Sentences with phrase «by performance studies»

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In a new study based on mice, scientists at Lancaster University found that a drug that goes after three diabetes - related targets «significantly reversed the memory deficit» in mice who got the drug, as measured by their performance in a maze test when compared to mice who didn't get the drug.

The study, released Monday, shows performance shares were used as CEO rewards by 51 % of companies surveyed last year, up from 47 % the previous year and 41 % in 2011.

In a pilot study, researchers will compare the skills, safety records, and performance of two groups of new drivers: those using virtual reality and those trained by traditional means.

Yet another study is forthcoming from the International Performance Assessment Centre for the Storage of CO2, but since this agency is funded by the Saskatchewan government and Royal Dutch Shell, a dismissal of the Kerrs» claim would not likely sway many minds.

A study conducted by Hanover Research found that 87 % of surveyed college students said analytics on their performance had a positive influence on their learning.

According to Forbes, studies conducted by University of Florida professor Timothy Judge found that «people with high core self evaluations, or positive self - concepts, had increased levels of job satisfaction, better job performance, higher income, higher work motivation and reduced stress and burnout.»

«If a lucky event early in a CEO's tenure is not balanced by an unlucky one is such a short time period, then that CEO could be wrongfully credited for high performance that would have happened no matter who was leading the company,» according to the study.

A joint study by the University of Notre Dame, University of Kentucky and Penn State University tested two sets of people on their golf performance; Half were told they were using a Nike putter; the other half were told no brand.

Cain notes Brigham Young professor of management Bradley Agle, who studied CEOs of 128 major companies and found that those considered charismatic by their top executives had bigger salaries but not better corporate performance.

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At the same time, companies recognize they can boost profits by giving employees an ownership stake, which studies have shown enhances morale and performance.

(The study doesn't reveal which companies are guilty of this, nor does it provide a clear breakdown of performance by company or sector.)

Another study recently cited in the Harvard Business Review found that happy, thriving employees «demonstrated 16 % better overall performance (as reported by their managers) and 125 % less burnout (self - reported) than their peers.

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 task.

The study defined sustainability as the «commitment by organizations to balance financial performance with contributions to the quality of life of their employees, the society at large and environmentally sensitive initiatives.»

Although financial products often include the disclaimer that «past performance is not indicative of future results,» retail traders still believe they can predict the future by studying the past.

In a study on performance, Lisa made a significant discovery: Salespeople driven by a sense of passion wildly outperformed those driven by quotas.

A study by independent research company Morningstar found that expense ratios are the most reliable predictor of future fund performance — in terms of total return, and future risk - adjusted return ratings.

To make matters worse, according to a 2017 study by CSO Insights, «Sales enablement is a growing trend, but sales performance is not improving.

A new study published by Morningstar shows the updated US stock market performance since then (which includes 50 % decline in 2003 and 57 % decline 2007 - 09) can now survive a 2.8 % withdrawal rate over 30 years.

The criteria used to select which companies are included in the case studies was not financial performance based and nothing presented herein is intended to constitute investment advice and under no circumstances should any information provided herein be used or considered as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund managed by Sapphire Ventures.

Written by NCEO founder Corey Rosen, this issue brief discusses as of mid-2016 the extent and growth of employee ownership; survey data on ESOPs and corporate governance as well as ESOPs and executive compensation; research on the effect of ESOPs on corporate performance; the 2012 shared capitalism study of Great Place to Work applicants; data on employee ownership and employee financial well - being; the NCEO's analysis of data on ESOPs and default rates; trends in broad - based equity compensation plans; equity compensation and corporate performance; the impact of ESOPs and other broad - based plans on unemployment; legislative and regulatory issues for employee ownership; and international developments in broad - based plans.

A recent study by University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along with Bonnie Cheng from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, found that high levels of emotional exhaustion that come from workplace anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.

While surveys conducted by both the Centre for Political Research and Studies (CIEP) and the University of Costa Rica (UCR) indicate that while the Costa Rican electorate is happy with Solís» performance in office, they have not repaid his party with substantive support for its candidate.

Similarly, a 2013 study of 629 companies by the Aberdeen Group contrasted the performance of companies that used enterprise social collaboration with those that did not.

Los Angeles Fire and Police Pension System's buyout portfolio generated the best performance among US public pensions since vintage 2004, according to a study by HEC Paris.

Further, these firms feature a much greater diversity of thought than the average private equity firm, a characteristic that has been linked by numerous studies to better decision - making and performance [3].

Digging further into the outperformance of HML SMALL during this period, the study's authors note that the HML alpha can be tied more to horrible performance by the low - value small cap stocks for the period instead of great performance by the high - value stocks.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

I am a practitioner of performance studies who, by choice and circumstance, keeps professional company with those who teach and practice preaching.

Secondly, by linking «art» with «communication», performance studies helps homiletics resist those impulses in the church and / or seminary cultures to devalue the human imagination in favor of «practicalities» and overemphasis on affect and affectation.

Performance studies uses some of the raw materials of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech aPerformance studies uses some of the raw materials of incarnational theology to imagine human speaking; preaching approaches the disciplinary terrain of performance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech aperformance theory by emphasizing relationships between orality and writing, between reading and speaking, and the evocative power of ritual speech and gesture.

Recently, the Mount Holyoke College women's - studies department reported that it will not longer stage an annual performance of The Vagina Monologues, having felt its feminism outflanked by the exclusion of «women» who lack the body part so prominently put forward by the play.

A performance studies approach can complement the effort in homiletics to reappropriate Aristotilean categories by making the sermon preparation process more explicit.

By refining its focus on «performance» as both cultural and aesthetic phenomena, the discipline formerly named «oral interpretation» has employed dramatistic and theatrical metaphors to broaden definitions of «texts,» «speakers,» «audiences,» and «events» (or sites) in the study of performance activity.

The purpose of this essay is to reconstitute the term for homiletics by grounding it in the emergent discipline of «performance studies.»

Commissioned jointly by the Grocery Manufacturers Association (GMA) Sales Agency Committee and the Association of Sales and Marketing Companies (ASMC) Foundation and conducted by Bain & Company, the study provides an analysis of performance results of CPG companies before and after outsourcing to SMAs.

Panerio is referring to the recent study made by scientists from India showing that the derived lines of Golden Rice produced abnormality and poor yield performance making it unfit for commercial cultivation.

A recent study made by scientist in India showed that the derived lines of Golden Rice produced phenotypic abnormality and poor agronomic performance making it unfit for commercial cultivation.

According to one study, consuming enough healthy fats is likely to boost your athletic performance mainly by serving as an alternative source of instant energy, also known as ketosis.

The number of new products being launched by manufacturers into UK retail stores is falling significantly, according to a study of the performance of new grocery products from launch, published by IRI, a leading provider of FMCG market intelligence and predictive, actionable insight.

This study compared the performance of male athletes when using a typical «carb loading» method before a time trial run, and then by substituting a portion of «Omega 3 chia seed loading» and performing the same test two weeks later.

Some of the medical studies I used as a reference are: Caloric restriction and intermittent fasting: Two potential diets for successful brain aging and Dietary Factors, Hormesis and Health, found on the US National Library of Medicine Site, Cardioprotection by Intermittent Fasting in Rats on the American Heart Association Site and Effect of Ramadan intermittent fasting on aerobic and anaerobic performance and perception of fatigue in male elite judo athletes from the Journal of Strength and conditioning research.

by Brian Ruddell Editor's Note: Brian Ruddell, a New Zealander studying in Australia, was kind enough to write us about High Performance Liquid Chromatography tests that he performed on a number of chiles that he grew in his garden, as well as a famous hot sauce.

The study was conducted by Ralf Jaeger, FISSN, CISSN, MBA, and Jacob Wilson from the department of health sciences and human performance at University of Tampa.

In 2011, a group of sleep researchers did a study at Stanford and discovered that varsity athletes there significantly increased their performance (regardless of sport) by sleeping 10 hours a day.

But a recent study by Joseph Allen, a psychology professor at the University of Virginia, and Robert C. Pianta, the dean of the education school there, demonstrates that when teachers are trained in how to create a better environment in the classroom, that can have a measurable effect on student performance.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

«Studies show better cognitive performance by kids who eat breakfasts with more protein or healthier cereals like oatmeal.

The research contradicts the findings of earlier studies, including one by researchers at Florida Tech in 2003, which suggested that heading in soccer may result in the short term in weaker mental performance, including a decline in cognitive function, difficulty in verbal learning, planning and maintaining attention and reduced information processing speed.