Sentences with phrase «study hours in»

Speaking of NES games, I found the Super Mario Bros. - inspired Mario Clock of all things to be a great way to kill time during study hours in middle school.

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A great study done in 2010 indicated that drinking fat - free milk immediately after whole - body resistance training and again one hour after the workout allowed participants to increase fat loss, gain greater muscle and strength, and strengthen bones by reducing bone cell turnover.

Hours after the attack in Kabul, a suicide bomber in a vehicle attacked a foreign military convoy in the southern province of Kandahar, killing 11 children studying in a nearby religious school, police said.

A recent study found that just three minutes of negative headlines in the morning was enough to make you grumpy for eight hours.

This CPP commissioned study found that U.S. employees spend 2.8 hours per week dealing with conflict, equating to approximately $ 359 billion in paid hours.

In his landmark 1965 12 - country time - diary study, German sociologist Erwin Scheuch found that the more industrialized a country became, the more activities its people crammed into a 24 - hour period.

But if the nice, thick - walled building would take about 15 minutes travel time, it's better to hole up in the flimsy shelter for awhile — but you should probably leave for a better shelter after roughly an hour (and maybe pick up some beers and sodas on the way: A study in the»50s found they taste fine after a blast).

A 2014 study suggests that waiting an hour after fallout arrives to move to a better location that's within 15 minutes can be a smart idea in limited situations.

Seeking entry into this field at mid-life meant competing with established professionals or those much younger than me, many holding a degree in journalism or another directly related course of study, an experience - rich resume to support their interest, and the freedom to work long hours in an office away from home.

There were plenty of times I would have rather gone out with friends or played video games — anything but sit in front of the computer and study stock charts for another hour.

I hadn't had anyone come in in a couple hours and was brushing up on my class notes for the week feeling pretty good about being paid to study.

Several studies have shown that adults who consume high - fat, low - carb diets are less hungry three to four hours after meals and lose more weight over time than people who consume diets high in carbs and low in fat (23, 24).

According to a study from 1996 - 2001, an increase in job satisfaction is directly related to a 6.6 percent increase in productivity per hour.

Another study found that when people slept under six hours a night for a prolonged period of time, they ended up, in cognitive terms, legally drunk.

In K. Anders Ericsson's famous study of violinists, popularized by Malcolm Gladwell as the «10,000 hour rule,» Anders found that the best violinists spent more time practicing than the merely good students.

One recent study showed that people who basked in bright sunlight within two hours after waking tended to be thinner and better able to manage their weight than people who didn't get any natural light, regardless of what they ate throughout the day.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

A 2003 study in New Zealand indicated people who travel for four or more hours have three times the risk of developing blood clots in their limbs than those who do not travel.

According to the study of 715 parents, every hour of touchscreen use results in 15.6 minutes less of sleep, or 26.4 minutes less total per night and 10.8 minutes more during the day, on average.

According to a 2017 study by Flurry, the average American spends five hours a day on smart devices and about two and a half of those hours are spent in social, messaging, media and entertainment applications.

«It isn't a massive amount when you're sleeping 10 to 12 hours a day in total, but every minute matters in young development because of the benefits of sleep,» study co-author Dr. Tim Smith told the BBC.

The author of this study, Joni Hersch, finds that after controlling for other factors that determine wages, women employed in jobs with an average probability of being sexual harassed are paid a compensating differential of 25 cents per hour relative to women employed in jobs with no risk of sexual harassment.

Studies have found that working for one to two hours, then taking a 20 - to 30 - minute break, keeps your brain fresh and enables you to accomplish more in less time.

However, two separate studies focused on Seattle, a city that raised its wages to $ 11 per hour in 2015 and $ 13 per hour in 2016, showed «diverging results,» according the New York Times.

Participants in studies only remember about 10 % of information presented orally when they are tested 72 hours after instruction.

A study from 2009 now getting buzz on the blogosphere explored the role marriage plays in the lesbian wage premium, and found that women who don't expect to be part of a traditional family spend more time investing in labour participation through on - the - job training and working longer hours than household skills.

The study found that adults who sat for 11 hours or more per day had a 40 % increased risk of dying in the next three years than those who sat for less than four hours a day.

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.»

Studies show that changing posture during working hours reduces odds of injury, so make sure that your chair adjusts in every way possible and has breathable fabric.

And if you're wondering how much sleep is enough, here's a rough guide: One of the most acclaimed sleep researchers, Daniel Kripke, found in a recent study that «people who sleep between 6.5 hours and 7.5 hours a night, live the longest, are happier, and most productive.»

In fact, a 2014 Edison Research study found that 42 percent of consumers expect a response on social media channels in under an houIn fact, a 2014 Edison Research study found that 42 percent of consumers expect a response on social media channels in under an houin under an hour.

In fact, 91 percent of employees work more than 40 hours a week at least some of the time, according to a study conducted by Staples in MarcIn fact, 91 percent of employees work more than 40 hours a week at least some of the time, according to a study conducted by Staples in Marcin March.

Studies have shown that over the course of an hour lecture, there is a 10 - to 18 - minute window in which students are in their most focused mindset.

What these studies showed, over and over, was that industrial workers have eight good, reliable hours a day in them.

A January study of more than 2,000 adults in the United States by Clarizen and Harris Poll discovered some employees would much rather watch paint dry (17 percent), commute four hours (12 percent) or endure a root canal (8 percent) than attend a boring meeting.

According to a scientist involved in the study, anyone who took part in more than 28 hours of domestic or caretaking work without pay — 28 hours per week is the Australian average — would not be able to handle more than 39 hours of paid work weekly before experiencing problems associated with poor health.

«Throughout the»30s,»40s and»50s, these studies were apparently conducted by the hundreds,» writes Robinson; «and by the 1960s, the benefits of the 40 - hour week were accepted almost beyond question in corporate America.

And as a new study published in Health Physics recently explored, everyday foods and objects (yes, even the beloved avocado) emit a very small dose of radiation every hour.

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.

You may also be doing yourself a disservice when you indulge in hours of TV watching, with one study having found that this type of mass consumption leads to a degradation in both retention and comprehension.

The study found that improvements in life expectancy top out at about four hours of running per week, hence the «three years longer» conclusion.

The most recent National Survey of Student Engagement revealed that «nearly half of seniors majoring in business say they spend fewer than 11 hours a week studying outside class.»

In addition, another study cited that kids ages 13 and younger spend an astonishing 30 minutes a week outside, with 8 - 10 year olds racking up close to 8 hours per day on some sort of electronic device.

There have been many studies published over the years that working less results in higher productivity (hint: the optimal number is less than 40 hours per week).

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).

The participants then followed one of three protocols — the first control group did nothing in particular, the second exercised for 35 minutes 40 minutes after studying, while the third group exercised for the same amount of time four hours later.

Bloom and Liang found study participants who worked from home also put in more hours and took fewer sick days, thanks to not having to commute as well as the ability to start earlier in the day.

The study found that there are 17.9 million «solopreneurs» in the United States, defined as those who regularly put in 15 hours or more of solo work per week.

A recent Harvard Business School study found that the «average CEO spends one in three hours on activities that were not planned in advance.»