Sentences with phrase «number of peers because»

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Tepid responses from many of Blankfein's peers made his comments all the more potent, especially because Goldman has gotten attention for the number of its alumni who have joined Trump's administration.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

A number of years ago another prof at Iowa State was singled out and his peers and got him fired because he wanted an open discussion about evolutionary theory.

The problem is not so much that a number of Conservatives voted against the government - in fact, rebel Tory votes tipped the balance only once, in the unusual circumstances of the multiple rebellion on the European Economic Area amendment - or even that rather more Conservative peers didn't vote at all, because the government whips managed to bring in more than usual.

Although the number of cases is still very small, and most have yet to be published in peer - reviewed journals, the researchers insist their preliminary findings are cause for concern because this type of brain pathology is virtually unheard of in people this young.

Critics of international comparisons, including many practitioners and a number of researchers, argue that it is impossible to accurately compare US students» performance against that of their international peers because the students selected by their respective countries vary widely in their demographic makeup (not all countries include language learners and students with disabilities in their samples) and the sample size of students from various socioeconomic groups can vary widely.

Because of their increased dropout rate, as well as societal stigma surrounding them and a number of other factors, teenage parents and their children are at risk of experiencing worse psychosocial and socioeconomic outcomes than their peers (Kiselica & Pfaller, 1993; Coren et al., 2003).

It's made on a very thick burlap fabric, and this is because, at the time, right after World War II, artists couldn't actually get all of the materials that they needed, so Herrera and a number of her peers would scavenge for materials.

He points out that similar to Art Papers, another Atlanta - based arts institution that will announce new editorial leadership next week, «is probably a closer peer to the Contemporary than almost any number of the other actual presenters in town, because the mission is roughly the same.»

I see problems with: * you have to be an active promoter of yourself to get articles read * the review process (mainly there is no ability to assess why rejected articles are rejected and the time wasting because of pedantic comments) * project - based funding and treating research like consulting (if I can tell you how much a project will cost, then by definition it is not research) * since academia seems to be drifting towards consulting, researchers start to become underpaid compared to peers in consulting * the focus on the number of publications weighted by the rank of the journal * status is based on if you publish in a high - rank journal, «selected» to be a lead author, and so on, and not whether you do good and creative research, good collaborator, good colleague to peers, etc..

The peer reviwed literature system is seriously flawed in a number of ways, and the defense of a thesis because it's «passed peer review» is an often meaningless and invalid argument.

That paper, which was not peer - reviewed, argued that because polar bear numbers have remained relatively stable despite faster - than - expected sea ice loss over the past decade, scientists» predictions of future population declines are flawed.

Second, because of resulting problems with affect, socialization, and self - esteem they may be more likely to fall prey to both peer pressure and the seductive marketing practices of the tobacco industry, which spent $ 5.1 billion in tobacco promotion and advertising in 1996.10 Third, many states have passed legislation that fines or criminalizes children for the purchase, possession, or use of tobacco.54 The number of states with such legislation increased from 32 in 1995 to 41 in 1998; the current maximum state penalty for minors is a fine of up to $ 1000, and it is possible for fines to minors to exceed the fines to retailers who sell tobacco to them (unpublished data, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Office on Smoking and Health, State Tobacco Activities Tracking and Evaluation System [STATE], 1998).

However, because the quality of unpublished studies is questioned because they have not gone through peer review, we noted and analyzed the effects of publication status (i.e., published or not) and four other quality indicators: reliability of questionnaires (0.39 — 0.96), sample size (35 — 6,751), number of informants (1 — 5), and impact factor of the publication (0.157 — 10.519).