Sentences with phrase «major cities we studied»

She doesn't work in one of the four major cities we studied (Fuller works in Guelph, Ont., in human resources), but she did end up choosing to live in a suburb of Toronto — and ironically found the walkable neighbourhood she craved.

Not exact matches

Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

Although gentrification is changing most every major city, «the really spectacular cases seem to be limited to relatively few,» the study notes.

The study found that between 1996 and 2001, the number of new jobs outside the downtown cores of major cities grew at more than four times the rate jobs in city centres did.

This study gathered renters insurance quotes for the previously mentioned sample property from five major carriers across 21 cities in Kansas.

Our comparative study of renters insurance premiums in Utah was done by gathering and analyzing quotes from five major carriers across 32 cities in the state.

The 38 cities in Idaho analyzed in our study were ranked according to quotes gathered from five major carriers for our sample rental property.

For our renters insurance study, we gathered quotes from five major carriers for 41 cities across Arkansas.

Canada's major cities tend to understate revenue and spending, wait too long to release budgets, and confuse taxpayers with obscure figures in their financial reports, finds a new study from the C.D...

Our comparative study of renters insurance premiums in South Dakota was done by gathering and analyzing quotes from three major carriers across 32 cities in the state.

Our study included renters insurance quotes for a sample property from five major carriers, across 71 cities in Wisconsin.

Our comparative study of renters insurance premiums in New Mexico was done by gathering and analyzing quotes from five major carriers across 33 cities in the state.

According to Steven Cohen and Ari Kelman, in major cities there is increasing evidence that young Jews prefer «to do Jewish» — attend Jewish film festivals, concerts, and text studies — with non-Jews.

Some historians have traced the roots of The Controversy to the early 1960s, when conflict over historical «critical study of the Bible produced a major crisis in the SBC leading to the dismissal of Ralph Elliott, a professor of Old Testament at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, Missouri.

Researchers at Baylor University have released the findings of a new study that looked at the number of «emergency shelter beds» for the homeless across 11 major U.S. cities, and...

In New York City, it is generously estimated that one out of ten poor children beginning first grade will graduate from high school prepared for a real college education --» real» meaning not majoring in «black studies» or some other pseudo-discipline, and not dropping out in the first or second year.

In a focus group study conducted in three major U.S. cities, both women and men expressed their disapproval of breastfeeding in public (15).

Commuting NYC residents may be more germophobic than commuters most major U.S. cities, a recent study by the credit card Chase Freedom has found.

This major study of more than 4,500 New Yorkers, funded by the Dyson Foundation and conducted by the Marist College Institute for Public Opinion, takes an in - depth look at the issue of local government consolidation on a statewide level and in nine regions — the Capital Region, the Adirondacks, Western New York, the Finger Lakes, Central New York, the Mid-Hudson Valley, the Lower Hudson Valley, New York City, and Long Island.

During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

A new study tries to answer those questions by looking at the carbon balance in one major American city.

The role of weight in ovarian - cancer risk emerges from an analysis of data on some 68,000 women participating in one of three major ongoing investigations: the New York (City) University Women's Health Study, the Northern Sweden Health and Disease Study in Umea, and the Diet in the Etiology of Breast Cancer Study in Milan, Italy.

A total of 792 Black adolescents, ages 11 to 21, who lived in nine public housing developments in four major U.S. cities (including two in North Philadelphia), participated in the study.

The findings are in contrast to previous studies that suggested that young, city - dwellers would be less susceptible to ill - health in the aftermath of a major disruptive event.

A 2009 study done by European scientists looked at hospital admission data from 12 major cities including Dublin, London, Barcelona, Athens and Rome from at least a three - year period.

While environmental issues are often cited as a major factor in cities and towns in pursuing sustainability, a new study shows that economic concerns can be just as important to local governments in adopting concrete sustainability plans.

These didn't include raw data from either of the two major studies in question — one known as the Harvard Six Cities Study and the other by the American Cancer Society (ACS).

The group's November 2009 study, dubbed the Electrification Roadmap, predicted that as many as 14 million EVs could be on American roads by 2020 if lawmakers create «electrification ecosystems» in several major U.S. cities simultaneously.

Ratti, Szell, and Senseable City researcher Sebastian Grauwin are co-authors of a new paper about the study, «Contraction of online response to major events,» published today in the journal PLoS ONE.

Stronger Storms — Much of the country will experience severe thunderstorms, but major eastern and southeastern cities are likely to see the largest jumps in storm frequency, according to Purdue's Trapp — a finding buttressed by a NASA study earlier this year.

Studying the severe drought in São Paulo, the largest city in South America with a population of about 20 million, a team led by Friederike Otto found that human - induced climate change was not a major influence.

Depression is a common factor in the neglect of children; Chaffin and colleagues found in a study of over 7,000 parents in five major cities that depressed parents are 3 times more likely to neglect their children.

«In this study, biological offspring with two previous generations affected with major depression were at highest risk for major depression,» concluded a team led by Myrna Weissman of Columbia University and the New York State Psychiatric Institute, in New York City.

According to a new study, if oceans continue to change at an insanely fast rate, by 2100, sea levels will rise high enough to cause major problems for coastal cities.

And a 2008 study in the New England Journal of Medicine found that the number of heart attacks in one major city doubled during a big sports event.

The study, released this month by the New York City - based Families and Work Institute, is the first major study of so - called «family child care» in a decade.

This has been a good year for evidence on the effectiveness of charters, highlighted by a major national study from CREDO and a new study in the continuing work from New York City.

In an excerpt from his new memoir This African - American Life, former president of the National Urban League Hugh B. Price describes his elementary and secondary education in Washington, D.C. Price focused on his studies and dreamed of playing major - league baseball — all while he and his schoolmates made history in some of the city's first integrated classrooms after the Supreme Court's landmark 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Chicago TAP was the subject of two major research studies, which indicated that it did not raise student achievement in the city's schools.

These studies examined schools in major urban cities such as New York, Chicago, and Boston (Children's Aid Society, 2006; Whalen, 2007).

Tania completed a double major in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology at Stony Brook University, became a New York City Teaching Fellow, and holds a Master's in Education from The City College of New York.

In the fall of 2012, the Council of the Great City Schools launched a two - part study of the ways principal supervisors are selected, supported, and evaluated in major school districts across the country.

This study by the Council of the Great City Schools explores ways in which principal supervisors are selected, supported and evaluated in major school districts in the U.S..

Though StudyPoint was originally founded as a study skills program for students in the Boston area, it quickly emerged as the academic and test prep tutoring leader in 25 major cities across the country, specializing in ACT and SAT tutoring.

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