Sentences with phrase «for studies like»

Numerous reports exploring remedies to the access problem call for studies like this.

For studies like these I use the academic favorite, P / B.

The review called for studies like this one to update the 2006 Nevada education funding adequacy study.

Normally, I'm not impressed with studies funded by marketing boards, which pay for studies like this that found that eating almonds improved cycling distance and athletic performance... compared to cookies.

IRDs offer a number of advantages for studies like this due to exceptional phenotypic, genetic, and allelic heterogeneity.

The data needed for a study like this is not available for a national sample.

Cannabis sativa is becoming a popular crop in Canada, so there was demand for a study like this.

I'd guess that for a study like this to be convincing, it would need to operate over a fairly long timeframe so let's start soon.

Not exact matches

The study was funded by EnCana, the drilling company whose wells the EPA had initially blamed for the contamination.Though the role of fracking remains contested, the advising scientists recommend that the EPA should qualify its conclusions about the risks posed by acknowledging gaps in the existing data and concerning cases like Pavillion.

And Ross, who had gone quiet on NAFTA after it looked for a while like he would be running the show, re-emerged last week to promote a new Commerce department study that he said proves American auto workers are the victims of a flawed arrangement that favours Canada and Mexico.

A new study has found that, for many, being «liked» on social media is more important than being liked in reality, which can lead to odd behavior and an inability to enjoy life in the moment.

That alone sounds like a pretty good case for letting fly with more humor at work, but the study goes on to identify further reasons to let more humor into the sometimes straight - faced world of business.

The experience was Bezos» first hands - on brush with retail, according to Wired, and he spent the summer «studying the company's automation improvements,» like beeps and signals for when to «scramble his eggs, flip his burgers, and pull his fries out of the boiling vat.»

A collection of new studies presented at the Alzheimer's Association International Conference suggest that a Mediterranean diet — one that's rich in lean proteins like fish and chicken, filled with fruits, vegetables, nuts, and legumes, and (moderate amounts of) red wine — may carry yet another benefit: reducing the risk for dementia and Alzheimer's by more than a third.

Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

«Beginning in the 1980s... study after study started showing that those who were more socially isolated were much more likely to die during a given period than their socially connected neighbors, even after you corrected for age, gender, and lifestyle choices like exercising and eating right.

«If China fails, or even if this fixed investment model fails, countries like Australia and Canada are in deep trouble,» says John Lee, a foreign - policy expert at the Hudson Institute who is also a research fellow at the Centre for Independent Studies in Sydney, Australia.

In addition to study materials and instructors, edX provides unique learning tools like game - like labs and 3D virtual molecule builders for hands - on learning.

«Their study, published in 2010, posits that a person's preference for a given color can be determined by averaging out how much that person likes all of the objects they associate with that color.

Long - term care insurance, which covers expenses like nursing home care, at - home nursing care and other late - life needs, is fast becoming too costly for many retirees to afford, according to a recent study from LifePlans, an industry research firm.

Resources Inc. has some sample codes of ethics available, and more such resources can be found online, particularly on the pages of university business ethics centers like the Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions.

For the study, 86 women between 70 and 80 years old with MCI were randomly assigned to do one of three types of training twice a week for six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balanFor the study, 86 women between 70 and 80 years old with MCI were randomly assigned to do one of three types of training twice a week for six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balanfor six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balance.

(In fact the authors of the study said gratitude was like a «booster shot» for relationships.)

But in today's culture of quick fixes, we'd like to plead a case for the old - fashioned route of in - depth, prolonged study prior to hanging out a shingle.

In this book, Branson uses anecdotes and case studies, Branson provides a roadmap for success through strategies like thinking big and building small, as well as having empathy for employees.

The Consumer Reports study highlights the growing popularity of web - connected televisions that make it easy for people to watch streaming video services like Netflix on their TVs.

The straightforward study simply invited 39 adults to make art for 45 minutes in any way they pleased, using simple materials like markers, modeling clay and collage supplies.

While this reads like a marketing gimmick, the NiH has independently studied and found benefits of doing so, which is why it's a natural choice for sleep products (in fact, Amerisleep's technology also uses Celiant to do so) and sleepwear.

A study by linguist and Textio CEO Kieran Snyder, which I wrote about last summer, illustrates what the non-Sheryl Sandberg experience looks like for many women, not just Ellen Pao.

Students may pursue international study in places like India, China and Dubai, or may opt for the London Internship Experience, a partnership with the Canada — U.K. Chamber of Commerce.

The CRTC says that Canada's a world leader in access to the Internet, but Harvard's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society just updated its study on next generation connectivity — very high - speed Internet, 3G networks and the like.

«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.

Some studies suggest that for specific populations, like people who have been diagnosed with heart disease or are obese, fitness trackers can motivate them to move more, at least for several months.

That's because, as a new study notes, meeting patients» basic social needs — including for heating, electricity, food access, and medicines — can actually have a significant effect on basic health indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

For example, rivalries — particularly between friends — can be a great boost in areas like personal health and fitness, or other activities that require effort and dedication, such as studying for an exFor example, rivalries — particularly between friends — can be a great boost in areas like personal health and fitness, or other activities that require effort and dedication, such as studying for an exfor an exam.

In a study of diets like Weight Watchers and Atkins that allowed for such flexibility, doctors and dietitians at Tufts University looked at 160 overweight people ages 22 to 72 on the diets over a one - year period.

According to one classic study on the subject, creative geniuses like poets, painters, and famous inventors, tend to be open - minded, with a high tolerance for chaos, disorder, and contradiction.

The study's authors had 161 participants (who were almost exactly split between men and women) first read a passage in their normal voices to get baseline measures of their voices for things like loudness and pitch.

«America must remain a beacon for entrepreneurs like Tom Szaky, who left his home in Hungary following the Chernobyl disaster, and ultimately moved to the United States to study at Princeton University.

While the research was aimed at eventually developing treatments for those suffering from PTSD, the study authors said these initial findings were also useful for those of us who just have to deal with normal negativity like marital spats and nasty work disagreements.

These are great for building case studies and your reputation; but at some point, if you want to rapidly grow your business, you have to figure out a scalable source of lead generation, like Facebook or Google advertising.

The funding for the study is a $ 600,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has spent over $ 23 million on tools like predictive crime mapping since 2003.

One of the reasons the McKinsey study found for this was because when women negotiate, people like them less for it.

For example, the anxious group read sentences like «safety is not guaranteed in our neighborhoods nor in our own homes,» which was intended to highlight the «lack of control over negative circumstances that may happen in life and an uncertain future,» according to the study.

The study ultimately determined that other traits, like intelligence and conscientiousness, were more important for seizing leadership than extroversion — but smart introverts shouldn't celebrate just yet: even if they are bright, their peers won't recognize it until they speak up.

That gloomy question was behind Thinking the Unthinkable, a study of British public policy options by noted British financial firm Tullett Prebon — which was brave enough to ask the question that U.K. politicians have been avoiding like the plague: «Might there be no way out for Britain?»

In a 1959 study published In Human Relations, for example, participants were told that certain members of a group discussion would probably like them.

No study like this is perfect, but we hope we've brought some attention to the perpetual battle among states for economic development, and answered the question we posed at the beginning: Why do some states do it better than others?

Other research, like the Copenhagen City Heart Study, looked at healthy joggers and nonjoggers for more than a decade and determined that «the most favorable running regimen for reducing cardiovascular mortality» was six miles per week, broken down into three running days per week at a pace of seven miles per hour.

(PS - if you're having a low - energy day and don't feel like hitting the gym after a study session, you might want to know that previous research has also suggested napping for less than an hour helps cement memories as well).