This is partly because a few of the big stories happened here this year, but also, because the underlying theme really is the realization that climate change is not something of the future, but rather, something of the present, and key lessons learned in
that important area of study happened in the American West (fires) the South and Midwest (droughts, crop failures, closing of river ways) and Northeast (Sandy).
However, El niño effects combined with global warming are
an important area of study, and there are indications that warming may affect the severity, frequency, and persistence of El Nino (more here and here).
Recognizing which foods create toxic or inflammatory effects and helping clients to have a better understanding of these concepts also constitute
an important area of study.
Understanding the tissues in the body is
an important area of study for teachers who are interested in learning how to skillfully work with injuries.
«Most genetic mutations that are associated with disease occur in enhancers, making them an incredibly
important area of study,» said senior author Katherine Pollard, PhD, a senior investigator at the Gladstone Institutes.
Sure, it is the most
important area of study in the world, but this doesn't mean we have to approach it with nothing but frowns and furrowed brows.
The technical emphasis in recent theological education has given us better pedagogies, opened up the larger society as a field for ministry, redistributed authority and power in the schools, and added new and
important areas of study.
The new courses — «Legislation and Regulation», «International / comparative courses» and «Problems and Theories» — certainly represent
important areas of study for law students.
The rise of mass media is one of the most
important areas of study in diffusion research.
Not exact matches
While this is but one
study of many, the isolation effect should be kept in mind when testing color palettes to create contrast in your web design and guide people to
important action
areas.
The Bay
Area Council Economic Institute and Central Valley Community Foundation today announced the launch
of an in - depth
study to examine Fresno's
important role in the fast - emerging Northern California megaregion and how the arrival
of high speed rail over the next decade will dramatically accelerate economic connections between Silicon Valley and the broader Bay
Area and the state's fifth largest city.
While there has been longstanding interest in the
study of Asia and Asian languages in Canadian post-secondary institutions, the most promising development in «Asian
studies» in recent years is not the expansion
of «
area studies» or linguistic / cultural programs,
important as they are.
All fields
of knowledge, from archeology to zoology, can claim distinguished contributors from many lands, and all
studies have
important applications to world understanding, whether it be an inquiry into the archeology
of the Middle East, once the cradle
of civilization and now a focus
of cultural and industrial renaissance, or an analysis
of the zoology
of malarial infection, which has sapped the energies and influenced the destinies
of millions in tropical
areas around the globe.
The research keeps coming and coming, and I'm delighted to find that what we AP parents have known all along in our hearts - attachment is not only
important, but absolutely vital - is being validated in every
area of study.
I realise that this will not come as a shock to most people who read my blog and that many people don't need research to confirm their experiences, but I think it is
important to share the findings
of studies which add weight to traditional knowledge and / or progress our thinking about everyday
areas, and it is in that vein that I share the following news.
The research group plans next to
study other aspects
of severe thunderstorms such as hail, which causes less intense damage but is
important for business (especially insurance and reinsurance) because it affects larger
areas and is responsible for substantial losses every year.
Given such variation, as well as the expense and logistical challenges
of conducting population surveys, indigenous communities will be
important partners in developing workable conservation strategies, such as the creation
of new protected
areas or harvest quotas, the
study suggests.
Co-author and supervisor Professor Bradley Eyre from Southern Cross University, who has been
studying estuaries for more than 20 years, said the research should play an
important role in quantifying the significant carbon footprint
of estuaries in built - up
areas worldwide.
«This connection between an innate call and the activity
of a brain
area important to learned vocalisations suggests that during the evolution
of songbirds, the role
of the song
area in the brain changed from being a simple vocalisation system for innate calls to a specialised neural network for learned songs,» concludes Manfred Gahr, coordinator
of the
study.
«Our
study shows the validity
of two scales for assessing how cognitive impairments are associated with many substance disorders including alcohol, cannabis, cocaine and one's ability to function well in
important interpersonal or occupational
areas,» said Efrat Aharonovich, PhD, Department
of Psychiatry, Columbia University Medical Center, and first author.
«And it's particularly
important given that, in 2009, the National Academy
of Sciences called for more scientific rigor in forensic science — singling out fingerprints in particular as an
area that merited additional
study.
GIS Executive Director Prof Ng Huck Hui said, «Microbiome
studies are an increasingly
important area of research, evident in the National Microbiome Initiative launched by the Obama administration recently [1].
Professor Hywel Williams, Director
of the NIHR's Health Technology Assessment (HTA) Programme, says: «We are delighted to have funded this
study in an
area of research that is
important to the public and medical professionals.
The research «really is novel and addresses an
important societal question, especially given the growing interest in developing nuclear energy worldwide,» says Timothy Mousseau, a biologist at the University
of South Carolina in Columbia who
studies Chernobyl -
area wildlife.
A new
study by researchers from UCLA and the University
of Houston reveals significant groundwater loss in California's Central Valley during the recent drought and sparks questions
of sustainability for the
important agricultural
area.
Dr Tsaousi added that the
study of the consumption
of underwear is an
area which has not been explored in detail by academics — but is very
important to the market.
«A number
of other researchers have proposed more realistic (and more complex) models, and corresponding
study of these models is an
important area for future work.
The Scientific Committee
of the International Whaling Commission included the results
of the
study when assessing a shift in busy shipping lanes off the south coast
of Sri Lanka that will reduce the danger to whales in an
important feeding
area.
These exciting findings are an
important foundation for ensuring the preservation
of these magnificent animals and for future
studies in this
area.»
Beginning in the late 1990s, neuroimaging
studies showed that a specific
area of the parietal lobe — the IPS — is
important for very basic numerical magnitude processing, such as deciding which
of two numbers is larger.
«In our
study, we tracked genes involved in accelerating flowering in response to cold, but the movement
of genes could be
important in all
areas of biology.»
«Micro-scale 3D models are an
important tool for many
areas of science, but for most micro or nano - scale objects only a portion
of the object can be seen in the field
of view,» says Gopala Mulukutla, a research scientist in the Institute for the
Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at UNH and the study's lead au
Study of Earth, Oceans and Space at UNH and the
study's lead au
study's lead author.
Then there are independent organisations such as the Institute
of Amazonian
Studies in Curitiba, the SOS Mata Atlantica, which is campaigning to save what remains
of the Atlantic forest, and the Biodiversities Foundation in Belo Horizonte, which is trying to save various species and has sought to turn environmentally
important areas into reserves.
Dr Richard Unsworth, from Swansea University's Biosciences department, led the
study and said: «Our research is for the first time recording how an
area of the world so critically
important for its biodiversity is rapidly losing a key marine resource.
Monitoring remains an
important tool to provide early warnings
of forests at risk
of reaching a tipping point, and the results
of this
study can inform and focus conservation and management decisions in
areas of concern.
Bridging this gap will be an
important area of future
study.
A second, unrelated
study that analyzed data from a cohort
of people with type 1 diabetes in the Pittsburgh
area, the Pittsburgh Epidemiology
of Diabetes Complications
study (EDC), showed why it is so
important to recognize depressive symptoms in people living with diabetes: Those who exhibit the highest level
of depressive symptoms are most likely to die prematurely.
Functional imaging
studies have also shown that autistic minds show decreased activity and connectivity in
areas of the so - called «social brain» — regions
important for language, face recognition and emotion.
The
study also indicates that the former forested
areas of the Central Highlands may have been an
important zone
of ecological transition between the extremes
of eastern humid forests and western dry forests.
«I think [the researchers] are introducing an
area that has been absent in the evolution
of religion
studies and is potentially an
important one,» says anthropologist Candace Alcorta, also
of the U Conn..
Texting is a significant communication channel for teens and, the authors note an
important area for
study of gender identity and cross gender interaction.
Chen and his team began by
studying how reactive glial cells respond to a specific protein, NeuroD1, which is known to be
important in the formation
of nerve cells in the hippocampus
area of adult brains.
«PROBIT, the largest randomized trial ever carried out in the
area of human lactation, continues to yield scientifically and clinically
important information more than two decades after its inception,» says Dr. Michael Kramer, from McGill's Faculty
of Medicine and the Research Institute
of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC), the Principal Investigator on the PROBIT
study.
The authors
of the
study will pursue both a genetic rescue strategy for the species to reduce inbreeding and an initiative to identify and protect the most
important areas for the Dahl's Toad - Headed Turtle.
«Combined with other
areas of our investigation into HIV latency, this research provides
important new knowledge about the process and opens many new pathways for future
study,» said Dr. Verdin, senior author
of the
study.
The INFRAFRONTIER mission: ◊ to shape the European Research
Area in the field
of mouse functional genomics and thereby make an
important contribution to the
study of human disease.
The
study of BIN1 in the brain is a new
area of research and determining the mechanistic link between this risk factor and AD etiology disease is
important.
«Globally
important wilderness
areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many
of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director
of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the
study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.
«We learned to breed them in captivity and are now releasing Atelopus varius in
areas where the epidemic has passed, so it is extremely
important for us to realize that the defenses
of these frogs may be weaker than the defenses
of frogs that survived the epidemic in the wild,» said Roberto Ibáñez,
study co-author, STRI staff scientist, and in - country director
of the Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Project.
The identification
of mutants is one
of the most
important strategies for the
study of many
areas of biology.