Sentences with phrase «large studies questioned»

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So knowing the right answer to a tough question appears to be less important than being able to consider a large number of social responses in a brief window of time,» Von Hippel said of the study findings.

As a result, my study focused on the second question: why would the same person be more creative in a startup company than in an established, mature, large company.

From choosing salads for a fundraising dinner to studying the timing of the Washington transit system, Silverman has been spending less time recently on the big question of God's existence and more time immersing himself in the nitty - gritty of planning what he promises will be the largest - ever atheist gathering.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

The text book in question is the official one for the Religious Studies GCSE set by EdExcel, the country's largest examination board.

Very properly, a large number of UNESCO's questions are concerned with the study and criticism of the existing forms and methods of Democracy.

So whether the young person in question is working as a chef or in the retail grocery sector, be it in a small convenience store or a large supermarket, or studying food technology, we want to recognise those bright sparks who show the passion and drive to succeed in this dynamic world.

As a student of midwifery many years ago, the question of whether I would pursue private practice or seek employment within a larger corporation always poked it nose into my studies.

This poses the question then if the Wax (2010) study is not specific to whether home birth is safe in comparison to hospital birth, but if outcomes correlate with the type of midwife (level of training) and acceptance of out - of - hospital birth in the larger healthcare system?

Scientific studies aside, I've personally never been been convinced that non-naturally-derived sugar substitutes (sucralose / slenda, nutrasweet / aspartame, saccharine, etc.) don't have some unknown negative affects when used over time or in large quantities and there have even been questions about the more natural ones like stevia and agave.

The survey was part of a larger study that included questions about other topics not included in this report.

Among the questions that this study raises are whether the surprisingly large number of neurons in bird brains comes at a correspondingly large energetic cost, and whether the small neurons in bird brains are a response to selection for small body size due to flight, or possibly the ancestral way of adding neurons to the brain — from which mammals, not birds, may have diverged.

A new study by a Canadian Museum of Nature scientist helps answer a long - standing question in palaeontology — how numerous species of large, plant - eating dinosaurs could co-exist successfully over geological time.

«The next step is a much larger - scale study, to look at the genetics and immune systems of people still making insulin, and to answer the important question of whether the complications of Type 1 Diabetes are reduced in people with low levels of insulin.»

Two new studies, published this week in Science, address this question by studying large populations of bees in multiple locations for months on end.

To further investigate the prevalence of the phenomenon, the researchers carried out the first large - scale online study of this barely - known effect, and recruited 4,128 participants to answer a survey, with 1,058 of these also answering additional trait - related questions.

In their study, the researchers produced the first global analysis and relatively fine - grained mapping of all the large mammals (with a body weight of at least 10 kg) that existed during the period 132,000 - 1,000 years ago — the period during which the extinction in question took place.

The researchers say follow - up studies could explore questions such as what extent demographic changes — especially a larger population of older adults — will have on heat - related mortality, and the effect of specific interventions related to adaptation and greenhouse gas reductions.

«If these findings are confirmed in larger studies, they hold significant implications for new treatment targets and open the door for more questions such as: should these patients be treated more aggressively with medications, cognitive rehabilitation, or even surgery to open up the artery,» said Lal.

The study included 126,233 participants from two large long - term studies — the Nurses» Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study — who answered survey questions every 2 - 4 years about their diet, lifestyle, and health for up to 32 ystudy included 126,233 participants from two large long - term studies — the Nurses» Health Study and the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study — who answered survey questions every 2 - 4 years about their diet, lifestyle, and health for up to 32 yStudy and the Health Professionals Follow - Up Study — who answered survey questions every 2 - 4 years about their diet, lifestyle, and health for up to 32 yStudy — who answered survey questions every 2 - 4 years about their diet, lifestyle, and health for up to 32 years.

Researchers say they're now able to answer such questions, thanks to the largest data - driven study of pop music ever undertaken.

«Inspired by recent demonstrations for the need for large subject - samples and more robust analyses in psychology and neuroscience research, we re-examined the research question of the original study.

In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environment.

Then there's the larger question of whether science should study treatments for a condition that is not, in mental health terms, a problem.

«We are also interested in sex - specific effects, but for these questions larger studies may be needed.»

While biofuels from crops, grasses, wood, agricultural residues and other materials emit less carbon than fossil fuels over a crop - to - vehicle life cycle, recent studies have questioned the availability of material to make fuels on a large scale.

A large long - term study at New Zealand's Dunedin School of Medicine demonstrated a genetic basis for the different ways that people respond to emotional stress — and in the process raised new questions about how antidepressant drugs actually work.

The NIH grant, which was funded in 2015 and 2016, allowed Wintemute to launch a much larger follow - up study, which he expects to complete in 2018, looking at the same question in some 116,000 people who legally purchased handguns in California in 2001, with follow - up through the end of 2013.

«There are a lot of questions about how to implement it,» says Connie Celum, an HIV researcher at the University of Washington in Seattle, who led a large trial of the drug in East Africa and has begun studies to answer practical delivery questions, such as which subsets of people are at highest risk.

The UChicago team's NBER study concludes, «The impact of the pilot intervention reported in this paper are large enough to raise the question of whether the field has given up prematurely on the possibility of improving academic outcomes for disadvantaged youth.»

Compiling them into a large regional data set allowed us to answer questions at a large scale that hadn't been addressed before,» says Jeff Matthews, assistant professor in the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences at U of I, and co-author on the study.

All good questions, says Steyaert, who hopes that others will repeat his team's study on other and larger brown bear populations.

The question of how and why animals choose mates is also one key in the much larger study of how evolution works.

Critics also noted that larger studies are less likely to be replicated, and a more stringent α could make researchers more risk - averse and less likely to take on hard questions.

By demonstrating that key individual species within the ecosystem can play a disproportionally large role in carbon cycling, this study helps bring us a step closer to understanding the function these microbes play in larger questions of climate warming and increased acidity in the ocean.

Often, these types of questions can only be answered by studying large groups of people.

This study answers a fundamental question about the behavior of large, negatively charged ions with multiple atoms, called polyoxyanions.

Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Very Large Array radio telescope to study the most distant known quasar have found a tantalizing clue that may answer a longstanding cosmic chicken - and - egg question.

To address some of those questions, scientists have been studying Jupiter with an observatory called the Very Large Array in New Mexico.

Issa and other skeptics have questioned the methods used in this oft - cited study and doubt whether the differences detected in the older twins were all that large.

«This is a good example of how to answer the question with scientifically sound experiments,» Cunningham says, adding that larger studies are needed.

This is a question most of us don't always ask because we get so busy paying the bills and mortgages, just trying to stay afloat, but studies show that our environment plays a large role in our personal happiness.

The American Heart Association (AHA) and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a government - appointed panel of experts that studies large health questions, also have concerns about the drug's side effects.

Vitamin E was previously felt to be beneficial for heart disease, but large studies have called excess supplementation into question for most people.

The largest study in history of those eating plant - based diets recently compared the nutrient profiles of about 30,000 non-vegetarians to 20,000 vegetarians, and about 5,000 vegans, flexitarians, and no meat except fish - eaters, allowing us to finally put to rest the perennial question, «Do vegetarians get enough protein?»

This study in question showed that people who were suggested to go on lower - sodium diets, and then tracked by their urine, made a large difference in total mortality (specifically cardiovascular mortality).

«The positive ecological correlations between national intakes of total fat and saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular mortality found in earlier studies were absent or negative in the larger, more recent studies,» the authors wrote, concluding that «the harmful effect of dietary saturated fatty acids and the protective effect of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are questioned.»

Now even more conservative groups are starting to question this connection, citing a recent study that showed higher saturated fat consumption didn't mean higher rates of heart disease when looking at large population studies.