Sentences with phrase «especially during the last decade»

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To make his case, Jasanoff offers an extensive yet entertaining review of the schools of thought and representations of the brain in the media that led to the rise of the cerebral mystique, especially during the last few decades.

Admittedly, both the Bryk and Powell studies were conducted during the waning decades of the last century, and much has changed, especially the electronic revolution that has produced computers, cell phones, and Internet games.

The positive trends in scores, especially for mathematics, during the first few years of the 21st century have leveled off and the scores are roughly the same as they were a decade ago, though we haven't lost the gains from that last boost.

Lenders learned the hard way during the last decade that when you have high loan to value mortgages especially those with zero down - payment the chances of people letting the mortgage go into foreclosure is very high.

This paper shows that momentum - based strategies have exhibited high excess returns during the last several decades, especially in December and January.

The recent run follows several rocky periods over the last decade, especially during the tech boom of the late»90s when value stocks fell out of favor, and more recently during the energy bonanza when Oak Value had nothing in the sector.

Since the Museum's acquisition of Tanner's painting The Annunciation in 1899, its collections of African American art have grown significantly, especially during the last three decades.

«During the last three decades there has been a marked change in the climate of the Arctic which is being felt throughout the northern hemisphere where, especially, the mean temperature of the winters has increased considerably.

Most of this rise comes from warming of the world's oceans and melting of mountain glaciers, which have receded dramatically in many places especially during the last few decades.

The fact that the tree ring analysis diverges from the known temperature during the last decades is a big CLUE about how useless the data is especially since the additional CO2 would have increased growth all other factors being the same.