraising dinner to studying the timing of the Washington transit system, Silverman has been spending less time recently on the big question of God's existence and more time immersing himself in the nitty - gritty of planning what he promises will be the largest - ever atheist gathering.

Perhaps it would make a decent article on theology to some (not really though, as I've studied theology at length and this reads more like a pamphlet than a stimulating article), but the premise of the article is supposed to be based on science, and whether the Big Bang proves creation.

Here is my big thought on the recent noteworthy study that only seems to diss conservatives.

How are you about using tax money to put a big fat elephant - headed Ganesh on top of your kid's public school, or to buy new Qurans for every single student to study?

All of those years of hearing sermon after sermon, youth camp after Bible study, about doing BIG things for a BIG God with BIG visions and BIG plans left us with crazy - high expectations on ourselves coupled with a narrow understanding of following Jesus.

In the weeks before my college's big test on The Pilgrim's Progress, an enterprising student created a study guide with notes, mnemonic devices, and illustrations, and began to circulate it among my classmates.

Now that people in the mainline denominations are starting to talk unembarrassedly about church growth and evangelism of a fairly conventional sort, Wheeler worries that the potential exists for any emphasis on congregational studies to be misinterpreted as an outgrowth of the spirit of the times — which views local communities of believers uncritically, as in - arguably good things, and assumes that if there is anything the matter with them it is that they aren't big enough.

With important decisions in life like what to study, who to marry, if and when to have children, when to look for a new job or how much to spend on a big purchase, it's vital to consider the cost.

There were deep divisions, but there was also a strong focus on worship, regular Bible study and an agenda that focused on the big issues of the world as well as the church, so that no one issue was seen as dominating the entire church.