Sentences with phrase «boring study in»

During this month (May), the Purple Line Extension Subway Project, Section 2 will begin a seismic boring study in the City of Beverly Hills.

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The researchers drew their data from a number of British and American longitudinal surveys, including the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which includes nearly 5,000 participants born in big US cities between 1998 and 2000.

Retail, not mining, has borne the brunt of the slowdown in Western Australia during the past 12 months, with a study of the state's economy by the investment bank Goldman Sachs revealing a startling decline in retail jobs of more than 20 per cent.

«If the current bear does follow the average path in a broad sense, our historical study suggests 2011 could be a challenging year.

Millennials — Americans born in the 1980s and 1990s, also referred to as Generation Y — will spend $ 69 billion on discretionary items this year alone, according to data from a recent Harris Interactive study.

«Studies of CEOs have shown that those who are first - borns tend to run their companies conservatively — improving things by, say, streamlining product lines, simplifying distribution routes and generally making sure the trains run on time,» Kluger wrote in an article for TIME.

A January study of more than 2,000 adults in the United States by Clarizen and Harris Poll discovered some employees would much rather watch paint dry (17 percent), commute four hours (12 percent) or endure a root canal (8 percent) than attend a boring meeting.

Earlier on Friday, U.S. health officials published a study estimating that as many as 270 babies in Puerto Rico may be born with the severe birth defect known as microcephaly caused by Zika infections in their mothers during pregnancy.

The study, like most research done on our galaxy and space in general, uses models born from calculations.

Fluent in English (she won third place in a national speech competition), the China - born investment banker wanted to study overseas, but her parents would only let her go as far as Japan, where all she could say was hello and goodbye.

If you think this isn't important, bear in mind that long - term studies show that working 11 or more hours a day at least doubles the risk of depression.

A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring tasIn a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring tasin alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

To test the effects of having a green roof in your line of sight, the research team showed study participants pictures of either your average concrete roof or a plant - covered one and then tested their ability to complete a boring, attention - sapping task.

The study found that people who identify as women generally bear the brunt of most of the negative qualities of sex, particularly worry and feeling pressured (feelings of disgust after the fact resulted in postcoital regret for both men and women).

Born in Germany, Roscheisen, 48, studied engineering at Stanford University with Larry Page and Sergey Brin and went on to found an email messaging company with Page's brother that Yahoo later acquired for $ 450 million.

In his 2010 book Born Entrepreneurs, Born Leaders, Scott Shane, professor of entrepreneurial studies at Cleveland's Case Western Reserve University, suggests that genes don't just influence whether a person will start a business; they may even determine how much money a person will earn.

«And in the process, you'll get to study the evil genius of a truly pathological killer; as even Holmes said, «I was born with the devil in me.»»

Nielsen's study of off - premise sales bears this out: The average retail bottle purchase in 2011 was $ 6.31; in 2015, it was $ 7.81.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Vancouver's steady population growth, in particular its unusually high percentage of foreign - born residents, is the basis of this confidence, said Mario Lefebvre, the director of the board's Centre for Municipal Studies, in an analysis released on Thursday.

Born in Taipei, Taiwan and raised in Plano, Texas, Eugene received a BA in finance with honors and a minor in film studies from the University of Texas in 2013, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude.

Before earning her law degree at the University of Calgary, Edmonton - born Marilyn Burns began undergraduate studies by correspondence at Athabasca University, making ends meet delivering newspapers in the early morning hours so she could stay home with her children.

MONARQUES GOLD CORPORATION (TSX - V: MQR)(OTCMKTS: MRQRF)(FRANKFURT: MR7) is pleased to announce that it has retained BBA to conduct a conceptual study for the transportation of gold - bearing material from the Wasamac deposit to an existing processing plant with an authorized tailings management facility in the region for custom milling.

Born in Lumsden in 1961 and educated at St Patrick's College Silverstream he studied Commerce at the University of Otago and English Literature at Victoria.

Focus groups as well as usability studies can play a role in triangulating research by being used to gauge the reaction to prototypes and new concepts that may be born out of the combined quantitative and ethnographic research.

VANCOUVER — A new scientific study shows that the B.C. Liberals don't have the data necessary to make informed decisions about the grizzly bear hunt in British Columbia, say New Democrats.

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Born in New Zealand, he originally studied economics at the Universities of Otago and Manchester.

There have been studies linking brain atrophy with born - again / later - in - life religious conversions.

A study has found the majority of children in the north of England, Scotland and Wales are born out of wedlock.

A study has found the majority of children in the north of England, Scotland and Wales are born out of... More

«Bruce was born in Elgin, Moray, in Scotland, the son of a Christian Brethren (Plymouth Brethren) preacher and educated at the University of Aberdeen, Go - nville and Caius College, Cambridge and the University of Vienna, where he studied with Paul Kretschmer, an Indo - European philologist.

clusters and studied in light of a broad vision for society, keeping in mind the caution born of experience.

Without such discipline (in its good and bad senses), evangelical theologians and scholars who study them are free to describe trends or affinities among born - again Protestants.

Born and bred in Lithuania, where he devoted himself to Talmudic study with some of the....

The draft bears easiest comparison to «Keeping Body and Soul Together,» the proposal dumped by the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) in the summer of 1991, just before the ELCA task force released its preliminary study.

Born in 1903 in Russia, trained by his father in the Brisk (Brest «Litovsk) school of Talmud study (which his grandfather invented), he took the then unusual....

Studies in the field of human development bear out what Scripture and our own experience make clear: God intends for us to attach.

The scripture people want to misquote about not being tempted with more than you can bear in 1 Corinthians doesn't say that at all in my study of it.

Now, with more study, we could probably get more specific about the actual year Jesus was born, but for our purposes this morning, we are more interested in the day of the year on which Jesus was born.

ACTUALLY... Isaac Newton believed in God from the get go, not just when he hit a wall, and largely abandoned his work in mathematics and physics halfway through his life because he got bored with it; he then studied the Bible for the rest of his life.

One of the most important studies is Denis de Rougemont's Love in the Western World, which makes a brilliant attempt to prove that romantic love was born of a Christian heresy, the catharism of the Middle Ages.25 This quasi-secret religion used conventional religious language to mask its own inner intent which was the celebration and mystical idolatry of sexual union.

One should bear in mind that studies of populations show that condom use for contraceptive purposes has a failure rate of 12 \ % [6]- where «failure» means conception, which can occur only once a month, whereas HIV can be transmitted any day of the year.

Those who think of marriage counseling as an exclusively modern phenomenon may be surprised to read that Gregory counsels those who are married to «study to please» their sexual partner.5 Partners in marriage are above all counseled «to bear with mutual patience the things in which they sometimes displease each other «6 (cf. Gal.

My graduate studies had sparked my interest in human life as a relational matrix in which God is born.

At this point our discussion of the institutionalization and polity of a theological school in chapter 8 comes to bear on the discussion of a theological school's course of study in this chapter.

He was born in Germany in 1884 and studied at Tubingen, Berlin and Marburg.

Rather, the proposal is that study of every subject matter that is selected for study (using whatever academic disciplines are appropriate) be shaped and guided by an interest in the question: What is that subject matter's bearing on, or role in, the practices that constitute actual enactments, in specific concrete circumstances, of various construals of the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations?

Born in 1903 in Russia, trained by his father in the Brisk (Brest «Litovsk) school of Talmud study (which his grandfather invented), he took the then unusual step of studying philosophy at the University of Berlin.