Sentences with phrase «smaller associations find»

Many smaller associations find that having a service maintain their membership roster, produce and distribute routine mail and e-mails, flyers, and notices, collect dues, and manage other administrative tasks relieves member - volunteers of handling those time - consuming tasks.

Not exact matches

A recent survey by the National Small Business Association found that most don't have a new ad or marketing campaign in the works, and one in five has absolutely no growth strategy in place for the coming year.

But Joyce Reynolds, executive vice-president of government affairs for the Canadian Restaurant and Foodservices Association, says just 26,000 (or 2.4 %) of her industry's 1.1 million workers nationwide are temporary foreign workers — most of them found in small communities in Western Canada.

«When you're dealing with something like the bankruptcy issue, where all lenders stand pretty much in the same shoes, it shouldn't be a surprise when the smaller and larger banks find common cause,» said Steve Verdier, a lobbyist for the Independent Community Bankers Association.

The Electronic Transactions Association (ETA) surveyed a group of small businesses and found that when meeting a short - term need, they wanted to minimize the total loan cost to maximize ROI potential.

They had small, elongated, piquin - like fruits on short shrubby plants that were still found in association with mesquite trees and hackberries.

One report examined effect sizes and found that studies sponsored by the food industry reported significantly smaller harmful effects for the association of soft drink consumption with energy intake and body weight than those not sponsored by the food industry.

However, Ermisch and Francesconi (2002) find a small negative association between fathers» employment and children's educational attainment when heterogeneity between fathers is taken into account.

I wish I could read the paper and dive deeper and know for sure, but when you take an overall condition with no association with procedure X, and then break that condition down into smaller bits and find a bit that does have an association with procedure X, I want to take a closer look at the numbers to make sure it's real and not spurious.

In with respect to the quality of mother - infant relations, a prospective longitudinal study of around 1000 young New Zealanders found a small but significant association between breastfeeding duration and adolescents» perceptions of maternal care, with a longer duration of breastfeeding being associated with increased adolescent perceptions of maternal nurturance.9 This association persisted after statistical control for a wide range of the selection factors noted above.

Liff noted that the County's screening panel, which includes representatives from the borough's many smaller bar associations, has in the past rejected the prefered candidate of former party boss Vito Lopez and typically find the same judges to be qualified as the peer - review committees run by the bar associations.

However, in the study, experience of only cyberbullying was found to have a very small association with well - being and life satisfaction when compared with traditional bullying alone.

Founded in 2003 by a small group of local postdoc association leaders, the NPA rapidly has become the pre-eminent leader of and advocate for postdoctoral scholars.

A new report, analyzing cancer incidence in 478,478 men and women ages 25 to 70 over more than eight years in 10 European countries, found «a very small inverse association between the intake of total fruits and vegetables and cancer risk,» the researchers concluded.

For the record, Vul and Walker found a small effect — «enough to bump someone from the 49th to the 51st percentile of attractiveness,» they explain in an October 2013 UC San Diego press release announcing publication of the results in the Association for Psychological Science's online journal.

In fact, no associations were found between early brain responses and long - term outcomes, which could relate to the small size of the study or the fact that several patients were sedated during the fMRI and EEG tests.

In both early stage non-small cell lung cancer and limited stage small cell lung cancer, we found evidence of a significant association between continued smoking and recurrence of the primary tumour; in limited stage small cell lung cancer, we found also evidence of a substantial elevation in the incidence of a second primary tumour.

Jerant and colleagues44 analyzed a small cohort of relatively healthy outpatients (who are, in general, healthier than hospitalized patients) and found no associations between physician sex and patient mortality.

Earlier studies, using smaller sample sizes and less advanced sequencing and statistical methods, had failed to find an association.

These results are similar to our previous findings and 2 recent studies of no association between influenza infection during pregnancy and ASD risk.8, 10,11,13 Our previous 2 studies were limited by small sample sizes and possible recall bias, which were addressed in this study by using a larger sample size and electronic medical records.

A big review in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that people who eat a small serving of fish twice a week may reduce their risk of dying from heart disease by more than a third.

In addition, the analysis also found small, associations between suicidal thoughts and actions and having critical, demanding parents — a condition that has been shown to give rise to children's own perfectionism as they grow into adults.

In addition, Goldacre said the size of the associations they found was small, and should be taken «more as a message for interested researchers than for interested patients.»

Yet the reduction in LDL cholesterol from reducing saturated fat intake seems to be specific to large, buoyant (type A) LDL particles, when in factit is the small, dense (type B) particles (responsive to carbohydrate intake) that are implicated in cardiovascular disease.Indeed, recent prospective cohort studies have not supported any significant association between saturated fat intake and cardiovascular risk Instead, saturated fat has been found to be protective.»

A small number of studies have found that performance in an Olympic lift or a weightlifting derivative is moderate - to - strongly associated with sprint running speed over short distances (Hori et al. 2008; Loturco et al. 2015) and some investigations have also found an association with change of direction (COD) ability (Hori et al. 2008), although others have not (Loturco et al. 2015).

We found significant associations between marijuana use and smaller waist circumferences.

Here's a link to the new study which found an association between low carb and poorer peripheral small artery function.

A smaller, University of Pittsburgh study published Sept. 20 in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that young adults who paired fitness trackers with diet and physical activity actually lost fewer pounds after two years than a similar group who didn't use the devices.

Headliner Antwone Fisher (a rancid piece of garbage I like to refer to as «Good Antwone Fishing» or «Finding Fisher - er») gains esteem just by the association of twinkly - eyed Denzel Washington behind the camera (and stentorian Denzel in front), while small foreign film Evelyn will probably gain esteem by dint of its small and foreign status.

So, I would also encourage you, if you're interested in self - publishing, or if you're interested in finding medium and small publishers, IBPA, the Independent Book Publisher Association, is a really good place to start.

Says Juli McNeely, a former president of the National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors: «Those small accounts will have to find another place to get advice.»

The British Veterinary Association reported that a survey of small animal veterinarians found that 62 percent of them responded to a case of chocolate poisoning last Easter season.

Since the BSAVA was founded in 1957, the Association has been committed to its mission of promoting excellence in small animal practice with a strong focus on innovation in science and education.

Findings did not associate an increase in disease association in the small breeds with spaying or neutering, while in larger breeds disease risk was dependent upon gender, and whether the spay or neuter procedure was performed before or after one year of age (Hart, B.L., L.A. Hart, A.P. Thigpen and N. H. Willits.

In a 2016 survey of pet owners» personal attitudes, the American Pet Products Association found that 61 percent of current pet owners felt that buying pet products made in the USA was important to them, with over 60 percent of respondents in each individual pet category (dog, cat, fish, bird, small animal, reptile and horse) feeling this way.

The World Small Animal Veterinary Association defines IBD as an inflammatory infiltration for which no specific cause can be found.

I did follow the link regarding vaccines, and found the posts are old, but added my thoughts to that thread as well — the Wikipedia page on feline vaccines is interesting food for thought, including the various WSAVA (World Small Animal Veterinary Association) recommendations, which seem to support our concerns.

Dr. Knobel presented his findings at the 2014 World Small Animal Veterinary Association congress in Cape Town, South Africa.

The Cat Welfare Association was founded in 1945 by a small group of people who saw the need for an organization designed specifically to help the many stray and abused cats in the Columbus area.

Rabbits are the most popular small animal pet, but because of the association of rabbits with Easter and the popularity of rabbits in children's stories, stuffed toy rabbits and rabbit specialty products are common and can be found in lots of other stores.

Our findings show that the CKCS has a relatively larger cerebellum than small breed dogs and Labradors and there is an association between increased cerebellar volume and SM in CKCS.

In recognition of the difficulty of finding an online resource that gives cat owners reliable and valid information on cat care, health and behaviour, the World Small Animal Veterinary Association (WSAVA) has endorsed International Cat Care's website information for owners (www.icatcare.org/advice).

All four types of reefs are represented in the Belizean reef complex; the fringing reef which is attached to an island or the mainland, the barrier reef separated from the mainland by a lagoon, the patch reef consisting of small clusters of reef materials found in the lagoon area, and the circular «atolls,» here found in association with Lighthouse Reef, Turneffe Islands, Glovers Reef and some of the more southern cayes.

Sounding a similar note of economic pessimism, a survey released April 23 by the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and the Institute of Management found that accountants and other finance professionals working for both large and small firms are wary too.

Founded in 1964 as the outgrowth of the Southwest Georgia Art Association, the museum originally was housed in an empty hosiery mill; in 1969 a small facility was constructed in a local park.

«Further, studies which focus on a small number of cases in particular are strongly informed by cases where there has been conflict, do not sample on the independent variables (climate impact or risk), and hence tend to find some association between these two variables,» reads the study.

The chances of finding similar associations between two independent data sets in each of the ocean basins is extremely small: very small indeed.

She has found success connecting on listservs and recommends checking with your local Bar Association to see if they have online communities, or signing up for the Thomson Reuters Legal Community for small law firms, which is free if you're a customer.

Metro Detroit Find a Lawyer is made up of a group of attorney members of the Macomb County Bar Association who have legal practices appropriate to consumer and small business needs and who have met Metro Detroit Find a Lawyer Qualifications and agreed to abide by the Nine Commitments to Clients.

But we thought we'd take a little bit of a break from that and talk more about its purpose and why we built it, which is that in law practice and small firm law practice if you are a creative business person or an innovator or tech oriented or trying to think up ways to better serve clients that haven't been tried before, we've found that that can be really isolating and that there can often be a lot of active resistance from other lawyers, from bar associations, from regulators, and that it can just be a really strange experience to be someone trying to make your business better, make the world better, and to feel alone or to feel like people are actively trying to stop you from doing that.