Sentences with phrase «conduct studies about»

Until that point, he'd had continuous funding since 1987 to conduct studies about the basic mechanics of DNA.

Researchers at the Universities of Rome and L'Aquila in Italy recently conducted a study about how eating chocolate effects brain functions like memory, attention, and processing speed.

In January, Silicon Valley accelerator Y Combinator said it was planning to conduct a study about basic income.

Educator Certification and Standards conducts studies about teacher demographics, teacher attrition and retention, teacher shortages, mathematics and science teachers and administrators in Texas.

Researcher Grace Wong Bucchianeri conducted a study about the effects of homeownership on women's happiness and personal life, and found that homeowners aren't any happier than renters and actually derive more pain from owning a home.

Last month, the Government commissioned the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), with the purpose of conducting a study about and advising upon the economic and social impacts of the United Kingdom's exit from the European Union.

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The findings appear to show that public attitudes about the media are «more complex and nuanced than many traditional studies indicate,» according to the American Press Institute, which conducted the study as part of a collaborative effort with the Associated Press - NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.

Since we conducted the 2016 edition of our study, the median home value in Bay St. Louis has risen by about 3.5 %.

According to a study conducted by Baloonr, about 35 percent of respondents said the best way to addressing the issue in the startup tech worldis to put more women in leadership roles.

But a recent study conducted by Vision Critical on behalf of Rogers found that about three quarter of Canadian enterprises» IT teams are simply too busy to innovate.

Within the last year, only about four in 10 mid-market companies have conducted a formal cost analysis on payroll, time and attendance and employee benefits administration alone, according to the 2014 TCO study.

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

According to the Harris Poll's most recent «Reputation Quotient» study, 60 % of consumers surveyed had decided not to do business with a company because of something they learned about how the company conducts itself.

A study conducted by researchers at the University of London has revealed some interesting information about neurons in the male brain.

Conducted by Yankelovich Partners Inc. from 1997 to 2000, the Monitor MindBase study segments customers into categories, including age, lifestyle and priorities, that marketers can apply to their customer databases to learn more about purchasing habits and preferences.

online panel study of about 46,000 adult participants, comparing them to a similar study conducted at the beginning of the year.

On October 19, it released the results of an online panel study of about 46,000 adult participants, comparing them to a similar study conducted at the beginning of the year.

Indeed, according to a recent study conducted by my company, Xero, about 11.4 million workers - or nearly one - third of the full - time labor force in the U.S. - are using platforms like Uber, Upwork, Freelancer.com, and others.

That research actually bears out an earlier, more detailed study that Yesware conducted (albeit one that examined substantially fewer emails — about 500,000, focusing on sales emails).

To better understand how entrepreneurs feel about pursuing and using business credit, we at Wells Fargo conducted a national study of business owners.

Now, new studies by the same Stanford - based team that conducted the phone survey experiment are adding to our understanding of what most of us misunderstand about asking for favors — and the impact of this confusion.

First, to determine if this effect was in fact true, the researchers conducted a series of lab experiments in which they asked study subjects to talk about products both face to face and through text messaging.

Researchers at the University of Miami conducted a study during which they asked three groups of participants to write about certain topics each week.

Symantec 2010 Critical Infrastructure Protection Study Symantec conducted a survey in August 2010 to find out how aware critical infrastructure companies were of government efforts in this area and how engaged and enthusiastic private enterprise was about working with government.

In a study conducted by NewsCred, my company — which surveyed about 500 U.S. millennials — found that 47 percent of them open company communications most, if not all, of the time.

To conduct this work, GAO analyzed household financial data, including retirement savings and income, from the Federal Reserve's 2013 Survey of Consumer Finances, reviewed academic studies of retirement savings adequacy, analyzed retirement - related questions from surveys, and interviewed retirement experts about retirement readiness.

In fact, a recent study of 9,000 employees conducted by MIT's Sloan School of Management proved that companies that «talk the talk» about meritocracy are the least likely to actually «walk the walk.»

Unlike current studies about Facebook, which are conducted in conjunction with the company's product team, Facebook will not be able to review these academic papers before they are published.

According to Living Goods, clients may also be reluctant to buy drugs from other private providers because of the risk of getting a counterfeit medicine.63 Living Goods sent us a study conducted at the midline of its RCT that claims that both availability of counterfeit drugs and drug prices decreased at private retailers in areas where CHPs worked.64 According to the study, about 37 % of private drug shops in the areas it studied sold fake ACT drugs, 65 and availabilty of fake ACTs was about 50 % lower among non-Living Goods sellers in the areas where Living Goods worked.66 Additional results on these potential effects will be made available when the full RCT is published.

A study conducted by The New York Times Customer Insight Group found that sharing is about connecting with others and maintaining relationships.

A new study conducted for the Broadbent Institute by Richard Shillington and Robin Shaban entitled The Brass Tax: Busting Myths About Overtaxed Canadians, provides compelling evidence that the Fraser Institute's findings are problematic and paint a deceptive picture of typical Canadian tax rates.

A study of African - Americans conducted in 2005 by the Rand Corporation and Oregon State University showed that about 25 percent believed AIDS was produced in a government laboratory, and 12 percent believed the CIA created the virus.

Last April, LifeWay Research conducted a study to find out how people feel about the Bible, and how much of it they've actually read.

A 2015 study from the Water Quality Association (WQA), conducted by an independent market research firm, surveyed 1,200 adults and found that 56 percent of respondents — 4 percent more than in 2013 — were «concerned» or «very concerned» about the quality of water in their homes.

This white paper will talk about a series of descriptive sensory studies conducted on a sugar - free hard - boiled candy system featuring different acid and fruit flavor profiles.

But I also find it useful, every once in a while, to think about the individual people who conducted these studies: the doctors or psychologists or social workers who went in to an orphanage in Russia or an impoverished neighborhood in Jamaica or a high school in Chicago or a living room in Queens and said, in essence, I want to help.

Two health visitors in Grantham, Lincolnshire, conducted a comparative study in which one continued to use the standard letter about the primary birth visit, while the other used a new father - inclusive version (below).

Katherine Dettwyler, an associate professor of anthropology and nutrition at Texas A&M University, conducted a study in the late 1990s on 1,280 children whose parents self - reported information about their breastfeeding practices.

In a five - country study we recently conducted, a staggering 81 % of healthcare providers wish that moms would ask and learn about breastfeeding techniques and skills before baby arrives.

A newly released study (The Online Generation Gap: Contrasting attitudes and behaviors of parents and teens) conducted by Hart Research Associates for the Family Online Safety Institute (FOSI) found a «generation gap» between what parents think they know about their kids online behavior and what the kids think their parents know.

Also every study every conducted on extended breastfeeding (past a year) shows that the children involved are healthier and smarter (by about six iq points!).

As it has been shown that conducting a randomised controlled trial is not possible, the best evidence about the safety of home birth can only come from good quality, routine registrations such as the one we used in our study.

We recently talked about Mayor Bloomberg's proposal to prevent NYC food stamp recipients from using government dollars to purchase soda for two years, while a study is conducted to see if this move improves health.

The state also has concerns about the hospital's feasibility study, which was conducted by the management firm that now oversees the hospital's temporary fitness center in Orland Park, Passeri said.

The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study conducted in the 1990s by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention together with Kaiser Permanente asked adults about ten categories of trauma experienced in childhood: three categories of abuse, two of neglect, and five related to growing up in a «seriously dysfunctional household».

About 40 years ago, a pediatrician named Dr. Morris Wessel conducted a breakthrough study on excessively fussy children.

About nine years ago, the school nurse suggested the change, and the school conducted a pilot study, tracking food waste and visits to the nurse along with anecdotal reports on student behavior.

Officials in Glencoe have paid a civil engineering firm close to $ 70,000 to conduct a study of the village's water system — a task officials said is necessary before they can begin talking to residents about details of an estimated $ 35 million plan to replace the village's aging water plant.

We found only one other study, conducted in the United States, on mortality associated with breech, twin, and post-term births at home.9 This study showed excess mortality in such home births and voiced concern about the trend to encourage midwives to engage in high risk practice.

Because of concerns about safety of the supine sleep position for infants, this study was conducted to determine if infants sleeping in the supine position in the first 6 months of life (peak risk period for SIDS) are at greater risk for specific non-SIDS adverse health consequences compared with those placed to sleep prone.