Sentences with phrase «students conducted a study»

University of Washington Ph.D. students conducted a study reviewing fringe banking products — defined as short - term, high - interest loans including car title loans, pawn shops, and payday loans — and their users» health, according to The Guardian.

[FN47] A graduate student conducting a study of feral cat colonies in two Miami - Dade County parks witnessed cats stalk and kill a juvenile common yellowthroat and a blue jay, and found the carcass of a gray catbird in the colony feeding area.

Then women students conducted a study and learned that women actually had a lower turn - over rate than the men who were just switching firms.

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According to a study of 367 college students conducted by biologist Christoph Randler, early risers perform better on the job, attain greater career success, and reap higher wages than people who start their day later.

The study, conducted by Sameer B. Srivastava, Ph.D. and doctoral student Eliot Sherman at the University of California, Berkeley's Haas School of Business, found that low - performing women who switched from a male supervisor to a high - performing female supervisor earned substantially less than men who made a similar shift.

Students complete monthly Friday - Sunday intensives and conduct case studies by carrying out work projects in their own organizations.

A study conducted by Hanover Research found that 87 % of surveyed college students said analytics on their performance had a positive influence on their learning.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Sydney and examined three groups of students, who were tasked with completing an «alternate uses» test — a common creativity drill wherein subjects are given an object and asked to come up with as many uses for it as they can.

Nordgren conducted the research with Brian Lucas, who worked on the study as a Ph.D. student at Kellogg and is now a faculty member at the University of Chicago Booth School.

The 2011 study, conducted by a team of psychologists at Columbia, Wisconsin - Madison and Harvard universities, put groups of students through four cognitive and computer - based experiments designed to test recall and word recognition.

One study conducted with students in a statistics course found that adding three or four funny anecdotes related to class topics increased grades by 10 %.

According to a study, students who wore white lab coats while conducting experiments made half the amount of errors as the students who were dressed regularly.

That's why Student Loan Hero conducted a study to see how much an average worker could potentially save if they live or work in a location with no state income tax.

With the common baggage of bill management and student loans, a study conducted by Harris Polls and NerdWallet showed they have another factor of anxiety: taxes.

With years of experience as a Christian college student and employee, Malone conducted this study as a «labor of love.»

We all work on the premise that ministry studies are best conducted when they are centered on ministry rather than on the classroom or on students.

So in 2005, Professor Vermont P. Dia of the University of the Philippines conducted a study with some of his graduate students to analyze various virgin coconut oils in the Philippine market produced using different methods.

And a 2014 study of student performance at schools in California and New York, conducted by the American Institutes for Research, found that attending deeper - learning schools had a significant positive impact, on average, on students» content knowledge and standardized - test scores.

A researcher in Israel conducted the first study of hand - clapping songs, revealing a direct link between those activities and the development of important skills in children and young adults, including university students.

The study — conducted by Hio Wa Mak, doctoral student of human development and family studies — examined how parental rejection, as well as the overall well - being of the family unit, were related to changes in adolescents» social anxiety, friendships and feelings of loneliness over time.

About nine years ago, the school nurse suggested the change, and the school conducted a pilot study, tracking food waste and visits to the nurse along with anecdotal reports on student behavior.

Together with her team of postdoctoral and PhD students Helen has been conducting studies of parent - infant sleep in the lab, the community and in local hospitals for the past 20 years.

A «study» commissioned last year by the dairy industry, and performed by a company that conducts marketing research for corporate food clients, suggested that 35 percent fewer elementary school students drank milk when flavored milk was removed from the cafeteria.

Because the UVM study is small in scope (involving only two elementary schools in Vermont) and conducted only in the semester before (spring 2012) and the first year after implementation of the new nutrition rules (spring 2013), this study is an inaccurate representation of the school meals environment and behaviors of students in the lunchroom.

Studies conducted in Minnesota and Maryland found that students who ate breakfast before starting school had a general increase in math grades and reading scores.

I thus argue that a critical reflection of these issues should take place in the related methodology courses that prepare students to conduct research, specifically in regards to Middle Eastern Studies.

Zimpher said SUNY would conduct a quick study to get a clearer picture on the program's impact on colleges and students.

Conducted by the Student PIRGs» New Voters Project, Working Assets and researchers from the University of Michigan and Princeton, the study looked at the effects of SMS GOTV reminders in the 2006 general election on a group of 4000 people selected at random from a pool of over 8000 new voters.

During that time, faculty and students will conduct a study in preparation for the new leadership.

More than 1,000 delegates voted to adopt a resolution which noted that «studies conducted by prominent researchers and renowned education experts show that individual merit pay plans have not helped to significantly improve student achievement in any of the United States school districts where they have been implemented.»

Pletcher conducted the study with lead author Michael Waterson, a Ph.D graduate student in U-M's Cellular and Molecular Biology Program.

The project worked with NASA to develop a job placement system for handicapped scientists, and conducted NSF funded studies on science and mathematics education and handicapped students.

According to Ph.D. student Emily Jacobs, who conducted the study, dopamine in the brain is a «classic Goldilocks scenario.»

In a positive sign for efforts to boost U.S. competitiveness in science and technology, a new study finds that courses that engage college students in conducting scientific research early on can dramatically increase students» odds of completing a science, technology, engineering or math (STEM) degree.

The researchers conducted three studies involving 673 students at the University of Kentucky in which participants filled out questionnaires that have been validated to predict a person's real - life behavior.

Dr. Dotan and her team conducted two laboratory studies, which paired 216 MBA students in single - gender teams, some of whom were friends and some of whom were not.

Yet in a study led by Aimy Sebastian, a graduate student in the School of Natural Sciences at UC Merced who is conducting her Ph.D thesis work under Loots, identified the secreted bone protein Sclerostin (SOST), as a key molecule dysregulated as a result of prostate cancer - bone microenvironment interactions.

In her current position at Colorado Mesa University, Varner is conducting research with undergraduate students on projects ranging from the remote monitoring of pikas using audio sensors to the study of pika stress hormones.

This research was one part of a six - year, $ 2.3 million project funded by the National Science Foundation to train graduate students in aging sciences and to conduct cross-disciplinary studies on issues of importance to an aging society.

Galen Panger, a University of California, Berkeley, graduate student who conducted a study of graduate student well - being at his university, agrees with the authors» multipronged approach.

A newly published research study conducted by graduate students Jessie Green and Alan Brown under the guidance of Punam Ohri - Vachaspati, a nutrition researcher at the School of Nutrition and Health Promotion at Arizona State University, examined whether noticing and using calorie menu labels was associated with demographic characteristics of customers at a national fast food chain currently posting calorie counts.

Hirsh, an assistant professor of psychology, and graduate students Samantha M. Meints and Megan M. Miller conducted the evidence - based review and analysis of clinical and experimental studies that included a total of 2,719 black and 3,770 white adults.

No convincing study has been conducted, but it is my experience that it takes several years before a new graduate student is really producing results.

«Using this new advanced approach, we were able to identify the cause of the temperature drop inside vortices for the first time ever,» says Vatistas, who conducted the study with recent Concordia master's students Badwal Gurpreet Singh (MASc 14) and Rahul Rampal (MASc 14).

Based on a study of more than 30,000 elementary, middle, and high school students conducted in winter 2015 - 16, researchers found that elementary and middle school students scored lower on a computer - based test that did not allow them to return to previous items than on two comparable tests — paper - or computer - based — that allowed them to skip, review, and change previous responses.

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UA doctoral students Colin Zestcott (left) and Uri Lifshin (right) conducted two studies showing that athletes are subconsciously motivated by reminders of death.

The committee argues that unless more clinical research training opportunities are made available to medical students and M.D.s., the type of clinical studies being conducted around the country will «almost surely fail to fully reflect the nation's needs.»

«The large communities of microbes residing on and inside us are critical to our state of health or illness,» said Borenstein, a University of Washington assistant professor of genome sciences and computer science and engineering, who conducted the study with his graduate student, Roie Levy.

A study of 172 University of Texas students enrolled in a «responsible conduct of research» course, for example, found «no significant change» in attitudes after training, says Elizabeth Heitman of the University of Texas School of Public Health in Houston.