Overcrowding is common at dozens of institutions: on average, the ratio at Italian universities is 19.5 students per teacher, compared to an average of 15.4 students per teacher in other European Union member countries, according to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Harvard University professors Tuomo Vuolteenaho and Randolph Cohen calculate that institutions, on average, capture only a third of the gains they could if they bought more of the stocks they rated winners and sold more of the ones they rated losers.
The letter adds that it has become cheaper for BP to get its brand on major museums and theatres (£375,000 a year for each institution, on average) than the cost of a short billboard campaign.
The Modified Impact Index (MII) was defined as the ratio of the observed h-index (h) of an institution over the h-index anticipated for that institution on average, given the number of publications (N) it produces i.e. (α and β denote the intercept and the slope, respectively, of the line describing the dependence of the h-index on the number of publications in log10 scale).
Based on the proportion of projects under one year's duration it can be estimated that institutions initiate on average 2.3 projects per year, a high number when it is considered that there are 3.7 researchers per project initiated and 0.7 PhDs (table 3), and that for each funded project there will be several unsuccessful proposals.
You want to support institutions that, on average -- more than on average -- you believe in the ideas they stand for".
The index developed by Aráoz (2011) to measure the quality of institutions falls on average after 1930 and becomes more volatile.
Still, private college presidents' salaries only accounted 0.5percentt of their institutions' budgets on average, the report showed.
For example, the papers published with a University of Texas affiliation in 2003 received in 2003 2007 six times more citations than the papers published with a Tufts University affiliation, but both have Q = 5.0, suggesting that both institutions produce on average research of similar citation impact.
The Norwegian cost of institutionalization exceeded the Swedish by 21% due to significantly more days in institutions but on average somewhat lower unit costs, and the Norwegian cost of ambulatory care exceeded the Swedish by 18%, mainly due to more extensive use.
The 19 homecare institutions counted on average 1,752 clients and 18% of their clients was excluded, mainly because their care period was too short (96% of the excluded cases had received less than six months homecare, 2% was aged under 18 and 2% was excluded for other reasons such as hospital admission).
