Changing the culture of a field of study in ways that might attract more diverse cohorts of students surely requires much more than affirmative action.
Lottery-based incentive programs in the workplace fall broadly into the realm of behavioral economics, a field of study that looks at how psychological factors weigh on economic decisions.
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Now there's a new field of study around ranking users in social networks PeopleRank according to their influence: how many of their tweets are read, re-tweeted, include links that others click on, etc.
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Additionally, this information would help already enrolled college students pin down a major field of study, something that most find difficult as evidenced by statistics suggesting that at least half of students change their majors at least once.
Emily Amici may have a better understanding of business, but if she can't find a job in her field of study, she'll have to settle with her current position as a waitress until she does.
It's a shame that behavioral economics has become associated with ineffectual nanny-state efforts like the big-soda ban, because it's actually a tremendously interesting field of study, one that offers widely applicable insights into human nature.
This is a crucial concept to the field of study known as behavioral finance.
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Andreas Kazamias from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a work that critically analyzes the challenges of this field of study and its prospects for the future.
Each school had a very different lens to approaching their field of study, coupled with their own unique culture.
As in any field of work or study, a lot of people provide sizzle without much steak.
While Amy's incident may seem like it would be an isolated one in the health care field, a recent study by the Journal of the American Medical Association says otherwise.
John Archer-Thompson, of the Dale Fort Field Study Centre, explained that west Wales escaped a more serious disaster at the time of the Sea Empress spill.
Starting in 1965 Dr. Lester Breslow, a titan in the field of public health and the Dean of the UCLA School of Public Health, initiated a ground-breaking prospective study of the impact of health behaviors on disability and disease among 7, 000 people in Alameda County, California who were followed for a total of 35 years.
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The problem was that a growing proportion of them did not pursue careers in their field of study.
That assessment would answer a basic question: Does the city have talent in any field of study that leads the world?
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But they are at a loss when it comes to explaining motives, like why they chose their field of study in the first place.
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No matter what your field of work or study, you will be far ahead if you become a skilled communicator as well.
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The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which maintains a database on field and laboratory experiments measuring plant growth responses to CO2-enriched environments has reported 45 studies that have examined effects on the garden tomato (lycopersicon eculentum).
Varadhan, New York University, for his work in probability theory, especially his work on large deviations from expected random behavior which has revolutionized this field of study during the second half of the 20th century, and become a cornerstone of both pure and applied probability.
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The study of the origin of dogs remains, in many ways, a puzzling field.
There had been a lot of forums and papers published, she says, but the field had been handicapped by a tendency on the part of drug companies to approach the problem on a study-by-study basis, often not following up with communities after the work is done.
The developed equipment is easy to use, and has a lower cost, so allowed the execution of the multiple field experiments necessary to obtain good and valuable information to study the runoff generation and soil losses processes.
Still, if you step back and look at all the confusing statistics combined, there is marked evidence that it pays to get a college degree, and given the new NACE report, some good news for those who find jobs in their field of study.
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