The point of the study is not to predict what will happen, but merely to point out what could happen in a business-as-usual scenario.
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The point of the IMF study is to ask why, exactly.
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The authors of the study point out that the link between holidays and stress could go either way.
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As the authors of the study point out, this is consistent with the growing literature from Heckman and others showing that non-cognitive skills affect outcomes.
The authors of the study point out ADHD can exist alongside other conditions such as conduct disorders, calling for further work to untangle the contribution these may make to criminal behaviour.
This is the typical refutation of tons of valid research, just point out your own personal success (a study of one)and try to sell it as what of course is the norm, and it is not.
Case in point: a Sage study showing half of all women 18-24 want to launch their own ventures.
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Over the long run, sharp traders getting out in front of these forced portfolio changes have poached at least 0.38 percentage point of annual return away from Russell 2000 index funds, estimates a new study in the Journal of Empirical Finance.
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As many as 28 percent of people are diagnosed with anxiety at some point in their lives, according to an editorial accompanying the study in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.
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Of those who were living together when the study began, the average duration of their unions at that point was more than eight years.
The point is, there are many different types of clinical study, covering all aspects of medicine, so the scope of research in the NHS goes way beyond most people's perception.
Case in point: A recent study that examined 15 years of PSA screenings found that prostate cancer had been over-diagnosed -- treating men whose tumors were growing too slowly to ever be a threat.
One case in point: According to a study by the Indian Institute of Management, potato farmers in the potato-growing states of Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal have realized 25% price gains since trading in potato futures began in 2006.
But there is some academic research that folks like Hong and Valentine can point to: an August 2004 study from the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The study suggests that each reduction of one percentage point in the marginal tax rate could increase the number of new businesses by as much as 2%.
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Another interesting point from the study reveals that while 47.9% of unique visitors to social networking sites are men, women consume far more content and spend more time engaging than men.
Horowitz elaborates that profits in the education sector can be expected to promote competition and innovation that lead to an increase in the quality of educational provision, better value for the customer, and a more efficient allocation of resources, a point that CCAP elaborated on it is 2010 study, For-Profit Higher Education: Growth, Innovation and Regulation.
The study is the latest to point to the potential health benefits of drinking red wine.
This study is merely the latest to point to the heart benefits of chocolate.
Arbitron officials agree with Clear Channel on this point--a study the company commissioned this year said 25% of marketers surveyed said radio ad spending would increase if the new meters were put in place, while 8% said they would cut spending if the old system sticks around.
Nothing new or breakthrough here, but the study provides good examples of how companies are executing against each point.
One study found that two-thirds of American women had at some point switched from full-time work to part-time or flexible time to balance work and family.
The starting point was a pioneering study in the mid-1970s on the ecology and metabolism of the city of Hong Kong, combined with a survey of the quality of life of individuals and human adaptation.
In a study to prove this point, researchers sat down in a supermarket with bottles of Jam on display.
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But to understand at this point in our study, months along, would have been confusing, even a kind of disillusionment.
The important point to note is that at this juncture in the study there were no results suggestive of any mouse contamination at all.
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Dr. Cawley says one team in his study competed so hard that others wanted to give up, questioning the point of continuing to try.
After controlling for population and the number of police officers in each county, the study found that a one percent point increase in the local unemployment rate leads to a 6.4 percentage point increase in the number of traffic tickets.
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Executives licensed to fly small aircraft led 176 of 2, 073 major public companies at some point between 1992 and 2009, a recent study says.
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Perhaps the study's most important point materialises when you hold the numbers up to the light of context.
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