Sentences with phrase «last conducted our study»

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After fighting unsuccessfully to reverse generic drug laws last year, and the sudden resignation of its CEO, Shoppers Drug Mart has suffered a 17 % drop in «brand value,» to $ 2.6 billion, according to a study conducted by researcher Interbrand.

Within the last year, only about four in 10 mid-market companies have conducted a formal cost analysis on payroll, time and attendance and employee benefits administration alone, according to the 2014 TCO study.

The Wellness in the Workplace Study, conducted by the Optum Resource Center for Health & Well - being, has identified employee health and wellness trends for the last eight years in more than 700 US - based companies.

Last year, for example, a study conducted by Unilever — a company that does have an admittedly vested interest in knowing this kind of information — polled 20,000 consumers in five countries and 33 percent said that given the option, they would choose to buy from brands that are focused on sustainability.

Blacks in Minneapolis were 8.7 times more likely than whites to be arrested for low - level offenses, such as trespassing and disorderly conduct, according to a study of arrests from 2012 to 2014 that the American Civil Liberties Union of Minnesota published last year.

A study conducted earlier this year by FlexJobs and Global Workplace Analytics found that telecommuting increased 115 % over the last 10 years.

It will also recommend that the annual Edinburgh assembly, which started last weekend, authorise a further study on the legal implications of conducting same - sex marriages and report back in 2018.

Last April, LifeWay Research conducted a study to find out how people feel about the Bible, and how much of it they've actually read.

In the last six months, LifeWay Research has conducted ongoing research around the topic of same - sex marriage and homosexuality, and I imagine some of these studies will become much more important in the days to come.

An earlier study conducted during the 1970s found that 75 % of gay men over age 40 experienced no relationship that lasted more than one year.

As a recent study conducted by Pew Research Center makes clear — and this is supported by other studies including a significant study released last fall, «A Survey of American Political Culture,» by Dr. James Davidson Hunter, who wrote the book Culture Wars — White Evangelical Protestants are not, as the Washington Post famously called them in 1993, «less affluent, less educated, and more easily led than the average American.»

Last week a bunch of new reports emerged on a new infant sleep study being conducted by a nurse named Jennifer Combs.

You must provide evidence from studies conducted in the last 5 years or so in which formula - fed infants received formula supplemented with DHA to validate your claim that formula contributes to SIDS.

Studies have also been conducted on pregnancy after Depo with studies indicating that it takes at least 10 months, on average for a woman to get pregnant after her last injStudies have also been conducted on pregnancy after Depo with studies indicating that it takes at least 10 months, on average for a woman to get pregnant after her last injstudies indicating that it takes at least 10 months, on average for a woman to get pregnant after her last injection.

Emma, can you describe the informal study you conducted last year and the results of this study about sex and breastfeeding.

A «study» commissioned last year by the dairy industry, and performed by a company that conducts marketing research for corporate food clients, suggested that 35 percent fewer elementary school students drank milk when flavored milk was removed from the cafeteria.

The session was a reaction to a study conducted for the U.S. Department of Agriculture last October that disclosed that National School Lunch Program meals do not meet federal dietary guidelines for healthful nutrition practices.

In another study conducted by Dr Field, premature babies who were massaged gained 47 percent more weight and were discharged from hospital six days earlier than babies in a control group, with follow up studies showing lasting effects on growth and development.

Principal Meteorological Officer at the Agency, Muller Tsatsu Tsame told Joy News Saturday the Harmattan winds would intensify till December 13 after which a new study will be conducted to ascertain how long it will last.

That's precisely why Governor Cuomo instructed the Port Authority last year to conduct noise studies for both airports.

County Executive Steve Bellone announced last week that the county will conduct a lottery to select 19 homeowners who will receive free advanced wastewater treatment systems as part of a pilot demonstration program study.

In June of last year, the city agreed to conduct a traffic study, but the initial results were «inconclusive.»

In 2014, Ballotpedia conducted a study of competitive districts in 44 state legislative chambers between 2010, the last year in which district maps drawn after the 2000 census applied, and 2012, the first year in which district maps drawn after the 2010 census applied.

The adminsitration called for the study, which was conducted by Boston - based consulting firm Charles River Associates, last year after the City Council defeated a controversial development at the Kingsbridge Armory.

Last February, just as a final report on the safety of fracking was due to be released by Martens» agency, Cuomo abruptly announced that his health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, would conduct a last - minute study, which Shah promised would be completed in «weeks.&raLast February, just as a final report on the safety of fracking was due to be released by Martens» agency, Cuomo abruptly announced that his health commissioner, Dr. Nirav Shah, would conduct a last - minute study, which Shah promised would be completed in «weeks.&ralast - minute study, which Shah promised would be completed in «weeks.»

Last March, Assemblyman David Weprin and State Senator Tony Avella introduced a bill in Albany in which they also asked «to conduct a study pertaining to a proposed expansion of the Long Island Motor Parkway.»

The study was conducted in Jena, Germany, a city with 100,000 residents and only a few days over the last several years during which concentrations of some air pollutants exceeded EU daily limits.

«Infectious disease disaster planning among Missouri schools does not appear to have progressed much over the last four years since a similar nationwide study was conducted, and most Missouri schools are not meeting many national and professional organization recommendations and guidelines,» state the study's authors.

The new work drew on transmission studies conducted last year in the lab of Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a co-author of the new study and also a professor of pathobiological sciences at the UW - Madison School of Veterinary Medicine.

«Every year, the particular group of viruses is mutable, keeps modifying genetically, so the shot you got last year may not work this year,» says Elaine Leventhal, professor emerita of medicine at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, in whose practice the study was conducted.

In conducting their study, which includes detailed behavioral, medical and genetic observations of 14 boys with CS from 12 families, the team of scientists and physicians worked closely with families of the small but fast - growing Christianson Syndrome Association, including hosting the group's inaugural conference at Brown's Alpert Medical School last summer.

«The increased interdependency of countries, economies, and cultures resulting from tremendous growth in international travel and trade over the last several decades has brought improved access to goods and services, but also a variety of health threats,» said Jendayi Frazer, co-chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report and adjunct senior fellow for Africa studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

Researchers analyzed data from studies conducted between 1979 and 2009, and found the sharpest drop in empathy occurred in the last nine years.

The commission, set up by President Bill Clinton last year after details of a number of experiments hit the headlines, identified more than 4000 radiation studies conducted between 1944 and 1974.

But in a pilot study conducted on heavy smokers, 24 percent of those who received the NicVAX vaccine were smoke free for the last two months of the six - month study — double the quit rate of those who received placebo shots.

«As luck would have it, that was the first gene I tried, and that was the last gene I tried,» said Ubil, who conducted the research as a graduate student in the laboratory of former UNC faculty member and senior study author Arjun Deb, MD..

During his time conducting the studies in Washington, Tonra watched reservoir beds that looked like moonscapes return to vibrant, rich habitat and cascades emerge where none had been, at least for the last century.

In 2006 the American Psychological Association (APA) assembled a task force of researchers with wide - ranging expertise to evaluate all peer - reviewed studies published in English since 1989 (when the last such review was conducted) that compared the mental health of women who had an abortion with that of other women.

University of Exeter academics Benjamin Lyons, Vittorio Merola and Jason Reifler conducted the study with around 1,000 participants last month.

He conducted one of three monkey studies last year — two are on the internet but none has been published — that failed to find ADE in animals infected first with dengue or yellow fever (another flavivirus) and then Zika.

To conduct the new study, the Hawaiian team, led by astronomer Istvan Szapudi, combined two large - scale observations of the cosmos that already had been completed: the cosmic microwave background (CMB), which represents the last, dying embers of the big bang, and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which comprises images of millions of galaxies.

Huxley and colleagues conducted a meta - analysis of all studies examining sex - specific estimates of mortality for men and women associated with type 1 diabetes spanning the last five decades (January 1966 to November 2014).

In a study commissioned by the Institution of Engineers, Australia, last year and conducted on 1990 data in annual reports, only 2 of the 50 largest companies were found to have directors on their boards with a responsibility for the technical areas of the company's operations — that is, 2 out of 413 directors.

Studies conducted over the last decade or so have shown deep connections between disease and dysbiosis, which is an imbalance in gut microbial populations.

Last July, Novartis Pharma admitted that a former employee created a conflict of interest by participating in clinical studies of valsartan, sold under the trade name Diovan, conducted by five Japanese medical schools while concealing his affiliation with the company.

When I was in North Carolina last month for the meet - and - greet - and - learn - exhausto - freneti - thon of ScienceOnline 2012, I procured for myself a sampling kit for a citizen science project being conducted by the lab of Rob Dunn, Sci Am Guest Blogger and author of the wonderful book The Wild Life of our Bodies.He's doing a new study called «The Wild Life of Our Homes», and for the low, low price of nothing *, I got a sampling kit with two neato dual - pronged sterile Q - tips, instructions, a questionnaire about the characteristics of my pad, and a mailing address to send it back to.

Since 2004, she has studied the Hadza people of Tanzania — one of the world's last remaining hunter - gatherer populations — conducting groundbreaking research that has attracted worldwide academic and media attention.

Drew Pardoll, Glenn Dranoff, Elizabeth Jaffee, Hyam Levitsky, and colleagues conduct preclinical studies showing that a vaccine composed of tumor cells irradiated and genetically modified to produce immune system growth factor GM - CSF (granulocyte - macrophage colony - stimulating factor)-- which would become known as the therapeutic cancer vaccine GVAX — could induce potent, specific, and long - lasting anti-tumor immunity in multiple mouse tumor models.

Several earlier studies conducted over the last ten years have led to the identification of a highly potent CXCR4 antagonist, a β - sheet - like 14 - mer peptide with a single disulfide bridge, known as T140.

In three separate studies last year, conducted all over the world, researchers discovered BPA in cash register and ATM receipts.