Sentences with phrase «group study on»

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At the first meeting of the I.S.O. blockchain group, the Russian delegation led a study group on security and privacy issues, which caused discomfort among some delegates from other countries, according to the two delegates who spoke to The New York Times.

Depending on what you plan to market and your budget, you can use formal focus groups (or simply host roundtable discussions with members of the target audience), employ online research or mall intercept studies, or distribute your product to a select group of users for testing.

Seth G. Jones, an expert on Afghanistan and a senior adviser to the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Business Insider that the Taliban and ISIS have been «at each others throats» since day one — but there is no question who the more threatening group is.

One study by Harris Group found that 72 percent of millennials prefer to spend more money on experiences than on material things, and I (Emmie Martin, Money reporter) can't argue with the majority.

In a 2014 study, Australian researchers studied two groups of dieters: one on a 12 - week rapid weight - loss program, and another on a 36 - week gradual plan.

All three groups showed some improvement on cognitive measures when assessed after the ten weeks, says Dr. Caryn Lerman, the study's lead author and a psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

With no time to convene focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and by reading various magazine studies.

WHAT THEY DID: While most income groups would see cuts on average, studies have shown that many individuals would not, depending on their specific situations.

For instance, one study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: One group's members spent time on their social media pages, and the other group simply surfed the Internet.

Aspiring mineral sands miner Sheffield Resources has appointed engineering group Hatch to undertake a bankable feasibility study on its Thunderbird project near Derby.

Or, the group focuses on doing deep dives into each other's businesses similar to the case study approach anyone who attended business school would be familiar with.

TORONTO, April 23 (Reuters)- Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven leading industrialized nations will create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on MoGroup of Seven leading industrialized nations will create a working group to study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Mogroup to study Russia's «malign behavior» because of concerns about Moscow's actions, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday.

Out of 1,000 companies covered in its most recent study, the group found that the most innovative organizations were in fact rarely the biggest spenders on R&D.

The study found students who thought on their own conceived nearly twice as many solutions to a series of creative puzzles than did those working in brainstorming groups.

According to studies by the Hay Group and Towers Watson, engaged employees are 43 % more productive, and companies with the highest percentage of engaged employees, on average, increase operating margins 3.64 % and net profit margins by 2.06 %.

The study was designed so that each participant won two out of the four contests, but half the group faced off against the same opponent each time and won or lost by a narrow margin; these slight victories and losses to the same opponent encouraged feelings of rivalry among participants, who subsequently reported higher scores on the Machiavellianism scale.

The professors cite a study of 10,000 World Bank employees, which found that the business travelers on the staff — roughly 40 percent of the group — were three times as likely to file psychological insurance claims.

That's one of the takeaways from new research on drone laws published Tuesday by research group The Center for the Study of the Drone at Bard College.

Retirees also tend to spend more on housing than other groups, and cost increases in that sector have slightly outpaced inflation, the study found.

(Pillemer pulled together similar groups for studies on careers and regrets as well).

To examine the effect of strategic laziness on memory, the scientists asked a group of study subjects with brain injuries resulting in memory damage to try and memorize a list of words.

A report by Asan Institute for Policy Studies in Seoul and C4ADS in Washington says it identified more than $ 500 million in trade from January 2011 to September 2015 between the North and the Liaoning Hongxiang Group, which states on its website that it trades heavily with the North.

A study by Nielsen Norman Group found that users stay on a website for an average of 10 to 20 seconds.

For the January study focused on heart health, researchers split 53 adults into two groups, one of which did two years of supervised exercise four to five days a week, while the other simply did yoga and balance exercises.

With a new lens and some added direction from a research study on collective intelligence (abilities that emerge out of collaboration) by a group of psychologists from Carnegie Mellon, MIT, and Union College, Project Aristotle's researchers went back to the drawing board to comb their data for unspoken customs.

However, on the positive side, the No - Facebook group showed a reduction in their cortisol levels over the course of the study.

A new study by Boston Consulting Group says the car - share industry will have a limited impact on vehicle sales over the next five years.»

«Among both groups, patients taking Entresto had a 20 % or greater reduction in cardiovascular death or heart failure hospitalization compared to those taking enalapril,» Novartis said in a statement, citing conclusions based on analysis of data from the PARADIGM - HF study.

Grant references a study he worked on that had two groups of employees keep journals.

Most small - business advocacy groups believe the studies that show that raising taxes on small - business owners earning more than $ 200,000 a year will cause their companies to cut back on capital investment and hiring.

One study randomly assigned participants to one of two groups: half spent time on their MySpace page (really takes you back, doesn't it?)

The No - Facebook group experienced this hit to their life - satisfaction despite the fact they reported an average of more than two hours extra face - to - face socialising on the Sunday during the study period compared to the Facebook - as - normal group.

Furthermore, college graduates under the age of 35 with student loans are spending nearly one - fifth of their salaries on student loan payments, a Citizens Financial Group debt study revealed.

That's because nearly three - quarters of all sunscreens on the market don't work as well as they claim to, or they contain potentially harmful ingredients, according to a recent study from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG).

PsyBlog explains the research on the subject: «In the study, one group of participants were allowed to get a full nights» sleep, while another had to stay up all night.

A recent Temkin Group study found that 84 percent of companies surveyed expected to increase their focus on customer experience metrics for this very reason.

Weickhardt took the group on a tour of the company's operations and told each student to visit a different hardware store and study the packaging.

John Eppig, a reproductive biologist at Jackson Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine raised the concern that no animal studies with a control group have been done — a standard practice with experimental medical procedures — yet somehow the procedure is being tried on humans.

But according to a new study looking at the effects of PC language on mixed gender teams and published in Administrative Science Quarterly, watching your language also appears to work — at least if you're aiming to work constructively with a diverse group.

The National Institutes for Health also brought on six health - care groups in smaller cities to expand the study's reach and ensure a diverse roster of patients.

The series of studies tested the effects of power hierarchies on team productivity by creating teams with either a mixed propensity towards leadership — in one case some participants were primed to feel powerful by thinking of a time they wielded power over others while others subjects were asked to envision a time they were bossed around before joining the group — or teams made up entirely of hard charging leadership types or participants primed for a meeker, go along, get along approach.

In a study, a group of researchers found that by taking a 40 - second break and simply looking at a computerized image of a green roof, employees» focus on a particular task improved.

Generation Z, those born 1997 to present, now represent 27 percent of the U.S. population, a larger group than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information comgroup than Millennials, and although only older Gen Zs are entering adulthood, their impact on the food industry is already being felt, finds a new study by The NPD Group, a leading global information comGroup, a leading global information company.

In preparing to write this book, Chris identified 1,500 individuals who have built businesses earning $ 50,000 or more from a modest investment (in many cases, $ 100 or less), and from that group he's chosen to focus on the 50 most intriguing case studies.

A version of this article appears in print on February 28, 2016, on Page MM20 of the Sunday Magazine with the headline: Group Study.

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Like other groups of marketers we've studied over the last six months, technology marketers reported lower overall content marketing effectiveness this year compared with last (more on that soon).

The study of Moro and her colleagues compared two groups of resistance trained athletes, the one group used the time - restricted feeding while the other group was on a normal diet.

Nothing OTE'ers wouldn't know given my emphasis on the disproportionate benefits of tight labor markets to less advantaged groups, but the Fed study provides... Read more

Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.