Sentences with phrase «numbers than a university»

Then there is the NDP platform, which has more imaginary numbers than a university math class.

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Other schools with better - than - expected numbers include UC - Berkeley's Haas School and the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business.

While the numbers may vary a bit, research from University College, London tells us that our cognitive capacity is limited to handle no more than 150 to 250 relationships.

In fact, the number of Canadians under 25 with university degrees has gone up by more than 50 per cent since 2002.

One example that I read about, Stanford University, a teacher in artificial intelligence offered a class, a couple of hundred kids in the class, he offered it online to 30,000 people, or 20,000 people, and if I remember correctly when he gave the test there were 400 people, or something like that, that did better than the number one kid at Stanford.

Classes currently reach more than 100,000 customers worldwide, and a new rollout of commercial - grade bikes to gyms, universities, hotels and even U.S. firehouses could rapidly grow that number.

Professor Malia Mason of Columbia University Business School says using an exact number rather than a round one «signals that you have more knowledge about the value of the good being negotiated.»

Between the year of its signing and 2014, the U.S. lost more than 14 percent of its small community banks, while the number of large banks rose 6.3 percent, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

The growing tech economy is creating a huge number of well - paying, upwardly mobile jobs — far more than colleges, universities, and for - profit bootcamps can fill — which offer immense financial and professional rewards for those equipped to participate.

The number of anti-Semitic incidents around the world more than doubled from 2008 to 2009, according to a Tel Aviv University study.

The study comes from student surveys, which means the number may actually be larger than 36 percent, but it lines up with the numbers universities have independently reported.

Its universities in the United States have larger enrollments and more academic prestige than ever before, Jesuit high schools are attracting large numbers of excellent students, and some Jesuit publications and parishes are very successful.

There is on one side of this coin the students» tendency to attend lectures which they need for their examinations; on the other side is the fact that there is strong political support for Küng among the students (there was a huge rally and torchlight parade last December on the night following the Roman edict to withdraw his missio canonica), and for many students, both Protestant and Catholic, the issues in the Küng case are larger than the man himself, Küng's status at the university is not dependent on the number of students who come to his lectures (nor on the number of his doctoral students), but the fall semester will be some index of the viability of this new «third track» in theology.

Large numbers fell by the way each year in all universities, but there were not less than 500 students in Wittenberg.

According to Iowa State University, between 1980 and 2002, the number of pig farms in Iowa (the nation's pork capital) dropped from 65,000 to fewer than 10,000.

COO Lynn Sonnenberg says FSI has been successful because it has found a niche «providing personal service» to private, medium - sized colleges rather than massive public universities «where you are just a number.»

An international team of experts led by Newcastle University has shown that organic crops are up to 60 % higher in a number of key antioxidants than conventionally - grown ones.

The number of people who follow gluten - free diets is far larger than the number diagnosed with celiac disease, report researchers at Rutgers University, noting the public perception of the diet's health benefits may also be helping encourage its adoption.

The University of Notre Dame also noted an English study by P. Heron which showed that children who never slept in their parents» bed tended to be less happy, they exhibited a greater number of tantrums, and were more fearful than children who consistently co-slept.

Indeed, the 2014 University of Rochester study [23] suggests that, «rather than monitor total head hits, as [was initially suggested [by Sports Legacy Institute in its much publicized Hit Count program], it may be more effective to monitor those hits that are most likely to produce [white matter] changes, which Bazarian and his colleagues found were when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration of 4500 rads / sec2exceeded 30 - 40 for the season, and when the number of helmet impacts resulting in a peak rotational acceleration.6000 rads / sec2 exceeded 10 - 15 for the season.

Further studies, including one by William Rathje, noted «garbologist» from the University of Arizona, found the correct number to be a little less than 2 percent.

and then a minimum of 3 years more of residency, and usually 4 for OB - gyn... so taking your numbers at face value, OB - gyns have at minimum 4 years more education than your midwife that «goes to university for 4 - 8 years».

Despite these challenges, Teachout maintains that she has more than the requisite number of signatures and that her residency in New York has been uninterrupted since she accepted a tenure - track position at Fordham University Law School in 2009.

During his remarks at the University at Albany, Cuomo — who delivered six addresses across New York between Monday and Wednesday, rather than deliver one address in the state's capital — touched on a number of topics relevant to both the Capital Region and the state at large, ranging from water infrastructure improvement to revitalization of upstate business.

According to him, most of the students at the University, a large number of whom are females, are more concerned about what they wear than their training.

The policy in brief is giving students financial support upfront so that they can pay for their living costs while at university rather than giving them money to pay back a loan they can pay back over a number of years.

Ms Turnely continued: «In the face of the government's campaign to broaden access to universities, elite public schools have actually increased the number of pupils they send to Oxbridge over the last five years, whilst ethnic minority students are twice as likely to attend modern universities than traditional universities.»

Russell D. Renka, a former political science professor at Southeastern Missouri State University, [50] acknowledged that it was more than likely that Johnson's political machine in the state's lower Rio Grande Valley counties, including the notorious Duval County, could have «managed to produce a significant number of forged votes» for Kennedy.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

He noted that in 2018 for instance, the state also topped the JAMB application chart with 92,980 applications and added that out of this number, it would be surprising to see more than five thousand applicants having admissions into the universities because of certain policies and grossly limited slots.

Many of the Police personnel have more than one University degree while a good number have received professional training locally and abroad.

The Vice Chancellor of University of Calabar, Prof Epoke had while justifying the declaration of the election as inconclusive, stated that the number of registered voters in the areas where elections did not hold was bigger than the gap between the leading candidate and the runner - up.

«In 2012 alone over 250 judicial opinions — more than double the number in 2007 — cited defendants arguing in some form or another that their «brains made them do it,»» according to an analysis by Nita Farahany, a law professor and director of Duke University's Initiative for Science and Society.

Scientists from the University of Melbourne in Australia used a computer program to determine the number of men and women authors listed on more than 10 million academic papers in nearly 5,000 academic journals and about 120 arXiv.org subcategories, published from 2002 to 2016.

Student numbers have also swelled, with more than 35 % of school leavers entering university today compared to fewer than 10 % 3 decades ago.

Your TTO can also provide guidance on applying for proof - of - concepts grants offered by state governments, which may be easier to acquire (based on the number of applicants) than typical federal research grants, says Alexandra Hall, intellectual property manager at the University of Denver in Colorado.

A number of giant super-eruptions between 8 and 12 million years ago that could be larger than the colossal eruptions known to have taken place at Yellowstone have been identified in the United States through research led by the University of Leicester.

Now numbering 13, these centres involve more than 50 UK universities.

«The number is stunning... substantially more than anyone imagined,» says Phillip Zamore, a molecular biologist at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester, of the 5300 figure.

Rather than requiring an institution to reduce the number of African American and Latino students admitted, Justices C. Thomas and A. Scalia pointed out that a university could also reduce its academic selectivity to accommodate a race - neutral policy.

Most emergency services prepare for the worst with a limited number of incident plans — sometimes fewer than 10 — that tell them how to react in specific scenarios, says Graham Coates of Durham University, UK.

According to researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) and Boston Medical Center (BMC) while the merits of screening tests and screening intervals warrant further discussion, they firmly believe that increasing the number of women who participate in cancer screenings and ensuring that women are not lost to follow - up with lengthened screening intervals is more important than the choice of test to decrease rates of cervical cancer.

For many years, academicians blamed a nearly empty «pipeline» for the low numbers of women seeking faculty positions in U.S. universities and for the fact that women hold far fewer tenured full professorships than men at U.S. universities, particularly in the sciences.

Postdocs receive what universities term training wages rather than faculty - worthy salaries, and large numbers admitted on H - 1Bs (and other visas) make possible the depressed pay scale.

«The high detection rate found at this bright level suggests that there must be a significant number of systems containing fainter dust, undetectable in our survey, but still much brighter than the Solar System's zodiacal dust,» explains Olivier Absil, co-author of the paper, from the University of Liège.

A disproportionate share of African - American and Hispanic males (as well as females) who received their S&E doctorates between 1995 and 1999 attended minority - serving institutions as undergraduates.1 Twenty - five percent of African Americans and 23 % of Hispanics receiving S&E doctorates received their bachelor's degrees at historically black colleges and universities and Hispanic - serving institutions, respectively.1 Minority - serving institutions overachieve in producing much higher numbers (of either sex) of minority S&E graduate success stories than majority institutions.

One is a 1996 report by the Department of Commerce that projected the nation would need 2 million more information technology workers over the next decade than the number of IT graduates coming out of U.S. universities.

The Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, for example, received more than four times its usual number of applications owing to cuts in NIH spending on breast cancer research, according to Paula Witt - Enderby, a researcher at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh and a member of the charity's grant review panel.

«I don't know any mathematical reason why three - dimensional space is more consistent than any other number,» says Leonard Susskind of Stanford University in California.

The discovery «probably more than doubles the number of immune systems known in bacteria,» says Joseph Bondy - Denomy, a microbiologist at the University of California, San Francisco, who wasn't involved in the study.