Sentences with phrase «first scientific studies»

In fact one of the first scientific studies highlighting the importance of reinforcement in animal behavior was done with cats.

The first scientific study was initiated in 1886 by Glasgow surgeon Thomas Barr.

A world - first scientific study has found that, weakened by microscopic borers, the world's coral reefs will erode more rapidly as the oceans warm and acidify.

But it wasn't until 1981 that the first scientific study formally confirmed fibromyalgia symptoms and tender points in the body.

It's the first scientific study of performance pay conducted in the United States.

The study — being billed as the first scientific study in the U.S. of teacher performance pay — is only the latest blow to merit pay, which the Obama administration continues to advocate as part of its education reform strategy.

This was the first scientific study of its kind in the US, and it sought to answer if merit pay alone, independent of other resources and support, increased student achievement as measured by test scores.

Originally published in 1934, this is the first scientific study to attempt to understand how to breed dogs, primarily German Shepherds, of superior intelligence, disposition, and physique for use in a wide variety of working dog capacities.

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So please, let us deal with empirical research first before we inject the supernatural and the metaphysical into true scientific study.

For example, books reviewed in the first months of 1910 included Herbert Croly's The Promise of American Life; Education in the Far East, by Charles F. Thwing; a philosophical study titled Religion and the Modern Mind, by Frank Carleton Doan; Jane Addams's The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets; The Immigrant Tide, by Edward Steiner; Medical Inspectors of Schools (a Russel Sage Foundation study); A. Modern City (a scientific study of that phenomenon), by William Kirk; The Leading Facts of American History, by D. H. Montgomery; and Jack London's collection of short stories, Lost Face.

He followed his translation of the Qur» an with a work on the principles of Quranic exegesis, the first attempt made at the scientific study of the Qur» an.

What a furor was created when first, under the influence of the scientific spirit of the times, men began to study the Bible critically just like any other book.

Historically, he contends that a truly scientific study of religion first emerged, with great intellectual promise, in the closing years of the 19th century It was shaped by pioneering figures like F. Max Muller in England, C. P. Tiele and P. D. Chantepie de la Saussaye in the Netherlands, and Morris Jastrow in the United States.

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In his The Scientific Study of Religion, [1970, 17] he says, «I am inclined to say, Look for rituals first, then for the beliefs connected with them; there you will find the operating religion of an individual or group.»

This is the first time scientific research has given an accurate picture of the long - term soil carbon storage on organic versus conventional farms throughout the U.S., since most studies focus on individual farms or total soil organic carbon.

In this first - ever SAN / Rainforest Alliance Impacts Report, we summarize the effects of SAN / Rainforest Alliance farmer training and certification through an exhaustive review of nearly two dozen scientific studies and the audit data from over 200 certified farms and farmer groups.

Late last year, scientists at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) in Australia published the first study on this issue.

«A new scientific study within the Champions League last year found that, more than ever, the team who scores first wins.

Anyway, all these years later, a June 2011 scientific research study commissioned by the LA84 Foundation, one of the largest funders of youth sports in America, has proven that my Dip - N - Rip - Sticks Tackle Training Technique lowers helmet - first impact by 43 % compared to the traditional tackling technique.

Studies about the lasting importance of a child's experiences in the first three years of life, once relegated to scientific or academic journals, are now fueling a broad national conversation about what this growing body of research means for families and communities across the country.

Studies done by the Touch Research Institute in Miami, the first scientific center to study the biology of touch and its effects on health and development, have shown that premature infants who are massaged for 15 minutes three times a day gain more weight and are able to be released from the hospital sooner than those who are not massaged.

The Management of Reflux in the First Year by Anke Tillman September 2015 Physiology (/ ˌfɪziˈɒlədʒi /; from Ancient Greek φύσις (physis), meaning «nature, origin», and - λογία -LRB-- logia), meaning «study of» [1]-RRB- is the scientific study of the normal function in living systems.

Recognizing the important information in scientific studies of infant sleep, this is the first book I have seen that translated many of these insights into a usable form for parents.

In his annual State of the State address, Governor Cuomo said New York State will examine the legalization of marijuana by first conducting a scientific study on...

Charles Merriam, a longtime professor of political science at the University of Chicago and political activist in the first half of the 20th century, developed a new «scientific» study of politics that served the Progressive cause.

Research, published in Scientific Reports, conducted by Professor Yin Xiao, from QUT's Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation and his team, in collaboration with Professor Lindsay Brown and his team at University of Southern Queensland, is possibly the first study to investigate the association between osteoarthritis and common dietary fatty acids.

Their paper, which was published in the scientific journal BMC Ecology, is the first behavioral study worldwide showing the interaction of two invasive species in the context of the decline of native species.

This study gets us closer to understanding the complex food webs that are vital in nutrient dynamics and overall soil fertility,» said study first author Tami Swenson, a scientific engineering associate in Northen's group within the Berkeley Lab Biosciences Area's Environmental Genomics and Systems Biology (EGSB) Division.

In 1969, when the AAAS Board first suggested creating a special committee to draw up a statement concerning the freedom and responsibilities of scientists, association leaders, along with a number of other scientific societies, were looking into allegations that the Public Health Service was rejecting the appointment of scientists to study sections based upon the candidates» political views and affiliations.

Needing to write a thesis in the late 1970s for his doctorate in dentistry at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Szyf approached a young biochemistry professor named Aharon Razin, who had recently made a splash by publishing his first few studies in some of the world's top scientific journals.

Scientists from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH) form part of the team which has just published a paper in the journal Scientific Reports, studying for the first time the original fossil remains conserved of «Peking Man.»

A paper first - authored by Judith Curry, Chair of the School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, is a case study of the impact of politics, the media, and the Internet on the scientific process.

In a series of case studies, Meyers analyzes how credit has been doled out in major scientific discoveries, including the creation of MRI and the development of streptomycin, the first antibiotic against tuberculosis.

The study is one of the first to test if the «landscape of fear» model, a scientific theory that has been used to explain how animals move and interact with the environment based on their fear of being attacked by their predators, is applicable to large open marine systems involving wide - ranging species, like sharks and turtles.

A team of researchers led by Rodrigo Lacruz, MSc, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Basic Science and Craniofacial Biology at NYU College of Dentistry, has published a paper in Scientific Reports (5:15803) titled «Dental enamel cells express functional SOCE channels,» which reports the results of a study showing for the first time the mechanism of calcium transport essential in the formation of dental enamel.

For Dr. Christophe Dufresnes from the University of Lausanne, first author of the common study just published in Scientific Reports, this «suggests that the undifferentiated sex chromosomes in these tree frogs contribute more to the evolution of new species than other, normal chromosomes.»

Even though Hayflick's discoveries went against accepted scientific dogma — «I was the first one to show that aging had its origins inside the cell,» he now says — they ultimately sparked an explosion in the study of aging.

«The study's findings provide clear scientific evidence supporting low - sodium diets to reduce the rate of heart disease among people with diabetes,» said the study's first author, Chika Horikawa, RD, MSc, CDE, of the University of Niigata Prefecture in Niigata, Japan.

The Dutch Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) today announced the scheme's first nine grantees; all of them plan to replicate a study that had a major impact in their field but also raised questions — or eyebrows — for some reason.

In 2010 the National Science Foundation teamed up with the University of Michigan to create the first CubeSat with any scientific purpose: studying the effect of space weather on radio transmissions or GPS.

Going off of old studies in the scientific literature, TLC first investigated Auranofin, a drug originally used for rheumatoid arthritis.

In order to study the entire fossil, the scientific team first digitally scanned it with X-rays to the highest possible resolution, at the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble, France.

That is among the conclusions in a new study testing the importance of «first arrival» in controlling adaptive radiation of species, a hypothesis famously proposed for «Darwin's Finches,» birds from the Galapagos Islands that were first brought to scientific attention by Darwin.

The study — published in Scientific Reports — was the first to challenge a growing trend among cognitive psychologists over the past 20 years that has attempted to show that believing in the supernatural is something that comes to us «naturally» or intuitively.

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd has been the first to publish a scientific study on the successful generation of hybrid lager yeasts.

While there is extensive literature on sexual harassment and assault in scientific settings like hospitals and college campuses, this is the first study to examine it on scientific field studies.

In the Scientific Reports study, researchers first performed the largest meta - analysis of the vestibular schwannoma transcriptome by studying 80 tumors from patients with sporadic and NF2 - associated vestibular schwannomas.

Mr Gore says: «A new scientific study shows that for the first time they are finding polar bears that have actually drowned swimming long distances up to 60 miles to find the ice.

The study, which is the first comprehensive assessment of protected areas coverage on marine life, appears in the international journal Scientific Reports.