Sentences with phrase «startling finding of»

The most startling finding of the report, released by the nonpartisan think - tank, MassINC (The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth), is that 667,000 of the 1.1 million at - risk workers have earned a high school credential but still lack basic math, reading, writing, language, and analytic skills at the level considered acceptable for the typical 21st century workplace.

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When Stanford researchers recently peered into the brains of students to see how attitude affects achievement, they found something startling.

(And if you're in the market for more startling numbers having to do with gender diversity, «the findings come on the heels of a report by the McKinsey Global Institute that showed $ 28 trillion could be added to global GDP by 2025 if men and women contributed equally to the workforce,» the UK's Guardian newspaper notes.

Another startling study found that «strong social connection leads to a 50 percent increased chance of longevity.»

Here are a few of the startling findings Seppälä lays out.

That's the startling finding from our annual survey of the world's most reputable companies, conducted by international research and consulting firm Reputation Institute.

It found that in the 17 - year period to December 2000, the S&P 500 returned an average of 16.29 % per year, while the typical equity investor achieved only 5.32 % for the same period — a startling 9 % difference!

Startling evidence for the lack of robustness in today's market comes from a 2013 Securities and Exchange Commission report that found order cancellation rates as high as 95 - 97 percent, a result of high - frequency traders playing their cat - and - mouse game.

In response to the startling statistics, the U.S. has seen an influx of venture capital firms founded by women to invest in startups with female executives.

In a research report recently completed for the Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada, I document some startling findings: Canada, perhaps more than any other country, has played a pivotal role in the development of China's system of higher education since the beginning of China's period of Opening and Reform.

Fixed in my memory is the year I was startled almost speechless when suddenly I found myself drawing an ashen cross on the forehead of our daughter, who was then barely three years old.

Studies that try to do a better job of tracking high incomes have found startling results.

Such startling propositions - the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years - have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

In Dante's startling decision to frame the work in this manner, we find the demon of experiment that always drove him.

Such startling propositions — the product of findings by archaeologists digging in Israel and its environs over the last 25 years — have gained wide acceptance among non-Orthodox rabbis.

In this issue, we go inside the incredible rise and startling fall of Invisible Children, and find out...

Most scholars will be startled to learn that the «scrolls contain definite references to the New Testament and, more importantly, to Jesus of Nazareth»; that fragments of New Testament books were found in the Dead Sea caves; that one scroll mentions the crucifixion of Jesus; and that some Jews at Qumran accepted Jesus as the Messiah.

This is a startling achievement in a society that finds security in featureless and easily comprehensible cultural landscapes, and consequently seeks to smooth anything too complex and particular into a barely distinguishable example of a type: just another sporting event; just another television broadcast; just another weekend distraction.

If you really look into the foundations of mathematics, logic, and science, you will find that there are some startling theorems PROVING how formal knowledge is necessarily «incomplete»; this in itself does not «prove» the existence of a God, but it does prove (mathematically) that there are limits to formal and scientific knowledge.

I found this statistic startling: 800,000 children's lives would be saved every year because of the benefits of breast milk if they were to be breastfed within an hour of being born, only fed breast milk for the first 6 months of life and then continued until they hit the age of 2.

Physiologic studies have demonstrated that, in general, swaddling decreases startling, 301 increases sleep duration, and decreases spontaneous awakenings.310 Swaddling also decreases arousability (ie, increases cortical arousal thresholds) to a nasal pulsatile air - jet stimulus, especially in infants who are easily arousable when not swaddled but less so in infants who have high arousal thresholds when not swaddled.301 One study found decreased arousability in infants at 3 months of age who were not usually swaddled and then were swaddled but found no effect on arousability in routinely swaddled infants.301 In contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddled.

Startled to find himself called upon, he put his glass of red wine down on the nearest available surface.

LOCALS were startled last week when thousands of Skittles were found on a road in Wisconsin.

This finding is startling to scientists who study cetaceans and other marine life, as it is becoming clearer that whales rely heavily on the integrity of their acoustic habitat.

Blood measurements found startling differences in the biochemistry of the sheep carrying the HD gene, compared to the normal sheep.

The results of a random survey were even more startling: The officials found that 76 percent of the residents surveyed in Matamoros had dengue antibodies, indicating prior exposure to the virus.

But even for stars with ages of several hundred million years, Spitzer found a startling number of bright dusty clouds.

The finding is «startling and unsettling,» says planetary theorist Alan Boss of the Carnegie Institution of Washington in Washington, D.C.

But when Fee's team examined finches that were missing this part of the brain — dubbed the high vocal centre (HVC)-- they were startled to find that the birds didn't go mute.

But a more startling finding came this year with a report that reaction time proved an even stronger predictor of life span than IQ.

A Nature study published in April made a startling claim: Rounded stones found beside fractured mastodon bones near San Diego were evidence of someone processing the animal's remains 130,000 years ago.

Now, researchers studying mice have found one of the most powerful tumor suppressor genes yet — animals lacking it have a startling 50 % chance of developing cancer.

The first measurement of an ultra-diffuse galaxy's mass finds that dark matter makes up more than 99.96 per cent of its weight - a startling figure

This year, scientists peering closely at RNAi in two different organisms were startled to find that small RNAs responsible for RNAi wield tremendous control over the shape of chromatin.

«What we're seeing is a star that is the cosmic equivalent of «Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde,» with the ability to change from one form to its more intense counterpart with startling speed,» said Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO) in Charlottesville, Va. «Though we have known that X-ray binaries — some of which are observed as X-ray pulsars — can evolve over millions of years to become rapidly spinning radio pulsars, we were surprised to find one that seemed to swing so quickly between the two.»

Brown and Marsh have found that a startling 89 percent of the students feel certain they've visited the other campus, though they've never been there before.

More startling, Cassini found that Enceladus, just one - tenth the size of Titan, is also active, venting water vapor and a spray of fine icy particles from cracks at its south pole.

At both camps, the teams have found a startling array of everyday items and personal keepsakes, as well as the rubble of the gas chambers where unsuspecting victims met their end.

At impact you find yourself noticing surreal details — the bright orange jacket of a startled pedestrian, the low - hung branches of a dogwood tree at the side of the road.

By looking at the responses of closely related crickets, the scientists found the most likely origin for the female vibrational signal was a startle reflex seen in other crickets in response to loud high frequency sounds.

As startling genetic findings change our understanding of the colonisation of the Americas, New Scientist explains what the archaeology has told us so far

That's one of the startling new findings of a long - term study of more than 700 men from birth to early adulthood in the Philippines.

He and his team were startled to find two genetic footprints, in the form of messenger RNAs (mRNAs), for COX - 1 in dog brain.

Dr. Trumble found something startling when he looked into the Tsimane data: Many of those with a copy of the gene seemed to perform better on the cognitive tests.

In early 1997, while still a freshman in college pondering whether to study biology or archaeology, I opened up my copy of Discover Magazine to find an article that startled and captivated me.

«What is startling and amazing about this work is that Dr Brink was able to take teeth with these steak knife - like serrations and find a way to make cuts to obtain sections along the cutting edge of these teeth,» said co-author Prof Robert Reisz, also from the University of Toronto Mississauga.

Then, just last year, startling new findings indicated that mutations in the BRCA breast cancer gene are as likely in women in the general population as they are for those with a family history of breast cancer.

If you find yourself shaking, unable to think, unable to eat, startling easily, and inundated with anxiety, you will need to calm these feelings before you can do much of anything.

One startling revelation researchers found is that gut bacteria starved of the plant fiber they need for fuel instead appear to feed on the protective mucus layer that lines the intestines.