Sentences with phrase «remarkable studies on»

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Barn Raisers LLC has aggregated a fine arsenal of case studies on the subject — let's dive into two remarkable examples.

This is remarkable in light of the study's primary conclusion: Truly active funds (defined as funds with Active Share of 80 or greater) do outperform their benchmarks on average even after fees and expenses.

do nt pretend its based on actually studying and having some remarkable insight though.

These two great forces maintain in Egypt a remarkable equilibrium without either destroying the other — perhaps because of the deep - rooted faith in religion which has been growing in the hearts of the Egyptians for hundreds of years — and education in Egypt continues to rest on the dual foundation of religious and secular studies.

It goes on for a while — he is a professor of cultural studies — but its message is well worth considering, all the more so because of the remarkable circumstances under which it was written.

There is a quite remarkable converging of Christian thinking today, including New Testament studies, on the idea that the powers of the kingdom of God are already present within history.

'» I find nothing remarkable in the Pope accepting mainstream science — things have moved on from the days of Galileo»» says Gavin Schmidt, a climate researcher with the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City.

Nevertheless, on one level this is an impressive study, even a remarkable one.

When the Anglican patristic scholar and Church historian Trevor Jalland concluded his Bampton Lectures at Oxford in 1942 (published in 1944 as The Church and the Papacy: A Historical Study), he spoke of the Roman Church as having «in its long and remarkable history a supernatural grandeur which no mere secular institution has ever attained in equal measure,» and went on to refer to «its strange, almost mystical, faithfulness to type, its marked degree of changelessness, its steadfast clinging to tradition and to precedent.»

The findings of the new study are all the more remarkable after re-examining the comments made by the Duke's Rob Jackson, and critics of his study, when the original report was released, specifically on the sample size and baseline data:

We were also treated to the remarkable sight of a legislator actually refusing to vote on something she hadn't had the opportunity to study.

Many studies on land have located regions that are home to a remarkable abundance of species; that knowledge has been a great boon to conservation efforts.

And yet it's remarkable that we find such similar features on both worlds,» said Alex Hayes, a Cassini radar team associate at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, and a co-author of the study.

The study showed a remarkable reversal of diabetes in mice placed on the fasting - mimicking diet for four days each week.

«What's remarkable is that B cells are the ones making antibodies and autoantibodies, so they're really crucial in both protective immune responses and autoimmunity,» said Montserrat C. Anguera, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Sciences in Penn's School of Veterinary Medicine and the senior author on the study.

Lucretius» only known work, On the Nature of Things, is remarkable for its foreshadowing of Darwinism, humans as higher primates, the study of atoms and the scientific method — all contemplated in a geocentric world ruled by eccentric gods.

«Other studies have evaluated the effects on older athletes, such as retired NFL players, but no one has studied 20 - year - olds until now — and the results were remarkable and surprising,» said Patrick S.F. Bellgowan, director of cognitive neuroscience for LIBR and a faculty member at TU.

«Our multi-ethnic exploration of innate and adaptive immunity highlights a remarkable level of sharing across human populations of genetic variation influencing immune function, while identifying interesting instances of genetic effects on immune function that are specific to a population,» said Nir Hacohen, PhD, MGH and the Broad Institute, study author.

«To think that a simple decrease in calories caused such a widespread change, that was remarkable,» says Don Ingram, a gerontologist at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge, who designed the study almost three decades ago while at the National Institute on Aging (NIA) in Bethesda, Maryland.

Recently there's increasing study and focus on a remarkable approach to manipulating the activity of our brain.

Given that his results suggest that sirtuins have no direct effect on longevity, for so many studies to suggest that they do is a «remarkable coincidence».

«The detection of light from these planets hundreds to thousands of light years away is on its own remarkable,» said study co-author Dr. Ernst de Mooij, the Michael West Fellow at the Astrophysics Research Centre from the School of Mathematics and Physics at Queen's University Belfast.

I mean, I would say the whole last 30 years have been remarkable times because so many new techniques have come online: dating, CT studies, the synchrotron, allowing us to look [at] individual growth lines in Neandertal teeth,... the ability to date things with much greater precision, and then DNA — and, you know, I was in Svante Pääbo's press conference in London in 1997 when [he] announced the first mitochondrial DNA and I went on record saying it was the equivalent in paleontology if landing something or landing on Mars and who could have imagined 10 years later we talk about the whole genome; it's incredible.

The insights come from studies of our remarkable tendency to anthropomorphise, which may explain everything from our opinions on abortion and animal rights to our behaviour when gambling.

But I don't think any of us expected such remarkable and persistent record - breaking warmth,» Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Penn State and a co-author on a recent study on the issue, said in an email.

For instance, the 2015 session on evaluating research development services helped me to take a leap forward in developing metrics and methods for evaluating our own services, and the session sharing findings from comparative study of proposal review criteria at federal agencies has translated to remarkable efficiencies for myself and my faculty.

Henk Stunnenberg, leader of one of the research groups that carried out the study and coordinator of both Heroic and the recently started High Impact Project BLUEPRINT, said: «The epigenetic make - up - a layer of regulatory instructions on top of the genome - of the pure embryonic stem cells shows remarkable and unexpected features, in particular with respect to developmental genes.

«Our work studying the cosmos these past two decades has led to remarkable understandings of our Universe and has placed Hawaii as the premiere location on Earth for astronomical research,» said Hilton Lewis, director of Keck Observatory.

«It's pretty remarkable in the field of psychiatric genetics that so many studies have replicated the same finding,» says James Swanson, of the University of California, Irvine, who led some of the first studies on the subject.

The Genome Center at Washington University is currently hosting a remarkable two - day event focused on the study of cancer genomics.

In a presentation at the Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections in March last year, lead researcher Alison Rodger announced the remarkable results of the study so far: In two years, there were no instances of transmission of the virus between partners in the study — and that's including the couples who were not using condoms.

In preliminary studies with FMD, fairly remarkable brain changes were identified on this diet.

Endless studies have proven that lifting heavy loads will have a remarkable impact on your anabolic hormone levels, which in turn impact your overall muscle building progress.

With remarkable results on the link between pets and happiness coming up in study after study, it's easy to think that getting a dog will not only help heal mental health issues but can be an extra happiness boost for those of us who are already doing pretty well in the happiness department.

A recent search, in PubMed, reveals well over 50,000 studies on vitamin C and literally dozens of remarkable studies revealing the power of vitamin C to cure diseases, such as, 60 out of 60 cases of polio; 327 out of 327 cases of shingles — in 3 days; 7 out of 7 cases of rheumatic fever and, of course, countless studies illustrating the ability of vitamin C to help cancer patients with «incurable» conditions.

Several studies have been published on the remarkable effectiveness of krill oil, including a 2007 study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition, 3 which evaluated the effect of krill oil on patients with chronic inflammation and arthritis.

As a 15 + year PD person I will try this out - my wife's sister - not wPD - has had remarkable improvements with her serious afflictions - Are any studies you report on published?

What made this study so remarkable, was that not only did cancer cells die off in greater abundance when IGF - 1 levels were lowered through diet, but that the cell death benefits were nulled when the researchers put back the IGF - 1 into the blood and re dripped it on the cell line.

Recent genetic studies on kale have shown it to have remarkable diversity, not only in terms of its physical varieties but also in terms of its nutrient content.

This was the beginning of over 50 studies showing the remarkable effects of ecdysterone on the body while simultaneously showing no side effects.

Also remarkable are Alice Wincour's Augustine, an engaging study of 19th century sexual politics based on a true story and set at the Salpêtirère Psychiatric Hospital, and Elie Wajeman's Aliyah, a slow - burning portrait of low - level Jewish drug dealer.

Other highlights in this strand include: Miguel Gomes» mixes fantasy, documentary, docu - fiction, Brechtian pantomime and echoes of MGM musical in the epic ARABIAN NIGHTS; the World Premiere of William Fairman and Max Gogarty's CHEMSEX, an unflinching, powerful documentary about the pleasures and perils associated with the «chemsex» scene that's far more than a sensationalist exposé; the European Premiere of CLOSET MONSTER, Stephen Dunn's remarkable debut feature about an artistic, sexually confused teen who has conversations with his pet hamster, voiced by Isabella Rossellini; THE ENDLESS RIVER a devasting new film set in small - town South Africa from Oliver Hermanus, Diep Hoang Nguyen's beautiful debut, FLAPPING IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE, a wry, weird socially probing take on the teen pregnancy scenario that focuses on a girl whose escape from village life to pursue an urban education has her frozen in mid-flight; LUCIFER, Gust Van den Berghe's thrillingly cinematic tale of Lucifer as an angel who visits a Mexican village, filmed in «Tondoscope» — a circular frame in the centre of the screen; the European premiere of KOTHANODI a compelling, unsettling fairytale from India; veteran Algerian director Merzak Allouache's gritty and delicate portrait of a drug addicted petty thief in MADAME COURAGE; Radu Muntean's excellent ONE FLOOR BELOW, which combines taut, low - key realism with incisive psychological and ethical insights in a drama centering on a man, his wife and a neighbor; and QUEEN OF EARTH, Alex Ross Perry's devilish study of mental breakdown and dysfunctional power dynamics between female best friends, starring Elisabeth Moss.

On the face of it, Dickinson might seem well - matched to Davies, the English writer - director whose penchant for penetrating studies of anguished women (The Deep Blue Sea, Sunset Song) ought to place Cynthia Nixon's performance in a recognisable spectrum, of distant voices and still lives.Instead, Davies's screenplay is remarkable mostly for an archness and artifice only partially redeemed by several of the performances.

Tom Conley's study on Sarah Kofman — another discovery for me — is one of the most remarkable in the collection.

A remarkable study of poverty, family and personal responsibility, The Florida Project meticulously illustrates how life on the margins affects one impressionable six - year - old.

Particularly focusing on struggling readers the study resulted in an immediate effect on the learners in Wolverhampton and revealed some remarkable truths about the changing nature of young peoples» reading habits.

Commentary on «Great Teaching: Measuring its effects on students» future earnings» By Raj Chetty, John N. Friedman and Jonah E. Rockoff Raj Chetty, John Friedman, and Jonah Rockoff have carried out a remarkable study, but I suspect it will be misinterpreted.

Some innovation schools have made remarkable progress, but as a group, they have not performed nearly as well as charter schools on standardized tests, according to two separate studies.

Several research studies confirm that on average novice teachers show remarkable improvement in effectiveness over the first five years of their careers.

In two separate pieces Susan Casey talks about her remarkable book The Devil's Teeth in which she reports on her time spent with the Great White Sharks, and the extraordinary people who study them, on the Farallon Islands, just 30 miles off the coast of San Francisco; and about the writing of The Wave - about giant waves and those who hunt them.