Sentences with phrase «decades of data on»

And now with two decades of data on attachment researchers can ask, and answer, interesting questions about whether adult attachment styles have changed at the population - level over time.

And now two decades of data on attachment researchers can ask, and answer, interesting questions about whether adult attachment styles have changed at the population - level over time.

In 1992, an economist called Eric Hanushek reached a remarkable conclusion by analysing decades of data on teacher effectiveness: a student in the class of a very ineffective teacher — one ranked in the bottom 5 % — will learn, on average, half a year's worth of material in one school year, whereas if she was in the class of a very effective teacher — in the top 5 % — she would learn a year and a half's worth of material.

For their study, researchers from Vanderbilt University, Appalachian State University, and the University of Wisconsin - Eau Claire analyzed two decades of data on two groups: 13 - year - olds who had scored high on the SAT college - entrance exam and graduate students enrolled in top - ranked math,...

That number — 4.1 % to be exact — comes from a new analysis of more than 3 decades of data on death sentences and death row exonerations across the United States.

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To demonstrate «critical slowing down» as an early warning signal of societal collapse, Downey and his fellow researchers examined five decades» worth of data on Neolithic European settlements published in archaeological journals.

Oceanic data is valuable, but for decades the only way to study the world's hostile waters was to deploy a stationary buoy, launch a satellite into space, or send a government research vessel that runs hundreds of thousands of dollars a day to operate — on top of its initial price tag of hundreds of millions of dollars.

Belying Spicer's comment is data from the Corpus of Contemporary American English, which has 450 million words spoken on television and written in books and print media over the past three decades.

The aim of the weigh - ins, which might be more familiar to travelers who have flown on small planes, is to update nearly decade - old data on average passenger weights as it expands its route network and needs to accurately forecast payloads and how much fuel it requires.

Meanwhile, U.S. net imports of crude oil fell last week by 1.6 million bpd to 4.98 million bpd, the lowest level since the EIA started recording the data in 2001, reflecting further erosion in a market OPEC has been relying on for decades.

I have UX training, decades of experience, personal preferences, and career UX / UXD professionals on my team, and even with all these seemingly valuable data points, it only yields a UX hypothesis that must be validated with user testing.

The U.K. had been expected to follow close behind the Federal Reserve in raising interest rates for the first time in nearly a decade, but with lower commodity prices and weak wage growth still keeping a lid on inflation, economists now think that the U.K. may not raise rates till 2017 — even though new data out Wednesday showed the employment rate hit a 45 - year high of 74 % in the three months to November.

Rogers» take is that while most big web applications that must run on thousands of servers spread all over the world have flowed to AWS, it'll take much longer for important enterprise software like accounting and inventory systems that have run in corporate data centers for decades, to do the same.

Sheikh says he tried mightily as head of StatsCan to shift limited resources away from collecting data about the country's shrinking manufacturing sector — more than 300,000 jobs have been shed in Ontario and Quebec over the past decade — so the agency could spend more on tracking the boom in services and trade.

And being perhaps the world's most comprehensive aggregator of economic data for the largest and most advanced economies on the planet — and having tracked such data for the last five decades — one might suggest that the OECD knows a thing or two about improving productivity and making an economy grow.

Time series analysis could help predict, based on what happens at the London Stock Exchange, how other exchanges will be impacted using decades» worth of stock data.

Over the past two decades, this has amounted to a trove of data on what employees experience when their company is a Great Place to Work for All — and how leaders can build one.

Because each individual source of readily available data on income distribution has different advantages and limitations, no single source illustrates all of the major trends in inequality over the past six decades or so.

What you do is, go into your Facebook settings, click the Apps icon on the left rail, and then feast your eyes on up to a decade's worth of giving your data to Facebook apps for free.

A utopian case for Bitcoin and cryptocurrencies in general, if one even exists, is still struggling to articulate itself as merchant adoption hasn't caught on nearly a decade after the first block of Bitcoin transaction data was generated, and prices continue to fluctuate too wildly for it to be considered a store of value.

Over the last decade, the number of mentions of the millennial generation on quarterly corporate earnings calls has jumped from just one in all of 2007 to more than 100 in the most recent earnings season alone, according to Thomson Reuters data.

Built on the back of decades of industry experience along with our machine learning platform, our products analyze hundreds of millions of unique data points each day to determine fare volatility and risk.

The Canadian whistleblower at the center of recent international furor over misuse of Facebook data told UK lawmakers on Tuesday that one of his predecessors may have been «poisoned» a half decade ago.

On the other hand, the earlier increases in dwelling prices were very large, and even with the latest data showing declines, a big cumulative rise in wealth has occurred over the past decade, most of which has not been tapped.

Our perspective is straightforward: on the basis of measures that have been reliably correlated with actual subsequent market returns in market cycles across a century of data, we estimate that the S&P 500 Index will be no higher a decade from now than it is today.

This statistic, which is based on decades of data, suggests that many U.S. home buyers would be better suited to an adjustable - rate mortgage than a fixed.

Still more broadly, the Internet as it has evolved over the past couple of decades is essentially a data gathering machine, in which we all trade information about ourselves — our likes and dislikes, what we look at on the Web, our countless online utterances — in exchange for free services we need, or merely enjoy.

Looking back through history, whenever value stocks have gotten this cheap, subsequent long - term returns have generally been strong.3 From current depressed valuation levels, value stocks have in the past, on average, doubled over the next five years.4 Not that we necessarily expect returns of this magnitude this time around, but based on the data and our six decades of experience investing through various market cycles, we believe the current risk / reward proposition is heavily skewed in favor of long - term value investors.

Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

(Note, I am pretty sure you can correlate the two for terrorism in the last couple of decades, but when you present an article based on data, please * use * some data.)

On Monday, I used an estimated version of my S&P + ratings — using points scored and allowed (the only data points available) to compare output to expected output based on opponent strength — to rank which programs were the best in each decade going back to the 1890On Monday, I used an estimated version of my S&P + ratings — using points scored and allowed (the only data points available) to compare output to expected output based on opponent strength — to rank which programs were the best in each decade going back to the 1890on opponent strength — to rank which programs were the best in each decade going back to the 1890s.

The most amazing epidemiological study on the safety of formula has been going on for decades, it's called «a large proportion of full term humans in the developed world», and there is currently no hard data that there are dangers, or even visible trends associated with formula.

Take a decade - by - decade look at just a few of Mathematica's projects that have made a lasting impact on the field of research and the use of data to make a difference.

This data visualization illustrates the changing fat and saturated fat content of school lunches over several decades, based on updated nutrition standards that were informed by our work.

«Based this new analysis of a decade's worth of data on children involved in crashes, policymakers, pediatricians and health educators should continue to recommend as best practice the use of belt - positioning booster seats once a child outgrows a harnessed based child restraint until he / she is at least 8 years of age,» says Dennis Durbin, MD, MSCE, co-scientific director of The Center for Injury Research and Prevention and study co-author.

ESS, whose fieldwork in the UK has been funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), has collected data from more than 250,000 interviews in 30 countries over the last decade on a wide range of topics that tap into key issues facing contemporary Europe.

Exploration work carried out over past decades is a rich source of data and experience on which to build.

NYPD Commissioner Bill Bratton defended his department's decision to cut off public access to officers» personnel data, saying that the decades - old practice of disclosing that information was a «lapse in oversight on our part» and violated state law.

Because of the possible lessons it could provide here on Earth, NASA has been studying Saturn and its moons for more than a decade with data collected from the Cassini spacecraft.

A new study based on NASA satellite data and meteorological data shows that the amount of carbon absorbed by Earth's plants and trees fell in the past decade

Large - scale organic farming operations, based on a review of almost a decade of data from 49 states, are not reducing greenhouse gas emissions, says a University of Oregon researcher.

He goes on to list examples from his two decades of work with six such organizations, including exclusion of respected scientists from meetings, successful attempts to manipulate contents of reports from scientific committee meetings and withholding of data.

Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.

In the last decade, we have collected data on agronomic performance, including yield, but also data on the resistance of the lines as well as on SCN pressure in the field.

After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists conclude that «insurgents pretty much seemed to be following a progress curve — or a learning curve — that's very common in the manufacturing literature,» says physicist Neil Johnson of the University of Miami in Florida and lead author of the study.

But Hurricane Harvey is unlike any past test of the gulf's resilience, and researchers are jump - starting studies to document the aftermath, building on baseline data from existing research projects, some of which have been underway for decades.

Decades of data from the Amundsen Sea Embayment show glaciers are disappearing faster here than anywhere else on Earth.

An analysis published last year of data on more than 5,000 Americans did not find a decline in lung function among individuals who smoked joints two or three times a month over two decades.

After decades of field work from dozens of sites around the world, and after two years of combing through and analyzing data, Matt Forister, associate professor and ecologist from the University of Nevada, Reno, and an international team have reported on global patterns in the diets of insect herbivores.

The UK Met Office this week published data showing that the first decade of the 2000s has been the warmest on record.