Sentences with phrase «by studying a model»

I routinely mix ideas into my recipe of success by studying models that are successful in other regions, countries, and industries.

In a way, it is like answering questions about airplane design by studying a model airplane in a wind tunnel — solving problems with a physical simulation rather than a digital computer.

The team of nutritionists, statisticians, and public - health experts started by studying models generated by food companies, but most were «haphazard» and «nontransparent,» according to Peter Scarborough, a mathematician in the group.

Dr. Liu and his team were able to learn more about the circadian rhythms by studying model systems involving the bread mold, Neurospora crassa.

By studying the model of the microcephalic brain, the team found that the period of stem cell multiplication was shorter than usual.

Not exact matches

A study from the Penn Wharton Budget Model in October estimated that Trump's tax cuts would boost GDP by 1.12 % and push jobs up by 11.7 million more than what would have been expected without his plan by 2018.

To be sure, it's not shocking that a study conducted by a multi-channel digital network would produce findings that are encouraging for its business model.

But inside, these trucks emit pollution 43 to 55 times the level of a 2014 and 2015 model year, according to studies conducted by the EPA.

By studying the right role models, you could learn in a week what might otherwise take you a decade.

According to a recent leadership study done by Deloitte, «When older business models are no longer working, leaders need new capabilities.

From my experience working with thousands of small and mid-market (SME) B2B companies, along with studying the reams of data on the B2B lead generation model, I've established a list of the three most common and damaging website mistakes made by SMEs.

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

Detailed study results, company - level analytics, and assumption models calibrated to this data are available for purchase by participating companies.

OTTAWA — A five - year $ 50 - billion public infrastructure spending initiative would generate a return on investment to Canadians over the long term as high as $ 3.83 per dollar spent, trigger significant private sector investment and stimulate wage increases, according to a new study by an independent economic modelling firm.

A new NBER working paper by MIT's Christian Catalini and Joshua Gans from the University of Toronto supplies answers to these questions by studying a two - period model of a token offering, covering the ICO stage during which interested buyers acquire tokens, and a market stage at which the platform goes live.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

In the end, the author believes that the Enlightenment thinkers developed a «theological» model, even though he completes this exhaustive study by citing a grim text from one of Nietzsche's «Letters» that sounds anything but theological: ««The family will be slowly ground into a random collection of individuals,» haphazardly bound together «in the common pursuit of selfish ends.

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

The only thing it seems that you all have studied is how to argue with an atheist using an A.B.C model laid out by a really well versed atheist who actually reasoned.

This tentative model for understanding the causes of problem drinking is offered in the report of the Cooperative Commission on the Study of Alcoholism: «An individual who (1) responds to beverage alcohol in a certain way, perhaps physiologically determined, by experiencing intense relief and relaxation, and who (2) has certain personality characteristics, such as difficulty in dealing with and overcoming depression, frustration, and anxiety, and who (3) is a member of a culture in which there is both pressure to drink and culturally induced guilt and confusion regarding what kinds of drinking behavior are appropriate, is more likely to develop trouble than will most other people.»

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

A spokeswoman told the Recorder: «We understand the importance of Black History Month and celebrate this by studying the success and achievements of black role models.

In recognition of the extensive study of this abstract model by Ilya Prigogine and his associates in Belgium (SNS), this mechanism is called «the Brusselator.»

The picture of good teaching developed here to counter the fragmentation of theological schooling also tends to counter the previous two studies» tendency to change the «Berlin» model of theological schooling by adopting a functionalist picture of «professional» schooling and an individualistic picture of the teaching proper to Wissenchaft.

An interesting study of christological models has been written by John McIntyre.4 The «two - natures model» (which he takes as a single complex model involving both divine and human natures) has dominated Christian thought, but it has a number of limitations; it is tied to the Aristotelian categories of substance and attribute, and it tends to view the incarnation as the assumption of an abstract human nature rather than the personal individuality of a particular man.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

By studying the operations of their models and the concrete systems they represent, both men suggest they can offer an understanding of the qualitative aspects of reality without compromising on the empirical character of the reality being symbolized by their models, and this, largely because of the immersion of their models in the empirical structureBy studying the operations of their models and the concrete systems they represent, both men suggest they can offer an understanding of the qualitative aspects of reality without compromising on the empirical character of the reality being symbolized by their models, and this, largely because of the immersion of their models in the empirical structureby their models, and this, largely because of the immersion of their models in the empirical structures.

This case study has viewed SEA of India in terms both of what it does and how it does it, benchmarking it against a model of best practice published by the UK's Trade Association Forum and also drawing on a previous ITC study visit with East African sunflower associations

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.

The lower levels of baseline sugar sweetened drink consumption in the UK compared with the US may in part explain why the effect on obesity that we estimate in the UK is much less than that estimated in the US.12 The differences with respect to other modelling studies may also be partly explained by their use of higher own price elasticity values for sugar sweetened drinks than we have calculated and used here.18 22 52 We can not make direct comparisons between the results of our study and the results of recent studies of the effect of reducing sugar sweetened drink consumption on body weight in children, 5 7 as the relation between energy balance and change in body mass index in children who are growing is different from that in adults.

However, this super spy trick has been breached by clubs that have for a long time watched in the sidelines and studied the Arsenal model and started their own home grown models.

Verve, the official power crank supplier to the Great Britain Cycling Team, has developed the product following five years of study, research and modelling, which has been supported throughout by British Cycling.

The study provides what the authors say is good clinical evidence that helmet design can lower the risk of concussion, not in a laboratory, but in games and practices, by showing that a helmet model introduced in 2000 provides better protection against concussion than an older helmet employing 20 - year - old design technology.

The following is a case study looking at the new business model being pursued by The Guardian newspaper in...

The following is a case study looking at the new business model being pursued by The Guardian newspaper in the UK as print sales fall.

Moreover, I believe that the current models promoted by pediatric sleep researchers that ignore feeding method and the importance of breastfeeding and breastmilk - delivery and the nutrition it provides are fundamentally flawed having emerged from recent cultural ideologies and not from studies of the biology of infancy or parenting.

personal preferences, influenced by recent Western cultural values and social ideology, NOT studies of the natural biology and needs of the human infant have argued against babies arousing at night to feed a lot; and, indeed, the «sleep like a baby» or «shush the baby is sleeping» model, while some kind of western ideal is NOT what babies are designed to do nor experience, and it is definitely not in their own biological or emotional or social best interest.

In support of this model, multiple studies have shown the association between infant negative reactivity and later psychosocial outcomes such as problem behaviour and self - regulation to be moderated by parental behaviour, so that highly reactive children fare better than others when they experience optimal parenting but worse than others when they experience negative parenting.41 - 46 Further support is found in studies indicating that interventions targeting parental attitudes and / or behaviours are particularly effective for children with a history of negative reactive temperament.47, 49

women allocated to midwife - led continuity models of care were more likely to be attended at birth by a known midwife (RR 7.04, 95 % CI 4.48 to 11.08; participants = 6917; studies = seven); however, the effect estimates for individual studies are highly variable, as reflected in substantial statistical heterogeneity (Tau ² = 0.31; I ² = 94 %; Analysis 1.15).

When logistic models were stratified by the presence or absence of hypertensive disease, only maternal age older than 34 years (odds ratio [OR], 1.4; 95 % confidence interval [CI], 1.0 - 2.0), pregnancy - associated plasma protein - A of the 95th percentile or less (OR, 1.9; 95 % CI, 1.2 - 3.1), and alpha fetoprotein of the 95th percentile or greater (OR, 2.3; 95 % CI, 1.4 - 3.8) remained statistically significantly associated for abruption.In this large, population - based cohort study, abnormal maternal aneuploidy serum analyte levels were associated with placental abruption, regardless of the presence of hypertensive disease.

Women who had midwife - led continuity models of care were more likely to experience no intrapartum analgesia / anaesthesia (average RR 1.21, 95 % CI 1.06 to 1.37; participants = 10,499; studies = seven), have a longer mean length of labour (hours)(mean difference (MD) 0.50, 95 % CI 0.27 to 0.74; participants = 3328; studies = three) and more likely to be attended at birth by a known midwife (average RR 7.04, 95 % CI 4.48 to 11.08; participants = 6917; studies = seven).

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) data set, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and well being would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

This model gives students a portion of professional full day classroom instruction and a portion of home study days with curriculum provided by the classroom teacher.

David Mau, the village's director of public works, said the study conducted by Strand Associates will include creating a computerized, hydraulic model of Glencoe's main water system and making recommendations that could help officials determine the future of the village's 85 - year - old, beachfront water plant.

Given the heterogeneity in the choice of outcome measures routinely collected and reported in randomised evaluations of models of maternity care, a core (minimum) dataset, such as that by Devane 2007, and a validated measure of maternal quality of life and wellbeing would be useful not only within multi-centre trials and for comparisons between trials, but might also be a significant step in facilitating useful meta - analyses of similar studies.

The study compares 2 models of antenatal care, i.e. antenatal care by midwives and obstetricians or antenatal care by midwives only.

Pooled ORs for group 1, groups 1 and 2, and all studies were calculated by using the random - effects model whenever possible.

Fixed - effect models are reported throughout, because these reflect only the random error within each study and are less affected by small study bias (usually the result of selective publication of small studies with extreme results)(39).

A modelling exercise for the Resolution Foundation by the Institute for Employment Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies finds that on the basis of annual average UK growth of 2.5 per cent from 2015 - 2020 — an optimistic scenario — and no further cuts in public spending, living standards will fall for low and middle income households by between 3 and 15 per cent (Brewer et al., 2012).

In a new report - After PFI - released yesterday by the Centre for Policy Studies, Jesse Norman MP has advocated the abolition of PFI, and its replacement with a new model of public sector procurement.