These findings are hardly surprising given that they are consistent
with findings from studies of employees in other fields.
Now,
with findings from a study led by University of Pennsylvania researchers, there is new hope that the disease can be effectively reversed.
The researchers noted, however, that «the relationships here are correlational, not causal,» and the finding could be at odds
with another finding from the study.13 Separately, the VAL - ED principal performance assessment (developed with support from The Wallace Foundation) measures principals on community and parent engagement.14 Vanderbilt researchers who developed the assessment are undertaking further study on how important this practice is in affecting students, achievement.
Further, as reported in previous research and consistent
with findings from Study 1, females reported significantly more test anxiety than did males, t (260) = 2.55, p < 0.05 There were no gender differences indicated for self - efficacy or
This is in line
with findings from another study in which general adult attachment was linked to body appreciation (Iannantuono & Tylka, 2012).
Not exact matches
«What we
found is that those
with the lowest vitamin D levels experienced the greatest benefit
from supplementation,» Dr. Adrian Martineau,
study author and a professor of respiratory infection and immunity at Queen Mary University of London, told NPR.
A new
study from the Brookfield Institute
finds that 42 % of Canadian jobs are vulnerable to being automated,
with dire implications for workforces
In fact, a 2013
study from the University of Toronto
found that deciding what you're going to do
with your time away
from your desk was perhaps the most important component of a proper lunch break.
A new
study from CreditCards.com
found that 74 percent of parents
with adult children, defined as 18 and up, are continuing to help them financially.
A recent
study from Singapore Management University (SMU) School of Accountancy
found that firms
with poor governance generally prefer to hold more cash.
A 2012 Credit Suisse report and a 2014
study from Spain's Banca March
found similar outperformance for family firms compared
with widely held issuers in Germany and Europe, respectively.
After spending decades
studying how people deal
with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman
found that there are three Ps — personalization, pervasiveness, and permanence — that are critical to how we bounce back
from hardship,» Sandberg said.
After spending decades
studying how people deal
with setbacks, psychologist Martin Seligman
found that there are three P's — personalization, pervasiveness, and permanence — that are critical to how we bounce back
from hardship.
While the research was aimed at eventually developing treatments for those suffering
from PTSD, the
study authors said these initial
findings were also useful for those of us who just have to deal
with normal negativity like marital spats and nasty work disagreements.
Since its
founding in 1996, the Stanford's Center for Entrepreneurial
Studies (CES) has taken advantage of that proximity, hiring
from Silicon Valley and creating partnerships
with its leaders.
A recent
study from Babson College
found that venture capital firms
with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies
with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped
from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.
«A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
study found that
from 1998 to 2008, leafy greens were associated
with more incidents of food poisoning than any other single food category (though contaminated poultry led to more deaths),» Harrington reports.
Study the history of good ideas, he urges, and you'll
find that the best of them tend to come
from the worst «
with high frequency.»
There's also a South Korean
study from a few years ago involving more than 25,000 people, which
found that drinking moderate amounts of coffee each day was associated
with having fewer of the early warning signs of heart disease.
So it's no surprise that the latest
study found evidence that abstaining
from cigarette smoking for life was linked
with living longer.
A University of Calgary
study published in the journal Environment and Behavior
found that people who moved
from a traditional office to an open - office layout reported decreased satisfaction
with the physical environment and co-worker relations, and increased physical stress.
According to the Fast Company article, «
Study Finds Work - Life Balance Could Be a Matter of Life and Death,» researchers
from Indiana University's Kelley School of Business
found that people who work in highly stressful jobs
with little to no control over their work life were 15.4 % more likely to die sooner.
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.
Our
findings are in accordance
with some observations
from previous
studies showing a positive association between long working hours and depression [12] but contrast
with other reports of null
findings [12]--[14].
In 2011, researchers
from the University of Illinois
found they help
with listener recall, and a 2003
study by University of Rochester researchers
found these words weren't just superfluous, but actually helped
with listener comprehension.
A large scientific
study from 2013
found no «significant hazards directly connected
with the use of genetically engineered crops.»
In a
study with more than 3,000 Twitter users, Twitter
found several benefits to replying to questions
from customers9Twitter, 2016:
This same survey
found that 46 % of Canadians support a free trade agreement
with China, up
from 36 % in 2014 — and a recent
study by Paul Evans, research director of University of British Columbia's Institute of Asian Research, puts that support even higher, at close to 70 %.
A
study commissioned by the Broadbent Institute
finds that the majority of Canadian families
with children under 18 would get no benefit at all
from the Conservatives» income splitting scheme — despite being the express target of the policy.
A
study of the results of separating the chair and CEO roles in Swiss companies by professors Markus M. Schmid and Heinz Zimmermann
from the University of Basel reached similar conclusions: «We
find no evidence of a systematic and significant difference in valuation between firms
with combined and firms
with separated functions.»
Two new
studies from Europe have
found that the number of farm birds in France has crashed by a third in just 15 years,
with some species being almost eradicated.
One
study provides evidence consistent
with one explanation of the overall lack of strong
findings: optimal board structures may vary by firm size,
with smaller firms benefiting
from a unified chair / CEO position,
with the clarity of leadership that structure provides, and larger firms benefiting
from the extra monitoring that an independent chair may provide given the greater risk of «agency costs» at large companies.
A recent
study by University of Toronto Scarborough and Rotman School of Management professors Julie McCarthy and John Trougakos, along
with Bonnie Cheng
from Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
found that high levels of emotional exhaustion that come
from workplace anxiety can directly lead to lower job performance.
Canada's major cities tend to understate revenue and spending, wait too long to release budgets, and confuse taxpayers
with obscure figures in their financial reports,
finds a new
study from the C.D...
A
study of S corporations (small firms
with 100 or fewer shareholders who are taxed as a partnership)
found that those
with ESOPs had higher average employment growth in the 2006 - 2008 pre-recession period than did the economy as a whole, and they also had faster growth following the recession
from 2009 to 2011.
(Washington, D.C.: Committee on Education and the Workforce, February, 13, 2002), http://archives.republicans.edlabor.house.gov/archive/hearings/107th/eer/enronthree21302/kruse.htm Another
study comparing a matched sample of ESOP versus non-ESOP firms in
with similar industries and workforce sizes among closely held companies, again, using population data on all available US DOL data followed the ESOP firms before and after their adoption of the ESOP
from 1988 to 1998 along
with the matched firms and
found that 20 % of the ESOP firms had a defined benefit plan before adopting their ESOP, and 10 years later, after adopting their ESOP, they had defined benefit plans five times more than non-ESOP firms), 33.3 % of ESOP firms had a 401 (k) plan before adopting their ESOP
with 52.4 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms), and 35.7 % of ESOP firms had a deferred profit - sharing plan before adopting their ESOP
with 51.2 % 10 years later (five times more than non-ESOP firms).
Key
findings for the North American (U.S. and Canada) workforce surveyed in the
study include: • 51 % of employees are not happy at work • 45 % of employees trust their company's leadership • 61 % of employees don't know their company's mission • 57 % of employees are not motivated by their company's mission • 60 % of employees don't know their company's vision • 57 % of employees don't feel recognized for their progress at work • 61 % of employees don't know their organization's cultural values • 50 % of employees don't expect to be
with their organization a year
from now
Research
from several sources, including a
study by the American Sociological Review, has
found that people
with flexible schedules report that their overall sense of well - being increases
with flexible work options.
As if that's not bad enough, a 2016
study from Insurance Quotes
found that someone
with fair credit could pay «28 percent more for car insurance than a driver
with excellent credit.»
One
finding from the
study's survey was that women felt their advancement was hampered by a number of factors, including informal interactions and mentoring
with and by their male colleagues, as well as gender biases by entrepreneurs (who are mostly male) in their perception of investors.
Research
findings from the Center for Talent Innovation, a New York - based think tank headed by Sylvia Ann Hewlett,
found that having something inherently in common
with the funder, decision maker or investor makes an enormous difference, since 56 percent of decision makers in the
study did not value ideas they didn't personally see a need for, even when evidence suggests that it's a good, marketable idea.
A
study from seven Federal Reserve banks
found that small businesses that apply for loans
with community banks are the most successful and the most satisfied
with their borrowing experiences, ahead of businesses that borrow
from credit unions, large banks and online lenders.
Another
study found out that 77 % of Pages» reach has been achieved
with Promoted Posts in 2013, up
from 71 % in 2012.
Smith called attention to some interesting
studies, such as one that
found that the youth of today respond
with more feeling, and wind up having greater memory of, songs
from the 80s and 60s, than those of today.
The remarks Badian made some time ago in connection
with the
study of the deification of Alexander the Great are apposite in this respect: «Modern Jews and Christians, or modern rationalists,
from their different points of view, have always
found it difficult to believe that the ancient Greeks took their religion seriously since it seems so patently absurd.»
The latest
study from the Pew Research Center
found that government restrictions and social hostilities regarding religion in 2015 (the latest year
with data available) were actually down a bit
from record highs in 2012, although up significantly
from 2007 when Pew began keeping track.
In one
study of college students suffering «an enduring, significant negative outcome»
from encounter groups, it was
found that groups
with most of the severe problems had had aggressive, confronting, authoritarian leaders.4
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating
with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating
from the cultural turn in our discipline to other
studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we
found ourselves.
Gadamer, of how the inspired text, which we question in order to
find its meaning and relevance, questions, criticizes, challenges and changes us in the process -» Some who today raise the proper question, whether there are not culturally relative elements in Paul's teaching about role relationships (an the material has to be thought through
from this standpoint), seem to proceed improperly in doing so; for in effect they take current secular views about the sexes as fixed points, and work to bring Scripture into line
with them - an agenda that at a stroke turns the
study of sacred theology into a venture in secular ideology.
A new
study from the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
found 30 percent of Muslims agreed
with the statement «I believe my faith community is more prone to negative behavior than other faith communities.»