Sentences with phrase «by self study»

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The study's authors say that getting people to think favourably of your accomplishments might be better achieved «by modest self - representation, or even self - denigration, than by outright bragging about one's positive qualities.»

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

But BresoDX, a self - administered home test for sleep apnea, developed by Toronto - based company Bresotec, is likely to complete the study portion of the process in early 2016.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

A study published by the American Psychological Association suggests that bosses prefer candidates who they find likable and friendly over those who are self - promotional (though they note that a combination of the two is probably best.)

They also measured working spouses» occupational success by studying their self - reported job satisfaction, salary increases, and the likelihood of being promoted.

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.»

A new study suggests that by 2020, 40 percent of America's workforce will be contract, temporary or self - employed workers.

According to a study by the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, as a group self - employed women differ from self - employed men in significant ways.

And some studies suggest they're right: In a paper called «Environmental Disorder Leads to Self - Regulatory Failure,» a pair of researchers from UBC and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business found that «being surrounded by chaos ultimately impairs the ability to perform tasks requiring «brain» power.»

That same 2013 study by found an important caveat to the idea that self - disclosure predicts closeness: It has to be mutual.

As with drinking, dietary habits were self - reported, but the study's general findings are supported by dozens of previous studies.

According to a study by Nuance Communications, 67 % of buyers prefer self - service over speaking to a company representative.

More research is needed to rule out this second scenario, but the idea of being kind to yourself about occasional lapses in productivity or self - control — especially if you're the type to beat yourself up for every dip in productivity — has been endorsed by previous studies.

Studies relying on self - reported data have come to even more alarming conclusions; a survey conducted by the U.K. branch of Weight Watchers, for example, found that people were sitting an average of 14 hours and 39 minutes a day.

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.

A study published in the journal Science and written by three members of the Facebook data science team found that the News Feed algorithm suppresses what they called «diverse content» by 8 percent for self - identified liberals and 5 percent for self - identified conservatives.

The public's image of the vehicles will be defined by stories like the crash in Tempe, said Bryant Walker Smith, a University of South Carolina law professor who studies self - driving vehicles.

Furthermore, we confirm that a height premium in earnings exists for not only paid employees, as indicated by prior studies, but also for self - employed individuals.

Some people learn best by reviewing self - study courses and accessing Lab Projects in their own test environments.

Or again: Most studies regarding the physical and mental health of homosexuals, some cited but not explored by Reilly, themselves note that they rely on self - selection and self - identification.

These questions define the subject matter of the study of divinity, and Christians have believed through the ages that these questions can be adequately answered only as each generation appropriates the teaching passed on by the original witnesses of God's self - revelation in the life, death, and resurrection of Christ.

One example of self - study has been provided by David Orr at Hendrix College, and now, I understand, at Oberlin.

The seven - year study was designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

It would be ill - advised to set much store by such studies, given the difficulty of measuring something like self - concept, but at least they don't raise any alarms.»

By removing the wide segments of knowledge and skill with which the school ordinarily deals from all explicit relation to religion, the meaning of religion is falsified; by being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiencBy removing the wide segments of knowledge and skill with which the school ordinarily deals from all explicit relation to religion, the meaning of religion is falsified; by being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiencby being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiency.

Our anxiety might be between emotional drives and repressive norms, between different drives trying to dominate our personality, between our hope to achieve in our studies or profession and a lack of confidence in ourselves between the desire to be accepted by others and the experience of being rejected, between our real selves and the image of ourselves we try to give others or between our sense of loneliness and the need for friendship.

So thinks the Pew Research Center, which today released the second wave of a massive study designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

The extreme view that a person is «just a collection of atoms» is less persuasive in the light of tracer studies showing that the atoms in our bodies are replaced every few years; 6 the self that continues must be constituted by the relationships and patterns among atoms, rather than by the atoms in themselves.

Almost a century and a half after Clement of Rome, Clement of Alexandria and his brilliant student Origen were self - consciously affirming, not that Christianity was like paideia, not that it could simply make use of received paideia, but that Christianity is paideia, given by God in Jesus Christ, turning on a radical conversion possible only by the Holy Spirit's help, and taught only indirectly by study of divinely inspired Scriptures in the social context of the church understood to be in some ways a school.

Based on previous studies cited by these researchers, analytical thinking may «diminish the capacity for optimism and positive self - illusions that typify good mental health.»

Buoyed by a self - confidence that, paradoxically, can only be justified by the theistic premise of man's capacity to transcend nature, these scientists began subjecting man himself to an increasing amount of scientific study.

Because awareness of revelation is always mediated to a people by way of individual experience, in the case of Christianity by Jesus» intimate experience of God as «abba,» a study of it must examine in some detail what happens to the self as it is shaped by faith in revelation.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

The objects of his study range from a class of molecules that have the basic self - duplicating property of living things, through cells which suggest purely physical systems, through animals which give increasing evidence of having minds, to human beings in whom streams of consciousness seem to involve continual choices of action, at the opposite pole from control by impersonal laws of nature.

One study suggests that in 2012, a black man was killed every 28 hours by police, security guards, or self - appointed vigilantes.

Most studies displayed faults ranging from lack of control groups to use of biased and unreliable measuring instruments to the use of subjects who were either self - selected or selected by abortion clinic personnel.

Conversely, the study found «children can learn to be altruistic, friendly and self - controlled by looking at television programs depicting such behavior patterns.

If you use a Study Bible as your main Bible, it is too easy, when wrestling with a troublesome text, to simply look down at the notes on the bottom of the page, and in so doing, miss out on the absolute thrill of the «self - discovery» that comes by sweating through the text and praying for understanding.

Since fashions change, the contrasts developed by one generation often differ from those emphasized by the previous one; but it can be shown that underlying a good deal of study supposedly analytical in nature there is a very simple set of antitheses which are supposed to be self - evident.

The $ 10.8 million system was financed by Gills Onions along with $ 2.7 million from the self - generation incentive program of Southern California Gas Co.; $ 3.2 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act; and a $ 499,000 grant from the California Energy Commission for the study of sulfur removal from the biogas.

«This evidence, compared to the study by the ANU that involved just 75 people and relied on self - reporting to a questionnaire, clearly shows that the bank of credible evidence points to no increased consumption by people who choose to mix energy drinks and alcohol.

The competition regulator has put the Australian cattle market on notice by reinforcing recommendations for modernising reform with news that it has launched cartel investigations in the wake of a self - initiated market study into the nation's single biggest contributor to agricultural incomes.

A recent analysis of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC) found that, in fathers, a higher parenting self - efficacy score was related to lower work - family strain; and a key mechanism by which fathers» work / family strain was decreased was by their doing more than they regarded as their «fair share» of child rearing tasks.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

Student - athletes will benefit the most from reduced exposure to potentially injurious blows and from what one calls the «conundrum of having to self - report an injury that they may not recognize as being potentially injurious or dangerous in the moment of competition,» or, as recent studies suggest, that athletes know are potentially dangerous but choose not to report because they fear being punished by the coach for doing so, such as by removing them from a starting position, reducing future playing time, or inferring in front of teammates that reporting symptoms made them «weak» or less «manly»; and

Some of the same studies suggest that athletes may be more likely to self - report if they feel safe in self - reporting, in other words, when they don't fear adverse repercussions if they report in terms of decreased playing time, losing their starting positions, or being embarrassed by the coach in front of their teammates for their lack of toughness, such as, for example, by being labeled a «wimp» (or worse).

By studying the actor's art, we can learn to direct and express our feeling life by inviting our body, voice and soul to move in ways chosen by our higher selBy studying the actor's art, we can learn to direct and express our feeling life by inviting our body, voice and soul to move in ways chosen by our higher selby inviting our body, voice and soul to move in ways chosen by our higher selby our higher self.

The strengths of the study include the ability to compare outcomes by the woman's planned place of birth at the start of care in labour, the high participation of midwifery units and trusts in England, the large sample size and statistical power to detect clinically important differences in adverse perinatal outcomes, the minimisation of selection bias through achievement of a high response rate and absence of self selection bias due to non-consent, the ability to compare groups that were similar in terms of identified clinical risk (according to current clinical guidelines) and to further increase the comparability of the groups by conducting an additional analysis restricted to women with no complicating conditions identified at the start of care in labour, and the ability to control for several important potential confounders.