Sentences with phrase «bigger studies focused»

Although that's a tiny sample, Nielsen argues that small, qualitative studies offer more insight than bigger studies focused on metrics.

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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.

Though for many of us, studying for a big test or completing a grade - determining project can lead some to lose focus.

Recent UMass Dartmouth studies show the biggest increase in Fortune 500 companies blogging in their 2013 report so blogging is definitely a future area of focus.

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.

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.

The study, titled Impossible Choices, spoke to almost 200 teenagers between the ages of 13 and 18 in 20 focus groups across 10 different communities — including big cities like Chicago and Los Angeles, as well as rural areas like rural North Carolina and eastern Oregon — who were members of families facing poverty and food insecurity.

While we certainly do not claim to utter the last word on the topic, we imagine that the focus will shift away from the big structural accounts surrounding inequality and democracy to more micro-level studies of how autocracies actually function.

Wu focused on the big picture by studying drug response and drug reaction.

The UW study focused on six of the largest science and engineering fields with the most undergraduate degrees: biology, chemistry and math, which have the highest proportions of female participation, and computer science, engineering and physics, which have bigger gender gaps.

The study is the first Cochrane systematic review to focus on zinc as a means to prevent childhood death, including deaths caused by diarrhea, one of the biggest killers of under - fives.

«For Wyoming it's a big deal, but for the world it's not a big deal,» said Neil Humphrey, a glaciologist at the University of Wyoming who studied the glaciers here before turning his focus to Greenland.

Regularly checking oil and gas facilities for leaky equipment is the most effective way to identify both big pollution sources — which our study focused on — but also smaller sources that together make up a significant share of industry emissions.

How can we ensure that the impact of individual scientists working on a myriad of small and focused studies that discover and probe new phenomena - is not lost in the Big Data world.

«We are focusing on these big gas giants that are heated to very high temperatures due to the close proximity of their stars simply because they are the easiest to study with the current technology,» Evans said.

Findings Published in New England Journal of Medicine Provide New Focus for Drug Discovery Study Demonstrates Power of «Big Data» Research REYKJAVIK, Iceland - deCODE Genetics and Illumina, global leaders in analyzing and understanding the human genome, together with...

Some big points of discussion at the focus meeting included the methods by which astronomers obtained and studied the Frontier Fields data.

It was 1991 and Knecht's lab had long studied lysosomes, but its focus was shifting to the next big thing in protein degradation — the proteasome, a non-membrane-bound enzyme complex in the cytoplasm.

We're not talking about those big backyard trampolines linked to injuries and ER visits, though; this study focused specifically on mini trampolines designed specifically for fitness.

«Over half the costs of being overweight can be from productivity losses, mainly due to missed work days... This means that just focusing on medical costs misses a big part of the picture, though they're a consideration, too,» study co-author Bruce Lee said in a statement, noting that of course medical bills contribute to this number as well.

Other studies show that mirrors, although useful for observing and correcting one's form, prompt women with eating disorders to focus selectively on the parts of their bodies they don't like, rather than the bigger picture.

Some studies have found that essential oils applied topically or diffused into the air can have big benefits on concentration and focus.

The irony is that studies show that focusing on the «Big Me» actually undermines happiness and wellbeing.

The six case studies in this volume focus on «big» problems, problems that have no easy solutions.

This study also suggests that education could benefit from a more comprehensive focus on how behaviors — both big and small — impact students and schools.

Their current focus is developing courses for social studies organized around big ideas.

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.

Isuzu's VehiCross sport - utility vehicle, which made a big splash at the New York auto show, is being studied for a potential U.S. launch.The silver two - door sport - utility vehicle is making the rounds of regional auto shows and focus groups, along with a cadre of American Isuzu product planners and market researchers, to test consumer reaction.

That was really the biggest element for me and so, once I realized I had a product that I knew was going to stand out among 20,000 other going on Amazon every day, then I started focusing on the promotion and feature companies that I knew were being successful like BookBub and studying what it is they require to accept the book and then making sure that my book fit those qualifications.»

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For the next part of our study, we wanted to focus on what the biggest things are that people tend to exaggerate or omit when it comes to their resumes.

Mutual Fund Index is in fact the mutual fund centre that can report the best of the best in each of the 10 Mutual Fund Asset Classes, 52 Mutual Fund Categories and many independent Mutual Fund Sectors that get the big picture in focus and the ability to understand the system and choose the best funds to create winning portfolios with fundamental and studied knowledge.

Romeo the Great Dane — Bad Manners Case Study Today, I'd like to focus on big dogs with bad manners.

The biggest drawbacks to the study were the lack of information on the reason for surrender of the dog and the reason for euthanasia, two bits of data that could help focus prevention programs.

While I didn't meet all of the personal goals — catching up with friends in Melbourne this year has been near non-existent and I didn't keep focused enough to progress much in studying French nor pick up that krav maga class I wanted to — I did achieve some of my blog goals like travelling more, working with bigger brands (and as a brand ambassador!)

Some studies say being as little as 2 % dehydrated mimics the symptoms of depression — a big one is a failure to concentrate and focus.

Gavin Schmidt, a climate scientist with NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told National Geographic that focus on a global warming pause over the past 15 years is a «misplaced» distraction that misses the big picture.

Since then, scientists have been focused on studying just what happened at Larsen B and studying the increasingly vulnerable — and much bigger — Larsen C, the continent's fourth - largest ice shelf that's just next door.

A group of Swiss psychologists concluded from a similar focus group study that such arguments were «socio - psychological denial mechanisms» erected to bridge the gap («dissonance») between the understanding that something fundamental had to be changed in their lives — indeed in our entire industrial economy — and the reluctance to make such a big leap.

In a 2005 study about clients satisfaction / dissatisfaction with big law firms, fifteen percent of the respondents said what bothered them about their lawyer was «lack of client focus, failure to listen, non-responsiveness, arrogance.»

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Azzopardi, who has worked as an adolescent physician in Aboriginal communities and undertook the study as part of his PhD, said he believes the big focus on the social and cultural determinants of health «is a particular strength of this study».

Psychological attributes of parents also influence the way parents manage their children.26 Indeed a meta - analysis of 30 studies focused on the Big 5 personality characteristics involving almost 6,000 parent - child dyads revealed that higher levels extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness and openness to experience and lower levels of neuroticism were related to greater warmth and behavioural control on the part of parents, whereas higher levels of agreeableness and lower levels of neuroticism were related to the provision of more support for autonomy; 27 somewhat similar results emerged in a related meta - analysis that also examined the influence of parental psychological problems on parenting.28

With this concept in mind, it absolutely makes sense to practice, study and learn with repetition focussing on your biggest desires on a daily basis.