Sentences with phrase «of studies claiming»

During the debate over the Keystone project, the oil industry rolled out a series of studies claiming that pipeline construction would create 20,000 temporary jobs in the United States and that lower oil prices (they didn't say exactly how much lower) resulting from the new crude supplies would create as many as 250,000 more jobs across the country over the long term.

The plaintiffs rely on a handful of studies claiming to prove the high cost of accountability, but presumably those studies could be refuted by other studies that would be at least equally convincing.

It's a complex issue, because we've all heard of studies claiming that whole grains are healthy.

It is unclear whether click fraud is as big an issue as most of these studies claim, but the perception of fraudulent clicks being a huge problem keeps haunting advertisers and search engines alike.

In keeping with this view, Mark Loewen, a co-author of the study claimed that, «The amazing horns of Nasutoceratops were most likely used as visual signals of dominance and, when that wasn't enough, as weapons for combatting rivals.»

These kind of studies claim to want to protect the interests of producers.

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.

His LinkedIn page claims he studied at the University of Oxford in the U.K but does not list which college there.

Another reason why fears of dispute may be unfounded is the fact that China lacks any semblance of geographical claim in the Arctic, unlike in the South China Sea, said Andrew Holland, director of studies and senior fellow for energy and climate at non-partisan research organization American Security Project.

The shocking part is that we claim that women aren't studying STEM subjects at school and aren't entering tech careers in the U.S. because of discrimination and oppression, but in countries where women don't have a lot of rights (and granted, those rights vary drastically even within Middle Eastern countries), they manage to succeed in STEM in school.

Many people believe that eating early in the morning will jumpstart your metabolism or that eating late at night will widen your waist because it's already asleep, but this study from the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition concluded that's a false claim.

Armed with reams of pseudo-scientific studies, they claimed that workers of all sorts were happier and more productive when subjected to 15 - minute sets of benign music that built gradually in tempo and intensity.

A study of insurance claims revealed that Alzheimer's alone is not all that expensive, because there are few medications or tests.

The MIT - educated scientist recently told Patch he would bet a $ 10 million building he owns that the agritech giant Monsanto can't disprove his claim that there are no safety assessment standards for genetically modified organisms (GMOs), citing a recent study of his that suggests GMO soybeans may contain harmful levels of a chemical called formaldehyde.

In fact, one study published in The BMJ reported that only 46 percent of Oz's claims were supported by science.

The best cure for social anxiety, a recent study claims, is simply random acts of kindness.

That dominance, claims Kay, who founded the Institute for Fiscal Studies, was almost incidental, a result of the company's passionate devotion to airplanes.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

«It's a farce to claim to be offering «free college» to employees when what's being offered is simply the chance to pursue a degree at one specific university, only online, only if you enroll full time and work at least 20 hours a week,» Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, told Think Progress.

«Everyone is creative,» commented Girija Kaimal, one of the researchers involved in the study, offering scientific backing to Gilbert's claims.

Yet another study is forthcoming from the International Performance Assessment Centre for the Storage of CO2, but since this agency is funded by the Saskatchewan government and Royal Dutch Shell, a dismissal of the Kerrs» claim would not likely sway many minds.

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LENSAR claims that its VR technology helps surgeons study 3D images of the human eye, which can help doctors better remove cataracts.

In fact, just 9 percent of students studying business claim they received such support, which is half the rate of kids who took up the arts and humanities.

Similarly, the National Federation of Independent Business, in a study released in December, claims a proposed wage increase in New York to $ 8.50 from $ 7.25 with an index to inflation would cost the state 22,000 jobs and $ 2.5 billion in revenue.

The professors cite a study of 10,000 World Bank employees, which found that the business travelers on the staff — roughly 40 percent of the group — were three times as likely to file psychological insurance claims.

The green coffee bean manufacturer, Applied Food Sciences Inc., agreed to pay a $ 3.5 million settlement after the Federal Trade Commission charged the company with using the results of the flawed study to make baseless claims, the agency announced in September.

While the American Medical Association estimated that 7.1 percent of paid claims in 2013 contained an error, a 2014 NerdWallet study found mistakes in 49 percent of Medicare claims.

Manufacturers of e-cigarettes claim they are a safe alternative to tobacco, but studies on the effects of using e-cigarettes have been inconclusive at best.

But the author of that study, David Becker, has repeatedly pushed back against Trump's claims that there was widespread voter fraud in the 2016 election.

Other measures include: • remove rule limiting Child Tax Credit (CTC) to one claimant per household (to allow two or more families sharing a house to claim the CTC); • repeal $ 10,000 cap on medical expense tax credit claims made on medical costs incurred for an eligible dependent; • easier access to funds in Registered Disability Savings Plans for beneficiaries with shortened life spans; • improved Employment Insurance benefits to parents of gravely ill, murdered, or missing children; and • enhanced ability to make transfers between individual RESPs, and better access to RESP funds for post-secondary students studying outside Canada.

By contrast, two studies of EnCana spinoff Cenovus Energy's carbon capture and storage project in Weyburn, Sask., debunked claims by the owners of a nearby farm that carbon dioxide pumped into depleted oil reservoirs was escaping.

To support her claims, she mentioned the results from a study from October to December of 2014 that showed 44 percent of early adopters said an interesting bread or bun would get them to try a new item.

The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) is even more hostile; it studied hundreds of health claims involving probiotics and rejected every one without exception.

That's because nearly three - quarters of all sunscreens on the market don't work as well as they claim to, or they contain potentially harmful ingredients, according to a recent study from the nonprofit Environmental Working Group (EWG).

A letter went out to 220,000 dentists and hygienists retracting a key advertising claim that Sonicare reduces the worst kind of bacteria, a finding that was based on a scientific study that turned out to be wrong, Giuliani says.

She points out the discrepancies between the amount of time people claim to spend on work during a week, for example, and the number of hours that studies using time diaries actually show we spend making productive contributions to our jobs.

«China's goal has always been, and remains, to avoid any clarification of its claims,» said Greg Poling, director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

It's not hard to see why we have a plethora of one - size - fits - all business advice dispensed by management gurus and bestselling authors, either extracting so - called universal principles from a few case studies, or claiming to dissect a new trend that winning companies are already exploiting.

Too often we'll uncritically embrace a study that promises a great headline, rather than looking hard at the claims of the tall foreheads who authored it.

Between 2010 and 2012, taxpayers in the Peach State claimed about 36 % of all federal tax deductions for easements — despite having only 2.5 % of the nation's land under easement, according to a May 2017 report that Looney, the former Treasury official, published for the Brookings Institution, where he's now a senior fellow in economic studies.

After filing just one claim, car insurance premiums increase by an average of 41.81 %, according to an annual study -LSB-...]

It is worth noting by the way that a recent widely - discussed study by Harry Wu of the Conference Board claims the China's average GDP growth from 1978 to the present was not 9.8 % but rather 7.2 %.

Their studies were the basis of much of the austerity movement in Europe and the US, based on their claim that debt - to - GDP ratios over 90 % are linked to much slower economic growth.

3 CATA notes that the Jenkins Expert Panel's EKOS study of SR&ED users emphasizes experiences associated with the 2007 and 2008 claims.

If Gender Mattered: A Case Study of Inuit Women, Land Claims and the Voisey's Bay Nickel Project: http://publications.gc.ca/collections/Collection/SW21-39-1999E.pdf

SARAH: The Pew Foundation did a study on the flood program and they looked at these houses that have had multiple floods, and these are about 1 percent of houses that have flood insurance, but they make up 10 percent of claims.

If Gender Mattered: A Case Study of Inuit Women, Land Claims and the Voisey's Bay Nickel Project:

We study whether the number of identity claims and their content influence decisions of lenders and whether they predict longer - term performance of funded loans.

«A fake story claiming Pope Francis — actually a refugee advocate — endorsed Mr. Trump was shared almost a million times, likely visible to tens of millions,» Zeynep Tufekci, an associate professor at the University of North Carolina who studies the social impact of technology, said of a recent post on Facebook.