Sentences with phrase «ago most studies»

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The trouble with this, he says, is that the scholars who study wrongdoing in the most depth — namely, criminologists — long ago considered and rejected those as key factors in wrongdoing.

Military hackers are among the most talented, and rewarded, people in North Korea, handpicked and trained from as young as 17, said Jang Se - yul, who studied with them at North Korea's military college for computer science, or the University of Automation, before defecting to the South six years ago.

Five years ago, Google — one of the most public proselytizers of how studying workers can transform productivity — became focused on building the perfect team.

Years ago Wilbur Schramm predicted: «Of all the potential contributions of information theory to mass communication, perhaps the most promising is the study of communication networks.

@tallulah13 apparently google is not the most defining answer to scholarly study, He, Kedorlaomer, was a person of antiquity mentioned in the Bible, that was already a given.He was a king 4000 years ago and his treasures were discovered by archaeologists not that long ago.Up to the discoveries Kedorlaomer was an obscure reference in the «Bible «and there had been doubt as to whether he existed or not.

What jumps out at me is something I learned some 35 years ago when studying anthropology — most people need a form of mythology to explain the world.

On the question of whether compression socks improved lactate clearance, Berry et al provided the most comprehensive study thirty years ago in 1987.

A couple years ago, I led a study focused on moms» Internet use and found that getting coupons and deals, of all the activities moms went online for, was the most important type of content moms sought out in digital spaces with nearly all (96 %) moms indicating they had some or a lot of interest in getting deals and coupons from the brands they followed online.

In Sweden and Hungary, the two most industrialized of the nine countries, only 7 per cent and 3 per cent respectively of the mothers studied had never breastfed their youngest child, a marked improvement from 25 years ago.

«Previous studies have also noted that the financial condition of the most troubled institutions is, to a large extent, a product of an inefficient expense structure, revenue challenges associated with a patient mix that approaches 90 percent public payers and charity care, and overwhelming liabilities (including debt issued long ago for physical plant improvements that, in some cases, are obsolete),» the health department said in its announcement.

The study is published in Nature's Scientific Reports and lead author Neil Roberts, Professor of Physical Geography at the University of Plymouth, said: «Most countries go through a forest transition and the UK and Ireland reached their forest minimum around 200 years ago.

Such cosmic laggards offer an opportunity to study at close range how most other galaxies might have formed, long ago and far away.

«The most likely scenario is that a single migration of people into the heartland of North America around 15,000 years ago gave rise to the Clovis and their descendants, which includes modern Native Americans,» says Mike Waters of Texas A&M University in College Station, a co-author with Willerslev on the latest study.

Studies of ocean sediments and lava flows show the Earth has undergone several hundred field reversals, with the most recent confirmed flip occurring about 780,000 years ago.

Subsequent genetic studies have supported the NCC deficit hypothesis, most recently an April report in Science on the sequencing of 14 ancient horse genomes up to 4,100 years old; that's close to the estimated dawn of domesticated horses some 5,500 years ago.

The most studied and extensive of these events occurred 93.9 million years ago.

Such studies used DNA from mitochrondria — structures inside cells — and placed that time of the most recent common ancestor between 99,000 and 148,000 years ago.

Most of the people in our study did not originally receive a SCP because it was not common practice 10 years ago.

The study, which used new diagnostic techniques, should yield a greater understanding of the practices of artists from long ago, and it could open the way for more detailed analyses of the world's most precious artifacts.

«One of the most surprising finds was that 125,000 years ago, the average body size of mammals on Africa was already 50 percent smaller than on other continents,» said Smith, a professor in the UNM Department of Biology who has studied megafauna extinction for more than 15 years.

«We are now fully confident that one of the most popular supernova remnants detected in our galaxy was produced by an ordinary type Ia supernova that was first detected more than 400 years ago,» write Andrea Pastorello of Queen's University Belfast and Ferdinando Patat of the European Southern Observatory in Germany in a commentary on the study.

A study by a researcher in the Syracuse University College of Arts and Sciences offers new clues to what may have triggered the world's most catastrophic extinction, nearly 252 million years ago.

The study confirmed that until we find a way to fight the fungus, the most actionable advice to date is to begin captive breeding, a move suggested in a seminal study of amphibian disappearance published in Science four years ago.

According to the WHO study, fewer women aged 50 years and older in these countries are dying from heart disease, stroke and diabetes than 30 years ago and these health improvements contributed most to increasing women's life expectancy at the age of 50.

Anthropologists and geneticists know that populations throughout the world migrated from Africa more than 60,000 years ago (see diagram), and that the human genome is at its most diverse in our continent of origin, but previous studies have only scratched the surface of African genetic diversity.

Now, a new study of bison fossils offers the most precise date yet for the opening of the ice - free corridor: 13,000 years ago.

«Almost anything is possible,» Norell said, quickly adding that most DNA - extraction studies have been conducted on much younger amber, dating to around 20 - 30 million years ago, and even those led to questionable results.

A study published in Nature revealed that around 45,000 years ago, the first humans in Europe didn't just live with the Neanderthals, they also interbred with them, although most possibly very rarely.

Study researcher Michael Petraglia, from Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, said that the early migrants were possibly a small group of foragers and that the later, major «out of Africa» event most likely happened about 60,000 years ago.

Until a few years ago, Oransky says, people thought most retractions arose from honest error — such as with the mouse study.

Several years ago, one of the most thorough studies of booze and breast cancer, published in JAMA, found that risk starts at very low rates of consumption — less than a drink a day — and marches upward the more you imbibe.

More than thirty years ago, nutrition researcher T. Colin Campbell and his team at Cornell, in partnership with teams in China and England, embarked upon the China Study, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disStudy, the most comprehensive study ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disstudy ever undertaken of the relationship between diet and the risk of developing disease.

Although that was nearly 70 years ago, numerous studies have since proven that yerba mate is one of the most nutritious plants in the world — it contains nearly all of the vitamins that are necessary for human survival.

The milk of most types of mammals contains alpha - lactalbumin as the main protein, and a study from two decades ago found that, when isolated from human milk, this substance could destroy cancer cells.

Years ago, few yoga studies were done in the West, and most scientists dismissed Indian yoga research due to methodological problems, such as a lack of control groups in the studies.

«When we conducted our first study of dating and relationships in the digital era just under a decade ago, the public had little exposure to online dating, and most viewed people who went online to meet potential romantic partners with a healthy dose of skepticism,» said Aaron Smith, main author of the report.

Not long ago, my colleague Michael Horn wrote about a new study out of Columbia Teachers College that analyzes the student performance results of Teach to One during the most recent school year.

As far as increasing reading skills, my most recent «scientific» study came two years ago when I compared reading gains at our school in Oakland, Envision Academy.

We at the Fordham Institute did a study on education regulations a few years ago, and New York had the most red tape of the five big states we studied.

«Three years ago, when my students were involved in their study of Hawaii's endangered species, they were amazed, and I was more so, to find out that we had the most endangered species in the nation,» Kanemori told Education World.

However, not long ago, a study by the Brookings Institution's Russ Whitehurst demonstrated that curriculum has an even greater effect on student outcomes than most popular policy levers, including charter schools, teacher quality, preschool programs, and even standards themselves.

The most recent findings from the study as reported a few weeks ago are based on the full original sample of children as randomized to treatment and control conditions at the outset of the study rather than the previously studied subsample of children whose parents gave permission for follow - up testing by the evaluation team.

Most preschool evaluation studies to date were based on programs implemented decades ago.

A little over a year ago, the Friedman Foundation released the results of study, the most extensive ever done, which stated,

«My choice to study abroad two decades ago has turned out to be one of the most rewarding decisions in my life,» Dr. Song says.

As far as increasing reading skills, my most recent «scientific» study came two years ago when I compared reading gains at our school in Oakland, Envision Academy.

As I'm sure many others have, I started this quest years ago studying part time most of the approaches that made sense to me and reviewing to some extent nearly all.

Eleven years ago, we were like most dog owners, hopeful that all the «canine cancer studies» conducted in high profile veterinary universities would lead to cures for human and canine cancer.

The AGO houses the most comprehensive collection of Betty Goodwin works, and is a centre for the study of her art and life.

Not long ago, reflecting on studies showing that whale watching had become a much bigger economic force than whale killing, I proposed a change in the name to the International Whale Commission, reflecting the shifting nature of most humans» relationships to these remarkable marine mammals.