Sentences with phrase «study period by»

In the study, dietary fiber reduced the risk of dying from cardiovascular disease, infectious and respiratory disease over the nine - year study period by 24 to 56 percent for men, and 34 to 59 percent for women.

Moderate physical activity for participants increased 1.4 days per week compared with controls who actually decreased their activity over the study period by about half a day per week.

Not exact matches

During the 81 - year period looked at by the study, the Top 10 companies have never, as a group, outperformed the S&P 500 in subsequent years.

The researchers, led by PhD candidate Ericka G. Rascon - Ramirez, studied the experiences of more than 15,000 British girls aged 13 and 14 over a 10 - year period.

A study by Millan's team found that 76 % of owners who played audiobooks for their dogs reported that they were calmer and more relaxed after a four - week period.

But the photos below, produced using color transparencies taken by various photographers between 1939 and 1941 and compiled by the Library of Congress, show the period and the people who endured it in vivid color — offering a new way to look at one of America's most studied historical eras.

With no time to convene focus groups, Perkins and Selbert relied on Connolly's sense of the market, which he had gleaned — over a two - month period — through industry contacts and by reading various magazine studies.

Talisman's shares were priced at a 10 % to 20 % discount during the period Talisman was in Sudan, according to a case study by Wharton School management professor Stephen Kobrin.

Further, the study found that venture capital investment might have been $ 8 billion higher over the same time period, except for the litigation brought by frequent litigators.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

«If a lucky event early in a CEO's tenure is not balanced by an unlucky one is such a short time period, then that CEO could be wrongfully credited for high performance that would have happened no matter who was leading the company,» according to the study.

But a 2012 study underwritten by the Kauffman Foundation concluded that «immigrant - founded companies» dynamic period of expansion has come to an end.»

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

According to a recent study released by Harvard Business Review, one of the most stressful parts about a business trip is the preparation and departure period for it.

Veall provides an international comparative perspective on poverty among the elderly by comparing Canadian data with data from the other 24 countries that participate in the Luxemburg Income Study (LIS) over the period from 1970 to 2000.

-- Recent study by Pepperdine University and UpMo.com — «We estimate about 3.5 million jobs will created (from President Obama's stimulus plan) but it will be over a period of one to two years.»

The Institutionalization of Treasury Note and Bond Auctions, 1970 - 1975 A new study by Kenneth D. Garbade identifies the 1970 - 1975 period as a milestone in the U.S. Treasury market's evolution from fixed - price offerings of notes and bonds to market - driven auctions.

In order to be consistent with some of the other studies mentioned previously, we redefined portfolio success by shortening the retirement period to 30 years.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

A study from Dow Jones shows that, over a 14 - year period, the typical successful startup had 7.1 percent female executives versus 3.1 percent for unsuccessful startups, and research firm Catalyst says that Fortune 500 companies with the highest ratio of female directors outperformed those with the lowest such ratio by 53 percent on average.

A new NBER working paper by MIT's Christian Catalini and Joshua Gans from the University of Toronto supplies answers to these questions by studying a two - period model of a token offering, covering the ICO stage during which interested buyers acquire tokens, and a market stage at which the platform goes live.

The lesson here is to look for insights by studying an industry deeply over a sustained period of time.

Using U.S. Census data, the Kauffman Foundation found in a 2008 study that «the fraction of employment accounted for by U.S. private - sector business startups over the 1980 - 2005 period is about 3 percent per year».

The Track Maven study found that content engagement decreased by 17 % in the same period.

Although a 6 - percent post-inflation return sounds pretty decent, according to a study performed by investment research company Morningstar, during a period of 10 percent (pre-inflation) market returns, the average investor actually earned only a 3 percent net investment return.

In a recent study by Ned Davis Research, S&P 500 stocks that initiated dividends or grew them over time registered roughly a 9.6 % annualized return since 1972 (through 2010), while stocks that did not pay out dividends or cut them performed poorly over the same time period.

A study by J.P. Morgan, released Tuesday, projected Japanese auto exports to China to crash 70 percent during the October - December period.

Digging further into the outperformance of HML SMALL during this period, the study's authors note that the HML alpha can be tied more to horrible performance by the low - value small cap stocks for the period instead of great performance by the high - value stocks.

The team reported that 10,667 people in the US had made allegations of child sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002 against 4,392 priests (about 4 % of all 109,694 priests who served during the time period covered by the study).

Even throughout his period of theological and philosophical formation, when he produced important translations and studies of works by Origen, Gregory of Nyssa and Maximus the Confessor, among others, he also wrote about drama and dramatists.

The most scholarly is by David L. Holmes, a professor of religious studies at the College of William and Mary, who in The Faiths of the Founding Fathers sketches the religious landscape during the constitutional period.

Now the dominant approach to study of the founding era, its many able advocates — Bernard Bailyn, Gordon Wood, J. G. A. Pocock, Drew McCoy — maintain that the period was profoundly shaped by the long history of republican «civic humanism.»

There are new methods of Gospel - criticism, and there is an almost bewildering mass of material supplied by the comparative study of religion in and about the New Testament period, from Jewish, Hellenistic, and Oriental sources.

The history of studies in our fields has been competently traced by E. Lehmann, E. Hardy, Jordan, H. Pinard de la Boullaye and G. Mensching, but these efforts cover only the first three periods since Max Mueller established.

To be mentioned also are the work of theologians such as Karl Rahuer in his Theological Investigations, and specialized historical studies, often by Catholics like Hubert Jedin, Otto Herman Pesch and Vinzeng Pfnür, on the Reformation period and the Council of Trent.

The ministry requires disciplined study and hard work, but creativity in these can be maintained only by alternating with periods for recharging the batteries.

I noted also that when one attended only to the latter prt of the period studied by Nordhaus and Tobin, the correlation was greatly reduced.

For the early period, the studies by W. Montgomery Watt are standard, especially his Muhammad at Mecca.

I noted that Nordhaus and Tobin came to their conclusion that economic growth improves welfare by taking their statistics for the entire period of their study.

It is significant that this period is marked not only by the emergence of the synagogue as a place of worship but by a fresh attempt to recover, codify, and study the law.

In each of the eight periods demarcated by the case study, a single action of plot characterizes the period and another action is there repressed.

The same form is employed in the synopsis that follows, and each period is identified by the title given to it in the case study.

(The two studies by Dennis and Robinson parallel each other to a large extent and reach similar conclusions with regard to the audiences of religious programs in these locations and in this period.)

Further, the shorter - term effects of capital punishment have been studied by examining the daily number of homicides reported in California over a ten - year period to ascertain whether the execution of convicts reduced the number.

I wish to acknowledge also the personal help and support given by the two churches of which I was pastor during the period of study and writing: The Arlington Heights United Methodist Church in Massachusetts and The Gap Uniting Church in Brisbane, Australia.

Subjects in this study were given cocoa powder supplemented with high - fiber cocoa bran in a semi-skimmed milk drink twice daily for two four - week periods, separated by a three - week period in which cocoa was not consumed.

The Australian Beverages Council has responded to a study by the Harvard Medical School, published in the Human Reproduction journal, which looks at the correlation between sugar - sweetened drinks and the age at which girls have their first period, saying that girls who consume «sugary drinks» tend to start their menstrual periods earlier.

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.

A 2011 report from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research found that between 1985 and 2009, IRRI varieties and breeding lines contributed, on average, 50 % of the annual yield increases in southern Vietnam and the use of new varieties increased Vietnamese rice farmers» income by US$ 127 per hectare (in 2009 values) per year during the study period.

Between 2014 and 2018, the Vinexpo / IWSR study expects African wine consumption to grow by a further 11 %, reaching 81.8 million 9 - litre cases by the end of the period.