In February, the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office
published an analysis concluding that drivers living in the state's predominantly minority communities are charged higher auto insurance premiums than similar drivers living in majority white communities.
Not exact matches
The meta -
analysis,
published online today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
concluded that teaching approaches that turned students into active participants rather than passive listeners reduced failure rates and boosted scores on exams by almost one - half a standard deviation.
In 1965, he
published his most famous book, at once classic and immediately consequential as a study in the development of doctrine: Contraception: A History of Its Treatment by the Catholic Theologians and Canonists — 533 pages of dazzling historical research, unpretentious erudition, and contextual
analysis that
concluded by offering reasons why the papal magisterium could and should support some forms of contraception for married couples.
One the largest
analysis of the peer - reviewed literature was
published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2010, and this meta -
analysis looked at almost 350,000 studies
published on saturated fats, and
concluded:
A third meta -
analysis was
published in 2007 by Ip et al. 31 The researchers combined socioeconomic status — adjusted ORs of only 3 studies that were determined by the systematic review conducted by Guise et al32 and
published in 2005 to be of good or fair quality: the UK Childhood Cancer Study, 23 Shu et al, 20 and Dockerty et al. 19 Based on their
analyses, they
concluded that breastfeeding for more than 6 months was associated with a 20 % lower risk for ALL (OR, 0.8; 95 % CI, 0.71 - 0.91).
This new
analysis of dinosaurs and their near relatives,
published today in the journal Nature,
concludes that the ornithischians need to be grouped with the theropods, to the exclusion of the sauropodomorphs.
But more than 40 percent of the land - dwelling animals that live in mangrove forests are now under pressure from habitat loss,
concludes an
analysis published this week in BioScience.
The piece based its recommendation on a meta -
analysis of 27 clinical trials
published in the same issue that
concluded statins significantly reduce the risk of heart attacks and other cardiovascular events in healthy people without posing substantial risks.
In 2007 Steven Nissen, a prominent cardiologist from the Cleveland Clinic, and another researcher
published an
analysis of 42 studies,
concluding that Avandia increases the risk of heart attack and death.
The team's
analysis,
published last spring in the Journal of Anthropological Research [abstract], also evaluated the role of wind and water currents,
concluding that the traders may have spent a few months in Mexico and returned when currents shifted.
In the
published analysis that appeared a few years later, they
concluded that the global burden of psychiatric conditions had been «seriously underestimated.»
His
analysis concluded that at least half, and possibly a large majority, of
published research is wrong.
And in an
analysis published in August, researchers
concluded — controversially — that these footprints at Trachilos, Crete, appear to belong to a hominin, walking where none was thought to set foot until millions of years later.
A new
analysis of worldwide customs and trade data
published in the journal Biological Conservation confirms that shark - fin trade has dropped by approximately 25 percent over the last decade «Although we can't say that we fully understand the scale or the cause of the shark fin trade decline in China, it seems safe to
conclude that demand for fins is waning, and that sounds like good news for sharks,» says global shark fin trade expert Shelley Clarke, a co-author on this study.
The most recent such
analysis,
published last year in the journal Nature,
concluded that Darwinius is an early strepsirrhine and a close relative of the 39 - million - year - old primate Mahgarita stevensi from West Texas.
Environmental Research Letters
published a cost
analysis of the technologies needed to transport materials into the stratosphere to reduce the amount of sunlight hitting Earth as a means to combat climate change,
concluding such technologies are feasible and affordable.
Most recently, the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
published a meta -
analysis of randomized controlled trials and
concluded that the paleo diet is one of the most effective dietary strategies to reduce body weight and prevent the risk of chronic disease.
Additionally, in 2015, the Journal of Breast Cancer
published a meta -
analysis of a whopping 1.6 million women,
concluding again that the more dairy the subjects consumed the lower their risk.
One cited study, which attributes stroke to excessive salt intake, is a meta -
analysis of thirteen studies
published between 1966 and 2008 in which most measurements of sodium intake were highly inaccurate estimates based on food frequency questionnaires.22 The second is a review of fifty - two studies, which
concluded that strokes are not caused by excess sodium but rather by insufficient potassium, a finding that is consistent with the preponderance of evidence.23 Cordain ignores more recent large clinical and epidemiological studies, which have found that sodium intakes of less than 3 grams per day significantly increase cardiovascular risk.3, 4
A meta -
analysis (a review of a group of studies)
published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition looked at 14 clinical studies including a total of 626 adults and
concluded that whey protein powder has favorable effects on body composition (and is even more effective when combined with resistance training).
Another meta -
analysis published in 2015 in the British Journal of Medicine
concluded that there is no association between saturated fat and risk of cardiovascular disease, coronary heart disease, ischemic stroke, type 2 diabetes, or all - cause mortality (the risk of death from any cause)(de Souza et al., 2015).
A meta -
analysis published in the Journal of Medicinal Food that
concluded that cinnamon lowers fasting blood glucose by a 3 - 5 %.
The International Journal of Sports Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism
published an enormous meta -
analysis of 100 studies,
concluding that creatine improves body composition and resistance training performance regardless of gender or training experience.
In one
analysis published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, 11 researchers
concluded that acupuncture has a definite effect in reducing chronic pain, such as back pain and headaches — more so than standard pain treatment.
A meta -
analysis,
published in JAMA in June,
concluded that those taking higher doses of statins were at increased risk of diabetes compared to those taking moderate doses.
In a 1996 meta -
analysis published in the Review of Educational Research, Rob Greenwald and his colleagues
concluded that «school resources are systematically related to student achievement and that these relations are large enough to be educationally important» and «resource variables that attempt to describe the quality of teachers (teacher ability, teacher education, and teacher experience) show very strong relations with student achievement.»
A new
analysis of the dramatic cycles of ice ages and warm intervals over the past million years,
published in Nature,
concludes that the climatic swings are the gyrations of a system poised to settle into a quasi-permanent colder state — with expanded ice sheets at both poles.
In response to Lomborg's article, SkepticalScience
published an open letter to the Wall Street Journal summarizing an in - depth
analysis of Lomborg's op - ed that
concluded «his account of the available evidence is misleading your readers.»
published last November found significant flaws in the methodologies, assumptions or
analyses used by the 3 percent of scientists who
concluded otherwise.
Ninety - seven percent of peer - reviewed research agrees with the conclusion that burning fossil fuels, deforestation and industrial farms are enshrouding the planet in heat - trapping gases, and a research review
published last November found significant flaws in the methodologies, assumptions or
analyses used by the 3 percent of scientists who
concluded otherwise.
In a news
analysis published today, the New York Times
concludes that while the tax bill provision on Keystone XL will likely kill the project, the victory will do little to stop future pipelines, stall tar sands development, or slow down global warming.
If so, I would be curious to know what you
concluded, and where this
analysis has been
published.
Also in January, a scientific
analysis published in Nature
concluded that 80 % of coal reserves, 50 % of gas reserves and 33 % of oil reserves were unburnable if warming is to be limited to 2C.