Sentences with phrase «half of participants»

Maybe 1 % of participants can make it up Everest on their own.

They found that of those participants who had a bachelor's degree or higher that scored high in resilience, 8 percent were at risk for depression compared to 33 percent of college - educated individuals who scored low on the resilience scale.

Social media can level the playing field between industry leaders and upstarts, between multinational corporation executives and small - business owners, making peers of all participants.

In 2015, a survey of 200 senior - level women in Silicon Valley found that 66 percent of participants reported they were excluded from important meetings because of their gender, and 60 percent reported unwanted sexual advantages in the workplace.

Some of the participants were given explicit instructions to write about themselves in a way that would entice others to meet them, while other participants weren't given any specific instructions.

A second group of participants judged the profiles, and the result was that profile writers thought the judges would like them more than they actually did.

A recent study by human resource consulting firm Morneau Shepell has found that, when it comes to counselling services, 63.9 % of participants are women.

One of the three experiments in the study had 30 university students refraining from eating and drinking between 11 p.m. and the time they arrived to the study lab the next day, which was either 8:30 a.m. or 9:15 a.m. Half of the participants were served breakfast before the experiment, the others went straight to the Iowa Gambling Task.

In one of the experiments, the researchers primed some of the participants for feelings of either power or powerlessness by assigning them to roles as bosses or employees in a face - to - face mock task of solving brain - teasers.

Now she's teaching dozens of participants not only the basics of dog grooming and the fundamentals of being an good employee, but also helping them sort out the other logistical and life challenges that stand in the way of a career in the pet beautification business..

But any of the participants in the discussion are still free to make it public, says Steven Aftergood, a government secrecy specialist with the Federation of American Scientists.

These activities can include procurement / supplier activities, transportation, warehousing, inventory management, customer service, depending on the interests of participants.

Providing things like game shows that provided actions with prizes to be won, or information request kiosks will attract many of the participants.

Yet, goals don't always work: According to Statistic Brain Research Institute, a mere 9.2 percent of participants the institute surveyed said they'd successfully achieved their New Year's resolutions so far in 2017.

The study looked at 149 participants in networking and business groups from the United States, Belgium, India, Japan, Australia and England and found that more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to friends reported successful goal achievement, compared to 35 percent of those who kept their goals to themselves and didn't write them down.

Another of the participants in VanHacks, as the event is known, is Knack by Potluck Café, a non-profit with the goal of building an online platform to help workers and employers in low - income neighbourhoods (starting with the Downtown Eastside) connect quickly and efficiently.

Second, by offering the faster binary access method, NYSE effectively imposed a «Speed Bump» on all of its participants who did not upgrade.

If you'd still like to get a group together to bounce some ideas around, try to keep the number of participants limited to a very select group who are best suited to generate ideas on a specific topic — meaning they have some expertise in the area.

The study, published in the January issue of Psychiatry Research: Neuroimaging, concluded that after completing the course, parts of the participants» brains associated with compassion and self - awareness grew, and parts associated with stress shrank.

In a study published in the Journal of Consumer Research that examined the impact of mental stress on food choices, a majority of the participants selected an unhealthy food (chocolate cake) over a healthy food (fruit) after completing a complicated memorization task.

Some 88 percent of participants labeled it a «dangerous» bubble, predicting it «will not end well.»

The team behind the research taught two groups of participants two differing strategies for saying no when something threatened to tempt them away from their stated goals.

While some 270,000 people are said to have used the personality - quiz app, Wylie said it was able to harvest data from 50 million Facebook accounts through the friend networks of those participants.

In the closing speech of a two - day conference in Paris, Macron praised efforts of participants to agree...

This study by Dr. Gail Matthews found that «more than 70 percent of the participants who sent weekly updates to a friend reported successful goal achievement.»

«Only 64 percent of participants in the hotter room agreed to answer at least one question compared to 95 percent in the cooler room,» notes Bergland.

Among those interviewed, roughly 50 % of participants said they saw higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and greater sales efficiency when they involved advocates in their campaigns.

Worse, if your plan fails a discrimination test late in the year, it might have to kick back a portion of participant contributions at year - end.

What they found was that 70 % of the participants in the uncertain - reward condition successfully completed the task, but only 43 % of the participants in the certain - reward condition.

In the study, a group of participants were shown a series of pictures they were not asked to memorize.

«The researchers found that 75 percent of the participants» cortisol levels lowered during their 45 minutes of making art.

Uberconference This conference call app features a colorful interface and automatic social media connections so you can learn more about all of the participants just by clicking their picture.

The researchers had two groups of participants complete two versions of attention - testing tasks: one simple and the other challenging.

Additionally, 94 percent of participants from the same study indicated they would be loyal to a brand that offers complete transparency.

«Imagine it's coming to the end of the business year,» the survey asked half of the participants.

«If Peter Thiel is indeed backing the lawsuit, I assume that he thinks that disclosing a sex video without the participant's permission is a violation of the participant's rights — here, a right to privacy.

«For any NBAA event, our top priority is the safety and security of all participants, and we are in coordination with federal, state and local officials to ensure that show participants are in a safe, secure environment.»

In Label Insight's 2016 Transparency ROI study, 56 percent of participants surveyed said that more product information inspires more trust in a brand.

The scientists discovered that no matter the artistic experience of the participants, about 75 percent experienced a decrease in their levels of cortisol, a hormone that the body secretes to respond to stress.

As the Alzheimer's Association notes, until recently, «clinical trials were conducted where up to 30 % of participants did not have the Alzheimer's disease - related brain change targeted by the experimental drug.»

When a second group of participants listened to the recorded negotiation passages, and asked questions about how powerful they perceived the speakers to be, they were able to identify who was high - versus low - rank.

Check out Meet or Die, where you can enter your industry, the length of your meeting, and the number of participants and their jobs.

There is also very little transparency regarding how the deals are structured and the identities of the participants in them, he said.

After that, the researchers tracked the eye movements of the participants as they looked at and rated the pleasantness of images of gay male and heterosexual couples.

The Federal Communications Commission's Lifeline program paid at least $ 1.2 million to duplicate or deceased recipients and more than one - third of participants out of 3.5 million reviewed appeared not to be eligible, the Government Accountability Office said in a report released on Thursday.

«The currency war is intensifying: the number of participants is rising, fresh policy tools are being used to fight, and the scale of influence on the wider foreign exchange market is increasing,» wrote HSBC strategists, led by David Bloom, in a research note on Tuesday which ranks global currencies» appetites for war.

In New York, the weekend's festivities began on Friday with a PrideFest street fair at which orange bandannas were handed out to the thousands of participants.

In the objective group, only one - third of the participants made the same recommendation.

Then, half of the participants were given a handful of standard cognitive tests to keep them busy for ten minutes, while the other half were instructed to relax in a darkened room and do nothing.

«A number of participants in the [Federal Open Market Committee] did bring up the issue of tariffs,» Powell said.