Sentences with phrase «weeks studying at»

According to the poll, all parents were asked to state roughly how long their child spent per week studying and doing their homework, to which parents of children with a desk or study space confirmed they spend 10 hours and 12 minutes per week studying at home, on average.

With those questions in mind, E3 Alliance, released the results of our eight - week study at our Missing School Matters Attendance Summit in June.

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.

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

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.

One study found that college students who drank four to five drinks at a time more than once a week were more likely to overeat after drinking compared to students who drank one to two drinks at a time (18).

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.

«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.

That's the first finding in this week's economic research wrap, which also looks at changes in the way women have spent their days in recent years and summarizes studies on spillovers from central bank balance - sheet normalization.

«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.

«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.

Among the lesser known discoveries during the early days at Google was the realization that business could grow faster if customers didn't have to spend weeks studying an unduly complicated contract.

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.

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.

That's advice from obesity experts at Weill - Cornell Medical College, whose most recent study — albeit a small, still preliminary one — was featured on NPR this week.

Based on a series of 6 - month studies on aerobic workouts and memory in people with MCI, the new guidelines recommend that people diagnosed with the condition do some form of cardio exercise at least twice a week.

The study found that improvements in life expectancy top out at about four hours of running per week, hence the «three years longer» conclusion.

Other research, like the Copenhagen City Heart Study, looked at healthy joggers and nonjoggers for more than a decade and determined that «the most favorable running regimen for reducing cardiovascular mortality» was six miles per week, broken down into three running days per week at a pace of seven miles per hour.

Women who used sprays or other cleaning products at least once per week had a more accelerated decline than women who didn't, the study authors wrote.

It has also run pilot programs, with San Jose State University, and the University of Central Florida, that included week - long studies with small groups of students at each school.

PsyBlog sums up one study on the subject which entailed showing some research participants a video on the idea that stress can be enhancing: «This led to them reporting better performance at work and fewer psychological problems over the subsequent two weeks.

A study conducted at the Eastern Ontario Research Institute found that people who exercised twice a week for 10 weeks felt more competent socially, academically and athletically.

Researchers at the University of Miami conducted a study during which they asked three groups of participants to write about certain topics each week.

Doing Business Internationally MBA students gain a global perspective on business by studying abroad at one of Rotman's international partner schools for one to two weeks.

Looking further at those trends, the study reveals that men spent less time on social media than women (5 vs. 7 hours per week), decreasing their hours by 1 from the previous year.

In a study published this year that tracked Best Buy's ROWE program, researchers at the University of Minnesota found that, while it had helped reduce employee turnover, women who took part still spent 10 hours more on child care per week than their male flextime colleagues.

We'll have more on this study over the next couple of weeks, including a finding that surprised us so much we didn't believe it at first, still aren't sure about, and plan to study more deeply going forward.

At Y Combinator's fourth Female Founders Conference in San Francisco last week, Lee talked about that HBR study and the bias she sees every day.

According to a recent study by the Telework Research Network, nearly 30 million Americans work from home at least one day per week, with the numbers expecting to increase by more than 60 percent in the coming five years.

Among 7,410 portfolio managers of U.S. open - end mutual funds, only 9 percent were women, the study released this month by researchers from Morningstar Inc of Chicago, and widely discussed at the research firm's investor conference this week, found.

The study below looks specifically at April opex week.

In teaching, I like to present at least one study every week that challenges conventional wisdom.

As a second year student, Merage MBAs can also experience a week - long international study trip or quarter - long International Exchange Program at partnering schools in Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

A couple of weeks ago I did a little study that looked at performance following the induction of a new Fed Chairman.

«When we interviewed the insurers for our report, it was in late 2017, so we were not able to fully capture how insurers currently would feel about these market stabilization proposals that are in the news this week,» said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at the Center on Health Insurance Reforms at Georgetown University's Health Policy Institute and one of the authors of the study.

Researchers at the University and Chicago and Minnesota last week published an extraordinary study on broker misconduct.

We prayed for Harry and Sally at the prayer meeting and Bible study on Wednesday night, and not one week later, our prayer was answered!

Advanced training is available at the Rutgers Summer School of Alcohol Studies, a three - weeks program of seminars and lectures.

I attend a bible study once a week at a Baptist church and the pastor wants me to get baptized - full immersion.

In this study of Passion Week, I have found the Blue Letter Bible at blueletterbible.org to be an invaluable tool.

Between Bible studies, youth group events, small group meetings and young adult services, it's easy to spend every night of your week at church.

According to the Barna study, the percent of engagement people have with the Bible — from being engaged (reading the Bible at least four times a week), friendly (engaged with the Bible less than four times a week), neutral (read the Bible once a month or less and see the Bible as the inspired word of God, but acknowledge it can have some errors) and skeptical (see the Bible as «just another book of teachings written by men)-- has started to stabilize and return to its normal rates after the rate of skepticism increased by 4 percent to 14 percent and the rate of friendliness dropped 8 percent to 37 percent in 2011.

Mintz does not refer at all to research by developmental psychologists such as Jay Belsky of London's Birkbeck College and Alan Sroufe of the University of Minnesota; nor does he cite the huge, multicenter National Institute of Child Health studies, all of which suggest that more than 20 hours per week of child care beginning before the age of one correlates with a higher incidence of interpersonal difficulties by early grade school.

Similarly, in 1944 I went to a Bible study at which a vision from the book of Revelation (I forget which one) was expounded, and whereas at the start I did not believe that all the Bible (which I had been assiduously reading since my conversion six weeks before) is God's trustworthy instruc tion, at the end, slightly to my surprise, I found myself unable to doubt that indeed it is.

Jay Cost has posted the fine comments he gave at Berry College a few weeks ago (at an event funded by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute).

Eugene Nida, who had studied Greek and linguistics at UCLA, was a student for only a few weeks before Townsend placed him on the summer school faculty.

A new study out of Harvard University found that women who go to church at least once a week have a lower risk of suicide than women who never attend...