Sentences with phrase «larger than the university»

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The current cohort at the University of Alberta's MBA in natural resources, energy and environment is 10 % larger than the previous one, while the school's Fort McMurray MBA for oilsands workers is up nearly 35 %.

In a large review of studies published in the Journal of Nutrition, Purdue University scientists found that whole tree nuts and peanuts have roughly 15 % fewer calories than the figure calculated using the Atwater method.

The crux of the problem, Richard Mattoon, a senior economist at the Chicago Fed and a lecturer on real estate at Northwestern University told Canadian Business, is that dividends and capital gains make up a much larger share of top earners» pay than they did in the past — and that part of their compensation package tends to be very volatile.

Meanwhile there's a big demand for products that can analyze large sets of data, with more than half of all business leaders saying data analysis is critical to their success, according to a recent report from Boston University.

After more than a decade of research on the use of machine learning to detect disease - causing mutations in DNA, Brendan Frey, biomedical engineering professor at the University of Toronto, this week launched his company, Deep Genomics, to bring the technology his team developed to the public at large.

Over the past decade, Toronto has become the undisputed capital of Canadian innovation, with more than 600 startups, the country's largest cluster of universities and colleges pumping out research, and the deepest venture capital pockets in the land.

Even Kik, founded by a guy who worked at BlackBerry as a student at the University of Waterloo, claims to have 100 million users, which would make it larger than BBM.

«The volume of opportunities we see is dramatically larger in Toronto and Vancouver than in Ottawa,» says Rob Chaplinsky, a University of Waterloo grad and now co-managing director of VC firm Bridgescale Partners in the real Silicon Valley.

Georgia ranks No. 1 in workforce development and has one of the largest university systems in the U.S., housing more than 50,000 annual graduates from 31 public colleges and universities.

Most large metro areas have more than one research university, but not all claim highly ranked engineering or management schools.

Between the year of its signing and 2014, the U.S. lost more than 14 percent of its small community banks, while the number of large banks rose 6.3 percent, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Martyrs, the worlds largest charities, universities, missionaries, hospitals, etc were all inspired by something bigger than ourselves.

Clearly, traditional Christmas carols can't be sung (there's a large university near where I live that attracts graduate students from all over the world, as well as a substantial local Jewish community, and probably not more than 60 or 70 percent of the children at the school are from even nominally Christian households), so most of the singing is of songs of the saccharine - secular genre — songs like «White Christmas.»

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.

A large part of the difference between scientists and the general population may be due more to religious upbringing, rather than scientific training or university pressure to be irreligious, although these other possibilities should be further explored.»

Cardinal Dulles says that the «works of the Jesuit order are prospering because its universities have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before.»

The study comes from student surveys, which means the number may actually be larger than 36 percent, but it lines up with the numbers universities have independently reported.

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

Latin and Greek played a much larger role in these universities than did modern languages.

Two university professors told us that Gulf & Western operates with a budget larger than the government's, that it rivals the government in political influence, and that it obtains the labor laws it desires.

Large numbers fell by the way each year in all universities, but there were not less than 500 students in Wittenberg.

With all our knowledge, big brains, university degrees and amazing (to us) technology, consider than we dwell on a damp little planet, in an ordinary solar system, in the boonies of a very ordinary spiral galaxy which is composed of billions of stars, millions of which are much, much larger than our sun.

«We felt there was no better neighborhood for Cauldron's entrance into San Diego than Kearny Mesa, with its large population of families, close proximity to three major universities, and existing community of restaurants that will complement the Cauldron concept well.»

The number of people who follow gluten - free diets is far larger than the number diagnosed with celiac disease, report researchers at Rutgers University, noting the public perception of the diet's health benefits may also be helping encourage its adoption.

I have my university education, but by and large my education has come from independent research rather than classrooms.

With more than 30 staff submitted, the Business School had one of the largest submissions for a post-1992 university and 80 % was graded as being of international standard.

UCU general secretary Sally Hunt said such courses will be «starved of funds» and warned that higher education was about to enter an era «in which many arts - based and teaching - focused institutions, which rely on public funding far more than the larger research - intensive universities, will face an uncertain future».

During his remarks at the University at Albany, Cuomo — who delivered six addresses across New York between Monday and Wednesday, rather than deliver one address in the state's capital — touched on a number of topics relevant to both the Capital Region and the state at large, ranging from water infrastructure improvement to revitalization of upstate business.

The report, conducted by the office of State Comptroller Thomas P. DiNapoli, found that 10 of the 30 organizations were operating without required contracts, more than half had not been audited by SUNY since 2007 and the two largest — the University at Buffalo Foundation and the Stony Brook Foundation — had not established required policies and procedures for key business functions.

Waterbury, Connecticut (CNN)-- We caught up with GOP Senate candidate Linda McMahon just as the new CNN / Time / Opinion Research Corporation Poll was released showing her with a 13 - point deficit — considerably larger than the 4 - point hole she was in according to a Quinnipiac University survey out last week.

The research on PFOA is stronger than on most chemicals and the documented connections between the chemical and cancers has grown exponentially in recent years, building a uniquely large of body of research, compared to most chemicals, said Phil Brown, director of the Social Science Environmental Health Research Institute at Northeastern University.

According to him, most of the students at the University, a large number of whom are females, are more concerned about what they wear than their training.

«We are the world's fifth largest economy, with the best armed forces of any nation, more Nobel Prizes than any European country and more world - leading universities than any European country.

But the complaint also offered an unflattering view of Mr. Cuomo's preferred method of upstate development, which combined Dr. Kaloyeros's vision of high - tech hubs in faded Erie Canal cities with the university's ability to initiate large construction projects with less oversight than state agencies.

SUNY and City University of New York employees have been able to choose a defined - contribution (DC) plan for more than 50 years, and large majorities of faculty members have done so.

Lisa S. Coico, the president of the City College of New York, the flagship of the largest urban public university in the country, abruptly resigned on Friday, a day after The New York Times contacted officials with questions about her administration's handling of more than $ 150,000 of her personal expenses.

But city voters by a large margin say Gov. Cuomo would be more effective at sticking up for New York's interests under Trump than Hizzoner, the Quinnipiac University poll released Thursday found.

An illegal war Uncontrolled immigration # billions leaking every year via new quangos Students (in England) now have to mortgage their futures to get to University 24 hour binge drinking breakdown of the family vast increase in licensed gambling External debt quadrupled to $ 11 Trillion making us the second largest debtor nation in the world after the USA at $ 12 Trillion (we may overtake them later this year) Pension funds pillaged for # 5Bn a year Gold reserves sold for a pittance Children leaving school unable to read or write NHS a basket case - 1 in 10 leave hospital sicker than when they went in.

«The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments.

Total federal support of R&D at colleges and universities is expected to increase by 6.1 percent to $ 14.5 billion in FY 1999, a larger increase than in recent years.

«The convergence of population and climate hotspots leads to an increase in exposure larger than that produced by either alone,» says Bryan Jones of the City University of New York.

«Our paper suggests it will require managing for top predator persistence across large landscapes, rather than just in protected areas, in order to restore natural predator - predator interactions,» said co-author Aaron Wirsing, an associate professor at the University of Washington's School of Environmental and Forest Sciences.

«Although most of the macrophyte carbon is released back to the atmosphere in the same form that it is assimilated, carbon dioxide, some of it is actually exported to the ocean as dissolved carbon or released to the atmosphere as methane, a gas that has a warming potential 20 times larger than carbon dioxide,» said John Melack, a professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

But in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found evidence that these large SOD1 fibrils protect rather than harm neurons.

A number of giant super-eruptions between 8 and 12 million years ago that could be larger than the colossal eruptions known to have taken place at Yellowstone have been identified in the United States through research led by the University of Leicester.

Mutations in the genes that defend the body against cancer - related viruses and other infections may play a larger role in breast cancer than previously thought, according to a study at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

The researchers determined that CRISPR had successfully corrected a gene that causes blindness, but Kellie Schaefer, a PhD student in the lab of Vinit Mahajan, MD, PhD, associate professor of ophthalmology at Stanford University, and co-author of the study, found that the genomes of two independent gene therapy recipients had sustained more than 1,500 single - nucleotide mutations and more than 100 larger deletions and insertions.

«The idea is to harness their combined capabilities to test something larger than could be dealt with in a single lab,» says Martin Williams, professor of engineering at the University of Oxford.

With 125 institutes, more than 50 of which are joint ventures with universities and research bodies, CSIC is the largest research institution in Spain.