Sentences with phrase «small number of universities»

A small number of universities offer specialist licensed retail management qualifications.

«With a small population, geographical isolation and small number of universities, the academic career path in Australia is extremely competitive, especially compared with the US or Europe,» says Clegg.

Cantwell said the rankings appear to be influencing policymakers to funnel research money to a small number of universities and, within those universities, to programs in the fields of science and technology.

Not exact matches

Several Canadian universities offer specialized degrees in actuarial studies to enter the financial and insurance business; there are a smaller number of master's degrees cropping up aimed at applying data sciences to a wider range of fields, along with some certificate programs aimed at professionals already working in business.

Compared to cities like San Francisco, New York, and London — where each has several universities within a 60 - mile radius — Las Vegas has a relatively small number of college students.

Prizes from business contests run the gamut: A seemingly infinite number of local and business - school competitions offer small - change awards of $ 5,000 to $ 15,000; meanwhile, Rice University doles out six - figure prizes annually, as do accelerators MassChallenge and TechStars.

Between the year of its signing and 2014, the U.S. lost more than 14 percent of its small community banks, while the number of large banks rose 6.3 percent, according to the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

The important essay entitled «Jewish Intellectuals and the De-Christianization of American Culture in the Twentieth Century» holds that the old Protestant cultural hegemony was defeated in no small part by the growing number of Jews championing «a secular vision of American culture» in the «American academic and literary intelligentsia» and in the best and most influential universities.

The number of Christians remains small, but Christian schools (kindergarten through university) and leaders are disproportionately influential and Christian churches are a well - established part of the present scene.

American Catholics to create a sort of parallel society in the 19th and 20th centuries, with the result that there are now over 6,800 Catholic schools (5 % of the national total); 630 hospitals (11 %) plus a similar number of smaller health facilities; and 244 colleges and universities.

In his 2008 address to the university of La Sapienza which he was eventually prevented from giving because of the protests of a small number of the faculty, Pope Benedict proposed the use of an expression from the Council of Chalcedon, in an entirely different context, to describe the relationship between philosophy and theology: «without confusion, without separation.»

To take a single example, last year I had the privilege of participating in one of these schools in a small university town, where in a parish of about one thousand members over two hundred persons (including a goodly number of interested «enquirers» who had heard of the program through a carefully planned advertising campaign) attended eight night sessions, held from eight until ten o'clock, with a choice among eight different courses, dealing with theological, ethical, historical, devotional, and scriptural subjects.

The number of students who arrive at today's university bringing a sense of the church's global social mission is small indeed.

It is the case that large - and middle - sized for - profit publishers and university presses as well as a number of new small presses now publish substantial numbers of books by mainline Protestant writers.

Charlotte Wright, professor of community child health at the University of Glasgow and one of the members campaigning for the change in the policy, told The BMJ that she had no objection to the college surveying its members given that the numbers who voted at the annual general meeting were so small — 66 delegates supported the motion and 53 were against it.

A small number of institutions, such as Guildhall school of music and drama and Thames Valley University, will have to charge upwards of # 7,700.

But Hochul now also faces a primary challenge from Columbia University professor and tech expert Tim Wu, and her views may not be very palatable to the small number of progressive minded voters expected to turn out for Tuesday's vote.

Unfortunately for him, this entailed a ballot of university staff, registered alumni and a small number of students in representative positions.

Ms. Teachout and her running mate for lieutenant governor, Tim Wu, a Columbia University law professor, talked about winning over the small number of Democrats who actually vote in primaries.

«In the past, postdocs were transient, and their population was small in number, to the extent that they were not a particularly critical component of the scientific workforce at universities, medical schools, and industry,» King continued.

Former Cancer Prevention Fellow Lisa Colbert, currently at the National Institute on Aging and soon to assume a position as assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, states: «I am now one of a very small number of exercise physiologists who also have an M.P.H..

And even those small numbers might overestimate what occurs in everyday life, says Richard Hobbs, head of the department of primary care health sciences at the University of Oxford, who defended statins last year in BMC Medicine.

James J. Collins, a biologist at Boston University, has found that small numbers of drug - resistant bacteria help their vulnerable counterparts survive antibiotic onslaughts, even at a cost to themselves.

In only a small number of exceptional cases, it appears, do Ph.D. researchers without elite academic pedigrees end up in full - fledged faculty jobs at research universities.

In the process, it will take a stab — again, a small one — at the deep, underlying problem in the academic labor market: the severe, perennial imbalance between the number of would - be researchers coming out of the nation's universities and the number of career positions available to them.

«In developmental psychology there has long been a trade - off between gathering lots of data from a small number of children or a small amount of data from a much larger number of children,» says Harvard University linguist Steven Pinker, who proposed a similar idea several years back.

«A small number of those close to Mochizuki claim to understand the proof, but they have had little success in explaining their understanding to others,» wrote Peter Woit at Columbia University in a blog post.

«There is a very small number of people that control a huge amount of water,» said Douglas Kenney, director of the Western Water Policy Program at the University of Colorado Law School in Boulder.

«The number of complications reported in the BMJ paper is small,» says Donald Singer, a professor of clinical pharmacology at the University of Warwick, UK.

«The findings are intriguing,» says Daniel Ansari, a cognitive neuroscientist at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada, but he doesn't find the long - term improvements overwhelming, owing to the small number of volunteers who returned for testing.

«Under geological aspects, the small number of so few large animal species presents an anomaly,» explains Professor Dr. Hervé Bocherens of the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment at the University of Tübingen, and he continues, «The most prominent example of prehistoric giants is, of course, the dinosaurs.»

Kristen Marhaver, who began this work while she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of California at Merced, USA, said: «Now that we've successfully reared juvenile Pillar Corals in the lab, not only can we study them in more detail to find out what factors could be threatening their survival in the wild, but it also means that we can try to out - plant a small number back to the reef.

A team at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom has discovered that the reclusive 15 - millimeter insect, which lays its eggs underground next to small animal corpses, uses a slime cocktail to manipulate the number and kinds of microbes its young are exposed to as they eat the provided meat.

Neanderthal genetic material is found in only small amounts in the genomes of modern humans because, after interbreeding, natural selection removed large numbers of weakly deleterious Neanderthal gene variants, according to a study by Ivan Juric and colleagues at the University of California, Davis, published November 8th, 2016 in PLOS Genetics.

Generally, universities» reactions appear «very uncoordinated,» McDowell says, and, with a small number of exceptions, «it looks like nobody is actually talking to each other.»

On the 16th, the National Academies of Science (NAS) hosted 252 interested parties — including postdocs, representatives of university programs and funding agencies, members of the media, and a small number of principal investigators — at its august main building facing the National Mall.

With small class sizes and close contact between students and faculty, an increasing number of new private universities are attracting students from Germany and elsewhere.

In an editorial in the British Medical Journal this week, Anne Johnson from University College and Middlesex School of Medicine says that though numbers remain small, the number of «homegrown» heterosexual infections has risen consistently each year.

For instance, at Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico, which is a park solely because of its remarkable Native American architecture, the «existing staff numbers are far too small to adequately document and preserve the archaeological sites, and to fully educate the public,» says Stephen Plog, an archaeologist at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, who has studied the Chaco Culture.

Schroeder's lab is now collaborating with Howard University in Washington, D.C., to analyze the genetic ancestry of a small number of the enslaved and free Africans who were interred at the New York African Burial Ground in lower Manhattan between the 1690s and 1794.

But according to Hamish Robertson of the University of Washington, who worked on the project, even though there are an enormous number of neutrinos in the Universe, they make up only a small fraction of its total mass content.

This is the reason there are so many AIO projects in proportion to the relatively small number of steady jobs and thus so few opportunities for AIOs to continue at the university after finishing their projects.

«Our work suggests that the apparent complexity of protein networks is deceiving, and that a circuit involving a small number of proteins might control each cellular function,» said senior author Shohei Koide, PhD, professor of biochemistry & molecular biophysics at the University of Chicago.

The present study shows that Gächter's previous conclusion that punishment was detrimental «was an experimental artifact generated by a relatively small number of interactions,» says anthropologist Rob Boyd of the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the mechanisms that shape human culture.

University of Texas, Austin, political scientist Gary Freeman placed the politics of skilled immigration into the category that political scientists term «client» politics, in which the benefits of particular governmental actions accrue to a small number of groups or individuals while the costs diffuse more widely over people who may not even realize that they are being harmed.

Once people have met their recommended daily intake of fruits, vegetables, and other nutritious foods, most of them can safely consume a small number of «discretionary calories» in any form they wish, says cardiovascular nutritionist Penny Kris - Etherton of Pennsylvania State University.

As a population grows, larger numbers of combatants die in wars, but those slain represent a smaller average percentage of the total population, say Dean Falk of Florida State University in Tallahassee and Charles Hildebolt of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

A quick glance at any history of small - molecule crystallography would have warned them: There used to be departments of crystallography in a number of American universities; now there are none.

Hu and his collaborator Juan R. Del Valle at the University of South Florida are developing novel small molecule inhibitors against IRE - 1 to combat cancers associated with high numbers of MDSCs.

Herrell performed the first robotic partial nephrectomy at Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) in 2009, and he is one of a small number of urologic surgeons in the United States who now perform a large number of these minimally invasive surgeries.