Sentences with phrase «studying up for»

Studying up for a geography, history or English test?

Like most new moms, I had spent all 9 months months studying up for my new job as a parent.

Send your sweetie an SMS telling them that you are thinking about them when you know they are in a boring business meeting, stuck on the train in a commute, or studying up for a company test.

The oldest study up for replication is one published in Science in 1960 by Eckhard Hess and James Polt of the University of Chicago in Illinois.

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.

«We could throw up a quick study for an entrepreneur for $ 10, and within a day get a lot of feedback from different people about how heavy or light, fast or slow a logo would be,» he says.

In the post, Coleman runs down all the evidence for the many benefits of lifelong learning, turning up studies and reports that show continual study is the cure for many of life's most pressing problems.

«Look at the job description, study up on the company and find out what experience and attributes they're looking for,» says Wolfe.

The study's authors recommend that newspapers set up paywalls for their digital products in order to make them appear more valuable.

There are also plenty of practical tips to help turn that commitment into reality, including clever ways to slip learning into jam - packed days, lists of free resources for online study, and dead simple interventions that are guaranteed to free up hours a week for reading.

«We were able to come up with a road map to achieving this and because it was so thoughtfully done, it was then very easy for other governments to look at it, study it, and say, «Wow, everyone can work with this?

Ciotti references a number of studies to back up his assertion that writing is great for your well being.

Honey bee death rates went up in places where higher levels of naled were recorded near hives, according to a National Center for Biotechnology Information study.

The mental boost was «equivalent to a ten - point increase in IQ,» according to the Association for Psychological Science write - up of the study.

Follow - up studies that asked volunteers to find time for 15 minutes of device - free solitude each day for a week and keep a journal of their experiences showed the same thing - fewer intense emotions and a greater awareness of subtle ones.

You will be shocked to learn that a study commissioned by Internet radio service Pandora found that annoying users with increased amounts of advertising will push some to pay for an ad - free subscription, but not enough to make up for the majority who get annoyed and just tune out.

Furthermore, an early - stage study pumping up the dose of its hemophilia A treatment — which aims to be a one - time therapy for the rare blood clotting - related disease — appeared to hit its targets without serious side effects.

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).

Study after study shows that you'll more than make up for the time you lose snoozing with your increased productivity after you wakStudy after study shows that you'll more than make up for the time you lose snoozing with your increased productivity after you wakstudy shows that you'll more than make up for the time you lose snoozing with your increased productivity after you wake up.

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.

Ryan has spent years studying tax issues, and passed up opportunities in House leadership for this chairmanship.

Two Swiss economists who studied the effect of commuting on happiness found that such factors could not make up for the misery created by a long commute.

They were pleased enough with the results that they ponied up another $ 10 million ($ 14 million) for LAPCAT II, a four - year study that launched in October 2008 with a mandate to refine two of the LAPCAT concepts based on engines that would burn liquid hydrogen, and to produce detailed development road maps for producing them.

Even the glitteriest of gold - standard clinical trials, for instance, are often undone by a leaden follow - up study that has the nerve to arrive at a different result.

According to a recent study from Kaiser, to make up for the loss of CSR payments, insurers would have to jack up the price of premiums by an average of 19 % more than the current projected increase for 2018.

According to an April study from Kaiser, to make up for the loss of CSR payments, insurers would have to raise premiums by an average of 19 % more than the current projected increase for 2018.

Valeant, however, received an incomplete grade for three follow - up studies required to explore the interaction between the drug and alcohol.

When a customer tweeted the company asking for clarification about a fee policy, JetBlue not only immediately responded, but also had a local representative study this man's social media photo, then walk through the airport until he could be found for a follow - up conversation.

Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reforstudies for the nonprofit Center for Immigration Studies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reforStudies think tank, told Polis's local paper The Daily Camera that «there is a much stronger case» for Start - up Visas than, say, for expanding guest worker programs or family - based immigration, both of which are included in the larger reform bill.

As such, readers looking for a business case study may end up doing a lot of skimming.

A recent BMO study found that in 2013, Canadian moms and dads were willing to fork out more than $ 425 to get their kid ready for the classroom, up 18 % over the previous year's figure.

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 other words, exercising after a long period of not eating could set us up for a longer, more intense fat burn, noted Eric Doucet, the lead author on the study and a professor of kinesiology at the University of Ottowa.

Studies that involve divvying up money, for example, have shown that subjects would irrationally rather walk away empty - handed than feel they were cheated out of their fair share.

«PM Modi engaged in social media heavily in the run - up to last year's election,» says Richard Rossow, chair in U.S. India policy studies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International Sstudies at Washington's Center for Strategic and International StudiesStudies.

Launched in August after a year - long clinical study, MoodHacker is essentially a Fitbit for the neck up, tracking a person's emotional mood as opposed to their physical fitness (though that is part of it).

The survey comes as a U.K. study by the government's pension minister Steve Webb warned last week that the pension gap was widening, with up to 13 million Brits heading for an austere retirement after not saving adequately during their working lives.

«Ottawa isn't really keen, I think, on having the provinces all start up their own pension plans because it starts to break up the federation a bit, it starts to create barriers to people going from one province to another looking for employment,» said Thomas Klassen, a York University political science professor who studies pensions.

For one, scientists would pay a pretty penny to send up equipment that could study the lunar body.

Any Canadian — whether an individual flying in their backyard or an employee of a company using it for business purposes — would do well to study up on the do's and don'ts first.

While investing in ethical systems and materials may require more costs up front, it can have a massive payoff (in addition to being the ethical choice): According to the study, 73 percent of consumers say they're willing to pay more for a product that promises total transparency.

Study up on your market at LoopNet.com, which lists 650,000 - plus properties for sale or lease nationwide.

But while thousands of clinical trials on immunotherapy drugs, of which many are predicted to fail, are springing up, the depth of information on neoantigen vaccines is much shallower: Just two studies on neoantigen vaccines for melanoma, recently profiled in Nature, were completed last year in Boston and Germany.

IBM Watson, FDA team up to study blockchain use for data exchange.

According to a new study by research provider Custom Products, the number of crimes committed by people over 60 is soaring, with 35 % of arrests for shop - lifting involving the retiree demographic, up from 20 % in 2001.

With a passion for fashion and design, he thought about being an architect, but ended up studying business administration and accounting.

Not only does getting up for your get - togethers improve your health, according to a new study, but it's also likely to encourage teamwork and creativity.

Right now, that data is locked up in electronic health records, which tend to be organized to help bill insurers, rather than detail, say, the rate at which the tumor is shrinking, in a way that could be pulled out for a study.

In his 1994 study on securities lawbreaking for the Justice Department, Schlegel found that while officials were talking tough about locking up insider traders, there was little evidence to suggest that the punishments imposed — either the incarceration rates or the sentences themselves — were more severe.

Since then, additional high - profile studies have come out — including an article, published in the journal of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, which found no evidence that brain games improve everyday cognition — but the topic is still very much up for debate.