Sentences with phrase «on studies like»

I know figures like Naomi Klein, as well as a wide array of Green Parties and advocates of both liberal and more explicitly socialist versions of «the Green New Deal» have been anchoring their arguments for 100 % renewable by 2050 on studies like the Jacobsen et al. one for the last couple of years.

Current nutritional science is based on studies like these and is not based on how one feels about a diet.

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And Ross, who had gone quiet on NAFTA after it looked for a while like he would be running the show, re-emerged last week to promote a new Commerce department study that he said proves American auto workers are the victims of a flawed arrangement that favours Canada and Mexico.

A new study has found that, for many, being «liked» on social media is more important than being liked in reality, which can lead to odd behavior and an inability to enjoy life in the moment.

Tough questions — like whether to leave you comfortable job or start your own business, move across the country in pursuit of opportunity or stick close to home, study economics or art, get down on one knee and propose or give it another year — cause many of us to break out in a cold sweat.

That alone sounds like a pretty good case for letting fly with more humor at work, but the study goes on to identify further reasons to let more humor into the sometimes straight - faced world of business.

Interns at this nerdy Shangri - La earn more than $ 7,000 a month, according to a study by salary - tracking firm Glassdoor — and that's not counting perks like flexible schedules, on - site haircuts and a company retreat known as «HobbitCon.»

She studied English and archaeology at Yale — taking the kind of classes that make you feel like «lying on the ground thinking about things,» she said.

The experience was Bezos» first hands - on brush with retail, according to Wired, and he spent the summer «studying the company's automation improvements,» like beeps and signals for when to «scramble his eggs, flip his burgers, and pull his fries out of the boiling vat.»

One study discovered that people who spent their money on experiences like trips and classes, rather than material items, were happier and more satisfied with how they spent their money.

Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

Like many Japanese bureaucrats on the fast track, Kuroda studied law at Tokyo University but then left Japan to get a master's degree in economics at Oxford, training that set him apart from his peers.

A Pew Research study shows that although users «like» their friends» content and comment on photos relatively frequently, most don't change their own status that often.

In addition to study materials and instructors, edX provides unique learning tools like game - like labs and 3D virtual molecule builders for hands - on learning.

Based on the experiences of the 724 high - achievers who were part of the study (including people like future - President Kennedy and Ben Bradlee, the Watergate - era editor of The Washington Post) there's a consensus.

A 2010 study from Carnegie Mellon found that, when people engaged on Facebook — posting, messaging, Liking, etc. — their feelings of general social capital increased, while loneliness decreased.

Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat can offer benefits, but on the whole, most studied had a net negative impact on the health and well - being of young people according to the researchers.

Like the detrimental physical effects of sitting, the mental health consequences of so much time spent on your butt can not be relieved just by joining a gym, according to the study.

But a new study on patent infringement, one packed with lots of great data on things like the law firms and courts most involved, pulls back the curtain on fantasy and reveals the role of big businesses in the fast - changing patent law landscape.

Resources Inc. has some sample codes of ethics available, and more such resources can be found online, particularly on the pages of university business ethics centers like the Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions.

Being able to study things like black hole mergers through gravity will shed light on some of the «darkest yet most energetic events in our universe,» said Albert Lazzarini, deputy director of the LIGO Laboratory, in an American Physical Society press release.

And while something like your office desk may seem insignificant, studies show that it has a clear and direct impact on productivity.

His company's study shows that building authority on Twitter is crucial to generating more engagement and the use of multimedia like images and video can drive that engagement.

Not only does an airline with a monopoly on a route experience greater delays, but it will also pad its schedule to make customers feel like they arrived promptly even if they could have arrived sooner, according to a Kellogg School of Management study.

The team behind that study quizzed thousands of people aged 10 - 90 on their ability to do things like remember lists of words, recognize faces, learn names, and do math.

The lengthy research cited on HVMN's website and others are primarily animal studies, rather than human studies, and primarily test one of two compounds in combination, rather than the half - dozen contained in a product like SPRINT.

The Consumer Reports study highlights the growing popularity of web - connected televisions that make it easy for people to watch streaming video services like Netflix on their TVs.

But Andrei Sulzenko, a fellow at University of Calgary's School of Public Policy, who has worked on and studied expert - advice panels like the Jenkins committee, says any proposal that demands a «machinery of government» change is bound to meet stiff resistance.

That view is likely biased — studies have shown interviewers tend to prefer candidates similar to them, judge candidates on fewer criteria than they think they're judging them on, and tend to let biases about matters like race and gender get in the way.

The Journal of the American Medical Association just released a study that found a county where a person resides can make as much an impact on their heath as other factors, like ethnicity and genetics.

The CRTC says that Canada's a world leader in access to the Internet, but Harvard's Berkman Centre for Internet and Society just updated its study on next generation connectivity — very high - speed Internet, 3G networks and the like.

That's because, as a new study notes, meeting patients» basic social needs — including for heating, electricity, food access, and medicines — can actually have a significant effect on basic health indicators like blood pressure and cholesterol levels.

According to the most thorough study on goal setting to date, by psychologists Edwin Locke and Gary Latham, very specific and challenging goals such as «Create three logo variations by the end of the day» push people to work harder than nonspecific goals like «Work on logo variations.»

In a study of diets like Weight Watchers and Atkins that allowed for such flexibility, doctors and dietitians at Tufts University looked at 160 overweight people ages 22 to 72 on the diets over a one - year period.

In the study, which examined over 12,000 customers of 212 clothes stores over 12 months, moving up one point on a 7 - point identification scale increased spending by $ 124.39, even when other factors like satisfaction, income and prior spending were kept the same

According to one classic study on the subject, creative geniuses like poets, painters, and famous inventors, tend to be open - minded, with a high tolerance for chaos, disorder, and contradiction.

A first - party study like this obviously has to be taken with a few grains of salt, but the Nest does make it easier to keep your thermostat at less wasteful temperatures when you're away (whether it's automatically or manually from your smartphone), and it gives you useful info on how much energy you're regularly chewing up.

A study by Morgan Stanley highlighted that millennials are instead choosing to spend money on expenses like rent, cellphones, and services.

Studies show that Americans are increasingly choosing to spend money on technology and experiences like vacations over apparel.

Citing studies on disruptive innovation by the likes of 20th - century economist Joseph Shumpeter, he makes an analogy with the energy industry.

The study, which surveyed senior individuals at 10 major London - based national and international executive search firms, found that recruiters relied on «more observable factors» like the quality of their references, the progression of their career path and their personality.

The funding for the study is a $ 600,000 grant by the U.S. Department of Justice, which has spent over $ 23 million on tools like predictive crime mapping since 2003.

The study, like most research done on our galaxy and space in general, uses models born from calculations.

Wong and Penner based their research on a long - running national study in which interviewers asked more than 14,000 people about things like income, job, and education.

• A Stanford study found that 65 % of respondents in the US «expressed interest» in a zero - rating or data - exemption service (though there wasn't as much of a consensus on which apps they'd like to be zero - rated).

In one study, «the number of books «liked» on Facebook profiles was negatively correlated with [psychopathy]-- a finding the authors suggested might indicate that an interest in books contradicts psychopathic tendencies such as thrill seeking, impulsivity, and affect deficiencies,» reports Psychology Today.

The key that this study highlights is that it is important not to fall back on refined foods like white bread and pasta.

The study of 1,787 US adults ages 19 through 32 found that participants who visited social media services more than two hours a day had twice the odds for «social isolation» compared to their peers who spent less than half an hour on services like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Snapchat.

About 60 percent of millennials report feeling «inadequate» about their own life because of something they saw on social media, like flashy clothing or vacations, the study notes.

According to a 2015 study that examined thousands of Facebook users, what you do on the social network — specifically what you choose to «like» — might paint a better picture of you than even your friends can.