Sentences with phrase «than supporting authors»

It sounds more like you're interested in getting the absolute cheapest deal than supporting authors with that price declaration.

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To fairly assess a newcomer within weeks rather than months, it's critical for the manager to provide the right support, says Roger Chevalier, California - based management consultant and author of A Manager's Guide to Improving Workplace Performance.
In «Mushrooms and Yeast: The Implications of Technological Progress for Canada's Economic Growth,» author Peter Howitt finds that rather than focusing on supporting specific industries, governments should encourage and harness economic growth through a process of «creative destruction.»
Author Paul Meyer argues that despite the challenge of a restrictive definition of nuclear security, Seoul has the opportunity to «brand» its own summit success by supporting practical results to secure vulnerable nuclear material and enlarging the summit scope to address threats to the nuclear order of greater saliency and priority than those associated with putative terrorists.
But rather than supporting the idea that all Canadians should have comfortable retirements — say, by reforming CPP, and protecting private sector employees against company bankruptcy — the authors see public sector pensions as just more «premium.»
Thus, for a key example, the authors of the Constitution appear in debates and analyses only as authorities, perhaps supporting or perhaps challenging, but in any case other than the American people.
I am more than disappointed that the Tony Jones» support team is unable to appreciate what's good about the U.S. Constitution and the First Amendment and the rights they use all of the time as pastors / speakers / bloggers / writers and authors but don't want anyone else to have!
The authors also asserted data do not support the notion that stone milling produces whole grain flour more nutritious, or with less nutrient loss, than that produced by mills employing steel roller mills.
Nashville, TN — June, 2014 — Attachment Parenting International (API), a non-profit global network of parenting support groups with more than 60 locations around the world, announces its newest Board of Directors member, mother, author and major contributing member of the social work community, Karen Walant.
The authors state that «if you don't rush it, potty training will actually take less time in the long run» and «even if you do manage to potty train your son early in his second year, he's then more likely to have a setback... than if you'd waited...» but they do not have any evidence or cite any studies to support these statements.
Rather than agreeing to discuss the plans put forward for peace by their adversaries, Raz finds that, instead, Israel adopted a policy of procrastination, the main explanation for which, according to the author, was to mislead the American's into thinking they desired peace and therein retain US support and funding.
As the author of the Voter Empowerment Act, I am proud to support efforts to increase dismal voter participation rates and have a process that encourages, rather than discourages, voter enfranchisement.»
The author has written and edited more than forty books on British politics and in this case has had the admirable support of Jonathan Meakin.
Flies on the wall report it got pretty tense before Gallo declared his «full support» in a press release clearly authored by somebody other than Gallo.
«This result would support the common belief that women are more emotionally expressive than men,» explained Dr Klara Spalek, lead author of the study.
The authors note that their study supports the existence of a planetary object within the range of parameters considered both in the Planet Nine hypothesis of Mike Brown and Konstantin Batygin from Caltech, and in the original one proposed in 2014 by Scott Sheppard from the Carnegie Institute and Chadwick Trujillo from the University of North Arizona; in addition to following the lines of their own earlier studies (the latest led by the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias), which suggested that there is more than one unknown planet in our Solar System.
To support their case — and to highlight the excessive level of police brutality faced by African Americans — the authors present novel data showing that, over the past 50 years, blacks have faced significantly greater risk than whites of being killed by police.
The authors said that the difficulty of retaining students may be a factor more complicated than SAI allows for, noting that improving retention rates requires significant campus resources to address a broad range of factors, including student engagement levels, academic support services, campus climate, student satisfaction, and financial aid.
The authors conclude that if the goal of screening is to reduce the risk for death, then the evidence supporting flexible sigmoidoscopy is substantially stronger than that of other screening methods.
The authors write that their observation that the modern collapse of the LIS - B is a unique event supports the hypothesis that the current warming trend in the northwestern Weddell Sea is longer and bigger than past warm episodes.
«I think that level of support was higher than my co-authors and I were expecting,» said Ashley Mercer, lead author and a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Calgary in Alberta.
Overall, the authors reported that individuals given early support were 9 to 31 percent more likely than individuals who did not receive early support to receive follow - up support from other individuals, whether that meant for funding, an award, product endorsement, or signatures of support.
We've now found evidence of extensive river systems in the area which supports the idea that Mars was warm and wet, providing a more favourable environment for life than a cold, dry planet,» explained lead author, Joel Davis (UCL Earth Sciences).
With a mission of supporting science literacy for all students, Science Buddies offers more than 1,100 free projects and activities that provide quality, scientist - authored experimental procedures.
This estimate is 11 percent lower than the current assessment of the IUCN, supporting the call for the upgrading of cheetahs from «Vulnerable» to «Endangered»,» says lead author Florian Weise, scientist at the Community Living Among Wildlife Sustainability Conservancy (CLAWS), USA.
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Here the authors are not mentioning that values at the lower end of the spectrum represent a less dramatic situation than a value at the higher end of the spectrum, which probably would have really supported a climate catastrophe.
Dr Ricardo Rodríguez Varela, researcher at Stockholm University and lead author of the study, explains: «By generating the first autosomal genetic data from these populations we can conclusively demonstrate that the Guanches were most closely related to modern North Africans of Berber ancestry than to any other population we included for comparisons, supporting previous studies but adding more detail and nuance.»
Your core is more than your six - pack muscles — it's all the muscles that encompass your trunk and help support your spine, explains certified strength and conditioning specialist Hannah Davis, author of Operation Bikini Body.
The authors» suggestion that milk proteins may contribute to the reduced diuretic effect is also supported by other research concluding that «milk protein has been shown to be more effective for post-exercise rehydration than an isoenergetic amount of carbohydrate.»
Hanks» performance (which is surprisingly, but probably correctly used sparingly; he's very much a supporting player in the author's story rather than a secondary lead) also nicely walks the line; it's hardly warts - and - all, and he's an ultimately avuncular figure, but the actor does a good job at showing Disney's Machiavellian, manipulative side.
The editors candidly tell us that «as we were seeking support for the project and recruiting authors, more than one person wished us well and told us this was an important avenue for inquiry but just too hot for them to touch.»
(p. 222) It does not seem unfair to expect the authors to provide evidence, other than the fact of differentiation, to support these assertions, or to say what is being done in traditional public schools that better prepares students for life in a democratic society.
Being empowered is different than projecting an image of empowerment for girls, says Colby College Professor Lyn Mikel Brown, Ed.D.» 89, author of Powered by Girl: A Field Guide to Supporting Youth Activists.
As senior - level administrators are both the stewards of the pension system and the recipients of the highest net benefits, the authors conclude, «There is no reason to expect school administrators or their organizations to support reforms that would provide a more modern and mobile retirement system for young educators» and suggest that districts could be recruiting young teachers more effectively by putting money in upfront salaries rather than in end - of - career pension benefits.
Dr. Okiror authored and co-authored successful grants of more than $ 1.5 million for programs at UAPB that support student success and faculty development.
Author and consultant Tom Schimmer concurs, «Collaborative Common Assessments is set to become the definitive guide for educators who are serious about utilizing common assessments to support learning rather than simply monitoring it.
As authors Robert J. Marzano and Mark W. Haystead explain, two major reasons account for this situation: state and national standards documents typically identify far more content than teachers can actually teach during a school year, and the standards are not written in a manner that supports effective instruction and assessment.
Nor did the PTE note the anger of Professor Stephen Machin, one of the authors of the LSE report, that their findings had been «wrongly used» to support the conversion of «better than average» schools including primaries (https://www.theguardian.com/education/2012/apr/09/labour-academies-research-coalition-programme).
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Robyn R. Jackson is president of Mindsteps and author of How to Support Struggling Students (ASCD / Mindsteps, 2010) and Never Work Harder Than Your Students and Other Principles of Great Teaching (ASCD, 2009); [email protected].
In his article Golden Rules for Engaging Students in Learning Activities, author Nicolás Pino - James, PhD lists five ways teachers can encourage student engagement: making learning activities meaningful, fostering a sense of competence, supporting autonomy, collaborative learning, positive teacher - student relationships, and mastery orientations (positioning learning as steps towards reaching a goal of learning, rather than simply seeking a reward such as a grade or approval from parents or peers).
The authors note that their analysis does not necessarily support school closures as a means for improving student achievement; rather, the results suggest that students transferring from closed schools will experience improved student achievement only if the students are moved to schools that are dramatically higher - performing than the ones they left.
I was discussing this with someone yesterday, going back and forth at possible explanations, which included that self - pubbed authors tend to work the review mines harder than their trad pubbed peers, or have more support from other indie authors reviewing, or get higher ratings due to the generally lower price of the work (greater satisfaction due to a price / performance expectation).
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To support enabling these features for more than a million Lulu authors, Lulu has adopted a new pricing structure for eBooks and print downloads.
Of 210,000 downloads earlier this week, more than 85,000 clicked through «Support the Author» to the book's Amazon page.
There are a few exceptions — authors I buy more to support them than to read them — but usually those are authors I, um, edited or beta - read or something.
I know you thank your fans (of which I am one), and I am more than happy to share the love about a book that I loved, so supporting an author who writes such outstanding romances is a privilege I wish I could do more often!
Amazon is clearly trying to keep its reviews objective by weeding out reviews from friends and family who may be more interested in supporting the author than in being honest about the quality of the book.
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