Sentences with phrase «despite much study»

Despite much study of attention in the brain, the cellular mechanisms responsible for the effects of attention have remained a mystery... until now.

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Despite being an America - only study, it's still an interesting barometer of consumer sentiment, particularly when so much coverage features headlines like «America's most hated companies.»

«Despite the much higher costs of attendance, earnings effects are smaller in the for - profit sector relative to the effects for comparable students in public community colleges — a result that holds for all but one of the top 10 fields of study,» according to the study abstract.

According to the study, people who are conducting research on local businesses are not using social media very much in their research, despite the fact that almost half of Americans are on Facebook, and a half of them are using it daily.

Its CEO has less than four years of professional work experience and a non-technical background (she has an MA in business management and dual BAs in Africana studies / Spanish), and is running a company whose market cap went from $ 7.2 m to $ 60m in a single month, despite not having a finished product or revenue, much less profit.

A newly released study by Pew Research Center found that 91 percent of the current U.S. Congress identify as Christian — a number that has not changed much in more than 50 years, despite its constituency's Christian identity declining.

Despite all the studies and discussions, the schools are much the way they were 15 years ago.

In the UK, a study by Loughborough University found that during the Brexit referendum, television news bulletins in the six - week period in May and June dedicated no time at all to environmental issues — despite the fact that much of UK environment policy is determined by the EU.

«Despite the overwhelming evidence linking dietary salt to disease in humans, the potential evolutionary advantage of storing so much salt in the body has not been clear,» says senior study author Jens Titze, who studies the link between sodium metabolism and disease at Vanderbilt University School of Medicine.

«Our findings suggest that despite the insurance expansion under the Massachusetts reform, access to timely outpatient visits to a doctor may not have improved much,,» said Danny McCormick, MD, an associate professor at Harvard Medical School, a primary care physician at Cambridge Health Alliance, and the study's lead author.

Black Americans are also poorly studied, despite the fact that they have some distinct health problems, such as a much greater incidence of hypertension.

Despite their monogamous mating patterns, however, the birds really don't spend much time together, according to a new study.

The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.

But taking repeated, coordinated turns to achieve a common goal is much less well studied outside the communication domain, despite the possibility that all such behaviours draw on the same underlying cognitive skills for turn - taking.

The second part of the study revealed that male offspring of multiparous mice weighed as much as 40 percent more than the male offspring of primiparous mice, despite eating no more food.

Despite a series of further proposed cuts to the space agency's planetary science budget in recent years by the White House, Congress has nevertheless been much more supportive of a Europa mission, appropriating more than $ 100 million during the same time period for the further development of a mission concept called the Europa Clipper, which is currently under study by NASA.

Denmark, where hygge hails from, is consistently ranked in the top 10 of happiness studies, despite experiencing much longer, harsher, and darker winters than most of the United States.

To tease that out, what we would need is a study where researchers switch people to a healthy diet, but force them to eat so much food that they wouldn't lose any weight, despite eating healthier.

Studies have further shown that despite the expectation that following fasting days, there would be a strong desire to consume much more than the normal caloric intake, researchers were surprised to discover there was only about a 10 % increase in calories consumed.

Studies often report that people eating low - carb diets lose as much or more weight as those eating high - carb diets, sometimes despite the subjects claiming to eat the same or more calories.

Despite Campbell's repeated suggestions throughout The China Study that nutritional effects are much more powerful than exposure to carcinogens, he published one study suggesting that the two factors were equally powerful Study that nutritional effects are much more powerful than exposure to carcinogens, he published one study suggesting that the two factors were equally powerful study suggesting that the two factors were equally powerful (12).

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

«I am amazed by how much enthusiasm this idea seems to be generating, despite the fact that we don't have much evidence to support it,» said Marty West, a Harvard professor who studied the Boston program.

Collectively, the studies show that despite states» efforts to make evaluations tougher, principals continue to rate nearly all teachers as «effective,» and when principals are asked their opinions of teachers in confidence, with no stakes attached, they are much more likely to give harsh ratings.

Despite much focus on professional development (PD) aimed specifically at developing technology integration skills, rigorous studies of effective PD are lacking.

Unlike the very typical divide in the adoption of new technology, e-reading has worked its way into the lives of as much as 30 % of the population of adults, despite the recent Bowker study that showed that teenagers are less likely to opt for ereading than older adults.

These objects are very much alive and well, according to a new study by the Pew Research Center, despite the fact that we live in an age where you can download the same information onto various pieces of technology.

Study finds some are putting their investments at too much risk despite worrying about market losses.

Despite widespread concern about obesity among pet owners, in independent studies only 30 - 40 % of owners of overweight dogs thought their own dog weighed too much.

Though things are certainly changing, nerd media such as comic books and video games have historically been viewed as a «boys club» in the West, an outlook that has influenced marketing decisions as well as popular culture representations of the «gamer nerd» despite numerous studies suggesting that women are doing as much, if not more, gaming than men.

The best studies tend to test the robustness of their conclusions by dropping various subsets of data or by excluding whole classes of data (such as tree - rings) in order to see what difference they make so you won't generally find that too much rides on any one proxy record (despite what you might read elsewhere).

Despite projections by some scientists of global seas rising by 20 feet or more by the end of this century as a result of warming, a new University of Colorado at Boulder study concludes that global sea rise of much more than 6 feet is a near physical impossibility.

That is why, forty years after the initial Assessment was rendered as to the severity of the Greenhouse Situation, for President Carter by the Academy of Sciences, as computers have evolved from the Stone Age to the i - phone, and despite @ least a thousand-fold more time on task with both field and heuristic climatic studies, the original uncertainties between the Two sides to the Tug of War, that is, PLUS 50 % OR MINUS 50 %, have not wavered much.

For about as long, some doubters have argued that this consensus is nonexistent or premature — and that, despite repeated studies identifying it, media attempts to report on the consensus constitute so much liberal bias.

Study «finds Greenland was resistant to melting during last interglacial, despite temps much warmer than present.

Then in 2016, Donald Trump offered a more general critique of wind energy noting that wind turbines are «killing all the eagles» despite studies showing that tall buildings, like those built by real estate developers such as Mr. Trump, cause much higher rates of bird mortality than wind turbines do.

The National Republican Congressional Committee, for example, issued multiple press releases specifically citing a study from M.I.T. as the basis for a claim that cap and trade would cost $ 3,100 per household, despite repeated attempts by the study's authors to get out the word that the actual number was only about a quarter as much.

For example, I anticipate that it will be a long, slow battle to get law firms to finally ditch fully justified text in favour of left - justified («ragged right») text, despite countless readability studies that show that fully - justified text that is not professionally typeset (in other words, that is generated by word processing software) is much more difficult to read than left - justified text.

From keeping naughty kids in their rooms to locking yourself in your office for a set period in order to get some studying done, the August Smart Lock is much more than a fancy gadget, but despite its clearly broad set of uses, there's no doubting that it also has the «cool» factor in spades.

Many medical sales professionals say they «already feel like they are «running their own business» despite the fact that they are usually a small part of a much larger operation,» according to the MedReps job satisfaction study.

This study sheds much light on the actual effects of the No Child Left Behind Act despite speckled evidence that claim it helped improved student achievement over the last decade and a half.

Despite studies by Belsky, Gilstrap, and Rovine (1984), Lamb (1978), and Parke and Tinsley (1987) that show fathers to be competent, if sometimes less than fully participant attachment figures, we still have much to learn regarding father attachment.

Despite the fact that previous studies have consistently shown that girls are much less likely to play violent games than boys (e.g., Gentile et al. 2004; Möller and Krahé 2009), these studies also showed that if girls played violent games, the effects on aggressive behavior were not different from the effects on boys.

In Weld County, where much of the fracking is occurring despite protests and legal obstacles, the study found a nearby fracking site adds $ 30,000 to each home's property value.