Sentences with phrase «nice study of»

There was a very nice study of training methods by Rooney and Cowan that included independent observations of the dogs.

Not exact matches

«People don't walk around with anti-résumés telling you what they have not studied or experienced (it's the job of their competitors to do that), but it would be nice if they did,» Taleb claims.
«If something seems to be a nice invitation to join a group, I might ignore warning cues,» said Natalie Ebner, a University of Florida psychology professor and one of the phishing study's lead researchers.
Especially if they've spent the last four or however long years studying, it's a nice signifier that they can begin to enjoy their free time, their adulthood, and hopefully the fruits of all that labor.
She talks about the scores of ethnographies she'd read, and how white, liberal social scientists were shocked, shocked to discover that most of the Klan members they studied were pretty nice people.
«This is a nice study that adds to the body of literature trying to figure out exactly the conditions under which bilingualism improves cognitive function,» said Dr. Ellen Bialystok, a professor and bilingualism expert at York University in Toronto, who was not involved in this research.
Nothing OTE'ers wouldn't know given my emphasis on the disproportionate benefits of tight labor markets to less advantaged groups, but the Fed study provides a nice, deep dive into the issue.
«This is not just a nice, smooth process,» said Henry E. Siu, an economics professor at the University of British Columbia, who helped write the recent study about polarization and the business cycle.
But with time, with great practice and study, and a nice chunk of that 10,000 hours, you will become an expert in infographics, giveaways, content development, or whatever efficiency you choose to develop.
There are stories in the Bible that I once thought were really nice (Abraham and Isaac, for instance), until with study and critical reading of them they just became frightening.
THERE ARE LOTS OF THINGS THAT WOULD BE NICE TO KNOW, BUT KNOWING THEM REALLY DOES N'T IMO JUSTIFY THE EXPENSE OF THE STUDY OR PROGRAM.
There are even studies with pre-verbal children (haven't been socialized to religion yet) and other but non-human social animals that show that morality, if you accept that a sense of fairness and preferring «nice» over the opposite are proto - morals, then indeed it is evolution that makes it so.
It's a really nice shot across the bow of those pony tailed fifty - sixty year old lit and wymn's studies profs with a giant bald spot though I really don't think they're «Secesh.»
If «church» or Bible study or whatever gathering of people you like to go to was nice and tidy, then we wouldn't have the opportunity to forgive and be forgiven.
I suppose unless I'm already a believer I will need to pay a believer a nice sum of money in order and take a class in order to understand why a covenant that carries the penalty of death if this god is not worshipped is changed because, help me here (well of course unless god can speak for himself - I guess I have to ask those who have studied his word that he gave only once 2000 years ago to another culture), so after this covenant he came down and became a man in order to give people grace so he doesn't kill them if they don't worship him?
I have seen The Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle a number of times and have always liked it as nice, amusing shorts that, to some extent, provide a study of friendship.
LOL nice way to stir the masses... by the way... The scripture of «Thou shalt have no other gods before me» (meaning Jehovah himself) all will see regardless if they want to read and research any of this... so lets get the crybabies going how they aren't going to study anything, and how that all who do are wrong... Sam
I believe it would be nice if CNN Belief Blog makes a case study out of this, and follows up this article with another one tracing back the origins and authenticity of each religion's scripture.
They did it right, a nice study in the hospital of heart attack patients, those who were and were not prayed for, those who knew they were prayed for, those who did not, those prayed for by family, those who didn't know, and they had strangers pray for them.
«It's nice being able to do that during the week, studying the strengths and weaknesses of the players you are likely to be up against, how they play and how we prepare, what we can work on, on beating them.
The definition of low risk used in the cohort study was based on criteria contained in the NICE Intrapartum Care Guidelines.11 The primary clinical outcome was a composite measure of adverse perinatal outcomes encompassing perinatal mortality and specified neonatal morbidities (box).
In my 40 years of studying the long - term effects of what parents do to help their children turn out well, AP kids generally are more: empathetic and compassionate, relate better to people, are easier to discipline, and are just nicer to be around.
... I was going to leave it at that but just in case you're truly burning to know more about these studies, but bc you've said that you find them difficult to analyze, there's a well - balanced wikipedia article that you may be interested in that is well referenced and super easy to understand, and includes most of the studies that I've accessed (a good comprehensive one is the NICE report — you may wish to take a look at that one if you're feeling like reading more).
NICE (2015) discusses a study by Landon et al (2006) that showed no significant difference in the rates of uterine rupture in VBAC with two or more previous cesarean births compared with a single previous cesarean birth, and states that these findings are consistent with «other observational studies,» (p 7).
Although professional lactation support can improve the duration of overall breast feeding, its effect in improving exclusive breast feeding is unclear.11 18 22 Thus far, studies that report improvement of rates of exclusive breastfeeding have involved mainly community based peer counselling strategies.23 24 25 Even then, a randomised trial in the UK recently cast doubt on the efficacy of this approach.26 There are current recommendations from NICE for the UK - wide implementation of the baby friendly initiative.4 5 6 The 2006 NICE costing report on routine postnatal care of women and their babies estimates that efforts to improve rates of breast feeding will result in substantial cost savings for the NHS.6
The initiative was introduced to the United Kingdom in 1993, but, although improvements have been reported, 3 rates of breast feeding in the UK are still among the lowest in the world.4 5 Recent reports from the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) urge NHS units to become baby friendly to improve rates of breast feeding and save money.4 6 Data from the millennium cohort study, however, show that though participating maternity units in the UK increased rates of initiation of breastfeeding, duration did not increase.5 Other strategies are therefore required to support mothers in the UK to breast feed for the recommended time.
A Dutch study showed that women are positive about birth centers because of the safe and convenient feeling, nice atmosphere and reassurance that medical help is directly available [12].
Just 38 % of the women included in the study had their first antenatal care booking and blood screening appointment within the first trimester, as recommended by Nice guidelines.
The results of this large - scale study are very reassuring as they confirm that current NICE guidance1, which recommends annual mammograms for women over 40 who are at an increased risk of breast cancer, is effective.
«This is an important topic, it's a hotly debated topic... and it would be nice to have some facts in the middle of the debate,» Cuomo said in pitching the study.
In other words, if researchers were to study other groups of folks, say the rich and famous, they might discover that testosterone is connected not to violence, but to who drives the biggest SUV or has the nicest lawn.
It was developed as a testbed to validate NASA's Neutron - star Interior Composition Explorer, or NICER, which primarily will study neutron stars and their rapidly spinning next - of - kin, pulsars, when it launches as an attached space station payload in 2017.
«It's nice to have a study that indicates that [ground - sleeping] is not necessarily related to the adoption of fire,» he says.
Even the nice vanilla wonder trees I had in the lab didn't mask the odor of the rotting meat I used to feed my new - found study subjects, so I moved into a room located near the so - called corpse entry that had a grating instead of windows.
«Our study is a nice example of how the understanding of a disease on the molecular and cellular level results in new therapeutic options.
In other words, if researchers were to study other groups of folks — say, the rich and famous — they might discover that testosterone is connected not to violence but to the person who drives the biggest SUV or has the nicest lawn.
Although NICER is studying all types of neutron stars, the SEXTANT experiment is focused on observations of pulsars.
The study does a «very nice job» of using different approaches to show that climate change is a dominant force, says Thomas Lovejoy, president of the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics, and the Environment in Washington, D.C. «I think the single most important public policy [issue] here is agreeing on what the limit should be on greenhouse gas concentration,» he says.
The study, published in Psychology and Marketing, shows that when fruit is put in a nice bowl next to your car keys — or when a cafeteria puts it next to a well - lit cash register — it becomes more convenient, attractive, and normal to grab a banana than the chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream in the far back of the freezer.
Experts at St George's University of London, in a study funded by the charity Meningitis Research Foundation, identified a range of concerning issues, including a lack of recognition of the symptoms and signs by GPs and in hospital; delays in starting antibiotics; choice of antibiotics not following NICE guidelines; and delays in performing lumbar puncture, which is essential for correct diagnosis of bacterial meningitis.
Professor Gianni Liti, a senior author on the paper from the Institute for Research on Cancer and Ageing, Nice, said: «We were able to study the evolution in time by combining genome sequences of the cell populations and tracking the growth characteristics of the yeast cells.
«It's a nice, robust study, [and] they've found a much clearer and stronger connection with outflows of thunderstorms [than previous studies],» says Kate Venables, an asthma epidemiologist at the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom.
«What's nicest about this study is that it uses data that wasn't originally intended for this purpose, so you know there couldn't be any bias and that makes it quite convincing,» says neuroscientist Kristin Tessmar - Raible of the Max F. Perutz Laboratories in Vienna who was not involved in the new work.
Although the study is «very nice,» the 9/11 effect «is an n of 1; it's intriguing, but you can't draw any conclusions,» says Ira Longini of the University of Washington, Seattle, who co-authored a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences in April that also concluded that travel bans had little value.
«You get a nice array of health benefits by doing five hours of light physical activity per week,» said Cardinal, who is a national expert on the benefits of physical activity and a co-author of the study.
This radical solution to conflict between parental care and the annual molt provides «a nice illustration of the complex lives that migratory songbirds lead,» says Ron Mumme, the study's author and Professor of Biology at Allegheny College in northwestern Pennsylvania.
This is a nice first glimpse of that,» says astronomer Timothy Davis of the University of Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom, who was not involved in the study.
«It's nice to see where humans fall in relation to other species,» says Polly Wiessner, an anthropologist at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City who studies violence and peacemaking in Papua New Guinea.
It sure would be nice if someone would point that out to us when one of those studies makes headlines.
«This is a very nice result» that allows researchers «to get a handle on how AGN are activated,» says Karl Gebhardt, an astronomer at the University of Texas, Austin, who was not involved in the study.
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