Sentences with phrase «study by common»

In a recent study by Common Sense Media, nearly half of the adults surveyed said that their children exhibited addictive behavior in their use of a smartphone.

According to a recent study by Common Sense Media, the average teen spends over an hour a day using social media, and only 3 percent of the time tweens and teens spend online is focused on creation vs. consumption.

Groups tied to Glenwood Management - the developer named in charges againt both Silver and Skelos, gave Flanagan over $ 40,000 in the last few years, according to a study by Common Cause NY.

Sierra Club representative Robert Ciesielski cited a study by Common Cause that the governor of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, had received over $ 1.6 million in political donations from the industry — a figure that, given the current state of New York's campaign finance laws, lobbyists in Albany could well surpass.

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A common retort by the industry is that rates of the health outcome studied - whether it's asthma or preterm birth - are lower in fracking areas than in areas without fracking, or that the rate of the outcome is decreasing over time.

A new study by an international team of psychologists builds on this common recommendation.

Health - care bills are the most common type of debt in collection and represent about 38 percent of total debt collected in the U.S., according to a study by ACA International.

According to a 2011 study by the National Foundation for American Policy, the most common country of origin for an immigrant founder of a top - 50 venture - backed company was India, followed by Israel, Canada, and then Iran.

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.

In a study of flu - related deaths between 1997 and 2007, published by the American Journal of Epidemiology, a group of researchers found that mortality was more common in men than women across multiple age - groups, regardless of underlying conditions.

While research from Common Sense Media shows that 84 percent of kids has a smartphone by 13 or 14 years old and another study shows...

From my experience working with thousands of small and mid-market (SME) B2B companies, along with studying the reams of data on the B2B lead generation model, I've established a list of the three most common and damaging website mistakes made by SMEs.

Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.

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.

Research findings from the Center for Talent Innovation, a New York - based think tank headed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett, found that having something inherently in common with the funder, decision maker or investor makes an enormous difference, since 56 percent of decision makers in the study did not value ideas they didn't personally see a need for, even when evidence suggests that it's a good, marketable idea.

On the first of two appeals to the Ninth Circuit, Judge Rothstein's opinion ran into a three - judge panel headed by the formidable John Noonan, a prolific author and scholar who has spent a lifetime studying common, canon, and natural law.

Of course, theology is to be informed by common sense and by empirical study.

Sufi orders have been banned by the government of Turkey, but Sufism continues there as a powerful factor in the Islamic life of the country; both intellectuals and common people study the writings of their famous Sufis and continue their personal Sufi disciplines.

In the end, the author believes that the Enlightenment thinkers developed a «theological» model, even though he completes this exhaustive study by citing a grim text from one of Nietzsche's «Letters» that sounds anything but theological: ««The family will be slowly ground into a random collection of individuals,» haphazardly bound together «in the common pursuit of selfish ends.

That a congregation is constituted by enacting a more broadly and ecumenically practiced worship that generates a distinctive social space implies study of what that space is and how it is formed: What are the varieties of the shape and content of the common lives of Christian congregations now, cross-culturally and globally (synchronic inquiry); how do congregations characteristically define who they are and what their larger social and natural contexts are; how do they characteristically define what they ought to be doing as congregations; how have they defined who they are and what they ought to do historically (diachronic study); how is the social form of their common life nurtured and corrected in liturgy, pastoral caring, preaching, education, maintenance of property, service to neighbors; what is the role of scripture in all this, the role of traditions of theology, and the role of traditions of worship?

We can see by looking at other primates and studying their genetics and history, as well as those of previous species of hominids, that we have common traits.

«Before «I Do»,» a new study published by the University of Virginia's National Marriage Project, offers evidence of the ways certain common individual and cultural pre-marital practices can shape the experience and quality of a marriage.

I won't argue with you about «religion» if by that you mean the organization of groups of individuals who share a common faith and manner of worship and study about that faith.

We have to explore, by a comparative study of the several writings, the common faith which evoked them, and which they aimed at interpreting to an ever - widening public.

Special revelations — the only sort recognized by this kind of theology — have always needed to be checked by some more general frame of reference: the written Scriptures coolly and historically studied, the tradition and common experience of the church, and the still more general experiences and tested beliefs of mankind.

The etymological study of the words poverty (penian) and beggary (ptwcoi) suggest a fine nuance which is normally not noticed by the common translation «the poor.»

This entire relationship is born and lives by means of the common interest in the object of study.

How It Worked: The Story of Clarence H Snyder and the Early Days of Alcoholics Anonymous in Cleveland Ohio (NY: AA Big Book Study Group, 1997), pp. 6, 71, 138, 157, 235; and the «Great Physician» reference to Jesus Christ was in common use among other Pioneer AAs, by their New York mentor Dr. Silkworth, and their Oxford Group friends.

The present task of New Testament criticism is to explore, by a comparative study of the several writings, the common faith which evoked them, and which they aimed at interpreting to an ever - widening public.

Based on our common study of the Bible, we were able to agree that the work of redemption has been accomplished (a word which means done, completed) by Christ's atoning sacrifice on the cross.

The following facts support this belief: the participation of the churches in the theological conversations of the ecumenical movement, which perforce have had to find their common starting point and common vocabulary in biblical literature and theology; the growing body of specifically biblical theology, produced by the very vitality of fragmentary and monographic studies.

A recent study funded by the Lilly Endowment indicates that one in four clergy has had some kind of sexual contact with a parishioner and one in ten has had an affair with a parishioner.6 The extent of clergy adultery and clergy divorce is fair indication that unfaithfulness in marriage is also fairly common.

It is written by a Ceylonese anthropologist, Gananath Obeyesekere, and is one of the best explanations available of the relation between Buddhism and the customs of the country; it presents the Buddhism of the common people, not the Buddhism of the books: «The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism,» The Journal of Asian Studies, February 1963.

Biblical studies oriented to theological questions about the nature and criteria of adequacy of congregations» common life are central to study of congregations as characterized by distinctive social space.

That allowed me to show why various subject matters that ought to be studied by a theological school (e.g., Bible, Christian history, theology, psychology and sociology of religion, etc.) are best studied in their theological significance (i.e., as means to understanding God) by studying them in their relation to the common life of actual congregations.

It may be an arrangement that factors out different aspects of the school's common life to the reign of each model of excellent schooling: the research university model may reign for faculty, for example, or for faculty in certain fields (say, church history, or biblical studies) but not in others (say, practical theology), while paideia reigns as the model for students, or only for students with a declared vocation to ordained ministry (so that other students aspiring to graduate school are free to attempt to meet standards set by the research university model); or research university values may be celebrated in relation to the school's official «academic» program, including both classroom expectations and the selection and rewarding of faculty, while the school's extracurricular life is shaped by commitments coming from the model provided by paideia so that, for example, common worship is made central to their common life and a high premium is placed on the school being a residential community.

A recent study by the Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good finds that social and economic supports such as benefits for pregnant women and mothers and economic assistance to low - income families have contributed significantly to reducing the number of abortions in the United States over the past twenty years.

I believe you are thinking of a time that came much later than the Bible, after many of the ancient libraries were burned by marauders and leaders who did not want the common people to have access to the studies of those who had come before them.

Other symptoms of this new spirit are to be found in the increased interest in the common worship of the academic community, though this is by no means universally evident; in the widespread and intensive discussions of faculties about the purpose and organization of the course of study; in the experiments that are being carried on to relate the work of the seminary more intimately to the work of other church agencies, particularly to the local churches.

Allergic reactions to cashew nuts are generally more severe than those caused by more common peanut allergies, with 74.1 per cent of cashew - allergy sufferers experiencing anaphylaxis compared to 30.5 per cent of peanut - allergy sufferers, according to a study released last year.

The study, which was led by Dr Shridhar Sathe, pinpointed the three major allergens in cashew nuts and established that they are still present following common processing methods, such as blanching, pressure cooking and dry roasting, meaning that they could be used as markers to detect cross-contamination even in small quantities in processed foods.

Studies show that lutein and zeaxanthin can benefit eye health by decreasing the risk of cataracts and age - related macular degeneration, two common causes of vision loss in older adults (36).

By Kraig Kraft The Search for the Origins of Chile Peppers Starts in Arizona As a graduate student studying crop evolution at U.C. Davis, I am focusing my work on describing the genetic changes that took place during the domestication of Capsicum annuum, a species that includes some of the most common varieties of chile peppers cultivated worldwide.

By contrast, a separate research study showed the process of combining linerboard and medium to make corrugated packaging is sufficient to destroy common food pathogens, effectively meeting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) requirements for chemical sanitizers.

A new study finds a liquid fertiliser blend using a common sugar industry by - product has benefits for both farmers and the environment.

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The study found that concussions were the most common injury, accounting for three in ten of all cheerleading injuries (followed by ligament sprains, muscle strains and fractures), but that concussion rates were significantly lower in cheerleading (2.2 per 10,000 athlete - exposures) than all other high school sports combined (3.8 per 10,000 exposures) and all other girls» sports combined (2.7 per 10,000 exposures).

Yes, there is common non-compliance of WHO Code and Yes, the audit found that Nestlé provided free Infant Formula to a hospital in a study carried out in a very brief period of 5 days (17 - 22 August), by Bureau Veritas.

Although each of the teams using the PEP exercise program had a dedicated athletic training staff, the success reported in the earlier study in reducing ACL injuries among 14 - to 18 - year - old competitive female club soccer players - who ordinarily do not benefit from direct oversight from certified athletic trainers (ATCs) or physical therapists - suggest that the program may benefit other age groups and levels of play where direct oversight by medical professionals is far less common.

Ridgeland Common, one of the district's major athletic facilities, with baseball fields that serve most of its adult softball league games, was identified as needing improvements by the district in 2007 after officials completed a conditions study on its facilities.