Sentences with phrase «rates of its participants»

«One great strength of the Rush Alzheimer's Disease Center is its amazing ability to follow up with participants, and its high retention rates of participants,» Halloway says.

These interviews provided data to establish an overall rating of participants» security of attachment to their partner.

You used a single study in your brief discussion — did the study factor in basal metabolic rate of the participants and put them on a diet in order ensure adequate caloric excess to induce growth?

Moreover, studies have shown its success in boosting graduation rates of its participants, and contrary to the fiction of its critics, it doesn't drain resources from public education.

In my experience, a LibraryThing giveaway attracts a much lower rate of participants than a Goodreads Giveaway.

In fact, data quality from online questionnaires may be superior due to lower rates of participant non-response.

The next ANOVA looked at independent coders» ratings of participants» expressed negative affect; for statistics see Table 2.

Measures utilized include the rates of participants who attended one or three subsequent drug abuse treatment sessions after the evaluation as well as basic demographic data and substance abuse history was also collected.

Not exact matches

Whether it is stricter regulations, negative interest rates, or fragile confidence, banks and other market participants are less than keen these days to hold large piles of risky assets.

Using the app takes about five minutes each day: participants in our experiment log in to Plasticity's online platform, pick a number out of 100 to rate their happiness level that day and post a brief note about something they're grateful for at work.

To simulate a real - life hiring scenario, Kent University researchers asked participants (61 men, 39 women) to rate the profiles of four potential applicants, all around the same age, for a managerial position.

Among those interviewed, roughly 50 % of participants said they saw higher conversion rates, more qualified leads, and greater sales efficiency when they involved advocates in their campaigns.

Exchange - traded funds that track high - yield bond indexes have been the beneficiaries of a cash surge in recent weeks as market participants figure the central bank probably won't raise rates in 2015, and it could be well into 2016 before anything happens.

After that, the researchers tracked the eye movements of the participants as they looked at and rated the pleasantness of images of gay male and heterosexual couples.

In a British - Turkish study, participants looked at photos of men in tailored versus off - the - peg suits for just five seconds, with the guys in tailored suits rated as more successful.

Before the study began, researchers asked 76 participants to rate the quality of a number of short films.

Sixty - eight new participants were divided into 17 groups of four for a brief post-screening chat; in each group, one person had seen the highly rated film, while the other three had watched the not - so - great alternative.

A small 2009 study found that of the 41 participants with mild cognitive impairment, those who had higher stress ratings also had faster rates of cognitive decline.

Researchers at the University of Vermont found that aerobic training of «moderate intensity,» with an average heart rate of around 112 beats a minute — elevated, sure, but it's not like they were hammering away — improved participants» mood for up to 12 hours after exercise.

The team selected profiles of nearly 4,500 fundraisers and had participants rate them for attractiveness.

This shift followed the Bank's introduction of a 50 - basis - point «operating band» for the overnight rate, which is the rate at which major participants in the money market borrow and lend one - day (or overnight) funds among themselves.

The presentation suggested that such a facility would allow the Committee to offer an overnight, risk - free instrument directly to a relatively wide range of market participants, perhaps complementing the payment of interest on excess reserves held by banks and thereby improving the Committee's ability to keep short - term market rates at levels that it deems appropriate to achieve its macroeconomic objectives.

The meta - analysis, published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.

Users can set their 401 (k) contribution rates; the calculator default is a 5 percent annual contribution from both the employer and the employee, which is chosen to match the median combined employer and employee contributions of program participants.

This includes quarterly press conferences by the Fed chair following FOMC meetings; publishing growth, inflation and short - term interest rate forecasts of FOMC participants on a quarterly basis; and a concerted effort to lay out the guideposts that the FOMC will look at in assessing progress towards our dual mandate objectives.

I think it's safe to assume the high adoption rate of this 401k plan feature is due to participant demand.

According to market participants, money market lenders lent overnight funds well in advance of quarter - end at rates below the ON RRP rate to informally secure balance sheet capacity for the quarter - end date.

All of these rates rose going into the December FOMC meeting, which makes quite a bit of sense, given that most market participants expected the FOMC to tighten policy at that meeting.35 We also gather information about rates on term unsecured borrowing in our FR 2420 collection, and about term secured transactions from the clearing banks, and these data tell a similar story.

Effective January 1, 2016, the matching contributions equal the sum of (i) a participant's match rate times the amount the participant elects to defer under the Excess 401 (k) Plus Plan, and (ii) the participant's match rate times the eligible compensation after reaching the Internal Revenue Code compensation limits.

A participant may increase or decrease his or her rate of contribution through payroll deductions at any time, but at no time may such rate of contribution exceed 10 %.

ER: Federal Reserve staff forecasts, like those of the bulk of private forecasters, see the labor market tightening considerably over the next three years — and this is the case even assuming more rate increases than are currently anticipated by market participants and reflected in market rates.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

Gain realized on the sale of an incentive stock option is taxable at capital gains rates, unless participant disposes of the shares within (1) two years after the date of grant of the option of (2) within one year of the date the shares were transferred to such participant.

Thus, participants in each TDP would have experienced different rates of return or loss in a given period.

Participants in previous consultation reviews of the EI rate - setting process have expressed the same concerns [2].

As a result of higher exchange rate volatility, both during the crisis and subsequently, market participants and policymakers became keenly aware of the need for better exchange rate risk management.

The assumptions underlying the fair value calculation include: the labor required using a burdened overhead rate, the development period, a developer's profit based on the operating profitability of market participants, and the opportunity cost based on the estimated required return on

Effective forward guidance on interest rates causes market participants to lower their expectations and uncertainty about future path of interest rates and to anticipate that easier financial conditions will persist well in to the future.

«It is too soon for FOMC participants to begin raising longer run dots with the view that the longer run neutral rate is rising, but it's not too soon for participants to increase the pace of projected rate hikes,»» Hornbach says.

Even though the dollar has raced to 14 - year highs against a basket of currencies in the wake of the Fed meeting, only a slim majority - 52 percent of poll participants who expressed a view - thought the euro / dollar exchange rate would break below parity in 2017.

MetLife Inc., the insurance giant that ended a discount for NRA members last week, had a 45 percent favorable rating, compared to a 12 percent unfavorable rating, before survey participants were informed of that move.

Among Republicans, the firm's favorability ratings flipped after participants learned of the decision regarding the NRA.

Under the new DOL rule, when a registered investment advisor («RIA») with an existing plan client offers rollover advice to the plan's participants, it would be customary for the RIA to earn a higher rate of compensation from the rollovers.

Historic correlations have also become unhinged, as the market's participants start to question the implications of global central banks normalizing interest rates.

After market participants appeared largely prepared for a hawkish update from the Fed in March, to accompany a well - flagged 25 basis - point rise in the fed funds target rate, some were surprised by the restrained tone of its statement.

Upcoming economic data are likely to matter more for interest rates and currencies than they have over the past few months, when market participants waited for the launch of QE2, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

In the most recent period, following the tightening of monetary policy in May, market interest rates declined for a time as participants assessed that the cumulative tightening over the previous six months might have been sufficient to reduce the risks on inflation.

«We are working to ensure that our financial institutions and other market participants are prepared for the normalization of monetary policy and the return to a world of higher interest rates,» Fischer said.

When the U-3 unemployment rate suggested that the economy was approaching full employment, Chair Yellen held her ground and directed market participants to look at broader economic indicators for signs of labor market slack (please see: Yellen's opposition to following «simple monetary policy rules»).