Sentences with phrase «first decade of the study»

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In the first decade of the century, the large integrated oil companies traded at an average discount of between 11 % and 12 % compared to their pure - play competitors, according to a study conducted at the time by Citi Investment Research and Analysis.

That remains a lofty hurdle in a field where it can take decades of research and development before a team can enrol its first study participant.

«Historically, the bill for these costs has come due many decades later,» Bilmes noted in a recent study, disability expenses for WW I veterans peaked in 1969 and for WW II veterans in the late 1980s, the cost of caring for Vietnam and first Gulf War veterans is still climbing.

The study finds that regardless of how much Americans had saved, on a median basis, they had spent at the most less than 30 percent of their assets within the first couple of decades of retirement.

That may come as a surprise amid hand - wringing about the spiraling cost of health care, but two new studies, one from research company IMS Health and one from pharmacy benefit manager Express Scripts, show that the amount of money Americans spend on prescription drugs went down in 2012 for the first time in decades.

The 61 - year - old billionaire entrepreneur is a first - ballot entrant in the CEO Hall of Fame, and will be a shoe - in B - School case study for decades to come.

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(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

The first two of these studies were published roughly a decade apart: Robert L. Kelly's Theological Education in America in 1924 and William Adams Brown and Mark A. May's four - volume study The Education of American Ministers in 1935.3 A major purpose of both studies was fact - finding.

«I have been studying nutrition very carefully for more than a decade now and one of the things I have become convinced of is that white rice cereal can predispose to childhood obesity,» says Dr. Alan Greene, a pediatrician at Stanford University, who says that despite the wide - held belief that white rice cereal is a good choice for first foods, he disagrees.

While some studies have looked at outcomes much later in life, this new study is the first to assess how breastfeeding affects markers of heart health in younger and middle - aged women, about a decade after having children.

Given the results of a a new study reported in the British medical journal, The Lancet4 that children and young adults scanned multiple times by CT have a small increased risk of leukemia and brain tumors in the decade following their first scan, parents should make sure a CT scan is really necessary in treatment of their child after head injury.

To mark, and celebrate, its first decade of path - breaking work the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation (CSGR) is convening a major international conference on building legitimate authority in global and regional governance in cooperation with GARNET, the EU - funded Network of Excellence on Global Governance, Regionalisation and Regulation: The Role of the EU.

The first of these pathways, marine ice sheet instability, has been studied for decades, but the second, marine ice cliff instability, has only recently been considered as an important contributor to future sea level change.

In 1990 Rick Strassman, a psychiatrist at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, got federal clearance to do the first psychedelic studies on humans in nearly two decades.

Studies of the superhot material, first done about a decade ago, have revealed QGP is the hottest, least viscous known liquid and is capable of forming the smallest drop of liquid ever seen.

A deeper dive into the media coverage found that depictions of mass shootings by individuals with mental illness increased over the course of the study period, from nine percent of all news stories in the first decade to 22 percent in the second decade.

Previous research has suggested a connection between coal - burning and the Sahel drought, but this was the first study that used decades of historical observations to find that this drought was part of a global shift in tropical rainfall, and then used multiple climate models to determine why.

For Robert Smith, a long - time Yellowstone researcher and distinguished research professor of geology and geophysics, the study is the culmination of more than a decade of planning and comes as he celebrates his 60th year working in America's first national park.

3BP, part of a class of compounds known as small molecule drugs, was first studied as an anti-cancer agent more than a decade ago at Johns Hopkins by biochemists Young Hee Ko and Peter Pedersen, together with radiologist Jeff Geschwind.

The study, published by the journal Science via First Release on April 12, paves the way for determining the structures of other functional states of the ATP synthase, which has been the subject of structural studies for decades in labs across the globe.

Ding has been studying antiviral RNAi for more than two decades and also was the first to describe the action of the influenza virus protein NS1 in blocking RNAi in fruit flies.

«Direct and regular observation of plasma by satellites started after the late 1960s — almost a decade after the first human - made satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched in 1957,» explains Masahito Nosé, an author of the study.

That's the conclusion of a new study, the first to show that human activities can disrupt the social skills of large - brained mammals that live in complex societies for decades.

But Le Maho observed that although most of the mortality among banded birds occurred in the first 5 years of the study, the effects on foraging lasted for a full decade.

Two decades ago he contributed to the first federally funded report on the relationship of diet to cancer, an influential study that helped establish the nutritional importance of grains, fruits, and vegetables.

Fiscal year 2004 saw total state higher education funding fall by 2.1 %, the first overall decline in more than a decade, according to an annual survey by Illinois State University's Center for the Study of Education Policy.

It was just a decade ago that Hariri and colleagues at the National Institutes of Health published what is widely considered the first study linking a particular gene to how our brains work.

«This is the first demonstration of a shared brain - machine interface, a paradigm that has been translated successfully over the past decades from studies in animals all the way to clinical applications,» said Miguel Nicolelis, M.D., Ph. D., co-director of the Center for Neuroengineering at the Duke University School of Medicine and principal investigator for the study.

Even within the field of psychology, the topic of humor has been studied using many different approaches, and although the last two decades have seen an upswing of the application of quantum models to the study of psychological phenomena, this is the first time that a quantum theory approach has been suggested as a way to better understand the complexity of humor.

The study, published today in JAMA Psychiatry, is the first to track IQ scores and cognitive abilities throughout the entire first two decades of life among individuals who develop psychotic disorders in adulthood.

«This is the first research to show that declines in tree growth during a drought can significantly reduce long - term tree survival in Southeastern forests for up to a decade after the drought ends,» said Aaron Berdanier, a Ph.D. student in forest ecology at Duke's Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study

Scientific studies of the bones will continue over the next decades, providing one of the first and possibly the biggest samples of research on an early Mediterranean population ever undertaken.

«Drug treatments for schizophrenia have barely changed over the past few decades, as they still target dopamine receptors,» says study co-author Dr Andrew McQuillin, head of the UCL Molecular Psychiatry team that first discovered GRM3.

While it has been known for over a decade that Asian pollution contributes to ozone levels in the United States, this study is one of the first to categorize the extent to which rising Asian emissions contribute to U.S. ozone, according to Lin.

But a new study of centuries - old tree core samples indicates an abrupt turn of the weather around the first decade of the 13th century.

Two new studies, published in The Lancet, reveal for the first time how health in different regions of China has changed in recent decades.

«Our primary question is how the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in August.

The results of the first study using a health economics model to project osteoporosis - related fractures and costs for the Chinese population, shows that the country's healthcare system will face a dramatic rise in costs over the next few decades.

«Over the first decade of the 21st century, firearms ranked second only to motor vehicles as a cause of death for children and teenagers — Americans ages 1 to 19 — considered as a group,» said Garen Wintemute, M.D., M.P.H., the study's senior author and director of the Violence Prevention Research Program at the University of California, Davis.

For decades, there have been studies suggesting that human babies are capable of imitating facial gestures, hand gestures, facial expressions, or vocal sounds right from their first weeks of life after birth.

The UW study is the first peer - reviewed research in decades to look at the arsenic content of American wines.

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.

According to the study, published in the International Glaciological Society's Journal of Glaciology, the first decade of the twenty - first century witnessed a «historically unprecedented» rate of glacial ice melt.

According to a new study, published in the International Glaciological Society's Journal of Glaciology, the first decade of the twenty - first century witnessed a «historically unprecedented» rate of glacial ice melt.

Recent studies have revealed the existence of a long asymptomatic phase, where the pathological changes leading to AD begin — at least - decades before the first symptoms of cognitive decline appear [2 — 4].

In the first decades of the 20th century, American scientists studying and working overseas outnumbered foreign scientists working in the United States.

For the first two decades of developing techniques to study what we call «ancient DNA» (the DNA of dead and fossil remains) we only obtained fragments of genetic material.

They conclude, based on study of CMIP5 model output, that equilibrium climate sensitivity (ECS) is not a fixed quantity — as temperatures increase, the response is nonlinear, with a smaller effective ECS in the first decades of the experiments, increasing over time.

«For our study, we reviewed the 45 - year history of Rhipicephalus models developed first in Australia, a decade later in North and South America and then still later in Africa,» he said.