Sentences with phrase «more modern studies»

They ignored more modern studies that have shown much greater benefit.

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But the study also suggested that some antidepressants were more effective than others; several older antidepressants were found to be more effectivee than more modern ones, but the modern treatments (such as Prozac) were better tolerated by patients.

With the experience of the past to draw upon and a large and growing set of studies on how different forms of employee share ownership and profit sharing work in modern settings, it is time to examine how ownership and profit - sharing policies can help make U.S. capitalism more efficient and equitable in the current economic environment.

In his previous, more historical studies, Walsh explored overlooked sources, often outside the liberal canon, that made the value of personal experience central to modern political thought.

Much academic work in modern theology seems less the study of God or of the Christian message about God, and more the study of the creativity of great theologians.

It continues and gets worse when the reverse, the shaping of social factors, conditions, and orders by spiritual (religious) forces is overlooked or denied, as we find it in a legion of modern studies more or less dedicated to economic determinism.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

May 21, 2013 — The mighty T. rex may have thrashed its massive head from side to side to dismember prey, but a new study shows that its smaller cousin Allosaurus was a more dexterous hunter and tugged at prey more like a modern - day falcon.

P. F. Fichter, the author of The Southern Parish, has rightly said that a systematic understanding of the role of Catholicism in modern society requires us to study not only its values and meanings but more especially the «vehicles» employed to activate them and the agents who believe in these values and employ these «vehicles.»

The study of Jewish history has moved from beyond the periphery to the very center and, indeed, being inevitably seen as a tragedy leading to a unique catastrophe, has some claims to being more widely discussed today than almost any other aspect of modern European history.

Stressing the relevance of a given course or discipline to the modern world, putting more emphasis on psychological and sociological studies, or locating students in field situations, while important, will not solve the problem.

With the passage of time and more mature study of the nature of scripture, as disclosed by the application of the modern historico - critical method of investigation, it is seen that the possible borrowing of Bible writers from another source in no way affected its intrinsic worth, or even the belief that these writers were inspired in their writing.

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.

But the historicity of the «miracle» stories has now been severely undermined by modern Biblical study, which has shown that we have here no infallible historical records, but the testimony of Christian traditions which had been molded by two or more generations of oral transmission.

This teaching was an interactive Scriptural discussion that probably looked more like a Bible study than our modern - day monologue sermon.

They returned to their own country more or less influenced by the modern ideas acquired during their years of study in Egypt.

As one critic has said of the reliance of Wheelwright's diaphor on epiphor: «The net effect of diaphor is to increase the possibility of pluri - signification by forcing the reader to create a relationship or a number of relationships, more or less cognitive, without finally insisting on a particular version» (David M. Miller, The Net of Hephaestus: A Study of Modern Criticism and Metaphysical Metaphor [The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1971], p. 113).

The tendency toward pluralism and the participation of the schools in the confusion of churches and ministers becomes even more apparent in their efforts to add to the traditional core of theological studies new disciplines which are to serve as bridges between the heritage and modern men, or, more immediately, between it and the needs of ministers in modern churches.

These studies suggest that the modern individual has to an important degree been the creation of a more sharply defined public sphere from which the private realm can be more clearly differentiated.8 Questions of interior space then become more important, as do the relations between these inner realities and those that constitute the public or external realms.

(Paraphrase — Sir Thomas More — Utopia a Critical Study, M.A. English I Year Paper I, Modern Literature 1, Annamalai University, pp. 68 - 72.)

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

Another study regarding one of the diseases most affecting our modern society shows that «curcumin is 400 times more potent than Metformin, a diabetic drug, in improving insulin sensitivity which can help reverse Type 2 Diabetes».

Stepfathers are widespread not only in modern industrial societies but also in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies have found that, compared with resident biological fathers, stepfathers invest less in the children who live with them, both in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that children who have close relationships with their stepfathers have better outcomes.41, 57

More specifically, why would any modern political scientist find this specific episode in British history to be worthy of extensive academic study?

One way to ensure that citizenship is treated more seriously in all schools in the UK would be to introduce modern studies to the curriculum.

In addition, he believes that modern imaging provides a bridge between human cognitive neuroscience and animal studies, allowing more inferences from one to the other.

Our animal ancestors used their noses way more than we do in modern society, says Jessica Freiherr, a neuroscientist at RWTH Aachen University, in Germany, and the author of several studies on human olfaction.

Although the study didn't explain why adults are growing less satisfied, one possibility put forth by the researchers is that of unrealistic expectations: Modern youth are more optimistic about their futures than ever before.

Such is the case with an extensive new study of ancient horse DNA, which largely disproves the current theory: that modern horses arose more than 5000 years ago in Kazakhstan.

«Modern humans emerged more than 300,000 years ago new study suggests.»

Professor Thomas Higham said: «Other recent studies of Neanderthal and modern human genetic make - up suggest that both groups interbred outside Africa, with 1.5 % -2.1 % or more of the DNA of modern non-African human populations originating from Neanderthals.

The type of sound processing that modern hearings aids provide to make speech more understandable for wearers may also make music enjoyment more difficult, according to a new study by the University of Colorado Boulder.

In this new study, we looked at both low and high potency, but it is clear that we need more evidence from high potency - related health cases to further investigate this link in modern - day users.»

More modern wind farms like the McCulloughs» are quite different from the one studied near Palm Springs.

A big interactive map traces the emergence of modern humans in Africa more than 150,000 years ago and how they spread worldwide — travels that have been tracked by studying fossils, artifacts, and the DNA of humans from all over the globe.

A year - long study into the behaviour of over 450 blue tits and great tits found that a suburban neighbourhood with trees, shrubs and hedges between properties attract far more birds to their feeders than a Victorian urban terrace or manicured, modern housing estate.

The drought observed through tree rings was «more severe and prolonged than anything we've seen in the modern era,» said David Stahle, lead researcher of the study, to be published in the American Geophysical Union's Geophysical Research Letters.

Dr. Charlier argues that human remains in museums and scientific institutions can be divided into four categories, «ethnographical elements» such as hair samples with no certain identification; anatomical remains such as whole skeletons or skulls; archaeological remains; and more modern collections of skulls, used in now discredited studies in the early 20th century.

Researchers suggest that factors relating to the nature of modern education such as more time devoted to studying and working with computers and less time spent outside may help to explain the correlation between short - sightedness and education levels.

Those who study dinosaurs are more eager to know the life histories of the beasts: what particular adaptations they had, how they ate, how they raised their young, and what evolutionary relationships they might have had with one another and with modern - day animals.

Therefore, more studies will be needed before we are able to distinguish the modern species from the older ones.»

Although Lassa fever was first described in modern - day Nigeria in 1969, the current study also suggests that these four LASV strains originated from a common ancestral virus more than 1,000 years ago and spread across West Africa within the last several hundred years.

What's more, genetic studies of modern humans indicate that we are all descended from...

Recent studies of human fossils suggest the brain shrank more quickly than the body in near - modern times.

Kathleen Fitzpatrick, director of scholarly communication for the Modern Language Association and a visiting professor at New York University in New York City who studies how networked communication technologies affect scholarship, found in her experiments that, for authors, interactive peer review is «more work than a traditional review process,» she says.

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.

The study's conclusions are based upon brain activity in modern individuals taught to create two types of ancient tools: simple Oldowan - era «flake tools» — little more than broken rocks with a jagged edge — and more complicated Acheulian - era hand axes, which resemble a large arrowhead.

Modern techniques are far more precise, far more predictable, far more controlled than these older studies.

«Many studies examine the question of what led to this displacement — one hypothesis postulates that the diet of the anatomically modern humans was more diverse and flexible and often included fish.»

A new study led by the University of Southampton and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology shows that paintings in three caves in Spain were created more than 64,000 years ago - 20,000 years before modern humans arrived in Europe.