Sentences with phrase «decades of studies show»

The source of this sad passage is «Decades of Studies Show What Happens to Marriages After Having Kids,» in Fortune Magazine.

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NerdWallet's 2017 household debt study shows that several major spending categories have outpaced income growth over the past decade; many Americans are putting medical expenses on credit cards; and the average indebted household is paying hundreds of dollars in credit card interest each year.

Studies have shown that a market crash at the beginning of retirement can be deadly for a portfolio that could have to last for another three decades or more.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

The study shows that the churchgoing routines of Americans - aside from a moderate decline in the 1990s - have been fairly constant over the decades, at about 23 to 28 services a year.

For over a decade I have wanted to have a «movie Bible study» where a group of people get together, watch a movie, and then point out where Jesus (or the longing for Jesus) shows up in the movie.

Three decades of studying the Bible, the church and church history has shown me how far we've strayed from what Jesus taught.

Somewhat dubious, I searched for the data, which reveals the pro-lifer was right on the facts but offering an unsupported interpretation: The study showed that the maternal mortality rate declined after abortion was prohibited in 1989, but that it had already been declining for more than a decade, probably as a result of rising levels of women's education.

Decades of study have repeatedly shown that homosexuality is normal.

In a recent article on FoxNews.com, Parents Television Council president Tim Winter comments on a 2004 study from the Harvard School of Public Health showing evidence that today's movies contain significantly more violence, sex and profanity than movies of the same rating a decade ago.

A decade later, a study of Episcopal churches by Wade Clark Roof showed that church people tend to be divided into two groups: the «locals» who prefer to live in small communities, get their satisfaction from relating closely to families and to friends, and belong to local groups; and the «cosmopolitans» who prefer living in large cities, get their satisfaction from dealing with ideas and international issues, and belong to large state or nationwide organizations.

The most thorough of these studies, which has tracked for decades 1,000 children born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in the early 1970s, showed that children with strong noncognitive capacities go on to complete more years of education and experience better health.

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

«Decades of research, including longitudinal studies, have shown that as securely attached babies get older, they form better relationships with others, have higher self - esteem, are more flexible and resilient under stress, and perform better in every aspect of life, from schoolwork to peer interactions.»

Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner said Monday that the state should scrap the idea of replacing the elevated portion of Interstate 81 with a tunnel after an independent study showed the project would cost up to $ 4.5 billion and take up to a decade to complete.

Decades - long studies show that early education can produce a range of effects lasting well into adulthood, but the quality and context of the programs are critical.

Decades of field studies have shown that organisms are shaped by their environment, and by the community of other species that make up their ecosystem.

A new study based on NASA satellite data and meteorological data shows that the amount of carbon absorbed by Earth's plants and trees fell in the past decade

Imaging studies have shown that the brains of high - risk individuals look and behave differently from controls decades before the onset of Alzheimer's, and long before they start to accumulate amyloid - β or lose grey matter.

The fuss began when studies showed that decades of warming appeared to have leveled off in 1998.

Decades of research show that it's tricky to capture and use such heat cost - effectively, but a spate of new studies suggest some solutions.

For nearly a decade, the associate professor of psychology has published numerous studies showing that vision can change as a function of action — that vision is action - specific, as opposed to general purpose.

The study «shows without a doubt that the projections of climate scientists a few decades ago that the risk of extreme heat would increase are now becoming the reality.

The analysis showed the date of peak tornado activity in the region moved earlier at a rate of 1.55 days per decade over the time period studied.

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

The results of the study, published today in the journal Nature, show that over the last 30 years, tropical cyclones — also known as hurricanes or typhoons — are moving poleward at a rate of about 33 miles per decade in the Northern Hemisphere and 38 miles per decade in the Southern Hemisphere.

A curious detail also shown by the study is a reduction in atmospheric pollution from lead during the last few decades, which, as Lozano concludes, «suggests that the global measures taken to reduce lead emissions, such as the use of lead - free gasoline, have helped to reduce the levels of this metal in the atmosphere.»

Several studies have clearly shown that the spread of animal and plant species through global trade has increased massively over the past few decades.

Conversely, the review of student writing showed the young authors adhering more to «conventional writing practices» and a trend toward less play with genre, more mundane narratives and simpler language over the two decades studied.

«This study shows that birthweight and breastfeeding both have implications for children's health decades later,» said Molly W. Metzger, PhD, assistant professor at the Brown School and a co-author of the study with Thomas W. McDade, PhD, of Northwestern University.

This study shows that aragonite saturation state in waters shallower than 328 feet or 100 meters depth decreased by an average of 0.4 percent per year from the decade spanning 1989 - 1998 to the decade spanning 1998 - 2010.

A new study shows that without significant reductions in carbon emissions, deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.

Over the past decade, ever more sophisticated dating of the ancient basalt has shown that the lava bed could be about the same age as the extinction, and recent studies have revealed that it covered twice as much area as previously supposed.

However, under business - as - usual scenarios, without significant reductions in carbon emissions, the study shows these deadly heat waves could begin within as little as a few decades to strike regions of India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, including the fertile Indus and Ganges river basins that produce much of the region's food supply.

«Advancing technology has revealed more and more of the Universe to us over the past few decades, and our study shows individual objects that account for about 96 percent of the background radio emission coming from the distant Universe,» Condon said.

Regulated deer hunts in Indiana state parks have helped restore the health of forests suffering from decades of damage caused by overabundant populations of white - tailed deer, a Purdue study shows.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

The study also provides new evidence for just how sensitive glaciers are to temperature, showing that they responded to past abrupt cooling and warming periods, some of which might have lasted only decades.

Study author Dr Clare Tanton, Senior Research Associate at UCL, said: «Although our findings show there has been progress in sex and relationships education over the past two decades, we still have a long way to go to meet the needs of young adults.

In dozens of studies over the past two decades, LANP researchers have explored the basic physics of plasmonics and shown that plasmonic interactions can be harnessed for applications as diverse as medical diagnostics, cancer treatment, solar - energy collection and optical computing.

The evidence for this comes from a study by the Tanzanian health ministry which shows that although the number of cases of active TB has doubled in the past decade, the number of new infections among children continues to fall.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting here last week show how our genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation the effect of a gene that favors cigarette smoking has dwindled in some groups.

Lead author of the study, Sabrina Wenzel of DLR explains: «the carbon dioxide concentrations measured for many decades on Hawaii and in Alaska show characteristic cycles, with lower values in the summer when strong photosynthesis causes plants to absorb CO2, and higher - values in the winter when photosynthesis stops.

«Rapid rise in mass school shootings in the United States, study shows: Researchers call for action to address worrying increase in the number of mass school shootings in past two decades.»

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

The six - decade - long study on domesticating foxes in Siberia that we write about has everything from cutting - edge science to political intrigue to human / animal love stories, but perhaps more than anything else, it shows that when smart people with a passion for science pair that with almost superhuman perseverance, we can unwrap the mysteries of the world we live in.»

Over the last decade, large epidemiological studies have shown that kidney stone formers have an increased likelihood of developing other conditions such as hypertension, chronic kidney disease and heart disease; however, the mechanisms involved are unknown.

The new study «shows that the fly has the potential to drive populations of the most common species of Darwin's finch to extinction in several decades,» says biology professor Dale Clayton, senior author of the study published online Dec. 18 in the Journal of Applied Ecology.

Over the last decade there have been multiple large studies trying to determine a clinical use for iNO in preterm neonates, but despite evidence of short - term benefit, this drug has not been shown to improve long - term outcomes in preemies.

«Research in the last couple of decades has shown that microbes can exploit [cell death] pathways to cause disease,» says study coauthor Tobias Hohl, an infectious disease researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City.