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EN MAS» includes scholarly essays by leading art historians Shannon Jackson and Kobena Mercer along with the two curators Claire Tancons and Krista Thompson, which offer formal and theoretical analyses of the artists» projects as well as explorations of Caribbean aesthetic practices and their impact on art and performance studies more broadly.

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Studies have shown that more than 65 % of all competencies deemed essential for high performance in the workplace are related to emotional intelligence.

In his studies of truly great performers, K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist and author of several landmark studies on elite performance... found that they practiced and rested a lot more than their good but not elite peers.

On top of the problem of unfair pay for women, a Harvard study revealed that, when it comes to annual performance reviews, women were 1.4 times more likely to receive critical subjective feedback, not positive feedback or critical objective feedback, and that traits that were considered negative in women were often interpreted as positive in men.

When it came time to reward top executives last year, more leading companies handed out performance - based awards instead of time - vesting stock options, according to a new study from human resources consulting firm Mercer.

Rosekind, the scientist who studied the benefits of naps and developed a «fatigue countermeasures» program for NASA, put it in terms business people can understand: «Which person do you want on the job, the one with 34 % better performance [after a nap] and 100 % more alert — or the other guy?»

A study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that, when asked to rate junior scientists based on scholarly accomplishments and job interview performance, academics in the traditionally male - dominated STEM fields rated female candidates as being more hireable than their equally qualified male applicants.

Studies show that CEOs who overestimate their abilities tend to overpay for acquisitions, take undue risks, introduce more unsuccessful new products, and have more volatile firm performance.

There have been a variety of studies showing that women in leadership roles equates to better company performance, including a report from Credit Suisse that says that companies with more than one woman on their boards have outperformed those with no women on their boards in the stock market.

Author and researcher Morten Hansen conducted a five - year study of more than 5,000 managers and employees to determine exactly how top workers maximize both their time and performance.

Specifically, the study found that caffeine was more effective for delayed recall performance, working memory and the speed of responding.

Using Project Oxygen, an internal study that analyzed more than 10,000 manager impressions including performance reviews, surveys, and nominations for top - manager awards and recognition, Google identified eight habits of highly effective managers.

He's not alone in this approach: Studies show stock - or share - ownership plans make employees act more like owners, which tends to improve performance and ultimately leads to a more satisfying workplace.

(We don't know whether or not Korean students, for example, are commensurately more active, but again the British study shows we can raise academic performance with more exercise so it's a valid way forward.)

In a study funded by NASA, David Dinges, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, and a team of researchers found that letting astronauts sleep for as little as fifteen minutes markedly improved their cognitive performance, even when the nap didn't lead to an increase in alertness or the ability to pay more attention to a boring task.

Unlike a similar study last year that found that women chiefs make more than men, this one had a far larger sample and controlled for «chief executives» tenure, characteristics of the firms (size, performance and risk), and the size and independence of the boards.»

Studies show employees of businesses with best - of - class human resource services are more engaged, contributing to improved business performance.

A new study suggests that a majority of iPhone X owners are more than happy with the device's performance.

In addition, our and other studies find that employee owners generally have lower turnover and absenteeism, more company pride and loyalty and greater willingness to work hard, and make more suggestions to improve performance.28

A new meta - analysis of studies with 102 samples covering 56,984 firms finds a small but significant positive relationship on average between employee stock ownership and firm performance.25 The positive relationship holds across firm size and has increased over time, possibly because firms are learning to implement employee stock ownership more effectively.

Digging further into the outperformance of HML SMALL during this period, the study's authors note that the HML alpha can be tied more to horrible performance by the low - value small cap stocks for the period instead of great performance by the high - value stocks.

The compensation study also found that as index fund ownership of a company rose, the pay of top executives was more closely tied to the performance of the industry than that of their own company.

The study thus challenges the conventional wisdom that a more demanding school will improve the performance of students who are already performing well, but only at the cost of forcing out poor performers.

A performance studies approach can complement the effort in homiletics to reappropriate Aristotilean categories by making the sermon preparation process more explicit.

A recent study suggests that when there are more girls in the classroom, the performance of boys improves.

As the foodservice equipment and supplies industry's original and most comprehensive look at the dealer community's performance, this study does more than chronicle sales growth.

In fact, more and more companies and financial institutions are studying their wider impacts in addition to their financial performance.

On average 10 of American women are iron deficient with one recent study suggested that more than half (56 %) of recreational joggers and competitive runners suffer from an iron deficiency that may negatively affect performance.

More recently, a study reported in the American Journal of Sports Medicine suggests that the ACL injury rate for female athletes, particularly non-contact ACL injuries, can be significantly reduced if the athlete follows a specific exercise program called the Prevent Injury and Enhance Performance (PEP) program before practices and games.

«Studies show better cognitive performance by kids who eat breakfasts with more protein or healthier cereals like oatmeal.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

The study also recognized, however, that the fact that those who specialize early may experience a more rapid improvement in performance provides some support for those who argue in favor of early specialization, at least in the case of sports, such as figure skating and gymnastics, in which athletic careers are shorter and attaining peak performance at a younger age may be advantageous.

According to the study, more parental monitoring led to less total screen time for kids and reduced exposure to media violence, which in turn led to benefits such as improved sleep, lower BMI, better school performance, improved social behavior, and reduced aggression.

In a fascinating study of kindergarteners, Melissa Kamins and Carol Dweck have shown that a common tactic of authoritarian caregiving — shaming a child for poor performance — can make kids perform more poorly on problem - solving tasks (Kamins and Dweck 1999).

National studies show that students who eat school breakfast are more likely to: reach higher levels of math achievement; score higher on tests; have better concentration, memory and alertness, improved attendance, behavior, and academic performance; and maintain a healthy weight

By Wednesday morning, environmentalists were calling for more study on fracking, and Green Party candidate Howie Hawkins, fresh off a record performance for his party, all but dared the governor to lift the moratorium.

However, the team plan to carry out more studies to see if these brain changes result in enhanced cognitive performance in elderly yoginis.

Several studies have linked voluntary and excessive online use to depression, poor school performance, increased irritability and more impulsiveness to go online (confounding addicts» efforts, if they want to at all, to stop pouring excessive time into online games).

The study examined test results for more than 33,000 students in grades 4 through 12 and found that student performance varied across testing formats by grade band, students» primary language, and the specific features of the computer - based system used.

Song studies high performance computing at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, with the goal of making computers smaller, faster and more energy efficient.

Future studies will examine in more detail the nature of these impairments and how they might affect clinical symptoms and school performance.

Further evidence for this conclusion came from a third study, which showed that forcing fixed theorists to really look at the difficult as well as the easy parts of an intellectual task shook their confidence, inspiring more accurate impressions of their performance.

In the first of three studies for their recent paper, Ehrlinger and her colleagues found that students who hold a fixed mindset about intelligence were more overconfident about their performance on a multiple - choice test than those with a growth mindset.

«Numerous studies have found speaking more than one language can enhance academic performance, so we would encourage parents to continue speaking their first language with their children.

The study details a promising approach for pinpointing more athletes who play «impaired» on the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Testing, or ImPACT, a computerized tool consisting of eight subtests that gauge neurocognitive performance.

Xiangjia Li, a PhD student on Chen's team and co-first author of the study, says one example of high - performance microdroplet manipulation could lead to more efficient blood analyses for patients.

But what [was] really interesting in this study of the sled dogs, of Larry the sled dog in particular, was the discovery that some of these high performance dogs appear to have the ability to draw fat directly out of their and blood right into their muscle cells and immediately burn it that way, which is a more efficient way than normally what you'd see.

In one hopeful finding, a 2012 meta - analysis found that in 13 studies in which participants had laid off weed for 25 days or more, their performance on cognitive tests did not differ significantly from that of nonusers.

«Studying the formation and evolution of jets in metals and, more generally, how materials at extreme conditions respond using X-ray phase contrast imaging is relevant to such things as meteorite impacts, the performance of explosives and detonators, understanding crack nucleation and propagation in materials, and the development of new materials with tailored properties whose applications include automotive and airplane components, lighter and more impact - resistant armor, and debris shields in space, to name a few.»

An earlier study by the same researchers found that Anna's hummingbirds (Calypte anna) accelerated more slowly and had other performance falloffs at altitudes higher than the birds» home range.