Sentences with phrase «past studies include»

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Taking into account past patterns of drought and water use, the Columbia study reveals that several major metro areas, including New York City, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles, are at high risk for water scarcity, along with the Great Plains agricultural belt extending from North and South Dakota down to North Texas.

Energy Secretary Rick Perry commissioned the study in April to evaluate whether «regulatory burdens» imposed by past administrations — including that of President Barack Obama — had forced the premature retirement of baseload power plants that provide nonstop power, like those fired by coal and nuclear fuel.

The revision process, which includes conducting environmental impact studies and taking public comments, has taken about two years in the past, said Connie Gillette, chief of public affairs for the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, the unit of the Interior Department that oversees the lease schedule.

The study included two surveys labeled «word of mouth» and «buzz,» which asked respondents whether they had talked about a brand with friends or family members and if they'd noticed more positive or negative sentiments around a brand in the past two weeks, respectively.

Although financial products often include the disclaimer that «past performance is not indicative of future results,» retail traders still believe they can predict the future by studying the past.

The author of a book called The Nordstrom Way to Customer Service Excellence has studied the shop for decades and built a mini-industry of lectures and workshops that aim to help other businesses emulate its success (past clients have included TD Bank, BMO and the Cactus Club Cafe chain).

His other professional acknowledgments include: Institute for Management Studies — Lifetime Achievement Award (one of only two ever awarded), American Management Association - 50 great thinkers and leaders who have influenced the field of management over the past 80 years, BusinessWeek — 50 great leaders in America, Wall Street Journal — top ten executive educators, Forbes — five most - respected executive coaches, Leadership Excellence — top five thinkers on leadership, Economic Times (India)-- top CEO coaches of America, Economist (UK)-- most credible executive advisors in the new era of business, National Academy of Human Resources — Fellow of the Academy (America's top HR award), World HRD Congress — 2011 global leader in HR thinking, Fast Company — America's preeminent executive coach, and Leader to Leader Institute — 2010 Leader of the Future Award.

Your Relationship Manager can give you more information about our Family Enterprise Forum events, including a copy of our research study Women in Asian Family Enterprises: Understanding the past — Looking to the future.

Using fundamental analysis alongside technical analysis — the study of market activity, including past prices and trading volume — can be a powerful combination.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

CT's past coverage of Germany includes interviews with a cabinet member in chancellor Angela Merkel's government about evangelical political engagement, a German church planter who studied under Tim Keller, and a Berlin - based journalist who says that Martin Luther would have driven most of Germany's bishops from their pulpits.

Significantly, the case studies are not limited to those who have always followed the Church's teaching but include many couples who have used artificial contraception in the past but have since ceased to do so and found that the happiness of their marriage was greatly enhanced as a result.

Such process includes human history but includes also the dim past studied by the paleontologist and the distant space of the astronomer.

In the study, children under age 10 who were repeatedly attacked by a sibling in the past year experienced signs of trauma, including sleep problems, depression and fear of the dark.

Over the past three years, Ms. Vuolo has taught classes for young adults on various wellness topics including time management, stress reduction, sleep hygiene, physical fitness, nutrition, mindfulness and study skills.

This past year, the National Diaper Bank Network (NDBN), New Haven, Connecticut, joined with faculty at the Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, to conduct the first peer - reviewed study to quantify diaper need.3 Key findings included the following:

New York State has the greatest gap between rich and poor in the United States.And the most rigorous research over the past 15 years, including studies comparing job growth trends in neighboring counties across state lines with different minimum wages, have found that higher minimum wages do not result in job losses.

In the past couple of years, he said, she's secured $ 162,000 in grant funds, benefiting flood analysis studies and other town projects, which include streamlining a solar application process, and finalizing a six - figure FEMA hurricane claim to pay local contractors who have been waiting four years for reimbursement, among other accomplishments.

He pointed to induced quakes of magnitude 4 or larger in the past year in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Colorado, New Mexico, and Ohio, but said much of this happened too late for the research council to include in its study.»

The governor has given other due dates for the study in the past, including a claim it would be completed by Election Day, but later walked back all of the comments.

During the meeting, Borough President Katz also noted the one year anniversary of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan's April 15, 2015 launch and outlined major milestones of the Jamaica NOW Action Plan in the past year, including the activation of the Bronx - Flushing - Jamaica Q44 Select Bus Service that serves 44,000 New Yorkers daily; the newly - restored paths at Rufus King Park that are part of the first phase of the Park's major capital improvements; redesigned storefronts of local businesses along Sutphin Boulevard (with more on the way); a $ 138,000 «Building Community Capacity» grant toward the formation of the Jamaica Arts Alliance; the release of an RFP to activate the 168th Street Garage into a new, mixed - use development, with the City to announce the winning bid shortly; the launch of the «Jamaica Avenue Streetscape Improvements» study to determine the cost and scope of additional seating, increased plantings and improved pedestrian circulation in the area; and free public Wi - Fi on track by July in the Downtown Jamaica Corridor, the first area in Queens to host LinkNYC.

She uses this knowledge of plants, and specifically their leaf waxes, to document past changes in plant life and rainfall patterns, including studies on the expansion of grasslands in Africa and the revegetation of Antarctica during a prior warming event.

«We asked this population directly why they had thoughts of suicide and death, and what we found contradicted past study findings — the vast majority of participants said factors other than depression including illness, disability, pain, financial concerns, family problems and bereavement are driving these thoughts,» said Dr. Kennedy.

The study published yesterday in Nature Ecology and Evolution analyzed data on more than 11,000 vertebrate species, including fossil records from the past 270 million years.

At the University of Virginia Health System's Division of Perceptual Studies, or DOPS, scientists are studying an array of anomalous phenomena, including near - death experiences, out - of - body experiences, and memories of past lives.

The findings, including the key role played by the prefrontal cortex in coordinating all the activated regions of the brain, are in line with what neuroscientists have pieced together over the past decades from studies in monkeys and humans.

If dozens of human and animal studies published over the past six years are borne out by large clinical trials, nicotine — freed at last of its noxious host, tobacco, and delivered instead by chewing gum or transdermal patch — may prove to be a weirdly, improbably effective drug for relieving or preventing a variety of neurological disorders, including Parkinson's disease, mild cognitive impairment (MCI), Tourette's and schizophrenia.

The new study included 32 severe frostbite patients treated in the university's burn unit over the past seven years.

Preparation and study materials provided by ETS include past tests and allow you to become familiar — even comfortable — with the test format.

Hormone replacement therapy has been controversial over the past few decades as studies have associated it with both health benefits — lowering the risk of osteoporosis and improving some measures of heart health, for example — and risks, including links to cancer and stroke.

But the study was part of a six - year probe by Harvard psychologist Richard McNally and his colleagues into the minds of apparently sane people who believe they have memories of long - repressed events, including sexual abuse, alien abduction, and past lives.

The in - vehicle information system study included 257 people and the smartphone personal assistant study had 65 participants, all with no at - fault accidents during the past five years.

Since 2013, exploration and survey of around 70 cave systems — part of an interdisciplinary study of past human activity on Mona Island — has revealed that Mona's caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in darkzone chambers far from cave entrances.

Bird, Prendini, and co-author Robert Wharton, a professor at Texas A&M University, studied the jaws of 188 camel spider species representing all solifuge families from historical collections at the Museum and elsewhere, including material collected during expeditions by Prendini and Bird over the past decade — no easy feat.

All patients included in the study had not filled an opioid prescription within the past six months.

Since this past February, experts have been reviewing alternative sites, including several that were studied when the TMT began serious planning in the mid-2000s.

Past studies have shown that when an expectant mother exposes herself to alcohol or drug abuse or she experiences some trauma or illness, her baby may later develop a psychiatric disorder, including some forms of autism or post-traumatic stress disorder, later in life.

The study notes some limitations, including a primarily male sample and a lack of specific information regarding past 30 - day use of other illicit drugs and alcohol.

Other variables included the history of fractures in participants, and the use of supplements such as current or past use of calcium and / or vitamin D. Blood test results for vitamin D levels from 1,204 out of the 1,279 participants were also factored into the study.

A new study published in Risk Analysis: An International Journal shows that people's past experiences with tornadoes inform how they approach this type of extreme weather in the future, including their perception of the risk.

DeConto and Pollard's study was motivated by reconstructions of sea level rise during past warm periods including the previous inter-glacial (around 125,000 years ago) and earlier warm intervals like the Pliocene (around 3 million years ago).

Much of the older research — including studies that found more of a protective effect of fruits and vegetables — was done using a case - control method, in which one group (the «cases») already has a condition and is polled about past behaviors and compared with a population that does not have the condition (the «controls»).

This prediction emerges from a new study by Richard Zeebe at the University of Hawai'i who includes insights from episodes of climate change in the geologic past to inform projections of human - made future climate change.

In the wake of this study, Conover also includes a vascular plant survey conducted in the past couple of years that has identified over 387 vascular plant species now growing in Bender Mountain Nature Preserve.

An international team of scientists, led by researchers from the University of Tuebingen and the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, successfully recovered and analyzed ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies dating from approximately 1400 BCE to 400 CE, including the first genome - wide nuclear data from three individuals, establishing ancient Egyptian mummies as a reliable source for genetic material to study the ancient past.

«During the past three years of armed conflict, Yemenis have been continuously exposed to serious harm and trauma, including air strikes, threats and attacks from armed groups, forced disappearances, torture, a cholera epidemic, and food and job insecurity,» said Farea Al - Muslimi, a prominent Yemeni scholar and chairman of the Sana'a Center for Strategic Studies.

The researchers recommended that future studies should collect information on the number of past TBIs (including mild TBIs, as well as exposure to sub-concussive trauma through contact sports and other activities) along with time since TBI, which may play a significant role in cognitive change.

Exploration and surveys of around 70 cave systems — part of an interdisciplinary study of past human activity on Puerto Rico's Mona Island — revealed that Mona's caves include the greatest diversity of preserved indigenous iconography in the Caribbean, with thousands of motifs recorded in dark zone chambers far from cave entrances.

The studies included in the analysis controlled for many variables, including demographics, past attempts to quit, and level of nicotine dependence.

During the last quarter century the rate of diabetes alone has nearly quadrupled in most east and south Asian countries, including China and India, according to South Korean researchers who reviewed past studies in the November 10 Lancet.