Sentences with phrase «work in a larger study»

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The rise of companies like Uber and Instacart is only part of a larger trend in the ways Americans work, away from full - time employment and toward «contingent» freelance jobs, according to a new study by financial services company Intuit and consulting firm Emergent Research.

Three years ago millennials surpassed Gen Xers to become the single largest cohort working in the United States, according to a study conducted by PEW Research.

Similarly, Carly Fiorina, who has worked with the Milstein Symposium to study how to re-engage entrepreneurship in the U.S., told Inc. in a recent interview that she supports impact investing from large foundations to troubled areas.

The study did not account for time off work for children, but did cite a study from 2007 that concludes lesbian wage premiums are larger in households with children.

The study analyzed data from employees in seven different office environments, including: «single - room office; shared - room office (2 - 3 workers in the room); small, open - plan office (4 - 9 workers); medium - sized, open - plan office (10 - 24 workers); large, open - plan office (more than 24 workers); flex - office (no individual workspaces); and combi - office (less than 20 percent of the workforce is not at individual workstations, team - based work structure).»

Gallup reported in two large - scale studies in 2012 that only 30 % of U.S. employees are engaged at work, and a staggeringly low 13 % worldwide are engaged.

With the experience of the past to draw upon and a large and growing set of studies on how different forms of employee share ownership and profit sharing work in modern settings, it is time to examine how ownership and profit - sharing policies can help make U.S. capitalism more efficient and equitable in the current economic environment.

He has worked his way up from operational roles in the base and precious metals arenas to executive positions in some of the largest mining companies in the world and has successfully managed eight mining projects through feasibility study, development and construction phases.

Unfortunately for the Japanese labour markets, as with many other countries, many young intellectuals seek further study elsewhere in countries like the UK that have renowned Universities and research facilities, taking a large portion of the skilled labour force the Japanese markets need, into other areas of work such as research and academia, a less hands on field that benefits the computer science industry on the whole but does not help specific firms achieve their targets directly.

The Gallup study showed about two - third of employees in offices or other work settings spend a large part of their workday «killing time» rather than actively engaging with their colleagues.

Financial aid encompasses grants, scholarships, low - interest loans, or work - study arrangements.The Four Primary Sources of Financial AidThe U.S. Federal GovernmentNot surprisingly, the federal government is the largest sponsor of education in the country.

His initiatives included sending two diocesan priests annually on doctoral studies mostly to the Jesuit Faculty of Theology in Brussels; reorganising the seminary in households linked to large city parishes where 10 to 12 seminarians live and undertake pastoral work while attending theological studies at the Faculte; and, perhaps above all, linking theological studies firmly to knowledge of the living Word of God in Scripture.

However, it is also important to acknowledge the larger societal dimensions of our concern, for which we refer to the very different kind of work done by an anthropologist, C.D.F. Mosse in a study of a mixed Hindu - Christian village in Ramnad District of Tamilnadu.

(As part of a much larger study, this work provides useful information on characteristics of the audience and non-audience of religious programs, particularly in regard to how the use of religious programs corresponds to other personality characteristics and social stances.)

We have in the sociological literature a rich tradition of field work, including in recent years a large number of participant - observer studies conducted in new religious movements and an increasing number of congregational studies, many of which have paid close attention to the ways in which religious symbols (both verbal and behavioral) are patterned.

Rick became a Master Composter of Tompkins County, NY in 2008 and spent a year after his graduate studies working and studying on a large certified organic farm in Argentina where he developed a new perspective on how laboratory studies translate to on - farm research and application.

So whether the young person in question is working as a chef or in the retail grocery sector, be it in a small convenience store or a large supermarket, or studying food technology, we want to recognise those bright sparks who show the passion and drive to succeed in this dynamic world.

In a large study on pesticides in produce by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), bananas ranked 22nd for most contaminated of the 49 tested fruitIn a large study on pesticides in produce by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), bananas ranked 22nd for most contaminated of the 49 tested fruitin produce by the Environmental Working Group (EWG), bananas ranked 22nd for most contaminated of the 49 tested fruits.

Based on this work, Professor Fleming of Bristol University and his team will work in collaboration with Dr Rubens in Seattle, to undertake this large - scale two - year study.

Throughout the school year and during the summer, students practice science skills through the study of local habitats, learn about Massachusetts» native wildlife, work as a team to plan and execute stewardship projects that benefit their school and the larger Lowell community, and participate in community - based events.

«This is the largest randomized trial of any behavioral intervention in children with autism spectrum disorder, and it shows that parent training works,» notes Lawrence Scahill, MSN, PhD, professor of pediatrics at Marcus and Emory School of Medicine, who directed the study.

And reforms to the work and study tiers of the Points - Based System have been estimated by government impact assessments to yield reductions in net migration smaller than required if they are to bear a proportionate share of a reduction in net migration large enough to meet the numerical goal.

Half of immigrants overall (51 percent) work in white - collar jobs, the study found, and the large majority (61 percent) live in families earning over $ 80,000 a year.

Researchers began this work at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, which led to a large - scale, multi-year study in connection with the Plikus Laboratory for Developmental and Regenerative Biology at the University of California, Irvine.

Studies including Wang's earlier work in Africa have shown that even small changes in soil moisture in drylands could be significant enough to cause large changes in vegetation productivity.

Working with the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary, they are currently finishing up a detailed study of the effects of a particularly large piece of marine debris — a shipping container that fell off a ship in 2004.

«We hope that our work will provide the basis for a larger study of patient samples that may ultimately identify biomarkers that can be used as surrogate markers to determine the benefit of therapeutic interventions in diagnosed but asymptomatic HD patients to prevent or delay disease onset.»

«Before this study, we knew that these HIV prevention measures worked at an individual level, yet it was not clear that they would substantially reduce HIV incidence in a population — or even if it would be possible to get large numbers of people to adopt them,» said Anthony S. Fauci, M.D., director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of NIH.

Commercial bees in stressful, often unhygienic working conditions may spread their pathogens to wild pollinators, a large study suggests.

My Ph.D. research was part of a larger study — Living Changes in the Life Sciences: Tracing the «Ethical» and the «Social» within Scientific Practice and Work Culture — at the University of Vienna's Department of Social Studies of Science, with Ulrike Felt as project leader.

For example, a study in Oman found that very small doses injected into the skin work almost as well as the usual, larger dose injected into muscle, because skin is teeming with immune cells (The New England Journal of Medicine, vol 351, p 2286).

Knights and his colleagues at the University of Minnesota worked with collaborators at Harvard, MIT, University of Toronto and University Medical Center Groningen in one of the largest international studies of its kind.

They believe, however, that they can extend their results to all large meandering rivers in the region as a working hypothesis, concluding that the «combined results of this and other studies significantly weaken the postulated role of rivers as major drivers of Amazonian diversification.»

Surprisingly perhaps, the study also found that significantly fewer conflicts arise in large open office plans, where 25 more people work.

«Our research is one of the few studies looking at this relationship and while further analysis in a larger study is needed, it could provide valuable information for those with family history of colorectal cancer and those working on prevention.»

A related study, also published in PLOS Genetics, shows that RPM - 1 functions as a part of a novel pathway to control β - catenin activity — this is the first evidence that RPM - 1 works in connection with extracellular signals, such as a family of protein growth factors known as Wnts, and is part of larger signaling networks that regulate development.

A large long - term study at New Zealand's Dunedin School of Medicine demonstrated a genetic basis for the different ways that people respond to emotional stress — and in the process raised new questions about how antidepressant drugs actually work.

In the new work, researchers looked at genetic and health data on more than 100,000 individuals from previous large studies to determine whether genetic alterations that are associated with vitamin D levels predispose people to asthma, dermatitis, or high IgE levels.

The tree - ring study is the first in a related series by a larger interdisciplinary team working with Pederson and Hessl.

«[The new work] is unique in that it's a pretty large, longitudinal study,» says Bearden, professor of psychiatry, biobehavioral sciences and psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles.

We intend to build on this work with larger studies, and ultimately test this idea in a randomised trial».

Because only 19 of the participants in the new study developed psychosis, the work should be replicated in a larger sample, Bearden says.

The study — the largest ever conducted on the African forest elephant — includes the work of more than 60 scientists between 2002 and 2011, and an immense effort by national conservation staff who spent a combined 91,600 days surveying elephants in 5 countries (Cameroon, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and the Republic of Congo), walking over 13,000 kilometers (more than 8,000 miles) and recording over 11,000 elephant dung piles for the analysis.

Professor Cyrus Cooper, Professor of Rheumatology and Director of the MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit, University of Southampton, added: «This study forms part of a larger programme of work addressing risk factors for fracture across the lifecourse, and demonstrates the importance of the University of Southampton and MRC Lifecourse Epidemiology Unit in leading large, UK wide analyses on the internationally leading UK Clinical Practice Research Datalink dataset.

«Working with large data sets allows us to make discoveries that would never be possible in smaller studies,» said Laramie Duncan, PhD, of Stanford University, who served as lead analyst on the project.

«It is the first study with such a large sample of individuals and includes the entire range of language variability implemented in the brain,» explains Nathalie Tzourio - Mazoyer, head of the Neurofunctional Imaging Group at the Institute of Neurodegenerative Diseases of the University of Bordeaux (France) and principal author of the work, to Sinc.

Instead, the report is expected to suggest that astronomers be given a larger voice in advising NSF's mathematics and physical sciences directorate and that NSF and NASA work more closely together — as they did successfully in BOOMERANG, a balloon experiment to study the cosmic microwave background (ScienceNOW, 30 April).

Chlorpyrifos exposure had a larger association with working memory scores in the boys, who averaged three points lower than the girls with similar exposures, the study found.

«Our future field studies will focus on voluntary commitment devices in other health behaviors, such as gym exercise and smoking cessation, which can work in large - scale incentive programs and help people maintain self - control on an ongoing basis.»

«The practical application of this work is that the problem is not large cities, the problem is the conditions in which some people live in large cities,» says study co-author Jose Lobo, an economist at A.S.U.'s School of Sustainability in Tempe.