Sentences with phrase «find public perception»

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Companies that have embraced ambitious sustainability goals have invariably found it improves efficiency, employee morale and public perception.

(9) While the number of approved requests for residential properties from China has increased in recent years, the Parliament of Australia's Report on Foreign Investment in Residential Real Estate (2014) found that Chinese purchases only absorbed two per cent of new housing stock, contrary to public perceptions.

The Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., with which I am pleased to be affiliated, was founded in the 1970s in large measure to combat the perception that an intellectually and morally impoverished understanding of the dominant American religious traditions had rendered those traditions useless, or (as in the lamentable presidency of Jimmy Carter) worse than useless in guiding Americans» thinking about a sensible and responsible foreign policy.

By waiting until public money has artificially inflated the line, bettors can capitalize on public perception and find additional line value.

Square bettors are prone to overreacting to recent events, and we are consistently able to find value by capitalizing on public perception.

La Leche League has been battling public perceptions since it was founded more than 40 years ago.

This project will use both qualitative and quantitative methods along with social media analysis to generate new empirical findings on public perceptions of UK food supply chains, what people's concerns are, and what influences these and how they may be best managed in the future.

The survey, which looked at the public's perception of the leaders» personalities, also found 36 per cent of the population believe Mr Miliband would have been bullied at school.

While the study found broad awareness of marine threats, it also found several areas of disagreement between public perceptions and scientific assessments.

Contrary to public perception, the number of children in immigrant families is not the primary reason more children are living in poverty, a Rutgers study has found, raising the question of whether federal policies affecting immigrants should be significantly altered.

Public perceptions of environmental «crime» differ from those of executives in companies, a survey has found.

«What we found is that negative perceptions on aging are definitely significantly related to [Alzheimer's] disease indicators,» said study lead author Becca Levy, an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health in New Haven, Conn..

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Pride finds its origins in public and private perceptions as well as the reality of the job.

With the exception of Public Agenda's report, «Stand by Me,» I have found little research on teachers» perceptions of alternative compensation.

The annual PDK / Gallup education poll comes out Wednesday, and policymakers, analysts and pundits will be busy parsing the findings on perceptions of the nation's public schools — from campus safety to high - stakes testing to the new Common Core State Standards.

The findings reported above represent the first systematic evidence that Americans» perceptions of the quality of their local public schools reflect publicly available information about the academic achievement of the students who attend them.

There's also real science to be found, as in the works of Matteo Frainella, a neuroscientist who is exploring how comics can affect public perceptions of science.

GM's diesels, along with most of its early -»80s contemporaries, formed the still simmering public perception that diesels are smelly, noisy, smoky, underpowered creatures that clatter, start hard and require hard - to - find fuel.

The Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), a part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration, today released Public Perceptions on Transportation Characteristics of Livable Communities, a special report presenting the findings of a 2009 survey asking participants the importance of different transportation features for their communities.

The persistent hurdles for diesel have been the higher cost — both for fuel and the vehicles — and a nagging public perception that diesel fuel is dirty, expensive, and hard to find.

It's not enough to be your own entire publishing team, but you also have to fight against public perception, and the possibility that you're the sought - after needle in the haystack but nobody can find you because there are too many low - quality books dragging your image down.

Until the public perception changes, we, along with all shelters and rescues, will face challenges in finding homes for every pit bull in need.

Really, I can't find myself caring much about the public perception of the Vita, or articles like this.

In a conversation with three of the researchers who conducted the study, I asked if they had any insight into why the findings vary so significantly from public perceptions about scofflaw cyclist behavior.

The Retro Report piece finds no evidence in more recent science of anything approaching a public health concern, and ample evidence that the early burst of scary proclamations and press coverage had a lasting effect on public perceptions.

Re # 200, Tony, I say the public perception is generally (60 - 80 % of the general population) informed and influenced in their opinions of issues by the media rather and hence that story told by that reporter needs to be factual and not just a political one to suit the agenda of people who only wish to hear what they can find to back all their already distored version of the truth of the matter.

It is one of the classic findings from the study of public risk perceptions.

«Our findings prove that there is a strong scientific agreement about the cause of climate change, despite public perceptions to the contrary,» lead author John Cook with the University of Queensland said.

They found that climate change, fossil fuels, renewable energy and nuclear energy often did not take up much space in these books, despite having «implications on introductory - level science education, the public perception of science and an informed citizenship,» Rittman said.

Tell me, too, how someone who sees things as you do — all built into Bayesianism; no need to address whether the problem is different priors or different sources of information relevant to truth - seeking likelihood ratios vs. a form of biased perception that opportunisitcally bends whatever evidence is presented to fit a preconception; no need apparently either for empirical study on any of this — can straighten out someone who says the key to dispelling public conflict over climate change is just to disseminate study findings on scientific consensus.

Romm falsely asserts that I misrepresent findings from recent papers examining the impacts of Fox News on viewer perceptions and the impact of Climategate on wider public opinion.

Using pre and post measures from a national message test experiment, we found that all stated hypotheses were confirmed; increasing public perceptions of the scientific consensus causes a significant increase in the belief that climate change is (a) happening, (b) human - caused and (c) a worrisome problem.

Using national data (N = 1104) from a consensus - message experiment, we find that increasing public perceptions of the scientific consensus is significantly and causally associated with an increase in the belief that climate change is happening, human - caused and a worrisome threat.

It is also important to note that this study only used a single treatment, yet found that even a single, simple description of the scientific consensus significantly shifted public perceptions of the consensus and subsequent climate change beliefs and desire for action.

Spence, A., Venables, D., Pidgeon, N. F., Poortinga, W. & Demski, C. Public Perceptions of Climate Change and Energy Futures in Britain: Summary Findings of a Survey Conducted in January - March 2010.

In studying public perceptions, park officials found many people think national parks are only located in the West — places such as Yellowstone and Yosemite.

Public perception of the scientific consensus has been found to be a gateway belief, affecting other climate beliefs and attitudes including policy support.

«Our findings prove that there is a strong scientific agreement about the cause of climate change, despite public perceptions to the contrary».

Further, their perception of content found on the internet as belonging to the public domain, may lead to copyright infringement, as well as infringement of publicity and private rights.

I also found the judges to be very concerned about transparency and public perception of the court.

The goal of the survey is to (i) determine lawyers» perceptions of the factors that contribute to public negativity toward them, and (ii) find ways to counter negative public perceptions and enhance lawyers» positive, professional image.

If that perception is true, this situation would create a dilemma for public speakers, including lawyers, who believe that the only way to improve their performance is by finding a magic cure for their jitters.

This finding contrasts with the public perception that men pay more than or the same as women for auto insurance.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

The Owners cited an earlier case that had found that a reduction in property values following a town's drinking water contamination could sustain a nuisance complaint based on a public perception of widespread contamination.

Because the value of a community is usually greatly influenced by the public schools in the area, finding out the buyer's perception can give you some insight about the quality of the area's schools.