Sentences with phrase «researchers began pointing»

At a time when coronary heart disease was on the rise in the United States, researchers began pointing to high - sugar diets as a possible culprit.

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But there is no escapting the fact the country's consumers are not happy campers: Market researcher Nielsen found that consumer confidence in Malaysia fell to 78 points over the July - September period, down 11 percentage points on the quarter, marking a record low since the survey began in 2005, as well as Southeast Asia's worst reading for the quarter.

Extrapolating from available statistics, researchers estimate that British - supplied tanks made up 30 to 40 percent of the entire heavy and medium tank strength of Soviet forces before Moscow at the beginning of December 1941, and certainly made up a significant proportion of tanks available as reinforcements at this critical point in the fighting.

Next, the researchers need to find a «golden spike,» a unique boundary point in the rock strata that signifies the epoch's beginning.

At that point, a small but growing number of researchers began attempting to understand, measure and map the shadow world.

But numerous researchers, including Klein, point out that there are profound differences between the two diets, beginning with the type of meat and fat eaten.

The researchers begin by classifying the few ways a Steiner network can connect points lying on a smooth curve.

Though a range of developmental scenarios in multiple brain regions is surely at work in ASDs, the researchers said the ability to place these specific genetic mutations in one specific set of cells — among hundreds of cell types in the brain, and at a specific point in human development — is a critical step in beginning to understand how autism comes about.

At that point, the researchers began monitoring the repair process with longitudinal fluorescence to determine if there would be an appreciable loss of stem cells in the in vivo samples, as compared to the static, in vitro, environments.

The increase in variability among the later points suggests a decrease in social learning and possibly a reduction in overall interactions among North American populations beginning around 12,500 years ago, the researchers say.

The team has gradually transformed Lake George into what is arguably the world's smartest lake, equipped with a tremendous range of sensors and equipment that collect more data points every week than researchers had been able to gather in the 30 years prior to the project's beginning.

These are undoubtedly significant discoveries and could revolutionize our view of the cosmos, but the researchers point out that this is just the beginning of many years of focused research.

Though Dillon mentions value - added modeling, he says that the Gates researchers use it «as a starting point,» and spends most of the rest of the piece discussing their use of cameras to capture teachers in action in the classroom — they hope to have 64,000 hours of classroom video by the end of the project and have already begun the process of looking for «correlations between certain teaching practices and high student achievement» and «scoring» the lessons.

Steven Rivkin, professor of economics at Amherst College, questioned a focus on desegregation and pointed out complexities to the issue that researchers have barely begun to examine.

ScienceDaily (Oct. 3, 2008)-- Arctic sea ice extent during the 2008 melt season dropped to the second - lowest level since satellite measurements began in 1979, reaching the lowest point in its annual cycle of melt and growth on Sept. 14, according to researchers at the University of Colorado at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.»

A German climate researcher says that people are beginning to lose faith in climate research, pointing to the IPPC as one of the main causes.

If you look into the science, you begin to see patterns of behavior that are strikingly similar to the what is being discussed in climate science: manipulation of research, improperly conducted studies, political machinations and influence, and so on, to the point that I read in a recent article in the Altlantic that a very highly regarded researcher in this field claims that up to 90 % of these studies are either flawed or totally inaccurate.

The researcher might also track her or his participants over time, having them report on their feelings of love every day, or follow them up at a later point in time to see if those with a higher level of love at the beginning of the study were more likely to stay together.

Price growth upwards of 24 percent moves the needle in the opposite direction, possibly because at that point, builders begin shouldering higher land costs and incomes start to lag behind prices, researchers speculate.