Sentences with phrase «field studies suggest»

Field studies suggest that energy savings could be 60 % or more depending on the facility and type of operation.
Field studies suggest that recent mountain pine beetle outbreaks correlate with mean August temperatures > 59 °F (15 °C) and that outbreak size is correlated with minimum winter temperatures and drought conditions in previous years (Preisler et al. 2012).
The surveyor's magnetic field studies suggest Mars used to have a surprisingly Earth - like churning dynamo core.

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Whatever the reason, various studies have suggested that this supposed home field investment portfolio advantage is not real, but many of us still continue to allow our portfolios to be dominated by our home market.
But the studies that have been made suggest that attitudes learned in one field have limited influence on new situations in other fields; and outside their own area scientists can be as dogmatic as anyone else.
In 2008, the Journal of Sports Economics published a study that suggested a recruit's decision on where to attend college is «governed by a handful of primary factors» including «the opportunity for individual success and exposure, a team's recent on - field success and the distance to the school from his hometown.»
He and Patty made this final move so he could be closer to school, so, with his workday beginning at 6:30 a.m., he wouldn't have to spend three nights a week sleeping in a San Jose State dorm room after having studied tapes until 11 p.m. Just as a point of speculation, it is suggested that maybe he would like to coach until he's 90 or 95, keel over on the field in mid-practice and be buried under one of the goalposts that bookend all football fields like gateways to another world.
WOMEN IN SCIENCE Progress has been made on closing the gender gap in science - related fields, but it may be decades or even centuries before some disciplines have equal numbers of men and women, a new study suggests.
Renno, who co-authored a paper suggesting such a dust - boosting feedback loop in 2008, says he is seeing similar phenomena in field studies at California's Owens Lake.
Previous studies have suggested that electric fields generated during the early stages of a sandstorm would have that effect, but nobody had made field measurements to support the idea, says Francesca Esposito, a planetary scientist at the National Institute for Astrophysics in Naples, Italy.
Some previous theoretical studies have suggested that the magnetic field of a neutron star should break into smaller loops and dissipate as the star ages — a phenomenon known as «turbulent cascade.»
That question turned out to be the basis of a new field, behavioral epigenetics, now so vibrant it has spawned dozens of studies and suggested profound new treatments to heal the brain.
While some studies suggest the birds rely on smells, the position of the sun, or Earth's magnetic field to navigate, scientists also know that pigeons use visual landmarks.
«Our review highlights that studies to date varied widely in hypotheses and research methods, suggesting that the field needs to develop more standardized methods to allow for a clearer understanding of the role of comorbid depression among adolescents in substance abuse treatment,» wrote the researchers in a joint statement.
The study results also suggest that some fungicides, which have led to the mortality of honey bee larvae in lab studies, could have toxic effects on colony survival in the field.
Eventually, studying 3 - D knotted magnetic fields like those potentially present in ball lightning might help scientists devise better ways to control plasmas within future fusion reactors for generating power, the researchers suggest.
The study compiles data from 20 years of field studies and suggests that if current trends continue, forests managed as short - rotation pine plantations will support the majority of Swainson's warbler breeding populations by the end of the 21st century.
«It has long been thought reversals start at random locations, but our study suggests this may not be the case,» said Tarduno, a leading expert on Earth's magnetic field.
Both studies back earlier «field tests» of the DSM - 5 criteria, which likewise suggested that the new category of SCD would apply to around 10 percent of children who would have previously received a diagnosis of autism.
Even within the field of psychology, the topic of humor has been studied using many different approaches, and although the last two decades have seen an upswing of the application of quantum models to the study of psychological phenomena, this is the first time that a quantum theory approach has been suggested as a way to better understand the complexity of humor.
Field reports suggest that not all K13 mutations are capable of causing resistance, and the genetic system developed by Dr. Fidock to study K13, based on DNA repair approaches that are being used in human gene therapy studies, will be critical in identifying real hot spots of resistance.
Now, a new study suggests that one such «coronal mass ejection» in 2015 temporarily weakened Earth's protective magnetic field, allowing solar plasma and radiation from the same storm to more easily reach the atmosphere, potentially posing a danger to astronauts.
«While the present report suggests that optimal outcome measures for FXS are not yet fully developed, the recent failures of clinical trials in the FXS treatment field represent an opportunity to implement novel study designs and methodologies,» concludes Budimirovic.
The electric fields that build up on honey bees as they fly, flutter their wings, or rub body parts together may allow the insects to talk to each other, a new study suggests.
But two new studies raise questions about the accuracy of both those assumptions and suggest that the flow into STEM fields is more of a two - way street than a leaky pipeline.
New field studies, presented here this week at the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, quantify the amount of soil carbon at 1.9 trillion metric tons, suggesting that previous estimates underestimated the climate risk if this carbon is liberated.
However, he said the degree of difference in earnings suggested the horizontal stratification in education across field of study appears to be more consequential than the usual focus on vertical stratification, which refers to the earnings gap between levels of education.
But a new study suggests we may have more to gain by converting plant material into biochar, a type of charcoal, and burying it in farmers» fields.
Just as oil and natural gas fields have been found to be emitting more methane than official government estimates suggest, a new study shows that more methane than previously thought may be leaking from the other end of that system — cities, where people actually use natural gas for heating and cooking.
While previous studies had suggested that females sometimes had cubs with outsider males, Lyke's is the first strong genetic evidence, says Bruce Patterson of the Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago.
This study is distinctive because the researchers found dramatic differences in the percentage of female sexual and asexual snails (using males» presence as a proxy) and parasite prevalence between sites as close as two football fields apart, «suggesting that these evolutionary links between sex and parasites can operate at a remarkably small scale,» Neiman says.
Just hours before this latest Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute study was published, another blow to the field came when Merck announced it was discontinuing a Phase 3 clinical trial into a drug called verubecestat, following a recommendation suggesting, «it was unlikely that positive benefit / risk could be established if the trial continued.»
This is in line with more recent studies that suggest that misalignment of magnetic field and rotation axes or turbulence may enhance early disk formation, producing disks of 100 times the Earth - Sun radius or larger.
The findings, recounted in a study now available online in Neurobiology of Aging, suggest that high - field magnetic resonance imaging, in particular an advanced version called 7T MRI that uses a powerful 7 - Tesla magnet, could someday be used to diagnose and monitor Alzheimer's patients earlier than is currently possible.
The study does not address whether Proxima Centauri's activity cycle would affect the potential habitability of the planet Proxima b. Theory suggests that flares or a stellar wind, both of which are driven by magnetic fields, could scour the planet and strip away any atmosphere.
Recent work in fragile X syndrome suggests aberrant fronto - striatal and fronto - parietal networks and relates these abnormalities «forward» to behavior and «backward» to decreased protein expression.As the field of neuroimaging has matured, it has revealed its promise as a safe, reliable, in - vivo tool in the study of developmental disorders.
Because the telescope can also be pointed toward the sun, others have suggested shifting its field of view and using it to study objects in the inner solar system, such as asteroids that might be heading toward Earth.
A slowly increasing number of experimental, field and modeling studies has suggested that plant leaves can also directly take up gaseous elemental mercury from the atmosphere.
A wild tomato plant, Solanum peruvianum, from field - study sites in the Rio Fortaleza Valley in the Ancash Province of Peru.The modeling study suggests that the herbivore - induced release of protective chemical compounds limits population growth of both the pollinator and the flowering plant, thereby temporarily and indirectly restricting the growth of herbivore populations and preventing extinction.
The study is a part of ART (Attention Restoration Theory), a cognitive science field which suggests that individuals experience improved concentration after looking at nature scenes or spending time in nature.
Some people have suggested that electromagnetic fields from WiFi signals and mobile phones could also be interfering with our adrenal glands, but studies are yet to prove this is the case.
Kathleen Kelly, president of the Massachusetts Federation of Teachers, suggests teacher - qualifying exams be required earlier in a students» course of study so that those who seem headed toward problems could be redirected to other fields.
The findings, part of a study of first - and second - year teachers in New Jersey, also show that 46 percent of the state's new teachers are mid-career entrants to the field, suggesting that mid-career entrants are becoming teachers in roughly the same numbers as first - career entrants.
The findings, part of a study of first - and second - year teachers in New Jersey, also show that 46 % of the state's new teachers are mid-career entrants to the field, suggesting that mid-career entrants are becoming teachers in roughly the same numbers as first - career entrants.
The main findings of this study suggest otherwise — learning to teach in difficult - to - staff field placement schools is associated with lower teacher effectiveness and retention.
However, recent studies using randomized admission lotteries at charter schools and the random assignment of teachers has suggested that simple, low - cost methods, when they control for students» prior achievement and characteristics, can yield estimates of teacher and school effects that are similar to what one observes with a randomized field trial.
As a result of recent research in this field, some scholars are suggesting that social studies teachers integrate technology into daily teaching and learning activities (Berson, 1996; Diem, 2000).
This study's results are consistent with research from other fields that suggests Twitter offers a means for users to share efficiently and acquire content with and from users with similar interests (Domizi, 2013; Rinaldo et al., 2011) and extends this research to show that such sharing can occur between preservice and in - service educators.
There were a few studies that suggested ways of narrowing down the field by eliminating funds that had certain characteristics such as the highest fees, or only including funds that had certain qualitative features such as a large personal stake in the fund by the manager, but no single factor worked consistently.
He searched the entire record of peer - reviewed academic research in this field trying to find one study suggesting that there was no need for investors to engage in long - term timing.
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