Sentences with phrase «smaller than that of peer»

XLE pulls its stocks from the S&P 500 rather than the total market, so its portfolio is somewhat smaller than that of peer funds, and it favors large - caps.

Not exact matches

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

The club Lee and her peers belong to is a small one: fewer than 6 % of all decision - markers at U.S. venture capital firms were women last year, according to a Fortune analysis.

Historically, early - stage venture returns for small funds — defined as those with less than $ 250 million of committed capital — have outpaced those of their larger peers.

The MSU job is commonly regarded as the hardest in the SEC West — the facilities are good but no better than that of division peers, there's less history to sell, and Starkville is small and isolated.

Oddo modeled his latest push after a smaller scale study done at Ohio State University which showed teens have a better chance of convincing their peers to cut back on the drinks than adults.

One index of his small band's productivity is their publication of more than 120 articles in peer - reviewed journals in the six years since the institute was founded.

We have sent robots to places humans could never have survived and peered into the cosmos with instruments far more capable than our human senses, all for a small fraction of what it costs to send a living, breathing person into Earth's orbit.

The results from the study showed that men who reported earlier or later onset of puberty than their peers had a poorer semen quality and smaller testicles at age 19 years of age.

When there is a deficiency of human growth hormone in children, the child is usually retarded in height and actually looks a great deal smaller or younger than the rest of his or her peers.

Research has found that daily eating of small quantities of peers or apples increase * your metabolism than those who do not consume.

The result is that African - American students who switched from public to private schools scored, on average, 6.3 points higher than their public school peers; by contrast, Krueger reports effects of between 9.1 and 9.8 points for African - Americans placed in smaller classes.

But in the first group of WINGS kids, a small class of 18 that started in 1999, the high school graduation rate was 42 percent higher than the rate for their peers.

For instance, learners might not be suitably driven to complete an eLearning course, but if their social reputation is at stake or they are conscious of the fact that they might get a smaller grade than their peers, the motivation to excel will definitely increase.

Less able or less motivated incumbent teachers might find themselves earning smaller salary increases than some of their peers.

The cost of effective peer tutoring is higher than alternatives, such as computer - assisted instruction or smaller class sizes or longer school days, because of the needs for adult personnel to coordinate, train, and monitor the student tutors.

We examined whether larger networks are more effective than smaller ones and found that, both with and without correcting for student and peer socioeconomic characteristics and selection bias, students at schools that are part of networks of three or more schools consistently outperform students at schools in networks of only two schools.

Teenagers are more conscious of what their peers will think than a small child might be, and won't necessarily respond in the same way to techniques designed to help them cope in the classroom.

Additionally, though their sample was too small to establish causality, Schiess and Rotherham found that rural students are more likely than their urban peers to choose less - rigorous diploma options and to opt out of higher level math courses such as algebra II.

Research has consistently demonstrated that low - income students who attend smaller high schools have better academic outcomes in terms of achievement, graduation rates, and discipline issues than their peers in larger schools.

Unhappy with those findings, they then exaggerated the value of teacher compensation by comparing the retirement benefits of the small minority of teachers who stay in the classroom for 30 years, rather than comparing the pension benefits for the typical teacher to their peers in other professions.

The students in the smaller classes performed better and had a higher likelihood of lifelong success than their peers in the larger classes.

However, comprehensives studies show Consortium Schools have higher graduation rates, better college attendance rates, and smaller gaps in outcomes between students of color and their white peers than the rest of New York's public schools.

A 2011 report (PDF) by Stanford's Center for Research on Education Outcomes (CREDO), using a different methodology, indicated students in Pennsylvania's online charter schools «have significantly smaller gains in reading and math than those of their traditional public school peers.»

Smaller groups appear to be better - groups of 3 to 4 students are usually more efficient than larger groups of 5 to 7 students in terms of teacher and student time, lower cost, increased instructional time, increased peer interaction, and improved generalization of skills.

The gist of it lies in its name: T, says VW, brings it closer to its Touareg and Tiguan peers, although the T - Roc is smaller than both of them as it sits below the Tiguan.

Coupled with an Acceptable small frontal overlap rating, rather than the Good most of the Escape's peers have earned, the Escape is behind the segment's average for safety.

Even though the fund suffered a smaller decline in 2008 than its peer world allocation funds did -LRB--20.6 vs. -29 % per Morningstar), it significantly declined against its reference portfolio of ETFs.

So you don't have to worry that your large - cap manager is going to dip into small stocks or that your value - oriented manager is going to stretch the definition of value and buy high - flying tech issues to juice returns and look better than their peers.

A study of 888 campaigns mounted by activist hedge funds between 2001 and 2005 finds that the typical target companies are small to mid cap companies, have above average market liquidity, trade at low price to book value ratios, are profitable with solid cash flows and pay their CEOs more than other companies in their peer group.

You have a great blog and are clearly very bright and above many of your peers in the finance industry.As you know, when the market goes down, it pretty much takes everything down with it and small caps have been hit even harder.Everyone feels dumb when the prices of their stocks decline and feels smart and vindicated when prices turnaround and shoot up.We are living in challenging times and the macro is likely to affect future stockmarket performance affecting 80 % of all stocks for a long time to come.Stocks as part ownership of businesses are affected by the global economy.In the meantime, most stock prices have been gyrating based more on Mr Market's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anything else.

Even against 400 % + return of Sun Pharma, small cap peers Ajanta Pharma generated more than 5000 % + (100 times) return during your above mentioned period.Similarly against 200 % + return of ITC, Page Industries (and many more) generated better return during the prolonged bear period.

The fund has put up an impressive track record, averaging 20 % a year over the past five years, better than 99 % of its foreign small - and mid-cap peers and more than double the returns of its benchmark, the MSCI World ex-USA small growth index.

A small double blinded study of dogs with moderate to severe osteoarthritis showed that dogs receiving the homeopathic blend Zeel ® (made by Heel) for eight weeks had significantly less pain than their placebo peers, although carprofen was more effective.

Smaller than their peers, they punctuate the space with intense bursts of saturated color and off - hand remarks.

To begin with, he fails to consider that we had already performed a great deal of scientific investigation, scanning more than 12,000 abstracts and determining that papers rejecting human - caused global warming had a vanishingly small presence in the peer - reviewed literature.

Then of those, only a small subset, just 77 who had been successful in getting more than half of their papers recently accepted by peer - reviewed climate science journals, were considered in their survey statistic.

It is proposed that the size of the chamber «be significantly reduced» from its current size (746 in July 2008, although of course not all peers attend) so that it would be smaller than the Commons (646 MPs).

On average, children and adolescents with chronic physical illnesses had higher levels of depressive symptoms than their healthy peers — a small to very small effect (Table I).

Many of the scales demonstrated weak psychometrics in at least one of the following ways: (a) lack of psychometric data [i.e., reliability and / or validity; e.g., HFQ, MASC, PBS, Social Adjustment Scale - Self - Report (SAS - SR) and all perceived self - esteem and self - concept scales], (b) items that fall on more than one subscale (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version), (c) low alpha coefficients (e.g., below.60) for some subscales, which calls into question the utility of using these subscales in research and clinical work (e.g., HFQ, MMPI - A, CBCL - 1991 version, BASC, PSPCSAYC), (d) high correlations between subscales (e.g., PANAS - C), (e) lack of clarity regarding clinically - relevant cut - off scores, yielding high false positive and false negative rates (e.g., CES - D, CDI) and an inability to distinguish between minor (i.e., subclinical) and major (i.e., clinical) «cases» of a disorder (e.g., depression; CDI, BDI), (f) lack of correspondence between items and DSM criteria (e.g., CBCL - 1991 version, CDI, BDI, CES - D, (g) a factor structure that lacks clarity across studies (e.g., PSPCSAYC, CASI; although the factor structure is often difficult to assess in studies of pediatric populations, given the small sample sizes), (h) low inter-rater reliability for interview and observational methods (e.g., CGAS), (i) low correlations between respondents such as child, parent, teacher [e.g., BASC, PSPCSAYC, CSI, FSSC - R, SCARED, Connors Ratings Scales - Revised (CRS - R)-RSB-, (j) the inclusion of somatic or physical symptom items on mental health subscales (e.g., CBCL), which is a problem when conducting studies of children with pediatric physical conditions because physical symptoms may be a feature of the condition rather than an indicator of a mental health problem, (k) high correlations with measures of social desirability, which is particularly problematic for the self - related rating scales and for child - report scales more generally, and (l) content validity problems (e.g., the RCMAS is a measure of anxiety, but contains items that tap mood, attention, peer interactions, and impulsivity).

This pattern of change in means over the decade between the 2005 study and ours appears consistent with the small, but significant, increases observed between 2007 and 2012 in the self - report subscale means for Total Difficulties, Emotional Symptoms, Peer Relationship Problems and Hyperactivity - Inattention (but a decrease in Conduct Problems) in nationally representative New Zealand samples of children aged 12 — 15 years, 28 and with a similar increase in Emotional Symptoms and decrease in Conduct Problems between 2009 and 2014 in English community samples of children aged 11 — 13 years.29 The mean PLE score in the MCS sample aligned closely with that reported previously for a relatively deprived inner - city London, UK, community sample aged 9 — 12 years19 using these same nine items, although the overall prevalence of a «Certainly True» to at least one of the nine items in the MCS (52.2 %) was lower than that obtained in the London sample (66.0 %).8

Jones (1957) did a longitudinal study comparing males who were slow developers — smaller than most of their peers throughout childhood — with early developers.

Observations of rejected children have revealed that they spend more time playing alone and interacting in smaller groups than their more popular peers.

Several smaller studies have investigated the relationship of paternal and child mental health, and they have reported related findings among children of different ages than those in the study reported in this article.14, — , 21 One study found an association between paternal depression and excessive infant crying.45 Another study found that children aged 9 to 24 months with depressed fathers are more likely to show speech and language delays, 19,21 whereas another study reported that children aged 2 years with depressed fathers tended to be less compliant with parental guidance.17 Among children aged 4 to 6 years, paternal depression has been found to be associated with increases in problems with prosocial behaviors and peer problems.15 Only 1 other study we are aware of was population based; it was from England and investigated related issues among much younger children, 23 demonstrating that both maternal and paternal depressive symptoms predicted increased child mood and emotional problems at 6 and 24 months of age.

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