Sentences with phrase «study days at»

Companies also invite health workers to study days at nearby hotels.

Nestlé, Danone and Hipp are trying to bypass these restrictions by organising their own study days at nearby venues and sponsoring and exhibiting at health worker events.

Recently, I spoke at a Pregnancy after Loss Study Day at the Royal Berkshire Hospital, in Reading.

While Burri's works were displayed in a gallery adjacent to Piero's, a direct comparison with the frescoes of Luca Signorelli was possible at a study day at the Oratorio di San Crescentino in Morra, also near Città di Castello.

Migration Study Day at Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art.

Not exact matches

Studies show that checking texts and emails for even a minute or two at a time can add up to huge chunks of time every day.

«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.

A two - month 2010 study of nearly 300 cancer patients at the Mayo Clinic found that those given 1,000 or 2,000 milligrams of ginseng each day reported feeling more energized compared with those who took a placebo.

Seth G. Jones, an expert on Afghanistan and a senior adviser to the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, told Business Insider that the Taliban and ISIS have been «at each others throats» since day one — but there is no question who the more threatening group is.

According to the start - up, users burn between 500 and 1,000 calories a day wearing the Thin Ice vest, however at this time there are no studies to prove the vest's effectiveness.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

A University of Iowa study found that workers who were provided with a portable pedalling device under their desk were able to concentrate better at work, more likely to report weight loss and take fewer sick days than co-workers who pedalled less.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

Studies conducted at Harvard University showed that people who simply imagined practicing the piano every day physically strengthened the muscles in their fingers.

«In the early days of insurance, [companies] looked at height as an indication of survival,» said David Batty, an epidemiology and public health researcher at the University College London, who was not involved in the study.

Among the lesser known discoveries during the early days at Google was the realization that business could grow faster if customers didn't have to spend weeks studying an unduly complicated contract.

A 2016 study by the RAND Corporation found that employees who slept less than six hours per day were 2.7 percent less productive — either while at work or due to absenteeism — than peers who slumbered for seven to nine hours per day.

Studies have shown that even though most employees believe they focus better at home, most still want to come into the office every day.

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.

The Lloyd's / Air Worldwide study concludes that the complete failure of a top cloud services provider that extends for at least three days would cost the U.S. economy $ 15 billion.

Another study by CareerBuilder shows that most workers waste at least an hour or more each work day on personal stuff.

Frind's account of his own exploits, published on his blog in 2006 under the title «How I Started a Dating Empire,» says a lot about his worldview: «I spent every waking minute when I wasn't at my day job reading, studying, and learning.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

Another study that looked at more than 100,000 men and women found that coffee drinkers were 45 % less likely to die from suicide and heavy coffee drinkers (four or more cups a day) 53 % less likely to die from suicide.

Animal studies of the chemical have found it has no health effects on reproduction or development at doses up to at least 100 mg per kg of body - weight per day.

Critically, half of the participants learned at this time that they would be required to take a five - day hiatus from Facebook (they knew from the study advert that this might be a possibility).

Other research, like the Copenhagen City Heart Study, looked at healthy joggers and nonjoggers for more than a decade and determined that «the most favorable running regimen for reducing cardiovascular mortality» was six miles per week, broken down into three running days per week at a pace of seven miles per hour.

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.

Sitting on his patio at his summer house in Boulder, he pulls out his iPad to forward me an article on a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention that found that only about one in 10 Americans eats the recommended minimum five servings a day of fruit and vegetables.

If you think this isn't important, bear in mind that long - term studies show that working 11 or more hours a day at least doubles the risk of depression.

This is unsurprising, both because executive compensation has become one of the hot topics of the day (or rather, of the post-Occupy era) and because the study highlights the fact that if you look at the Top 100 Canadian CEOs (in terms of salary), the average Top 100 CEO earns as much in four hours as the average Canadian makes in an entire year (i.e., about $ 46,000).

At the end of the first year, students are taken on a 10 - day international study trip, where they meet local executives and learn about local business conditions.

A study by Dan Ariely and Klaus Wertenbroch bears this out: They found that students who turned in work at regular intervals during the semester got higher grades than those who chose to turn in all their work on the last possible day.

However, even with their regarded case study construct, it lacked the real exposure to what early days at startup are like.

Previous studies have shown that playing popular cell phone and video games for at least 10 minutes a day may help players improve their game scores or their success in moving from one level to the next.

Recently, studies have found that sitting all day at work stunts brain activity and carries a myriad of health issues.

Studies show more than 400 mg per day can put a person at risk of adverse effects.

A study by consultants at the Manpower Group found that over 35 % of people eat lunch at their desk every day and most employees never take enough breaks to renew their energy.

Martin Moore, director of the Centre for the Study of Media, Communication and Power at King's College, told the Guardian's Carole Cadwalladr that Trump's campaign «was using 40 - 50,000 variants of ads every day that were continuously measuring responses and then adapting and evolving based on that response.»

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, a fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

«In a very few number of days, the acting director has done a great deal of damage,» Aaron Klein, fellow in economic studies at the Brookings Institution and former Treasury Department aide, recently told me.

A study at Harvard University found that alternate - day fasting among mice, «protected mice from strokes, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, and consistently extended their life spans by 30 percent.»

At Y Combinator's fourth Female Founders Conference in San Francisco last week, Lee talked about that HBR study and the bias she sees every day.

According to a recent study by the Telework Research Network, nearly 30 million Americans work from home at least one day per week, with the numbers expecting to increase by more than 60 percent in the coming five years.

The fact that it made a lower high, lower low, and lower close for at least the 3rd day in a row triggered the following study.

A Canadian study from 2004 suggested one - fifth of all 1,100 passengers surveyed on a series of flights longer than 2 1/2 hours came down with a cold, and were at least five times more likely to catch a cold five to seven days later than non-flyers.

In a study at Adobe, they found that Fridays are by far the most effective day to garner user engagement from posting on Facebook.

«But if there's a 100 microgram per meter smoke day, we'd expect that to go to a 100 percent increase of inhaler refills for the population,» Katelyn O'Dell, who studies the health hazards of wildfire smoke at Colorado state university said.

The Standing Senate Committee on Banking, Trade and Commerce met this day at 10:31 a.m. to study the present state of the domestic and international financial system.

A new study by the software company Wrike shows that 83 % of employees work remotely at least part of the day.