Sentences with phrase «dozen years studying»

An ichthyologist who had spent a half - dozen years studying cichlids of the Great Lakes of Africa in the mid 1970s, Glen had briefly worked for his father and uncle over a decade earlier, but left to start his own business.

Lo's laboratory has for more than a dozen years studied immune responses in the gut and airways, focusing particularly on cells which function as an early warning in the immune system.

Not exact matches

In the two years I've been writing about open - plan offices, I've read dozens of scientific studies on the subject, all of which point out that they're a productivity disaster.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

Finding a way to save faith, and face, is part of the process when a prophecy fails, said Lorenzo DiTommaso, an associate professor of religion at Concordia University in Montreal, who has been studying apocalyptic worldviews for a dozen years.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

Trigg is co-director of the three - year Oxford - based project, which incorporated more than 40 different studies by dozens of researchers looking at countries from China to Poland and the United States to Micronesia.

He worked as a pastor for two years at Christian Fellowship Church in Geneseo, N.Y., before he was transferred in 1978 to Arlington Heights, where he became pastor to a dozen families who gathered every Sunday in his home for fellowship and Bible study.

The Federal Aviation Administration established the center in 2004 under a Congressional directive to study air quality problems in airline cabins in the wake of the previous year's severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak in Asia, which later spread to more than two dozen countries in North America, South America and Europe.

This is believed to be the first study to use a rigorous nutritional analysis to evaluate healthfulness of food and drinks marketed by music stars, reviewing dozens of advertisements that were disseminated over a 14 - year period.

Dozens of studies have examined the genetics of the first European farmers, who emigrated from the Middle East beginning some 8,000 years ago, but the hot climes of the Fertile Crescent had made it difficult to obtain ancient DNA from remains found there.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

Last year, Jaramillo and a dozen co-authors studied four factory - scale production schemes in an article for The Royal Society of Chemistry's journal of Energy and Environmental Science.

Yet over the years, she has published dozens of studies revealing the beneficial actions of nicotine within the mammalian brain.

In a new study researchers tracked the movements and interactions of New Zealand's false killer whales from a few dozen sightings spread over 17 years.

«The influenza field is largely fixated on studying pandemic or potential pandemic viruses, but those viruses only infect a few dozen people every year whereas seasonal flu infects millions — and yet we don't study human influenzas closely enough.»

One of the main arguments in the piece comes from a study that calculated pesticide exposure on conventionally grown fruits and vegetables on the notorious «dirty dozen» list put out by the Environmental Working Group each year.

Psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists and sociologists are all parsing the roots of aggressive and angry driving, and dozens of studies have been published in the last couple of years.

To deal with this poverty of riches, Ioannidis proposes that researchers cooperate more to confirm one another's findings Toward that end, he and other genetics researchers two years ago established a network of research consortia now consisting of 26 groups, he says, each with a dozen to hundreds of members, for investigators studying various cancers, HIV, Parkinson's disease and other disorders.

Twelve years ago, about a dozen research groups from around the world announced that they had evidence for a lighter pentaquark known as theta - plus, but more detailed studies showed that all of the claims were illusory.

In Meir's most recent study, described in Accident Analysis & Prevention, two dozen seven - to nine - year - olds underwent 40 minutes of hazard - detection training.

In three separate large analyses published between 2015 and this year, researchers at the University of Sydney and their colleagues compared evidence from dozens of studies to determine how well various pharmaceutical options assuage back pain and found all the drugs lacking.

Three dozen 2 - year - olds were randomly assigned to learn new verbs in one of three ways: training with a live person, training through video chat technology such as Skype that allows audio and video interaction via screen between users at different locations, and watching a prerecorded video of the same person instructing a different child who was off screen and thus out of synch with the child in the study.

The report — the second such annual report — analyzes the findings from about 20 scientific studies of a dozen or so extreme weather events that occurred around the world last year, seeking to parse the relative influence of anthropogenic climate change.

«Two years after the tragedy in Newtown, our study of public support for two dozen specific gun policies found a large majority of Americans continue to favor a range of gun - safety policies,» says lead study author Colleen Barry, PhD, MPP, an associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Avian influenza virus H7N9, which killed several dozen people in China earlier this year, has not yet acquired the changes needed to infect humans easily, according to a new study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

Becker, along with two dozen — odd scientists, is studying a thin 12,900 - year - old geologic layer across North America that she believes holds the legacy of a major extraterrestrial impact roughly half the size of the one that killed the dinosaurs.

The new study is one of more than a dozen papers authored or co-authored by CU - Boulder researchers published in the past several years on human microbiomes.

Although physicists have been studying the corona's changes for 150 years, that's still only a dozen or so solar cycles» worth of data.

In the new study, Charles Hailey, an astrophysicist at Columbia University, and his colleagues scrutinized the past dozen years of data gathered by the Chandra X-ray Observatory, an orbiting craft whose instruments are designed to detect high - energy radiation emitted by the immensely hot material surrounding exploded stars and near black holes.

Kipping and his colleagues, including lead author Guillermo Torres and Francois Fressin, set out a year - and - a-half ago to study a list of a dozen objects observed by NASA's Kepler spacecraft to determine whether they were genuine planets and whether they might be inhabitable.

LA JOLLA, CA — December 5, 2013 — Avian influenza virus H7N9, which killed several dozen people in China earlier this year, has not yet acquired the changes needed to infect humans easily, according to a new study by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI).

In the years since, there have been dozens more studies, but roughly half have failed to reproduce the same findings, says Michael Pollak, an oncologist and professor at McGill University.

Let's say a food has sustained human life for thousands of years, and dozens or even hundreds of studies show it to be dramatically cancer preventative.

Dozens of studies over the past few years have examined the purported benefits of eating like our ancestors, many with promising results.

The Sinclair paper documents, in detail, that between 1855 and through the mid-20th century — over 100 years and covering more than a dozen scientific studies — the Inuit consumed a diet very high in protein, high in fat and low in carbohydrates with no detectable ketosis found or expected.

video Apple Skin: Peeling Back Cancer, within the last year half a dozen studies have touted the benefits of apple peels.

I started getting serious with treating psoriasis patients in the early 1990's, and began to develop my own methods over a period of several years after studying over two dozen books on psoriasis.

The study looks at 11 years of the Sundance Film Festival and the Sundance Labs, analyzing more than 30,000 points of data and dozens of deep - dive qualitative interviews.

A half - dozen years earlier in Washington, D.C., Cardinal Hickey had appointed a commission to study the problems confronting his diocese's inner - city schools.

The book resonates with me, since I have been studying Italian for about a dozen years now, mostly through classes that have by now evolved into weekly two - hour conversations with a private tutor — a fast talker from Turin who forces me to keep up with her onrushing molto veloce patter.

This is a remarkable document, covering in extensive detail the design and results of dozens of charter school studies from recent years.

Excited about the success of its experiment, Match created a model for hiring dozens of college students — «work - study» tutors — for the 2002 — 03 and 2003 — 04 school years.

«In the last five years,» he added, «there have been dozens of new studies of adolescent brain development.

To prepare them, over a two - year period nearly four dozen so - called CLAS teachers — Certificated Learning and Achievement Specialists — on special assignment helped coach teachers on all aspects of Common Core implementation, including performance tasks in every unit of study.

Released in 2009, the report is built on one year of study with six education groups and more than three dozen community leaders.

The new initiative grew out of The Wallace Foundation's years of work in youth development, including a dozen - year effort to encourage citywide coordination for afterschool that yielded more than 40 publications and found, according to a study by RAND, «that organizations across cities could work together toward increasing access, quality, data - based decision making and sustainability.»

A Baker's Dozen of Years Applying All Four Aspects of the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth (SMPY).

Updated earlier this year, this summary of dozens of research studies was created to help graduate students, education scholars, professional development leaders, practitioners, and facilitators navigate the landscape of scholarship about effective professional development activities, policies, and structures that contribute to a system of professional learning.

An architect for 25 years, the Valley High School graduate who studied his craft at the University of Utah has worked on the design and redesign of dozens of schools within the Clark County School District.