Sentences with phrase «year impact study»

In classrooms using the 5th Edition, an independent, two - year impact study found evidence that The Creative Curriculum ® for Preschool is effective in helping children achieve positive outcomes, specifically higher literacy and math outcomes and increased teacher effectiveness.

These preliminary results led to a $ 2.8 million grant awarded in late 2011 to UVA by the Institute for Education Sciences to conduct a 4 - year impact study on WINGS.

Not exact matches

A five - year study by Brittany C. Solomon and Joshua J. Jackson of Washington University in St. Louis found that a spouse's personality has a significant impact on one's occupational success.

«We had been offering our Depression Care service for a number of years, and we wanted to dig into our data and measure our impact... look and see who our end users were,» says Barb Vader, Vice President, Clinical Services at Morneau Shepell, and the study's research lead.

Much has been said about the possible impact of automation: A Forrester study estimates that 6 percent of jobs will be replaced by robots within four years; others say half the world's jobs will be gone by 2035.

Jackson is the lead author of a new study to be published in Psychological Science that tracked nearly 5,000 married Australians for five years and measured how a spouse's personality impacted whether their partner received a promotion, earned a higher salary or experienced higher levels of job satisfaction.

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

Exactly how health and wellness impact a company's profits, particularly in Canada, may soon be better understood: the University of Western Ontario's Richard Ivey School of Business School has recently launched a five - year study of the subject, working in collaboration with the Sun Life Wellness Institute.

A new study by Boston Consulting Group says the car - share industry will have a limited impact on vehicle sales over the next five years.»

Related: New Study Finds That Your Career Income Is Significantly Impacted by the First 10 Years on the Job

Recent studies have shown that if Canadian oil were able to reach the U.S. Gulf Coast and Asia, the impact of higher revenues to Canadian producers over a 15 year period would amount to an additional $ 132 billion in Canadian GDP.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

A new, extensive five - year study on the effects of cocoa flavanols on cardiovascular disease is slated to begin in 2015 and will hopefully reveal more about the antioxidant's impact on memory.

In 2008, professors Victor Matheson, Robert Baade and Robert Baumann published a study in the Southern Economic Journal that analyzed the impact of pro sports on taxable sales in Florida over 25 years.

A study performed by Gila Bronshtein, Jason Scott, John Shoven, and Sita Slavov found that delaying retirement by 3 - 6 months has the same impact on your standard of living in retirement as an extra one percent of earnings over 30 years.2

Despite a perception among some investors that impact investing necessitates a concessionary return, the Impact Investing Benchmark has exhibited strong performance in several of the vintage years studied as of June 30,impact investing necessitates a concessionary return, the Impact Investing Benchmark has exhibited strong performance in several of the vintage years studied as of June 30,Impact Investing Benchmark has exhibited strong performance in several of the vintage years studied as of June 30, 2014.

Economists Grace Lordan of the London School of Economics and David Neumark of UC Irvine studied 35 years of government census data for their working paper, which was released in August, titled «People Versus Machines: The Impact of Minimum Wages on Automatable Jobs.»

In 6 months, he made an important impact on the company — from his focus on being driver obsessed to delivering our first brand reputation study, which will help set our course in the coming months and year.

According to the St. Petersburg Times, «He [Robert «Skip» Livingston] spent a year studying the impact a Palatka mill owned by Georgia - Pacific has had on Rice Creek and the nearby St. Johns River — but then the company cut off funding for further studies.

In a seven - year study of executive teams at Fortune 500 companies, privately held firms, and nonprofits, Fred and team show how a CEO and senior leadership team's character impacts the bottom line (nearly 5x greater returns), reduces risk, and engages the workforce (26 % greater level of workforce engagement).

For example, our effort to carefully account for the impact of foreign revenues, and to create an apples - to - apples measure of general equity valuation led us to introduce MarketCap / GVA, which is better correlated with actual subsequent 10 - 12 year market returns than any of scores of measures we've studied.

Sample size has to have some sort of impact, especially with a study that goes back 100 years.

The Danforth Study of Campus Ministries, published ten years ago under the audaciously inclusive title The Church, the University, and Social Policy, has probably had little measurable impact on any of the three communities addressed — which focus respectively on goodness, truth and power — much less on strengthening their linkage with one another.

For years, Christians have asserted that the removal of the study of the Bible from public school curricula has had a negative moral and spiritual impact on American youth.

The fall of Iraq and the Arab Spring have had an impact in recent years, according to Albert Hickman of the Center for the Study of Global Christianity.

Take into account the overall environmental impact, which, according to the American study SCEP (1970, p. 22) is growing at 5 per cent per year.

Forty years ago this winter, during my undergraduate studies, I discovered the great Dutch statesman and polymath, Abraham Kuyper (1837 — 1920), whose thought would have a huge impact on the subsequent course of my life.

The conference also served as venue to the launching of the «Socio - economic Impacts of Genetically Modified Corn in the Philippines,» a study on the 10 - year commercialization of GM corn and its economic impacts among poor fImpacts of Genetically Modified Corn in the Philippines,» a study on the 10 - year commercialization of GM corn and its economic impacts among poor fimpacts among poor farmers.

RMIT University is studying the health impacts of organophosphates on 14 — 16 year olds.

To address the issue of food waste as it impacts our future, the environment and the long - term profitability of our industry, Sealed Air commissioned a groundbreaking, two - year study to capture both consumer perceptions about food waste, and food loss results within the retail environment.

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Working with Worms to Fight Climate Change Global studies show that water scarcity and water stress are increasing, and as much as 15 % to 35 % of human withdrawals of water for agriculture are considered unsustainable.1 Achievement of climate change - related commitments like those made at last year's Paris Climate Conference («COP21») will require that businesses strategically manage their water footprints for maximum efficacy while mitigating negative impacts.

Last year, I wrote about a study on parents, household chores, and the impact on their children's attitudes and aspirations.

Two years ago, M. Christian Green, a senior fellow at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University and a former lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, wrote that divorce doesn't just affect a couple and their immediate family — friends, neighbors and entire communities are impacted as well.

* Preliminary results from an Oxford - based study suggest a higher proportion of infant - directed negativity in the way depressed fathers talk about, and to, their infants (Sethna et al, 2009) * Depressed fathers are less likely to read, sing songs and tell stories to their babies than other fathers — and than depressed mothers (Paulson et al, 2006), which may explain why fathers» depression has a more powerful negative impact than mothers» depression on their infants» language development in the first year.

After following closely developments in the impact sensor area for a number of years, and believing that this cutting edge technology had the potential to revolutionize the sideline identification of concussion in contact and collision sports and combat the chronic underreporting of concussions by athletes (which a new study has just shown persists, despite increased education), we decided to beta test the Shockbox football helmet sensor (one of the sensors nearing market launch).

Future studies with larger numbers of breastfeeding mothers could allow for paired comparisons before and after an intervention, as well as analysis of the impact of independent variables like gender, year of training, age, or previous breastfeeding experience.

PS 116's principal Jane Hsu told DNA Info that the school «spent over a year «analyzing studies focused on the effects of traditional homework» and decided that it was more important for the Pre-K through fifth grade students to do activities that «have been proven to have a positive impact on student academic performance and social / emotional development» such as reading at their own pace and playing.»

Anyway, all these years later, a June 2011 scientific research study commissioned by the LA84 Foundation, one of the largest funders of youth sports in America, has proven that my Dip - N - Rip - Sticks Tackle Training Technique lowers helmet - first impact by 43 % compared to the traditional tackling technique.

Earlier this year, a Columbia University epidemiology professor released a study about the impact of business travel on health, and the results were not encouraging: As business travel increases, so do obesity and body - mass index.

Extrapolating figures from a 1993 city study on the economic impact of O'Hare International and Midway Airports, Whitney's group contends that the lakefront field adds $ 57 million a year to the local economy.

No sooner did the UPMC study issue, however, then came a second study by the Virginia Tech - Wake Forest researchers [4]- this one of an older group of 9 - to 12 - year - old football players - which found that reducing the number of head hits in practice did not lead to higher force impacts during games, precisely as they had predicted would be the case if the amount of contact was reduced during practice, and pouring a significant amountg of cold water on the UPMC study.

As with magnitude, the impact frequency reported in the current study fell between those of 6 - to 9 - year - olds and high school athletes, with the average player experiencing 240 impacts over the course of a season compared to 107 impacts per season for 6 - to 9 - year - old players, and 565 for high school players.

Players in this study experienced more impacts to the front of their helmets and fewer to the side than the 7 - to 8 - year - old players who were the subject of a 2012 study [2] by the same researchers.

Importantly, I have spent the past three years studying the root causes, as well as the public health and societal impact, of subpar breastfeeding rates in the United States.

The 2 - year study included three elements; computerized neurocognitive testing using the Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive Test (ImPACT), balance testing utilizing the Balance Error Scoring System (BESS), and a Post-Concussions Symptom Scale (PCSS).

I second the comment about the 20 YEAR age of the study comparing environmental impact of cloth vs. disposables.

After a three year 200,000 pound ($ 419,000) study, the London - based environmental agency concluded that disposable diapers had the same environmental impact as reusable diapers when the effects of laundering cloth diapers is taken into account.»

Given studies showing «adult - sized impacts» that youth as young as seven years old are receiving, a significant percent of Americans, 40.5 percent, support a ban on youth playing contact football.

They could provide a mechanism for conducting longitudinal studies on head trauma, allowing researchers to assess years of data on the frequency, magnitude and ramifications of head impacts.