Sentences with phrase «last major study»

In the 25 years since the last major study, lawyers have continued to abuse alcohol at alarmingly high rates.

When Pew conducted its last major study on the role of the Internet in Americans» love lives, using search engines and social networking sites to keep tabs on exes and investigate future romantic prospects was not nearly the phenomenon it is now.

Gardner's theory was rejected, however, by the authors of the last major study carried out by the National Radiological Protection Board and others (This Week, 15 November 1997, p 5).

The last major study that looked at birth centers was published in 1989, when the national C - section rate was 18 %.

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Around 30 percent of LGBT people have planned a major vacation in the last 12 months, according to a Community Marketing & Insights study from 2013.

An EDC study last year found that Canadian foreign affiliate sales reached $ 508 billion in 2008 and surpassed Canadian merchandise exports to all major world markets except the U.S. «The foreign - affiliate sales we're doing in emerging markets are three times the export North - South trade we're doing there,» says Hall.

But in the last quarter of a century a considerable convergence took place, partly due to members of the Society for the Study of Theology, which covers the whole island and which set out in its annual conference to create a forum for wide - ranging discussion of major doctrines and allied themes.

There is something of a boom going on these days in Melville studies, with Kelley's book and at least half a dozen other major academic monographs appearing from university presses, and with two new full - length biographies published last year: Laurie Robertson - Lorant's relatively unimportant but informative Melville: A Biography (Potter, 752 pages,, $ 40) and the first volume of the endlessly detailed Herman Melville (Johns Hopkins University Press, 941 pages,, $ 39.95) by Hershel Parker, the grand old man of Melville studies.

Almost thirty years had passed since the last major, comprehensive, and theologically self - conscious study of Protestant theological education.1 It is also remarkable, indeed unprecedented, that such a sustained debate emerged, not in response to one large study of theological education, but as a conversation among several quite different theological points of view.

I have been doing a lot of study over the last several years on the atonement, and this was a good introductory book on some of the major views of the atonement.

Second, we have assumed that within each local authority the variation in turnout between different demographic groups will be the same as that which pertained in last year's general election across the country as a whole (as measured by the British Election Study, a major academic high quality survey of how people voted in last year's general election).

The proposals for the major road network respond to the Rees Jeffreys Road Fund study last year, which highlighted the disparity between the funding and planning of Britain's motorways — the strategic road network — and local authority A roads.

A major trial last year showed a prototype vaccine to be «very effective» against the deadly Ebola virus, according to WHO, wich co-funded the study.

Last year the Royal Academy of Engineering carried out a major study into the implications of large - scale rollout of electric vehicles.

A study released last month by the UCLA Williams Institute estimates some 77,000 more LGBT youth will be subjected to the practice from either a licensed health care professional or religious adviser — even though such programs have been discredited by every major health and mental health association in the country.

If Wakefield's name doesn't ring a bell, his legacy is surely familiar: his fraudulent 1998 study claiming to find a link between autism and the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine kicked off a major public health scare that's had lasting, devastating consequences.

Extensive studies by the authors over the past decades on these islands have documented stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geomorphic evidence of major oceanic and climatic disruptions at the close of the last interglacial.

But last year, a major study of ancient sea - floor sediments challenged that view.

A new study in Nature Communications by Luis Ossa, Jorge Mpodozis and Alexander Vargas, from the University of Chile, provides a careful re-examination of ankle development in 6 different major groups of birds, selected specifically to clarify conditions in their last common ancestor.

«And this study is a major step in that direction, trying to bridge that time from the last giant accretionary impact that largely completed the Earth and produced the Moon to the point where we have something like today's plate tectonics and habitable surface.»

A review of health - related studies published last month inEnvironmental Science & Technology concluded that the current scientific literature puts forward «both substantial concerns and major uncertainties to address.»

The meetings came after the publication last year of three major reports — a feasibility study, an environmental and social assessment and a study of alternatives to the controversial project.

However, researchers believe inhalation is likely a major exposure route for people living near heavily treated fields, said Janie Shelton, an epidemiologist who led a study linking chlorpyrifos to autism in babies born to moms near treated fields in farm - heavy Northern California last year.

The team studied storm development from the Pliocene era, roughly three million years ago, and chose that time period because it was the last time the Earth had as much carbon dioxide as it does now, and the changes in climate from it can play a major role in storm formation and intensity.

While world leaders — and this NCAR study — suggest prompt action can still avert the worst consequences, a majority of scientists polled at a major international conference last month told the paper they fear society is incapable of such action and faces dangerous warming.

On Capitol Hill last week, Weinberg, an expert in the molecular biology of cancer, pointed out to the Congressional Biomedical Research Caucus that the major advances in understanding human cancer genetics had come, not from studying breast tissue, but from studying cow warts, worm vulvas, fruitfly retinas, and a chicken virus.

The first major result of this comprehensive study by the MBE group at Brookhaven was published in Nature last year.

A study published in Science in March 2012 found that ocean acidity may be increasing faster today than it has during four major extinctions in the last 300 million years.

«If you look at the last 500 years of literature in Western anatomy, it is the one major body system that hasn't really been studied,» said Thomas W. Myers, author of the seminal text Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual & Movement Therapists and arguably the leading expert on fascia in America.

For example, a major study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences supported the idea that probiotics could cure food allergies.

I felt a bit all over the place, but after being cooped up indoors due to a snow storm and major studying last weekend I was ready to get out and DO something this weekend:) The fun all started on Friday.

GLAAD's annual study assessing inclusion in films of 2017 found an «alarming drop» in LGBTQ characters in last year's major studio releases.

Writing about the study last July, The Atlantic's Jordan Weissmann called it a «major breakthrough.»

Advocates of the new federal direct - lending program for college students praised its savings and simplicity at a Senate hearing last week, while three agencies reported that their studies found no major flaws in the program.

From 1946 to 1950, Augusta studied art with painter Ernest Lee Major, one of the last surviving members of the influential Boston School of Painting.

The three - year, $ 1 million study, sponsored by the National Science Foundation and released here last week, found that only a handful of the questions on major commercially available tests in mathematics and science, as well as on tests included in textbooks, measured the kinds of conceptual knowledge and problem - solving abilities reformers say should be integral to...

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.»

Since that study was published, many have argued that major reductions in class size for poor children are likely to have lasting effects on the children's lives.

Last week, the United States got a painful reminder that making student achievement a higher priority couldn't be more urgent when a major global study ranked American kids just 17th in reading, 21st in science, and 26th in math — behind countries such as Estonia, Poland and Vietnam.

The design of the BMW i Vision Dynamics is based on the study Vision Next 100, which was presented last year, but has already taken a major step towards the development of the standard vehicle.

Last year, Next Issue Media, the digital newsstand joint venture backed by the major magazine publishers, produced a study on the value of tablets to magazine and newspaper publishers, and concluded that the aggregate revenue could be $ 3 billion by 2014.

Gaming is emerging as a major content category for tablets and smartphones, with the average tablet gamer downloading over 20 games last year, according to a new study from Frank N. Magid Associates and PlayFirst.

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Major Pettigrew's Last Stand carries within its deceptively charming pages a fully realized morality tale, a study of modern manners vs. well worn tradition, racial and cultural issues, religious tolerance, and the power of love to overcome all obstacles.

His last two major projects, «Workers» (1986 — 1992) and «Migrations» (1993 — 1999), are epic studies of postindustrial economic development, as reflected in the faces of those whom it least serves, from Brazilian gold miners to Vietnamese fishermen, displaced Ecuadorian farmers to Sudanese refugees.

One of the last paintings of Pope Pius XII held in private hands, the others are housed in major museum collections including Pope II, 1951 (Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim), Figure Sitting, 1955 (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent) and Study (Imaginary Portrait of Pope Pius XII), 1955 (Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich).

Francis Bacon's first and last completed paintings, Watercolour, 1929, and Study of a Bull, 1991, have been announced as two of the approximately sixty paintings that will be showcased in Monaco's major exhibition «Francis Bacon, Monaco and French Culture».

Though during that period did produce a major show called Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty's.

In fact, the I.P.C.C. WGII report, in the chapter on North America says «Research since the [last IPCC report] supports the conclusion that moderate climate change will likely increase yields on North American rain fed agriculture... Most studies project likely climate - related yield increases of 5 - 20 % over the first decades of the century... Major challenges are projected for crops that are near the warm end of their suitable range or depend on highly utilized water resources.»

While this study is undoubtedly an important contribution to the literature, introducing a potentially useful methodology for refining estimates of past tropical cyclone activity in all the major basins, it is hardly the last word (see e.g. the discussion thread in our previous article on the paper).