Sentences with phrase «time for research compared»

This simple numerical comparison (leaving aside other factors affecting the classrooms in Spanish universities such as the large number of students in many centers and the increase in the type of «unquantifiable» work that this generates for teaching staff) shows that the «civil servant professor» has a significant decrease in availability of time for research compared to members of research - only institutes.

Not exact matches

According to a 2011 Institute for Women's Policy Research report, the gap for full time - workers was 23 %, compared to 11 % in the federal government, where pay is public.

Anticipating these cycles, in addition to avoiding the temptation to spend more capital when it's more abundant, can be particularly difficult for very new businesses that haven't experienced more than a season or two (one healthy season does not a cycle — or a trend — make), but investing time to research trends in your particular industry will help you evaluate how your business is performing compared to similar businesses within your industry.

For some time now we've been diving deep into coconut oil — figuratively, that is — researching and comparing Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oils to better educate ourselves and our community.

Research shows that death by injury is around six times more likely for those ages 15 to 19 as compared to children between ages 10 and 14.

Breastfeeding after a caesarean section (C - section) may help manage pain, with mothers who breastfed their babies for at least 2 months after the operation three times less likely to experience persistent pain compared to those who breastfed for less than 2 months, according to new research being presented at this year's Euroanaesthesia Congress in Geneva (3 - 5 June).

Research has shown that the possibility of fatality for mothers undergoing c - sections is three times higher compared to those who opt for natural birth.

Asked about including new rules for scientific research of guns in the bill, Emanuel suggested that was extraneous, comparing it to the distracting talk of «midnight basketball» programs the last time Congress tried to pass major gun control legislation in the early 1990s.

The achievement of first author Kira Rehfeld and her colleagues: they have for the first time gathered and compared data from diverse climate archives and a total of 99 research sites.

«What was specially relevant from a basic research standpoint was that, for the first time, the descent in levels of a plant hormone compared to control values as an answer to environmental stress could be a physiologically significant response — and data points in this direction,» adds Arbona.

A quick calculation of the above shows that for a minimum of 9 months a year, the time available per week to academic staff in Spanish universities for research is 23 hours, compared to 37.5 for colleagues in «pure» research centers.

«What we did in this paper is engineer our sensor to be about 15 times better than a previous version, and then compared it against a blood biomarker in a mouse model of ovarian cancer to show that we could beat it,» says Sangeeta Bhatia, the John and Dorothy Wilson Professor of Health Sciences and Technology and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, a member of MIT's Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research and Institute for Medical Engineering and Science, and the senior author of the study.

Transcatheter aortic valve replacement with a self - expanding valve prosthesis for the first time has demonstrated significantly lower death rates at one year compared with conventional surgical valve replacement in high - risk patients with severe aortic stenosis, according to research presented at the American College of Cardiology's 63rd Annual Scientific Session.

Weighted RCR is essentially defining an average paper's scientific impact based on actual citations as 1 (normalized by research field), and a given scientist's output can be compared against the average by adding together the citation count for that scientist's papers to give the Weighted RCR over a given period of time).

«We saw a modest increase in treadmill walking time for patients treated with GM - CSF, compared to placebo,» says study leader Arshed Quyyumi, MD, professor of medicine at Emory University School of Medicine and co-director of the Emory Clinical Cardiovascular Research Institute.

The EURAC research team, in collaboration with the Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Santiago de Compostela, thus compared the mitochondrial DNA of the Iceman with that from 1,077 individuals belonging to the K1 lineage, of which 42 samples originated from the eastern Alps and were for the first time analysed in this study.

«This is the first time people have quantified and compared the disease effects of research and tourism with the anti-poaching effect,» says study co-author Peter Walsh of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

However, new archaeological research has revealed that — for all their apparently hygienic innovations — intestinal parasites such as whipworm, roundworm and Entamoeba histolytica dysentery did not decrease as expected in Roman times compared with the preceding Iron Age, they gradually increased.

«The gap between the scale of global ambitions and the scale of national offerings has been clear to the research community for a long time, but the Kyoto Protocol's focus on near - term emissions reductions... coupled with the scientific focus on long - term stabilization of climate at some unspecified point in the future has long given negotiators an out: they have been able to compare near - term actions without having to square them with long - term goals, rather like guys in a pub arguing about whose round it is while never actually having to settle up the bill,» Frame said in an email.

Clinical Research Trials show significant benefits with tapping that improve over time (compared to high weight regain rates for diets).

The National Literacy Trust's research, Children's and Young People's Reading in 2014, found that children who enjoy reading «very much» are three times more likely to read above the level expected for their age, compared with their peers who do not enjoy reading at all.

Russ makes three arguments: 1) A recent study that compared grit scores among fraternal and identical twins suggests that grit may be heritable to a large degree, which would make it unrealistic to expect schools or others to be able to alter it; 2) The twin study as well as a meta - analysis of grit research found that grit only explains about 2 - 3 % of the variance in achievement scores, which Russ thinks makes it a poor predictor of other outcomes; and 3) The meta - analysis suggests that grit may be highly correlated with conscientiousness, one of the Big 5 personality traits that psychologists have been studying for a long time.

Research from the National Literacy Trust has shown that students who enjoy writing are seven times more likely to be writing above the expected level for their age, compared to those who don't enjoy writing at all.

Research comparing the efficacy of full - day to part - day is limited and some was conducted prior to the Common Core State Standards and other measures holding all students accountable for achieving the same standards regardless of time - in - school models.

Compared to teachers at schools with similarly renovated libraries — those renovated with state QZAB funds but without additional professional development funds, community partnerships, and modernized technology — teachers at Library Project schools reported more collaboration with the school librarian and were four times more likely to have their students use the library for research.

But some research has validated the organization's work, including a recent study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Education that found Teach for America's educators were as effective — and at times more effective — at teaching math compared with instructors from other preparation programs or even veteran educators.

However, Ripley's opinion that sports in school are detracting from academics, in time, funding and personal value, ignores the research on increased academic performance from student - athletes compared to their non-athlete counterparts (see Hartmann, 2008, for a review of empirical work on the topic.)

In a summary of the studies on extended time in «School Reform Proposals: The Research Evidence», noted researcher Gene Glass found that increases in the time allocated for schooling would be expensive and would not produce appreciable gains in academic achievement — especially as compared to smaller classes.

Researching and comparing mortgage rates on the internet can save the homeowner a great deal of time and can help them find the best rate for the mortgage loan that they desire.

According to a recent research study reported by the Ohio State University College of Veterinary Medicine, «the return rate for lost animals with micro chips was 20 times higher for cats and 2.5 times higher for dogs compared to lost animals without a microchip.»

Average bank card balances, for example, hardly budged in the third quarter of 2013, compared to the same time last year, according to new research from the credit agency Equifax.

As I wrote at the time, with all the graphics and lists and other content attending the report release, «Somehow the panel failed to fit in a single graph like this one from the International Energy Agency showing how utterly inconsequential energy research is in advanced democracies (the O.E.C.D.) compared to budgets for science on other things we care about»:

My own research shows that, even taking the OECD's analysis at face value, when we compare the «subsidies» given to green and brown sectors on a unit - for - unit basis, the renewable sector enjoys thirteen times the subsidy that the fossil fuel sector received.

We compare aircraft observations to modeled CH4 distributions by accounting for a) transport using the Stochastic Time - Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model driven by Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) meteorology, b) emissions from inventories such as EDGAR and ones constructed from California - specific state and county databases, each gridded to 0.1 ° x 0.1 ° resolution, and c) spatially and temporally evolving boundary conditions such as GEOS - Chem and a NOAA aircraft profile measurement derived curtain imposed at the edge of the WRF domain.

Set a time or effort limit for a choice: for example, if you're comparing cars, you might limit yourself to two hours of online research and four test drives.

As well, it's important to take time to research the companies themselves - in addition to comparing the quotes - to make sure they're not luring you in with a great quote that you find out later you don't actually qualify for.

So when you're comparing Las Cruces insurance for homeowners, be sure that you've done some research ahead of time about what coverages you'd like and which may require extra premium payments.

In between researching for your latest essay and chatting to your friends on Facebook, take the time to compare Brooklyn renters insurance.

Take the time to do your own research and compare car insurance quotes online to get the best policy for your needs.

Researching the right insurance company to work with might take a little time, but comparing quotes for coverage is well worth your effort.

Second, take time to compare quotes and do your research to make sure you're getting the best coverage for your money.

The newly published research claims that iOS devices accounted for 39 percent of new mobile device activations over Q4, compared to only a 34 percent increase this time last year.

Maternal depression is demonstrated to contribute to multiple early child developmental problems, including impaired cognitive, social and academic functioning.3 - 6 Children of depressed mothers are at least two to three times more likely to develop adjustment problems, including mood disorders.3 Even in infancy, children of depressed mothers are more fussy, less responsive to facial and vocal expressions, more inactive and have elevated stress hormones compared to infants of non-depressed mothers.7, 8 Accordingly, the study of child development in the context of maternal depression is a great societal concern and has been a major research direction for early childhood developmental researchers for the past several decades.

For the first time ever, Google is getting more mobile search requests than desktop searches and their research shows that, on average, users carry out around 220 tasks on their smartphones per day, compared to 140 on a desktop or laptop.

You'll want to do your research to determine which type of loan is best for you and also take time to compare interest rates and offers, as well as other features of each type of loan, which can vary from lender to lender.

NAR's Research Division developed this informative brochure to explain the benefits of homeownership as compared to renting making this brochure a great tool for marketing first time buyers.

According to research by TIAA - CREF Global Real Estate that compares how well various asset types perform as inflation hedges, among 5,000 portfolios with five - year holding periods, but with random starting years from 1978 to 2011, the National Council of Real Estate Investment Fiduciaries Property Index's total returns for commercial real estate beat inflation 84 percent of the time, and by a huge 698 basis points, on average.