Sentences with phrase «equal groups at»

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Accordingly, the Strategic Growth Fund is now back to a fully - hedged investment stance - meaning that the Fund continues to be fully invested in a broadly diversified group of stocks that appear to have some combination of favorable valuation and favorable market action, while at the same time, the Fund carries an offsetting short position of equal size in the S&P 500 and Russell 2000 indices (using option combinations that mimic short futures contracts) intended to mute the impact of broad market fluctuations on the Fund.

The tech group was helped by chipmakers, especially NVIDIA (NVDA 232.99, +6.68), which climbed 3.0 % after being upgraded to «Overweight» from «Equal Weight» at Barclays.

The contention that strength equals weakness further complicates the politics of victimhood by discouraging — or at the very least rendering morally problematic — efforts by members of victimized groups to better their own circumstances.

The double - blind, placebo - controlled study, conducted by Glyn Howatson and Phillip G. Bell at Northumbria University in the UK, involved 16 well - trained male cyclists who were divided into two groups: one consuming Montmorency tart cherry juice and the other a placebo beverage including an equal amount of carbohydrates.

The Gunners MUST step up their all round game playing quality to equal that of the quality game (if not more) they played against Bayern Munich at the Ems in a Ucl group match day no3, if they are to beat Leicester.

• The first leg was Juve's joint heaviest home European defeat, equalling their 3 - 0 loss against Manchester United FC in the 2002/03 second group stage and the 4 - 1 defeat at home to Bayern on matchday six in 2009/10.

Victory puts PSG equal on points with Bayern Munich at the top of the group, with Celtic's goal difference taking a significant blow to make for an uneasy start to their Champions League campaign.

I would love to see a study with a matched control group... that is, a group with equal risk factors (education level, socioeconomic background, etc.)... that looked at breastfeeding and its effect on neglect.

• Among employed men, fathers» use of parental leave is also strongly influenced by organizational culture, including their company's commitment to caring values, level of «father friendliness» and support for equal opportunities for women; and also the fathers» perceptions of support from top managers, and of work group norms that reward task performance vs. long hours at work (Haas et al, 2002).

Emma serves on the Executive Committee of the 49 - community organization membered Equal Start Community Coalition, Seattle King County Race & Justice Committee, is a member of the Race and Equity Core Group at the National Network of Grantmakers.

At the end of your catalog sale, once you receive your order, your group sends payment to Equal Exchange for the wholesale cost of the products only.

But a later study — in which one group did slow pelvic rocking exercises on all fours for ten minutes twice a day from 37 weeks on and a second group did nothing — looked at the longer - term effect and found that an equal percentage of women (about 8 percent) in both groups had babies who were posterior at birth.

She's been a vocal member of the BBC Women group campaigning for equal pay since it was revealed her salary came in the under # 150,000 - a-year bracket while fellow Today presenters Nick Robinson and John Humphrys earned at least twice that.

After the council hearing, the group was set to hold a press conference and protest outside the education department's headquarters at the Tweed Courthouse, accusing the DOE and the Public Schools Athletic League (PSAL) or denying schools of color equal access to sports teams.

These seats had Labour and Conservative equal at the last election so an eight point lead here is the equivalent of a four point national swing and a one point Labour lead in national polls... pretty much exactly what the national polls have been showing lately (actually if you look at the crossbreaks of the poll they suggest a swing towards the Conservatives in the Conservative held seats, a swing towards Labour in the Labour held seats, but given the sample size of those two groups and that the poll is only weighted at the level of all forty seats I wouldn't put too much weight on that).

At the moment, Labour leadership elections are decided by a complex «electoral college» system, with equal weight given to the votes of three groups - one third to MPs and MEPs, one third to ordinary party members and one third to trade unionists.

«Indoor tanning study reveals surprising new at - risk group for skin cancer: Public health research shows non-heterosexual black male teens use indoor tanning at levels equal to Caucasian female teens.»

As at major universities, 20 % of applicants, and an equal percentage of the fellows and group leaders thus far chosen — 1 of 5 and 2 0f 10, respectively — are women.

After both groups were re-examined at intervals of six months, one year and two years, the patient outcomes appeared to be equal.

In a lending circle, participants join a group of at least four individuals in which each contributes an equal amount and receives the total sum in rotation.

In that case, the randomisation makes sure that the group who use e-cigarettes and the group who don't have an equal chance of quitting at the outset, which this study could not do.

At the end of the study, both groups were equal in improvements in flexibility, but the curcumin / boswellia group had superior scores in overall pain relief and distance walked without pain.

In the longer of the studies, IER (two ~ 75 % ER days per week) demonstrated equal efficacy to CER (25 % ER / day) at reducing body - weight, adiposity and CRP after 6 months, whereas a post-treatment increase in adiponectin occurred only in the IER group.41 In follow - up work by the same group 48, subjects were assigned a similar two - day IER protocol with the addition of a 5 % weight - loss after three months, whereas body - fat losses in the IER group were significantly greater.

Stress resistance has not been assessed however and so the biological relevance of this finding is currently unknown.32 Several IER trials (75 - 85 % ER on restricted days) in overweight / obese populations have reported reductions in various markers of oxidative stress 37, 41, which in one study was accompanied by a complementary increase in the anti-oxidant uric acid.37 In a direct comparison of IER (75 % ER for two days / week) and CER, both ER strategies displayed equal efficacy in reducing levels of fast - acting advanced oxidation protein products (AOPP) after six months, which displayed a tendency to occur earlier (i.e. at three months) in the IER group.41 Levels of slow - acting (i.e. long term) AOPP tended to decrease in the IER group and increase in the CER group which the authors proposed may have resulted from IER - induced activation of autophagy, a key homeostatic cellular process in which dysfunctional or unnecessary cellular proteins are degraded and recycled.41 On the other hand, a follow - up study using similar IER / CER protocols demonstrated comparable reductions in AOPP in both groups after three months.48 Summary and Future Research Directions

This study compared two groups of humans, which had equal blood levels of vitamin E at baseline.

This diet was supplemented with L - methionine (0.16 %), L - phenylalanine (0.15 %), L - tryptophan (0.03 %), and threonine (0.13 %); 15 g (fresh food) was distributed to the pulse group rats in three equal meals given at 0500, 1100 and 1400 h.

We've separated people into disparate groupings while taking away their autonomy and ability to think / reason for themselves while also putting them at odds with one another and lessening their ability to connect on equal footing.

In speed dating event, an equal group of single men and women gather at a prearranged place usually a community hall or a restaurant.

Director Sam Mendes crafted an absolutely thrilling Bond entry with Skyfall that was stacked with equal parts character development and spectacle, proving that when a group of film professionals at the top of their game work toward a specific vision, movie magic is possible.

To gauge how political context might shape partisan polarization, we look at the results from a series of experiments in which we randomly divide our polling sample into two equal groups.

By making equal opportunity a central theme of the movement, organizations such as the BAEO, the Friedman Foundation (established by Milton and Rose Friedman and now known as EdChoice), Democrats for Education Reform, and other groups in favor of school choice have put Republican support at risk by emphasizing the role that vouchers can play in opening school doors to the disadvantaged.

In addition, the English skills of the two groups at age 10 were equal.

Schools with fewer than 20 percent of students meeting norms were defined as low achieving; those with 20 to 30 percent meeting norms were moderate achieving; and those with at least 30 percent of students» meeting norms were high achieving (this created three groups of equal size).

If not, was their progress at least equal to the gain of 40 percent of the comparison group?

According to the account, the Republicans believe «the [Dept. of Education] is trying to reassert federal control by exceeding its authority with a rule that would require state and local spending in low - income schools receiving Title I funds to be equal or greater than non-Title I schools... and force schools to include teacher salaries when measuring spending between Title I and non-Title I schools...» At the same time, the story notes that «King is facing pressure from civil rights groups who want to ensure the new education law does not deprive low - income students of equal funding.»

Other highly gifted children attend regular classrooms, but instead of working at appropriate academic levels and having «an equal opportunity to struggle» (Morreale, 1993), spend much of the school day tutoring others in cooperative learning groups or reviewing curriculum that they mastered years ago on their own (Robinson, 1990; U. S. Department of Education, 1993).

The Charter Institute at Erskine does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or age in its programs and activities and provides equal access to the Boy Scouts and other designated youth groups.

CEM, based at Durham University, claimed its test was «tutor - proof», but analysis by campaign group Local Equal Excellent found the tests made little difference to the number of state school primary pupils accessing grammars.

Founded in 1996 at Harvard University by Orfield and Christopher Edley, the CRP's mission is to create a new generation of research in social science and law on the critical issues of civil rights and equal opportunity for racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

The group has already started adding sales staff at the Chevy store and boosted marketing, said Zabawa, who is an equal partner in the group with John Soares.

At a stroke, it democratised publishing and allowed any writer, anywhere in the world, to compete on equal terms with the corporate media giants like the Big Five: that's the Hachette Book Group (a subsidiary of Time Warner), HarperCollins (a subsidiary of NewsCorp), Macmillan Publishers (a subsidiary of Holtzbrinck Publishing Group), Penguin Random House (a subsidiary of Pearson and Bertelsmann), and Simon & Schuster (a subsidiary of CBS Corporation).

In it, they looked at the market from 1963 to 1990 and followed 10 portfolios formed by sorting stocks by beta each year and splitting the list into equal groups.

The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. (THG) announced that it has priced a registered offering of $ 175 million of subordinated debentures due March 30, 2053 with a coupon of 6.35 %, and redeemable in whole or in part after March 30, 2018 at a redemption price equal to their principal amount.

Wingspreads are a group of option trading strategies named after flying animals like butterflies and condors because they typically are composed of four options: two at outlying strike prices, called the «wings», and two at an equal middle strike price, called the «body».

Prior to joining Equal Justice Works, he was a Fellow at Shute, Mihaly & Weinberger LLP in San Francisco, where he represented citizen groups and local agencies in environmental litigation and land use and planning issues.

This product was recently evaluated as a topical treatment for generalized demodicosis in a small study involving 16 dogs older than 1 year of age.16 Dogs were divided into two equal groups and treated with the spot - on at the proposed minimum dose rate (20 mg / kg of both metaflumizone and amitraz, 0.133 ml / kg) on days 0, 28, and 56 or days 0, 14, 28, 42, 56, and 70.

Owners of safe breeds who insure with State Farm and the other companies covering pit bulls, in particular, are paying correspondingly higher premiums, if all other factors are equal, than they would if insuring with one of at least 13 major U.S. insurance groups that do not cover pit bulls.

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Because we acquired our samples opportunistically — and, thus, the distribution of sample age varied greatly within and between localities — none of the localities provided the opportunity to compare 2 equal - sized groups sampled in the same locality at 2 different, widely spaced time periods.

The group surf session each morning on Legian's beginner - friendly beach — via the lovely and funny guys at Surf School Bali and under the close supervision of surfing retreat lead Carly Mcrae — is equal parts salt water fun and salt water therapy.