Sentences with phrase «studies are pointing»

It is not only illegal but more and more studies are pointing to how they are killing so much of our wildlife population and our birds and they are transmitting more and more diseases.»

Recent studies are pointing towards confirming the myth that dog owners and cat owners do have differing personalities.

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New studies are pointing to some easy steps to help reduce the chance of getting this neurodegenerative illness.

Many other studies are pointing to stevia as an agent that may help with insulin resistance, the issue responsible for most cases of diabetes.

New studies are pointing to soot

Other studies are pointing to the positive effects of DHA against anti-inflammatory issues in the body, like heart disease, or stroke.

Some studies are pointing to the fact that the same systems that allow the fetal cells to help with milk production in a mother's breast tissue, also help evade her immune system.

Rights to refuse or later withdraw from the study were pointed out to the family members.

Not exact matches

Case in point, a recent study from Abertay University in Scotland found that a woman that's seen as wearing too much makeup can affect people's perception of her ability to lead.

As the study points out, the cheapest cities to live in may have the lowest average of combined expenses, but that doesn't mean everything there is cheap, like transportation or groceries.

Highlighting scads of studies that have found that a wide confidence gap exists between the sexes, they point out that success is just as dependent on confidence as it is on competence.

The same study that pointed to the benefits of marriage also reported that high income is associated with longer telomeres.

«Yes, we must protect the environment — it is our number one resource — but at the end of the day, studies have pointed to global warming, human contact, coastal development» as other significant threats to coral.

The study also found that, «humorous complainers are better liked than non-humorous complainers,» meaning Dufu's method could be a way to make a point without damaging a professional relationship.

To get to this point, 23andMe had to conduct extensive studies proving the accuracy of its tests and assuring regulators that the reports can be easily understood by consumers so that they can make informed health care decisions.

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

The mental boost was «equivalent to a ten - point increase in IQ,» according to the Association for Psychological Science write - up of the study.

She points to a study where participants were shown various positive, exciting, scary and neutral images.

This could have huge implications: The study points out that 5.4 million new cases of skin cancer are diagnosed each year in the U.S. alone.

«What we found is that people who spent money to buy time reported being almost one full point higher on our 10 - point [happiness] ladder, compared to people who did not use money to buy time,» wrote Elizabeth Dunn, an author of the study and a professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

As the British Psychological Science Research Digest blog points out, this isn't the first study to link tea drinking with improved mental performance, but it is the first to suggest that a cup of Earl Grey or chamomile might enhance creativity specifically.

Take, for example, the recently published report entitled «Public Health Consequences of E-Cigarettes,» by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine — which the Academies helpfully point out is a «congressionally mandated» study.

That workaholic distinction was assessed in part by the seven point Bergen Work Addiction Scale that was developed in 2012 by the study's lead author, Dr. Cecilie Schou Andreassen.

We also eliminated companies that were incorporated as income trusts or REITs at any point during the period studied.

Based on studying why companies have security compromises, I believe this list is a great starting point to dramatically drive down your company's risk.

LYNE: Every study of consumer buying points to the fact that women aren't just the dominant consumer, but are either responsible for, or have the final say on, 80 % of all consumer purchases.

Another study helps point out why timing could be so important.

In the press release for the Oxford study, one of its researchers, Allison Stewart, makes an interesting point: «Unlike other major programmes such as bridges, airports, IT or engineering works, the Games are always a unique undertaking to that city.

This tripling of the itinerant workforce resulted in unemployment being 3.9 percentage points higher in Alberta and British Columbia, where the use of temporary foreign workers is prevalent, according to a recent study by Simon Fraser University professor Dominique Gross.

Recent studies have pointed to the fact that there may be some truth to dressing for the job you want, as noted by the Wall Street Journal.

PsyBlog points to a «study [which] found that people with psychopathic tendencies were less likely to yawn when they saw someone else yawning.»

One study showed that narcissism is the number one predictor of success among West Point cadets, for example, while another meta - analysis of research in the area showed that being a touch narcissistic was a great way to climb the career ladder.

It's this last point that has the biggest effect on private versus public company returns, says Tim McPeak, director of financial institutions at Sageworks, a company that studies financial information of privately held companies.

We learned a major pain point at this life stage is the lack of funding for those critical out - of - classroom experiences (i.e., study abroad and attending conferences / seminars) that can change lives.

One person who pointed out the dangerous asset bubble developing in 2005 was economist Robert Shiller, whose composite Case - Shiller index, created in the 1990s, studies real estate prices nationally and in key urban areas.

The company points to a simple resource allocation problem that's hindered the most effective patient care: the fact that it is physically impossible for oncologists to keep track of every study, every clinical trial, and every breakthrough in the wildly stratified world of cancer research.

Some early behavioral economics studies found that a salary of roughly $ 75,000 a year was the point at which happiness began to plateau.

As the study points out, this means that brands can easily lose control of the available information about their products as consumers turn to third - party sources to determine how products were made.

After studying the decline in U.S. crime rates that occurred in the 1990s, it concluded that a drop of two percentage points in unemployment was responsible for a 9 % decline in burglary, 14 % drop in rape and robbery and 30 % plunge in assault.

As the study's authors point out, experience succeeding at things is the key to becoming more confident.

If social media assistance is your need, ask for several handles and case studies that point to results.

Brian Headd at the SBA's Office of Advocacy points out that all these studies are long in the tooth and don't represent the current economy.

«Most students find this experience very helpful in thinking about whether they'd like to start their own venture at some point, to join an early stage company, or to work at a firm that's further along in it's growth trajectory,» Deb Whitman, director of the Stanford Center for Entrepreneurial Studies explained in an email exchange with Poets & Quants.

The study found that point values will differ depending on the distance flown, the fare class, whether the flight is domestic or international, or one - way vs. round trip.

In the study, which examined over 12,000 customers of 212 clothes stores over 12 months, moving up one point on a 7 - point identification scale increased spending by $ 124.39, even when other factors like satisfaction, income and prior spending were kept the same

Perhaps the most exciting point the study makes is the exponential nature of ICT innovation.

The company provides outside academics with access to its tools and data points, which have been incorporated into independent peer - reviewed studies.

But if what the study says is true, we are at a tipping point.

A 2012 study from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Cornell University suggests most workers find comfort in traditional hierarchies because they're predictable and familiar, and their asymmetries create concrete «end points.»