Sentences with phrase «past studies of»

However, past studies of such Arctic mixed - phase clouds have been unable to explain the measured abundance of ice crystals larger than 100 micrometers in maximum dimension (the size range where measurements are available), given observed environmental conditions and the measured concentrations of ice nuclei that could be entrained into the observed shallow cloud layers from aloft.

As past studies of groundwater flows at the site have shown, the contaminated water will migrate to the river over the course of several months.

«Past studies of this kind have essentially assumed that all PM 2.5 particles have the same toxicity, irrespective of their source,» lead investigator George Thurston, a professor of population health and environmental medicine, said in a Langone news release.

Past studies of Enceladus have involved the NASA / ESA Cassini spacecraft, which has detected molecules like methanol by directly flying into the plumes.

Past studies of precision grasping in primates have focused on digit posture — contact between the hand and the object — or the length of the thumb relative to the fingers.

Past studies of high - fat diets have yielded somewhat mixed results in rodents, says Ralph DiLeone, a neurobiologist at Yale University.

But past studies of potential lunar effects have been tainted by statistical weaknesses, biases, or inconsistent methods, Cajochen says.

They then compared these two sets of data to each other and to past studies of humans and pets.

Past studies of overflight impacts have documented penguins running away from nests, executing «head movements,» and changing heart rates and body temperatures.

Past studies of individuals near Hawaii and Costa Rica have found that false killer whales are social animals that can maintain friendships — swimming, hunting and cavorting — for years.

Past studies of skeletal remains from the many prehistoric burials in the Stonehenge area have also shown higher than normal rates of disease.The presence of dwellings would also be consistent with the possibility that ailing pilgrims from distant reaches once flocked to the monuments.

But the agency punched back against the report, saying the comptroller's office misrepresented their efforts, cherry - picked data and that their findings conflicted with past studies of the agency.

Swain's work is built on past studies of the responses of adult brains to infant crying.

Based on his review of prominent past studies of business excellence, he finds that: Keep Reading

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A recent study from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School found such «intertemporal markers» help motivate us in two ways: offering an opportunity to separate ourselves from past «misbehaviour» and disrupting our attention from day - to - day details to focus on the big picture.

Retail, not mining, has borne the brunt of the slowdown in Western Australia during the past 12 months, with a study of the state's economy by the investment bank Goldman Sachs revealing a startling decline in retail jobs of more than 20 per cent.

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.

According to the study, authored by Vivek Wadhwa, an Indian - American entrepreneur and academic, who is currently vice president of academics and innovation at Singularity University, the proportion of immigrant - founded companies across the country has fallen nearly 4 % in the past seven years.

Last week, a study published by the Kauffman Foundation using census data from the past 50 years, revealed some eye - opening statistics about the number of immigrant - led companies in America.

For this first - of - a-kind study, Pew surveyed adults who use prepaid cards at least once a month and found that 59 percent currently have a checking account and 45 percent had used a credit card in the past year.

That's the recommendation of Diane Vincent, a senior editor at Exam Master Corp., a publisher of medical - study tools in Middletown, Del. «Although our products were still in the development stage, we attended two fairs this past year: first a small one in Wilmington, and then the larger Mid-Atlantic Venture Fair, in Philadelphia,» she explains.

But according to a new study, if the problem was more personal, such as a weakness of character or failure of self - discipline, picking over the bones of the past isn't going to yield insights.

«In sum, the findings of all studies reveal that consumers only show better self - control following reflection on their past under very specific conditions - when they recall their past self - control successes easily,» the research release reports.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

A new study from Wealth - X and UBS finds that the global population of billionaires has surged past 2,000.

«Based on a series of studies performed by our team over the past 5 years, this «dose» of exercise has become my prescription for life,» Benjamin Levine, a professor of internal medicine at the University of Texas Southwestern who wrote the study, said in a statement.

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.

In fact, the authors of the study, who looked at wage data covering all U.S. companies from 1978 to 2012, found that the wage gap between the average worker at individual companies and the highest ranking executives (CEOs and other C - suiters) at those firms had only grown by a «small amount» in the past three - and - a-half decades.

A recent Forrester study determined that 57 percent of businesses surveyed had no idea what this cost was, with over 30 percent saying they experienced a disaster in the past five years.

About 95 % of managers Jolly has studied over the past 10 years, both in his MBA classes and his coaching practice, suffer from the ailment, defined as the constant need to do more, faster, even when there's no objective reason to be in such a rush.

VICE News made numerous email and telephone queries over the past month to spokespeople for the Army, the Navy, and the Department of Defense seeking comment on the Army Institute of Public Health study and the treatment of troops before and after their deployment to Guantanamo.

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.

While that will undoubtedly help students and scientists save tons of time sifting through articles on PubMed, Meta can also help organizations decide where to direct their research budgets by identifying trends in certain areas of study or finding authors who have shown promising work in the past.

Moody's studied 37 oil and gas companies in Canada and the U.S., concluding that although the oil industry has dramatically slashed its cost of production in the past three years and is currently in the midst of posting much better financials this year, there is little room left for more progress.

If you're in the kind of a job where maybe someone else can look at the record of what you've done in the past and — based on looking at that, studying it, practicing it and repeating it — they could learn your job, then there's a good chance that an algorithm could also do that.

The study authors created an algorithm which «looked at roughly 44,000 Instagram photos posted by 166 study participants — 71 of whom were diagnosed with depression in the past.

Greenland's coastal glaciers and ice caps have passed a pivotal tipping point — a new study concludes that they've melted so much that they're now past the point of no return, and it's unlikely in current conditions that they'll be able to regrow the ice they've lost.

To arrive at these results, Danforth and Reece's team looked at roughly 44,000 Instagram photos posted by 166 study participants — 71 of whom were diagnosed with depression in the past.

I've seen studies that suggest the percentage of Americans who report chronic feelings of loneliness has risen over the past few decades.

«Over the past 15 years, led by California, 15 states plus the District of Columbia have adopted laws permitting some form of marijuana consumption or distribution for medical use,» notes the See Change Strategy study.

Indeed, a recent study suggests the number of retail gas stations has been slowly dropping over the past two decades, with a «continued lack of profitability» as the driving force behind the decline.

Just 8 % of hires over the past decade - and - a-half have been women, according to the study.

A recent study published in the Journal of Consumer Research found that people who were asked to think about the past were willing to pay more for products than those who were asked to think about new or future memories; another experiment showed an increased willingness to give more money to others after recalling a nostalgic event.

Given all the changes over the past three decades, Davidoff citing a study of the impact of New York financial transaction taxes from 1932 to 1981 is interesting from a historical perspective but not much more.

With global soup sales declining steadily over the past half of a decade, a new study indicates that an iconic packaging format may be to blame.

In A First - Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness (Penguin), the Tufts academic psychiatrist and Harvard Medical School lecturer, offers a collection of case studies of revered political and business leaders from the past century and a half.

The drug is called Acthar, and for the past year it has been the focus of a study by the Oregon Health and Science University School of Medicine and Oregon State that has been trying to understand why doctors keep prescribing it for ailments it has never been proved to treat effectively.

Over the past 12 years, I've studied the psychology of what stops people from becoming world - class performers.

While the notion of self - awareness as a route to self - improvement can be traced as far back as 600 B.C., she says, it has been only in the past four decades or so that psychologists and others have truly studied it — and tried to understand it on a scientific basis.

«Even if you look past the cruelty of ripping apart families and just see this through the lens of a businessperson, study after study have shown that our economy needs DACA workers.