Sentences with phrase «of several scientific studies»

This lake has been the subject of several scientific studies, mainly research on environmental toxins, but a new study has made a discovery that links back to Charles Darwin and the Galapagos Islands.

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If you are open to trying new experiences in life, these are some of the benefits you can anticipate based on my own experiences and several scientific studies when taking cold showers:

Several books of the contextual sort also considered the suburban environment: Andrew W. Greeley, The Church and the Suburbs (New York: Sheed & Ward, 1959); Frederick A. Shippey, Protestantism in Suburban Life (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1964); Gaylord Noyce, The Responsible Suburban Church (Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1970); W. Widick Schroeder, Victor Obenhaus, Larry Jones, and Thomas Sweetser, Suburban Religion: Churches and Synagogues in the American Experience (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

Take Your Kids to Church Several scientific studies have found that teens involved in religious activities are half as likely to have substance abuse problems, even if they have a family history of alcoholism.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

We noted that surprisingly many canine inherited disorders are actually more widespread than indicated by their original discovery studies, which opens up the door for several future scientific investigations, explains senior author Dr. Hannes Lohi from the University of Helsinki canine genetics research group.

While the study found broad awareness of marine threats, it also found several areas of disagreement between public perceptions and scientific assessments.

With several years of postdoctoral study under their belts, today's new science faculty members are, in purely scientific terms, better trained than any previous generation of newly independent scientists.

It also presents the results of several years of collaborative scientific study of the paintings.

In the January issue of Environmental Science & Technology the researchers described their efforts mapping nearly 5,900 natural gas leaks of varying severity across 1,500 road miles of Washington, D.C. To learn more about the state of the gas pipelines running through several major U.S. cities — in particular those serving New York City — Scientific American interviewed Robert Jackson, professor of environmental sciences at Stanford and Duke universities and the study's lead author.

A recent study published in Scientific Reports, led by researchers of the University of Barcelona in collaboration with several other research institutions, shows that the direct effect of climate change in regulating fuel moisture (droughts leading to larger fires) is expected to be dominant, regarding the indirect effect of antecedent climate on fuel load and structure - that is, warmer / drier conditions that determine fuel availability.

The pernicious effect of this phenomenon on the trustworthiness of study results has been documented at length in scientific journals themselves in several fields.

A team of researchers from several academic institutions — including the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Yale University, University of Chicago, the American Center for Mongolian Studies, and the National Museum of Mongolia — used a scientific dating technique known as radiocarbon dating to estimate the spread of domestic horse ritual at deer stones and khirigsuurs.

Parchman, who specializes in evolutionary and ecological genetics in in the University's College of Science, is the lead author on a recently published scientific paper in the journal Molecular Ecology detailing the study, a culmination of several years of work with his colleagues Alex Buerkle and Craig Benkman of the University of Wyoming, and Victor Soria - Carrasco of University of Sheffield, UK.

As several of the speakers noted, scientific studies in the past few years have proved the value of potentially powerful new prevention tools.

«The letter continues the decades - long efforts of the scientific community to persuade Congress to act on the climate crisis,» says Sarah Green, a chemistry professor at Michigan Technological University who studies climate change and who is affiliated with of several of the societies that signed the letter.

More than seventy species of macroalgae inhabiting the deep reefs were identified during the study, and several more new species have not yet been assigned formal scientific names.

He has organized several projects on research integrity and scientific misconduct, including more than a dozen workshops for university administrators, bench scientists, post-docs and graduate students and the production of a series of case studies on video for educational use.

We are pleased to report that several new partnerships and scientific collaborations were formed at this workshop, with several of these case studies now moving forward with funding.

He has served on several scientific review study sections of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

The 2013 study, which was led by David Altshuler (now chief scientific officer at Vertex Pharmaceuticals), had shown that one gene in that region, SLC16A11, harbored several suspicious mutations, and more detailed genetic mapping of the region strengthened the case for focusing on it.

Scientific studies have linked the majority of this increased activity to wastewater injection in deep disposal wells in several locations.

Technical coordinator of a national convention in France involving industry and universities on the same subject Since 1992: Organizer of a cycle of international conferences on «Heavy scintillators for scientific and industrial applications» First one in Chamonix, France in 1992 (200 participants), 9th one in Winston Salem (NC, USA) in 2007 (300 participants) 1994 - 2007: As Technical coordinator of the CMS electromagnetic calorimeter at the LHC Large Hadron Collider, responsible for the technical development and the mass production of 76» 000 Lead Tungstate crystals (100 tons) 1994 - 2000: Organizer of the development and mass production organization of Lutetium Aluminum perovskite crystals, in particular for PET scanner applications Since 2000: Strong involvement in the development of dedicated breast imaging camera combining several modalities for a multiparametric evaluation of breast tumors (anatomic, structural and functional) Since 2002: Feasibility study and setting - up of an international medical imaging research centre, presently being built in Marseille (Cerimed)

The Big Red Plasma Ball is one of several WiPPL - managed pieces of scientific equipment being used to study the fundamental properties of plasma in order to better understand the universe.

He was an advocate for human settlement of Mars, worked with NASA on every space expedition over several decades, and edited Icarus, the scientific journal of solar system studies.

She is the author of several peer - reviewed scientific manuscripts, and she is an active member in the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO), the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC), and the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR).

This isn't news to top climate scientists around the world (see Hadley Center: «Catastrophic» 5 — 7 °C warming by 2100 on current emissions path) or even to top climate scientists in this country (see US Geological Survey stunner: Sea - level rise in 2100 will likely «substantially exceed» IPCC projections, SW faces «permanent drying») and certainly not to people who follow the scientific literature, like Climate Progress readers (see Study: Water - vapor feedback is «strong and positive,» so we face «warming of several degrees Celsius»).

There are several scientific studies by universities internationally that suggest the benefits of Turmeric result in amazing and effective healing properties.

He has spent several years studying the anatomy of muscles, how they function and how to optimally build them, which has resulted in his scientific approach to training each individual area of his body.

While several benefits of HGH have been clinically proven, the «effect» on penis size can be a topic of huge debate mainly because there are no scientific studies done on it except a few like this one which was done on young boys with growth hormone deficiency.

As, stated before, there are several scientific studies showing the benefits of MCT's as part of a weight management regimen.

This personally seems to cause less bad breath afterwards, and several scientific studies actually confirm the strategy.72 Specifically eating foods high in water and fat after garlic seems to have the largest deodorizing effect.73 Unfortunately, in a cruel twist of fate, the strong and offensive smell of garlic often parallels the level of beneficial sulfur.74 Finally, if all else fails, a little swish and swallow of baking soda seems to adequately lessen the intensity of garlic and onion breath.

Several scientific studies are currently underway to explore the healing potential of aloe for such ailments like, ulcerative colitis and diabetes.

Almost all, from Wikipedia re Liver (food): «There have been several anecdotal reports and a few scientific studies of vitamin A poisoning due to the consumption of the livers of polar bears, seals and huskies.

Did you know that several scientific studies have revealed that synthetic forms of certain vitamins can possibly have harmful effects in your body?

Several scientific studies show that moderate coffee consumption is associated with a reduced risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

During World War II, a scientific study was performed wherein 36 men volunteered for a semi-starvation diet of 1,500 calories a day for 6 months, combined with several hours of hard labor every day.

To identify scientific articles to include in the meta - analysis, the researchers followed three steps: First, they conducted a search of several bibliographic databases (e.g., MEDLINE, Current Contents, EMBASE, CAB Abstracts, and Core Biomedical Collection) for studies published between 1966 and 2000.

Helen Fisher, Biological Anthropologist and member of the Center for Human Evolutionary Studies at Rutgers University, has served as Chief Scientific Advisor to Match.com for several years.

Teachers, parents, and the several scientific studies blame these simple pieces of code for students» short attention span, lack of focus, bad memory, sleepiness, and self - obsession.

The scientific research trend called «course of action» is presented, along with a brief summary of several studies conducted in the context of initial teacher education in France, which point out the respective contributions of four distinct video - based approaches to professional development for educating new teachers.

Prerequisite skills and capabilities include, but are not limited to, proficiency in reading a range and type of material, with an emphasis on informational texts; fluent writing in several modes, most notably expository, descriptive and argumentative; quantitative literacy through algebra and including geometry, combined with the ability to understand and interpret data; a understanding of the scientific method and some insight into the organization of knowledge in the sciences; an awareness of how social systems operate and how they are studied; basic proficiency in a second language and awareness that languages reflect cultures; and experiences in and appreciation of creative and expressive arts.

I've thoroughly reviewed Blackwell's study and several accompanying papers, have taken an extensive look at all claimed negative consequences of dog shock collars and whether there's some good scientific evidence on the pros of using dog training collars aside from the arguments made by author Steven R Lindsay.

Note that the following succinct review of recommendations has appeared in the literature and been presented at national conferences over the past several years; however, the recommendations have not consistently been subjected to scientific scrutiny and often represent expert opinion rather than results of published studies.

Other specialized blood tests that detect DNA of the organism, such as Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) a technique used in molecular biology to amplify a single copy or a few copies of a piece of DNA across several orders of magnitude, generating thousands to millions of copies of a particular DNA sequence and serologythe scientific study or diagnostic examination of blood serum, especially with regard to the response of the immune system to pathogens or introduced substances, are helpful.

The groundbreaking formula is the culmination of years of research into the scientific application of natural ingredients in animal health that found several naturally occurring fungi and algae that have been academically studied and proven to be strong players in supporting the factors that ultimately lead to a long + healthy life for animals.

Several studies reported in peer - reviewed scientific journals have demonstrated that raw or undercooked animal - source protein may be contaminated with a variety of pathogenic organisms, including Salmonella, Campylobacter, Clostridium, Escherichia coli, Listeria, and Staphylococcus.

Though it is difficult to associate a particular style with her work, several concurrent themes can be identified within her oeuvre, such as sexuality, the place of craft and mechanization in art as well as her fascination with ethnographic and scientific studies.

There have been several recent cases of putatively peer - reviewed studies in the scientific literature that produced unjustified or invalid conclusions.

Several weeks ago an international scientific study published new and harder evidence that one of the planet's key heat pumps, the currents which exchange warmth between the tropics and the Arctic, are weaker today than at any time in the last millennium.