Sentences with phrase «life studied for»

The oldest form of life studied for auxin were single - cell, green algae, dating back to the deep past of a billion years ago.

Paula Rego, Life Study for The Return of the Native 2, 1992, Private Collection © Paula Rego, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

Paula Rego, Life Study For Dybbuk Series, 1996, Private Collection © Paula Rego, courtesy Marlborough Fine Art

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A new study has found that, for many, being «liked» on social media is more important than being liked in reality, which can lead to odd behavior and an inability to enjoy life in the moment.

In the post, Coleman runs down all the evidence for the many benefits of lifelong learning, turning up studies and reports that show continual study is the cure for many of life's most pressing problems.

Integrate live chat, billing, policies, shipping information, your background story, subscriptions, signups for upcoming events, webinars and downloadable content such as ebooks or case studies.

«Buying a neighborhood is probably one of the most important things you can do for your kid,» explains Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, who studied how wealthy people use their means to improve their kids» lives effectively.

Long - term care insurance, which covers expenses like nursing home care, at - home nursing care and other late - life needs, is fast becoming too costly for many retirees to afford, according to a recent study from LifePlans, an industry research firm.

A recent study by Accenture found that, for at least half of men and women, «work - life balance» is the number one determiner of whether or not they have a successful career.

We learned a major pain point at this life stage is the lack of funding for those critical out - of - classroom experiences (i.e., study abroad and attending conferences / seminars) that can change lives.

The survey comes as a U.K. study by the government's pension minister Steve Webb warned last week that the pension gap was widening, with up to 13 million Brits heading for an austere retirement after not saving adequately during their working lives.

«Based on a series of studies performed by our team over the past 5 years, this «dose» of exercise has become my prescription for life,» Benjamin Levine, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern who wrote the study, said in a statement.

The bill she sponsored — creating a committee for the next five years to study not just maternal mortality but also life - threatening complications, or severe maternal morbidity — sailed through the legislature, in part because of a change in governors.

The second trait linked with a long life for women in the 75 - year study was agreeableness or friendliness.

In Health Canada's 2001 National Work - Life Conflict Study — the widest - reaching survey on the subject, before or since — nearly half of respondents (47 %) considered their supervisor sympathetic to their need for work - life balaLife Conflict Study — the widest - reaching survey on the subject, before or since — nearly half of respondents (47 %) considered their supervisor sympathetic to their need for work - life balalife balance.

For that same 75 - year study, openness also emerged as a trait that was linked with a long life, second to conscientiousness.

Most of them report on and study race, in some form, for a living.

Jennifer and Devereaux Jennings, married professors with the University of Alberta School of Business, have been studying work - life balance among entrepreneurs for more than a decade.

«Government policy is pro — productivity,» says Andrew Sharpe, executive director of the Centre for the Study of Living Standards.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

Previous studies have controlled for the fact that lesbians are better educated, more likely to be white, have fewer children and live in cities, but a 6 % wage premium still exists.

But, for what it's worth, several studies have shown a correlation between consuming less tryptophan and living longer.

From the bank's universe of 37 million checking account customers, the think tank's researchers stripped identifiers and grabbed a sample of 2.3 million families across 23 U.S. states for whom they had «a very good window into their financial lives,» said Fiona Greig, JPMCI's Director of Consumer Research, who presented the study's key findings prior to the panel discussion.

Referencing a recent study by Life Meets Work, Inc. and the Boston College Center for Work and Family, Fell says that «pretty much any manager can successfully manage a telecommuting workforce if they're given the proper tools.»

As someone who studies human behavior for a living, Van Edwards shares key insights for establishing rapport, building charisma, and decoding behavior patterns in order to transform our interactions with people.

Allyson Hugley, president of Measurement & Analytics for Weber Shandwick, notes that the data from the study could add another layer to the modes of evaluation that are already available to advertising and marketing agencies, building on traditional surveys and more recent technology such as beacons and RFID chips that are used during live events.

He has access to three cells — one for living, one for studying and a third for physical exercise — as well as a television, a computer without Internet access, a games console, books and newspapers, and puzzles.

«Simply creating a level playing field for competition and then passively hoping that growth will happen may not be the best approach,» concluded Drummond and his co-authors in a paper published by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards in September.

The Illinois study encourages policymakers to continue pursuing strategies for making housing more affordable, but suggests that without increased wages, families will still be cost - burdened with living expenses.

So next time you're mentally beating yourself up for some significant life misstep, spare a thought for this study.

One Danish study, for instance, showed that people who quit the social network were 55 percent less stressed, and reported both enjoying life more and, ironically, being more social.

Citing studies on the early lives of heroes who rescued people from the Holocaust and highly creative architects, Grant suggests parents «help children think about the consequences of their action for others,» rather than simply yelling «no!».

But sometimes anecdotes beat statistics for really bringing a truth home, and real - life examples can be more illuminating than published studies.

According to a 2013 study by the social action group Center for American Progress, if the undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States were provided legal status, the 10 - year cumulative increase in the gross domestic product (GDP) would be $ 832 billion.

Four out of five travelers in Asia Pacific said travel was a necessary part of life and that they're willing to prioritize time off work and set aside money for trips, according to a new study by technology provider Sabre and research firm The Futures Company.

Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

To better measure the success of the companies on Inc.'s 2017 Founders 10 list, EY studied median benchmarks for the biotechnology, life sciences, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors at the time of their IPOs and one, two, and three years later.

A much discussed 2010 study by professors from INSEAD, the Kellogg School, and Tel Aviv University found that «travel and living abroad have long been seen as good for the soul.

In 2007, when others his age were studying for midterms and living on dorm food, David Karp was busy launching Tumblr, an easy - to - use blogging platform that now hosts 17.5 million blogs and receives about 1.5 billion page views per week.

Even so, the Guardian Life Small Business Research Institute found in a new study that, for small businesses, their Websites were more important as sales - generation tools than any social media strategy.

Mehta has been studying family caregiving for more than a decade, and his research suggests companies pursuing this niche will find success with solutions that are comprehensive (with the product's services available at all times, even if it's only needed sporadically), intuitive and designed for the interruptions that proliferate in caregivers» busy lives.

For example, the anxious group read sentences like «safety is not guaranteed in our neighborhoods nor in our own homes,» which was intended to highlight the «lack of control over negative circumstances that may happen in life and an uncertain future,» according to the study.

But for those who have lived, worked and studied in the city, as Dr. Ekzayez has, the destruction the war has left in its wake is devastating.

The results matched these expectations in that the No - Facebook group reported lower life satisfaction at the end of the study than those in the Facebook - as - normal condition (the average life satisfaction for the Facebook - as - normal group had increased during the study whereas the No - Facebook group's had not).

The study is patient - funded; participants, who range in age from late 30s through 80s, must pay $ 8,000 to take part, and live in or travel to Monterey for treatments and follow - up assessments.

As he prodded the prime minister, Nye, best known as the host of the 1990s PBS show «Bill Nye the Science Guy,» and more recently for the Netflix series «Bill Nye Saves the World,» cited a study by a group called The Solutions Project that concluded Canada could live entirely without fossil fuels if it fully embraced renewable energy sources.

One German study, for instance, showed that participants who had listened to music with prosocial lyrics (such as Bruno Mars's «Count on Me» or Aretha Franklin classic «Respect») were equally likely to help students with German and Turkish - sounding last names (there is a large population of Turks living in Germany).

However, white papers and case studies allow you to brag a bit while still offering valuable solutions for real - life problems.

So it's no surprise that the latest study found evidence that abstaining from cigarette smoking for life was linked with living longer.

«This technology will allow us to paint a whole chromosome and look at it live and really follow it... as it goes through developmental transitions, for example in an embryo,» study co-author Rebecca Heald, a molecular and cell biologist at UC Berkeley, said in a statement.