Taking into
account other recent studies, such as the finding that newly hatched domestic chicks show a preference for consonant intervals, this report lends support to the idea that some features of human musical systems may be based, at least in part, on biological principles that are shared with other animals such as songbirds.
Not exact matches
A
recent study of high school sports revealed that the concussion rate in boys» ice hockey (5.4 per 10000 AEs) was second only to football (6.4 per 10000 AEs); however, concussions
accounted for a greater proportion of total injures in boys» ice hockey (22.2 %) than any of the
other 20 sports, with 30 % of the concussions in ice hockey resulting from a player being body checked.
«In the most
recent global burden - of - disease
study, diarrheal disease
accounts for the loss of more disability - adjusted life years than any
other infectious disease, and cryptosporidiosis is the second leading cause of diarrheal illness.»
And
others believe clathrates of a whatever kind are already accelerating in their melt rates (which, paradoxically may show up better in atmospheric CO2 than methane since a
recent study said 50 % of methane is converted to CO2 via methanogenesis, perhaps helping with the
accounting re: last year's massive increase)...
However, in a
recent blog post about his book at the Washington Post, Willingham pointed out that, by all available evidence, «most
study time in elementary grades is devoted to English Language Arts and math, with
other subjects (science, civics, geography et al.)
accounting for perhaps ten or fifteen percent of instructional time.»
Indeed, in a live online discussion of the «hockey - stick» controversy, Gerald North, chairman of the NRC report panel stated: «I feel certain that the most
recent studies by Cook, d'Arrigo and
others do take this [strip - bark problem] into
account.»
The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in
recent years, with landmark
studies on the human health effects and
other costs of coal burning, and alarming
accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.
This would suggest that the combination of anthropogenic forcing and internal variability may be sufficient to
account for the observed early - century warming (as suggested by, e.g., Hegerl et al., 1996), although
other recent studies have suggested that natural forcing may also have contributed to the early century warming (see Section 12.4.3).