Sentences with phrase «despite years of study»

We urge you to dismiss the complaints and assertions of those who, despite years of study and months of discussion and negotiation, still downplay the gravity of the problem facing our industries.

Despite years of study, however, researchers still do not fully understand why the course of AIDS in Africa is so different from that in Europe and North America.

Yet despite years of study, new insight into the creature's unusual form of communication continues to come to light.

Despite years of study, the means by which these microbes cause such severe disease remain mysterious.

Thus, the authors, including Drs. Fleiseg and Andrews, concluded that the true risk of serious injury from starting to throw curveballs at an early age was, despite years of study, still unknown.

Not exact matches

According to one study, 82 percent of shoppers made at least one purchase from an international merchant in a calendar year — despite the fact that only 1 percent of small businesses in the U.S. export goods overseas.

Despite a perception among some investors that impact investing necessitates a concessionary return, the Impact Investing Benchmark has exhibited strong performance in several of the vintage years studied as of June 30, 2014.

All this despite the fact that private schooling doesn't actually yield better outcomes for students, according to a recent Statistics Canada report (instead, the apparent academic success of private school student is due to their socioeconomic backgrounds).9 A UBC study also found that students from public schools scored higher in first - year university classes than their private school counterparts.10

Its CEO has less than four years of professional work experience and a non-technical background (she has an MA in business management and dual BAs in Africana studies / Spanish), and is running a company whose market cap went from $ 7.2 m to $ 60m in a single month, despite not having a finished product or revenue, much less profit.

A newly released study by Pew Research Center found that 91 percent of the current U.S. Congress identify as Christian — a number that has not changed much in more than 50 years, despite its constituency's Christian identity declining.

Despite the offer of a place to study, there was no guarantee that she would be ordained at the culmination of the three years of theological education.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

But as research indicates, childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

But that might have been the problem; childfree couples divorce more often than couples who have at least one child, according to researchers, despite numerous studies that indicate marital happiness plummets in the first year or two after the birth of a child and sometimes never quite recoups.

For years, it seems, MomsTEAM has been getting e-mails from mouth guard manufacturers touting their products as reducing the risk of concussion, despite the lack of any peer - reviewed scientific studies to support their claims.

After following closely developments in the impact sensor area for a number of years, and believing that this cutting edge technology had the potential to revolutionize the sideline identification of concussion in contact and collision sports and combat the chronic underreporting of concussions by athletes (which a new study has just shown persists, despite increased education), we decided to beta test the Shockbox football helmet sensor (one of the sensors nearing market launch).

And we want marriages to last — some 86 percent of 18 - to 29 - year - olds, single and married, expect their marriage to last a lifetime, according to a recent study, despite a 50 percent divorce rate and despite a different study of newlywed women in which half said they expected infidelity would be part of their marriage and 72 percent said they'd probably experience divorce.

Of note, our models may underestimate the true maternal costs of suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and MOf note, our models may underestimate the true maternal costs of suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and Mof suboptimal breastfeeding; we modeled the effects of lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and Mof lactation on only five maternal health conditions despite data linking lactation with other maternal health outcomes.46 In addition, women in our model could not develop type 2 diabetes mellitus, hypertension, or MI before age 35 years, although these conditions are becoming increasingly prevalent among young adults.47 Although some studies have found an association between lactation and rates of postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and Mof postmenopausal diabetes22, 23 and cardiovascular disease, 10 we conservatively limited the duration of lactation's effect on both diabetes and Mof lactation's effect on both diabetes and MI.

A study of infants in England indicated that supine sleeping is not associated with an increase in significant morbidity outcomes, and the risk of respiratory problems was reduced compared with that of prone sleepers.17 In Asian countries, aspiration is not a problem despite the traditional practice of placing newborns to sleep in the supine position.18 The review by Malloy19 of US vital statistics mortality files for the years 1991 to 1996 showed no significant increase in the proportion of postneonatal mortality rate associated with aspiration, asphyxia, or respiratory failure.

Although infant sleeping practices have gotten safer over the last twenty years — 86 percent of babies slept with bedding in 1993 to 1995, compared with 55 percent in 2008 to 2010 — study authors found that the decline has slowed since 2000, and hazardous sleeping areas are still a widespread practice, despite doctor recommendations.

It collated results from a five - year study and a two - year study of 159 middle schools in Texas and found no statistically significant improvement in scores for English, maths, science or social studies, despite a # 3,000 bonus being offered to successful teachers.

The long - running British Election Study, which has followed a 30,000 - strong panel of voters over the past three years, found Labour picked up significant support from remain - minded voters, despite its ambiguous stance on what sort of Brexit deal to pursue.

One study by Slovic showed that when people decide to start smoking despite years of exposure to antismoking campaigns, they hardly ever think about the risks.

«Despite provisional licence holders in this study averaging a driving experience of more than two years, the detrimental effects of mobile phone distraction showed P - plate drivers had an increased probability of failing to detect a pedestrian.»

Despite various approaches and years of pre-clinical studies, effective, mechanism - based therapies to assist with cocaine abuse and dependence are still sorely lacking.

Despite years of talks on seabed mining, Bronwen Currie of Namibia's National Marine Information and Research Center in Swakopmund said that no adequate studies on the cumulative, long - term effects of the practice exist.

The study has found that Darwin's frogs are infected with the fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd), and despite an absence of obvious mortality researchers have noted population declines, leading them to believe that these infected populations are at a serious risk of extinction within 15 years of contracting the disease.

«Despite scattered evidence from years of study, we're still searching for the «smoking gun'that identifies the most important reservoir host species of Ebola,» says Kevin Olival, a researcher at the EcoHealth Alliance in New York City.

After a concussion, a person can be left with disturbed sleep, memory deficits and other cognitive problems for years, but a new study led by Rebecca Spencer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst suggests that despite these abnormalities, sleep still helps them to overcome memory deficits, and the benefit is Frontier in Human Neurosciequivalent to that seen in individuals without a history of mild traumatic brain injury (TBI), also known as concussion.

A study of house finches has demonstrated that in just 30 years, finches newly settled in Montana and Alabama begin to act quite different from each other, despite being close kin.

«Despite representing only 16 percent of the adult population, adults with mental health disorders receive more than half of all opioid prescriptions distributed each year in the United States,» said Matthew Davis, lead author of the study and assistant professor at the U-M School of Nursing.

Despite its small size, a galaxy 11.5 billion light - years from Earth was once a powerhouse of star formation, a new study suggests.

Despite this, the period of full - time study in the first year is «clearly a problem for most companies,» Hand concedes, but he goes on to explain that «we are, however, developing our courses in a distance - learning format.»

Despite the findings of these studies and others, the EPA did not update emission factors for the U.S. refinery and petrochemical sector until 2015, seven years after Houston had petitioned the agency to do so and two years after it was sued by environmental justice groups.

«This paper demonstrates that despite all of the advances made over the last 100 years, the experience of discrimination continues to be a significant problem for people with epilepsy,» said Dr. Victoria Nimmo - Smith, first author of the Epilepsia study.

Yet despite nearly 25 years of study, one question in particular has eluded themnamely, how do the larvae of these vent fauna disperse and colonize new vents, which can lie hundreds of kilometers away?

But despite 30 years of study, no one understood exactly how the pump worked.

«We estimate that about 1,700 lives are saved in the United States per year by bystanders using an AED,» said senior study author Myron Weisfeldt, M.D. «Unfortunately, not enough Americans know to look for AEDs in public locations, nor are they are trained on how to use them despite great and effective efforts of the American Heart Association.

Since scientists first decoded a draft of the human genome more than 15 years ago, many questions have lingered, two of which have been addressed in a major new study co-led by a Princeton University computer scientist: Is it possible, despite the complexity of billions of bits of genetic information and their variations between people, to develop a mechanistic model for how healthy bodies function?

The Human Placenta Project, launched last year by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) despite uncertainty over how much money would back in the effort, has just received a whopping $ 41.5 million in 2015 to study the vital mass of tissue that sustains a developing fetus.

Studies of infertility have tended to recruit research participants from medical settings such as general practice, so our population - based survey sample provides a rare insight into those people who, despite having failed to get pregnant after a year of trying, did not seek help from health services.

But despite earlier pollen analysis that pegged the movement of some tree species (that is, average advancement via seed dispersal) at about a kilometer per year after the last ice age, genetic studies have reduced that estimate to a pace closer to a tenth of a kilometer per year, Loarie says.

Despite increased awareness of lone - actor shootings, incidents of far - right, «lone - wolf» terrorism have been fewer in the past 10 years, according a new study by a terrorism researcher at the University of Arkansas.

(Phys.org)-- Despite the celebrations leading up to the New Year last week, progress in science marched on — a paper by molecular geneticist Edward Kipreos, with the University of Georgia, for example, describing a study...

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The new, long - term study suggests that animals have returned to the area and are even thriving despite 30 years of radiation exposure.

Despite a series of further proposed cuts to the space agency's planetary science budget in recent years by the White House, Congress has nevertheless been much more supportive of a Europa mission, appropriating more than $ 100 million during the same time period for the further development of a mission concept called the Europa Clipper, which is currently under study by NASA.

«Despite colder than average temperatures in any one part of the world, temperatures over the planet as a whole continue the rapid warming trend we've seen over the last 40 years,» said Gavin Schmidt, director of NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City, at the press conference.

According to Kenneth Glyn Jones, it was finally rediscovered by Julius Schmidt (1825 - 84) in 1866, but the present author [hf] could not yet verify this presumed rediscovery, despite studies e.g. of the Astronomische Nachrichten of that years.

A new study finds that despite declining rates of teen smoking and widespread bans on smoking in public places, 48 percent of middle - and high school students are exposed to secondhand smoke every year.