Sentences with phrase «report authors point»

The report authors point out that women are having their first child later in life, and there's a rise in the number of women having their first child after age 35.

The report authors point the finger directly at shared needle use between heroin users and identified which states — and policies — are keeping the infections in check.

Not exact matches

«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.

Ashish Jha, the senior author of the JAMA Internal Medicine paper, points out in a blog post that there are reasons why women doctors might well deliver better care, citing research to suggest that they might adhere more closely to established clinical practice guidelines and that patients often report better personal experiences (something that ultimately might lead to better outcomes).

The authors of the new report aren't shy about pointing out the factors they believe are behind America's slide into unhappiness.

The authors point to reporting in the Wall Street Journal from 2015 that Google executives» frequent visits to the White House under Mr Obama may have factored in a decision by the Federal Trade Commission to drop its antitrust investigation into the internet giant.

As the report's authors pointed out, strong demand continues to drive price growth in the Austin real estate market.

Only by performing an occult statistical manipulation called «ordered probit estimates» do the authors manage to tease out any trend at all, and it is a tiny one: «Women were one percentage point less likely than men to say they were not too happy at the beginning of the sample [1972]; by 2006 women were one percentage more likely to report being in this category.»

Much the same point is made by the authors of the new BJSM editorial and in Back in the Game, where Kutcher and Gerstner argue that suicide rates among former National Football League players, can be and have been affected by messaging in the media — a phenomenon called the «suicide contagion» — and note how, in its coverage of the suicide of players such as Junior Seau and Dave Duerson, the media has consistently ignored all seven of the recommendations of the Centers of Disease Control on how to avoid spreading that contagion, including not presenting simplistic explanations for suicide, not engaging in repetitive, ongoing, or excessive reporting of suicide, and not sensationalizing suicide.

Criticism of crying it out and sleep training: Though CIO critics sometimes point to a 2012 study finding that babies» levels of the stress hormone cortisol remained high even after they stopped crying and went to sleep on their own, that study has since been under fire for being too small (just 25 babies ages 4 to 10 months old) and flawed because there was no control group and no baseline cortisol levels reported to define what study author Dr. Wendy Middlemiss of the University of North Texas meant by «high.»

Public Advocate Letitia James stood alongside Mr. de Blasio Thursday, and at one point referred to Mr. Stringer as the «individual who is the author of that report.»

Here Meg Russell, the report's lead author, sets out the key points.

Apart from the uncertainty of relying largely on self - reported measurements, she points out, the authors double - dip their data by testing height and weight separately and then again as body mass index, or BMI, which combines height and weight.

The findings, reported in two recent studies, also point to a possible way to make people behave in less selfish and more altruistic ways, said senior author Marco Iacoboni, a UCLA psychiatry professor.

As principal author of the article in Applied and Environmental Microbiology (DOI: 10.1128 / AEM.07320 - 11) that gave rise to this report, I would like to point out that the three bases mentioned do have systems for cleaning waste water.

«Our paper reports that two highly conserved pathways — the UPR and the nonsense - mediated RNA decay pathway — intersect with each other at a pivotal point in cell stress,» said Miles Wilkinson, PhD, senior author and professor in the Department of Reproductive Medicine and a member of the UC San Diego Institute for Genomic Medicine.

The Defra - authored summary of the report points out, «Both of these options make the «degradable» property of oxo - degradable plastics irrelevant.»

While the theory doesn't completely resolve the origin - of - life debate, it provides a common source of energy for both sides and could be a useful starting point for a compromise, the authors report in the June issue of Molecular Biology and Evolution.

«We don't yet know where this is pointing us» said Rodrigo Ibata, lead author on the report.

The authors note that there are 33 other known drugs that affect 7 - DHC levels, «so the studies reported here may point to a problem of broad scope.»

Two independent reports have pointed the existence of a complex composed of STAT2 homodimers and IRF - 9 without STAT1 in IFNα - treated cells (32, 33), but this finding was tempered by the facts that their authors mentioned that this complex displayed only limited DNA - binding affinity for an ISRE sequence.

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Anthony Carnevale, the lead author of this report, gave me the scoop on this important data, noting that «Good jobs that have been prominent in this recovery include managers, software developers, physicians and surgeons, registered nurses, financial analysts and computer occupations,» all pointing toward the continued importance of a college education, despite what certain pessimists might claim.

This comparison is likely to generate misleading conclusions for one simple reason, as the authors themselves point out on the first page of the executive summary and then again on page 57 of the full report: «the concentration of charter schools in urban areas skews the charter school enrollment towards having higher percentages of poor and minority students.»

The report's authors, the Consortium on Productivity in the Schools — a three - year effort to find weak points in how school systems are organized — sidestepped one of the group's original goals: identifying points where school - reform policy is not translated into classroom practice.

As Eliot, author of the final report, put it, «every subject which is taught at all in a secondary school should be taught in the same way and to the same extent to every pupil so long as he pursues it, no matter what the probable destination of the pupil may be, or at what point his education is to cease.

The CRP response to our Ed Next article points out that the authors of the CRP report did consider the city as a unit of comparison and present the results in Table 22 on page 63 of the original report.

The reports were thorough and the authors often uncompromising, pointing out how planning too often becomes «a box - ticking exercise creating unnecessary workload», and data collection «an end in itself, divorced from the core purpose of improving outcomes for pupils».

The authors address the elements of the overall system needed, pointing out that the report's focus was on district adaptations in response to new English language learner populations.

The report's authors also point to evidence that shows that any kind of charter serving low income children is more likely to outperform regular schools with similar student demographics.

Author Elissa Nadworny notes, «The latest national numbers suggest that more than 6 million students are «chronically absent,»» and emphasizes comments made by Phyllis Jordan, who authored a recent FutureEd report on the subject, that, «Research tells us that kids shouldn't miss 10 percent or more of the school year, that's the tipping point for kids, but there isn't really research that tells us how many chronically absent kids are too many for a school.»

Report author and University of Missouri economics professor Cory Koedel, cites a survey that finds, when asked to rate their teachers on a ten - point scale, school principals gave more than 70 percent of their teaching staff an «8» or higher.

However, if a response only looked to me like it MIGHT have contained an error or two (such as a misplaced decimal point), I went ahead and took that author's reported data at face value.

I recall that one Author Earning Report addressed price points v. revenue.

As reported by the Alliance of Independent Authors, there are a ton of reasons why Amazon might be prepping to make 50 % an option instead of the two current choices, 70 % and 35 %, but those reasons are all speculation at this point.

The latest AuthorEarnings report, prepared by the author Hugh Howey and his technologist colleague known as «Data Guy,» is a good case in point.

This end - of - 2017 report says otherwise; indie authors might not be experiencing the boom they once did, but much like the point above, things have evened out, leaving indie authors holding a significant amount of market share.

As Hugh and Data Guy pointed out in this report, and as others have noted throughout the comments section, clearly the money IS there, and just as clearly it's not traveling from publisher to author.

Having asked for and received recommendations and responses from a number of independent authors, the most interesting thing I can report is that the exploding self - publishing marketplace currently provides cover - design services to independent authors at almost any imaginable price point.

The release included a very interesting point towards the end of the report that speaks to an issue much larger than book distribution, this time involving traditionally published author Suzanne Collins and her Hunger Games trilogy and several other authors:

For Book Country writer - members, reported by DBW to number nearly 4,000, Barton says, «We're at a point in the industry where there's an understanding that there are multiple paths forward for author... You don't have to drive around with books in the back of your Subaru.»

As always a balanced reporter, Anderson doesn't buy in 100 % into the report, and at one point refers to its «partisan nature» and writes that «Author Earnings repeatedly has hobbled its own efforts to widen the discussion... by framing its results in ways that call out «the other side».»

I am certain Amazon has its reason for keeping authors completely in the dark, shackling them to the bare essentials of sales reporting, but to be honest, I don't really see the point.

Samantha reports that she gets more requests for interviews and actually prefers them, since that gives the author a better chance to describe the book's contents than a review, which is often unpredictable in quality or point of view.

Point being, erotica and romance are such highly competitive categories that, to appear on an Author Earnings report, any individual title has to be selling far and away more copies than a title in a less competitive category.

Here are some more of the data points being generated by the report that Howey and his associate are making at Author Earnings.

Back in our May 2016 sidebar special report on Big Five ebook pricing, we pointed out some troubling differences between the prices of recent backlist ebooks by long - tenured Big Five authors and those by more recent Big Five debuts.

However, not everyone agrees with the validity of Author Earnings» data, and some people pointed out that the data used in the first report was just a snapshot of the top books.

At this particular point in time, all of my single - author titles but one (just released with about 370 copies sold in Amazon US store) would not appear in any Author Earnings report because they are on no bestseller author titles but one (just released with about 370 copies sold in Amazon US store) would not appear in any Author Earnings report because they are on no bestseller Author Earnings report because they are on no bestseller lists.

The report has been attacked by critics who point out the figures don't include cash paid to authors as part of book advances.