Sentences with phrase «than those of peers in»

Known for being a retirement - friendly area, residents here are more likely to choose a Caribbean vacation over Europe or Asia, they ski less than any of their peers in the top 5 richest neighbourhoods in B.C., and are staunch Conservative voters, with 60 % voting Tory.

A year later, the math scores of the kids with glasses had improved far more than those of peers in the other schools.

As a researcher focused on an earlier period, she was more comfortable than some of her peers in accepting that domestication prior to the advent of agriculture — roughly 12,000 years ago — was even possible.

The annual average increase in the rate at which Houston's Hispanic students took Advanced Placement exams was five times greater between 2009 and 2012 than that of their peers in the 75 other urban districts vying for the Broad Prize.

A national study released today casts doubt on whether the academic performance of students in charter schools is any better than that of their peers in regular public schools.

A 2009 MIT - Harvard study, under the direction of Thomas Kane of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, found that «achievement gains among Boston charter school students were significantly higher than those of their peers in either BPS or pilot schools, especially in math.»

The scale scores of low - income students in DCPS are higher than those of their peers in only Detroit and Cleveland (the two lowest - performing cities across the board), and they saw no statistically significant gains.

These qualities make the investment safer than some of the peers in the industry / sector, and the investors have continued to pay a higher premium for the company.

Not exact matches

As much as recent efforts to encourage women in STEM education and STEM jobs have helped move the needle a bit, the culture of science has often made life for women scientists harder than it already is — excluding them from clubby publishing and peer review networks and sometimes outright snubbing their achievements.

In his studies of truly great performers, K. Anders Ericsson, the psychologist and author of several landmark studies on elite performance... found that they practiced and rested a lot more than their good but not elite peers.

(i) Assist companies in determining and interpreting their ratio (revenue stream number one); (ii) Sell the data back to companies to compare and explain ratios among their peers on an industry - by - industry basis, because average worker compensation for Bank of America will be different than that of Apple, for example (revenue stream number two); and (iii) Sell the data to labor groups to assist them in collective bargaining (revenue stream number three).

As Stulberg tells Science of Us, behavior scientist K. Anders Ericsson discovered in the 1990's that what separates great performers — musicians, artists, chess players, even physicians — from everyone else was not that they practiced more than their peers.

More than three - quarters of active managers in the U.S. Large Cap category lagged the equal - weighted composite of their passive peers during the ten years ending December 31, 2014.

While that's higher than peers such as Nikon and Canon, which have sales multiples closer to 1, it's still quite low compared to the valuations of other companies in the tech world.

While he may be a «world - class player» — in President - elect Donald Trump's words — the financial metrics of his time as Exxon's CEO reveal some less than stellar results compared with peers.

In that light, the propensity for a job acquisition would be significantly higher than any of his peers with just a degree.

During this analysis, the panel of medical and sleep experts formally reviewed more than 300 articles published in peer - reviewed journals.

One recent (if small study) that followed a diverse group 183 teens who attended public high school for a decade, starting in middle school, found that «by the age of 22, these «cool kids» are rated as less socially competent than their peers.

By knowing what to improve and how to improve it, I've been able to achieve greater success than have my peers in other areas of life, too.

But if you are in a group with companies that are at very different growth stages than you are, you might find it frustrating because your peers just aren't dealing with the same issues you are in terms of scaling or managing people.

According to new research from Harvard University and the University of Virginia, when people seek out extraordinary experiences like vacationing in exotic locales, those who had the experience enjoyed that their adventures were superior to ones their peers had, but during subsequent social interactions the adventurer ultimately felt excluded and worse off than they would have felt if they had an ordinary experience like everyone else.

Smooth, Chobani's non-Greek line, and Flip, packages of yogurt and mix - ins, are noticeably more colorful than their peers to try to grab casual shoppers.

In college, whenever Iraq or Afghanistan came up, I missed out on a lot of opportunities for personal growth because I was in too big of a hurry to toot my own horn to my civilian peers, rather than take the time to hear what they had to say on the topiIn college, whenever Iraq or Afghanistan came up, I missed out on a lot of opportunities for personal growth because I was in too big of a hurry to toot my own horn to my civilian peers, rather than take the time to hear what they had to say on the topiin too big of a hurry to toot my own horn to my civilian peers, rather than take the time to hear what they had to say on the topic.

Compared to peers, a greater share of employees at the winning companies say their colleagues avoid politicking and backstabbing, while more than nine in ten say they enjoy a «family» or «team» feeling on the job.

Though Dollar Tree now outnumbers its competitor Dollar General (dg) in terms of stores, it still makes less in sales and has a lower market value than its peer.

The top one percentile, meaning those that generate better returns than 99 % of their peers, generate outstanding returns of 70 %, and even 90 % in some cases.

In fact, when you line up Ryan against his direct opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, you can see two versions of the same person — at least in that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never lefIn fact, when you line up Ryan against his direct opponent, Vice President Joe Biden, you can see two versions of the same person — at least in that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never lefin that they both came to Washington in their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never lefin their 20s, were elected to office far younger than their peers, and never left.

The company came through better than many of its peers and cemented its position as a leader in powertrain components.

A study in the «Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine» found that employees who weren't exposed to natural light at work slept an average of 46 minutes less a night than their peers with windows — and the sleep they did get was less restful.

It's far easier to practice in the relatively non-threatening environment of your family, peers, local coffee shop baristas, and so on, than to automatically make these adjustments during the interactions with someone you find intimidating.

The company gets as much as 88 % of its more than $ 10 billion in gross profits from Europe, where it beat its peers to the punch in establishing hotel relationships.

Perhaps most convincing of all, a meta - analysis of 99 data sets from 95 studies conducted between 1962 - 2011 published in the Journal of Applied Psychology, similarly found that female leaders were rated by their reports, peers and managers as being just as or even more effective than male leaders.

In a less traditional path to Wall Street than many of his peers, Solomon skipped the Ivy League and studied political science at Hamilton College in upstate New YorIn a less traditional path to Wall Street than many of his peers, Solomon skipped the Ivy League and studied political science at Hamilton College in upstate New Yorin upstate New York.

A 2013 University of California, Berkeley, study involving participants in an online job market suggests that employees who know exactly how their pay compares to their peers» exert «significantly more» effort than those who are kept in the dark.

Tilden's base salary is set below the 25th percentile for the industry; in other words, three - quarters of his peers are paid more than he is.

Potential underreporting of self - employment income makes it difficult to draw definitive conclusions on independent contractor earnings when compared with their peers, but the data clearly show a wide variance in earnings among independent contractors and lower wages for low - wage independent workers than low - wage employees even after adjustments for underreporting.

That plan had failed to so far lift the company out of its revenue doldrums; its year - over-year revenue losses have come in a little worse than the its peers.

But in the following 12 years the wages of college graduates fell by more than those of their less educated peers.

Yes, that's crisis - torn Somalia, although the gains seem to have more to do with expatriates sending gobs of money home than anything fundamental in the domestic economy, and are a repeat of the shilling's 2013 performance against its foreign - exchange peers.)

While many do have slightly higher expense ratios than their developed - market peers — a reflection of the higher cost of investing in these markets — that is not always the case.

In an editorial in The Journal of the American Medical Association, a Stanford School of Medicine professor criticizes the company for operating in «stealth mode for more than a decade» in order to «change the entire health system» without publishing anything in peer - reviewed biomedical journalIn an editorial in The Journal of the American Medical Association, a Stanford School of Medicine professor criticizes the company for operating in «stealth mode for more than a decade» in order to «change the entire health system» without publishing anything in peer - reviewed biomedical journalin The Journal of the American Medical Association, a Stanford School of Medicine professor criticizes the company for operating in «stealth mode for more than a decade» in order to «change the entire health system» without publishing anything in peer - reviewed biomedical journalin «stealth mode for more than a decade» in order to «change the entire health system» without publishing anything in peer - reviewed biomedical journalin order to «change the entire health system» without publishing anything in peer - reviewed biomedical journalin peer - reviewed biomedical journals.

But it invests in a more balanced fashion than many of its peers, with its holdings equally weighted, instead of being weighted by market cap.

Several of the comparable industry peer companies are our competitors and are generally larger than us in terms of total net revenue and assets.

While young / first - steps content marketers can learn many things from their more mature peers, one of the most striking — and encouraging — observations about those in the early phase is that 71 % agree that their organization is focused more on building long - term relationships than on getting quick results from content marketing.

Mr. Berger's outlook is more pessimistic than that of some of his peers on Wall Street; many other economists now believe 2014 — if not necessarily a breakout year — is still very likely to be the strongest since Mr. Obama took office in January 2009.

Since its inception in 2014, it has help more than 100 companies, providing direct support for entrepreneurs of color and building a national ecosystem to connect them with investors, advisors, and peers.

There are also less well documented levels of organisational peer to peer lending, for example from well established co-ops to new ones: the new co-op gets access to start up capital while the established one gets a better return than they would from leaving their spare money in the bank.

And while Canada isn't exactly a world - beater on this score, we do show up a heck of a lot better than some of our peers — say in the UK, France or certainly the US.

A recent poll conducted on behalf of RBCsup ® / sup finds that students who receive less than one - quarter of their funding from parents feel more confident in their financial decision making and are more likely to make and stick to a budget compared to their peers who receive more financial support from their parents.

A highly - technical look at how the region came out of the global financial crisis in much better shape than most of its emerging market peers.