But in European academia, junior researchers often effectively get fired, even if they do a good job, because another position is not available for them either because of poor advanced planning and funding or because of a fixed junior-to-senior ratio within an institution.
In fact, this is the second caregiving study AARP has released within two months; their Caregiving in the U.S. 2015 report highlighted the lack of caregiver support and preparedness, as well as the plummeting family caregiver-to-senior ratio.
Women were less likely to have a major obstetric haemorrhage in the bolus and infusion group than in the bolus only group if the obstetrician was junior rather than senior (odds ratio 0.57, 95% confidence intervals 0.35 to 0.92, P=0.02) (table 4).
According to page 10 of The Coming Generational Storm, Kotlikoff and Burns compute that "by 2030, the senior to kid ratio will be three to one!" What will ensure that the baby boomers have space and time to age gracefully?
The issue of the ratio of senior managers to staff is a thorny issue for the BBC.
Shareholder votes on directors' packages could be binding rather than advisory as they are now, and companies may be forced to publish the ratio of senior directors' pay to the median in the firm.
Based on our data, we estimated the ideal ratio of senior physiotherapists to patients to be 1 7 (including on weekends) in order to achieve the optimal number of daily physical therapy activities.
For example, ward rounds are not performed on a 24-hour basis, and there is a reduction in the ratio of senior staff to patients on weekends.
A study among Japanese seniors yielded weak odds ratio of 1.13-1.17 for a relationship between green space access and longevity [ 32].
We aim to have a ratio in engineering between senior and non-senior engineers of one to one.
In a recent tally we discovered that we had a ratio of about 1 1 senior to non-senior developers and that's probably where we will try to keep it in future.
