Sentences with phrase «research challenges widely»

However, new research challenges this widely held belief, suggesting that epidurals have no effect on how long labor lasts — or when babies are born.

Related Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations has a paper in press in the Journal of Geophysical Research challenging a widely covered «bombshell» study in that journal estimating very high rates of emissions of methane from Colorado gas and oil wells.

Not exact matches

The Goddard analysis challenges in particular a respected and widely quoted study by climatologist Susan Solomon and colleagues at the National Center for Atmospheric Research that states the trend in global surface temperatures «has been nearly flat since the 1990s.»

Building upon previous research, the study challenges the widely held belief that recovery from a TBI is limited to two years after an injury.

UNLV Ph.D. candidate's research in Russia challenges widely held understanding of past climate history; study appears in latest issue of top journal Nature Geoscience.

Two blockbuster research findings reported recently in the national press — one from the field of education, the other from medicine — have something important in common: They are the latest cases in which widely used, widely accepted practices have been challenged by scientifically rigorous evaluations.

Although the benefits of mindfulness are well - researched and widely practised on an international scale, it is entirely plausible that both the challenge of finding or making time to meditate, as well as the challenge of simply sitting still, will be a bar too high for some.

His research and eventual film work will explore how the influence of these committed intellectuals reverberated widely in the post-war cultural arena, eventually giving rise to an emerging discipline of «cultural studies», that, in its focus on popular art forms and vernacular traditions, posed considerable challenges to the established academic elite of that time.

Widely published within the fields of art history, musicology, and cinema studies, Joseph's research focuses on those North America and European artists from the 1950s to the present day whose work has challenged or crossed traditional genre and disciplinary boundaries.

Increased weed and pest pressure associated with longer growing seasons and warmer winters will be an increasingly important challenge; there are already examples of earlier arrival and increased populations of some insect pests such as corn earworm.64 Furthermore, many of the most aggressive weeds, such as kudzu, benefit more than crop plants from higher atmospheric carbon dioxide, and become more resistant to herbicide control.72 Many weeds respond better than most cash crops to increasing carbon dioxide concentrations, particularly «invasive» weeds with the so - called C3 photosynthetic pathway, and with rapid and expansive growth patterns, including large allocations of below - ground biomass, such as roots.73 Research also suggests that glyphosate (for example, Roundup), the most widely - used herbicide in the United States, loses its efficacy on weeds grown at the increased carbon dioxide levels likely to occur in the coming decades.74 To date, all weed / crop competition studies where the photosynthetic pathway is the same for both species favor weed growth over crop growth as carbon dioxide is increased.72