Sentences with phrase «small study surveyed»

The small study surveyed 74 pet owners on whether or not their pets slept in the bedroom, and how they felt it affected their sleep.

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In addition, the study determined that the last time the small business owners surveyed had needed funds, 62 percent had withdrawn personal savings, 22 percent had used business credit cards, 24 percent had used their personal credit cards and 10 percent had relied on family and friends.

Yes, the study is from Hewlett Packard, but still the results are eye - opening: Nearly every small business surveyed (93 percent) admitted they tried to save money instead of buying what they really wanted.

According to an SBDC study, almost half of millennials surveyed (49 percent) said they wanted to start their own business in the next three years, and a full quarter (26 percent) had lived entirely off the income of a small business.

A study by Rice University's Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business surveyed 150 small to midsize businesses in 19 cities spanning 13 product categories.

A similar study conducted by the Guardian Insurance Company offered even more marked results, with 35 % of small business owners surveyed reporting that they actually started their businesses to fund their retirements.

Winners also receive a trip to Google's headquarters for a small - business marketing workshop, a Chromebook laptop and a $ 2,000 credit toward a market research study with Google Consumer Surveys.

Overall, concluded political scientist Yun - han Chu, who studied Asian Barometer surveys about East Asians» commitment to democracy, «authoritarianism remains a fierce competitor of democracy in East Asia,» in no small part because of the influence of China's ability to foster economic success without real political change, providing an alternative model that is clearly visible to other East Asians, who travel to China, work with Chinese companies, buy Chinese products, and host Chinese officials.

The study consisted of a survey of over 400 small business owners coupled with a set of 26 in - depth interviews with «successful» business owners.

Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two previous papers: one by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other by Jones and Riddell which uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.

The same study (which surveyed 1,017 businesses in the U.S., Canada and Mexico that use NAFTA, including 669 small businesses, 234 medium - sized businesses and 114 large businesses) shows only 15 per cent of small businesses and 16 per cent of medium - sized businesses are closely following the negotiations, and are aware of the key issues and potential outcomes.

The study — a survey of 1,500 consumers concluded that despite a rush of online retailers competing to offer same - day shipping, only a small fraction of consumers (9 percent of those surveyed) have any interest in such a service.

The seven - year study was designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

[5] Longley op cit p254 [6] Humanae Vitae n. 17 [7] To date, the evidence for this claim is limited to small scale studies and nonrandom surveys.

So thinks the Pew Research Center, which today released the second wave of a massive study designed to «fill the gap» left by the United States census (no questions on religion), the self - reporting of denominations («widely differing criteria»), and smaller surveys (too few questions or people).

Yep, that's right: a recent study in the British Journal of Nutrition found that soup eaters tend to weigh less and have smaller waists than those who don't eat soup: their findings were based on reports of more than 20,000 Americans surveyed by the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys between 2003 and 2008.

And while the study had a fairly small respondent pool — surveying 300 male and female Americans aged between 18 and 35 that snack regularly — it highlights that consumers are looking to increase the convenience of their eating habits.

Putting the ANZOS research findings into context, the same dietary survey used for the study (2007 Kids Eat, Kids Play) found that beverages including sugar - sweetened soft drinks and fruit drinks contributed a relatively small and declining proportion of total energy intake amongst Australian children:

Most studies are small and qualitative (Kathleen Kendall - Tackett's, Cheryl Beck's, and Listening to Mothers Surveys, being exceptions).

It has been observed by several clinical studies and surveyed by awareness groups that this product is no longer safe to be used in small babies.

On Thursday, the City Council approved a bill requiring the Department of Small Business Services to survey and study the gender, ethnic, and racial makeup of executive - level staff and board members of companies that contract with the city.

Their hunch paid off 2 years later, when study co-author and paleontologist Iyad Zalmout of the Saudi Geological Survey in Jeddah found a small bone stuck in the sediment.

Although nearly three - quarters of women taking a recent survey had one or more risk factors for heart disease, a startlingly small proportion — just 16 percent — had actually been told by their doctors that these factors put them at risk for heart disease, according to a study scheduled for presentation at the American College of Cardiology's 65th Annual Scientific Session.

[2] This quantity is in fact much larger than the numbers quoted by previous studies which surveyed smaller regions, leaving out many of the cluster's stars that lie further from its core.

The small study, based on a survey of 236 cardiologists and internal medicine physicians and trainees at a large tertiary academic medical center, found that although physicians rate nutrition to be as important as statins in terms of reducing the risk of cardiovascular disease, only 13.5 percent agreed or strongly agreed that they were adequately trained to discuss nutrition with patients.

Previous sky surveys with ground - based telescopes have mainly detected giant planets, while NASA's Kepler observatory has uncovered the existence of many smaller exoplanets, but their host stars are faint and difficult to study.

From this survey data, NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as large ground - based observatories will be able to further characterize the targets, making it possible for the first time to study the masses, sizes, densities, orbits, and atmospheres of a large cohort of small planets, including a sample of rocky worlds in the habitable zones of their host stars.

For the Pediatrics study, surveys were mailed to 847 level III NICUs, which are capable of caring for the smallest and sickest newborns.

The pilot study — an autumn 2014 online survey complemented with focus groups — looked into the career paths of some 500 young scientists who had obtained a Ph.D. in the previous 7 years and done at least one postdoc with one of a small and diverse range of research and funding organizations.

There are plenty of uncertainties in extrapolating from small, diverse, local studies, particularly in trying to estimate overall species vulnerabilities, says Wayne Thogmartin of the U.S. Geological Survey in LaCrosse, Wis..

In a 1998 study, the U.S. Geological Survey estimated that federally owned lands in that region contain 4.3 billion to 11.8 billion barrels of recoverable oil, mostly spread out in small deposits.

For their study, the researchers compared data from the 2003 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS), a cross-sectional survey of U.S. households conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, with data from a smaller survey of 628 African - American and non-Hispanic white men living in BaltSurvey (NHIS), a cross-sectional survey of U.S. households conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, with data from a smaller survey of 628 African - American and non-Hispanic white men living in Baltsurvey of U.S. households conducted by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's National Center for Health Statistics, with data from a smaller survey of 628 African - American and non-Hispanic white men living in Baltsurvey of 628 African - American and non-Hispanic white men living in Baltimore.

They may also be less generous: Studies involving money games show that upper - class subjects keep more for themselves, and U.S. surveys find that the rich give a smaller percentage of their income to charity than do the poor.

Deep Ecliptic Survey In this study, a mosaic of eight CCD detectors coupled to the 3.8 - meter Mayall Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory near Tucson, Arizona, scanned for faint Kuiper belt objects as small as 30 miles in diameter.

Instead of conducting a narrow and deep study of a small area of the sky, the team broadened their scope to produce the widest survey of very distant galaxies ever attempted.

A new study by astronomers at University of California at Berkeley shows when it comes to planets, smaller means more, a finding that has strong implications for the prospects of relatively puny planets like Earth appearing in other solar systems.like So far, the smallest extrasolar planets found to date are about two to three times Earth's mass, but a random survey of 166 nearby stars shows the extended family of planets is fairly robust.

A second smaller survey involved roughly 7,500 American seniors, average age 68, enrolled in the Health And Retirement Study.

Taking the findings forward While the scale of this project was very small, with teachers from five schools being surveyed, informal conversations with a range of educators seems to indicate that the conclusions of the study are valid.

A major innovation in the study is its use of information contained in NYC's Learning Environment Surveys to characterize the small school environment for those in the experiment.

While the scale of this project was very small, with teachers from five schools being surveyed, informal conversations with a range of educators seems to indicate that the conclusions of the study are valid.

They designed their study as a collaborative effort to draw deeper insights, faster, by overcoming the «small sample» problems endemic to exit surveys.

The NAEP teacher survey data on implementation is all self - reported, and the study only looks at small slices of the common core at two grade levels.

While the study surveyed a broad base of teachers in the initial phase of the study, the interview and classroom observations were small in scope.

Over half of CPS teachers surveyed for a small - scale study by an education policy group said they do not regularly use strategies learned in professional development provided by the district.

Summary: This article reports on in - depth case studies of three urban, socioeconomically and racially diverse small public high schools, a student survey, and a comparison of student survey results to a national sample of students, Hamedani et al. investigate the ways in which school - wide social emotional learning can be implemented and how these efforts shape students» educational experiences.

The Chevrolet Sonic received the lowest number of problems per 100 vehicles among Small Cars in the J.D. Power 2017 U.S. Vehicle Dependability Study, based on 35,186 total responses, measuring problems experienced during the past 12 months by original owners, surveyed October - December 2016.

However, this study, using data from the California Department of Insurance's annual survey, only compares a small number of factors, and only goes to show that rates can vary significantly based.

A couple of years ago we published a small survey study exploring the impact on retention and perceived attachment when obtaining a pet as a gift.

The goal of the current study was to address some of the weaknesses of previous studies, which suffered from small sample sizes, lack of long term follow up, lack of random assignment to groups, and reliance on owner recall rather than frequent surveys of current kitten behavior.

Although few studies about the numbers of animals entering shelters and the numbers of healthy animals euthanized in shelters have been done and those that are available depend on a limited number of survey responses, all indications are that fewer dogs are entering animal shelters, more of the dogs that are entering shelters are leaving for new homes, and there is actually a shortage of puppies and small dogs in some areas of the country.