Sentences with phrase «funded a study finding»

A Zipcar - funded study found that about 40 percent of Millennials would rather lose access to a car than to their smartphone or laptop.

June 2017 - An Environmental Defense Fund study found detectable levels of lead in 20 percent of more than 2,000 baby food samples.

A Commonwealth Fund study finds — contrary to widespread belief — that the growth of premiums for employer - sponsored health plans has slowed nationwide since passage of the Affordable Care Act.

«Genetic gains and losses in Tourette syndrome uncovered: NIH - funded study finds new clues to brain disorder.»

A 2010 Intel - funded study found that 329 U.S. companies lost 86,000 laptops worth $ 2.1 billion over the course of a year.

She notes that a 2007 industry - funded study found that none of the candle waxes tested — including paraffin, soy wax, and beeswax — produced benzene.

The European Union funded study found that organic fruit and vegetables have up to 50 % more antioxidants, which scientists believe can cut the risk of cancer and heart disease.

A NASA - funded study finds that the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an accelerating pace, three times faster than that of mountain glaciers and ice caps.

A NASA - funded study found some climate models might be overestimating the amount of water vapor entering the atmosphere as the Earth warms.

Not exact matches

An Environmental Defense Fund - commissioned study by consultancy ICF International found that Canada's oil and gas industry could achieve a 45 per cent methane emission reduction at an average cost of $ 2.76 per tonne of carbon dioxide equivalent.

A new study by Columbia Business School professor Wei Jiang found that the hedge fund filed appraisal petitions on five M&A transactions between 2010 and 2014.

The average fund lost about 1 percent in 2015, the study found, noting that many actively - managed funds focused on macro strategies were beaten by computer algorithms.

(But the study found that gap widens as companies grow larger and accept venture capital funding.)

Facebook is not funding the study, nor will it have approval over the research topics or findings.

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

An Aon Hewitt study found that median investment returns for 401 (k) participants using Target - Date Funds (TDFs), managed accounts and personal investment advice were 3.32 % greater than returns earned by participants that picked an investment portfolio themselves.

Sadly, they did not correct their error as they chose to focus on a lopsided and incomplete analysis of the fees found in a narrow and select study of mutual fund IRAs.

A study by independent research company Morningstar found that expense ratios are the most reliable predictor of future fund performance — in terms of total return, and future risk - adjusted return ratings.

That's a lower level of representation compared to other professional fields, the study's authors found, even as the women held their own in terms of fund performance.

Among 7,410 portfolio managers of U.S. open - end mutual funds, only 9 percent were women, the study released this month by researchers from Morningstar Inc of Chicago, and widely discussed at the research firm's investor conference this week, found.

The Morningstar study found firms with the highest percentage of women fund managers included Dodge & Cox, where 6 of 24 fund managers were women, and Franklin Templeton Investments, where 19 of 129 fund managers were women.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Women are under - represented among mutual fund managers, a new study found, in a gender imbalance that poses challenges for an industry looking to run more money from female clients.

Academic studies have found that a significant proportion of hedge fund interventions involve large increases in leverage and large decreases in investment, particularly in research and development.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

Over the longest time period analyzed, the study finds sustainable equity funds met or exceeded median returns for five out of six different equity classes examined, for example, large - cap growth.

The study examined performance data from 10,228 open - end mutual funds and 2,874 separately managed accounts over the last seven years and found that investing in sustainability has usually met, and often exceeded, the performance of comparable traditional investments.

A recent study, published on Market Watch of over 15,000 consumers found that the average American will run out of retirement funds, other than state and occupational pensions, around 14 years into retirement.

Studies have found that businesses that are funded by personal credit cards often fail and fail quickly.

A new study by Dalbar finds that passive funds achieve higher returns, but active fund investors are better behaved and may actually come out ahead over the long term.

A new study finds that employee bonuses and inheritance funds are way up.

On legislative votes, the PCs and Wildrose voted together 90.2 per cent of the time, and on money votes — matters concerning the expenditure of public funds — they voted together 95.8 per cent of the time, the study found.

Research findings from the Center for Talent Innovation, a New York - based think tank headed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, found that having something inherently in common with the funder, decision maker or investor makes an enormous difference, since 56 percent of decision makers in the study did not value ideas they didn't personally see a need for, even when evidence suggests that it's a good, marketable idea.

The Statscan study finds that 57 % of couples pooled their income and allowed each other to draw on funds at their own discretion.

The compensation study also found that as index fund ownership of a company rose, the pay of top executives was more closely tied to the performance of the industry than that of their own company.

A recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic Research studied what happens to scientific subfields when star researchers die suddenly and at the peak of their abilities, and finds that while there is considerable evidence that young researchers are reluctant to challenge scientific superstars, a sudden and unexpected death does not significantly improve the situation, particularly when «key collaborators of the star are in a position to channel resources (such as editorial goodwill or funding) to insiders.»

A Rocha was speaking after a study by the World Wildlife Fund and the Zoological Society of London found the level of marine life in world's seas has halved since 1970.

The study, conducted at the University of Georgia and Southern Methodist University, found that the predominant religion in a community affects the decision - making process of mutual fund managers in that community, specifically when it comes to risk.

Mutual funds in counties with larger Catholic communities tend to embrace risk more than those in majority - Protestant counties, the study found.

Besides, Wilkinson has pumped copious funds into the admirable Bible study program he founded and leads, Walk Thru the Bible Ministries.

In a much - quoted study, University of Arizona searcher Mark Chaves found that African - American churches are five times as likely as white churches to say they would apply for public funding if it were available.

Funded by Organic Valley, one of the largest cooperatives of organic dairy products, the study still has credibility, according to the Times, «experts not connected with the study said the findings were credible — though they noted that the role of milk in a healthy diet and the influence of fatty acids in preventing or causing cardiovascular disease are far from settled.»

A study published in the Journal of Food Science (funded, it must be noted, by the Mushroom Council) found that «consumers generally preferred meat - mushroom blends in tacos over a 100 percent beef filling, citing increased aromas, flavors and moisture,» according to the Washington Post.

APL funded research in 2014 that found that pigs in its rotational outdoor piggery study were «adding some 300 - 600 kg N / ha / yr and 100 - 200 kg P / ha / yr -LSB-...] presenting environmental risks to both surface water and groundwater.»

• The Rural Technology Fund, founded by a tech executive who had limited access to computers when he was growing up in rural Kentucky, helps out - of - the - way schools get equipment and books to help ignite a «spark» for studying electronics, programming or engineering; and gives scholarships to students from rural communities who hope to pursue careers in technology.

A government - funded study has found that men with babies the same age as Tony Blair's son Leo often feel ignored, ill - informed and unsupported by health professionals, despite their desire to be involved from the beginning of pregnancy.

The study, which was funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), found lower rates of confirmed abuse cases, child out — of — home placements, and hospitalizations and emergency room visits for child injuries in counties where parenting support was implemented.

In addition, in a seemingly unscrupulous move, one of their founding members, Michael Murdock, gained insider information as a Wilmette Park District Commissioner, during an 18 - month community funded harbor study.

She studied milk consumption in federally funded preschools across Connecticut where only white milk was offered, and found that those children drank it happily.

Building on the seminal findings from the Adverse Early Childhood Experiences (ACE) study, the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), Department of Children and Families (DCF), and Childrens Trust Fund have examined ways to translate this knowledge into policy and practice.

The authors concluded that the findings of this study provided the first national evaluation of a significant proportion of women choosing publicly funded home birth in Australia; however, the sample size did not have sufficient power to draw a conclusion about safety.