Sentences with phrase «funded studies performed»

Blogging buddy, Barry over at FinancialPage sent me a link to a post he did recently about an index mutual fund study performed by three MBA students.

Not exact matches

Diversity: A new study shows that venture firms with greater gender diversity perform better, and that diversity is more apparent in funds where partners have, on average, more daughters.

That study, carried out by Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and the Bella Research Group, confirms our experience: there is no discernible difference in how diverse and non-diverse funds perform.

To generate knowledge about food loss «mechanics» the Initiative funds studies in developing and threshold countries, performed by the FAO.

New York's fund has been held up in the press and studies as performing much better than funds in other states.

In medicine today, physician - scientists and basic scientists supplement support for their research by applying their expertise part time to develop and test commercial products.1 In my own field, vision science, university - based researchers obtain additional funding through clinical and electrophysiologic studies, pathology, imaging, biochemistry, and animal model development performed for pharmaceutical and instrument companies.

Although the U.S. government puts stringent restrictions on funding for research on embryonic stem cells, individual states such as California have set up institutes to perform that work and general stem cell studies.

The study was performed with funds from the Department of Anesthesiology at Hospital for Special Surgery and the Anna - Maria and Stephen Kellen Physician - Scientist Career Development Award, New York, (Stavros G. Memtsoudis).

The first government - funded human genomics research study performed on African soil — aimed at unlocking the unique genetic character of southern African populations — has revealed a high level of genetic diversity.

This study was performed in partnership with the POLARIS program, a strategic national program funded by A * STAR to translate local research findings towards «fit - for purpose» applications that improve the diagnosis and treatment of diseases in Singapore.

On a study funded by the National Science Foundation and Agilent Technologies, researchers employed spatial light interference microscopy (SLIM), a label - free method, to perform localized measurements of light scattering in prostatectomy tissue microarrays.

The study, published in The Lancet and funded by The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research (MJFF), found that people with Parkinson's who injected themselves each week with exenatide for one year performed better in movement (motor) tests than those who injected a placebo.

Experts at St George's University of London, in a study funded by the charity Meningitis Research Foundation, identified a range of concerning issues, including a lack of recognition of the symptoms and signs by GPs and in hospital; delays in starting antibiotics; choice of antibiotics not following NICE guidelines; and delays in performing lumbar puncture, which is essential for correct diagnosis of bacterial meningitis.

A study performed under the US government's Natural Resource Damage Assessment programme calculated that oil exposure led to a 52 % loss in larval herring following the spill, although an Exxon - funded study did not support that link.

For biomedical research involving chimpanzees, the IOM committee said that NIH should limit funding to studies for which there is no other suitable model available; that can not be performed ethically in humans; and without which important advancements will be significantly slowed or prevented.

The study performed by Wegener and Schittny was funded by the DFG Center for Functional Nanostructures (CFN) and represents pure fundamental research to demonstrate the principle.

In addition to this, the study was performed with the public interest in mind and had no corporate or pharmaceutical funding with a long term, blind design that prevented bias from being incorporated into the results.

This 1.5 year grant will fund Dr. Aldred's study on two drugs, ataluren and amlexanox, and perform experiments to understand why some mutations respond well to the drugs, whereas others do not.

We also performed subgroup meta - analyses by type of prevention (primary v secondary: in this study, trials involving healthy populations or patients with any specific disease except for cardiovascular disease were classified as primary prevention trials, and trials involving patients with cardiovascular disease were classified as secondary prevention trials), type of supplement by quality and dose (each supplement, vitamins only, antioxidants only, or antioxidants excluding vitamins), type of outcome (cardiovascular death, angina, fatal or non-fatal myocardial infarction, stroke, or transient ischaemic attack), type of outcome in each supplement, type of study design (randomised, double blind, placebo controlled trial v open label, randomised controlled trial), methodological quality (high v low), duration of treatment (< 5 years v ≥ 5 years), funding source (pharmaceutical industry v independent organisation), provider of supplements (pharmaceutical industry v not pharmaceutical industry), type of control (placebo v no placebo), number of participants (≥ 10000 v < 10000), and supplements given singly or in combination with other vitamin or antioxidant supplements by quality.

As a citizen of the United States and a taxpayer, and as a practicing biomedical applied statistician, I am especially concerned about the possibility that the funding garnered for such potentially flawed studies is detracting from other groups» ability to obtain funding to perform valid research in the valuable arena of personalized medicine.

The research was funded by a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, which provided a subgrant to UCLA to perform the studies.

Hanushek overstates the cost of many of our contracts and fails to note that usually the work includes additional studies to assist policymakers in developing funding systems for high - performing schools.

Dan Leeds is the founder and president of the National Public Education Support Fund, which organizes the Education Funder Strategy Group and international study tours of high performing education systems for policy makers, practitioners, business executives and philanthropic leaders.

In a study funded by the Gates Foundation, Duckworth and a number of other researchers are trying to understand what predicts college persistence among graduates of several high - performing urban charter school networks: YES Prep Public Schools in Houston, Mastery Charter Schools in Philadelphia, Aspire Public Schools in California and Achievement First Schools in Connecticut.

It is the first opinion piece in a series highlighting teaching policies and practices from top - performing countries that participated in a study led by Linda Darling - Hammond and funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy, called The Empowered Educators.

It is part of a series of opinion pieces highlighting teaching policies and practices from top - performing countries that participated in a study led by Linda Darling - Hammond and funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy, called The Empowered Educators.

The grant funded a five - year study to assess the impact of Jeffco's proposed Strategic Compensation plan (a targeted performance - based compensation system) on student achievement and on attracting, retaining, and rewarding high performing educators.

With regard to Public Charter Schools, this study (http://www.uaedreform.org/downloads/2014/07/the-productivity-of-public-charter-schools.pdf) indicates that public charters perform better than traditional public schools not only in spite of less funding, but — get this — because of it!

One such study was released this April, showing that students in the only federally funded voucher program, in Washington, D.C., performed worse on standardized tests within a year after entering D.C. private schools than peers who did not participate.

The next step is to complete a school funding study like many high performing states have done.

The founder and principal of Milwaukee's Mandella School of Science and Math used taxpayer funds to purchase his own Mercedes, and a recent study concluded that Milwaukee students participating in the voucher program performed significantly worse in both reading and math than students in the Milwaukee public school system.

For example, Bright from the Start has used stimulus funds to provide intensive training to low - performing day cares; define learning standards for the youngest children and Georgia Pre-K; and study the alignment of standards from birth through elementary school.

It is part of an occasional series highlighting teaching policies and practices from top - performing countries that participated in a study led by Linda Darling - Hammond and funded and supported by the National Center on Education and the Economy, called Empowered Educators.

Standard & Poor's did a study where they looked 2,862 US equity funds starting in March 2009 and studied how they performed over the next 5 years.

Other studies found that funds with positive net flow perform better than those with negative net flow over the short term.

Based on a study of Vanguard 401K plan participants, those who invested in a professionally managed option such as a balanced fund or target - date fund saw their portfolios perform better, on average, than those who picked their own mix of investments.

i have studied that this fund is under performing for last couple of months 2.

Many studies show load funds often do not perform better than their no - load counterparts.

Studies show that individual investors generally decide which mutual funds to buy based primarily on recent performance — the best performing fund of the last few years will probably be the best performing fund going forward too, right?

This U.S. research firm's studies of top performing mutual funds show most of their investors who jump in at the top will lose money or make negligible returns.

Following similar studies performed by S&P Dow Jones Indices on active funds in the U.S. and Australia, we introduce the Persistence Scorecard to the Latin America region.

The two aforementioned studies have demonstrated that top - performing active funds have little chance of repeating that success in subsequent years.

I'll highlight a couple of their main points including how indexing out - performs most actively managed funds on a regular basis: This year through September, only 28.5 percent of actively managed large - capitalization funds — which try to beat the market through stock selection — were able to outpace the S. & P. 500 index of large - cap stocks, according to a new study by S. & P.

Net cash used in operating activities during this period was primarily used to fund costs associated with our response to a proxy fight and hostile tender offer, and winding down clinical research and development activities, including non-clinical studies and clinical trials performed by third parties.

The author discusses several academic studies (including some of his own work) that show how analysts add no value in predicting future earnings and how most mutual funds under perform the market.

One of the most dramatic examples involves a study Morningstar did of the top performing mutual fund of the decade from 2000 to 2009.

She then matriculated to the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine, performing extensive research on working dogs, including a two - year, Department of Defense - funded study in partnership with U.S. Customs and Border Protection canine handlers at the U.S. - Mexico border.

In this study, we perform a similarly rigorous analysis of the FUND model.

Upon completion of the original work, publicly funded scientists must perform the following two tasks before receiving further funding for new research: 1) replicate another scientific study that they are not affiliated with 2) have their own research replicated by interested, but unaffiliated scientists

First, we should demand our legislators implement a precautionary principle: GMOs should not be allowed into our food system until extensive long - term, third - party studies — not studies funded or in any way influenced by seed technology companies — have been performed.