Sentences with phrase «startling findings in»

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

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.

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(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.

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 executiveIn 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 executivein startups with female executives.

Funny thing, though: when job - to - job comparisons are actually made, we get startling differences in the findings.

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 ReforIn 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 Reforin 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.

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

But I am a little startled in reading on to find that «this conclusion does show that Whitehead's categories exclude regional inclusion from his system, in principle.»

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.

Some children wake startled and confused if they have gone to sleep with a parent in the room and wake to find themselves alone.

Stephanie became determined to restore sleep and sanity to their household and set out to find a solution that would soothe Charlotte's startle reflex and provide her the cozy womb - like environment she loved so much but still give her the freedom to roll over and wiggle around in her crib safely.

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 swaddlein 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 swaddlein 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 swaddlein 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 swaddlein 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 swaddlein 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 swaddleIn contrast, another group of investigators showed decreased arousal thresholds310 and increases in autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddlein autonomic (subcortical) responses311 to an auditory stimulus when swaddled.

And now it seems startled to find itself in a disadvantageous position.

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

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.

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

Perhaps their most startling and controversial finding is that individuals show distinct personality traits, the first ever measured in an invertebrate.

Man - made estrogenlike compounds found in pesticides, PCBs, and detergents could cause startling problems for songbirds.

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.

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.»

Added to this, the serious investigations that were undertaken concentrated almost exclusively on the startling and beautiful Nasca art style found on polychrome pottery in tombs, and on classifying and dating these ceramics.

In Levine's view, Darwin's references to domestic life help to make him a character with whom the reader can identify as he finds «startling» explanations for...

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.

In fact, the researchers were so startled to see such a blaring signal in the data that they held off on publishing it for more than a year, looking for all possible alternative explanations for the pattern they founIn fact, the researchers were so startled to see such a blaring signal in the data that they held off on publishing it for more than a year, looking for all possible alternative explanations for the pattern they founin the data that they held off on publishing it for more than a year, looking for all possible alternative explanations for the pattern they found.

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.

«It's quite startling that this benefit is found in people so many years after they have attended Guides or Scouts,» says Dibben.

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 mIn 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 min 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.

A few years ago geneticists made the startling discovery that yeast, the organism found in bread and beer, has prions, too.

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.

When researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel began studying the effects of aspartame, sucralose and other artificial sweeteners in the body, what they found was startling.

► A woman carries a rifle down to a road on her farm where she sees a man wearing a biohazard - radiation suit and he shouts and cries for joy when he finds clean air; the woman follows the man to a pond beneath a waterfall and watches him, as he stands in it, bare from the waist up until he falls down, ill and jabbering nonsensically until she points a rifle at him, lowers it and he points a handgun at her and fires, missing her; the woman tells the man to get out of the radiation - contaminated water and he startles, climbs out and scans himself with a Geiger counter that clicks loud and fast as he spits water toward the camera followed by watery yellowish vomit and she helps him to his handcart on the road, where she administers an anti-radiation injection (please see the Substance Use category for more details).

But Beasts of the Southern Wild is such a startling achievement, and the now nine - year - old Quvenzhané Wallis so compelling and defining a presence in the film's principal role, that the pre-teen talent may find herself up against the big girls come Oscar night in February - and rightly so.

When they come across the burned - out homestead where Rosalee Quaid (Rosamund Pike) lived with her husband and children before they were massacred by a bloodthirsty gang of Comanches, they're startled to find the traumatised Rosalee sitting in the wreckage, still clutching the bloodied corpse of her baby.

Classic startle effects can be found in Brian De Palma's «Carrie,» when Carrie White's hand shoots up from the grave, and the original «Alien,» when John Hurt develops serious tummy trouble.

When a mother and daughter are found brutally murdered in 19th century Baltimore, Detective Emmett Fields (Luke Evans) makes a startling discovery: the crime resembles a fictional murder described in gory detail in the local newspaper — part of a collection of stories penned by struggling writer and social pariah Edgar Allan Poe.

Instead of a more polished product, I was startled to find that each of the modes in the Definitive Edition manages to be glitchy in its own distinct way.

Early in the film, she undergoes eye transplants, but instead of finding relief in seeing the world anew, Emma is faced with startling visions possibly connected to a murder that took place in her building.

In the morning, he awakes to find a sweet, lively teddy who startles everyone.

«Originally we panned down from the crawl and found this,» said Johnson, referencing Finn startling awake in his portable bacta tank / suit.