Sentences with phrase «landmark study this year»

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The third annual year of the study is a landmark year since trend data is now available.

Last year researchers at one biotech firm, Amgen, found they could reproduce just six of 53 «landmark» studies in cancer research.

In this light it is significant that four years after the appearance of After Virtue came a landmark study in the sociology of religion, Habits of the Heart.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Sears et al (30) performed a landmark birth cohort study in which 1037 children in New Zealand were followed from age 3 years and assessed every 2 — 5 years from ages 9 to 26 years.

In a landmark study of 400 breastfed babies, gross motor development at 1 year of age lagged in infants whose mothers drank at least one drink daily during the babies» first three months of life.

Twenty - five years ago, Professor Albert Mehrabian of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), conducted a landmark study on the relationships between what he called the «three V's» of spoken communication.

Instead, the 65 - year - old scientist is gearing up for his most ambitious project yet: the National Children's Study, a landmark field investigation that will follow 100,000 American children from as soon as possible after conception to age 21.

The effect these pressures have had on Irish and British goat populations has been explored in a landmark DNA study that compared modern - day domestic and feral goats with museum specimens from years gone by.

Once the investigators reported their landmark data in 2011, all infected study participants were offered the opportunity to begin antiretroviral therapy right away, and the trial continued for another four years, concluding this spring.

To conduct landmark paleoclimate studies from Lake El «gygytgyn in eastern Siberia, geologist Julie Brigham - Grette of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, relied heavily on Russian collaborators she has partnered with for years.

A landmark 30 - year - long UNSW Sydney study of wetlands in eastern Australia has found that construction of dams and diversion of water from the Murray - Darling Basin have led to a more than 70 per cent decline in waterbird numbers.

More than 135,500 cases of cancer a year in the UK could be prevented through lifestyle changes, according to new figures from a Cancer Research UK landmark study published today.

The article reports data from a 10 - year follow - up of 2001 melanoma patients from the landmark MSLT - 1 study; preliminary data were first published in the NEJM in 2006.

Both reports are in sync with a landmark 1997 study of 17,000 girls by the American Academy of Pediatrics, which found that Caucasian girls were developing breasts 6 to 12 months earlier than they did 40 years ago.

But in landmark studies published last year, two research teams pieced together nearly an entire fetal genome using just easy - to - obtain parental blood and saliva samples.

In 1995 a landmark study found that children whose families were on welfare heard 1,500 fewer words every hour — or eight million fewer per year — than children from professional backgrounds.

• African Elephants Aren't All Alike A landmark study of the DNA of African elephants by Alfred Roca and Stephen O'Brien at the National Cancer Institute last year confirmed that there are more than two species — Asian and African — of pachyderms.

Commenting on the project, Imran Khan, CEO of the British Science Association, said: «UK school children will be at the forefront of science helping researchers understand more about flu in a landmark year for study of the virus.

Earlier dating work by Lepre and Kent helped lead to another landmark paper in 2011: a study that suggested Homo erectus, another precursor to modern humans, was using more advanced tool - making methods 1.8 million years ago, at least 300,000 years earlier than previously thought.

Earlier this year, Peeters co-authored a landmark study that, more persuasively than ever before, singled out chimpanzees as the source of the human AIDS epidemic (Science, 28 July, p. 523).

The flowers reminded Teeri, who has studied plant pigments at the University of Helsinki, of blooms created in a landmark gene - engineering experiment some 30 years earlier.

SEATTLE, Feb. 05, 2018 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE)-- NanoString Technologies, Inc. (NASDAQ: NSTG), a provider of life science tools for translational research and molecular diagnostic products, today announced the publication of a landmark study in which Danish researchers used the Prosigna ® Breast Cancer Assay risk of recurrence (ROR) score to accurately predict rates of 10 - year distant recurrence (DR) of cancer in a comprehensive and population - based cohort including all postmenopausal women in Denmark with early - stage hormone receptor (HR)- positive, Her - 2 negative breast cancer who received 5 years of adjuvant endocrine therapy according to nationwide guidelines between 2000 and 2003.

In a landmark study that could lead to new therapies for sickle cell anaemia and other blood disorders, UNSW Sydney - led researchers have used CRISPR - gene editing to introduce beneficial natural mutations into blood cells to boost their production of Read more about Solution to 50 - year - old mystery could lead to gene therapy for common blood disorders - Scimex

This year, though, a landmark study was published, pitting 34 common vegetables against eight different types of human cancers.

The landmark 2013 study by Dr. Sinclair demonstrated that supplementation with NMN increased levels of NAD + and reversed age related degeneration in mice, giving older mice the muscle capacity, endurance and metabolism of much younger mice — the «equivalent of a human 60 year old becoming more like a 20 year old» (24).

Blamed for everything from headaches, to abnormal weight loss / gain, to constipation / diarrhea, to menstrual irregularity, to leaky gut / bowel inflammation, to anemia... and basically everything including cancer and the deaths of kittens (ok, maybe not), gluten has really gotten a bad rap in the past several years, probably very much in part due to the publishing of the book Wheat Belly by Dr. William Davis, the landmark study on Non-Celiac Gluten Sensitivity (NCGS) by Dr. Peter Gibson, and the explosion of social media in the past decade that has given an unprecedented voice to people who otherwise would have no credibility with which to garner attention towards themselves.

A landmark Spanish government sponsored study (PREDIMED) revealed that middle aged men and women who consumed a Mediterranean diet supplemented with at least four tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil daily had a 30 per cent relative risk reduction in suffering a heart attack, stroke or death within five years in comparison to those advised to follow a «low fat» diet.

The Honorable Dr. Ludwig of Boston Children's Hospital has shown this year, in a landmark study, that reductions of carbohydrate consumption result in increases in calorie expenditures by patients.

In a landmark study of over 20,000 nurses over 15 years, revealed that the higher your body fat percentage, the higher the risk of chronic degenerative disease; and, conversely, the lower one's body fat percentage, the lower the risk of chronic degenerative disease.

THIRTY - SIX years ago, an American psychiatrist named Everett Ellinwood published a landmark study examining 13 people who had committed homicide while Important Announcements!

Unparalleled Reports from the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University Examine Landmark Public Education Act Today, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) releases the findings of a four - part study examining the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act through its first year of implementation (2002 - 2003).

Indeed, four years after ESEA was passed, a landmark study found that Title I had often «not reached the eligible [students], and has been little used to meet their needs.»

Day, nearly 50 years since the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision in which the Supreme Court found that «separate - but - equal schools» for white and black students were unfair and unconstitutional, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) announces a new study on national resegregation trends in American public schools.

Today, the Civil Rights Project at Harvard University (CRP) releases the findings of a four - part study examining the landmark No Child Left Behind (NCLB) Act through its first year of implementation (2002 - 2003).

Last year, a landmark study of school improvement («School Improvement by Design,» link: http://bit.ly/70J539) released by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education reported that the America's Choice programs performed significantly better than their major competitors in the field, and the study's researchers stated, «Students in America's Choice schools grew at a significantly faster rate than students in comparison schools and faster than students in all other schools.»

John Goodlad (1984) reported the same finding in his landmark study published more than 20 years ago.

A landmark UK study showed that students who attended two to three years of preschool obtained higher overall scores in their end - of - school exams, better grades in English and in maths, and took final year exams in more subjects.

In a new paper Value vs Glamour: A Global Phenomenon (via SSRN) The Brandes Institute updates the landmark 1994 study by Josef Lakonishok, Andrei Shleifer, and Robert Vishny investigating the performance of value stocks relative to that of glamour securities in the United States over a 26 - year period.

PORTLAND, OR — A landmark study published last year in one of America's most respected scholarly journals provides powerful evidence that «feel - good» legislation — indiscriminate and / or unenforceable bans, as well as draconian sanctions applied to behavior that is already illegal — degrades respect for law and reduces compliance, while aggravating (or at best, failing to improve) the problems these laws were supposedly enacted to solve.

A landmark study released last year revealed that having a class pet can teach children important values like compassion, empathy, respect and responsibility for other living things, as well as giving them much - needed leadership skills and stress relief.

Henry Moore turned to Thompson's work while studying in Leeds in 1919 and Richard Hamilton, who took the title for his 1951 landmark exhibition at London's ICA, declared that On Growth and Form «charged my batteries for a number of years».

Two years ago, Caldeira and Albright, then at Carnegie, published a landmark study providing evidence that ocean acidification is already slowing coral reef growth.

A landmark report by the Institute of Fiscal Studies in 2013 described the system of UK taxes of recent years as «complex and incoherent and less effective than it could be at reducing carbon emissions at the lowest overall cost».

A look back on a landmark study, weird weather, Greenland's ice sheet melt, and other highlights that shaped climate change science news last year...

A landmark new study in Nature Climate Change finds the melting of the sea ice over the last 30 years at a rate of 8 % per decade is directly linked to extreme summer weather in the US and elsewhere in the form of droughts and heatwaves.

The rampant air and water pollution resulting from fossil fuel use has garnered considerable attention in recent years, with landmark studies on the human health effects and other costs of coal burning, and alarming accounts of declining air quality in gas - and - oil - drilling boomtowns.

A landmark study surveying 20 percent of the Earth's land area offered a stark prediction: 35 percent of species will be committed to extinction by the year 2050 if greenhouse gas emission trends continue.

In a landmark study published in Nature, researchers found that 18 to 35 percent of species studied in a survey of 20 percent of the Earth's land area will be committed to extinction by the year 2050 if greenhouse gas emission trends continue.

Against the backdrop of more than twenty years of study and recommendations, the D'Alemberte Petition was filed with the Supreme Court of Florida seeking to authorize the courts to appoint pro bono attorneys to represent indigents in civil matters It is the decisions in this proceeding that have brought about the Florida Voluntary Pro Bono Attorney Plan The Court in its landmark decision on December 13, 1990 held that: