The proportion of sites in which no post-fire tree regrowth had taken place increased from 19 to 32 per cent when comparing
earlier years of the analysis to the more recent years The Independent, Dec 2017 The forest fires that have hit California this year could be causing lasting damage to the environment owing to climate change Getty Images A new...
Not exact matches
The Soufan Group, a strategic security firm that specializes in intelligence, law enforcement, and policy
analysis, wrote
earlier this
year that while the targets
of intelligence agencies and cyber criminal networks «are usually very different,» Russia has «increasingly blurred the lines between cyber-espionage and cyber crime in an unprecedented manner.»
An
analysis of Nielsen data that Heineken conducted
earlier this
year revealed that U.S. households bought an average
of 12 different kinds
of beer in the last
year, proving that Dos Equis would need to work harder to make sure its bottles are among them.
He spent four
years in the research department
of The Bank
of Canada in the
early 1960's working in the areas
of monetary and economic
analysis.
With 4.3 million millennials turning 30 this
year and the number set to jump to 4.6 million by 2020, there will soon be more adults in their
early 30s than at any other time in U.S. history, according to an
analysis of U.S. Census data by Wells Fargo.
Earlier this month, social science researchers published an
analysis of mortality data from the Puerto Rico Vital Statistics System to compare the historical death averages for September and October to deaths this
year.
Although most
analysis of Social Security benefits assumes that you'll value the money you receive
early in retirement only slightly more than the benefits you'll get
years down the line, many people expect to get the most out
of retirement in the
years from 62 to 70.
However, we are continuing our
analysis of the magnitude
of the impacts, and we will publish revised
year - end targets in another report early in the New Y
year - end targets in another report
early in the New
YearYear.
And white evangelical Protestants, the base
of the Christian Right, are roughly five times more likely to agree with the Tea Party movement than to disagree with it, according to a Pew survey
analysis released
earlier this
year.
The future
of M&A for Constellation Brands -
Analysis Earlier this
year, the rumour mill went into overdrive when a CNBC report suggested Constellation Brands had... read more
Early signs
of this shift have been identified by recent Austrade
analysis of the 3
years to 2016 which showed that for the first time in Australia's history value - added foods have accounted for the majority (60 %)
of food export growth.
The findings around non-alcoholic consumption trends from the Australian Health Survey are also consistent with the beverage trends
analysis of the last 15 years1, released
earlier this
year.
Analysis by the Commonwealth Bank
earlier this
year said that Chinese percapita consumption
of milk, butter and whole - milk powders has been growing at 5 per cent a
year since 2010.
For the 2017 - 18 season Sky has drawn an average
of 819,000 TV viewers per match, an 8 % over a
year earlier, according to data from Enders
Analysis.
Earlier this
year, it hired consultant SmithGroupJJR for $ 45,000 to perform an
analysis of the existing infrastructure.
Most studies
of homebirth in other countries have found no statistically significant differences in perinatal outcomes between home and hospital births for women at low risk
of complications.36, 37,39 However, a recent study in the United States showed poorer neonatal outcomes for births occurring at home or in birth centres.40 A meta -
analysis in the same
year demonstrated higher perinatal mortality associated with homebirth41 but has been strongly criticised on methodological grounds.5, 42 The Birthplace in England study, 43 the largest prospective cohort study on place
of birth for women at low risk
of complications, analysed a composite outcome, which included stillbirth and
early neonatal death among other serious morbidity.
Meta -
analyses of this expanded research base confirm the model's impacts on a range
of risk and protective factors associated with child maltreatment.7, 8,9 In addition, all
of the major home visitation models in the U.S. are currently engaged in a variety
of research activities, many
of which are resulting in better defined models and more rigorous attention to the key issue
of participant enrolment and retention, staff training and quality assurance standards.10 For example, recent findings emerging from the initial two -
year follow - up
of the
Early Head Start National Demonstration Project confirm the efficacy
of home visitation programs with new parents.
Mediators, moderators, and predictors
of 1 -
year outcomes among children treated for
early - onset conduct problems: a latent growth curve
analysis
However
analysis by Full Fact
earlier this
year put the cost
of deliberate health tourism at most between # 110 and # 280 million.
Mark - Viverito commissioned an
analysis earlier this
year on the potential price
of deporting undocumented immigrants and prohibiting Muslims from entering the country — which found they could cost the city and the state $ 800 million in tax revenue and bring about a decrease
of 340,000 jobs.
Nineteen
of the biggest donors to the G.O.P. in the
early part
of the decade gave nothing to members
of either party in recent
years, the
analysis showed.
A newly published
analysis of the bones
of Bunostegos akokanensis, a 260 - million -
year - old pre-reptile, finds that it likely stood upright on all - fours, like a cow or a hippo, making it the
earliest known creature to do so.
To save 10,000 lives through
early detection
of tumors, one
analysis found, 19 million women in their 40s would have to be screened over 10
years.
Earlier this
year, NRDC put together an
analysis quantifying the benefits
of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from U.S. power plants.
'» And at the Dwight Look College
of Engineering at Texas A&M University, College Station, every proposal by anyone doing research, from undergraduates through senior professors, must include a hazard
analysis that is approved by the college's director
of engineering safety, David Breeding, as I reported
earlier this
year.
First Farmers (Middle East and Europe 3,000 - 14,000
years ago)
Analyses of hundreds
of genomes show how
early Middle Eastern farmers spread to Europe, mixed with hunter - gatherers and adapted to agricultural diets, including through a lactase gene mutation that allowed people to drink milk after childhood.
I am suggesting, rather, that it would be a good thing if that event were to motivate some self -
analysis within our community about whether we're paying as much attention as we should be to the psychological well - being
of science trainees and
early - career scientists, from the undergraduate
years through the postdoc and beyond.
Early farmers brought domesticated cats with them into Europe from the Middle East by 6,400
years ago,
analysis of cat remains suggests.
Instead, phylogenetic
analysis shows Przewalski's horses are feral, descended from the
earliest - known instance
of horse domestication by the Botai people
of northern Kazakhstan some 5,500
years ago.
The
analysis confirms the conclusion reached in an
earlier study, which dated the origin
of animals to the Neoproterozoic Era, which lasted from 1000 to 540 million
years ago.
An
analysis of more than 200,000 medical professionals followed for nearly 30
years finds that drinking up to five cups
of coffee a day is associated with reduced risk
of dying
early from heart and brain diseases as well as suicide.
Studies published
earlier this
year tackle that question, first with a survey
of social scientists and then with an
analysis of recently published papers.
«An in - depth
analysis of a piece
of shit: distribution
of Schistosoma mansoni and hookworm eggs in human stool» generated huge altmetrics scores when it was published in PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases
earlier this
year.
«Scientists discover oldest known modern human fossil outside
of Africa:
Analysis of fossil suggests Homo sapiens left Africa at least 50,000
years earlier than previously thought.»
Earlier this
year an
analysis of mitochondrial DNA conducted by researchers in the United States, Japan, and Taiwan estimated that the first anglerfish appeared about 160 million
years ago, during the Jurassic Period, and quickly diversified as they spread into habitats ranging from shallow waters to the continental shelves to the harsh deeps.
Analysis of a wealth
of new data contradicts an
earlier claim that LB1, an ~ 80,000
year old fossil skeleton from the Indonesian island
of Flores, had Down syndrome, and further confirms its status as a fossil human species, Homo floresiensis.
The new data, based on the
analysis of fossils and specimens from 80 fossil beds and locations spanning 300 million
years, imply an
early start to the human - dominated era.
A new
analysis led by seismologists at UC Santa Cruz, published August 9 in Science Advances, found that the probability
of moderate earthquakes this
year in the affected areas
of Oklahoma is two times higher than was suggested by an
earlier analysis.
While this is a significant achievement, we need to wait until later this
year when the final
analysis of the trial is completed to know whether the cancers detected through screening were caught
early enough to save lives.»
The
analysis produced a genetic match between a female whale observed and sampled off the coast
of southern Chile in the Austral summer
of 2006; it turned out the same whale sampled the waters
of the Galapagos eight
years earlier by NOAA scientists.
The studies»
analysis of sedimentary layers deposited with
early terrestrial vertebrate fossils established that portions
of our distant ancestors» environment dried out seasonally, but
year - round much
of it was, yep, a swamp.
The MOA survey is still ongoing, and according to Bennett the team is presently assembling a new
analysis of its latest data that could be published as
early as next
year.
Story number 2: Historians have dated Caesar's invasion
of Britain to August 26th and 27th in the
year 55 BC, but a new
analysis by astronomers shows that the actual invasion dates had to be
earlier.
An
analysis of temperature through
early Earth's history, published the week
of April 2 in the Proceedings
of the National Academy
of Sciences, supports more moderate average temperatures throughout the billions
of years when life slowly emerged on Earth.
Given the number
of genomes studied and the sophisticated
analysis used, the date for when the species diverges is «the best estimate
of what we've gotten so far, and it makes sense,» says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, whose
earlier work also suggested these bears split less than a million
years ago.
To remove any doubt, the researchers conducted a second
analysis of the blood samples taken seven
years earlier from the patients.
«The current
analyses reported here were performed to update the
earlier evaluation by expanding the diagnosis
years from 2004 to 2011, and including data on 100 percent
of the Appalachian and non-Appalachian populations,» Wilson said.
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.
Based on this new fossil evidence and
analysis, the team suggests that the human branch
of the tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million
years ago — at least 2 million
years earlier than previously claimed.
An ethical storm hit the University
of California, Berkeley,
earlier this
year after it invited more than 5,000 incoming students to receive a personal genetic
analysis of three genes associated with how they metabolize lactose, alcohol and folic acid.