Sentences with phrase «who study strategies»

Due to its high tech infrastructure and implementations of several smart initiatives, Dubai has been declared as the Middle East's leading smart city, by Huawei and Navigant, who studied the strategy and implementation of smart city campaigns in the region.

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A similar strategy for tackling the urge to slack is to practice «productive procrastination,» a term used by Piers Steel, a professor at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business who studies procrastination.

As an investor who studies in great detail the strategies and investment philosophies of the great value investors, I have always been intrigued by the debate of value vs. growth.

Study respondents who worked with an advisor (46 percent of pre-retirees; 57 percent of retirees) say their advisor recommends they change their investment strategy.

Well over 90 % of marketers who employ an influencer marketing strategy believe the strategy is successful, according to one study.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

You are going to have competitors who might be regular food establishments like restaurants, food trucks and fast foods or other personal chefs and so your marketing strategies should take them all into consideration, study their weaknesses and strengths and then use this to create marketing strategies that will become very effective.

From studying successful linking strategies, can I also add sponsorship of sports teams and charities who actively promote events is an excellent opportunity for both branding and link building.

Becoming an entrepreneur or freelancer is a strategy for retirees who either don't want to return to a 9 to 5 job or who have run into ageism or other hiring barriers, according to the study by the National Bureau of Economic Research.

It seems to me that one way we get there is through deep and serious empirical study, so that we can determine with some reasonable degree of confidence whether the Eden Conservancy Project — and the general conservation strategy it represents — really is a good way for those of us who want to care for God's creation to invest our resources.

It can be another party, movie tickets or a sitter who has to get home early to study for finals, but it'll help make sure you optimize your party attendance time for maximum enjoyment and, depending on the exit strategy, can help craft the illusion that you live an enviably and mysteriously thriving social life.

The effectiveness of these intervention strategies was demonstrated by a study in the Netherlands in which 100 6 - month - old infants who displayed high levels of irritability shortly after birth were deemed to be at risk of developing insecure attachment.

Very little is known about the direct effects of drinking on breastfeeding; a 2017 study showed that over half of Australian women who breastfeed drink at low levels, and use strategies, such as timing when they drink and breastfeed, which does not seem to be harmful to babies at 12 months.

Recent studies from Save the Children and WHO have also shown that political will is pivotal in driving forward improvement in key strategies across the board to support infant feeding.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

Chancellor Nancy Zimpher, who heads the 64 - campus SUNY system, set the bar high last year when she outlined goals and strategies designed to move the system to the head of the educational pack: the crown jewel of 2013's address was the three - year program to graduate students faster than the traditional four years of study...

Mr Socrate Safo who used two of his popular movies, «Sakawa boys and Hot fork» as a case study said he developed workable strategies which worked perfectly and put the movies on high demand.

Cadwell cautions that such a strategy must await further evidence to confirm his theory that this trend in Paneth cell death occurs in people deficient in ATG16L1 who are, like his study mice, prone to higher risk of inflammatory disease and transplant rejection.

For those who still want to pursue the research - university faculty path, the survey results — which echo other studies finding that candidates who get faculty jobs tend to come from elite departments and publish in high - impact journals — may help them formulate a strategy.

Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resistance.

But this — and several other studies reported here — reveals how readily humpbacks around the world come up with new hunting strategies, says Alexander Werth, a marine biologist at Hampden - Sydney College in Virginia who was not involved with the work.

That strategy — anticipating the situation — describes precisely the approach taken by Nic Richmond, who studies lunar and martian magnetism.

«If we implemented our recommended strategies for the feral predators (cats, dogs and foxes) and the goats and rabbits, experts who participated in the study estimated that we could increase agricultural production by 10 per cent or more,» she said.

But police are not the only ones who may benefit from this work — if additional studies confirm these findings, nose gazing may end up being a useful strategy to help «people who struggle with faces in their everyday life,» Bobak says.

The study involved 871 patients from 72 primary care practices in England who were randomly assigned to 1 of 4 advice strategies: usual care, daily nasal and saline irrigation supported by a demonstration video, daily steam inhalation, or combined treatment with both interventions.

Professor Andrew King, a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow at the University of Oxford who led the study, explains: «Our results show that, with experience, the brain is able to shift the strategy it uses to localise sounds depending on the information that is available at the time.

In fact, difficult questions often necessitate several different strategies to arrive at a solution, says Janet Metcalfe, head of the Metacognition and Memory laboratory at Columbia University, who was not involved in the study.

«Although acceleration is widely supported by research as an effective strategy for meeting the needs of advanced learners, it's still rarely used, and most schools do not systematically look for students who need it,» said study co-author Paula Olszewski - Kubilius, director of the Center for Talent Development at the Northwestern's School of Education and Social Policy.

Patients seen in the emergency department (ED) for chest pain who did not have a heart attack appeared to be at low risk of experiencing a heart attack during short - and longer - term follow - up and that risk was not affected by the initial diagnostic testing strategy, according to a study published online by JAMA Internal Medicine.

Most poverty interventions have failed to show sustainable benefits in such trials, so the effectiveness of the programme justifies countries considering the strategy, says Jonathan Morduch of New York University, who studies microfinance and poverty.

«In 2011, 8.35 percent of Americans over age 60 faced the threat of hunger — that translates to 4.8 million people,» said Craig Gundersen, University of Illinois soybean industry endowed professor in agricultural strategy in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics and executive director of the National Soybean Research Laboratory who led the data analysis on the study.

The study authors write that using the LSC17 score to single out high - risk patients predicted to have resistant disease «provides clinicians with a rapid and powerful tool to identify AML patients who are less likely to be cured by standard therapy and who could be enrolled in trials evaluating novel upfront or post-remission strategies.»

Dr Jean - François Exbrayat, of the NCEO, who led the study, said: «Technological advances are enabling us to build a clearer picture of the resilience of the Amazon and other tropical forests, which will help develop strategies to safeguard these environments.»

«Boosting serotonin signaling has been seen as a viable strategy for weight loss in people, but our results hint that boosting serotonin plus adrenaline should produce more potent effects — and there is already some evidence that that's the case,» said TSRI Assistant Professor Supriya Srinivasan, who was principal investigator for the study, published online before print on October 10, 2013 by the journal Cell Metabolism.

Their study found that among patients who came to the ED, the ED - initiated medication strategy was most likely to be cost - effective compared to referral alone or a brief intervention with facilitated referral, the researchers said.

Drawing up an effective social media strategy and tweaking it to fit an emergency, however, is a crucial part of preparedness planning, says disaster sociologist Jeannette Sutton, a senior research scientist at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs who studies social media in crises and disaster.

Nemoto's study tests culture - specific strategies on Vietnamese and Thai immigrants, who have been largely ignored in the past.

The study was not powered to detect this improvement, but Kelbaek said he and his team would now look carefully for possible «hypothesis - generating» findings in subsets of patients — both those who might have benefitted from the deferred - treatment strategy and, equally important, those in whom this strategy might have worsened their condition.

Professor Michael Lisanti, who designed the study, explained: «We now know that a proportion of cancer cells escape chemotherapy and develop drug resistance; we established this new strategy to find out how they do it.

«These studies together show that bacteria have clever antioxidant strategies to counter the oxidative damage generated by antibiotics,» notes James Collins, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, who also co-authored an essay about the two new papers in the same issue of Science.

«It's a fascinating example of a cultural strategy to tackle a challenging place,» says Kurt Rademaker, an archaeologist at the University of Tübingen in Germany who studies high - elevation settlements in the Andes.

Dr Tristan Guttridge, who led the study at the Bimini Biological Research Station, Bahamas, explains why this is so vital: «Knowing when the animals are likely to be in certain places will be critical in developing effective management strategies» he said.

As promising as it sounds, there are many uncertainties about whether solidifying carbon dioxide emissions could be a viable part of a climate strategy, said Bert Metz, a fellow at the European Climate Foundation who is unaffiliated with the study and was the lead author of a 2005 IPCC special report on carbon capture.

A study published 2 years ago in Science suggested the strategy might work: It showed that a neoantigen vaccine stimulated immune responses in three advanced melanoma patients who had already received a cancer drug.

In addition to aiding the search for better depression drugs to help placebo non-responders, the new study could help identify which patients might benefit from non-drug strategies known to help people who don't get relief from antidepressant drugs.

The Commission recently launched the MEDFISH4EVER strategy to improve the state of Mediterranean fish stocks, which is obviously a step to the right direction,» said JRC researcher Paris Vasilakopoulos, co-author of the study, who contributed to the analysis of the Mediterranean fish stock assessment data.

«This is the first demonstration of chunking in a scatter - hoarding animal, and also suggests that squirrels use flexible strategies to store food depending on how they acquire food,» said study lead author Mikel Delgado, a post-doctoral researcher who conducted the study along with UC Berkeley psychology professor Lucia Jacobs.

With funding from the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Eng undertook an ambitious clinical research study to determine for who should be tested for PTEN mutations, and what cancer surveillance strategies should be used for affected individuals.

San Francisco, CA — In a finding with the potential to fundamentally change strategies to slow the global HIV epidemic, a new study called iPrEx shows that individuals at high risk for HIV infection who took a single daily tablet containing two widely used HIV medications, emtricitabine and tenofov

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