Sentences with phrase «funding a study showing»

«With a recent government funded study showing low compliance with existing regulations in England on lead shot use, it's not surprising unacceptable numbers of wildfowl are still dying avoidable deaths from lead poisoning,» the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds» director of conservation Martin Harper said.

«Program for parents helps sustain learning gains in kids from Head Start to kindergarten: NIH - funded study shows involving parents sets the stage for later academic success.»

Tactical asset allocation strategy advocates suggest that you can anticipate the crowd, but flow - of - funds studies show that almost all tactical asset allocation fund flows are late money flows that chase performance after valuations have already moved.»

HABRI - funded study shows service dogs are associated with lower PTSD symptoms among war veterans.

Thus, funding a study showing that husbands and wives did not get annoyed with each other would be bad for their movie.

Not exact matches

His family moved to Canada from Turkey when he was a child and, with the funds from the sale of a redesigned buzzer system for quiz show Reach for the Top, Lazaridis studied engineering at the University of Waterloo.

The study showed Dodge & Cox and Franklin Templeton Investments had the highest percentage of female fund managers at 25 % and 14.7 %, respectively.

Inc.: NFWBO's study showed that women were less likely to give up equity for funding compared with men.

Studies show that credit card and bank financing account for just 25 percent of the total funding needs of early - stage entrepreneurs.

Lead author of the study and Babson professor Donna Kelley points to studies that show women are less likely to receive venture capital funding.

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.

Studies have shown that your asset allocation has a bigger impact on your long - term returns than any specific fund you pick.

Studies have consistently shown that the returns achieved by the average stock or bond fund investor have lagged the reported returns of the average stock or bond index, often by a large margin.

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

Study after study has shown that only in five active mutual fund managers of large - cap stocks portfolios will outperform the maStudy after study has shown that only in five active mutual fund managers of large - cap stocks portfolios will outperform the mastudy has shown that only in five active mutual fund managers of large - cap stocks portfolios will outperform the market.

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

In January, a study by Morgan Stanley showed that hedge funds» holdings versus the cash provided to them by investors stood at 153 percent versus 143 percent in early 2011.

This isn't anecdotal: Two studies have shown that upwards of half of individual investors claim they don't pay anything in fees for their mutual funds and financial advisors.

The managers of both these funds like to cite a study by some terribly clever academics which shows that once you have about 25 to 30 holdings in a fund, there is a massive diminishing return in diversification if you add any more.

One tip is to study the the project's funding curve; if it showed steady growth, this means there is an established audience for the industry on Kickstarter.

Academic studies have shown index funds outperform active management funds over time.

Plenty of studies warn against this, including one that shows that missing out on just 10 of the best days in the stock market over 160,000 daily returns in 15 markets around the world can cause you to end up with about half of what you would have earned if you had stuck with an index fund over time.

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

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

One of the big banks issued a study a couple weeks ago which showed that the only entities buying stocks right now are pension funds.

Study after study shows that because of bad timing, the returns that investors earn fall meaningfully short of the funds they invesStudy after study shows that because of bad timing, the returns that investors earn fall meaningfully short of the funds they invesstudy shows that because of bad timing, the returns that investors earn fall meaningfully short of the funds they invest in.

Many research studies show that actively managed mutual funds with outstanding performance one year have sub-par results the next.

Several studies show using natural experiments that the willingness of homeowners to take on debt is sensitive to the tax benefits they receive, so the mortgage interest deduction causes homeowners to overleverage rather than using their funds for more economically productive purposes.

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).

A religious organization (John Templeton) funded this study to show that praying would have a positive affect on heart patients.

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;

Independently funded studies tend to show that any eating pattern can promote health if it provides vegetables and fruits, balances calories, and does not include much junk food.

First UK study funded by UNICEF shows that investing in breastfeeding support could save the National Health Service millions of pounds.

Scientists at EHT further note that, «If you set aside the industry - funded studies, the overwhelming weight of the evidence shows there is a significant problem... [with exposure to wireless].

So when his 1989 British Medical Journal (BMJ) study purported to show the benefits of «hypo - allergenic» infant formula in reducing the risk of eczema in infants, no one raised concerns about the doctor's connection to infant formula maker Mead Johnson, which had funded the research.

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.

Cohen cited studies showing that every federally funded SNAP dollar generates $ 1.79 in economic benefits to a community for every dollar spent on groceries, and that every $ 1 billion spent on SNAP produces close to 10,000 jobs.

Sixth form colleges and school sixth forms will see funding cut by close to 20 per cent, as shown last month by independent research from the Institute of Fiscal Studies.

Institute of Fiscal Studies reveals research which shows education funding will be radically reduced over the next four years

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

Studies by the Children's Mutual show that if the government matches the deposits of the poorest families, at age 18 the values of those funds for the poorest will be at the national average — currently # 10,000.

Part - funded by the British Heart Foundation, the study shows that drinking more alcohol is associated with a higher risk of stroke, fatal aneurysm, heart failure and death.

Largest study to date of publicly funded early education program shows a major, sustained educational boost

In 2004, a study of 3000 children, funded by the UK Department of Education, showed that an extended period of play - based preschool education made a significant difference to learning and well - being through the primary school years.

The results of the study, funded by the Malaria Eradication Scientific Alliance (MESA), are published in one of the world's leading medical journals The Lancet Infectious Diseases, and show that adding high doses of ivermectin, an endectocide class of drug, to the antimalarial dihydroartemisinin - piperaquine (DP) had a major and prolonged effect on mosquito mortality.

«This study shows that local events like forest die - offs in one part of the globe influence climate and ecology in other, often distant locations,» said Tim Kratz, program director at the funding agency, the National Science Foundation.

The dollar return on investment from federal funding, the study showed, was estimated to be just $ 125 for each life year gained.

The study, which involved collaboration with British Trust for Ornithology, Aberystwyth University and the University of Leeds and part - funded by the RSPB, showed that the humble crane fly, more commonly known as «daddy longlegs», is a crucial link in determining the impact of climate change on these peatland bird species.

Boscia, whose cell phone shows an olive tree from his father - in - law's grove as its screen saver, is leading an epic battle against a mountain of bureaucracy and funding cuts to institute an open - air research center to study the disease and eventually find a way to stop it.