Specifically, they show a cyclical
pattern over the studied period, with both impacts and extinction events taking place every 26 million years.
Not exact matches
Overall, participants who maintained healthy eating
patterns throughout the
study period lowered their risk of death between 9 - 14 %, with even those who started out with unhealthy eating
patterns seeing a reduced risk the more healthy food they added
over time.
The data comes from large - scale longitudinal panels, making it possible to
study the same consumers
over time, analyze competitive market baskets, and identify purchase
patterns.
From Indian University Web site: «When exceptionally complete fossil sites are
studied, usually a mix of
patterns are seen: some species still seem to appear suddenly (within a few hundred thousand years), while others clearly appear gradually (
over many millions of years).
«It has been predicted from a
study of the
pattern of church attendance
over the past 100 years that if trends continue there will be virtually no Christian institutional presence in Britain by the year 2050 (David Hay, the Biology of the Human Spirit).
Sociologists have
studied, probed, and measured change in church membership
patterns over the last twenty years, trying to understand the precipitous decline in membership.
I don't know about you, but I would believe the people who
study the human mind, thoughts, and behavior (i.e. psychologists and sociologists),
over someone who says there's some spooky external agent that no one can possibly verify the existence of, and which has no consistent
pattern of action with which to use as evidence for verification.
Gordon wrote on many topics: angling techniques («The fly must be placed to an inch as the fish will rarely take it unless it floats
over them just right»), the books he read, the effects of drought and floods on fish, the seasons of the year («The silence of the snows is
over all the land, and the bright waters of our trout streams run almost black between icy banks») and his belief in the natural fly as a model for the artificial («The insect must be
studied and many
patterns dressed before one can hope to satisfy the critical eyes of the trout»).
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).
Focussing on the past decade, and systematically
studying press output from across six European countries (UK, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Germany), this project uses advanced methods of qualitative content analysis and quantitative discourse analysis to understand
patterns of European memory, the way the discourse is expressed and by whom, and how it has changed
over time.
DOT Commissioner Polly Trottenberg follows up and notes
studies that will happen
over the next few months to adjust traffic
patterns around the park.
Researchers identified the unique feeding
pattern by
studying food availability and the whales» population
over the past 120,000 years.
However, the
study points out that continued warming from human activities would overwhelm those weather
patterns over time to further increase melting.
Over and over, neuroimaging studies find correlations between patterns of response to food cues and BMI or weight g
Over and
over, neuroimaging studies find correlations between patterns of response to food cues and BMI or weight g
over, neuroimaging
studies find correlations between
patterns of response to food cues and BMI or weight gain.
A
study recently published in Science looked at data from more than 4,200 observational hydrometric stations in Europe
over the past 50 years, and picked out some noticeable
patterns.
The Genographic Project, launched in April 2005, is a five - year genetic anthropology
study that aims to map historical human migration
patterns by collecting and analyzing DNA samples from
over 100,000 people across five continents.
«Improved understanding of the spatial
patterns of change
over the three periods
studied are vital for understanding the causes of recent events,» he said.
«An enormous number of youth and adolescents have already experienced violence in their dating lives,» said lead
study author Vijay Singh, MD, MPH, MS of the University of Michigan Injury Center and Department of Emergency Medicine in Ann Arbor, Mich. «
Patterns that begin in adolescence can carry
over to adulthood.
A new
study, the most comprehensive ever on seasonal distribution
patterns and historic trends in abundance of white sharks (Carcharodon carcharias) in the western North Atlantic Ocean, used records compiled
over more than 200 years to update knowledge and fill in gaps in information about this species.
The
study assessed ambulance - dispatch
patterns in New York state,
over a period of several years, to examine how otherwise similar groups of patients fare when given varying levels of treatment; different hospitals tend to provide different levels of treatment, and thus expenses, in emergency care.
The
study was constructed to analyze stroke cases
over the past two decades, not to investigate causation; however, researchers did find evolving
patterns in the risk factors associated with strokes.
Since the pulses of light exert highly precise control
over the neurons, it opens the possibility of very selective
studies of firing
patterns in brain regions of interest.
While ADNI researchers use maps such as these to
study the
pattern and range of degeneration among groups of patients
over time, this model could also be used to monitor the progress of the disease in a single patient.
My colleagues and I set out to
study the
patterns that appear in local media coverage of wildfires so that we could better understand what policy problems local journalists bring up, how they assign blame or responsibility, and whether these trends change
over time.
And due to the tropical climate, trees in Monteverde don't form the rings usually used to
study temperature and moisture
patterns over time.
Published in the journal Ecology and Evolution, the
study includes maps showing where lemurs are likely to seek refuge as temperatures rise and rainfall
patterns change across the 225,000 - square - mile island
over the next 65 years.
Over time,
studies such as these may reveal
patterns in the mechanisms by which exposures during development alter the nervous system.
«For
over 60 years the global travel
patterns of the influenza virus have been a mystery,»
study co-author Colin Russell, an epidemiologist specializing in pathogen evolution at the University of Cambridge in England said during a teleconference today.
Studies of human mobility usually focus on either the small scale — determining the origins, destinations and travel modes of individuals» daily commutes — or the very large scale, such as using air - travel
patterns to track the spread of epidemics
over time.
And, because of the current faculty age structure, the number of retiring professors should «increase dramatically»
over the next 5 to 10 years if current retirement
patterns hold, states Mark Regets, senior analyst at the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resource
Studies.
Peter Bernhardt, Ph.D., a professor of biology at SLU and research associate at the Missouri Botanical Garden and the Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust in Sydney, New South Wales, has been
studying reproductive
patterns in wildflowers in six countries for
over 40 years and, like most dedicated scientists, thrives on new discoveries such as how bees respond to the color of the flowers they pollinate.
As this
study is the first of its kind to follow people
over several days, we can see how different people are to each other, compared to their own day - to - day
pattern of encounters.
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..
That
study found that since MSCRF first began awarding grants in 2007, its
pattern of giving shifted
over the years from strongly favoring projects focusing on ethically contentious human embryonic stem cell research (hESCR) to projects focusing on ethically non-contentious adult stem cells and other non-embryonic stem cell research.
Her
studies include morphological changes across ontogeny and
over deep time, which offer a way to investigate
pattern and process in evolution, and help to generate more comprehensive hypotheses about how form and function interact.
VEMCO fish tracking and monitoring equipment enables researchers to
study the behaviour and migration
patterns of thousands of marine and freshwater animals
over months and years and across vast distances.
A
study conducted at Northeastern University analyzed the migration and mobility
patterns of notable intellectuals in North America
over the last 2,000 years.
To this aim, we applied matrix factorizations subject to variable constraints in the temporal domain and
studied both the reproducibility of ensuing representations of dFC and the expression of FC
patterns over time.
The
study was done
over a course of fourteen years, in which a team of scientists that was watching 650 men aged between 25 and 65, has found that around two - thirds of all those who had a heart attack also had inconsistent sleep
patterns.
The researchers who conducted the new
study note that a woman's choice of birth control method can change
over time due to availability and changes in societal fertility
patterns.
This is part of why cross
over studies have such a hard time getting the group that starts the
study in the WFPB are to switch to the other eating
pattern.
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.
The third and most convincing type of evidence that long - term sleep habits are associated with the development of numerous diseases comes from tracking the sleep habits and disease
patterns over long periods of time in individuals who are initially healthy (i.e., longitudinal epidemiological
studies).
Also, the subjects» diet was assessed just once during the
study, and the researchers don't know if eating
patterns changed
over time, Anderson said.
The
study of «psychoneuroimmunology» has shown us that the molecules and biochemicals produced by specific thoughts and thought
patterns exert a powerful influence
over your physical bodily health as well, in particular the immune system.
«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.»
In another
study, published in 2011 in «The Journal of Nutrition,» overweight subjects who drank whey shakes twice daily and changed nothing else in their diet or exercise
patterns lost more fat
over a 23 - week trial period than subjects who drank soy shakes twice daily.
Among these students, winning admission to a preferred school reduces the average number of felony arrests
over the
study period from 0.77 to 0.43, a
pattern driven largely by a reduction of 0.23 in the average number of arrests for drug felonies (see Figure 2).
Epps, along with other investigators of the New Hope Project, has conducted longitudinal
studies using New Hope data to examine children's participation
patterns over a period spanning eight years.
In a
study of the achievement of students of 165 second - and third - grade teachers conducted
over a three - year period, Brophy (1973) reported on the
patterns of the most effective teachers, who represented about a third of the sample.