Sentences with phrase «nonconsumers of»

Students, then, may find themselves «consuming» school, but may indeed be nonconsumers of courses that could potentially support their needs, interests, and ambitions.

With millions of nonconsumers of traditional colleges and universities in the United States and worldwide — many of them low - income adults with jobs or families — and a traditional higher education model that, increasingly, is both expensive and under financial strain, there has been no shortage of opportunities for disruptive higher education upstarts powered by online learning to emerge.

They were further categorized as being nonconsumers of fast food (50 percent of the children), low consumers (less than or equal to 30 percent of calories from fast foods; 40 percent of the children), or high consumers (more than30 percent of calories from fast foods; 10 percent of the children).

Not exact matches

Neither did Uber primarily target nonconsumers — people who found the existing alternatives so expensive or inconvenient that they took public transit or drove themselves instead: Uber was launched in San Francisco (a well - served taxi market), and Uber's customers were generally people already in the habit of hiring rides.

Across all children (including nonconsumers), 1.6 % of total energy was contributed by sugar - sweetened soft drinks, 2 % of total energy was contributed by 100 % juice, and 1.4 % of total energy was contributed by cordials and fruit drinks (i.e., 5 % of total energy intake).

In a prospective cohort study with separate analysis for men and women, only women showed an increased risk of incident T2DM over 10 years, with a doubled risk seen in women with daily consumption of soft drinks compared with nonconsumers (129).

In addition, the odds of being obese (BMI ≥ 30 kg / m2) was significantly lower in variety bean consumers and baked bean consumers compared with nonconsumers (odds ratio = 0.78 and 0.77, respectively).

Interestingly, when variety bean consumers were analyzed separately from baked bean consumers, the reduced risk of overweight or obesity was no longer observed in the baked bean consumers compared with nonconsumers.

Compared with bean nonconsumers, both baked bean consumers and variety bean consumers had significantly higher intakes of total legumes, fiber, and minerals and lower intakes of discretionary fat (trend toward significance in variety bean consumers).

Instead, they get traction by initially serving the least demanding customers or by providing access to nonconsumers who are outside of the traditional market altogether.

This is an example of the «nonconsumer» — this student was not already taking Arabic, though she may have been studying another language.

Like the MAT@USC, WGU targets nonconsumers, as 70 percent of its students come from traditionally underserved populations, including individuals from rural communities.

Once companies like Apple got a foothold among these nonconsumers, it was only a matter of time before they improved personal computer technology to serve more and more demanding customers and disrupted the computing industry as we knew it.

Because more demanding customers command higher profits and information on nonconsumers is scarce, however, existing companies and startups alike will be far more likely to target these less demanding customers if the Administration makes that an explicit prerequisite of at least some of the grants and prizes.