Sentences with phrase «year research period»

One anthropologist, Benjamin Trumble from Arizona State University, spent time living with the Tsimane over a two - year research period.

Much of the work was developed during a two - year research period, in which the artist explored Preston's social and political history and met various community and faith groups in the city.

Not exact matches

Representation of white women in leadership roles improved by 17 % over the nine year period, but for black, latino, and Asian men and women, percentages declined across the board, according to research by the nonprofit Ascend Foundation, an organization that advocates for Asians in business.

Advertising spending on Facebook's eponymous service grew 48 % in the first quarter compared with the same period a year earlier, he noted, citing data from advertising research firm Merkle.

While the Black Friday to Cyber Monday shopping period is expected to be pretty lackluster this year, one bright spot — if you can call it that — is that Cyber Monday is expected to clock double - digit growth numbers, according to a report from Los Angeles - based industry research firm, IBISWorld.

Research firm GlobalData forecasts UK spending during the Black Friday period - Monday Nov. 20 to Monday Nov. 27 - will grow by 3.8 percent year on year to 10.1 billion pounds.

Gergely Szalka of MSCI's Valuation Research Group and I studied all U.S. convertible bonds outstanding over the two - year period ending December 31, 2016 for which the MSCI database had a rating from Standard & Poor's ¹ and a continuous price history.

«Equities are the «five - years - plus» part of your portfolio,» he added, meaning that funds in your 401 (k) plan, IRA and other retirement accounts that you don't need for five years or more should be invested in stocks, since research has shown that over a period of five years or longer, stocks generally perform better over other assets.

(A recent study by three Boston University researchers found that patent trolls have cost publicly traded companies an average of $ 83 - billion annually over the past four years, more than a quarter of all U.S. industrial research and development spending during that period.)

The research results (not reported in this article) for the one - year period showed a poor relationship with expected returns, but the findings for all the other periods were consistent with the findings for the ten - year periods.

A study from Dow Jones shows that, over a 14 - year period, the typical successful startup had 7.1 percent female executives versus 3.1 percent for unsuccessful startups, and research firm Catalyst says that Fortune 500 companies with the highest ratio of female directors outperformed those with the lowest such ratio by 53 percent on average.

This graph from JP Morgan Asset Management's research team offers some optimism for equities for rolling two - year periods if the Fed starts to... Continue reading →

«Research shows that the M25 office market saw take - up by serviced office operators rise from 44,676 sq ft in H1 2016 to 109,886 sq ft in H1 2017, while in the regional markets, serviced offices accounted for 4 % of overall office take - up in the first half of the year at 95,987 sq ft, compared to 41,568 sq ft during the same period in 2016.»

For instance, the economic research team at Zillow expects house values in Oakland to rise by around 3.3 % over the next year, while they're predicting a slight decline in values for San Francisco during the same period.

First of all the jewish definintion of a day when the bible was written means a thousand years... not a literal 24 hour period, research it instead of listening to what others tell you to think.

A 2011 report from the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research found that between 1985 and 2009, IRRI varieties and breeding lines contributed, on average, 50 % of the annual yield increases in southern Vietnam and the use of new varieties increased Vietnamese rice farmers» income by US$ 127 per hectare (in 2009 values) per year during the study period.

Our mission at Williamsburg Distillery is to research, document, preserve, teach, and present the history of distillation from the Colonial American Period, the years 1600 to 1775.

But while an early study by Baade suggested that this period can last up to 10 years, follow - up research by Eckstein and Delaney indicates that the period has recently gotten much shorter.

A study from 2010 acknowledged, yes, «in the short - term, kids go through a one - to two - year crisis period when their parents divorce,» but the idea of staying together for the kids is problematic, especially if it's a high - conflict family, and that previous research indicating people should stay together «has been plagued by many data problems — reliance on small samples derived from one therapy clinic, retrospective reports, and cross sectional data.»

You see one thing I learned while researching the postpartum period is that some women struggle for years to get their «body back.»

Wolfinger's research is based on the National Survey of Families and Households, which included detailed information on family background for 13,000 people, and the General Social Survey, which surveyed 20,000 people over a 30 - year period.

We advise against cot bumpers and sleeping in certain positions and sleeping in car seats for extended periods and all of these other things because of years and years of extensive research, NOT because someone, somewhere said «Well, my friend Janet fed her kids lead paint and THEY ALL TURNED OUT OKAY».

She has been involved with doula and perinatal research and worked with the concerns, both medical and psychosocial, of pregnancy, birth and the postpartum period for the past 35 years.

The majority of home visiting services and research have focused on the period prenatally through 2 to 3 years and thus have not measured long - term impacts on school readiness and school achievement.

She has been working with the concerns of families in the perinatal period for the past 30 years, and has been involved in research and training of doulas and maternity caregivers since 1980.

Compelling research is now available to demonstrate that infancy is a critical period for psycho - social development and that positive experiences within baby's first years of life can have lasting benefits across the lifespan.

John Thorp, BJOG deputy editor - in - chief said: «This study captures over 96 % of all deliveries in NHS hospitals in England over a 7 year period, and represents the first piece of research into the mode of delivery and recurrence rate in a pregnancy subsequent to a third or fourth degree perineal tear.

India rubber nipples appeared in the mid-nineteenth century.4Cross - cultural research as well as common sense indicates that the weaning process took place over a period of months or years.

There are already, new National Assembly Business Environment Roundtable (NASSBER) research findings projecting that our priority bills will have an output impact equivalent to an average of 6.87 per cent of GDP over a five - year period on the economy.

The book — an expansion of his doctoral thesis — is a well - researched account of events surrounding one of the most important periods in the history of the Middle East: one which saw Israel secure a resounding victory over the Arab armies in the six day war, therein gaining territory 3 times the size of its nation and, after 2000 years, returning a united Jerusalem to Jewish authority.

A New York Public Interest Research Group, or NYPIRG, report last year put the total Glenwood donated to Mr. Cuomo over a four - year period at $ 1 million.

Meanwhile a research and data report from the Empire Center for Public Policy, which describes itself as «an independent, non-partisan, non-profit think tank based in Albany, New York,» found that since the tax cap went into effect, school tax levies have risen by an average of just 2.2 percent annually — the lowest in any four - year period since 1982.

This research examined sentencing for cases within a single area in Arizona over a 10 year period.

Fifteen years ago, Pearl brought to her S&T Policy fellowship three years of postdoctoral mathematics research, experience designing a novel master's program at Rice University, time as a college - level mathematics teacher and a period delving into the technical and legal world of intellectual property.

Based on a culmination of ten years of research work, the new method to estimate more accurate distances between planetary nebulae and the Earth developed by HKU astronomers promises a new era in scientists» ability to study and understand the fascinating if brief period in the final stages of the lives of low - and mid-mass stars.

Those interested in higher - level research can apply to transfer out of active service to work for a limited period (usually 2 years or so) in research and development at the Army Research Laboratorresearch can apply to transfer out of active service to work for a limited period (usually 2 years or so) in research and development at the Army Research Laboratorresearch and development at the Army Research LaboratorResearch Laboratory (ARL).

Over the course of a two - year period, this research community developed common definitions and coding standards that will enable the future development of large - scale datasets documenting and quantifying the destruction of cultural heritage.

In 1986 my research group at the Rockefeller University and another led by Jeffrey Hall of Brandeis University and Michael Rosbash of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at Brandeis found that the three mutant flies had three different alterations in a single gene named period, or per, which each of our teams had independently isolated two years earlier.

Indeed, in 1945, presidential science adviser Vannevar Bush wrote in «Science, The Endless Frontier» — the report that outlined the organizational structure that still governs federally supported academic research — that the first of five «fundamental» principles must be «stability of funds over a period of years,» a goal that Congress has never met.

New research could explain why the Arctic was much warmer during a period millions of years ago that scientists say most closely resembles Earth's climate today

Amy Barr and Robin Canup of the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, think they know why: the moons were pummelled to differing degrees by wayward comets during the «late heavy bombardment», a cataclysmic period that began 3.9 billion years ago.

The research follows two weight loss groups, surgical and non-surgical, over a four - year period.

JSPS provides full support for Canadian researchers to conduct high - quality research in national laboratories, public research corporations, and some nonprofit research institutes for a period of 1 to 2 years.

Malaria was already widespread on Sardinia by the Roman period, long before the Middle Ages, as indicated by research at the Institute of Evolutionary Medicine of the University of Zurich with the help of a Roman who died 2,000 years ago.

An extremely long period of training, almost certainly taking 12 to 14 years (3 to 4 years of undergraduate, 4 years of medical school, 5 years of residency, 3 to 4 years of research training, and 1 to 2 years of clinical subspecialty fellowship training);

While I am proud that we have doubled our national medical research budget at the National Institutes of Health over the five year period of 1998 to 2003, I am particularly disappointed about spending proposals in recent years that would reverse this trend.

It's important to note that, during this 7 - year period, Brazilian astronomers were able to secure as much telescope time as their European counterparts, proving that our research community is mature enough to compete internationally.

Many assume that the most taxing years for mothers are during their children's infancies, but the new research shows that far more challenging is the middle school period.

So would «an equal period of health - related research, research training, and / or health - related activities that averages at least 20 hours per week based on a full work year; [or]... an equal period of health - related teaching that averages at least 20 hours per week based on a full work year,» according to the agreement.

The UC research team looked at 3,679 individuals with Type 2 diabetes from a de-identified cohort of patients at the Cincinnati Veterans Affairs Medical Center and who were followed for a 10 - year period, explains Charuhas Thakar, MD, professor and director of the UC Division of Nephrology, Kidney CARE Program.