Sentences with phrase «provocative study»

The idea of grandmother cells emerged from provocative studies showing that different neurons respond to different stimuli.

Mayhem in the Middle was a particularly provocative study by Cheri Pierson Yecke published by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute in 2005.

(10) This highly provocative study is criticized by Gregory Baum as overly schematic and as favoring a liberal reformist (vs. prophetic) position.

It is a far - reaching, complicated, provocative study.

Don Browning's provocative study A Fundamental Practical Theology offers the most concerted account yet of how the churches» practice might organize theological inquiry as a whole.

The author of several books including two volumes on parliament, his provocative study Entitled: A Critical History of the British Aristocracy (Doubleday) is published in September and will be on the Momentum reading list.

A provocative study published in Science in April 2010 suggests that a change in the bacterial population of the gut contributes to the risk of metabolic syndrome, which is characterized by elevated weight, blood pressure, blood sugar, and blood fat.

Age was all the rage this year, as headlines about a provocative study blared what many people already suspected: People grow old at vastly different rates.

Now, in a provocative study that raises unsettling questions about the widespread use of vitamin supplements, Swedish researchers have showed that relatively low doses of antioxidants spur the growth of early lung tumors in cancer - prone mice, perhaps by hindering a well - known tumor suppressor gene.

His provocative studies, backed by the work of other groups, show that drops in biodiversity — sometimes indicating mass extinctions — seem to follow a periodic cycle.

A provocative study of long - term tropical tree growth warns that global warming could happen faster than anticipated.

A provocative study links prolonged episodes of sepsis — a life - threatening infection and leading cause of death in hospitals — to the reactivation of otherwise dormant viruses in the body.

Now, a provocative study claims that a probiotic treatment for gastrointestinal issues can reduce autismlike symptoms in mice and suggests that this treatment could work for humans, too.

A provocative study by evolutionary biologists at McMaster University takes on one of Charles Darwin's central ideas: that males adapt and compete for the attention of females because it is the females who ultimately choose their mates and the time of mating.

«This is a provocative study that provides a simple tool that providers and consumers alike can use for a quick and effective idea of how they stand with regard to their cardiac risk,» added Dr. Peeke, who was not involved in the study but has used the fitness number formula in her own research.

The provocative study raises new questions about how recently revamped teacher - evaluation systems — and pay schedules linked to them — shape teacher behavior.