Sentences with phrase «week study of»

First, students took a 135 - item, multiple - choice and matching pretest provided by the textbook's publisher that covered the upcoming nine - week study of Asia.

In a recent four - week study of 56 participants with moderate stress, the combination significantly decreased cortisol levels, perceived stress, and fatigue; and participants reported better mood and «vigor.»

This 8 - week study of 60 men found that coconut milk porridge lowered LDL («bad») cholesterol more than soy milk porridge.

The 18 - week study of 318 healthy young adults found that combining physical exercise and mild electric brain stimulation with computer - based cognitive training promoted skill learning significantly more than using cognitive training alone.

Not exact matches

The study, which included 88 leaders and their subordinates, asked leaders to complete surveys at the beginning of each workday for two weeks, which asked about their sleep the night before and their self - control at that moment.

Bonus points for a healthy variety of videos, interviews and case studies that keep this 10 - week, 10 - hour - a-week course engaging.

And Ross, who had gone quiet on NAFTA after it looked for a while like he would be running the show, re-emerged last week to promote a new Commerce department study that he said proves American auto workers are the victims of a flawed arrangement that favours Canada and Mexico.

A new study found that participants who reported playing hours of games a week were better at a predictive task involving cue cards.

There are also plenty of practical tips to help turn that commitment into reality, including clever ways to slip learning into jam - packed days, lists of free resources for online study, and dead simple interventions that are guaranteed to free up hours a week for reading.

In a study from the University of British Columbia, researchers assigned 124 participants — students, financial analysts, medical professionals and other adults — into one of two groups over two weeks.

Follow - up studies that asked volunteers to find time for 15 minutes of device - free solitude each day for a week and keep a journal of their experiences showed the same thing - fewer intense emotions and a greater awareness of subtle ones.

The idea came out of Singularity University, an elite, 10 - week graduate studies program in Silicon Valley in which participants devise solutions to global issues.

For the study, published this week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers pitted people assigned to follow a traditional restricted - calorie diet (eating roughly 25 % of their normal daily calories) against those who were told to fast every other day (eating 25 % of their normal calories on fast days and 125 % on the other days) for a year.

In a 2014 study, Australian researchers studied two groups of dieters: one on a 12 - week rapid weight - loss program, and another on a 36 - week gradual plan.

Last week, a study published by the Kauffman Foundation using census data from the past 50 years, revealed some eye - opening statistics about the number of immigrant - led companies in America.

Bill Gates is the father of this trend with his long - standing and well publicized habit of taking two «Think Weeks» for deep study and reflection each year.

Studies show that picking up a hobby and pursuing a passion can actually add eight hours of joy to a person's week.

That is what Jim Balsillie must be saying over last week's study showing two out of five BlackBerry owners would switch to an iPhone if they could.

According to a study published this week by the Pittsburgh - based market research group CivicScience, digital device addiction is at an all - time high: 59 percent of U.S. online consumers over the age of 13 consider themselves at least «somewhat» addicted to their digital devices.

A study published in May found that for adults aged 60 - 88, walking for 30 minutes four days a week for 12 weeks appeared to strengthen connectivity in a region of the brain where weakened connections have been linked with memory loss.

According to a study at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, when regular exercisers are inactive, they begin to feel depressed and fatigued after just one week.

A study by Millan's team found that 76 % of owners who played audiobooks for their dogs reported that they were calmer and more relaxed after a four - week period.

«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.

In one study, a research team from Massachusetts General Hospital looked at the brain scans of 16 people before and after they participated in an eight - week course in mindfulness meditation.

All three groups showed some improvement on cognitive measures when assessed after the ten weeks, says Dr. Caryn Lerman, the study's lead author and a psychiatry professor at the University of Pennsylvania.

Then, a few weeks ago, author and academic Sherry Turkle penned a New York Times Sunday Review piece highlighting research along the same lines, including one study that showed simply having your phone out and in view can impede the process of making deep personal connections.

In the study, the effect of vacation anticipation boosted happiness for eight weeks.

Today, 23 percent of women earn more than their husbands, up from 4 percent who did in 1960, according to a Pew Research Center study released this week.

«Think about being back in school, and studying not only one night for a midterm, but probably starting a couple of weeks ahead,» Twohill says.

«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.

A study published in a medical journal, The Lancet, revealed that drinking 100g of alcohol a week increases risk of mortality.

A recent study split 53 adults into two groups, one of which did two years of supervised exercise four to five days a week while the other did yoga and balance exercises.

For the study, 86 women between 70 and 80 years old with MCI were randomly assigned to do one of three types of training twice a week for six months: aerobic (like walking and swimming), resistance (like weight lifting), or balance.

That's one conclusion you can draw from a new research study, titled «Firming up Inequality,» published this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

A study released in November of 12 participants who spent two weeks in a Boston sleep - research lab discovered that using light - emitting e-reader devices can have negative effects on sleep quality.

«Ambassador Power's rhetoric is entirely hollow,» Russian affairs expert Mark Kramer, the program director of the Project on Cold War Studies at Harvard, told Business Insider earlier this week.

Virgin Pulse's 2013 study of three U.S. companies discovered 76 percent of more than 1,000 employees surveyed felt tired many days of the week.

In fact, 21 percent of those surveyed in the 2014 National Study of Employers said they were required to comply with the Family and Medical Leave Act but did not actually offer 12 weeks of unpaid or paid leave for at least one type of covered leave.

Kent came to mind this week when I read about the resignation of Yale lecturer Erika Christakis, an early childhood educator at the Yale Child Study Center.

Sophos's figures echo those released last week from a McAfee study, which warned of the growing threat of cyberattack on critical systems.

Twenty weeks after freedom the men had gained an average of 50 % more body fat than when they began the study.

A short - term study of 29 young men showed that they consumed on average 238 fewer calories each day for two weeks when they were told not to eat anything between 7 p.m. and 6 a.m. And these calories they were no longer eating were coming mostly from high - fat, high - carb foods.

The participants were studied after a week of nine hours of sleep a night and then after a week of four hours of sleep a night.

Though only 9 % or so of consenters (4,552 people) uploaded a full week of reports on their physical activity, that's still a big sample size for an objectively measured, data - driven research study.

A massive, 93 - page study of the crowdfunding industry released earlier this week shows some promising figurers for the future of crowdfunding: In 2012, worldwide crowdfunding volume reached $ 2.7 billion.

The study, highlighted this week in The Atlantic, surveyed the spread of 126,000 news stories, including both true accounts and false «rumor cascades,» on Twitter between September 2006 and December 2016.

In fact, 91 percent of employees work more than 40 hours a week at least some of the time, according to a study conducted by Staples in March.

The original paper contains a wealth of links to studies conducted by businesses, universities, industry associations and the military that supported early - 20th - century leaders as they embraced the short week.

NEW YORK, March 20 - United Airlines is halting the shipment of pets in airplane cargo holds while it studies improvements, the carrier said on Tuesday, after the death of a puppy and mistakes in handling other dogs last week sparked negative publicity.

Another study asked a group of physically fit sailors to engage in interval running (you go fast, then slower to rest, then fast again, etc.) for a period of seven weeks.