Sentences with phrase «decade for such a study»

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I've served as a leader in business and studied leadership for decades, and I've never seen someone make such an outlandish, impractical, and downright persecutory comment before.

Valued for its resistance to heat and corrosion, asbestos was widely used for decades in such products as building materials, pipe insulation and floor tiles before studies linked it to lung cancer and other diseases.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University Larry Diamond sees the countries of the world as heading more and more in recent decades towards democratic ways as if such a trend is inevitable (but also unpredictable).

Yet decades of studies have found that gluten - containing foods, such as whole wheat, rye and barley, are vital for good health, and are associated with a reduced risk of diabetes, heart disease, cancer and excess weight.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

In fact, a 2015 study evaluating the prevalence of neural tube defects such as anencephaly in Europe, found that there has not been any reduction in the incidence of these defects, despite widespread recommendations to increase folic acid which have been in place for several decades.

It would have been difficult to find an individual more qualified for such a task, given the Ambassador's highly successful four decade long career in the foreign service and considering that he is a man whose (deceptively, given his mental acuity) long life has been spent both in the study of international affairs and in the pursuit of the US's interests and values within the world.

Such an exploration is not only an interesting study in its own right; it is also significant for assessing the prospects for the future of government in the coming decades, for example in assessing how government changed in the periods of cutbacks in the 1980s and early 1990s in the context of what is likely to be a period of prolonged fiscal restraint in the 2010s.

For Leicht, the author of books such as «Middle Class Meltdown in America,» the study of high - tech development over a couple decades has been part of his broader research focus on economic development and jobs - related issues.

Researchers for the past decade have focused on the T cell approach, based on studies showing that monkeys receiving such vaccines against simian immunodeficiency virus, related to HIV, lived longer or had lower viral levels than usual.

Half of the people eligible for statins had no sign of plaque on CT scans of their hearts, and such people rarely suffered a heart attack in the next decade, according to a new study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.

Given such uncertainties, Bush, much like his father a decade earlier, pledged additional funding for climate studies.

The incidence of kidney cancer in the United States has been increasing for two decades, with the trend partly attributed to the introduction of abdominal imaging studies such as CT scans or MRIs in the 1980's.

The findings add to the few documented cases of rapid responses by wildlife to climate change, such as Rosemary and Peter Grant's studies of finches in the Galapagos archipelago for four decades starting in 1973.

A study carried out for the US Congress shows that the unwelcome immigrants — such as the zebra mussel, gipsy moth and an ornamental Chinese vine called kudzu — are likely to wreak even more havoc in coming decades.

Given such conflict, the call for more study of the issue is good news, says Craig Anderson, a psychologist at Iowa State University in Ames who has studied media - related violence for decades.

Physicians have recommended vitamin D supplements to their patients for a decade, with good reason: dozens of studies have shown a correlation between high intake of vitamin D — far higher than most people would get in a typical diet and from exposure to the sun — and lower rates of chronic diseases, such as cancer and type 1 diabetes.

These materials can have useful properties such as superconductivity or magnetism, and scientists have been studying how such electrons behave for more than five decades to try to unlock their secrets.

PPPL has used such diagnostic systems, called X-ray crystal spectrometers, for decades to study the data from the laboratory's magnetic fusion research.

Gene Therapy Approaches Studied for «Almost Every Tissue»... Dr. Giatsidis and coauthors reviewed the state of the art in research on gene therapy techniques for treatment of local disorders and injuries — the first such review in more than a decade.

The study, led by Simone Tilmes of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, Colo., warns that such an approach would delay the recovery of the Antarctic ozone hole by decades and cause significant ozone loss over the Arctic.»

This study will set the strategy for NASA for 2020s and beyond and will determine whether planning and construction of such a telescope can begin in a few years or we need to wait another decade.

These so - called Mendelian disorders — single - gene diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, Huntington's disease, and many others, — have been studied for decades.

«For decades allergists have been recommending that young infants avoid consuming allergenic foods such as peanut to prevent food allergies,» notes Professor Lack, the lead investigator for the LEAP stuFor decades allergists have been recommending that young infants avoid consuming allergenic foods such as peanut to prevent food allergies,» notes Professor Lack, the lead investigator for the LEAP stufor the LEAP study.

Certified in the Iyengar yoga method in 2000, she has studied for more than a decade with senior Iyengar teachers such as: Marina Chaselon, Ramanand Patel, Lois Steinberg, Gabriel Halpern, John Schumacher, Patricia Walden, Manuso Manos, and the Iyengars themselves in Pune, India.

The main point of this study is sound... «Dog behavior experts have been recommending prevention techniques based on improved ownership practices, such as learning to read and understand dog behavior signals, teaching children how to safely interact with dogs, and providing dogs with proper socialization and veterinary care, for decades.»

Studies have shown that breed discrimination in effect for decades in other places such as Denver and Miami - Dade County have not worked to keep communities safe.

Such forecasts need to be improved because significant warming is unavoidable for decades to come even if countries begin to trim greenhouse - gas emissions, according to the climate panel's latest studies.

Hoover, who has for decades studied life forms that endure extreme conditions, has been probing such meteorites for many years, with earlier analysis — in 2007 and 2004 — revealing such structures and proposing a biological origin.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakofor the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakofor crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North DakoFor example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

Studies such as these are precautionary: they are designed to forewarn civic authorities and utility companies that must plan for the decades ahead.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72

230 «Relative stability» means avoiding the centuries - duration scale of D - O events of 5 - 15 °C, though that leaves a lot of room for more minor fluctuations such as the 1,500 - year cycle and the decade - scale rhythms that are now being studied.

Researchers have been doing detection - and - attribution studies on well - understood, well - documented phenomena such as temperature changes and rainfall patterns for more than a decade.

James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been arguing for such a strategy for over a decade.

18F implies almost two degrees a decade, a huge number considering the warming over the last decade has been close to zero and no decade has had warming of more than about 0.3 F. Further, I am sure the Sierra Club found someone who actually produced such a study, but the IPCC «consensus», which I think is exaggerated, calls for only about 4 - 6F increases in the next century.

For more than two decades, scientists have studied the relationship between self - esteem and externalizing problem behaviors, such as aggression, violence, youth delinquency and dropping out of school.

After about four decades of such studies, we have another answer to «What is best for the children?»

«Although mate choice studies in humans have routinely recorded pill use during the last decade to control for its confounding effects, little effort has been invested in understanding the consequences of such effects of the pill,» said study author Alexandra Alvergne from the University of Sheffield.

Although family systems theory has played a central role in research on inter and intragenerational relations for several decades, theories that are prominent in the study of social networks, such as homophily (McPherson et al., 2001) and interpersonal influence (Friedkin & Johnsen, 2011), have been substantially underutilized in studies of the family.