Sentences with phrase «debate over a study»

Harvard University epidemiologist Marc Lipsitch has become a prominent voice in the debate over studies that create potentially dangerous new flu viruses that critics fear could escape from laboratories and cause a pandemic.

A continuation of the debate over a study on the impact of school spending by C. Kirabo Jackson, Rucker C. Johnson, and Claudia Persico

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The study comes amid a national debate over whether and how much methane should be regulated.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

At present, the rediscovery of culture in the social sciences, at the debate over methods of studying culture empirically, promises to shift studies of religion and politics more in the direction of looking at religious and political culture.

Many people fear, however, that the study's impact will be lost in the debate over details.

Over the last several decades the academic study of religion has been marked by a debate that, put much too simply, pits a «Yale school» against a....

He was an engineer in California when he entered the 1990 debate over the California state guidelines for the teaching of Islamic history and religion in social studies.

I remember sitting in a Bible study with Amy who debated with me over the meaning of the word «salvation.»

While the science at work here has been largely controversial, the debate was reignited several months ago when a new study raised more concerns over both red and processed meat.

Studies in Australia, 13 Canada, 14 and the United States15 16 have concluded that in some settings midwife managed home birth can be associated with as low a perinatal mortality as hospital birth for low risk women, reviving the debate over the need to allow women genuine choice.17 18

These studies changed the way in which physical punishment would be researched over the subsequent decade and redrew the landscape of the debate.

A study out that questions the stated benefits of breast - feeding is sure to reignite the debate over whether breast is best.

Armed security officers are becoming more prevalent at America's schools, according to a federal study released amid a heated debate over whether teachers and other school officials should carry guns.

Over the coming months, this Special Series will focus on the diverse angles to this debate by identifying and emphasising certain innovative and thought provoking case studies for the purpose of comparison.

In the heart of long and fiery debates over Erie County's 2005 budget, some citizens and public officials have asked the Library to revisit the 1998 Cohen study - a study that the Library's Board and administration never ignored and never abandoned.

(It should be noted that Price made those comments during a debate over an amendment, which he supported, that would have defunded a handful of NSF projects targeted as wasteful or unnecessary by GOP lawmakers; the hit list included grants to study bison hunting on the late prehistoric Great Plains and the sexual politics of waste in Dakar.)

The study may explain why the thrush sounds melodious to us, but the debate over whether animals have music, and if it is similar to ours, remains open.

Recently studies by Melissa Bateson and her colleagues at Newcastle University in England have rekindled the debate over these issues by showing that honeybees may experience something akin to moods.

The study, which is being conducted under the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund program, is the first time the EPA has undertaken its own water analysis in response to complaints of contamination in drilling areas, and it could be pivotal in the national debate over the role of natural gas in America's energy policy.

The studies» conclusions emerge from state - of - the - art ancient DNA and linguistic analyses, but the debate over PIE's origins is likely to continue.

Schwartz now wants to do a Yellowstone - wide hair study to help pin down grizzly population trends — information that could prove pivotal in the hot debate over whether the animals are prospering enough to be removed from the U.S. endangered species list (Science, 23 April 1999, p. 568).

The five types of cancers analyzed in this study have screening methods that allow for detection at an early stage, though in some instances, debate remains over efficacy and appropriate use: mammography for breast cancer, colonoscopy for colorectal cancer, Pap smear and / or HPV test for cervical cancer, spiral computed tomography or CT for lung cancer, and PSA test for prostate cancer.

Researchers found that studies done since 2006 — when a new debate over age - 21 laws flared up — have continued to demonstrate that the mandates work.

Two recent studies highlight a debate within the world of marine fisheries science over how to interpret available fisheries data

«However, individual - level inferences can not be made using the ecological studies cited frequently in the debate over medical marijuana.»

A debate has raged for decades over whether male fertility is declining, according to some analyses of studies from recent decades.

Meanwhile, biomedical lobbyists are girding themselves for what promises to be a bruising congressional debate this spring over legislation that would ban or restrict federal support for fetal tissue studies.

Woolhandler herself would like to see this study play a part in a slightly different debate — one over whether it it is better to be sick and insured in the U.S. or in Canada.

Debate over the timing of human origins will continue despite the new evidence from the child, whose remains came from previous shoreline excavations near the town of Ballito Bay, says Uppsala University evolutionary geneticist and study coauthor Mattias Jakobsson.

► Also on Thursday, Martin Enserink provided an update on virologist Ron Fouchier, who for the past 3 years «has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?»

While Americans debate the rising cost of health care, a new study of 30 countries over 27 years found that medical expansion has improved overall health — with one major exception.

A: The debate over whether bar or liquid is best has been ongoing for decades, but a 2006 study nearly put an end to bar soap's clean credentials.

A new study adds quantitative detail to an ongoing debate over whether such «conservation mascots» receive publicity and funding to the detriment of animals typically deemed less attractive.

AMSTERDAM — For more than 3 years, virologist Ron Fouchier has battled the Dutch government over a fundamental question in the balance between academic freedom and biosecurity: Did he need a government license to publish his hotly debated gain - of - function (GOF) studies on the H5N1 influenza strain?

As more and more consumers go organic, a new study has renewed debate over the potential harms and benefits of organic foods.

Before this study, scientists debated how these immune genes can evolve rapidly (which is necessary to keep up with the fast - evolving parasites), whilst also showing little or no evolutionary change in their function over millions of years, as observed between humans and chimpanzees.

As debate roils over EPA regulations proposed this month limiting the release of the potent greenhouse gas methane during fracking operations, a new University of Vermont study funded by the National Science Foundation shows that abandoned oil and gas wells near fracking sites can be conduits for methane escape not currently being measured.

A new study of the global cycle of these uranium isotopes brings additional perspectives to the debate on how Earth has changed over billions of years as revealed in a recently published study in the journal Nature.

Studying the Austrian infants or any DNA extracted from them may contribute to the debate over whether or not humans and Neandertals exchanged DNA, Soffer says.

The «well - designed, intriguing» study also speaks to a long - standing debate over the nature of taste, Di Lorenzo says.

A new study may clear away some of the haze hanging over the debate about secondhand tobacco smoke.

Settling the debate over the first flower will take a bigger database and more - sophisticated models, says Wenheng Zhang, who studies plant evolution at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond.

For more on the Kawaoka paper and the debate over H5N1 studies, check out Friday's print edition of Science.

A new study tracing the history of one of those moon rocks, published in this week's Science, adds fuel to a long - running debate over the source of the faint magnetism present on the lunar surface.

«There has long been a debate in the medical community over striking the right balance between pain relief and physical function,» said John Markman, M.D., director of the Translational Pain Research Program in the University of Rochester Department of Neurosurgery and lead author of the study.

«Study settles debate over giving stroke patients routine oxygen.»

The writer seems only dimly aware how this half - hearted message will set off a bomb in the world where Jenny McCarthy lives — that she will turn on that wicked grin and brandish this study to launch another 40 years of vicious debate over whether autism is caused by environmental factors, namely vaccines, and thus can be cured by brave and dedicated parents like her, or whether it's just a condition people are born with.

These beliefs play a key role in shaping people's opinions, and ultimately, their support for scientific advances, according to the study «Understanding Public Opinion in Debates Over Biomedical Research: Looking Beyond Partisanship to Focus on Beliefs about Science and Society,» by American University professor Matthew C. Nisbet, Ph.D., and Ezra Markowitz, Ph.D., a post-doctoral fellow at Columbia University.

The findings of the study are part of a much larger, fiercer debate within the scientific community over the megafauna extinction.