Sentences with phrase «than differences across»

There are more similarities than differences across diverse small - business owner segments.

Not exact matches

However, some customers didn't even notice the price cuts or said they weren't lower enough to make a difference, as they seemed to be focused on specific items rather than being implemented across the board.

«While fundamental values across generations are more alike than different, stereotypical perceptions of differences persist.»

But that difference takes a particular form: «overvalued, overbought, overbullish» syndromes have been less reliable than in other market cycles across history.

CNN: Study: People tweet more about church than beer In an effort to look at cultural differences across the United States, a data analysis company selected two words that it felt exemplified an American cultural divide and analyzed their usage on Twitter.

This decision is later than many had hoped, but it is made now with substantial support across the church and with trust and understanding of the differences that there have been.

In fact, a report published last month — Differences Between Rural and Urban Areas in Mortality Rates for the Leading Causes of Infant Death: United States, 2013 — 2015 — which describes the mortality rates for the five leading causes of infant, neonatal, and postneonatal death in the United States across rural, small and medium urban, and large urban counties, showed that infant, neonatal, and postneonatal mortality rates were higher in rural counties than in large urban counties.

To highlight the differences in how men and women approach their financial commitments, research conducted last year by the Barclays Wealth Female Client Group showed that wealthy women, across the world, were less risk averse than men when it came to their investments.

With more than 13 years of public service, despite political differences, I have a proven track - record of working collaboratively with individuals across aisles, at various levels of government and maintaining professional relationships even with those whom I viscerally disagree.

Office space typically costs 20 percent to 25 percent more in Plainview than across the Nassau - Suffolk border in Babylon Town because of differences in how commercial properties are taxed, according to Patrick Halpin, chairman of the Babylon IDA board from 2006 through last year and a former Suffolk County executive.

«These are genuine inequalities and more than just a difference in the costs of living across Europe.»

The study of 4,764 men and 5,389 women in 33 countries and 37 cultures showed that sex differences in mate preferences are much larger than previously appreciated and stable across cultures.

In other words, 4 mA current produced about twice as much voltage change across electrodes as 2 mA current and the bi-temporal montage provided higher voltage differences than the occipitofrontal montage.

Although extensive research exists on bilingualism, few studies have taken accents into account when looking at early word recognition in monolingualism, and van Heugten says none have explored the issue of accents in children younger than 18 months, the age when they traditionally develop the ability to recognize pronunciation differences that can occur across identical words.

Racial differences in school discipline are widely known, and black students across the United States are more than three times as likely as their white peers to be suspended or expelled, according to Stanford researchers.

Researchers» findings underscore that this accounts for more than half of the differences seen across countries and over time for certain leading causes of DALYs, including maternal and neonatal disorders.

By looking at the density of singletons flanking more than 4 million DNA differences, Pritchard's team discovered that selection for all three traits occurred across the genome in recent millennia.

«The results suggest that the environment is a stronger contributor to adverse birth outcomes than genes, since there are differences in rates of birth outcomes across states» Thayer said.

Rather than listing specific genes that manifest themselves differently, or are differentially expressed, between queens and workers, the team looked for genes with similar expression patterns across samples that may be involved in maintaining the structural, behavioural and functional differences observed between queens and workers.

However, he said the degree of difference in earnings suggested the horizontal stratification in education across field of study appears to be more consequential than the usual focus on vertical stratification, which refers to the earnings gap between levels of education.

The persistence of these gender differences across rank is consistent with research showing that girls do more housework than boys even at a very young age.

After adjustment for confounders, annual healthcare costs per individual with incident diabetes were significantly lower in the screening group than the no - screening group across all healthcare sectors and for redeemed medication: annual difference in inpatient care costs − $ 662 (95 % CI − $ 865, − $ 459), outpatient care costs − $ 82 (95 % CI − $ 157, − $ 7), primary care costs − $ 51, (95 % CI − $ 63, − $ 38) and pharmaceuticals − $ 94 (95 % CI − $ 111, − $ 76).

In fact, we revealed that lean participants from the different studies varied more in their levels of Firmicutes than did the lean and obese individuals within each study, pointing to systematic biases and biological differences across the study populations.

We then removed redundant probe sets, and probe sets that showed minor differences in expression levels across all tests setting the standard deviation of the log2 signal over 67 conditions to less than 0.45.

Dr Bügel says: «No systematic differences between cultivation systems representing organic and conventional production methods were found across the five crops so the study does not support the belief that organically grown foodstuffs generally contain more major and trace elements than conventionally grown foodstuffs.»

If the single - parent family structure adversely affects children's educational outcomes, then the difference in trends across income groups could possibly account for more of the growing gap in educational attainment between rich and poor children than income inequality itself.

The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) has highlighted there are big differences in the funding of schools across England with the lowest funded schools receiving # 1.9 million less than the highest funded schools.

Across 21 comparisons (seven sites with three racial groups each), we find only two cases in which the average difference between the sending TPS and the receiving charter school is greater than 10 percentage points in the concentration of the transferring student's race.

In fact, the trends here are even more stark than found by Looney and Yannelis (2015), due in part to the large and rapidly growing differences in borrowing rates across sectors.

You are both good enough statisticians to know that averages across multiple cases (which I reported) are more informative than case - by - case comparisons (which you rely upon), each of which is noisy and therefore more likely to show no statistically significant difference.

Given the underrepresentation of students who enter during early grades, this difference suggests that the average effects of attending a charter school across all grades, 4 through 8, may be less negative than indicated by our final analysis, at least for math.

«With the support of a local mentor more than 1,000 young people across NSW will use their creativity and ideas to make a difference in their community.

The pattern of differences across schools, across and within school districts, argues for enacting school accountability policies that hold schools accountable for the success of specific populations, rather than concentrating solely on overall schoolwide performance levels or gains.

The smaller differences across student groups within schools than between schools could arise if students sort systematically into schools with similar students, or it could be due to the effects that schools might have on students» social emotional development.

In short, institutional variation across countries explains far more of the variation in student test scores than do differences in the resources devoted to education.

Taken together, these results show a) quite weak relationships of policy with reported instruction within states (much weaker than has been found elsewhere), and b) differences across states in relationships between the attributes and content.

That said, it seems clear that, as a nation, we have not done nearly enough to teach our children how to look across lines of race and class and see similarities rather than differences — to see...

That said, it seems clear that, as a nation, we have not done nearly enough to teach our children how to look across lines of race and class and see similarities rather than differences — to see themselves and their friends reflected in the faces of others rather than unknown and perhaps unknowable strangers.

Except for opinions on school choice issues, differences across ethnic groups are generally smaller than those between public school employees and those who have never been employed by the schools.

As a result, the precise proportion of Americans who claim to vote in school board elections — 40 percent, in our survey — is less informative than differences in reported turnout across the various subgroups.

True to Villanueva Beard's commitment to recognizing the cultural differences across the many regions in which TFA places corps members, the Mississippi Delta will become a hub for training TFA teachers headed to rural areas, where the demand for first - year teachers is much higher than in many cities, and where corps members will encounter a different type of poverty.

The differences in math improvements across models might be due to factors other than the model implemented, such as differences between schools that existed before they received grants.

Even small differences in summer learning can accumulate across years resulting in a substantially greater achievement gap at the end of elementary school than was present at the beginning (Alexander, Entwisle, & Olson, 2004; see also Borman & Dowling, 2006; Lai, McNaughton, Amituanai - Toloa, Turner, & Hsiao, 2009).

Teacher shortages are not felt uniformly across all communities and classrooms, but instead affect some states, subject areas, and student populations more than others, based on differences in wages, working conditions, concentrations of teacher preparation institutions, as well as a wide range of policies that influence recruitment and retention.

There are many challenges to attributing differences that emerge across the states in NAEP gains to the presence of universal pre-k rather than to the many other ways that states differ in their policies and circumstances.

In contrast to statistically nonsignificant differences for the teachers within levels of school effectiveness, these statistically significant differences among teachers across schools suggest that a teacher's preferred style of interacting with students is a teaching dimension which is less well influenced by the practice of others at the school level than other dimensions of teaching being investigated in our study (e.g., time spent by students in independent reading, or degree of home communication).

Given that this study identified a random sample of districts across the United States as participants, and that we have data only for districts that chose to become involved, actual differences between elementary and secondary schools nationwide may be even wider than those we have discovered.

«Several high - quality charter schools across the country are making an amazing difference in our children's lives, especially when charters in inner - city communities are performing as well, if not better, than their counterparts in much wealthier suburbs,» Duncan said.

The analysis found slight differences in students» experiences of engagement across grade levels, with elementary students slightly more likely to be engaged than secondary students.

«A summative rating, in contrast, necessarily glosses over differences in performance across indicators and inappropriately draws school leaders, stakeholders and the public focus on the single rating rather than a more robust reflection of performance demonstrated by the individual indicators,» they wrote.