This interdisciplinary project convened a working group consisting of subject matter experts in archaeology, anthropology, and other allied fields; specialists in
conflict studies from political science, geography, and sociology; and methodological experts from the data sciences.
Heather holds an undergraduate degree in Peace and
Conflict Studies from the University of California at Berkeley; a Master's Degree in Human Rights from Columbia University; and a certificate of advanced study from the Harriman Institute, the oldest research institute on Eastern Europe.
While the idea of verification of results is a good (if unexceptional) one, it should be remembered that part of the political tactic of the anti-science politicians in Washington on other issues (see examples in Chris Mooney's book) has been to introduce as many
conflicting studies from industry - funded thinktanks as possible, however faulty those studies are, to bury the debate under noise.
Not exact matches
«You know
from my
study of populism that I learned that the most important thing to watch when a populist leader comes to power is
conflict,» he wrote.
According to a 2015
study from former President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisors,
conflicted advice was costing consumers about $ 17 billion in retirement earnings each year.
Authors of the Australian
study say the key to avoiding
conflict with employees is clarity
from the first salary negotiation.
At bedtime what bliss to look back and thank God that one has, at last, had a day worthy of a minister's vocation: plenty of prayer, plenty of
study, plenty of service, plenty of family, and no
conflicting demands
from any person or group.
(W.H.C.Frend, Martyrdom and Persecution in the early Church: A
Study of
Conflict from Maccabees to Donatus, [New York: New York University Press, 1967], p. 197.
Frend, W.H.C., Martyrdom and Persecution in the Early Church, A
Study of
Conflict from Maccabees to Donatus.
Anyone who has
studied the Bible seriously, knows that there are often passages that
conflict... unfortunately allowing those who take every word as coming
from God, the ability to pick and choose which verses they desire to use for their current needs.
Although, no
studies on humans were done to test this, partly out of
conflict of interests, partly
from human integrity (hopefully).
We know
from studies that it's
conflict, not divorce per se that hurts children.
Research With the premise that science isn't perfect, but it's the best guide we've got, Zero to Five draws on scientific research and
studies from experts such as Dimitri Christakis (screen time), Diana Baumrind (parenting styles), Adele Diamond (neuroscience and executive function), Carol Dweck (growth mindset), Alison Gopnik (child psychology), John Gottman (marriage and
conflict resolution), Megan McClelland (executive function), Patricia Kuhl (language acquisition and brain development), Ellyn Satter (feeding children), Dan Siegel (emotions), Paul Torrance (creative thinking), Grover Whitehurst (literacy and reading comprehension), and more.
A
study from 2010 acknowledged, yes, «in the short - term, kids go through a one - to two - year crisis period when their parents divorce,» but the idea of staying together for the kids is problematic, especially if it's a high -
conflict family, and that previous research indicating people should stay together «has been plagued by many data problems — reliance on small samples derived
from one therapy clinic, retrospective reports, and cross sectional data.»
«In summary, the evidence
from these
conflicting studies, in balance, does not allow one to conclude that there is a strong relationship between the timing of the introduction of complementary foods and development of atopic disease.
I, however, have the experience
from my unrelated specialty that if a
study is: full of mistakes that the authors themselves admit to; founded by a party that has vested interest in the outcome; being widely dismissed in scientific circles; is done by someone who hid a
conflict of interest — then the
study is not to be trusted.
Earlier this month the influential Iraq
Study Group chaired by former US secretary of state James Baker called for the gradual withdrawal of troops
from the
conflict - stricken Middle Eastern country.
By looking at reproduction as both a source of cooperation and
conflict between the sexes, the researchers are finding clues
from this
study on a behavioral and molecular level that can be an important link for solving certain unexplained causes of human infertility.
«This provides evidence for the hypothesis that gender differences in intergroup
conflict can have an evolutionary origin, as only males seem to benefit
from displaying heroism,» says Joost Leunissen, a psychologist at the University of Southampton and co-author of the
study.
«The incidence of spine trauma in modern warfare exceeds reported rates
from earlier
conflicts,» according to the new
study, led by Dr Andrew J. Schoenfeld of William Beaumont Army Medical Center, El Paso, Texas.
Dr. Talwalkar notes that up to 80 percent of recommendations
from most guidelines are supported by evidence
from non-randomized
studies or expert consensus opinion, making
conflict of interest disclosure crucial.
«Bristol Bay Wild Salmon, Pebble Mine, and Intractable
Conflict: Lessons for Environmental
Studies and Sciences» lays the foundation for the extremely controversial topic of building the proposed Pebble Mine just miles away
from Bristol Bay, Alaska.
The eye - tracking technology used in this
study was originally developed by Dr. Samadani and colleagues at the Cohen Veterans Center to assess eye movement in veterans of the long Middle East
conflicts suspected of suffering
from traumatic brain injury (TBI), concussion or other forms of brain injury.
Science minister Jitendra Singh, 57, a diabetes specialist
from the
conflict - riven state of Jammu and Kashmir, has
studied, among other things, stress as a cause of diabetes in Kashmiri Hindus forced to migrate
from the Muslim - dominated Kashmir Valley in the 1990s.
A new letter, published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine, brings together data
from the five - year
Conflict of Interest Notification Study backed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, along with broader reports on conflict of interest in medicine released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to examine the practical goals and challenges of presenting this information to possible trial parti
Conflict of Interest Notification
Study backed by the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, along with broader reports on
conflict of interest in medicine released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to examine the practical goals and challenges of presenting this information to possible trial parti
conflict of interest in medicine released by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) and the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) to examine the practical goals and challenges of presenting this information to possible trial participants.
«These restrictions also are in
conflict with new HCV treatment guidelines
from the American Association for the
Study of Liver Disease (2015), which explicitly state that active injection drug users should be prioritized for treatment in part because of the risk of transmission to susceptible injection partners.»
He adds that although the new research
from Japan found no link between tea consumption and cancer risk, more research is needed to resolve the
conflict between this and previous cancer - related
studies.
Long — term effects include restlessness, anxiety, disordered sleep, memory loss, cognitive impairment, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), according to Mahdi Balali — Mood of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences in Iran, who has
studied Iranian chemical attack victims
from the same
conflict.
Conflicting numbers The
study was funded by a partnership of nine natural gas producers and the Environmental Defense Fund, a non-profit environmental group based in Washington DC, as part of a broad effort to trace methane leaks all the way
from the wellhead to the user.
To examine how the availability of food may have affected armed
conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without cas
conflict in Africa, the
study relies on PRIO - Grid data
from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa
from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data
from EarthStat and Armed
Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without cas
Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualties.
Among the panel's recommendations are calls for more rigorous «intergeneration» animal feeding
studies, a halt on trials conducted outside public institutes, and the removal of advisers with
conflicts of interest
from regulatory bodies.
The
study, which was held up in publication because it
conflicts with another pending
study by U.S. government scientists, failed to find xenotropic murine leukemia virus - related virus (XMRV) in blood samples
from 51 CFS patients and 56 healthy people.
«During the past three years of armed
conflict, Yemenis have been continuously exposed to serious harm and trauma, including air strikes, threats and attacks
from armed groups, forced disappearances, torture, a cholera epidemic, and food and job insecurity,» said Farea Al - Muslimi, a prominent Yemeni scholar and chairman of the Sana'a Center for Strategic
Studies.
To resolve
conflicts, Gottman says we can learn
from game theory — the
study of
conflict and decision making used in political science, sociology and economics.
Often patients get wrong or
conflicting information
from these
studies alone, and we are left without a clear answer before surgery as to which parathyroid gland is the culprit.
The authors propose that the
conflicting results
from previous research on organic and conventional crops» phytochemical content could be a function of short
study periods and the exclusion of variables such as weather.
The new
study tracked HIV incidence statistics in 36 sub-Saharan countries
from 1990 through 2012 and correlated them with periods of
conflict and peace in each country.
«You have the contributions of amateur researchers like «Gogga» Brown, who was largely ignored in his 19th century heyday, the evidence
from footprints, which some paleontologists disbelieved because they
conflicted with the skeletal evidence, and of course the importance of well - curated museum collections that provide scientists today an opportunity to
study specimens collected 140 years ago.»
Ironically, the findings in both analyses seems to be driven by
studies from the same Danish population registries, but with
conflicting results.
Recent
studies provide
conflicting evidence on whether routine PSA screening in the general population of men actually reduces the risk of dying
from prostate cancer.
«We've discovered
conflicting functions of GLP - 1 in the platypus: in the gut as a regulator of blood glucose, and in venom to fend off other platypus males during breeding season,» explained the
study's co-author Briony Forbes,
from Flinders University.
It needs to be made clear that the funds
from the Legal Aid Board were not used for the 1998 Lancet
study, and therefore I perceived that no financial
conflict of interest existed.»
But a new
study suggests that with incentives to cooperate, natural selection can minimize
conflict, changing the game
from one of pure
conflict to one of partial cooperation.
Many
studies also involved
conflicts of interest, Walters says — like researchers who owned supplement companies and could benefit
from sales of curcumin extract.
While some criticism of scientific
studies can always be offered, in totality, the
studies listed here by scientists without
conflicts represent what might happen if you steer away
from the produce department toward meats, dairy products, and processed meal choices.
Prior
studies have found that patients admitted to hospitals on weekends have a higher risk of death, but there have been
conflicting results
from studies looking at birth outcomes and day of birth.
He and his team didn't analyze the content of the tweets in this
study, so they can't show whether the doctors were tweeting about drugs
from those companies — and whether the doctors»
conflicts of interest influence what they share on social media.
Conflicts of Interest M.L.F. received funding
from the Egg Nutrition Center to conduct the human intervention portion of this
study.
These
conflicting findings may result
from geographic differences in organic production regulations governing antimicrobial usage, use of antimicrobials in conventional dairy production, and baseline prevalence, as well as laboratory methods,
study designs, or methods of analysis employed.
There is, however,
conflicting data
from another
study that utilized a two week crossover
study design and randomized eight healthy men to a modified alternate - day fasting diet or a standard diet.