Sentences with phrase «funded study as»

As part of its justification, the administration cites this deficient fossil fuel - funded study as a reason for the CPP rollback — the same study whose flaws are pointed out below.

And this was not some taxpayer - funded study as Ricky seems to think.

The Harper government has repeatedly cited the RCMP - funded studies as justification for its repeated efforts to close Insite.

«This kind of behavior calls into question sugar industry - funded studies as a reliable source of information for public policy making.»

Not exact matches

Critics of the corporate tax cut predicted the tax windfall would mostly go to fund share buybacks and dividends, citing studies of the 2004 tax break as precedent.

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

Phase I funding — which allows up to $ 250,000 for an academic idea, such as decoding the genetic sequence of a protein or studying targeted drug delivery by using magnetic nanoparticles — is available from federal funding and foundations.

Joanna Cound, one of the authors of the BlackRock study, says that the time period for the calculation was 20 years, not 10 as the Times had reported — so the ding, on average, would be $ 115 per year in the global equity fund.

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.

Those on the payroll of a drug company as clinical advisers may be seen as conflicted, especially (but not only) if that company is funding the study.

Bogle even updated one of his famous mutual fund performance studies to give a clear reason as to why so many people have made the switch from active funds to index funds:

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.

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.

Capital from the closing will be used by Renewable Properties to fund corporate and operating expenses, as well as, project specific expenses including project acquisitions and development related activities including securing land, interconnection applications and studies, permitting, environmental studies and reviews.

There is no need to prove anything at this stage, but it is necessary to do more than cite press reports and various studies claiming that hedge funds, as a group, are risky and have underperformed.

The criteria used to select which companies are included in the case studies was not financial performance based and nothing presented herein is intended to constitute investment advice and under no circumstances should any information provided herein be used or considered as an offer to sell or a solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund managed by Sapphire Ventures.

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

Total returns were measured as of the end of March 2010 for mutual funds that survived the study period.

But industry and academic studies show that fund performance declines as fund size increases above $ 250 million.

As I then thought what is stopping me from running a random Monkey portfolio in real life and beating the index, a near guarantee according to this study, but I am guessing that trading costs will kill me very quickly due to the amount of buys / sells to the size of my funds!

Presentations on topics such as (a) the relationships among price movements of stock indexes, the CBOE Volatility Index ® (VIX ®), and the India VIX Index, and (b) new studies on fund use of options and volatility - based strategies, will be delivered by me to continuing - education meetings of the Indian Association of Investment Professionals (IAIP) in the cities -LSB-...]

As a result, I revised Article 4.1 to cite instead a review by Vanguard using a Morningstar study for the differences between individual investor returns and the returns of the funds themselves.

All that work is proceeding as Spectra continues to investigate the feasibility of its proposed Fort Nelson project - a study that is being funded, in part, by a $ 3.4 million grant from the province.

The website shows returns for funds that are in the same range as those reported by the study on angel investment returns.

The average plan fee, known as an expense ratio, was.47 % for domestic equity mutual funds in 2014, according to the most recent study released in December 2016 by Brightscope and the Investment Company Institute.

Retired women are more generous than retired men in giving funds to worthy causes as well as to family members, a study showed.

For the purposes of the study, a fund was considered «low cost» if its fees and expense ratios placed it in the lowest quartile of all U.S. funds, as measured by data from Morningstar, the Chicago - based fund research firm.

IP exposure reduction measures, such as the strategically designed patent collective or sovereign patent fund is one solution we have studied that would help deal with the challenges facing Canada's innovation ecosystem.

This is remarkable in light of the study's primary conclusion: Truly active funds (defined as funds with Active Share of 80 or greater) do outperform their benchmarks on average even after fees and expenses.

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.»

Vice president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) Marc F. Plattner represents an organization whose definition of democracy is much more stringent in its demands with criteria of democratic inclusivity (as shown in a short essay by its funding officer, Louisa Greve, cited below).

That is, the data used in the study suspiciously match another data set entirely; the prestigious gay - rights research institute at the grad student's university says it did not fund any survey effort as he claimed it did; the student admits to having no such funding and to not having paid survey respondents as he claimed; the private firm allegedly employed to collect survey data says it has never heard of him or his study.

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.

A consultant to the Fund for the Republic's study of Religion in a Democratic Society, Mr. Clancy also serves as Education Director of the Church Peace Union, an interfaith organization with headquarters in New York City.

Additional efforts to further the mission of Simply Organic are funded by an annual grant program called the Simply Organic Giving Fund that supports training and community projects for organic farmers where our spices are grown, as well as a variety of organizations and events that study, support and promote organic agriculture.

The introductory networking session for the scholars on Monday afternoon was a fantastic way for students to meet their assigned mentors, who acted as guides, role models and network contacts; we learned of the Crawford Fund programs and affiliated organisations such as RAID, ACIAR and Scope - Global who offer volunteering and post-graduate study opportunities overseas.

Jim is a Venture Partner at Reach Capital, an edtech social impact venture fund, and co-founded Teachers» Curriculum Institute, widely regarded as the nation's most innovative publisher of K - 12 social studies curriculum.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

Volume XI, Number 1 Puberty as the Gateway to Freedom — Richard Landl Soul Hygiene and Longevity for Teachers — David Mitchell The Emergence of the Idea of Evolution in the Time of Goethe — Frank Teichmann The Seer and the Scientist: Jean Piaget and Rudolf Steiner on Children's Development — Stephen Keith Sagarin The Four Phases of Research — adapted from Dennis Klocek Reports from the Research Fellows Beyond Cognition: Children and Television Viewing — Eugene Schwartz PISA Study — Jon McAlice State Funds for Waldorf Schools in England — Douglas Gerwin On Looping — David Mitchell The Children's Food Bill — Christopher Clouder All Together Now!

It is up to parents, whether it be individually or as members of a booster club, «Friends of Football,» or PTA, to raise money to (a) fund the hiring of a certified athletic trainer (who, as we always say, should be the first hire after the head football coach); (b) consider equipping players with impact sensors (whether in or on helmets, in mouth guards, skullcaps, earbuds, or chinstraps); (c) purchase concussion education videos (which a new study shows players want and which they remember better); (d) to bring in speakers, including former athletes, to speak about concussion (another effective way to impress on young athletes the dangers of concussion); and (e) to pay for instructors to teach about proper tackling and neck strengthening;

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.

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.

less than or equal to lamivudine Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Antiretroviral therapy, usually means 1 - 2 drugs, used in early studies Antiretroviral zidovudine (also known as ZDV) Breastfeeding Baby Friendly Hospital Initiative Breastfeeding and HIV International Transmission Study Combined antiretroviral therapy Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Deoxyribonucleic Acid Exclusive Breastfeeding Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay Food and Agrigulture Organization Fixed dose combination ART, e.g., lamividine, stavudine, and nevirapine Highly Active Antiretroviral Therapy, 3 or more drugs for more effective treatment used in later studies Human Immunodeficiency virus International Atomic Energy Agency Infant feeding Infant and young child feeding Lopinavir cubic millimetre Mother - to - Child Transmission of HIV Non-governmental organization Nevirapine Polymerase Chain Reaction People Living with HIV Prevention of Mother - to - Child Transmission Replacement Feeding Ritonavir Ribonucleic acid, one of the three major macromolecules (along with DNA and proteins) that are essential for all known forms of life single dose NVP United Nations Agencies Joint United Nations Programme on HIV / AIDS United Nations Population Fund United Nations Commissioner for Refugees United Nations Children's Fund U.S. Agency for International Development World Alliance for Breastfeeding Action United Nations World Food Programme World Health Assembly WHO 2010 Guidelines on HIV and infant feeding World Health Organization Zidovudine (same drug as AZT)

Working exploring the use of breast pumps as part of the BABI study which is funded by Glasgow Children's Hospital Charity and NHS Health Scotland

And while the science may be disputed, depending on who is funding the study, as to whether commonly used food dyes such as Yellow 5, Red 40 and 6 others made from petroleum pose a «rainbow of risks» that include hyperactivity in children, cancer (in animal studies), and allergic reactions, because of the problem of hyperactivity, the Center for Science in the Public Interest petitioned the Food and Drug Administration to ban the use of these dyes given that the British government and European Unionhave taken actions that are virtually ending their use of dyes throughout Europe.

Industry - funded studies that come out with conclusions favorable to industry are about as common and numerous as sand on the beach.

It's not uncommon for some well - publicized studies to be funded by organizations that lean strongly toward the results, such as a study that shows bedsharing to be dangerous that is paid for by an anti-cosleeping group.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Our efforts (as part of our study funded by the Leverhulme Trust) have concentrated on the past 50 years.