Sentences with phrase «people studying at»

Planning a career in the field of business is a common goal for many people studying at college and university.

After taking part in a seven - a-side tournament at the opening ceremony, Beardsley said: «It is excellent to see this new football facility become available to people studying at Walker Technology College and also those outside the college.

Chinese real estate mogul Zhang Xin speaks about her organization SOHO China's scholarships to help young people study at leading universities across the globe.

So, what kind of people study at HGSE?

Since the law is a subject that most people study at postgraduate level, one of the questions frequently asked by prospective undergraduate students is, «what degree should I choose?».

Since the law is a subject that most people study at postgraduate level, one of the questions frequently asked by...

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In another, the researchers asked study participants to quickly assess how much a person weighed by looking at faces on a computer screen.

«If you bring in more external people in the firm and board, it'll be positive for the company,» said Einar Lier Madsen, the study's author and a researcher at the Nordland Research Institute in Norway.

To find out the pair designed a series of studies that both asked research participants to identify what sort of experiences resulted in what levels of happiness and also looked at Facebook posts, examining what activities people post at what age and how they report those activities affecting their mood.

Researchers at the University of Basel in Switzerland recently published findings from a series of studies in which 480 people were shown portraits of faces manipulated to appear warm or cold and competent or incompetent.

The associate professor of human resources and management at McMaster University's DeGroote School of Business studies the demands that high - pressure workplaces make on people's time, and how they respond.

In fact, according to that study, a person who is 6 feet tall would be predicted to earn nearly $ 166,000 more over the course of a 30 - year career than someone who clocks in at 5 feet 5 inches.

I ran a study at one point where I asked young people, a whole lot of teenagers, a very simple question.

A new study found that young people are reporting loneliness in increasing numbers and at a rate outpacing that of their elderly counterparts, USA Today reports.

«We wanted to create a space where people were happy coming in to work,» says Longin, who previously studied psychology and color theory at the Art Institute of Chicago.

In fact, psychological studies have shown that people who attempt to engage in numerous tasks at once can lead to lost productivity and time.

This means that recruiters will be searching for the top students at elite colleges, even if that person studied art history or psychology.

There's even a small study coauthored by Holmes and published in an online journal that compares Theranos test results with traditional tests favorably, though it looks only at results for one characteristic of blood among six people.

«What we found is that people who spent money to buy time reported being almost one full point higher on our 10 - point [happiness] ladder, compared to people who did not use money to buy time,» wrote Elizabeth Dunn, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

The first analysis looked at 148 studies involving more than 300,000 people and found that people with social connections had a 50 % lower risk of dying early compared to people who did not have strong social circles.

Studies show that people who are able to pursue their passions at work experience flow, a euphoric state of mind that is five times more productive than the norm.

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.

Pollution kills at least 9 million people every year and «threatens the continuing survival of human societies,» according to a new study.

One of the core questions the study looked at was: «If a person shares a link from Breitbart, is he or she more likely also to share a link from Fox News or from The New York Times?»

A 2012 study from the Centre for Retirement Research at Boston College in the United States found that the greater number of older persons employed led to better outcomes for the young, including reduced unemployment and a higher wage.

«Buying a neighborhood is probably one of the most important things you can do for your kid,» explains Ann Owens, a sociologist at the University of Southern California, who studied how wealthy people use their means to improve their kids» lives effectively.

For example, one study found that people who ate fiber - rich oatmeal for breakfast felt fuller and ate less at lunch than those who consumed cornflakes for breakfast (4).

Because observational studies look at groups of people and their behavior over time, it's hard to say for sure that other conflicting factors aren't influencing the outcomes they examine.

Weiss used the money to invest in technology and data analytics that would study Instagram and other social platforms, measuring not just how well certain Glossier posts performed but how well each product performed: Were people sharing them as product shots, or selfies, or not at all?

But the photos below, produced using color transparencies taken by various photographers between 1939 and 1941 and compiled by the Library of Congress, show the period and the people who endured it in vivid color — offering a new way to look at one of America's most studied historical eras.

According to a study by Michael Norton of Harvard Business School and two colleagues from the University of British Columbia, the amount of money people earn has less influence on their happiness than how they spend it, and those who spend at least some of their money on others are happier than those who do not.

Some retrospective studies and preclinical work have indicated that it might also lower a person's risk of cancer, though at least one clinical trial wasn't able to show that it had any protective effect on esophageal cancer.

In one study, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital looked at the brain scans of 16 people before and after they participated in an eight - week course in mindfulness meditation.

A review of 24 studies found that being distracted during a meal led people to consume more calories at that meal.

«People who wear that kind of clothing feel more powerful,» Michael L. Slepian, co-author of the study and an adjunct assistant professor at Columbia Business School, told the WSJ.

According to studies conducted by Jayne Gackenbach, a psychologist at Grant MacEwan University, «people who frequently played video games were more likely to report lucid dreams, observer dreams where they viewed themselves from outside their bodies, and dream control that allowed people to actively influence or change their dream worlds — qualities suggestive of watching or controlling the action of a video - game character.»

«We wanted to create a situation where people could choose to lie or not lie, and it would happen naturally,» says the study's lead author, Lyn M. Van Swol, a professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.

Studies conducted at Harvard University showed that people who simply imagined practicing the piano every day physically strengthened the muscles in their fingers.

Researcher Richard Wiseman, a professor at the University of Hertfordshire, has studied and written extensively about good fortune and says it's not chance at all, but a certain way of living that makes some people more serendipitous than others.

Young people don't appear to be as saddled by this issue, though — a 2011 study found that humans are best at learning new names in our early 20s.

In fact, 40 % of retirees underestimate life expectancy of people their age by at least five years, according to a study by the Society of Actuaries.

A study from researchers at McMaster University found that people over 40 who regularly did cardio tended to have healthier skin than their sedentary peers.

Jane Goodall, a bona fide interesting person, left her home in England and moved to Tanzania at age 26 to begin studying chimpanzees.

For a small study published in March in the journal Aging Cell, researchers looked at 125 amateur cyclists aged 55 to 79, comparing them with 75 people of a similar age who rarely or never exercised.

Their «From Mad Men to Sad Men» study noted the following — «Think about how many people on the agency team, at all levels, communicate with the client.

Researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, the University of California, San Diego and Disney Research recently conducted a study and found that when a person's smartphone is nearby — on the table or even in the same room — that person's performance on a cognitive task (requiring problem - solving and reasoning) will likely suffer.

And in fact, a 2005 study found that one in three American entrepreneurs identifies as dyslexic, while others have shown that people with this disability tend to excel at detecting patterns and grasping the bigger picture.

«Studies show that the slower the tempo, the slower people walk through the store, so the more they put in their baskets and the more they end up buying,» Deborah MacInnis, professor of business administration and marketing at the USC Marshall School of Business, told the LA Times.

But, since that study looked only at people who'd already made it into ripe old age, it's tough to say whether or not the study participants developed these characteristics as a result of old age or if the traits helped them to live as long as they had.

A recent study by two assistant professors at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management found that while consumers» overall behaviour is shifting toward greater social responsibility, the rise in ethical, or green consumption hasn't made people more altruistic.