Sentences with phrase «pattern of recent studies»

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Recent studies indicate that while spending patterns shift in retirement, the overall trend in real dollars is down, and for the majority of retirees in the middle and upper income quintiles, they may find themselves with income that exceeds their spending.

That's the conclusion of «Marketing to the Post-Recession Consumers,» a recent study by Decitica, which reveals diverse reactions to the recession resulting in a variety of new «normal» spending patterns.

As a result of this all too typical pattern of unjust land distribution, for example, 77 percent of the land in El Salvador, where fourteen families control the wealth, is suffering from erosion, according to a recent study.25 A more just distribution of land would greatly reduce the negative impact on the environment.

A recent study of Hispanic churches revealed a consistent pattern among this group (the largest of America's minority groups, one continually replenished by immigrants): Hispanics, whether Catholic or Protestant, tend to be conservative on issues of sexual morality but liberal on issues of the economy and minority rights.

A recent study from researchers at Oxford University published in the medical journal The Lancet looked at how changing weather patterns will affect the planet's ability to grow enough food to adequately feed the global population, and the results are terrifying: They predicted that because of large scale agricultural changes, 247,970 could die in China alone by the year 2050.

We have in the sociological literature a rich tradition of field work, including in recent years a large number of participant - observer studies conducted in new religious movements and an increasing number of congregational studies, many of which have paid close attention to the ways in which religious symbols (both verbal and behavioral) are patterned.

Another bright note for organic dairy producers is that a recent study of U.S. consumer demand for milk shows that organic milk demand is price elastic, and that the substitution pattern between organic and conventional milk with differing fat content shows greater movement toward organic milk than back to conventional milk (Li, Peterson, and Xia, 2012).

The above quote, taken from a news story in the Temple University website, suggests that Dr. Weinraub, author of a recent and widely reported study on infant and toddler sleep and night waking patterns, sees only one possible solution for parents who are stressed by their babies» nightwaking.

For instance, in one recent study, adolescents who had been coached by their mothers showed a pattern of decreasing behavior problems over time (Shortt et al 2010).

Even if there had been a clear pattern between overnighting and the attachment ratings, interpreting the data would have been problematic for several reasons, some of which have been noted in a recent critique of the study (Millar & Kruk, in press).

While natural patterns of certain atmospheric and ocean conditions are already known to influence Greenland melt, the study highlights the importance of a long - term warming trend to account for the unprecedented west Greenland melt rates in recent years.

The study estimates the carbon implications of recent changes in the country's economic development patterns and role in international trade since the global financial crisis.

Recent studies have found that patterns of neural activity seen when an animal is learning a new task are replayed later during sleep.

Recent findings do suggest that healthy younger adults can improve their smarts as well: The ability of twentysomethings to solve patterning problems improved after practicing on unrelated memory tests, one University of Michigan study found.

«Improved understanding of the spatial patterns of change over the three periods studied are vital for understanding the causes of recent events,» he said.

Interestingly, a variant of the WNT10A gene associated with lower levels of its protein's expression has been linked to a greater likelihood of male pattern baldness, according to a recent genome - wide association study.

The study compared weather patterns during low sea ice conditions as seen in recent years to weather patterns during high sea ice conditions typical of the late 1970s.

The dramatic retreat of Arctic sea ice in recent years is changing disease patterns, altering the local food web and lowering the region's ability to reflect sunlight, according to two new studies.

Recent studies have hinted that e-reading might disrupt sleep patterns — although most research finds the effect only after several hours of screen time before bed.

Regardless of the exact transmission pattern, the study authors say China is facing a substantial dengue threat, with potential invasion into broader areas of the country, as sporadic cases have been identified in several provinces in recent years.

Similarly, if as a number of recent studies suggest, anthropogenic climate forcing leads to a greater tendency for the positive phase of the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO)[or related «Arctic Oscillation» (AO)-RSB- pattern, we would expect increased baroclinicity and storminess over a substantial region of the mid-latitude North Atlantic ocean and neighboring western Europe..

In a pair of recent studies, scientists looked at the sleep patterns of four groups of people.

A recent study shows that male - pattern baldness may be caused by a lack of progenitor cells in hair follicles.

The new study, detailed in the March 13 issue of the journal Science, suggests that the persistent patterns that drove this and other prolonged heat waves in recent years may have their roots in the the rapid warming of the Arctic.

Another recent study of children aged 9 — 18 found mixed patterns of hypo - and hyper - connectivity between ROIs across the entire brain (Rudie et al., 2013).

Recent advances in the scale and diversity of population genomic datasets for bacteria now provide the potential for genome - wide patterns of co-evolution to be studied at the resolution of individual bases.

Statistically, the pattern is too extreme to be considered a result of chance, found a new study, which pointed a finger directly at global warming as the underlying cause of the recent spike in extra-hot summers.

In a recent study published in the journal Nature Communications, Shapiro and his colleagues introduced a method to correlate magnetic field patterns in tissue, which occur on micrometer scales, with the larger, millimeter - scale features of MRI images.

A recent study looked at data from 13 existing studies that followed the health patterns of 530,469 women and 244,483 men over 20 years.

Among the more convincing of these studies are the recent prospective investigations showing that stronger adherence to traditional healthy dietary patterns is associated with a 25 to 30 % lower risk of depression [16, 17].

The delicate balance between the human microbiome and the development of psychopathologies is particularly interesting given the ease with which the microbiome can be altered by external factors, such as diet, 23 exposure to antimicrobials24, 25 or disrupted sleep patterns.26 For example, a link between antibiotic exposure and altered brain function is well evidenced by the psychiatric side - effects of antibiotics, which range from anxiety and panic to major depression, psychosis and delirium.1 A recent large population study reported that treatment with a single antibiotic course was associated with an increased risk for depression and anxiety, rising with multiple exposures.27 Bercik et al. 28 showed that oral administration of non-absorbable antimicrobials transiently altered the composition of the gut microbiota in adult mice and increased exploratory behaviour and hippocampal expression of brain - derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), while intraperitoneal administration had no effect on behaviour.

Recent studies from different parts of the world all show the same disturbing pattern: Nutrients in fruits and vegetables are rapidly decreasing.

«In a recent acute metabolic study we did not observe any beneficial effects of distributing the same amount of dietary protein equally over three daily meals as compared to the normal American pattern of 65 % of dietary protein with dinner as evaluated by measurement of whole body protein synthesis and breakdown as well as MPS.»

The recent National Assessment Program Science literacy results for Australian Year 6 students (ACARA, 2017) showed on the one hand a majority of students are interested in studying Science and learning new things, but on the other hand there has been a pattern of stagnation in inquiry skills since 2006.

A recent example included the physics class studying the air quality of downtown Montpelier, and submitting the study to the city to help deal with car pollution and driving patterns.

There has been some interesting recent studies that show changes in brain pattern behaviour that have occurred through use of computers or gaming devices.

And it's not just us seeing these patterns: Our results square with the most recent large, randomized, controlled studies on the issue by the American Institutes of Research.

The impetus to reconsider school hours will likely get a boost from some recent studies of teenage sleep patterns and how they affect student performance.

Dr. Min Sun, Assistant Professor in the University of Washington College of Education, shares her recent study on Black teachers» retention and transfer patterns in North Carolina, and how these patterns vary by teacher effectiveness, subjects and school conditions.

Although some interpret these turnover patterns as evidence of teachers» discontent with their students, recent large - scale quantitative studies provide evidence that teachers choose to leave schools with poor work environments and that these conditions are most common in schools that minority and low - income students typically attend.

Because experiences during the early school years lay the foundation for ongoing peer relationships and can include a pattern of being bullied, we've created the Bullying Prevention Unit, basing it on the latest research and evalution, including a recent study of our Steps to Respect program.

Join us for a webinar presentation and discussion on data trends in discipline disparities from two recent REL studies — REL Northwest's Suspension and expulsion patterns in six Oregon school districts and REL Mid-Atlantic's Disproportionality in school discipline: An assessment of trends in Maryland, 2009 — 12.

A recent study by sales and marketing firm Acosta reveals key information about the shopping patterns of pet owners.

The theme of the exhibition, «Test Pattern,» came from the two studying recent acquisitions and searching for a defining narrative.

The lake sediment record presented here corroborates numerous recent cosmogenic exposure dating studies indicating complex patterns of erosion beneath polar ice sheets.

Updated, 3:10 p.m. Using climate models and observations, a fascinating study in this week's issue of Nature Climate Change points to a marked recent warming of the Atlantic Ocean as a powerful shaper of a host of notable changes in climate and ocean patterns in the last couple of decades — including Pacific wind, sea level and ocean patterns, the decade - plus hiatus in global warming and even California's deepening drought.

There was an interesting study in Nature Geoscience last Sunday showing pretty clearly that the accelerating flow of the Jacobshavn glacier in recent years was most likely driven by an influx of warm deep seawater, and that shift was likely due to changes in pressure and wind patterns over the North Atlantic Ocean.

A recent study, for example, used paintings to investigate evolving eating habits — of interest to Dot Earth because consumption patterns contribute to the challenges facing a world with rising human numbers and appetites.

Examples include exploring relationships between past global climatic events and global spatial patterns of violence and food trade; using betting markets to forecast the cost of climate policy; quantifying the climatic drivers of recent fishery collapse; and studying the long - term dynamics of historical clean energy transitions.

The study concluded that recent mass loss, particularly in the Amundsen Sea region, was part of a longer - term pattern (Gardner et al. 2018).