Sentences with phrase «past studies examining»

The problem, according to Sugihara, is that past studies examining flu prevalence have failed to look at it as a whole natural system, instead trying to analyze the impact of individual pieces like temperature and humidity.

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Last year, there were only 14 IPOs in Canada compared to 73 in 2010, according to a study from PricewaterhouseCoopers, which examined Canada's capital markets over the past four years.

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.

During the past five years, Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education (with support from Lilly Endowment Inc.) has been intensively examining theological faculty.

She told the jury that BPI's lean finely textured beef (LFTB) is meat, is beef, is nutritious and is entirely safe to eat... In the past four years, Brashears said, she not only examined everything she could find about BPI, but also conducted her own studies.

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.

This study, which documents the oldest known case of an eco-cultural niche expansion, demonstrates that the processes that allowed our species to develop modern behaviours must be examined at regional scales and in conjunction with past climatic data.

Numerous studies during the past few decades have examined how to minimize the possibility that witnesses will finger an innocent person, and they have settled on showing people the photographs one by one, instead of all together.

They examined 18 studies from the past 60 years, and found overwhelming evidence that honey can help speed up healing and prevent infection.

While past research has tended to focus only on specific sports or genders, this study examined whether the prevalence of symptoms varied between gender and across nine different sports: baseball / softball, basketball, cheerleading, crew, field hockey, lacrosse, track and field, soccer and tennis.

Task force members studied best - in - class conduct processes of other universities, reviewed current research in the field, and examined data about past WSU conduct cases.

«Most of the past research into the harmful effects of low vitamin D has focused on the elderly, but relatively few studies have examined this association in the elite athlete,» Rebolledo said in a Scripps news release.

Dozens of studies over the past few years have examined the purported benefits of eating like our ancestors, many with promising results.

The authors — who were «shocked» at the results — looked at studies published in the past five years that examine the relationship between diet soda consumption and health outcomes:

Although a few studies in the past have examined the link between brain health and trans fats, this study by Oregon Health and Science University in Portland was the first to measure blood levels of trans fats in relation to brain volume using MRI brain scans.

This study examined the impact of a 6 - week expressive writing course led by John Evans, EdD, on measures of resilience, perceived stress, rumination, and depression in a population of 39 individuals who self - identified as having experienced a traumatic event within the past year.

Just three studies over the past two decades examined the relationship between appropriations and tuition using the same methodological standards applied to test the Bennett Hypothesis, and two of the three did so only tangentially.

Overview Over the past several months, AYPF conducted in - depth studies to examine how three high - achieving youth - serving programs utilize data as a tool for continuous program improvement and ongoing accountability.

Her past project work also includes National Charter School Resource Center Task Order 1, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development, the Teaching and California's Future study, and a study examining local partnerships in support of arts education.

This research examines the literature on the effectiveness of computers in social studies instruction and learning and assesses the trends and patterns of technology use in the social studies over the past five years.

This is why for the past 30 years, J.D. Power has published its Initial Quality Study that examines the number of problems experienced by vehicle owners within the first 90 days.

Capital Group, based in Los Angeles, in a study released today, argued that its stock - picking mutual funds outperformed their benchmark indexes in the majority of almost 30,000 periods examined over the past 80 years.

Recently, the APA task force released a meta - research study, which examined past studies about violent video games causing aggression.

Mike's work, like that of previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed by a study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).

However, with recent developments in modelling approaches and computational resources examining the potential impacts of changes in storminess has become feasible, as exemplified by studies of Muis et al (2016), who used the first dynamic global storm surge model to simulate past water levels for the global coast, or Vousdoukas et al (2016), who simulated future storm surge changes along the entire European coast.

This study examined farmers» adaptive measures to climate change induced natural shocks through past climate experiences in the Mekong River Delta (Vietnam) from a data set of 330 farmers.

If past patterns of precipitation variability remain stable in the near term, then it is probable that precipitation and flows in the Salt - Verde watersheds will shift into wetter conditions within the timeframe examined in this study [66].

Global Produced Water Treatment Systems Market: Overview The market study on the global produced water treatment systems market examines past and...

A new NASA / British Antarctic Survey study examines why Antarctic sea ice cover has increased under the effects of climate change over the past two decades.

The study was carried out as part of the HELIX project, which involves more than 50 scientists from 16 institutions in 13 countries who have spent the past four years examining the potential impacts of global temperatures rising an average of 1.5 °C, 2 °C, 4 °C, and 6 °C compared to pre-industrial levels.

-- For the locations in the contiguous U.S. examined in this study, the past six years (POR 2011 - 2016) have seen average annual temperatures that are 1.2 °F above the current 30 - year climatological average used by NOAA (1981 - 2010).

But a new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, and being highlighted by New Scientist, contends that at least in the case of tropical forests, those owned by local communities have been protected far better than those managed by government: The study, claimed to be the first of its kind, was done by Ashwini Chhatre and Arun Agrawal from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign and examined what's happened to 80 forests in 10 countries worldwide over the past 15 years — only 10 % of which were owned by forest communities themselves.

In a new study, published in the March 2 issue of the journal of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, researchers led by Stanford professor Noah Diffenbaugh examined the role that temperature has played in California droughts over the past 120 years.

Authors of a recent study published in Science Advances used paleoclimate data to examine how rainfall patterns have responded to past climate shifts.

He went on to assert that the study, which examines temperature records over the past 1,000 years, shows that «there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that long - term warming over the next 100 years is going to be anything even noticeable, abnormal.»

Individual scientists, institutional officials, and scholars in the social studies of science over the past decade have suggested that various factors lead to or encourage misconduct in science, but the influence of any individual factor or combination of suggested factors has not been examined systematically.

The study did not examine how Republican voters respond to liberal messages for action on climate change — but past research has attempted this, and the answer isn't exactly pretty.

CCLA also recommends that the data collection and study be expanded to examine racial profiling in pedestrian stops, and that all past and future data should be the subject of strict retention, privacy and destruction measures.

Comparative legal studies seems to be a popular subject on the site, and the post from this past Friday by Faisal Kutty of Valparaiso University examines what we can do when the «Islamists» are here to stay,

Our findings add insight into the pathways linking early childhood adversity to poor adult wellbeing.29 Complementing past work that focused on physical health, 9 our findings provide information about links between ACEs and early childhood outcomes at the intersection of learning, behavior, and health.29 We found that ACEs experienced in early childhood were associated with poor foundational skills, such as language and literacy, that predispose individuals to low educational attainment and adult literacy, both of which are related to poor health.23, 30 — 33 Attention problems, social problems, and aggression were also associated with ACEs and also have the potential to interfere with children's educational experience given known associations between self - regulatory behavior and academic achievement.34, 35 Consistent with the original ACE study and subsequent research, we found that exposure to more ACEs was associated with more adverse outcomes, suggesting a dose — response association.3 — 8 In fact, experiencing ≥ 3 ACEs was associated with below - average performance or problems in every outcome examined.

During the past several years, the PSC has seen widening use and was evaluated recently for use nationally.23 However, few studies have carefully evaluated the use of the PSC in low - income minorities, 8,24 and even fewer have specifically examined the utility of the PSC in low — socioeconomic status (SES), Spanish - speaking, Hispanic populations.14, 25

Most research (including past research involving the sample used for this study) has examined the behavioral and developmental consequences of child abuse.25 - 27 A recently published review of articles about childhood exposure to intimate partner violence found no data that established a clear link between intimate partner violence exposure and child physical health.28

This study examined the Mom's Empowerment Program with children and their mothers exposed to intimate partner violence (IPV) during the past year.

The current study extended past research by examining the effects of two theoretically and empirically supported cognitive vulnerabilities to depression (negative cognitive style and rumination) as predictors of dependent interpersonal and achievement events, independent events, and relational peer victimization.

In this paper we (a) critically examine the current status of available theories, research, and methods related to the study of gender and psychopathology and provide recommendations for future work; (b) identify promising new trends that appear to have utility for enhancing our understanding of the role of gender in the development of adjustment difficulties; and (c) generate conclusions regarding gender and psychopathology by integrating information from past and present work with new ideas about fruitful directions for future inquiry.

In order to address theoretical and empirical gaps in past research, the primary aim of the present study was to examine the role that perceived control played in both diathesis - stress and transactional models of depression in Canadian adolescents.