Sentences with phrase «small number of peers»

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Consider Peer - to - Peer Lending Following the credit crunch and Great Recession, banks are still cautious about extending loans to small businesses prompting a growing number of potential borrowers to search for loans online: peer - to - peer lendPeer - to - Peer Lending Following the credit crunch and Great Recession, banks are still cautious about extending loans to small businesses prompting a growing number of potential borrowers to search for loans online: peer - to - peer lendPeer Lending Following the credit crunch and Great Recession, banks are still cautious about extending loans to small businesses prompting a growing number of potential borrowers to search for loans online: peer - to - peer lendpeer - to - peer lendpeer lending.

Consistent with the practices of many of its peer companies, HP provides a small number of perquisites to its senior executives including the NEOs for the reasons described below.

The elevated borrowing costs created a demand / supply gap that persists, even after the creation of a number of smaller banks and peer - to - peer lending firms.

Crowdfunding also includes Peer to Peer Lending but some platforms have been re-labled as «Marketplace Lending» or simply «Online Lending» as a growing number of direct lending platforms are using institutional money or their own balance sheet to finance loans with a diminishing dependence on smaller investors.

Whether you're a young mom struggling to fit in with your kid - free peers, or you're one of a growing number of stay - at - home dads, or you're a working mom figuring out how to balance work and kids, you know that no matter your circumstances, this business of being responsible for a small (and disastrously naive) human (or humans, bless your heart) is going to test your patience, your limits, and your soul.

The Green Party also has one life peer, three Members of the European Parliament, two members of the London Assembly, and a small number of councillors on various local councils in England and Wales.

«It can not be right that the north - west has almost the same population as London but only a small fraction of London's number of peers.

A small number of non-party peers are nominated by the independent House of Lords Appointments Commission, while 26 Bishops and 87 hereditary peers make up the remainder.

It is expected that the bulk of the new peers will be Conservatives, with smaller numbers taking the Labour or Liberal Democrat whip.

In a small but growing number of schools, students watch lectures online and come to class prepared to tackle assignments and collaborate with teachers and peers.

Although the number of cases is still very small, and most have yet to be published in peer - reviewed journals, the researchers insist their preliminary findings are cause for concern because this type of brain pathology is virtually unheard of in people this young.

Besides bullying by peers and a small circle of friends, researchers looked at a number of other risk factors, like maternal anxiety or depression and family dysfunction.

Very likely it is the small number of AGW skeptics with science Ph.D. s whose views receive widespread attention in the media and blogosphere but somehow don't make it into the peer - reviewed literature (or, what they publish in the peer - reviewed literature is not what gains them a following of AGW skeptics and deniers).

Another point I remember from the Wegman report was that the peer review of climate science papers was sort of a closed circle due to the relatively small number of qualified climate scientists.

They realize that the vast majority of their efforts will be rejected by a well functioning peer review process, but the value of securing even a small number of acceptances is enormous, so they bombard journals with a stream of scientific - appearing work in hopes that a few will break through and reach publication.

Although I have to commend the Prudent Path authors on investigating * some * of the actual peer reviewed literature on the subject, the papers presented either include only a small number of stations, do not cover the entire Arctic - wide basin (excluding the Canadian Arctic, White et al. 2010), or do not include data up to present.

In the blink of an eye, the «settled science» of a small number of ideologues was propelled upwards into a «peer - reviewed» «consensus» and then an international fait accompli.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

Yet, «General Comment 7» of the UN CRC, to which Canada is a signatory, reminds us that «early childhood is a critical period for realizing children's rights» (2005: p. 3)... «survival, well - being and development are dependent on and built around close relationships... normally with a small number of key people, most often parents, members of the extended family and peers, as well as caregivers and other early childhood professionals» (2005: p. 4).

Previous MCS studies have related broad composite measures of father engagement in caring activities to subsequent child behavioural outcomes using subscales of total difficulties (emotion, conduct, attention or peer problems)[38 — 40]: most effects were very small and not statistically significant, but (among the large number of analyses performed), inverse associations were reported for (a) engagement at 9 months with emotional problems at 3 years [38], (b) engagement at 3 years with attention problems at 5 years [39] and (c) engagement at 5 years with peer problems at 7 years [40].