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.
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.
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 structure
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 structure
by 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.