Sentences with phrase «parallel studies of»

«Based on a parallel study of the same eight middle schools, 90 percent of à la carte foods were compliant with the standards after implementation, an increase from 36 percent compliance before the standards,» Serrano stated.

This approach parallels our study of «normal» illusions — by understanding misperceptions, whether for intact or damaged systems, we gain insight into brain processes involved in perception.

Not exact matches

To further fast - track development, Holland said the company had begun environmental baseline work that he hoped to submit in parallel with the completion of the prefeasibility study.

It offers an oppor - tunity to study systematically the interaction of several copyright issues: including the rights (or lack thereof) of exclusive licensees as plaintiffs in parallel import situations, the distinction between exclusive licensees and assignees, the nature of works of authorship, the characteristics of copy - right infringement, the status of copyrightable works when used as trade - marked logos, the limits (if any) of concurrent copyright and trade - mark protection, and even the distinction between trade - mark, copyright, and patent as autonomous yet related legal regimes.

The Director of The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Professor Azim Nanji, who chaired the conference, said: «the purpose of the conference was to explore how music enables a deeper understanding and appreciation of the parallels and exchanges among the three traditions.»

Studies point to the decline of Muslim birthrates in ways that parallel other populations worldwide.

Researchers in parallel studies in Australia, New Zealand, and England looked at the same pooled data and recommended strongly to avoid the low oxygen levels because of this increased mortality.

The Kinsey studies, for all their narrowing of attention to sex as biological function, have few parallels in man's search for objective knowledge of himself.

The interpretation developed in the base Christian communities was paralleled by the work of theologians and biblical scholars, who articulated the principles of liberation hermeneutics in a series of important studies (see, especially Leonardo Boff and Clodovis Boff, Introducing Liberation Theology, and J. Severino Croatto, Biblical Hermeneutics: Toward a Theory of Reading in the Production of Meaning).

To believe or disbelieve the historical accuracy of the Gospels, you must study them on the strength of their own historical evidence, not because of their real (or supposed) parallels to pagan myths.

Thus «religion» is not to be regarded primarily as a special subject of study, parallel to geography and physics, but as a life orientation to be effected in and through all special studies.

«The importance of studying parallels lies in providing a check against isolating the Hebrew prophet from his specific historical context as if his text represented a timeless religious literature that floated above all historical particularity,» he writes.

However, embryonic stem cells remain the «gold standard,» and studies of all types of stem cells should continue in parallel for the foreseeable future.»

Ken Olson, «Eusebius of Caesarea Tradition and Innovations», Center for Hellenic Studies, distributed by Harvard University Press (2013), wrote «Both the language and the content have close parallels in the work of Eusebius of Caesarea, who is the first author to show any knowledge of the text.

More to the point is the fact that the study of Israel's contemporary cultures provides numerous parallels to the conduct of the Hebrew priest, and several to aspects of prophecy.

In this connection it is fascinating to notice that, parallel to the rise of the interest in futuristic studies in society, the religious community has witnessed the emergence of various «theologies of hope.»

Form criticism, building on the foundations of the immense comparative studies of the religionsgeschichtliche Schule, dismissed the stories as typical products of the legend - making propensities of ancient religious movements, to be paralleled in both Jewish and Hellenistic religious literature.

We tried to gather all of these strands together, and what emerged was a comprehensive development with five thrusts: the new building; the new Center for Advanced Religious and Theological Studies; endowed research posts; the parallel development of the consortium of theological seminaries in Cambridge; and curriculum development.

They are the ones a congregational study team will use in discerning the structure of the congregational story and its mythic parallels.

The second major factor that contributed to the growing interest in the study of wisdom literature is the identification of the wisdom parallels among the neighbouring cultures of Israelxxix.

(The two studies by Dennis and Robinson parallel each other to a large extent and reach similar conclusions with regard to the audiences of religious programs in these locations and in this period.)

With this introduction, we will look at the extent of the Wisdom Tradition in the Biblical books, the renewed interest of the scholars in the wisdom studies, and the Wisdom parallels in the Ancient Near Eastern Cultures.

In this essay a good deal of the emphasis upon the encounter with the historical Jesus by means of an existentialist historiography was quietly dropped, and attention was more sharply focused on the basic parallel between the message of Jesus and the kerygma of the early Church, and on the significance of scholarly study of the message of Jesus for the Church.

See a parallel account in Cobb's «Intellectual Autobiography,» Religious Studies Review 19 (1993): 9 - 11; and the reviews of his contributions by Delwin Brown and Linell Cady in Religious Studies Review 19 (1993): 11 - 17.

When one studies the history of cultural evolution and the changes that have been wrought in the church, the parallels are striking.

Towards the beginning of this century there was great enthusiasm for the comparative study of religions; it was often conducted by scholars who believed that when they had discovered parallels to early Christian expressions, ideas, institutions or rites in other religions they had shown that the Christian phenomena were derived from these other religions and also that their meaning within Christianity was essentially the same as it was within the other religion or religions.

Whitehead was apparently the first to wonder why this plane - like geometry should not be applicable in nature, when its parallel, the point - like geometry, is so ubiquitous; he did begin noticing projective elements in the science of statics, and F. Klein's student, E. Study, explored the «plane-wise» representation of mechanical rotation, an idea further developed by G. Adams (in unpublished manuscripts).

Anthony Samsel and Stephanie Seneff, the authors of a study, point out that this rise in celiac disease parallels the increase in the use of Roundup which contains glyphosate, and the effects of glyphosate are identical to those for celiac disease.

The study comes on the heels of a 2013 clinical trial that showed rice protein paralleled whey protein in its ability to build muscle and improve strength and power for the first time.

Both the flaws and profound repercussions of the Tornello & Emery study parallel those of McIntosh, which my colleague Paul Millar and I enumerated in our rejoinder to the article.

«There's now a parallel boom in research,» said Steingraber, who says the first four months of 2014 saw more studies published than all of 2011 and 2012 combined.

If that sounds a little like Sanders» run at Clinton this year, it's a parallel both Democratic presidential candidates» campaigns recognized: the rival sides reportedly studied the results of the 2014 primary as guide to winning New York in April.

Because Virgo's detector isn't oriented parallel to the LIGO detectors, scientists could study the polarization of the waves — the specific pattern by which they stretch and squeeze spacetime — for the first time.

A parallel study in England initially looked more promising, but recently leukemia struck one of its participants as well.

AAU's approval of this report meant that our work on postdoctoral education at Berkeley, which was going on in parallel with the AAU study, also had the highly visible, official blessing from our chancellor.

«The parallels in echolocation between the bats and the dolphins are striking,» says Brock Fenton, who studies the evolution of bat bones linked with echolocation at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.

Studies of chimpanzees, monkeys, newborn chicks, salamanders and even honeybees point to two parallel systems for representing quantities.

In parallel, a European - funded project called Metahit studied the guts of 124 people and found more than 1,000 bacterial species.

In a preliminary new study, psychoneuro - immunologist Lee Berk and his team at Loma Linda University in California show that the parallels between laughing and exercise go even further: Shifts in appetite hormones following a case of the giggles resemble the effects of a moderate session at the gym.

«We were able to study the transplant sites in parallel and really look at the pros and cons of each to compare the survival rates of the cells in each area,» said Weaver.

The strangest version of all parallel universe proposals is one that emerged gradually over 30 years of theoretical studies on the quantum properties of black holes.

Findings from this study of flu vaccines delivered by a small needle intradermally parallel earlier results that found adding a strain of influenza B could improve the effectiveness of a flu vaccine nasal spray and a traditional intramuscular vaccine that is injected as a shot in the arm muscle.

With the rapid rise of esophageal adenocarcinoma paralleling the disappearance of the microbe in developed countries, a slew of studies have emerged over the past decade examining the potential role of H. pylori in preventing this cancer.

Since 1990, «breast cancer rates dropped in parallel with hormone use just as it rose in parallel to it,» says oncologist Andrew Glass, lead author of the study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

This study, published in the journal Molecular Ecology Resources, presents a revolutionary tool to process a very large number of samples in parallel, allowing wide coverage of the monitored sites in a reduced time and at a lower cost.

Men and women in Willett's studies whose diets most closely paralleled the Healthy Eating Pyramid's guidelines lowered their risk of major chronic disease by 20 percent and 11 percent respectively, according to an article published in the December 2002 issue of The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.

Next to the mathematical modeling as in the recent study Markus Diesmann and his team therefore work in parallel on the creation of simulation software for the new generation of computers.

A study co-led by Ryuichi Shigemoto, Professor at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (IST Austria), with Alain Marty, Professor at Université Paris Descartes, uncovers that a single docking site may use a single cluster of calcium channels and that both the number of docking sites and the number of calcium clusters change in parallel with brain age.

CT - P13 has previously demonstrated pharmacokinetic (PK) equivalence to INX in the PLANETAS trial, a randomised double - blind, parallel group study of 250 patients with AS, and was recently approved by the European Medicines Agency.

While information on patients» actual postsurgical weight loss was not available in the analyzed data, the drop in exacerbations paralleled the weight loss reported in previous studies of bariatric surgery results.