Sentences with phrase «figure studies from»

Art historian Robert Hobbs singles out the artist's charcoal nude figure studies from this period.

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Check out the Case Study from our current issue about about Able Planet, a Colorado - based audio technology company that had to figure out what to do when its bank suddenly changed the terms of its $ 2.5 million line of credit.

Hoffman cites a staggering figure from a Deloitte study that found only 8 percent of organizations said annual performance reviews were worth the effort they require.

Sophos's figures echo those released last week from a McAfee study, which warned of the growing threat of cyberattack on critical systems.

The number one industry set be transformed by A.I. appears to be healthcare, with $ 400 million invested by health care companies in the technology as of last year, a figure that's projected to grow to $ 3 billion or more by 2020, according to data from the Beacon Center for the Study of Evolution in Action.

A new Poets & Quants study shows that MBAs are leaving campus with six - figure debt loads from at least 13 prominent business schools, up from only two schools in 2011.

We should approach these figures with a little skepticism; Facebook commissioned the study and stands to benefit from it.

To try to figure this out, the researchers looked at two massive data sets - one from an ongoing study that tracks teens» screen time usage in eighth, tenth and twelfth grade and another from the CDC on risky teen behaviors.

The global market for 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, is poised to grow to $ 3 billion by 2018 — a 76 percent increase from 2012 revenue figures — according to a study by Global Industry Analysts.

To figure out what can relieve our sense of time pressure, Norton conducted a series of experiments that gave some study subjects an unexpected block of free time, by sending them home 15 minutes early from an experiment they were told would take an hour for example.

We know from Figure 3 below, and numerous case studies, that changes in stock prices are strongly correlated with ROIC.

Yale University Professor Robert Shiller studied a diverse group of U.S. companies and found that from 1900 to 1980, they paid out an average of 61 percent of profits in dividends — that figure dwarfs combined dividends paid and share buybacks combined today by any measure.

Canada's major cities tend to understate revenue and spending, wait too long to release budgets, and confuse taxpayers with obscure figures in their financial reports, finds a new study from the C.D...

We know from Figure 3 below, and numerous case studies, that changes in stock prices are strongly correlated to ROIC.

If you use a nominal 30 % rate and figure the U.S. population at 300 million you get 90 million victims, which statistically corroborates with the number from other studies citing direct reports.

As we noted in the case of Freudians and Marxists, in the process of studying another figure, for example, Foucault, one may find that one is now understanding and appropriating Jesus from his point of view, that Foucault's insights have become the organizing principles for one's thought and life.

Mary Somerville, overcoming, as her daughter says, «obstacles apparently insurmountable, at a time when women were well - nigh totally debarred from education»; Charlotte Bronte, writing in secret and publishing under a pseudonym because only so could she hope for just criticism; Harriet Hunt, admitted to the Harvard Medical School in 1850 but forced out by the enraged students; Elizabeth Blackwell, applying to twelve medical schools before she could secure admission, and meeting with insult and contumely in her endeavor to study and practice medicine; Mary Lyon, treated as a wild fanatic because she wanted American girls to be educated — such figures are typical in woman's struggle for intellectual opportunity.

Mendel is perhaps the more familiar figure; most high school biology classes explain how the Moravian monk developed gene theory and the theory of inherited characteristics (with its distinction between recessive and dominant traits) from his studies of the humble pea.

I'd love to know where you plucked your figures from, because most scientific studies seem to suggest that the majority (between 60 % and 80 % depending on the study) of the population are actually bise.xual in that they are attracted to members of both se.xes (although a large majority of these people never cross into acting on any same - s.

According to him, the figure of the universe can best be learned from a study of the structure and furniture of the Tabernacle which Moses prepared in the wilderness.

Martin Buber, another major figure to emerge from the tumultuous interwar years in Germany, is often thought to be, like Strauss, a critic of the cultural and political assumptions of the «scientific study of Judaism.»

And, as someone who switched from a very lucrative 6 - figure IS / IT career and invested a half - million dollars in my education (tuition and lost wages), you'd better bet I've investigated and studied this all quite seriously.

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

American Catholic history may not be so booming a discipline as biblical studies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and edustudies or medical ethics, but even the most cursory survey of the American Catholic Studies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and eduStudies Newsletter (published by the Cushwa Center for the study of American Catholicism at the University of Notre Dame, itself an institutional expression of the growth of the field) reveals an extraordinary breadth of research, ranging from classic institutional histories and biographies of key figures to the new social history, with its emphases on patterns of community, spirituality, family life, and education.

@Mass Debater «I have read many works that study the history of the Jewish people and their culture as found apart from biblical sources, I have yet to find one that did not include supposition about the veracity of it's own work, with none claiming absolute truth as to who the authors of the bible or who the historical figure of Moses could have been.»

A similar study, with similar consequences in terms of a possible challenge to our understanding of existence, could be carried out in connection with any figure from the past for whom we had sources: Socrates the philosopher, or even Attila the Hun, as well as Jesus the Christ.

Back when I was a freshman in college, as a way to procrastinate studying for finals, I was seriously struggling — struggling to figure out my place in life, struggling to find motivation (from studying to living life at all).

In our report we identify promising approaches from existing datasets, and set out recommendations that could help researchers study types of father and father - figure more effectively in future.

Extrapolating figures from a 1993 city study on the economic impact of O'Hare International and Midway Airports, Whitney's group contends that the lakefront field adds $ 57 million a year to the local economy.

The figure cited in the study rose sharply from the level, one in seven, that had been the case in 1988 and for the previous decade.

That year, women delivering at birth centers had C - sections 4 % of the time; that number grew to just 6 % in the current study, which relied on figures from 2007 to 2010 from 79 midwife - led birth centers in 33 states.

Here are the figures on concussions from Dr. Dawn Comstock's National High School Sports - Related Injury Surveillance Study.

These figures include studies from the US, Australia and the UK, as well as other countries.

Figures from a 1982 study showed 43 % of fathers never changed a diaper.

But Tuteur points out that the figures Johnson and Daviss used for hospital deaths came from studies from the 1970s and 1980s.

In total, we were able to extract mean differences in total cholesterol between those breastfed and formula - fed from all 17 eligible studies (representing 17 498 subjects); of these differences, 13 were based on the response of individual authors (11 703 subjects), whereas 4 were obtained from the published literature (Figure 1 and Table 1 for both).

The estimates for the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding were more homogeneous (χ2 = 8, P = 0.23) than were the estimates from all 17 studies; the overall mean difference in total cholesterol from the 7 studies reporting exclusive feeding was stronger (mean difference: − 0.15 mmol / L; 95 % CI: 0.23, − 0.06 mmol / L; Figure 3) than that in the remaining 10 studies (14 388 subjects) that did not report exclusive feeding (mean difference: − 0.01 mmol / L; 95 % CI: − 0.06, 0.03 mmol / L; χ2 = 14, P = 0.12; test for difference between groups, P = 0.005).

The Institute for Fiscal Studies» figures were «from 2008», David Cameron claimed, prompting completely unjustified excitement from the Conservative benches.

As mentioned already the «Centre for policy studies» has said that the NHSLA has liabilities of some # 16.8 billion, reducing this figure would make huge inroads to the efficiency saving the NHS has to make without compromising patient safety and staff numbers It would be wise for those within the NHS and from the «Centre for policy studies» to look to their own as for the reason why patients look to the law for recompense, before we say that the compensation culture is «ingrained in the national psyche as a warped form of normal behaviour».

I haven't hunted for the references to verify these statements, but the first two may refer to the same Chicago study that the seven dollar figure comes from.

About 150 participants were given ridership numbers, performance data, Staten Island's population, historical traffic patterns and customer feedback from the MTA's Staten Island bus study to figure out ways to improve service.

Sierra Club representative Robert Ciesielski cited a study by Common Cause that the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, had received over $ 1.6 million in political donations from the industry — a figure that, given the current state of New York's campaign finance laws, lobbyists in Albany could well surpass.

If that was ever an option, it certainly isn't after Wednesday's figures from the independent Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) showing that average incomes fell last year after Mr Brown increased national insurance.

«One in three of their descendents suffers from serious illness — figures supported by studies in other countries, including France.

The public financing component is estimated to cost $ 40 million, a figure that is based on a study from the Campaign Finance Institute, but disputed by Senate Republicans, Klein's governing partners.

A key caveat to the 40 % discharge figure which is misleading, from the link: «In fact, according to a study published in 2011 by Jason Iuliano, at least 40 percent of borrowers who do include their student loans in their bankruptcy filing end up with some or all of their student debt discharged.

As revealed on this website, data from the latest wave of the British Election Study (collected in February / March 2014) suggests that loyalty to UKIP between the 2014 European Parliament elections and the 2015 general election is likely to be around 60 % (a much larger figure than between the last European Parliament and general election in 2009 and 2010 respectively).

The figures come just days after a report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) which showed that actual household income - what is left after the effect of inflation is factored in - has fallen by 1.6 per cent over the three years to the end of 2011.

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

The Conservatives were using figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies, while Labour were using figures from the Treasury.