Sentences with phrase «spent researching and studying»

A good six months of that time was spent researching and studying.

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Although Milkie's research — a large - scale, longitudinal study — didn't dispute the positive and necessary benefits of sharing meals or one - to - one time, it did find that the quantity of time parents spent with their little ones mattered little.

As a new study from the Shareholder Association for Research and Education shows, some well - known Canadian corporations have been spending on political influence south of the border as well.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

According to a study released by Battelle Memorial Institute, Research and Development (R&D) spending in China this year is likely to reach $ 284 billion, up 22 percent from 2012.

An Edison Research study on the audio habits of Americans found that podcast listeners are actually «super listeners,» consuming more than one hour and 45 minutes of audio per day than the average American, and they spend more than 25 percent of their total audio time listening to podcasts.

This research supports the findings of other studies, which show that spending time in nature and increasing your exposure to sunlight can lead to higher levels of creativity.

According to a study published last year by the National Bureau of Economic Research, American consumers are spending an estimated extra $ 44 billion a year on brand - name drugs, health care items and pantry goods.

I spent a year studying how girls learn best, researching gender differences, talking with neuroscientists and observing children's play patterns.

A research fellow at the Faraday Institute of Science and Religion at the University of Cambridge's St. Edmund's College, Dutton has spent most of his career studying the science of social influence.

Our analysis reviews 30 case studies in 11 research papers published between 1992 and 2007 that provide estimates of the cost of turnover, finding that businesses spend about one - fifth of an employee's annual salary to replace that worker.

Spending on genetic tests has reached $ 5 billion annually and is on track to reach $ 15 billion to $ 25 billion within a decade, according to a recent study commissioned by the research arm of UnitedHealthcare.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

Preliminary Analysis Case Study # 1 Part 1 Constellation Brands Years ago, I would spend hours researching one company on a preliminary basis so I could figure out if I wanted to do further research on it and possibly invest in it.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

As we did in our annual, more global study, we spent a good deal of time in this research looking at the differences between the marketers who rate themselves highly in terms of overall content marketing effectiveness (the «most effective») versus those who rate themselves as least effective to understand the gaps and identify best practices for paid content promotion.

Debby Applegate, who holds a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale, is well qualified to tell the story of Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887), having spent nearly two decades researching and writing on her subject.

He undertook study and research over a wide range of subjects and is said to have spent over two thousand pounds (a large fortune in those days) on books, instruments and apparatus.

About one percent of the twelve billion dollars spent annually on research in our country is spent studying people and their problems.

No, research and writing is not my full - time job, but I figure I spend about 10 hours a week or so in study.

stephen hawking has one of the highest IQ's in the world and has spent his life studying and researching how the world works and how life was created what is your profession?

Rick became a Master Composter of Tompkins County, NY in 2008 and spent a year after his graduate studies working and studying on a large certified organic farm in Argentina where he developed a new perspective on how laboratory studies translate to on - farm research and application.

There are many news stories and research studies about the dangers kids face when they spend too much time on their electronic devices.

The Academy spent years analyzing all of the available research and ethical issues to develop its official position on the «study drug» matter.

Still, a 2013 study by the Pew Research Center shows that women will still spend 9 more hours each week on child - related and household responsibilities, than men.

They've both spent the last 25 years proving through research and patient studies that a plant - based diet can prevent many standard Western Diseases, including heart disease and diabetes.

A couple of Occupational Therapists completed and published a research study that compared two groups of babies, one group spent 30 minutes minimum of tummy time per day and the other group did not, the tummy time group scored higher on developmental assessments, so perhaps 30 minutes in a good goal per day; most helpful if broken up into mini sessions throughout the day.

A recent study conducted by researchers at the Cincinnati Children's Research Foundation looked at differences in brain activity comparing the times children spent on screens (TV, smartphones, tablets, laptops and desktop computers) versus reading a book.

A modelling exercise for the Resolution Foundation by the Institute for Employment Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies finds that on the basis of annual average UK growth of 2.5 per cent from 2015 - 2020 — an optimistic scenario — and no further cuts in public spending, living standards will fall for low and middle income households by between 3 and 15 per cent (Brewer et al., 2012).

He worked between October 2009 and September 2013 as a senior research fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the Unitedresearch fellow with Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe, a European Research Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the UnitedResearch Council project based at the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Oxford, and spent five months in 2003 on a Fulbright Research Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the UnitedResearch Grant at the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of North Carolina studying the history and standards of political journalism in the United States.

During her PhD she spent time as a visiting fellow at the MZES (Mannheim Centrum for European Social Research) in Germany, and whilst there she was mentored by Hermann Schmitt (BES — British Election Study).

After a year away — part of it spent doing research with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Kenya and Madagascar — he is now back at JCU, where the Australian Research Council funds a center for coral reef research with the Wildlife Conservation Society in Kenya and Madagascar — he is now back at JCU, where the Australian Research Council funds a center for coral reef Research Council funds a center for coral reef studies.

According to Heinz Valtin, a retired professor of physiology from Dartmouth Medical School who specialized in kidney research and spent 45 years studying the biological system that keeps the water in our bodies in balance, the answer is no.

Chuyang Cheng, a fourth - year graduate student in Stoddart's laboratory and first author of the paper, has spent his Ph.D. studies researching molecules that mimic nature's biochemical machinery.

The research, which was to study the effects of environmental stress due to climate change on shrimp and other economically - important species, was attacked as another example of wasteful government spending.

«As a research community, we spend a lot of time searching for good resources and trying to link them together,» said TSRI Research Associate Tim Putman, who was first author of one of the research community, we spend a lot of time searching for good resources and trying to link them together,» said TSRI Research Associate Tim Putman, who was first author of one of the Research Associate Tim Putman, who was first author of one of the studies.

Even though France already spends 2.16 percent of GDP on R&D, studies were showing that both the quantity and quality of French research was declining.

But according to Michael F. Holick, director of the Vitamin D, Skin, and Bone Research Laboratory at Boston University Medical Center, who has spent 30 years studying the vitamin, «rickets can be considered the tip of the vitamin D — deficiency iceberg.»

Two windfalls — the Gabriella Miller Kids First Research Act and the end of the huge National Children's Study — left NIH with an extra $ 150 million and a mandate to spend it on pediatric rResearch Act and the end of the huge National Children's Study — left NIH with an extra $ 150 million and a mandate to spend it on pediatric researchresearch.

Boyd, an archaeologist and director of SHUMLA (Studying Human Use of Materials, Land, and Art), an education and research center in Comstock, Texas, will spend the afternoon scouring the shelter for insight into the ancient residents and their spiritual world.

The study resulted from a collaboration that developed when Gómez - Robles spent a semester at IU studying with Polly while she was a graduate student at the National Research Centre for Human Evolution and at the University of Granada, both in Spain.

Across the Appalachian divide from Fould's Creek, biologist Bill McShea has spent the past 14 years studying the forest at the Smithsonian Institution's Conservation and Research Center in Front Royal, Virginia.

With funding from the Austrian Ministry for Science and Research and the Culture Division of the City of Vienna, Norbert Siegl spent months studying the «gender - specific differences in frequency and thematic content» of the graffiti in the toilets at the University of Vienna.

Having spent his first 5 years in that position establishing his own research theme and tools to study zebrafish development, «now it is thanks to this programme that I can expand and fully develop it.»

The bill does allocate $ 1 million for a «contract» between the FDA's Center for Tobacco Products and the National Academy of Medicine to conduct a more thorough study of the health effects of e-cigarettes and suggest how federal funds should be spent on future e-cigarette research.

I was riding high on a series of recent academic honors for my work studying toxigenic molds and was looking forward to spending a sabbatical leave at The Institute for Genomic Research, now the J. Craig Venter Institute, in Maryland.

«Last month a House of Representatives panel approved a spending bill that would give [NIH] a $ 1.1 billion raise next year, with some of the new money coming from zeroing out funding for the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), which funds studies to improve health care delivery.

Dr Genevieve Healy, senior research fellow at the School of Public Health, The University of Queensland, Australia, who led the study, said: «We found that time spent standing rather than sitting was significantly associated with lower levels of blood sugar and blood fats.

She had spent years immersed in her research and, as is the case with many young scientists, the field study was a vital opportunity to gain experience and advance her career.

For doctoral students studying science, technology, engineering and mathematics, landing a job as a research - oriented college or university faculty member typically requires having spent time as a postdoctoral researcher.