Sentences with phrase «challenging study of»

This is what turns The China Syndrome into a simplistic thriller instead of a complex and challenging study of real characters.

A group at the University of Oxford led by pediatrician Andrew Pollard has conducted a challenge study of experimental vaccines against typhoid and paratyphoid.

Not exact matches

The report is part of a larger study, funded by $ 150,000 from Citi Community Development, to learn more about the challenges and needs of female entrepreneurs.

A new study finds younger Canadians facing an array of job challenges, such as spiralling education requirements — and the tuition debt that comes with it

Victor Matheson, an economics professor at the College of the Holy Cross in Massachusetts, says that pre-Olympic studies can be challenged on several grounds, one of which is the «substitution effect.»

The study's bottom line seems to be that, sure, there is still plenty of sexism when it comes to women's behavior at the negotiating table, but if you're more interested at any given time in getting a good deal than challenging stereotypes, then flirting may be the way to go.

According to the most thorough study on goal setting to date, by psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham, very specific and challenging goals such as «Create three logo variations by the end of the day» push people to work harder than nonspecific goals like «Work on logo variations.»

The sandwich chain commissioned a study of its own challenging the findings of CBC's Marketplace report.

Once the final results of those studies are analyzed this spring — and the early evidence has been encouraging — the challenge will be to get FDA approval for human trials and then bring the treatment to market.

So if professional growth is the goal (and plenty of employee engagement studies suggest it should be), it's better to honestly challenge people than to blindly shower them with praise and perks.

The title of a recent Retail Council of Canada study tersely summed up the challenge: «The easy days are over.»

In her studies, she posed a series of increasingly challenging puzzles to her young participants and found some surprising responses.

«Our work challenges the widespread assumption that true creativity requires a kind of anarchy in which people are permitted to speak their minds, whatever the consequence,» commented study lead author and Cornell organizational behavior professor Jack Goncalo.

Some of the most immediate challenges involve making a decision: Should an athlete continue his or her studies?

I have studied the challenges that managers face when delivering bad news and here are some of the key insights and best practices from this research.

I was happy to see a real focus on preparing for tomorrow highlighted in a new book, Start a Successful Business, by Colleen DeBaise, who has made a career of studying and writing about entrepreneur challenges.

WASHINGTON — Biofuels made from the leftovers of harvested corn plants are worse than gasoline for global warming in the short term, a study shows, challenging the Obama administration's conclusions that they are a much cleaner oil alternative and will help combat climate change.

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That study also found that Canadian clean energy firms face challenges related to their size (many are small and medium - sized enterprises), such as access to capital, and concerns around protection of intellectual property.

On May 17 2016, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada and the Jack Austin Centre for Asia Pacific Business Studies at Simon Fraser University's Beedie School of Business held a dialogue themed, «The Opportunities and Challenges of Investing in...

As the debate has taken on a decidedly Asia focus, with some recent studies and popular media coverage pointing to investors from Asia as one of the drivers of Vancouver's soaring housing prices, the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) has written a background document aggregating the available facts, outlining similar challenges in other jurisdictions, and raising the question: Is public policy required?

CATA, working with 6 other major industry associations, 5 federal agencies, 4 provincial agencies, 2 universities and several NGOs as key partners, has just completed a detailed study of the challenges that must be addressed.

If you're a math tutoring company and have discovered in your audience research that one of your persona's biggest challenges is finding interesting ways to study, but you don't have any content that speaks to that concern, then you might look to create some.

Economists have analyzed extensively how platform markets may pose unique challenges for antitrust analysis.377 Specifically, they stress that analysis applicable to firms in single - sided markets may break down when applied to two - sided markets, given the distinct pricing structures and network externalities.378 These studies often focus on the challenge that two - sided platforms face in attracting both sides — the classic coordination problem of having to attract buyers without an established line of sellers, and vice versa.379 Economists tend to conclude that — given the particular challenges of two - sided markets380 — antitrust should be forgiving of conduct that might otherwise be characterized as anticompetitive.381

Using Shanghai as a case study, Dr. Zhou identified the key challenges to low - carbon city development in China as well as the role that Shanghai can play in creating a sustainable path of development for Chinese cities to model in the future.

Figuring out what customers like is the eternal challenge for every retailer, and there's a lot of contradictory info out there: on the one hand, studies confirm that everyone is drawn to novelty, with many people operating under the assumption that the newest product must be the best (and they're often right, but not always).

According to a content marketing study by Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, the top challenges for content marketers include: Not producing enough content, not creating content that engages, not producing a variety of content, lack of integration across marketing channels.

The paper's findings begin to challenge these thinkings — at least for the group of retirees in the study.

Various studies have suggested that improving gender parity may result in significant economic dividends, which vary depending on the situation of different economies and the specific challenges they are facing.

According to the annual study by Content Marketing Institute and MarketingProfs, some of the top content challenges marketers included: 60 % producing engaging content, 57 % producing content consistently.

At the same time, a study from CMI and MarketingProfs reports that 50 % of marketers say producing content consistently is a top challenge.

Dealing with the challenge of harnessing both at the same time, be it in a research study or in a shop floor, is daunting.

Expect to see: in - depth case studies from across Europe and beyond of how businesses are implementing new technologies and adapting to changing regulation; challenging panel discussions tackling the biggest questions in FinTech; and inspiring presentations & fireside chats from the biggest names in the industry giving you concrete insights to implement in your business.

The State of America's Workforce research study set out to determine how America's workforce is approaching retirement planning and preparedness, including their level of retirement readiness, associated emotions, challenges, barriers, and opportunities.

Further challenges come from the fact that Mrs. and Mr. Surf keep their finances separate (similar situation as in the Case Study for Rene) and Mr. Surf will still be working for a number of years, so we have to make some assumptions on how to assign the tax burden between Mr. and Mrs. Surf.

So, Mr. Kenney, who just this week was appointed to the parliamentary committee studying electoral reform, could be abandoning plans to replace Rona Ambrose as leader of the Conservative Party of Canada and setting his sights on uniting - the - right and challenging Rachel Notley «s moderate New Democratic Party government in 2019.

The «Critical incidents among women entrepreneurs» study cited above, claims that «the main challenges they (women) face in their professional context are: difficulties concerning acceptance, lack of affective and social support, difficulty operating on the international market, problems balancing personal, family, and professional matters,» among others.

In fact, given some of the challenges surrounding slack demand and excess supply, an optimal decision would likely be to view each metal as a specific case study.

In a recent Raddon study, Lending Insights: Loan Demand Rebounds but Challenges Persist, we find that yes, the borrowing public is aware of the rate environment and motivated as a result.

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, where he is also Chair of the ASEAN Studies Center and UNESCO Chair in Transnational Challenges and Governance, and Senior Fellow at the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada.

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

The researchers said after their study: «Retiring from work constitutes a major life transition that most people experience at some point in the course of their life, posing significant challenges to health and wellbeing.

Pinning down Hauerwas» theology is a challenge for students studying his work, primarily because his thoughts cover a swathe of theological issues — from pacifism to abortion, politics to disability.

The early pietists did not engage in critical biblical study or directly challenge the literalism of the official teaching.

I can teach «religious studies» as though it were a branch of aesthetics, never allowing either myself or my students to be challenged by «the discernment of right and wrong» that is wisdom.

This study examined the strength of the associative movement, its weaknesses, its challenges and its changes in the new context.

There also are institutional challenges to be met if the delicate ecology of theology and religious studies is not to succumb to the commodification of education, to ideologies with no room for theology (least of all for its celebratory mode), or to absorption in a range of other disciplines.

The difference is I don't go around challenging the entire scope of the REAL scientific community making a fortune deceiving the willfully ignorant pretending I know more than they do about THEIR fields of research and study.

As we study the gospels and learn of Jesus» challenge for us to seek the kingdom first and teach others in the Way of Christ, we see the dominating posture is faithfulness.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.