Sentences with phrase «studies point in»

Now, a writer in Newsweek goes into some detail about how often medical studies point in the wrong direction.

«Our study points in the same direction — that the negative health effects of a sedentary lifestyle decrease with the extent of physical activity,» says Fawzi Kadi.

With thousands of studies all pointing in the same direction, how is that possible?

While most results in this study pointed in the direction of more unfavourable developmental outcomes for children of PPD mothers, one result contradicted this pattern: daughters of mothers who had PPD were rated as less externalizing by their mothers than their counterparts in the community sample.

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.

But Low points out that, in the type of negotiations she studies at least — ones where failing to reach a consensus means everyone goes home with nothing — more aggressive negotiating meant worse negotiating.

Study up, and make good points the next time your representatives in Congress hold town hall meetings.

When the researchers looked at data from that particular study, they found that taller boys and girls performed significantly better at age 3 on a test in which they had to point to pictures of different words.

And while Macdonald did not look into it, other studies have pointed to another major influence China has had lately on many countries, including Canada: how its high savings rate and mounting foreign currency reserves, much of it invested in benchmark U.S. government debt, have depressed interest rates around the world.

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.

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.

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.

Through test resettlement programs in Oakland and Los Angeles and other efforts to study the refugee journey, they identified the pain points that Airbnb could most help with.

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.

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.

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.

«We make a big deal about the controversial nature of our business and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological study of human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.

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.

In another study of Kohn's, currently under review for publication, he gave engineering students blueprints of a simple vehicle that moved from point A to point B.

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.

In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn'In a recent TED talk, for example, American health guru Ron Gutman, founder of the Wellsphere blog network and the HealthTap site, pointed to studies of old pictures — ranging from yearbook headshots to mugs on baseball cards — that found people who smiled in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn'in youthful photos turned out to live better and longer lives than folks who didn't.

Indeed, in recent research we've found that this effect replicates in the NBA's Three Point contest, as well in other controlled studies.

As the International Buiness Times points out, recent studies «found that disrupted sleep schedules of six - hour bouts decreased metabolism in volunteers, which could translate to annual weight gain of 10 pounds.»

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

Gill points to studies that have shown confident people do better in life, regardless of their actual skill.

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.»

Greenland's coastal glaciers and ice caps have passed a pivotal tipping point — a new study concludes that they've melted so much that they're now past the point of no return, and it's unlikely in current conditions that they'll be able to regrow the ice they've lost.

In the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professorIn the first - year, MBA candidates must read, absorb and debate some 270 case studies in 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professorin 10 courses, often fighting for «air time» with equally clever students just as eager as they are to score points with professors.

If that sounds like a familiar point, it's the exact conclusion of the 75 - year Harvard Grant Study, which found that the number - one thing people need in order to be fulfilled and happy is to develop relationships with other people.

Under her leadership, the average SAT scores of the entering freshman class increased by nearly 50 points, and participation in global semester study abroad rose from 25 percent to 75 percent.

Studypool specializes in on - demand Microtutoring, a concept which allows you to narrow in on a specific area of studies with no set price point or time interval so you don't have to shell out $ 100 for an hour of unnecessary tutoring.

Last year, women comprised a meager 7 percent of directors for the top 250 films, a two - point drop from 1998, according to the Center For the Study of Women in Television & Film.

The first two points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple study showed no decrease in DUI deaths on weekends, when the cost of UberX rides tends to rise with demand - based pricing, while the data from Seattle is only from that one city.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- There was a sharp rise in reports of sexual assault at the US Military Academy at West Point in the last academic year, according to a Pentagon study released on Wednesday, highlighting an issue that has long plagued the military and its academies.

They can even result in a 10 point drop in IQ, according to a study conducted by Hewlett Packard.

And a study from Columbia business school showed that creative directors of fashion companies produced more creative innovations after having spent a significant amount of time working in cultures very different from their own.The time diversifying their experiences expanded their point of view and forced them to problem - solve in different ways.

A 2009 study found that 66 percent of employees do not max out their allowed vacation days, and today, fewer Americans are taking vacation than at any point in the last four decades.

West Point's Combating Terrorism Center was founded in 2003 to teach and study everything from extremist groups» root motivations and grievances to their operation, recruitment, and financing.

While the asthma trial data is just one point, the study's results could go a long way in assuring scientists that information generated through the platform (at least for certain kinds of studies) is on point.

Zilca also notes that other research points in the same direction, with several recent studies showing that «being in your twenties is often confusing and lonely.»

And studies point to the myriad creativity benefits to children who use their decidedly unconnected Legos to play in an unstructured fashion — as opposed to using Lego sets that come with bells and whistles and precise step - by - step instructions.

The study takes as its starting point a frightening statistic - the suicide rate for teen girls has doubled in the last ten years or so.

For better or worse, this year's study hands a big talking point to the campaign of Top State Gov. Nathan Deal of Georgia, a Republican touting his economic record in his bid for a second term.

You might think that they put in many years studying the field or obtaining higher educational degrees to get to that point, but that's not always true.

Our study rates the states on the very selling points they use to attract business — 40 metrics in ten categories.