Sentences with phrase «higher group numbers»

Among pack animals, higher group numbers are thought to come with the benefit of better access to shared social information like the approach of prowling predators.

Not exact matches

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

According to Nielsen SoundScan statistics, 2.8 million vinyl records were sold in the United States in 2010 — the highest number since the group began tracking record sales in 1991.

The project's main opponent, the local environmental group Douglas Channel Watch, maintains the risk from either a tanker accident or a pipeline breach is too high for the small number of jobs the pipeline would bring to the community.

«Just a small number of stocks are kind of taking the group higher on the big up days, and on the down days they all kind of go down together.»

«The IRS will always start out from the premise that your company is worth the highest possible number,» explains John J. Ferro, senior director of the corporate finance group at Arthur Andersen in New York City.

According to a study of boards of directors from the research group Catalyst, companies that had a higher - than - usual number of female board members serving for at least four or five years vastly outperformed companies with primarily male board members.

Narr's study also found kids with broader friend groups tended to grow up with higher rates of social anxiety than kids with smaller numbers of closer friends.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

Yet a large number of criticisms in precisely this domain have already been leveled against Ukraine, not only from domestic political opposition groups but also from high - profile international actors and leaders of other OSCE participating states.

The two groups have had similar numbers of lateral moves (same - level job assignments in different functions, designed to give high potentials exposure to various parts of the business).

``... around 50 % of our assets are in cash, and that's a very high absolute number, now around $ 14 billion and rising...» — Seth Klarman I recently came across this quote from Seth Klarman of the Baupost Group, which he said during a... Continue reading →

Wanda Group, along with a number of China's biggest conglomerates including HNA Group and Fosun International - has seen higher levels of scrutiny on its finances and debt over the past year as Beijing clamps down on what it sees as «irrational» overseas acquisitions.

Hence, as a result first of large depreciations of a number of Asian currencies during the Asian crisis of 1997 and 1998, and then their more recent decline with the US dollar, the Australian dollar is now some 60 per cent higher than its post-float average against a group of Asian currencies (Graph 23).

The platform last year attracted a number of high - profile international retailers and brands, among them U.S. department store operator Macy's, Japanese beauty products giant Shiseido Group, U.K. supermarket chain Sainbury's, U.S. infant care company Huggies, and Paris - based food - products multinational Danone.

Given the numbers of Christians, Yazidis, Shia Muslims and others who have been displaced by Islamic State for fear of their lives, this would likely lead to Britain's highest court deeming the group's actions as genocide.

The number was the highest of any demographic group, and 20 points higher than the 50 percent of Americans who felt the same way.

Issues such as nuclear weapons and the high number of food banks in Scotland are the main concerns for Christians in the group.

Jews have been elected to Congress and appointed to high positions in government in numbers far exceeding their percentage of the population; Jews are arguably America's most affluent ethnic group; Jews have served as commissioners of Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, and the National Hockey League, as well as presidents of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, and Columbia; and, as the wedding notices in the Sunday New York Times indicate, Jews have not been reluctant to marry Gentiles, or vice versa.

In evolutionary terms, then, it may not always «pay» to be monogamous that is, the highest number of offspring may be best guaranteed by some non monogamous arrangement such as group «marriage».

An evidence of the accuracy of the high rating for the death of a spouse was their discovery that the number of deaths of widows and widowers during the first year following the death of their spouse is ten times greater than the deaths of others in their age groups.

A number of high profile evangelical groups have promoted immigration reform in recent years, including the National Association of Evangelicals and the National Latino Evangelical Coalition.

«First of all, the numbers for young Americans are still dramatically higher, and secondly, it is beyond dispute now that the «nones» are one of the largest demographic groups in the United States, and we're going to stay that way for a long, long time.»

Are you aware that the group who voted in the highest numbers for Adolph Hitler were Evangelical pastors?

Yet in both labor unions and churches, the official group pronouncements are on a higher level of insight than the actual practices of great numbers of their membership.

Robertet, the French flavours and fragrances group, has seen a sharp rise in its share price this year helped by renewed interest in the sector due to a number of high profile transactions.

Dave has been a featured speaker at a number of high profile industry events, conferences and symposiums, including the National Restaurant Association Show and BAR Show, the Flavor Experience conference, the Nightclub & Bar and VIBE annual trade show / conference, the International Foodservice Manufacturers Association's (IFMA) Forecast and Outlook and Introduction to Foodservice Fundamentals seminars, the Beer Summit, Foodservice Equipment & Supplies State of the Industry seminar, Technomic's Adult Beverage Insights Group and Foodservice Planning Program client meetings, Chicago Foodservice Marketing Club (CFMC) luncheons, corporate national sales meetings, and other industry client functions.

Just in time for fall, this limited edition whisky returns as a result of high demand from Friends of Laphroaig, the brand's distinguished loyalty group that gives members a lifetime lease on a numbered, one square foot plot of land in Islay, Scotland.

higher number of away goals scored in all group matches; 9.

According to Baleka, the average life expectancy for a long - haul truck driver in the U.S. is 61 to 64 years (10 to 15 years less than the average American male); truck drivers have the highest rate of obesity of any occupation in the U.S. (86 % are overweight, 69 % are obese); they have one of the highest rates of metabolic syndrome, a group of risk factors for heart disease and diabetes; in some years they have had the highest number of fatalities of any occupation, making trucking one of the most dangerous and unhealthy occupations in the U.S.

higher number of goals scored in the group matches played among the teams in question; 3.

higher number of wins in all group matches; 10.

higher number of away wins in all group matches; 11.

Rashid Ghazi of Paragon Marketing Group, which is in final negotiations with ESPN to televise Lawrence North's Dec. 9 game against Poplar Bluff (Mo.) High and its North Carolina — bound power forward, Tyler Hansbrough, says, «Greg Oden is, by most accounts, the Number 1 player in the country who is not in the NBA.

Half of the 1st round picks in that class have been to the ProBowl, which seems like a pretty high number to me (and somehow a group that doesn't include BG among its ranks).

Coach Stuart Rafferty rotated his midfield groups frequently to keep the pace and pressure up and both sets responded with high intensity efforts that provided a number of scoring opportunities.

The only good thing was that after the game we could at least walk out of the ground, however again there is insufficient numbers of police, as soon as you get on the high road you've got groups walking around looking for any signs of red colours for them to punch and attack.

The number of mothers who start breastfeeding is higher than national rates for the same age group

An avid short board surfer with several competition wins to her credit, Dr. Pease achieved a national record and number one world ranking in masters swimming, and, returning to swimming after a 20 - year hiatus, was ranked by US Masters Swimming as high as number four nationally in her age group in the 500 yard freestyle.

No sooner did the UPMC study issue, however, then came a second study by the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest researchers [4]- this one of an older group of 9 - to 12 - year - old football players - which found that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not lead to higher force impacts during games, precisely as they had predicted would be the case if the amount of contact was reduced during practice, and pouring a significant amountg of cold water on the UPMC study.

High and low frequency support were reported together in the main publication, as there was no difference in the number of contacts women received in these groups.

«There was no difference in the number of contacts between the high - and low - frequency treatment groups for women with non-missing data on breastfeeding outcomes.

The incidence of any breast feeding was higher in women who received postnatal lactation support than in women in the control group (1.19, 1.05 to 1.36; number needed to treat = 8, 5 to 26) at six weeks after delivery (table 4).

In addition, there was no effect on breastfeeding duration when the pacifier was introduced at 1 month of age.280 A more recent systematic review found that the highest level of evidence (ie, from clinical trials) does not support an adverse relationship between pacifier use and breastfeeding duration or exclusivity.281 The association between shortened duration of breastfeeding and pacifier use in observational studies likely reflects a number of complex factors such as breastfeeding difficulties or intent to wean.281 A large multicenter, randomized controlled trial of 1021 mothers who were highly motivated to breastfeed were assigned to 2 groups: mothers advised to offer a pacifier after 15 days and mothers advised not to offer a pacifier.

Each day, children will earn awards or privileges for their points — including being on the honor roll for highest number of points or being the group's best sport for the day.

And that's not excluding women with contraindications to vaginal delivery or medical issues, i.e. a higher risk group than the ones who achieved the 0.4 / 1000 number.

high risk of bias (e.g. numbers or reasons for missing data imbalanced across groups; «as treated» analysis done with substantial departure of intervention received from that assigned at randomisation);

This group traditionally votes Republican and in far higher numbers than the group making less than $ 27,000 a year.

While testing numbers improved across all ethnic and racial groups, performance gaps between black and Hispanic kids and higher - performing whites and Asians remained glaring.

Michael Kink, with the progressive group the Strong Economy for All Coalition, says Cuomo's strategy shows that he is serious about getting a law passed that would bring New York from the 20th highest minimum wage in the country, to the number three position.