Sentences with phrase «growth than the university»

To start with, the NFIB's measure is a better predictor of future economic growth than the University of Michigan's indicator.

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Yi Fuxian, a researcher at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, believes China's population is much smaller than official statistics, owing to years of slower population growth under the one - child policy.

My students at Peking University, for example, are extremely supportive and think very differently about what I do, and I think I have convinced them that as future policymakers, especially in finance and central banking, rather than join the hype that has always accompanied every growth miracle it is their responsibility to be focus on risks and on all the ways things can go wrong.

End - of - week profit taking prevented the U.S. dollar from extending its gains on Friday despite stronger - than - expected first - quarter U.S. GDP growth and an upward revision to the University of Michigan's consumer confidence index.With that in mind, steady growth and rising inflation expectations should foster further gains in the dollar next week as investors are convinced that the Federal Reserve will use the May meeting to prepare the market for a June hike.

The German universities expressed less opposition to the growth of Nazism in the 1930's than did the churches and labor unions; their failure at this point has been attributed in large part to their neutral pursuit of truth without concern for the life of the nation.14 By contrast, an example of intellectual responsibility occurred a few years ago when the University of Chicago was building a new cancer research hospital.

With growth in Catholic colleges and universities that take their faith seriously, and with schools like Aquinas College forming a generation of teachers, there are more than enough reasons for hope.

University at Buffalo officials said applications are up more than 10 percent from last year, with the Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences seeing the highest growth in interest.

The team led by Andreas Plückthun, Director of the Department of Biochemistry at the University of Zurich, involving postdoc Rastik Tamaskovic and PhD student Martin Schwill, has now found out why these antibodies merely slow tumor growth rather than killing off the cancer cells.

Estimates show that by 2050 the world population will be more than 9 billion and this growth will occur primarily in areas of the world already experiencing food scarcity and water availability issues, as Steven Leath, plant scientist and president of Iowa State University, noted in a lecture last year at AAAS.

Schonwald, a freelance journalist, was intrigued by its freakish speed of growth — 10 times faster than the average fish — but what interested him most was a prediction by University of Miami aquaculturist Daniel Benetti, the first person to farm cobia successfully: «Cobia will be the next salmon.»

Earlier this week, more than 300 UC scientists criticized the proposed cuts to UC in a letter to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and 25 legislators, arguing that UC risks losing its position as a premier public university and its ability to train the science and technology workforce needed to spur economic growth.

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) have devised a hair restoration method that can generate new human hair growth, rather than simply redistribute hair from one part of the scalp to another.

Microbiologist Rose Cooper at the University of Wales has found honey to be 10 times more effective than a sugar solution at killing antibiotic - resistantStaphylococcus aureas, a wound - infecting bacterium common in hospitals, perhaps because honey contains plant chemicals that inhibit microbial growth.

Purified single - walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in water promoted greater plant growth (center) than the nanomaterial - free control (left) after eight days of an experiment at Rice University.

But it is the first to find that the growth of the pharmaceutical industry itself may be associated with worse rather than better health,» said Hui Zheng, lead author of the study and associate professor of sociology at The Ohio State University.

Longo also knew of research by molecular biologist John Kopchick at Ohio University, which showed that mice with a mutation in their growth hormone receptor gene lived 40 percent longer than normal mice — the equivalent of an average American living to age 110.

Researchers at The Rockefeller University have shown that a new technique using RNA interference is able to find genes that cause epidermal tumor growth in months rather than the decades it may take using traditional methods employing specially bred, genetically altered mice.

The strength of the program, he suggests, was already evident by its third year; by then the growth rate of minority STEM degrees at H - LSAMP universities was more than six times the national rate.

With the rate of growth in federal research spending essentially stagnant, universities hoping to profit from some of the bright ideas of their faculty must pay more attention than ever to developing partnerships with industry, a top University of Virginia official said recently at AAAS.

But in an age where many films owe more to CGI wizardry than sharp camera work, requests for realistic simulations of melting, freezing, crystal growth and so on come up «more often than you might at first expect», says Christopher Batty, who researches computer graphics at Columbia University in New York City.

Old, complex tropical forests support a wider diversity of birds than second - growth forests and have irreplaceable value for conservation, according to an Oregon State University - led exhaustive analysis of bird diversity in the mountains of southern Costa Rica.

At the time, Martin Cohn, an evolutionary developmental biologist at the University of Florida in Gainesville, discovered snake embryos had a different pattern of activity of certain genes than other reptiles and that applying a growth factor could make those embryos start to grow limbs.

«Brows and lashes have different durations of hair growth cycles, which make them less susceptible [than head hair] to the inhibitor effect of chemo,» says Mario Lacouture, MD, director of the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center's Dermatologic Care Center at Northwestern University in Chicago.

Stephen Boutcher, of University of South Wales, mentions that HIIT increases your metabolism and burns more fat / calories than many other forms of conventional exercise - in particular the «after burn» effect, increasing the production of growth hormones and calories burned in the hours after your workouts - see this article.

An Arabian study found that ginger extracts suppressed the growth of breast cancer cells, while an animal study at University of Minnesota showed that mice with colorectal cancer that received gingerols had 75 percent fewer tumors than the control group.

Researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center and the Temple University Health System found that omega - 3 fatty acids from foods such as salmon effectively slowed or stopped cancerous cell growth in triple - negative breast cancer cells more effectively than cells from other types of the disease.

In the US, the multicultural demographic comprises over a third of the population, and their spending power is growing more quickly than the country's average, per a study by the Selig Center for Economic Growth at the University of Georgia.

Hoover Institution scholar Eric Hanushek built on Miller's remarks by reporting that, according to work he did with University of Munich economist Ludger Woessmann, the United States could boost its annual GDP growth rate by more than 1 percentage point annually by raising student math performance to levels currently attained in countries such as Canada and Korea.

In a 2015 report, Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO) found that the average charter - school student in the Bay Area attained significantly more growth in reading and math than similar students in nearby district schools — and that this difference increased the longer he or she stayed in a charter school.

Drew Gilpin Faust, the current president of Harvard University, is right in insisting that «even as we as a nation have embraced education as critical to economic growth and opportunity, we should remember that [public schools], colleges and universities are about a great deal more than measurable utility.

Neural experiments on these mindsets at the Clinical Psychophysiology Lab at Michigan State University found that after committing an error, growth mindset participants exhibited enhanced brain activity and were less likely than the fixed mindset participants to make a similar mistake.

Contrary to many stories in the media about how low - wage jobs have dominated since the recovery began in 2010, the study from the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce claims that the largest job growth has come from good jobs; these jobs paid more than $ 53,000, tended to be full time, and provided health insurance and retirement plans.

The most recent charter school study, from Stanford University's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), finds that academic growth among Boston charter school students is more than four times that of their traditional public school peers in English and more than six times greater in math.

Students at New Orleans charter schools show more academic growth than their peers in conventional schools, according to a new study from Stanford University.

According to The University of Maryland, companies who employ managers with high emotional intelligence have 34 % higher profit growth than those that do not.

In the wake of the latest findings, Ronald Amundson, a soil biogeochemist at the University of California at Berkeley, told Chemical and Engineering News that «If there is more nitrogen there than expected, then the constraints on plant growth in a high - CO2 world may not be as great as we think.»

A new study from the University of Minnesota found secondary tropical forests are able to sequester 11 times more carbon than old - growth forests.

His co-author, Oliver Phillips, professor in the School of Geography at the University of Leeds in the UK, says that «the Amazon has been providing a tremendous service, taking up hundreds of millions more tonnes of carbon every year in tree growth than it loses through tree death.

A 2007 analysis by Duke University's Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions (based on a U.S. Energy Information Administration model) found that the Lieberman - Warner Climate Security Act (S. 3036) would reduce U.S. GDP growth by less than 0.45 percent by 2015 and only 1.5 percent by 2050.

According to a 2008 analysis by Iowa State University, the growth in U.S. ethanol fuel production caused retail gasoline prices to be 29 — 40 cents per gallon lower than would otherwise have been the case.

«Divorced individuals report higher levels of autonomy and personal growth than do married individuals,» says Miami University professor of philosophy, Robin L. Graff - Reed, in her article, «Positive Effects of Stressful Life Events: Psychological Growth Following Divorce.&growth than do married individuals,» says Miami University professor of philosophy, Robin L. Graff - Reed, in her article, «Positive Effects of Stressful Life Events: Psychological Growth Following Divorce.&Growth Following Divorce.»

Immigrants have accounted for more than a third of household growth in the United States since the 1990s, with more than one in 10 households now headed by a person born outside of this country, according to the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University.

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