Not exact matches
The first
analysis looked at 148
studies involving more than 300,000 people and found that people
with social connections had a 50 % lower risk of dying early compared to people who did not have strong social circles.
After seven - plus decades of surveys, questions,
analysis, and
study, what's the single thing they came up
with that leads to health and happiness?
His findings feature in textbooks and management training courses, and his debut book, The Procrastination Equation, combines the first meta -
analysis of the topic (encompassing some 800
studies)
with original research, including some for which the professor served as his own subject.
In 2016, a meta -
analysis, a «
study of
studies,» on work - and - sleep research looked at research starting
with the 1970s and continuing up to the present day.
Through its
analysis and
studies, VoloMetrix, along
with Bain & Co., discovered some interesting trends of how time was being wasted across the board.
«In a meta -
analysis of 263 research
studies across 192 companies, employers
with the most engaged employees were 22 percent more profitable than those
with the least engaged employees,» Schwartz and Porath write.
A transportation
study by the statistical
analysis media site FiveThirtyEight showed that completing 85 percent of trips on public transit and 15 percent
with Uber roughly equaled the cost of car ownership.
«We said, «Let's gather data along
with some basic
analysis, publish it and allow the scientific community to
study it,»» Jean Claude Zenklusen, a biologist at NCI told me.
They worked
with a local television station and produced a straightforward ad in which a female customer gets help from a sales rep.. Other student projects included a redesign for the company's mirror door packaging, an
analysis of competitors» websites, and a
study of possible locations for a new store in Phoenix.
To date, results from several longitudinal
studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta -
analysis of
studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared
with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated
with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.
One of the key parts of our
study and
analysis, along
with format, was to test the effect of mobile vs. desktop on video results.
Harvard Business School's case
study «New Constructs: Disrupting Fundamental
Analysis with Robo - Analysts» features our unique research automation technology.
Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31
studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta -
analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies
with context).
The EU has invested five million euros to set up a centre that provides knowledge (in - depth sector market reports, guidelines, and case
studies); tailored export advice extending to legal and regulatory requirements; rules on market access and competitor and market
analysis; assistance
with due diligence; training programs adapted for the needs of individual companies; and hot - desks and work spaces in China.
But even a cursory
analysis of the
study's methods makes you wonder why anyone would take such a finding seriously, let alone order a Quarter Pounder
With Cheese to celebrate it, as many newspaper readers no doubt promptly went out and did.
His many books include Swap: How Trade Works
with Philip Levy, a concise introduction to the principles of world economics, and Telecoms and the Huawei conundrum: Chinese foreign direct investment in the United States, an AEI Economic
Studies analysis that explores the case of Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei and its commitment to long - term investment in the US.
The
study, by Unifor economist and CCPA vice-president Jim Stanford,
analyses CETA's likely effects on Canadian automotive trade, investment, and employment and claims the trade deal will make Canada's current trade imbalance
with the EU incrementally worse.
A new meta -
analysis of
studies with 102 samples covering 56,984 firms finds a small but significant positive relationship on average between employee stock ownership and firm performance.25 The positive relationship holds across firm size and has increased over time, possibly because firms are learning to implement employee stock ownership more effectively.
The U.K. Treasury's sponsored
analysis of confidential tax records on tax - advantaged share schemes at over 16,000 U.K. firms reported that broad - based employee stock ownership was linked to improved value added and productivity
with correlations consistent
with those in many
studies of smaller numbers of firms.
, Brad Barber, Terrance Odean and Ning Zhu offer a similar
study, adding an
analysis of the short - term returns for stocks
with small - trade buying or selling pressures.
The report is an
analysis of a massive annual
study that surveyed 695 million records in B2B companies» databases and spoke
with more than 500 marketers -LSB-...]
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«Based on rigorous
analysis with extensive robustness checks, we conclude that the suspicious trading activity caused the unprecedented spike in the USD - BTC exchange rate in late 2013, when the rate jumped from around $ 150 to more than $ 1,000 in two months,» the
study states.
The course uses a lecture and case
study format,
with members responsible for researching and presenting case
study analyses.
That means
studying charts, speaking
with management (if applicable), reading trade journals or doing other background work (such as macroeconomic
analysis or industry
analysis) so the trader is up to speed when the trading session starts.
This
analysis chimes
with a new report on OPEC policy from Bassam Fattouh and Andreas Economou at the Oxford Institute for Energy
Studies.
This last point becomes much more evident when one
studies carefully Whitehead's
analysis of structured societies
with a regnant subsociety of personally ordered occasions.
Among his publications are: The Person of Christ: A Biblical and Historical
Analysis of the Incarnation (Marshall Theological Library: Marshall, Morgan and Scott; Crossway, 1984); co-editor and part author
with Mark Nofl, Nathan Hatch, George Marsden, and John Woodbridge, Eerdmans Handbook to Christianity in America, (Eerdmans, 1983); The Prophetic Theology of George Tyrrell (American Academy of Religion
Studies in Religion, Vol.
The
study concludes
with an
analysis of the insights Newman brings to bear upon contemporary philosophical understandings and his status as a latent forerunner of the phenomenological movement.
Along
with Derrida's deconstruction, Michel Foucault's
study of the complex nature of power and truth and Fredric Jameson's neo-Marxist
analysis of ideology have been deeply influential on postmodernism in biblical
studies.
But the answer will be much more satisfying if our
study includes careful methods of
analysis and interpretation,
with due regard to the historical and literary contexts and the genre being used.
These kinds of
analyses —
studies of the relations between ideologies and status groups — tend to become unsatisfactory to the extent that they stop
with mere assertions about interests and legitimation.
On the other hand, I don't agree
with all of Vance's conclusions, but I find his
study and criticism in «Christianity and War...» to be top notch
analysis.
If my
studies of Whitehead and Russell are, as Lucas says, «intellectual biographies,» such an approach has very recently been given its greatest boost in Russell: The Journal of the Bertrand Russell Archives
with the publication of Whitehead's «To the Master and Fellows of Trinity College, Cambridge» 1 preceded by an
analysis by Paul Delany of...
The revolution in government presaged by an activist population policy would thus seem to be based less in politics per se than in «science,» for in the final
analysis it is the field of learning known as «population
studies» that provides population policy
with its raison d'etre.
This work
with experimental groups extended into a more chastened critical
study of transactional
analysis in relation to Pauline - Augustinian understandings of human bondage and freedom.4
Theologians influenced by positivism, whose adherents saw reality as strictly that which can be experienced through the senses and knowledge as that which can be obtained through a narrow definition of the scientific method, and linguistic
analysis, which purported that the only proper function of philosophy is the
study of the usage of words and sentences, also treated science and religion as separate realms, distinct «language games,» each
with its own set of rules.
William J. Everett takes up the East German case in the context of a wider
study of the relationship of covenantal theology to social life,
with comparative
analyses of India and America.
In my own case, it was not only Tillich plus Troeltsch
with his sometime roommate Max Weber and Adams
with his colleague George H. Williams who were influential, but also Walter Rauschenbusch's use of the social
analysis of his day to restate biblical themes; Reinhold Niebuhr's refutation in The Nature and Destiny of Man of Marx's, Kant's, Nietzsche's and Freud's understanding of human nature; Talcott Parsons's systematic
study of the role of religious values in The Structure of Social Action; George Ernest Wright's exposition of the Prophets; and Masatoshi Nagatomi's gentle introduction to Asian modes of thought.
Good theological teaching will therefore engage in «objective
analysis, discovery, and interpretation», but always in the context of the Christian faith, so that the students discover that their own personal commitments are bound up
with what they are
studying.
With few exceptions, these theological perspectives have not done the kind of descriptive
analysis of the interplay between biography and history that is characteristic of classical
studies in the personality sciences, especially social psychology.
The attempt is not to survey all history and all political and social thought but to open up some of the great traditions, to indicate the character of some attempted solutions of the past, to
study a few of those topics and of the great statements of
analysis or of ideals
with some intensity.
Van der Leeuw provides us
with a careful
analysis of the impact of the three romantic periods on the scientific
study of religions.
We can be helped further
with this kind of
analysis if we turn our attention to some logical distinctions in the
study of education.
This is partly because the meta -
analysis predominantly included
studies with a high baseline consumption of sugar sweetened drinks, in which a tax may have greater potential to reduce energy intake.
Based on its own financial
analyses and case
studies, Root Capital's revised 18 - page scorecard places greater emphasis on providing farmers
with agronomic assistance and including women in influential enterprise roles, each of which the group believes contributes to measurably greater financial return.
In this meta -
analysis of 7
studies including more than 150,000 persons, those whose diets provided the highest dietary fiber intake had a 29 % lower risk of cardiovascular disease compared to those
with the lowest fiber intake.
This
study's findings are consistent
with an
analysis commissioned by FDA and updated in 2012, as well as a published ILSI survey of more than 37,000 people which shows that caffeine consumption in the U.S. has remained stable during the most recent period analyzed, while coffee remains the primary source of caffeine in most age groups.
In a systematic review and meta -
analysis of 28 prospective observational
studies, representing 1,109,272 participants, every additional cup of caffeinated and decaffeinated Kona consumed in a day was associated
with a 9 % (95 % CI 6 %, 11 %) and 6 % (95 % CI 2 %, 9 %) lowered type 2 diabetes, respectively.