Sentences with phrase «researchers studying school»

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According to a study in the Journal of Behavioural and Experimental Economics, researchers from Columbia Business School designed an experiment where they gave cheques to MBA students and tracked how long they took to cash them.

A recent study done by two business school researchers says that social media really can influence the amount of money you spend to the point that you can't control yourself.

In a study commissioned by leadership consultant Green Peak Partners, and conducted by Cornell University's School of Industrial and Labor Relations, researchers looked at 72 senior executives at public, venture - backed and private - equity sponsored companies and found that self - awareness was the biggest predictor of a CEO's overall success.

A new study by researchers from Uppsala University in Sweden and the London School of Economics finds the effects of roboticization in fact countervail much of the negative media sentiment.

The No. 1 factor in triggering impulse shopping online is a calm, friendly, and knowledgeable website with attractive merchandise, according to a 2011 study by researchers at the University of Amsterdam Business school.

«According to a study from researchers at Harvard Business School, the University of Mannheim, and Yale University, wealthy individuals report that having three to four times as much money would give them a perfect» 10» score on happiness — regardless of how much wealth they already have,» reports the release.

And some studies suggest they're right: In a paper called «Environmental Disorder Leads to Self - Regulatory Failure,» a pair of researchers from UBC and Cheung Kong Graduate School of Business found that «being surrounded by chaos ultimately impairs the ability to perform tasks requiring «brain» power.»

But the machine - learning analysis these University of Colorado medical school researchers used found the opposite result when they looked at red meat consumption among the same Framingham study participants.

In the study, titled «You scratch his back, he scratches mine and I'll scratch yours: Deception in simultaneous cyclic networks,» researchers from the Rotman School of Management and the Ted Rogers School of Management found that inflated pay is actually caused by something they've labeled the «indirect reciprocity effect» — an unwritten code that can pervade c - suites.

For a recent study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, researchers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health analyzed the eating habits of more than 200,000 health care workers over the course of more than 20 years.

«People often make decisions that are influenced by emotions that have nothing to do with the decisions they are making,» says Stéphane Côté, a professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management, who co-wrote the study with lead researcher Jeremy Yip of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

According to the Fast Company article, «Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business found that people who work in highly stressful jobs with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.

Megan Randall, a researcher at the Urban Institute who studies economic development policy, said companies cared most about a talented work force, which requires good schools and colleges, and amenities like affordable housing, parks and public transit that make a place desirable.

In one of the few studies that has examined flextime's effect on company profits, last year, researchers from the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and China's Renmin University studied the 35 per cent of Canadian firms with flextime policies.

Alberta's oilsands operations are getting increasingly more efficient in producing energy, though they still lag behind conventional oil, according to a new study published by researchers at the Haskayne School of Business and China University of Petroleum (Beijing).

Marquardt, a graduate of the University of Chicago Divinity School and a researcher with the Institute for American Values, calls the study the most comprehensive ever undertaken on the subject.

The issue of blatantly false (or at least extremely embellished) news stories has gotten so bad, that researchers at Stanford's Graduate School of Education call it «a threat to democracy» after a «dismaying» study found that most American students can't tell the difference between which headlines are real and which ones are fake.

Researcher Dr Therese O'Sullivan of Edith Cowan University's School of Medical and Health Science said the eating habits of 860 WA teenagers from early to late adolescence were studied in order to come up with the findings.

Having studied at the Bordeaux Business School for his MSc in International Business, Wei went on to become a market researcher for the Chamber of Commerce in Bordeaux.

One study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health compared the cardiovascular health of 4,000 participants with their intake of CLAs.

Analyzing data from 2009 to 2014, researchers found that cheerleading ranks 18th out of 22 high school sports studied in terms of injury rate, but, ranked second - behind only gymnastics - in the proportion of injuries that resulted in an athlete being benched for at least three weeks or for the entire season.

While O'Kane said there was some evidence that concussion education could improve the percentage of athletes reporting concussions, pointing to a 2012 study [8] finding that high school athletes receiving concussion education were twice as likely to report symptoms to coaches compared with those with no education (72 % vs. 36 %), he acknowledged that a 2013 study [9](also by researchers at the University of Washington) found that many high school soccer players, despite understanding the symptoms of concussion and the potentially severe complications from playing with concussion, would continue to play despite symptoms.

«I have great respect for the researchers at Harborview and think this was a good study, and was great to see somebody providing data on youth younger than high school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school school age,» said Dawn Comstock, an epidemiologist at the Colorado School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school School of Public Health who has studied extensively sports injuries at the high school school level.

«I think this is a really important study,» said Dr. Henry F. Krous, a SIDS researcher and professor at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine.

The researchers studied nearly 2,800 adolescents (both boys and girls) from 20 different middle schools and high schools.

Preoccupation with food and dieting / unreasonable fear of being fat (girls on severe diets in one Australian study were 18 times more likely to develop an eating disorder; moderate dieters were 5 times more likely than those who did not diet; Harvard researcher says 44 % of high school girls and 15 % of boys diet);

The risk of sustaining a concussion in high school football is not affected by the brand, age of the helmet, or recondition status, or by the type of mouth guard worn, say researchers from the University of Wisconsin in a new study.

Just 12.2 percent of women ages 50 and older are satisfied with their body size, according to a study reported by researchers from UNC's Gillings School of Public Health that appeared in the Oct. 11, 2013 Journal of Women & Aging.

Stacy Whitman of School Bites had an excellent post last Friday examining the study in detail, questioning the interpretation of some of its findings and raising some reasonable questions about possible researcher bias.

According to Dr Brian Ray, president of NHERI, «multiple researchers and their studies find... the home educated to be developing as well or better socially, emotionally, and psychologically than institutionally schooled children and youth».

If that's not enough, according to a recent study by researchers at the New York University School of Medicine, dark meat in poultry «contains many more nutrients.

As summarized by Reuters, the study's researchers peered into the lunch boxes of 626 third and fourth graders from 12 public elementary schools in Eastern Massachusetts, and found that only 34 % of lunches contained fruit, only 11 % contained vegetables, 42 % contained snacks and 28 % included dessert.

In 1997 a researcher from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, studied 482 healthy toddlers between 18 and 30 months of age to see how long before they are potty trained.

In a 2012 study, [8] researchers at the University of Rochester Medical Center (URMC) measured before - and - after data from the brains of a group of nine high school football and hockey players using an advanced form of imaging similar to an MRI called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI).

Among them were the Purdue and Rochester studies of athletes in high school and college football [1,8,9,12,13, 31 - 38] and ice hockey, [8] which, as noted above, found subtle changes in cerebral function in the absence of concussion symptoms or clinically measurable cognitive impairment which researchers linked to the volume of head impacts, and a much publicized case - study autopsy of a collegiate football player, Owen Thomas, with no reported history of concussions, which revealed early signs of CTE.

Using DTI imaging technique, researchers at Indiana University School of Medicine and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth College, found in a 2013 study [16] significant differences in brain white matter of varsity football and hockey players compared with a group of non-contact-sport athletes, with the number of times they were hit correlated with changes in the white matter.

Researchers recruited 338 kindergarten students for the study, chosen from public schools in the San Francisco Bay Area.

One of the researchers on that study, Angela Duckworth, says that grit may be as important as intelligence when it comes to success in school and at work.

Limiting contact practices in football to one session per week, or eliminating contact practices altogether, for example, would, according to a 2013 study [10] by researchers at the University of Michigan, result in an 18 % to 40 % reduction in head impacts respectively over the course of a high school football season.

Although scientists have long suspected that RHI caused brain damage, especially in boxers, a 2010 study of high school football players by researchers at Purdue University [1,13] was the first to identify a completely unexpected and previously unknown category of players who, though they displayed no clinically - observable signs of concussion, were found to have measurable impairment of neurocognitive function (primarily visual working memory) on computerized neurocognitive tests, as well as altered activation in neurophysiologic function on sophisticated brain imaging tests (fMRI).

Using DTI, researchers at Wake Forest found in a 2014 study [26] that a single season of high school football can produce changes in the white matter of the brain of the type previously associated with mTBI in the absence of a clinical diagnosis of concussion, and that these impact - related changes in the brain are strongly associated with a postseason change in the verbal memory composite score from baseline on the ImPACT neurocognitive test.

Sadly, the fact is that, while they are one of the most - if not, the most - preventable of all catastrophic sports injuries, heat - related deaths among high school and college football players in the United States nearly tripled between 1994 and 2009, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia, with an average of nearly three players dying each year during that time period versus about one death per year during the previous 15 years.

That study, from researchers at the University of California, Riverside, the Oregon Research Institute and the University of Oregon, used personality ratings from elementary school teachers in an ethnically diverse group of children in Hawaii back in the 1960s, comparing those personality ratings to videotaped interviews of 144 of those people 40 years later.

A recently published study by researchers in the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital is the first to compare and describe the occurrence and distribution patterns of basketball - related injuries treated in emergency departments and the high school athletic training setting among adolescents and teens.

NHERI executes, evaluates, and disseminates studies and information (e.g., statistics, facts, data) on homeschooling (i.e., home schooling, home - based education, home education, home school, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatschool, home - schooling, unschooling, deschooling, a form of alternative education), publishes reports and the peer - reviewed scholarly journal Home School Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatSchool Researcher, and serves in consulting, academic achievement tests, and expert witness (in courts and legislatures).

Meanwhile at Purdue University, researchers studied the issue of sub-concussive blows by putting sensors in the helmets of Lafayette, Ind., high school football players for two seasons.

The researchers in the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) study showed that student athletes who participate in girls soccer at schools without access to an athletic trainer are exposed to an 8 times greater injury rate for concussion, a 5.7 times greater risk of recurrent injury, and a 1.73 times greater overall injury rate.

According to a separate study carried out by researchers Amato and Rivera, children whose fathers are actively involved in their care are more likely to perform well at school, stay out of trouble and have greater self - esteem.

Researchers used functional MRI to study the recovery of 12 high school football players with concussion and compared them to 12 uninjured teammates.

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