Sentences with phrase «great little study»

Now here's a summary of a great little study done by Derek Partington on the intermittency of wind power in the UK.

This is a great little study from Bulgaria, where researchers were trying to tease out the possible causes behind metabolic syndrome, the collection of symptoms that includes obesity, insulin resistance, high LDL cholesterol and triglycerides, and an increased risk of diabetes and heart disease.

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Lyubomirsky recently spoke to the newsletter of Greater Good, a science center at UC Berkeley that studies well - being and positive psychology, laying out what the newsletter calls «the little details you should consider before undertaking happiness activities.»

But great artists through the ages didn't need studies to tell them about the benefits of a little strategic disorder.

I would surmise that the great majority of people around the world have little clue as to how deeply and thoroughly the banking class has studied the above compliance experiments to gain a full understanding of how they can shape and mold our behavior when it comes to the financial decisions we execute.

It is written by a Ceylonese anthropologist, Gananath Obeyesekere, and is one of the best explanations available of the relation between Buddhism and the customs of the country; it presents the Buddhism of the common people, not the Buddhism of the books: «The Great Tradition and the Little in the Perspective of Sinhalese Buddhism,» The Journal of Asian Studies, February 1963.

He advised fellow seminarists having a hard time studying in Communist times to sigh to God for greater understanding; he discovered God's will in each difficult moment; he shared with others when there was so very little to share.

«It can be a little bit challenging to learn about all these great products that we have, so it takes some effort to study up,» he says.

So for the first three days we read a great deal together, and spent a little time studying «A Midsummer Night's Dream».

There have been a great number of studies done on the benefits of this fairly simple activity and there are definitely enough benefits listed to warrant mom letting her little one do a little bit of tummy time on a daily basis.

I love co-sleeping - we all sleep better, wake up in loving embraces and generally the benefits outweigh the occasional kick in the heads or side... A great transition from sleeping with parents is to sleeping with sibs if there are any and they are willing... * pull out couches in study or den make for great little impromptu love nests.

She was a Farallon Island biologist where she studied Elephant Seals, Tufted Puffins, Brandt's Cormorants, Western Gulls, and even did a little Great White Shark work.

Two Shedd Aquarium researchers published a study in the Journal of Great Lakes Research last weekend on a little - known amphibian that resides in the Great Lakes region, the mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus), as part of a multi-year research project in partnership with Southern Illinois University's Department of Zoology, Center for Ecology, and Cooperative Wildlife Research Laboratory.

they get impatient with the scientists for not making up their minds, but in fact what they are reading is a condensed version of just one study that shows one thing, and they really ex-communicate it from the joy of it which is we know this little bit, it seems to indicate that if we find out a little bit more we get even [a] greater knowledge of it.

«Although the definition of underrepresented minority is evolving to reflect local and regional perspectives, findings from this study demonstrate that faculty who are underrepresented in medicine, relative to the general population, have seen little increase in absolute or percentage representation across all schools during this time period, while the prevalence of individuals of underrepresented minority status in the general population had increased to greater than 30 percent by 2010,» the authors write.

Recent studies are reassuring in showing that, overall, lab workers have little increased risk compared to anyone else, but particular hazards could pose a much greater risk.

And the situation should reach even greater parameters in fauna as biodiverse and as little studied as is the case of tropical forests,» suggests Montagud from the Cavanilles Institute.

Assuming the greatest pace of economic development with little regard for the environment, the study predicted that 1,101 species would be lost over the next century due to habitat loss alone, while just 64 would be lost to climate change alone.

While as little as a weekly serving of fish lowers risk of ischemic stroke, enjoying a daily serving omega -3-rich fish, such as scallops, provides significantly greater reduction in the risk of coronary heart disease than eating fish even as frequently as a couple of times a week, show the findings of a study published in the January 17, 2006 issue of Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association.

But other studies looking at appetite hormones like ghrelin and leptin suggest that the effects are similar: too little sleep = greater appetite relative to energy needs.

Because China Study II includes regions with a much greater degree of urbanization than the first China Study, some of the correlations are a little different.

According to a 2011 federal study into sodium and potassium intake, those at greatest risk of cardiovascular disease were those who got a combination of too much sodium along with too little potassium.11 According to Dr. Elena Kuklina, one of the lead authors of the study, potassium may neutralize the heart - damaging effects of salt.

They can sit around and eat a lot and gain very little and some even gain muscle as this Asian kid did in a study on YouTube from scientists in Great Britain.

In studies that we have seen on oleocanthol and other phenolic substances in EVOO, there is relatively little loss of its phenolic contents during the first three months of storage, but a greater percentage loss from 3 — 6 months.

While benefits are greatest with at least 3 servings daily, some studies show reduced risks from as little as one serving daily.

Though the dreams of her stern parents have their little girl studying at Oxford next year (and Jenny has the credentials and talent to see it through) her greatest joys come from listening to her Juliette Greco albums, as oppose to playing her cello, and speaking French instead of her dry school - book Latin.

It wasn't until some of the work of Einstein, a century ago, and some of the great people to follow on from him, that it was realised that light is quantised and made up of these little bundles of energy called photons - and the study of that is photonics.

This great little card sort is a must have for anyone studying why William won the Battle of Hastings in 1066.

The AIR study frequently criticizes American math texts for being an inch deep and a mile wide, covering a great range of topics with little time spent on developing the material, including mastery of math facts.

In the book, we talk about a variety of ways and we've studied a lot of great teachers who support the acquisition of vocabulary during the reading, whether it's through jotting a note or dropping in a definition or doing a little bit of practice during reading with a particular word.

This great little card sort exercise is designed to help students who are studying law and order in the American West.

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Whoever these individuals are, they should be alarmed by how little we know about the efficacy of various sets of materials, and all the more so given the handful of studies — including the one we describe here — showing great potential for more effective curriculum materials to improve student achievement.

This lesson is also a great way to sneak a little research and creative writing into your social studies curriculum!

A 2012 study by Tom Loveless of the left - leaning Brookings Institution argues that the Common Core will likely have «very little impact» on student achievement because state policies have little impact on what goes on in classrooms, which is likely to have a much greater impact on student learning, such as the quality of teaching.

Suffice to say that I rode across the marsh alone, and carried a loaded pistol with me; and upon arriving at dusk, I was admitted by a little bent man called Percy, who took me up the great staircase to my uncle's study and then vanished without a word.

That's a great way to get a Masters degree without taking too much time out of your career, but it can be a high - pressure way to study and looking for dissertation help online is one of the few ways to give yourself a little breathing space.

It's great to study something you think you're passionate about but if you can't find a job in your field, your education may have little practical value.

In a Duke University study, it was found that feeding cow tracheas (windpipes) with a little meat attached kept dogs teeth in great condition.

It's a little complex, but is a great example of how studies can be misinterpreted by those lacking the scientific background to understand them, and how they can be just plain misquoted to support a position that otherwise can't really be supported.

«To date there has been very little documentation in veterinary literature regarding the patterns of injury caused by humans harming an animal intentionally, and there is a need for greater awareness and knowledge,» says another author on the study, Emily McCobb, D.V.M, M.S., DACVAA, clinical assistant professor and director of the Shelter Medicine Program at Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University.

This little piece of nostalgia is awesome in the geekiest way possible but also makes a great lamp for a home office or study.

Studying at the New York Studio School, I have had the opportunity to clarify a great deal of ideas, and I have grown into a person who understands how little we know about art and sculpture.

When young Gilberto Zorio entered Turin's Accademia di Belle Arti in 1963 to study painting, little did he now that this Italian city would be praising him as one of its greatest and most achieving artists in a few decades.

[2] After acquiring Twombly's Three Studies from the Temeraire (1998 — 99), the Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales said, «Sometimes people need a little bit of help in recognising a great work of art that might be a bit unfamiliar.»

After acquiring Twombly's Three Studies from the Temeraire (1998 — 99), the Director of the Art Gallery of New South Wales said, «Sometimes people need a little bit of help in recognising a great work of art that might be a bit unfamiliar.»

A Newsdeeply story last month by Jane Braxton Little gives a great overview of lessons for California fire policy revealed by a study of 400 years in the history of human interference with wildfire cycles in the Sierra Nevada.

The study concluded with few details on which industries would grow to replace the coal industry, leaving little in the way of detail for those concerned with the economic implications of greater environmental regulation.

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Reliance can not be placed on paleoclimate proxy - based estimates of ECS — the AR4 WG1 report concluded (Box 10.2) that uncertainties in Last Glacial Maximum studies are just too great, and the only probability density function (PDF) for ECS it gave from a last millennium proxy - based study contained little information.