Sentences with phrase «past studies rely»

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The team's approach relied on methods developed in the past decade or so to study «functional connectivity» in the adult human brain — essentially using fMRI to determine which brain regions have synchronized activity when the subject is not engaged in any particular task.

In addition to this limitation, the study involved patients at a single hospital and could not control for all possible influences on heart attack risk since data relied on medical records of past heart attacks.

In the past, nutritional scientists have largely relied on studies of animals, small groups of people, and / or petri - dish biochemistry that may not reflect the vagaries of human metabolism, although Willett uses such studies when he deems it appropriate.

Past studies that have relied on eyewitness records alone have had limited success, said Allen.

The work relies on and complements the work of Benkman, who has spent his career, the past 30 to 40 years, studying these birds and their habitats.

To better their survival chances, entrepreneurs and owners of small businesses in rural areas must successfully pitch their ventures to «faraway, unknown banking officials» rather than relying on local lenders as in the past, according to a Baylor University study.

Past studies had relied on either one year or a limited number of years of data with projections and did not estimate the effect of field of study on lifetime earnings for those who have an advanced degree.

Past research suggests that the mere presence of others seems to have an effect on drinking behaviour, but most of those studies relied on data gathered from experiments performed in artificial laboratory settings or from surveys conducted after drinking sessions have ended, which are notoriously inaccurate.

«Understanding how these important marine ecosystems that we rely on for food and medicines evolved in the past gives us new insight into how to protect them in the future,» said UM Rosenstiel School alumnus and lead author of the study David Weinstein.

In order to verify or disprove this thesis, in their first study Stavrova and Luhmann relied on the data of the General Social Survey (GSS) from the past forty years.

As educators who have spent over 20 years researching, observing and studying classroom practice, we are even more convinced that many of the past practices in classroom observation relied on snapshot observations made by supervisors with little professional or academic learning.

The only studies that consistently find positive effects of resources are those that rely on student performance and school data averaged across all students and schools in a state.These aggregate studies, of which the RAND study is one, rely on limited data and are prone to serious statistical shortcomings, so they have been heavily discounted in the past.

This flaw is due in no small part to the blinkered nature of past research on the stability and heritability of IQ, which has relied heavily on studies of twins.

Ratio analysis relies on financial statements to study the past and develop a feel for a company's attractiveness.

I'm not one for really relying on past studies.

Access Copyright recently signed new copyright agreements with the University of Toronto and Western University despite the fact many post-secondary institutions said this past summer that they were walking away from the tariff currently in place with the collective, claiming they already license the works or could rely on fair dealing for research private study and eventually education.