Sentences with phrase «in various studies on»

The level of nitrate in vegetables can vary quite a bit, and the amount of nitrate used in various studies on beet juice and blood pressure also varies quite a bit (from 5 to 22.5 mmol of nitrate).

As the researchers have shown in various studies on mice, the widespread active ingredient sildenafil or a medication against pulmonary hypertension, for instance, can be used to reduce the number of white fat cells to the benefit of the brown fat cells and thus accelerate fat burning like a turbocharger.

Not exact matches

The striking example I focused on then was the cancer drug Avastin, developed by Genentech (now Roche)-- which, at the time, had been studied in at least 400 completed human clinical trials for various cancers.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

«We make a big deal about the controversial nature of our business and market around it,» explains Biderman, pointing out that the thousands of user profiles on Avid's various international sites represent, in the aggregate, a vast sociological study of human infidelity, an area that has traditionally attracted little in the way of sociological scrutiny.

Various studies have suggested that improving gender parity may result in significant economic dividends, which vary depending on the situation of different economies and the specific challenges they are facing.

To get a handle on causality in the relation of organizational form with company performance, many studies use before / after comparisons and various statistical corrections for endogeneity of company form.

The best way to get a thorough understanding of these two subjects is actually read, compare and understand many reports on resource estimates and economic studies, in various stages of development.

«Based on the recent developments in the virtual currency industry, we are studying various possibilities, including investments and partnerships with other companies, in order to further strengthen our system and management, but we have not made any decisions at present,» he wrote.

We know from various studies done in the social sciences in the past forty years, as well as from fifteen plus years of my being involved with personas, the trio of users / buyers / customers makes decisions based on much more than just content or information.

The goal of every investor is to invest in stocks that will bring huge returns on their investments; and that is why people takeout time to study the stock market and various stocks to know how they are performing before committing their hard earned money to it.

She may not have been indoctrinated / brainwashed by someone within her household, but she didn't form these beliefs about Christianity in a vacuum where no one around her was attempting to convince her to believe, and she was just studying various religious texts until she happened on the bible and other apologetics.

But if one studies the anthropologies that have appeared in the various disciplines, one finds that this agreement has little affect on what transpires.

The book does not so much explain the various prophetic texts in Scripture, as provide a framework to read and study it on our own.

Rather, the proposal is that study of every subject matter that is selected for study (using whatever academic disciplines are appropriate) be shaped and guided by an interest in the question: What is that subject matter's bearing on, or role in, the practices that constitute actual enactments, in specific concrete circumstances, of various construals of the Christian thing in and as Christian congregations?

[50] Christian theology of religions, on the other hand, «studies the various traditions in the context of the history of salvation and in their relationship to the mystery of Jesus Christ and the Christian Church.»

Based on various research studies, it could be estimated that approximately twenty - five of his members have been hospitalized for major mental illness in the past, twenty - four are alcoholics, another fifty are severely handicapped by neurotic conflicts, and another one hundred by moderate neurotic symptoms.

(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.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

Note: This post was written in 2007, and launched me on a study about the church, much of which is found in various other posts on this blog.

Despite of all this Eastwooding, I like the pundits who say that, in this election, we need to make a serious case based on the recent studies of various expert economists.

But on the whole, nineteenth century philosophical theology was not particularly interested in the question of original or corporate sin; it was far more involved in various responses to Hegel, the new prominence of biblical study and its corollary «quest for the historical Jesus,» and the implications of economic and psychological developments for Christian faith.

A real conundrum I find with Christians of various theological persuasions is that they harp on how we must be engaged in studying the Bible, how the Bible is our guide in life, and hold the Bible on a pedestal, much like rabbinic Jews hold the Torah or Catholic hold up their Eucharist, but when it comes to the nitty - gritty of how they have come to know God, no matter how they explain it, it ends up being on the basis of experience.

comparative studies on people with religiosity and various social ills has shown higher rates of belief in a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion.

The need for a study on ecumenical hermeneutics was stated very clearly at the Santiago World Conference on FO in l993.5 Following its recommendations, such a study was carried out through various consultations that have been held since 1994, to its completion in 1998.

I really thought this was going to be a study on the image of fire in Scripture, but it turned out to be more of a study on the symbol of fire in Franciscan theology, applied to various sins and experiences in life.

These texts and studies do not exhaust the various ways in which women were perceived, and their roles commented upon, by writers of the early church, but they offer points of departure for a discussion on the contribution of women to the life and witness of the early church without forgetting that the «ancient sources and modern historians agree that primary conversion to Christianity was far more prevalent among females than among males» [13] in the time of the early church.

Four essays represent Wach's third and last phase: «Radhakrishnan and the Comparative Study of Religion,» which appeared in P. A. Schilpp, ed., The Philosophy of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1952), pp. 443 - 58; «Religion in America,» which was based on notes from lectures given at various universities in the United States; «On Teaching History of Religions,» which appeared in a memorial volume to honor G. van der Leeuw called Pro Regno Pro Sanctuario (Nijkerk: G. F. Callenbach, 1950), pp. 525 - 32; and «On Understanding,» which appeared in A. A. Roback, ed., The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book (Cambridge, Mass.: SCI - Art Publishers, 1946), pp. 131 - 4on notes from lectures given at various universities in the United States; «On Teaching History of Religions,» which appeared in a memorial volume to honor G. van der Leeuw called Pro Regno Pro Sanctuario (Nijkerk: G. F. Callenbach, 1950), pp. 525 - 32; and «On Understanding,» which appeared in A. A. Roback, ed., The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book (Cambridge, Mass.: SCI - Art Publishers, 1946), pp. 131 - 4On Teaching History of Religions,» which appeared in a memorial volume to honor G. van der Leeuw called Pro Regno Pro Sanctuario (Nijkerk: G. F. Callenbach, 1950), pp. 525 - 32; and «On Understanding,» which appeared in A. A. Roback, ed., The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book (Cambridge, Mass.: SCI - Art Publishers, 1946), pp. 131 - 4On Understanding,» which appeared in A. A. Roback, ed., The Albert Schweitzer Jubilee Book (Cambridge, Mass.: SCI - Art Publishers, 1946), pp. 131 - 46.

The central «positive» moral about how best to negotiate between these two models is this: Focus on the nature of the basic movement of theological study as a theological question, not as a question about the psychology of learning, nor even as a question about the logical relations among various subjects studied in theological education.

I walked away from church at around age 15, wandered through various experiments with pseudo-spirituality, academic study of religion and denominations until I found myself on the path of fully claiming faith in God for my own.

The importance of Eastern meditation has gradually been recognized in the modern Western literature on the science of religion and elucidated in various technical studies.

(Despite some methodological inadequacies, this study is useful for the data it provides on the use of various media of communication in a practical church situation.

I long to see deeper studies on the Cuban American devotion to N. S. de Caridad and their Afro - Cuban sense of santeria; on the Puerto Rican devotion to San Juan Bautista and other religious practices; on the Cristo Negro de Esquipulas of Guatemala and other devotions and rituals of the various Hispanic peoples living in the United States.

Moreover, the analytical aspects of the history of religions must depend on psychology, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, philology, and hermeneutics in its study of various features of religions, such as scriptures, doctrines, cults, and social groupings.

Avoiding commitment as to any specific attitude which the church and Christian men ought to adopt toward war when war comes, the conference report contented itself with exhibiting the various views which Christians actually hold on that subject and with saying that while the church could neither affirm that any one of these was right and the others wrong nor acquiesce in the permanent continuance of these differences, it should promote the study of the problem with a view to a better understanding of the purpose of God.

The complaint may be that the curriculum is too «academic» and insufficiently «Professional»; too «theoretical» and insufficiently «practical»; or, conversely, that it is too single - mindedly focused on producing «Professional ministers» in a certain model and too inflexible to allow individual students to pursue their own intellectual interests; and, above all, that the curriculum consists of too many small pieces of information that are not adequately «integrated,» that it provides not so much a course of study as — in H. Richard Niebuhr's wonderfully wry phrase - «a series of studious jumps in various directions.»

There are conflicting studies on this topic, but farmer's growing organic produce are limited to the use of pesticides that are naturally occurring, while conventional farming practices use synthetic pesticides that are linked to various health problems such as ADHD in children.

Another study, published in Nutrition Research, concludes that, in overweight adults, chia seeds have «no influence on body mass or composition, or various disease risk factor measures.»

In a study examining the effect of caffeinated and non-caffeinated beverages on hydration status, no significant differences were found in the effect of various combinations (Grandjean, A eIn a study examining the effect of caffeinated and non-caffeinated beverages on hydration status, no significant differences were found in the effect of various combinations (Grandjean, A ein the effect of various combinations (Grandjean, A et.

I saw a brilliant article on another Arsenal forum that looked at a study produced by the Football Observatory site in which various player attributes are combined to work out the worth of the players, and these values are then aggregated to provide a valuation for the whole squad.

An article by Robyn Roche - Paul and Karen Spicer — both IBCLCs — in LEAVEN in 2005 looks at various studies on the compatibility of tattoos and breastfeeding.

In today's New York Times, Jane Brody reports on the recently released results of the CHildhood Obesity Cost - Effectiveness Study (aka «CHOICES»), which examined various possible approaches to curbing childhood obesity and chose two as most likely to help: the imposition of taxes on sugary beverages and curbs on children's junk food advertising, both measures long supported here on The Lunch Tray.

In various studies conducted, BPA was found to have an effect on the brain, behavior and prostate gland of fetuses.

I am writing a book on colic, looking at how women in different parts of the world deal with colic, and also at modern studies that explore various causes and solutions.

The PhD course focuses on various aspects of human (donor) milk, with as main study a randomized clinical trial towards the effects of human donor milk in very low birth weight infants (the Early Nutrition Ststudy a randomized clinical trial towards the effects of human donor milk in very low birth weight infants (the Early Nutrition StudyStudy).

Mary Anne teaches undergraduate courses that focus on children and families that combine play studies with interpersonal neurobiology and is an active community partner serving in various roles with her local Head Start.

In «The Baby Bond» - http://astore.amazon.com/peacefparent-20/detail/1402226578 I have 10 pages of text on feeding preemies, with 4 charts summarizing 17 studies that compare various human and non-human feeding attempts.

Although information on infant feeding exposure in these studies was collected differently in the various studies, the ascertainment method (particularly the duration of recall) appeared to be unrelated to the associations observed.

Classroom study was complemented by on - site instruction in which our group would practice guiding various stops within the sites we studied.

«They provide an evaluation of student mastery of content and skills in various courses of study, serve as a tool for measuring the degree to which students are on track to graduate high school college - and career - ready, and help shape future instruction.»