Sentences with phrase «cent of the research universities»

That was true at 4 per cent of the research universities.

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Even after its 100 per cent acquisition, ModiFace will remain based in Toronto to stay close to the University of Toronto where Aarabi continues to be a professor and where the firm has established research partnerships.

With 80 per cent of Nova Scotia's publicly funded research, and as one of Canada's leading universities for industry collaboration, we're helping generate the talent, discoveries and innovations that will shape Atlantic Canada's future.

Agnese, for his part, points towards 2017 research from the University of Connecticut and Georgia State University that found, based on the analysis of sales data collected by Nielsen retail scanners between 2006 and 2015, that monthly alcohol sales fell an average of 13 per cent in states that had legalized medical marijuana.

In June this year, the NSPCC and the Children's Commission published an extensive report titled I wasn't sure if it was normal to watch it... The research undertaken by Middlesex University included a survey of children aged 11 - 16 and showed that by the age of 12, 28 per cent had viewed pornography and by the age of 15 that had risen to 65 per cent.

The research by Professor Christina Victor of Brunel University, found very few, at best five to ten per cent of the older people within these communities who were interviewed received any form of formal care, apart from health services, from the wider community or government.

The number of non-toxicology procedures increased 2 per cent to 3.39 million, reflecting the higher numbers of procedures carried out in universities (+7 %), particularly fundamental research.

Findings of a latest research conducted by the University of Ghana's Political Science Department said the NPP would record 69.9 per cent in the 2016 presidential general election if the general elections were to be held now.

«By the early 2000s, it had disappeared from 93 per cent of its historical localities,» says Roland Knapp at the University of California's Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory.

A team of research scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the University of Turku and the University of Eastern Finland has discovered a previously unknown Cent - 1 molecule that kills canceresearch scientists from VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland, the University of Turku and the University of Eastern Finland has discovered a previously unknown Cent - 1 molecule that kills canceResearch Centre of Finland, the University of Turku and the University of Eastern Finland has discovered a previously unknown Cent - 1 molecule that kills cancer cells.

Dr Alice Forster, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at University College London, said: «Although around 87 per cent of girls in the UK do have the vaccine it's concerning to see that some girls from some ethnic minority groups feel they don't need to have it.

Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one - tenth - cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.

The new study by Stefanie Lutz, postdoc at the German Research Centre for Geosciences GFZ and at the University of Leeds, shows a 13 per cent reduction of the albedo over the course of one melting season caused by red - pigmented snow algal blooms.

Researchers at Aalto University and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland have succeeded in developing a method which helps to improve the relative uncertainty in measuring the luminous efficacy of LEDs from the approximate five percent of today to one per cent in the future.

In the universities, where 80 per cent of scientific research is done, a misguided funding policy was introduced in 1984 under which institutions received extra money for producing papers in influential journals.

A study published in Ecological Applications led by Professor John Swaddle, visiting Research Associate at the University of Exeter, found that filling a controlled area with acoustic noise around an airfield, where the majority of collisions tend to take place, can reduce the number of birds in the area by 80 per cent.

Using the most comprehensive conservation data available for both marine and non-marine organisms, research led by Dr Thomas Webb, from the University's Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, has shown that 20 to 25 per cent of the well - known species living in our seas are now threatened with extinction — the same figure as land living plants and animals.

The Netherlands, a country of similar population and wealth, pumps about 70 per cent more money than Australia into university research.

Only two per cent of patients with life - threatening bleeding after serious injury receive optimal blood transfusion therapy in England and Wales, according to research led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) and NHS Blood and Transplant.

According to University of British Columbia (UBC) research published this week in Scientific Reports, 30 per cent of the microbes in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's Kabuno Bay grow by a type of photosynthesis that oxidizes (rusts) iron rather than converting water into oxygen like plants and algae.

Brownson, who also is director of the university's Prevention Research Center, and his co-authors set out to determine the effectiveness of three federal policies aimed at reducing childhood obesity: afterschool physical activity programs, a one cent per ounce sugar - sweetened beverage excise tax, and a ban on fast food television advertising to children under 12.

88 per cent of mathematical sciences research from the University of Bath was judged to be internationally excellent by the in the recent independently - assessed Research Excellence Frameworesearch from the University of Bath was judged to be internationally excellent by the in the recent independently - assessed Research Excellence FramewoResearch Excellence Framework 2014.

Research from the University of Sussex in the UK found reading for just six minutes may reduce stress levels by 68 per cent, while listening to music reduced stress by 61 per cent, having a cup of tea or coffee lowered stress by 54 per cent and taking a walk by 42 per cent.

Research at the University of Massachusetts found that women with higher non-heme iron, which comes from plant sources, are 30 to 40 per cent less likely to experience PMS.

The research from Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Southern Denmark found that the chance of developing Type 2 diabetes was cut by between 30 and 40 per cent with just 3.5 hours of yoga and other muscle - strengthening activities along with aerobic exercise a week.

The effect of the planned changes is expected to grow direct funding to universities for teaching, learning and research from $ 10.7 billion in 2017 by 8 per cent to $ 11.5 billion in 2021, and taxpayer - backed student loans paid to universities from $ 6.4 billion to $ 7.4 billion, meaning a total funding increase of 11 per cent, if universities maintained their current enrolment patterns.

More than a quarter of year 7 to year 10 teachers and 15 per cent of year 11 to 12 teachers in Australian schools are teaching a subject they have not studied above first year at university and for which they have not received training in teaching methodology, according to new figures by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER).

The research found just a fifth were made aware of apprenticeships as an option in place of undergraduate university studies following A Levels, with less than five per cent told about distant or online learning.

New University of Hertfordshire research among over 500 teenagers aged 13 - 15, living in Scotland, has found that four in ten (41 per cent) consume sugar - filled drinks during the school lunch break, despite these being banned within the school gates.

The research, conducted by Newcastle University, found that 43 per cent of 11 year olds in London has been tutored outside of school, compared to only five per cent in Scotland.

A recent research paper by Cardiff University discovered that 89 per cent of Welsh 12 to 14 - year - olds questioned used high - sugar sport drinks, with 68 per cent of those using them at least once a week.

The research was conducted by Youth Sight and found that just 50 per cent of university applicants felt their school had not provided sufficient information regarding how their subject choice could affect their choice of degree and university.

http://www.csiro.au/Portals/Media/Deserts-greening-from-rising-CO2.aspx In findings based on satellite observations, CSIRO, in collaboration with the Australian National University (ANU), found that this CO2 fertilisation correlated with an 11 per cent increase in foliage cover from 1982 - 2010 across parts of the arid areas studied in Australia, North America, the Middle East and Africa, according to CSIRO research scientist, Dr Randall Donohue.»

According to research conducted and published by Drexel University sociologist Robert Brulle, Scaife's family fortune funded climate change denial efforts to the tune of $ 39.6 milliob between 2003 - 2010, about seven per cent of all the cash spent on the climate change counter movement.

Scientists at the Agro Climate Research Centre at Tamil Nadu Agricultural University have projected that productivity of irrigated rice is likely to drop by four per cent in the coastal areas, while maize and sorghum yields could fall up to 50 per cent in certain areas.

A recent study by McKinsey & Company estimates that 23 per cent of lawyer time is automatable, while similar research by the highly respected AI expert Dana Remus at the University of North Carolina School of Law concludes that just 13 per cent of lawyer time can be performed by computers.

The fund model has a tiered give - back distribution of between 20 - 40 per cent of the general partners» carried interest profits to non-profit organizations whose missions support next - generation entrepreneurs, global startup ecosystems, social enterprises, blockchain advocacy groups, research organizations and university incubators, according to its statement.