Sentences with phrase «per week studying»

«A general rule of thumb is for each credit hour, you should spend about two or three hours per week studying, reviewing and completing work for that course,» suggests Dr. Jeremy Barthels, Department Chair of the Rasmussen College Pharmacy Technician Program.

Pupils on the programme spend an average of eight hours per week studying the language, including four hours of classroom taught lessons.

According to the poll, all parents were asked to state roughly how long their child spent per week studying and doing their homework, to which parents of children with a desk or study space confirmed they spend 10 hours and 12 minutes per week studying at home, on average.

Not exact matches

This CPP commissioned study found that U.S. employees spend 2.8 hours per week dealing with conflict, equating to approximately $ 359 billion in paid hours.

The budget helps full - time students earning more by doubling the in - study income exemption to $ 100 per week from $ 50 per week, and exam fees for Canadians needing to certify their skills in fields such as carpentry and medicine will be tax - deductible.

According to a scientist involved in the study, anyone who took part in more than 28 hours of domestic or caretaking work without pay — 28 hours per week is the Australian average — would not be able to handle more than 39 hours of paid work weekly before experiencing problems associated with poor health.

In 2007, when others his age were studying for midterms and living on dorm food, David Karp was busy launching Tumblr, an easy - to - use blogging platform that now hosts 17.5 million blogs and receives about 1.5 billion page views per week.

The study found that improvements in life expectancy top out at about four hours of running per week, hence the «three years longer» conclusion.

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

Whenever studies come out saying that Millennials would rather work fewer hours per week, would rather make less if it meant more personal time, etc., the overwhelming consensus is that we are lazy.

There have been many studies published over the years that working less results in higher productivity (hint: the optimal number is less than 40 hours per week).

Other research, like the Copenhagen City Heart Study, looked at healthy joggers and nonjoggers for more than a decade and determined that «the most favorable running regimen for reducing cardiovascular mortality» was six miles per week, broken down into three running days per week at a pace of seven miles per hour.

Women who used sprays or other cleaning products at least once per week had a more accelerated decline than women who didn't, the study authors wrote.

The study found that there are 17.9 million «solopreneurs» in the United States, defined as those who regularly put in 15 hours or more of solo work per week.

By studying thousands of people, Rock found that we are truly focused for an average of only six hours per week.

Looking further at those trends, the study reveals that men spent less time on social media than women (5 vs. 7 hours per week), decreasing their hours by 1 from the previous year.

Budweiser was featured prominently in the study, which estimates sales of its beer increase up to 10 six - packs per thousand households the week preceding the big game.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

According to a recent study by the Telework Research Network, nearly 30 million Americans work from home at least one day per week, with the numbers expecting to increase by more than 60 percent in the coming five years.

People Are Facebooking» ing — and - Buying More Than Even, Even if They Don't Realize It Although a Reuters study released last week asserted that 34 % of people believe they are using Facebook less than they were 6 month ago, Nielsen DATA shows that usage is actually up 18 minutes per month.

The ministers in McCann's study averaged only 2.2 hours per week in formal counseling relationships.

The study indicates that over the past decade the number of allegations of sex abuse against churches and church agencies has averaged about seventy per week.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

I now personally talk about Jesus with way more people per week than I did per year when I was doing all that reading and studying and preaching (which doesn't really count).

^ 3: The traditional Foreign Mission model doesn't appear to work here, because it starts with the expectation that one will have one convert after ten to fifteen years, of weekly Bible study with a group of ten to twenty people per week.

Taking into account viewing duplication and correcting for the fact that the diaries may underreport by as much as 15 per cent, the study says that the number of people who have watched at least one - quarter hour of religious television per week is about 13.3 million, or 6.2 per cent of the national television audience.

Taking into account that the diaries may underreport by as much as 15 %, the study estimated that an unduplicated audience of 13.3 million people watched at least 15 minutes of religious TV per week.

The ease with which many disconnect their individual faiths from institutional belonging is revealed in a study of the unchurched in Appalachia: 80 per cent engaged in religious activities every week — activities ranging from prayer to reading, from watching religious television programs to conversations with others or visits to ministers (David H. Smith et al., Participation in Social and Political Activities [Jossey - Bass, 1980], p. 222).

A 2001 double - blind study at the Mayo Clinic randomized 799 discharged coronary surgery patients into a control group and an intercessory prayer group, which received prayers at least once a week from 5 intercessors per patient.

In 1984, an Annenberg - Gallup study revealed that the total number of viewers who watch one hour or more of religious programs per week is about 4.84 million persons, or 2.17 percent of the total population.

This study found also that stations which provided only free air - time for religious programs tended to broadcast more religious programs during the week of the survey than did stations which sold air - time for programs (an average of 6.08 programs per station compared to 4.51 programs per station).

The June 14, 2010 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine contains the results of a Harvard study which shows that five or more servings of white rice per week increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, but two servings of brown rice per week decreases your risk.

One Harvard study demonstrated the flavonoid anthocyanin in strawberries, blueberries and blackberries improves blood flow, therein reducing the amount of plaque build up and actually lowered the risk of a heart attack in women who had eaten three or more servings of berries per week.

The June 14, 2010 issue of the Archives of Internal Medicine contains the results of a Harvard study which shows that five or more servings of white rice per week increases your risk of developing type...

In a 12 - week study on the role of garbanzo beans in reducing blood cholesterol, healthy adults consumed 728g of chickpeas or garbanzo beans per week and showed a significant drop in both LDL cholesterol and blood insulin levels.

These greater amounts are based on studies in which legumes have been consumed at least 4 days per week and in amounts falling into a 1 - 2 cup range per day.

In terms of effect on consumption, Ng et al estimated a reduction in sugar sweetened drink intake of 104 mL (10 %) per person per week compared with our predicted reduction of around 15 %.19 The substitution effects predicted in Ng et al's study are very slight, and as a result the predicted change in energy intake is larger (net decrease of 24 kJ / person / day compared with our estimate of 17 kJ / person / day).

Those who ate nuts at least two times per week were 31 percent less likely to gain weight than were those who never or seldom ate them in a study involving 8865 adults.

«The results of the mouse study suggest that three to four servings of tomato products per week and one to two servings of soy foods daily could protect against prostate cancer,» Zuniga said.

The study found junk food is one of Australia's biggest diet downfalls with nearly 99 per cent of the nation eat some form of junk food throughout the week.

Participants in the studies were age 35 - 54, 75 % women and 25 % men, with annual household income of $ 50,000 or more, who consume beef at least once or twice per week.

A study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health, highlighted that women who ate 16 or more strawberries per week, were 14 % less likely to have elevated levels of C - reactive protein, a blood biomarker that signals the presence of inflammation in the body.

According to the study, an average of four hours per week, the British football lover spent for football news.

The studies showed the best brain function etc in babies from the 1 - 10 units per week group not the 0 units per week group.

If the plan to lose weight while breastfeeding is limited to a weight loss of 1.5 lbs (0.7 kg) per week, the mom and milk should be safe according to studies.

A study (referenced below) showed a 45 % reduction in infant colic symptoms and a 65 % reduction of colic (as defined) in children receiving 5 to 20 ml of a 0.1 % fennel seed oil emulsion up to four times per day for one week.

Spending many hours per week playing sports was found to have a positive effect on explosive strength and gross motor coordination among all age groups, supporting the theory advanced in earlier studies.»

In this particular study, which examined 493 children and their families, night wakings from 3 months of age onward actually rose consistently until age 4, when over half of the children were waking at least once per week and 22 % were waking every night.

In fact, studies show 60 percent of teenagers spend an average of 20 hours per week in front of the TV and the computer.

The results of at least two recent studies, however, suggest that reductions in full - contact practices can be accompished safely without putting players at additional risk, while researchers continue looking for the head trauma «holy grail»: a threshold - whether it is number of hits per week, over the course of the season, of a certain force, or to a certain part of the helmet (e.g. facemask, top of the head) above which players are at an unacceptably high risk of permanent brain injury.