Sentences with phrase «startling findings»

The most startling finding is that parents are drawing false comfort in comparing themselves to neighboring districts.

Other startling findings in this particular study showed that excess calories caused high blood pressure particularly in men, and the risk of cardiac death doubled for women.

But other researchers are now confirming their key points and logging even more startling findings.

One of the most startling findings is that for traditional publishers, 48 % of their sales are online in the form of either audiobooks or ebooks.

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

Now the leader of that earlier research, paleontologist Lee Berger of the University of Witwatersrand (Wits University), and his colleagues have announced via three papers in the same journal more startling finds concerning H. naledi.

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.

The most startling finding in recent work on animal intelligence is how smart some birds are, especially parrots and crows.

But what may be the most startling finding is that the city's Law Department hindered the investigation and blocked access to City Hall computers.

So it caused quite a stir when the front page of the Washington Post yesterday reported one of the book's more startling findings: That it was John G. Roberts Jr., now chief justice of the United States, who suggested to Bush that he nominate Harriet E. Miers to a seat on the Supreme Court.

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

GEM has come up with some startling findings.

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.

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.

Late last month, the NSPCC released some startling findings.

The New York City Independent Budget Office, the nonpartisan government watchdog, recently issued a report with some startling findings: Students in public charter schools will receive a lot less public funding and support this year than students in district schools.

Co-author, Dr Ioannis Gallos, academic clinical lecturer and subspecialist trainee in reproductive medicine and surgery at the same institutions, said: «One startling finding was the high prevalence of vitamin D deficiency among these women.

The magnitude of the phytoplankton bloom is one of the startling findings of the study, says Walker Smith, a biological oceanographer at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point, who was not connected with the study.

Murray and colleagues discussed a few of the startling findings filling the global burden ocean.

It also means that new and startling finds may remain to be discovered at even the most thoroughly combed sites.

«The startling finding is that those who didn't respond well to medicine were different immunologically before 9/11 than those who did,» Dr. Weiden said.

The startling finding is based on only a couple dozen soldiers and needs to be replicated within a larger group, but several other small studies over the past six years suggest a similar relationship.

I find Peter Dobromylskyj's posts on Denise Minger's startling findings the most cogent.

In May, a new organization called Learning Heroes released a survey with a startling finding: 90 percent of parents believe that their children are performing at «grade level» or higher in their schoolwork.

As he noted in a 1967 essay for The Public Interest, his report's most startling finding — that students» achievement appeared to be more strongly related to their family background than their schools» resources — posed a challenge for policymakers seeking to narrow racial gaps in achievement.

Nearly 80 % of self - published authors are making $ 1000 or less per year, but in a startling find, 54 % of traditionally published authors also make $ 1000 or less annually.

That kind of thinking may help explain this startling finding in a just - released Society of Actuaries report: Only 48 percent of retirees surveyed in 2009 had completely paid off their mortgages, compared with 76 percent in the group's 2007 study.

Research by wildlife officials revealed a startling finding: the Tasmanian devil population was being rapidly decimated by a new type of infectious cancer.

Among his startling findings: only 62 percent (less than two - thirds) of the sources cited by the IPCC back in 2001 were peer - reviewed.

Yes, the ongoing investigation into the hacked climate emails that the media has dumbly taken to calling «ClimateGate» has revealed some startling findings — the hacking very well may have been carried out by ex-KGB members.Ex - KGB Hackers to Blame?

In its most startling finding, our report shows that basic advice funded by legal aid has now dropped by 75 % since the implementation of the LASPO cuts in April 2013 and is continuing to fall.

A recent study from Sun Life Financial reveals some startling findings.

The startling find echoes broader concerns about cyber security in an industry that is highly vulnerable to attacks.

Perhaps the most startling finding is that 57 % of landlords never or only sometimes run tenant credit checks.

Perhaps the most startling finding was that handhelds / PDAs, promoted as a perfect productivity solution for anyone who spends time away from the office, are only carried by 10.4 percent of respondents.