Sentences with phrase «independent study reports»

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Part of the problem, the study found, is that «existing tax rules effectively create a $ 19,399 reporting tax loophole impacting millions of taxpayers» because of the confusion surrounding the requirements for forms 1099 - K, which is supposed to be filed by companies when they earn more than $ 20,000 through 200 or more credit card transactions, and 1099 - MISC, which covers payments above $ 600 to independent contractors, freelancers and small businesses.

Additionally, student newspaper The Daily Tar Heel reports, the new report «found clear evidence that academic counselors from the football, men's basketball and women's basketball teams asked for players to be enrolled in bogus independent study classes in order for them to be eligible.»

The New York Times» Margot Sanger - Katz points out that earlier studies by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO)-- the independent scorekeepers who keep tabs on how legislation affects the budget and the country and whose report on the GOP repeal - and - replace effort last week sent Obamacare opponents into disarray — found that simply repealing Obamacare would only lead to 23 million fewer uninsured Americans.

The attacks, which took place this year and have not been previously reported, jeopardized the communications of activists, journalists and other people in sensitive positions in Iran, where Telegram is used by some 20 million people, said independent cyber researcher Collin Anderson and Amnesty International technologist Claudio Guarnieri, who have been studying Iranian hacking groups for three years.

This will be the acid test of independent geological reports and Calima's own studies that suggest it is possibly sitting on lucrative, liquids - rich ground.

This year's list is the product of old - fashioned reporting, boosted by data and insight supplied by a trio of independent research firms: Sageworks, which performs financial analyses of privately held companies; Plunkett Research, a business intelligence firm that studies trends affecting the world's most vital industries; and IBISWorld, which provides industry growth figures, five - year revenue projections, employment growth, profit margin averages, and industry competition ratings.

Furthermore, the report by Aidenvironment, which analyzed 40 previous independent research studies, surveying over a hundred business leaders across four sectors, found a range of business benefits from certification — from improved market access, profitability and production to enhanced reputation and reduced risk for certified businesses.

While the Cattle Council of Australia and the Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) welcomed the report, independent economist Selywn Heilbron, who recently authorised a study on competition in the sector on behalf of the AMIC, warned the cartel allegations needed to be taken in the context of an industry where there would «literally be millions of transactions going through saleyards every year».

Independent observations of change were on the whole smaller than parent - report (SMD of 0.4 compared with 0.7), and very few (7/25) of the included studies had provided an independent assessment Independent observations of change were on the whole smaller than parent - report (SMD of 0.4 compared with 0.7), and very few (7/25) of the included studies had provided an independent assessment independent assessment of outcome.

The strongest research methods for psychological studies are: qualitative findings versus quantitative; experimental rather than descriptive or correlational; controlled - experiment, meta - analysis, and observation designs over archival, case study, computational modeling, content analysis, field experiment, interview, neuroimaging, quasi experiment, self - report inventory, random sample survey, or twin study; and prospective (where subjects are recruited prior to the proposed independent effects being administered) and longitudinal (where subjects are studied at multiple time points) rather than retrospective or cross-section study.

A report published earlier this month by City Comptroller Scott Stringer concluded that the economic impact on the city from subway delays could range from $ 170.2 million to $ 389 million and an independent study conducted by the city's Independent Budget Office (IBO) seems to back that up, taking an even deeper look at how much delays are costingindependent study conducted by the city's Independent Budget Office (IBO) seems to back that up, taking an even deeper look at how much delays are costingIndependent Budget Office (IBO) seems to back that up, taking an even deeper look at how much delays are costing commuters.

The report claimed a 2010 study done by the city Independent Budget Office severely under - counted the full value and liability of pension and retiree health costs of the district public schools.

The two said they studied the recommendations made in a report by the Independent Commission on New York City Criminal Justice and Incarceration Reform and claim their proposal could streamline the process.

Commenting on the publication of the 26th Report of the School Teachers» Review Body for England and Wales, and the Government's acceptance of all its recommendations, Chris Keates General Secretary of the NASUWT the largest teachers» union in the UK, said «We welcome the Report of the independent pay Review Body in studying the evidence on the impact of pay on teacher recruitment and retention.

Notes to Editors The report, «How alcohol industry organisations mislead the public about alcohol and cancer», by Mark Petticrew, Nason Maani Hessari, Cécile Knai and Elisabete Weiderpass, will be published online in Drug and Alcohol Review at 22:00 6 September 2017 The Institute of Alcohol Studies is an independent institute bringing together evidence, policy and practice from home and abroad to promote and informed debate on alcohol's impact on society.

The 146 - page report, issued Friday by an independent commission convened by City Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito and tasked with studying the issue, calls for the closure of the Rikers over the next 10 years through a mixture of alternative sentencing, bail reform, and the building of five smaller jails, one in each of the five boroughs.

Over to supremely respected independent think tank the Institute for Fiscal Studies, who filled in some of the numbers in a pre-budget report analysis today.

Last fall, an independent panel Mangano formed to study the county contracting process after Newsday reports on other cases recommended the political contribution disclosure law.

The report is titled: «An independent study of the 2015 general election petition cases for evidence of gross violations of rights to participate in government, to public service and fair election (phase two: Final report).»

Although these facts do not mean that the results are invalid, a 2003 study published in the British Medical Journal suggests that trials funded by drug companies are more likely to report favorable results about their products than are trials funded by independent organizations.

Previous studies by the University of South Carolina's Lucia Pirisi - Kim Creek research group had reported the existence of an HPV - inactive class in head and neck cancers and raised the possibility that HPV - inactive cervical cancers might originate as virally driven cancers and subsequently act independent of HPV.

The discoveries reported in two independent studies in the American Journal of Human Genetics on January 7 add to evidence for an important role for interspecies relations in human evolution and specifically in the evolution of the innate immune system, which serves as the body's first line of defense against infection.

The researchers discovered the actions of multiple independent meiotic drivers in fission yeasts in an earlier study, reported in 2014 in eLife, but didn't know which genes were responsible, or how they destroyed gametes that didn't inherit the genes.

«We haven't seen any independent studies that can verify their insulating qualities,» the agency reports.

In the same report, the researchers replicated these findings in an independent validation study in which they found methylation among 9.1 % of patients with high - grade serous cancers versus 4.3 % among controls.

A similar discovery in fruit flies, reported in an earlier independent study, which shows that a particular sex pheromone enhances female sexual behaviors and male aggression via separate neural circuits between the sexes, suggests that a sexually distinct circuit may be a universal strategy for converting male pheromone information into appropriate behavioral output.

Melina R. Kibbe, M.D., of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (formerly of Northwestern University, Chicago), and Editor, JAMA Surgery, and colleagues conducted a study to determine if sex bias exists in human surgical clinical research, if data are reported and analyzed using sex as an independent variable, and to identify specialties in which the greatest and least sex biases exist.

Although a scan of the published record for potentially applicable studies turned up 1,553 possible candidates, independent reviewers dismissed most of them as containing either potential biases or major deficiencies in their design or data reports.

(Carbin did a basic analysis using data that is independent of the tornado reports used in the study and found a signal «that would suggest that their findings are valid,» he told Climate Central.)

Nowak seemed like an isolated case until July, when an independent panel studying astronaut health reported some heavy drinking, even right before launches.

Obese patients with metastatic melanoma who are treated with targeted or immune therapies live significantly longer than those with a normal body mass index (BMI), investigators report in a study published in Lancet Oncology of 1,918 patients in six independent clinical cohorts.

In addition, numerous studies that have surveyed the state of scientific agreement on the issue report that more than 97 percent of independent climate scientists agree that human - caused climate change is a reality.

«The field now has two independent reports — our study and a 2015 report by Setiawan and colleagues in Toronto — showing essentially the same thing: that there is evidence for inflammation, more specifically microglial activation, in the brains of living patients during a major depressive episode,» said Dr. Talbot.

On ScienceInsider, Jennifer Couzin - Frankel reports that the Reproducibility Initiative has received a $ 1.3 million grant from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation to fund the independent validation of 50 important cancer biology studies published between 2010 and 2012.

While Uber, which is available in 274 cities in North America, reports that more than two billion rides have been arranged globally through the smartphone application since it started in 2010, and alleges that its services reduce drunk driving, independent studies are mixed on how ride - hailing influences crash numbers.

This month, the Crown Prosecution Service will receive a report based on seven independent studies of the technique.

The findings are reported in two independent papers: the zebrafish study was published in the July 26 issue of Current Biology, the mouse study will be available in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science this week.

Two independent studies have today reported that alcoholic liver disease has now replaced hepatitis C virus (HCV...

In a new study published in PLOS Genetics, led by Leif Andersson, Uppsala University / SciLifeLab, Swedish and French researchers report that two independent mutations are required to explain the development of the sex - linked barring pattern in chicken.

However, the inability of four independent laboratories to replicate the high XMRV prevalence in CFS cases reported by Lombardi et al. can not be explained by minor differences in assays used in each study.

For studies that reported incidence in each age category, we fitted log - linear model that contained incidence (dependent variable) and consumption (independent variable) with age as a covariate (median age in each age category), and we estimated the relative risk by using an interaction term between age and consumption.

For consumption, we used the midpoint of the reported number of cigarettes per day — for example, three cigarettes per day if the category was one to five cigarettes per day — which we then adjusted for carboxyhaemoglobin and cotinine because this allows for lower inhalation with increasing cigarette consumption as previously established.14 For studies that reported relative risks adjusted for age (or for additional factors), the model contained the logarithm of the relative risk (dependent variable) and consumption (independent variable) using only the midpoint of the cigarettes per day categories.

In support of this one study reported that independent of total sedentary time and moderate - to - vigorous intensity activity time, increased breaks in sedentary time were beneficially associated with waist circumference, body mass index, triglycerides, and 2 hour plasma glucose.

An independent study by Consumer Reports found that the Non-GMO Project Verified seal is the only «highly meaningful» label for consumers who wish to avoid GMOs.

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

Sifting through some half a million studies, nine independent research teams from around the globe created a landmark scientific consensus report reviewed by 21 of the top cancer researchers in the world.

Some human observational studies have reported positive associations between saturated fat intake and hyperinsulinemia that were independent of body fat (110, 111).

Also according to a recent independent study this year, 57 % of eHarmony users reported that they had found a relationship on the dating service.

Ironically, the «case study» in the Independent report that featured me, focussed mainly on my comments about living alone.