Sentences with phrase «biggest study group»

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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.

But high rents and home prices are also prompting more people with big paychecks to move to California, according to studies released by the policy group Next 10.

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.

I bet the Baptist group was indeed very big... A 2006 Purdue study found that the fundamental Christians are by far the heaviest of all religious groups led by the Baptists with a 30 % obesity rate compared with Jews at 1 %, Buddhists and Hindus at 0.7 %.

The biggest changes have come in three groups traditionally associated with their reliable church attendance - Southerners, Catholics and women, the study says.

The study found that the biggest divides came among age, religious and ethnic groups.

Big Book Study Group, 1997], pp. 138 - 39).

When I came to Alcoholics Anonymous, I attended thousands of meetings and participated in hundreds of Big Book studies, Step Studies, Conferences, Conventions, and studies, Step Studies, Conferences, Conventions, and Studies, Conferences, Conventions, and Groups.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H. Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland, Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 58, 68 - 71; and, from several sources, the evidence about «surrender» strongly indicates it involved the following:

The universe is expanding in all directions)-- 1965: discovery of microwave cosmic background radiation (the echo's of the big bang)-- 1998, two independent research groups studying distant supernovae were astonished to discover, against all expectations, that the current expansion of the universe is accelerating (Reiss 1998, Perlmutter 1999).

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.

I was making Chickpea Rice Soup With Cabbage to take for our Friday Bible study group and made a big batch while I was at it.

The results from this study shows that the group that was eating according to a low carb diet had a bigger weight loss, they had better cholesterol levels and also more people in this group actually managed to follow their diet.

She'll share them with a group of friends who are coming over to her home this evening to study for a big law school exam.

Last year's survey studied generational buying habits of U.S. households, and found that Millennial parents — parents in the 18 - to 35 - year - old age range — are now the biggest group of organic buyers in America.

there were 3 groups in that 1967 study (btw 68 kids divided into 3 groups, by no means a big study), all kids were born in poverty, so these kids couldn't represent whole population.

I am a Senior at NAU studying biomedical science and my biggest goal in life is to be the first person in a group that a dog goes to.

Okay FM and it's partners have started a new program dubbed «Wednesday Live» as a one stop shop experience for all music lovers and the world, the big idea of Wednesday live on 101.7 fm is to promote bands and groups as they are left out in the promotion of organic and authentic music on radio, encourage more young students to study music and foster collaboration between music artiste and band groups.

But it also presents grim funding questions for the MTA and other big - city transit agencies, according to the analysis, a joint study from transportation advocacy groups Riders Alliance and the Tri-State Transportation Campaign.

In other words, if researchers were to study other groups of folks, say the rich and famous, they might discover that testosterone is connected not to violence, but to who drives the biggest SUV or has the nicest lawn.

The MINDACT study is managed and sponsored by the EORTC in collaboration with the Breast International Group (BIG) and included 6,693 women with early stage breast cancer (lymph node negative or 1 - 3 lymph node positive).

However, Moore says the current study is «a big leap» forward, because it uses better topographic and climatic data, and matches well with 18 localized measurements conducted by other groups.

In other words, if researchers were to study other groups of folks — say, the rich and famous — they might discover that testosterone is connected not to violence but to the person who drives the biggest SUV or has the nicest lawn.

«Because most of these products have been developed for a pretty well - resourced group of people in pharma and the chemical industry, the prices tend to be pretty big,» says Alan Wolf, who helped coordinate a recent pilot study designed to find an ELN suitable for university - wide adoption at the University of Wisconsin (UW), Madison.

The bigger hurdle to realizing the study's vision of a national grid, however, may be persuading policymakers, utilities investors, and landowners that it's a good idea, says Susan Tierney, a former U.S. assistant secretary of energy under President Clinton who's currently an energy consultant at the Analysis Group in Boston.

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

The first big breakthrough came in 2003 when, in collaboration with the group of Ramamoorthy Ramesh (now at UC Berkeley), we succeeded in producing and understanding thin films of what is now the most - studied multiferroic material, bismuth ferrite.

«It is one of the biggest and most definitive studies,» says Martin Bobrow, a medical geneticist at Cambridge University and part of the study's steering group.

Miller says the response in this study, published in the Journal of Clinical Lipidology, may confirm other research findings about polyunsaturated fats: «Recent data suggest that PUFA (but not MUFA) activates signaling in the brain to reduce appetite, so this may be one reason for the bigger weight drop between the groups.»

Far from there being a continuum of planets, the study found two distinct groups: one smaller than 1.5 times the size of Earth, the other bigger than twice Earth's size, with very few examples in the gap in between.

Further studies should involve a bigger sample group, and investigate why introvert students perform better than their peers in some conditions.

In the biggest effort ever undertaken, a group of scientists in December published the Global Burden of Disease (GBD) 2010 study, which estimated disease burdens — death as well as years of life affected by disability — for 291 diseases and injuries in 20 age groups in 21 global regions.

It's not the biggest or the longest; but its high retention rate — about 95 % of the original cohort has stayed with the study since it launched — and the intimacy of the data - gathering process make the group one of the most closely examined populations on Earth.

Capra said his team's next steps include expanding the study to bigger cohorts that contain groups of more diverse (not just European) ancestry.

Amber Miller leads the Columbia University Experimental Cosmology group, dedicated to studying relic signatures from the Big Bang with the goal of understanding the origin and evolution of the universe.

The driving force for the new Institute was to bring together some of the groups from these departments, as Professor George Efstathiou, Director of KICC, explained: «The spread of research across departments owes much to the natural divisions that resulted from the diverse «tool boxes» used to study different areas of cosmology, such as the events following the Big Bang, the birth of stars, the structure of the Universe and so on.

The study produced results which were very similar to the previous study where participants that took creatine right after exercising had a much bigger increase in muscle tissue in comparison to those who were exercising and taking creatine beforehand, or those in the control group that were exercising but weren't using any creatine.

«The difference between these two groups is only going to continue to get bigger as they go to 55 and 65 and 75,» says Dr. Church, who has studied physical activity and health but wasn't involved with the current research.

An interesting study found that women who ate bigger breakfasts (and smaller lunches and dinners) lost more weight than those who had big dinners, even though both groups ate a total of 1,400 calories a day.

The rats fed the blueberry diet enjoyed substantially lower oxidative stress by the end of the study, while the other group displayed a big deterioration of antioxidant levels.

The biggest problem was that about one - third of the women in the exercise group had to give up the classes at some point in the study because of time constraints, child - care conflicts and other issues that made it difficult to attend the class.

I looked up the study referenced above and I think the improvements in the breakfast group are too big to ignore.

So what the science tells us is that there truly is no real division between the body and the mind and emotions, it's all part of the same web, and we know this from the research studies that have been done, groups at Harvard, Johns Hopkins, a lot of the big, very reputable universities are now actually doing research on this, and there are even journals, scientific and medical journals exploring what we call psychosomatic medicine, in other words the placebo effect.

To summarize the findings from this study, they found that decreasing carb intake did lead to increased fatty acid oxidation and decreased carbohydrate oxidation; however, reducing fat intake led to a slightly bigger loss in body fat than the group that restricted carbohydrates.

The biggest finding... * drumroll *... significantly greater fat loss in the keto group and this wasn't even a weight loss study.

It consists of a long litany of detailed criticisms of the study, questions the motives of the researchers but concludes they are probably not part of a Big Food conspiracy because the authors are members of the alternative medicine world (even though, the article critically notes of the group to which the authors belong, «Its website indicates it supports vaccination for both children and adults»).

In its short history so far, online dating has provided the biggest boon to groups with «thin dating markets,» says Stanford sociologist Michael Rosenfeld, who has also studied the rise of online dating.

The case study illustrates how three groups of charter management organizations (CMOs)-- High Tech High in San Diego; Uncommon Schools, KIPP Foundation, and Achievement First in New York; and Match Education in Boston — saw big gaps in the traditional teacher education programs that left their aspiring teachers with no place to learn how to teach effectively in their specific schools or in a way that would allow them to succeed in working with the country's most vulnerable students.

• A new intergenerational study shows that for 76 % of 15 - 17 year olds, studying hard for good exam results is their biggest priority for the coming year; and they are preparing to sacrifice friendships, family time, hobbies and even sleep to achieve this, • In fact 57 % of 15 - 17 year olds feel school work must come before anything else if they want to do well in the future • And only 39 % of this age group think being happy is more important than good grades • Yet half (51 %) of UK business leaders calls on teens to develop broader life / work skills before leaving education A new report launched today by National Citizen Service (NCS) reveals that the UK ¹ s 15 - 17 year olds feel under significant pressure to excel in exams at the expense of other life skills, experiences, healthy relationships and even their own happiness, suggesting that they are struggling to juggle the demands of young adulthood.