Sentences with phrase «more studies pointing»

There comes a time when you start to wonder whether more and more studies pointing to the crisis we face are really going to make a difference.

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But Low points out that, in the type of negotiations she studies at least — ones where failing to reach a consensus means everyone goes home with nothing — more aggressive negotiating meant worse negotiating.

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

She points to a 2011 study by the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, which found that students who started school at 8:30 a.m. got almost an hour more sleep and performed better on tests measuring attention levels than peers who started at 7:30 a.m.

As the study's authors point out, experience succeeding at things is the key to becoming more confident.

And a Labor Department study points out an earnings anomaly: while self - employed men earn as much as or more than similar workers paid a wage or a salary, self - employed women earn substantially less than their wage and salary counterparts.

They point to a 2012 study that found drivers are more willing to pick up hitchhikers holding flowers, and a 2005 study that found «people receiving flowers initiate conversation more frequently or stand closer to others than those who did not receive them.»

And a study from Columbia business school showed that creative directors of fashion companies produced more creative innovations after having spent a significant amount of time working in cultures very different from their own.The time diversifying their experiences expanded their point of view and forced them to problem - solve in different ways.

For industries like healthcare, Larsen points out that various studies have found that the most «satisfied» patients are also those who spent the most on prescription drugs and were 12 percent more likely to be admitted to hospitals.

Mixed findings in this field of research may relate to various operationalisations of long working hours, that is, in some studies the cut - point has been 40 [12] or 45 hours [14] or «more than one hour weekly overtime work» versus less [13] and possibly to the different work cultures in which these studies were carried out.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

Independent research firm Clearview Energy Partners of Washington D.C. noted in a comment late on Wednesday that Judge Boasberg's order pointed to «omissions» in the Corps» analysis, which the Corps may be able to address quickly, rather than larger errors that might require more study.

To press her point, she introduced to the public a «dashboard» of some of the more granular data she uses to study the economy.

[STUDY] Breaking Open the Predictive Black Box: What Data Points Actually Lead to Higher Conversion Rates and More Sales?

Study after study points towards businesses flourishing and becoming more competitive as women, with their diverse points of view, rise to leadership roles within corporatStudy after study points towards businesses flourishing and becoming more competitive as women, with their diverse points of view, rise to leadership roles within corporatstudy points towards businesses flourishing and becoming more competitive as women, with their diverse points of view, rise to leadership roles within corporations.

According to a 2014 study by the Kauffman Foundation and Hebrew University, it turns out that when a female entrepreneur tries to raise money on Kickstarter, she is 7 percentage points more likely to be funded than a man.

But more recent studies — Schaffner points to experiments conducted during Obama's presidency by Nick Valentino and his colleagues at the University of Michigan — found that those penalties were no longer showing up.

The point of looking at many case studies and examples is to find the patterns (some patterns are obvious and others are more subtle).

He pointed to a study showing prescription pain reliever abuse is only slightly more common for the unemployed than for the employed.

In fact, you don't even have to have studied psychology to give the explanation I did, which makes the proposal that it was a god who was nagging at Darwin all the more embarrassing, from my point of view.

The point is that almost all of us, unless we are exceptionally gifted or precocious, require more than bureaucratic exhortation or the abstract knowledge that the study of the humanities is important.

Most agnostics and atheists were in your shoes, have studied the bible and more importantly the history behind it's composition but at some point most realized that the reason for the current focus of worship was no more valid than worshiping any other god.

This last point becomes much more evident when one studies carefully Whitehead's analysis of structured societies with a regnant subsociety of personally ordered occasions.

The Protestant objection is that we can in fact gain a more objective view of the Bible by direct study and can criticize the traditional interpretation from this point of view.

As Melvin Williams points out, a church member must become more of an «observing participant» than a participant observer, because the member is already an insider and accustomed to the values and behavior that he or she must now study objectively.2

This is the point of view of an elitist from the first world with total disregard to the circu.mstances of lots and lots of people in much more difficult circ.umstances in the rest of the world who have neither the leisure time, education, literacy, or resources to «study» any religion, let alone choose yours to study.

In her classic study, Women and Madness, Phyllis Chesler points out that women «go crazy» more easily and oftener than men do.

The speech assessment exercise became one more action in the service of «contemplation»; it pointed to an individual's need for «perfection» or «purification» by getting minimal instruction in «effectiveness» before studying the more complex, theological act of preaching.

Robert H. Pelix has pointed out that the more human personality is studied from the medical viewpoint the more we become aware of the important role of religious faith in maintaining mental and emotional health.

Jesus loved theology and Bible study as much as the next person; but Jesus never loved theology and Bible study more than the next person, for if theology and Bible study does not lead us to love the next person, we have missed the entire point.

The same study showcases «the percentage of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated — describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or «nothing in particular» — has jumped more than six points, from 16.1 to 22.8 percent.»

Similarly, other points from doctrinal statements often represent key teachings from Scripture and can help guide our own study into Scripture, keeping us within the doctrinal boundaries of Christians from the past (See The Shape of Sola Scriptura for more on this idea).

More to the point is the fact that the study of Israel's contemporary cultures provides numerous parallels to the conduct of the Hebrew priest, and several to aspects of prophecy.

In an earlier study of preaching in the Federal Republic of Germany, Osmund Schreuder examines listeners in terms of a six - point continuum from heteronomous, group - oriented, duty - bound people, to those who are more autonomous and cosmopolitan.

I used to be a five point Calvinist, but as I studied Calvinism more and, the five points dropped away one by one, so that now, I am not a Calvinist at all.

Contemporary empirical science takes a different approach and studies phenomena from the point of view of quantity, or more precisely, measure.

As a reference point I was a religious studies minor (and would classify myself as a follower of Christ) and have read Atlas Shrugged several times — and yes I do believe there is more similar than different.

I have heard «we need more money», «we need more staff», «we need more property», «we need more Bible studies» (which as you point out are rarely really Bible studies), «this is what you should believe», and «the Bible says» (which it rarely says what they say it says), and (implied) «it's our way or the highway» (as in, «if you don't entirely agree with us, then get out»).

You seem like someone who is interested in these kind of word studies so maybe you know if this is accurate or not: Someone else pointed out to me that the word for «punishment» in the sheep / goat passage is a Greek word that has more of a correction / discipline / child - training / restorative / purifying focus than «punishment» does in English.

If one wishes a more detailed study of the question, one can read Schiflebeeckx's Jesus, in which it takes him 437 pages to come to this point: «All in all, we are led to conclude that the New Testament, not In spite of the diverse kerygmatic projects but because of them, gives substantial information about Jesus of Nazareth?»

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

Both of them are now believers, which is their choice as adults, but they fully understand my position on religions and we sometimes have some wonderful discussions on the subject, but I usually just get them confused because I know so much more about the Christian faith than they do because I have studied it from a secular point of view.

I believe that the point of view that I have derived from my internalization of Whitehead's philosophy helps me to raise broader, more inclusive, questions, than are asked by those whose points of view are shaped chiefly in schools of business, the study of international relations, or immersion in economic theory.

He points out that the most recent model leans away from the concern for concrete mechanical effects characteristic of the transmission model and leans toward what is loosely termed the ritualistic model more akin to anthropology and other cultural studies.

The more I studied ancient cultures the more I came to understand that ALL religions were born of men at some point in history.

Nowadays the study of perceptual synthesis, of memory, of ideation, of insightful problem - solving and of the complexities of motivation in animals, has reached a point at which the exact opposite of Morgan's strategy often seems more promising.

At least it points towards the need for more discussion, and study of the documents of the Council, especially the four constitutions.

An example of how structural studies of this type might differ from more conventional studies might clarify the discussion at this point.

Second, I'd like to point you to a handful of books and studies that make compelling arguments for incorporating more vegan - centric meals into your life.

While an increasing number of research studies point to the health benefits in controlling and reducing sugar consumption — the FDA now recommends sugar make up no more than ten percent of total calories consumed per day — there is a difference between sugars that occur naturally in foods and those that do not, like those in a piece of dried fruit, for example, versus the high fructose syrup commonly added to soft drinks, sodas, and many processed foods.