There's more to auto insurance
rates than your behavior on the road.
Not exact matches
«In one of our studies we found that people
rated masculine risk - taking
behaviors as more risky
than feminine risk - taking
behaviors, even when they were matched for how risky they were,» she says.
Whether you capture data from website analytics, webforms, email marketing with open
rates or social media stats, you now have more visibility into the
behavior of a prospect
than ever before.
«The recent
behavior of both nominal and real wages point to weaker labor market conditions
than would be indicated by the current unemployment
rate,» Yellen said in a speech to central bankers last week.
Actually, in the case of Japan the negative
rates are more about changing the
behavior of banks, rather
than individuals.
The fall in the number of births to immigrant women is explained by
behavior (falling birth
rates), rather
than population composition (change in the number of women of childbearing age), according to a Pew Research analysis.
Adopted children have higher
rates of delinquent
behavior, learning disorders, and attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder
than their non-adopted peers.
According to a study published in the journal Physiology &
Behavior, the average metabolic
rate of people who drank caffeinated coffee was 16 percent higher
than that of those who drank decaf.
By their mid-twenties, former bullies have more traffic violations and four times the
rate of criminal
behavior than their non-bullying peers.
Examining more
than 20 years of national data for U.S. adolescents, a research team led by Andrew Subica at the University of California, Riverside reports that adolescents have high prevalence of alcohol, cigarette, and marijuana use, and concerning
rates of suicide - related thoughts and
behaviors.
Participating families had lower
rates of maternal anxiety and safer home environments
than other families, and they showed more positive parenting
behaviors, such as comforting or reading to their child.
«Rather
than evaluating actual company performance, the
ratings are a better indicator of a company's allocations of resources to win awards and its work to create a facade of good
behavior,» Juravich and Ablavsky write in the report.
«Not getting restorative sleep may do more
than just affect our functioning the next day; it might also influence the
rate at which our biological clock ticks,» said Judith Carroll, an assistant professor of psychiatry at the UCLA Semel Institute for Neuroscience and Human
Behavior and the Cousins Center for Psychoneuroimmunology, and first author of the sleep study.
The records document that the Laschamp Excursion was characterized locally by (1) declination changes of ± 120 °, (2) inclination changes of more
than 140 °, (3) ~ 1200 - year oscillations in both inclination and declination, (4) near 90 ° out - of - phase relationships between inclinations and declinations that produced two clockwise loops in directions and virtual geomagnetic poles (VGPs) followed by a counterclockwise loop, (5) excursional VGPs during both intervals of clockwise looping, (6) magnetic field intensities less
than 10 % of normal that persisted for almost 2000 years, (7) marked similarity in excursional directions over ~ 5000 km spatial scale length, and (8) secular variation
rates comparable to historic field
behavior but persisting in sign for hundreds of years.
A recent study by a research team from Dartmouth's Geisel School of Medicine reveals that the TV Parental Guidelines
rating system developed by the entertainment industry more
than 20 years ago has been ineffective in helping parents identify shows that contain content that might not be appropriate for children, including tobacco and alcohol use —
behaviors strongly associated with increased cancer risk.
A study in Physiology &
Behavior found that the average metabolic
rate of people who drank caffeinated coffee was 16 % higher
than those who drank only decaf.
Women respond more slowly Women are more likely
than men to delay seeking treatment at the first signs of a heart attack, a
behavior pattern that has puzzled cardiologists and contributes to the higher mortality
rate from heart attack among women.
«Disproportionate [disciplinary]
rates should not be regarded as unjustified merely because they reflect higher
rates of improper
behavior by minority students
than by white students.»
«In terms of the availability of coaching and the quality of coaching directed at reinforcing good
behavior, improving interpersonal relations, and improving work processes, the PELP teams
rate themselves less highly
than leaders in other fields.»
They then control for student - level kindergarten test scores and teacher
ratings of student
behavior; with those controls, they find black students are statistically significantly less likely to be in special education
than whites.
Disproportionate
rates should not be regarded as unjustified merely because they reflect higher
rates of improper
behavior by minority students
than by white students.
In a separate study, Russell Skiba and Natasha Williams further revealed that black students in the same schools or districts were not engaged in levels of disruptive
behavior that would warrant higher
rates of exclusionary discipline
than white peers.
And if we accept research that finds lower - income families participate in political activities at a
rate lower
than middle - income families, we should not expect a drastic change in political
behavior by D.C. scholarship families.
The author points out that disproportionate suspension and expulsion
rates are more often the result of inequitable discipline practices
than differences in
behavior between students of color and their white peers.
The evidence shows that rather
than improving students»
behavior, such punishments are more likely to result in negative effects such as higher drop - out
rates and lower academic performance.
A 1999 U.S. Department of Education study found that schools with more
than 1,000 students had far higher
rates of violent student
behavior than schools with fewer
than 300 students, and teachers and students in small schools were far less likely to be victims of crime.
Creating a culture of coaching in your school building may feel like less of a priority
than scores, literacy
rates, or
behavior.
Published by FINRA Investor Education Foundation, the study, called «In Our Best Interest: Women, Financial Literacy and Credit Card
Behavior,» found that compared to men, women were not only more likely to use credit cards in more costly ways, but they also were charged higher interest
rates than men.
While the bottom - up investor has to spend considerable time on research, I think the workload is manifestly lighter
than it is for top - down analysts who have to worry about day - to - day price movements and who have to spend a lot of time studying and opining about «will - o» - the wisp» matters such as the historic
behavior of markets (i.e., BETA), the direction of interest
rates, and other things they can't possibly know much about.
According to dog owners polled in the previously mentioned study, certain breeds are exhibiting aggressive
behavior at greater
rates than others.
Rate of Reinforcement The most effective trainers nearly always have a higher rate of reinforcement during teaching new behaviors than less effective train
Rate of Reinforcement The most effective trainers nearly always have a higher
rate of reinforcement during teaching new behaviors than less effective train
rate of reinforcement during teaching new
behaviors than less effective trainers.
And pit bull failures in homes, occurring at the
rate of more
than a million per year, typically due to dangerous
behavior, also bring people into victim advocacy, including ANIMALS 24 - 7 social media editor and photographer Beth Clifton, a former pit bull advocate, owner, and rescuer.
Interestingly, in this case there can be distinct advantage to sampling at times which are * not * evenly spaced — a random time sampling may be best of all, because then you are not limited by a «Nyquist frequency,» you can in fact explore the
behavior at frequencies far higher
than the sampling
rate.
Intense, destructive wildfires are burning throughout the state, and while September and October are the peak of the typical fire season in California, the number of fires exhibiting extreme
behavior and «dangerous»
rates of spread has been far higher
than usual due to the ubiquity of tinder - dry, drought - cured brush and trees.
The ensemble
behavior of our models is that, once this warming is initiated, it tends to take place at a constant (rather
than an ever - increasing)
rate.
The records document that the Laschamp Excursion was characterized locally by (1) declination changes of ± 120 °, (2) inclination changes of more
than 140 °, (3) ~ 1200 - year oscillations in both inclination and declination, (4) near 90 ° out - of - phase relationships between inclinations and declinations that produced two clockwise loops in directions and virtual geomagnetic poles (VGPs) followed by a counterclockwise loop, (5) excursional VGPs during both intervals of clockwise looping, (6) magnetic field intensities less
than 10 % of normal that persisted for almost 2000 years, (7) marked similarity in excursional directions over ~ 5000 km spatial scale length, and (8) secular variation
rates comparable to historic field
behavior but persisting in sign for hundreds of years.
So the question arises as to whether open
rates are still a useful metric for measuring email marketing success when open
rates are falling for technological reasons rather
than due to any change in subscriber
behavior.
The improvements included using larger fonts, lists, headers, white space, simple language, and logical organization.29 In a study of voter
behavior, Reilly and Richey found that increasing language complexity on ballots made voters more likely to skip ballot questions.30 Rogers and Brown found that subjects who received «high - impact» instructions complied with those instructions at a significantly higher
rate than the group that received instructions in the «low - impact» style.31 Finally, McGlone and Tofighbakhsh found that readers presented with two phrases with identical meaning more readily accepted and believed the version of the phrase that rhymed.
For example, women tend to speed less, drive less aggressively and display predatory
behavior behind the wheel at much lower
rates than men.
In addition, The
rate of children with scores in the clinical range for withdrawn
behavior (31.6 % versus 0.0 %, p = 0.00), thought problems (52.6 % versus 16.7 %, p = 0.01), delinquent
behavior (31.6 % versus 6.7 %, p = 0.00), internalizing problems (73.7 % versus 33.3 %, p = 0.01), externalizing problems (47.4 % versus 16.7 %, p = 0.03), and total problems (57.9 % versus 13.3 %, p = 0.00) were significantly higher among the children who were visiting their fathers
than those were not visiting them (Table 4).
Specifically, compared with African Americans, non-Hispanic whites had significantly higher
rates of any disorder, any disorder except conduct disorder, any disruptive
behavior disorder, conduct disorder, any substance use disorder, and substance use disorder other
than alcohol or marijuana.
Regardless of whether increased arrest
rates represent a true increase in violent
behavior among female adolescents compared with males or a policy shift toward arrest rather
than alternative treatment of violent females, it is indisputable that the juvenile justice system is handling a rapidly growing share of girls.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is 1 of only 2 DSM - IV diagnoses for which suicidal
behavior is a criterion.1 Borderline personality disorder is a severe and persistent mental disorder experience of severe emotional distress and behavioral dyscontrol.1 - 3 Among patients with BPD, 69 % to 80 % engage in suicidal
behavior,4 - 9 with a suicide
rate of up to 9 %.10 Forty percent of the highest users of inpatient psychiatric services receive a diagnosis of BPD.11, 12 Patients with BPD use more services
than those with major depression13 and other personality disorders.14 Among patients with BPD seen for treatment, 72 % have had at least 1 psychiatric hospitalization and 97 % have received outpatient treatment from a mean of 6.1 previous therapists.15, 16 Despite this high - use pattern, patients with BPD have high
rates of treatment failure.17, 18
Victims of previous abuse or neglect are far more often identified as «problem children»
than are their peers and show higher
rates of diagnosis with attention problems and violent and oppositional
behaviors.27 Caregivers and teachers often respond to these
behaviors in the traditional fashion: warnings become more brusque (and often louder) and discipline more strict (and often more punitive).
Response
rates did not differ by sex, education, cigarette smoking
behavior, or history of childhood sexual abuse as recorded in the clinic's medical record; however, respondents were slightly older (56.7 years vs 49.3 years) and more likely to be white (84 % vs 75 %)
than were nonrespondents.
However, a recent report found that the
rate of 12 - month treatment of adults with suicidal
behavior in 21 countries averaged 40 % and was higher in the United States (63 % -82 %).43, 44 The slightly higher
rate of treatment observed in the present study
than in these adult studies reflects the fact that we examined lifetime treatment rather
than 12 - month treatment and that the prevalence of mental disorders among those with suicidal
behaviors, which is associated with increased probability of treatment, 45 was higher in the NCS - A
than in the other studies.
Even if abuse and neglect definitions were uniform across the country, it is still likely that the true prevalence
rate of abuse and neglect is much higher
than what is reported or substantiated by child protective services (CPS) agencies.9 In addition, researchers are still uncertain about the threshold at which certain parenting
behaviors begin to compromise a child's development.
: Mothers with depressive symptoms were poorer, were less educated and
rated lower infant bonding
than mothers without depressive symptoms (p = 0.03), yet objective observation revealed no difference between the two groups regarding maternal interactive
behavior (p = 0.57).
Results: Mothers with depressive symptoms were poorer, were less educated and
rated lower infant bonding
than mothers without depressive symptoms (p = 0.03), yet objective observation revealed no difference between the two groups regarding maternal interactive
behavior (p = 0.57).
Behavior therapy is considered probably efficacious for childhood depression, and a number of other experimental interventions show promise but require further evaluation.12 Currently, only 2 research groups have focused on psychosocial interventions for childhood bipolar disorder.13 - 15 Hence, increased attention to creation and testing of treatments specifically targeting depression and bipolar disorder in children is needed.16 In particular, studies should focus on children's developmental needs, address comorbidity, involve family members in treatment, demonstrate treatment gains as
rated by parents and clinicians rather
than children themselves, and compare experimental interventions with standard care or treatment as usual (TAU) rather
than no - treatment or attention control groups.12, 17,18 In addition, parental psychopathology may affect treatment adherence and response.