Sentences with phrase «time studies when»

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In one experiment, the study's authors asked 75 adults to remember a time when they either bragged, or had to listen to someone else's bragging.

Teasdale points to a recent Harvard study which underscores the scale of the problem: People spend most of their time during conversations talking about their own viewpoints and tend to self - promote when meeting people for the first time.

The study's authors found that on days when participants hit the gym, they reported managing their time more effectively, being more productive, and having more cheerful interactions with colleagues.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

He used his kitchen timer (which, as it happened, resembled a tomato, or pomodoro, in Italian) to time the periods when he would work on one paper or study for one exam.

Plenty of thinkers have argued that time abroad increases important skills for business success like comfort with ambiguity, confidence when confronted with the unfamiliar, and accelerated learning, but the team of social scientists out of Rice University, Columbia, and the University of North Carolina behind this study wanted to test the effects of extended travel abroad on self knowledge specifically.

There is no shortage of studies sighting that employee effectiveness rises when time off is taken on a regular basis, but entrepreneurs can easily lose sight of this fact, working for months — even years — without time away from the business.

On top of the problem of unfair pay for women, a Harvard study revealed that, when it comes to annual performance reviews, women were 1.4 times more likely to receive critical subjective feedback, not positive feedback or critical objective feedback, and that traits that were considered negative in women were often interpreted as positive in men.

The Times article cited a study published in the journal Psychological Science, which found that when happily married women held their spouses» hand while they received mild electric shocks, the parts of their brain associated with pain were less active than when they weren't holding their spouse's hand.

When it came time to reward top executives last year, more leading companies handed out performance - based awards instead of time - vesting stock options, according to a new study from human resources consulting firm Mercer.

«There have been times when I've had a really busy week and a lot has been going on and I'll sit down on the cushion and then I'll just start crying and I'll realize that I'm so sad about this one thing, but I had no space to grieve, no space to think about it; I was zipping from one thing to the other all week,» says Pennell, who has studied at Insight Meditation Society, one of the top meditation centers in the country.

13 Management Practices That Waste Time, Aubrey Daniels cites a study showing the individuals experience a decline in performance when they repeatedly fail to reach stretch goals.

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.

«It's a farce to claim to be offering «free college» to employees when what's being offered is simply the chance to pursue a degree at one specific university, only online, only if you enroll full time and work at least 20 hours a week,» Dr. Sara Goldrick - Rab, professor of educational policy studies and sociology at the University of Wisconsin, told Think Progress.

The study's bottom line seems to be that, sure, there is still plenty of sexism when it comes to women's behavior at the negotiating table, but if you're more interested at any given time in getting a good deal than challenging stereotypes, then flirting may be the way to go.

Women have less time for on - the - job labor because they spend more time doing housework than their male counterparts — so they miss out when they're working in fields that reward long hours, based on a new National Bureau for Economic Research study.

After he left the Army in 2008 and later finished his undergraduate studies at the University of Alabama in Huntsville, he worked as a web communications specialist at the VA, helping to formulate the department's messaging at a time when the medical backlog issue was first becoming widely known.

A recent MIT study found that when identical business - plan videos were narrated by either male or female voices, respondents chose the plans presented by males 68 percent of the time.

A study conducted at Stanford and University of Pennsylvania revealed that when books penned by unknown writers were reviewed in the New York Times, sales of their work increased by a third, even if the reviews were negative.

OSLO, Oct 7 - Greenhouse gas emissions rise when economies expand but don't fall as quickly when recession strikes, perhaps because people stick with a higher - emitting lifestyle from the boom times, a study showed.

His insight is bolstered by a recent study published in January in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation that found that the best results for heart health were gleaned when participants worked out four to five times a week.

I'm not alone in having a hard time hearing what my gut has to say when I'm already anxious, something a new study published in Clinical Psychological Science supports: researchers from the University of Basel and the Berlin Psychological University found that anxiety may impair your ability to listen to your intuition.

The phenomenon is called «best - self activation,» and studies have shown that when we think of times when we did something great, it boosts our self - confidence and makes us more likely to repeat the feat.

Studies have shown that employees perform better when they take time off to rejuvenate and have less stress in their daily lives.

The FDIC study also noted that when a community fails or closes voluntarily, another community bank has acquired it two - thirds of the time.

When companies scored a second or third time with a qualifying value, that is, above 175 in health and wellness and 350 in safety, the portfolio doubled or tripled its investment in them and maintained that «over-weighting» for the remainder of the study.

To date, results from several longitudinal studies indicate that e-cigarette use among nonsmoking youth increases the likelihood of future use of conventional cigarettes.5 — 10 Specifically, the pooled odds ratio (OR) in a recent meta - analysis of studies of adolescents and young adults (aged 14 — 30) indicates that those who had ever used e-cigarettes were 3.62 times more likely to report using cigarettes at follow - up compared with those who had not used e - cigarettes.11 This finding was robust and remained significant when adjusting for known risk factors associated with cigarette smoking, including demographic, psychosocial, and behavioral variables such as cigarette susceptibility.

When the New York Times printed Einstein's obituary on April 20th, it said that Dr. Harvey performed the autopsy «with the permission of the scientist's son,» with another headline that same day proclaiming «Son Asked Study of Einstein Brain.»

When the tactics became overbearing during the startup stages of my company, I began my studies in time management.

According to the Growing Gap, a study by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, «In 2004, the richest 10 per cent of families raising children earned 82 times more than the poorest 10 per cent — almost triple the ratio of 1976, when they earned 31 times more.»

And even when they do study business, too much time is spent on theoretical rather than experiential learning.

Studies have shown that not only do workers in a dirty environment spend less time at their desk, but also work less productively when they finally do get to their desks.

The study drew on data from nearly 6,000 millennial renters (age 18 to 34) at a time when homeownership for Americans under 35 years old is at its lowest point in the history of Census recorded data dating back to 1984.

The same study found that when an employee leaves (for a company with better benefits or to spend more time at home), the company ends up spending 20 % of the employee's salary in productivity losses for time spent searching for, training, and getting new employees up to speed.

Buffet's study of investing goes back decades to his time as a student at Columbia when he studied with Ben Graham, author of The Intelligent Investor.

And given that even in retirement most studies suggest that a large percentage should always be invested in equities, I am not sure there will ever be a time when I am not at least partially investing for a ten year horizon.

In a time when women were discouraged from studying math and science, Nancy Grace Roman became a research astronomer and the first Chief of Astronomy at NASA.

Unfortunately studies show that, even with people who do write out their plan, investors have a hard time sticking with it when things go south.

The fact is that the US began falling in math and science when the Schools began wasting the students» time teaching them political - correctness — gay and gender studies, situational ethics, etc, etc..

What I refuse to do is accept some external force based on the mere stories of man, especially when those men a) never met b) lived in a time when stories were largely passed verbally and c) those stories have been shown to be wrong by studies that have been peer - reviewed.

DV - The answers to those questions are all available to you when you take the time to study the scriptures.

These gifts combined with a free university education to so many people for whom there were then no appropriate jobs, as well as a civil war, led to the failure of the experiment failed, but in a time when it is clear, at least to me, that global pursuit of more and more wealth is suicidal for the human race, I think it would be worthwhile to study such efforts.

When you are studying this topic in - depth 10 or 20 years from now, please take another look at whether there was law from God in the time between Adam and Moses.

When she's not writing creative non-fiction, short stories, and poetry, Erin spends her time working on her Masters of Arts in Urban Studies online through Eastern University, fighting for the last carrot in the house with her two rabbits, Bug and Sage, and enjoying mentoring time with local youth both in and out of church settings.

What a furor was created when first, under the influence of the scientific spirit of the times, men began to study the Bible critically just like any other book.

But when it came time, the professor would put the exam on my desk and there would be a foreign formula or equation I had never seen — or, at least, one I did not see on the study guide.

How is it possible at a time like the present, when the whole world is at war, to sit down calmly and consider such a subject as the Earliest Gospel, to study the evangelic tradition at the stage in which it first took literary form, to discuss such fine points as the emergence of a particular theology in early Christianity or the transition from primitive Christian messianism to the normative doctrine of later creeds, confessions, hymns, and prayers?

Or to adopt another image one might say that the «psychic tint» of the earth, studied at a great distance by some celestial observer, would be seen, in the course of eons of geological time, to become gradually heightened in intensity until it reaches the peculiarly moving moment of climax when, in a spread of more active radiation covering Africa and southern Asia, a series of sparks begins to glow, foreshadowing the incandescence which is «hominization».

I look forward to the day when I can stop doing a lot of the paperwork that a church requires and devote more of my time to studying God's Word and teaching it to you.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.