Furthermore, widespread belief in the merit of this ineffective therapy prevents
researchers from thinking they need to look into other potential treatment options, the authors say.
Those we place in the independent expert category are university academics,
researchers from think - tanks or private research firms, parliamentarians (excluding ministers), and individuals without any organisational affiliation.
Not exact matches
One extra detail the
researchers found: managers benefitted
from the psychological impact of more open office plans — employees
thought more highly of their boss's leadership abilities in this setting than in any other office type.
Through a series of experiments,
researchers from the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business and the University of California, Berkeley discovered that spoken language most clearly reveals a person's
thinking ability.
From the bank's universe of 37 million checking account customers, the
think tank's
researchers stripped identifiers and grabbed a sample of 2.3 million families across 23 U.S. states for whom they had «a very good window into their financial lives,» said Fiona Greig, JPMCI's Director of Consumer Research, who presented the study's key findings prior to the panel discussion.
«These peripheral glaciers and ice caps can be
thought of as colonies of ice that are in rapid decline, many of which will likely disappear in the near future,» said one of the
researchers, geologist Ian Howat
from Ohio State University.
The
researchers conducted a series of three experiments that encouraged some participants to
think of time and money as interchangeable by calculating their hourly wage
from their earnings.
A team of
researchers from the University of Notre Dame
thinks so, and they have some compelling evidence to support their idea.
I await confirmation
from the
researchers at
Think Progress, but I suspect that the religious right's obsession with morays in particular and eels in general, derives not
from the canonical Book of Job but
from the non-canonical early church writing, The Epistle of Barnabas, which in verse 10:5 reads:
A
researcher from Concordia University recently published a journal article with some rare access to high level Satanists exploring what they
think about death and dying.
In the study, published Friday in the journal Science,
researchers from Canada's University of British Columbia used subtle stimuli to encourage analytical
thinking.
It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains
from thinking about religion
from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic
researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.
In 1979 television
researcher George Comstock, in assessing the impact and achievements of the educational television series «Sesame Street» observed that, «We simply do not know what we
thought we did, but the lesson appears to be that too much can be expected
from a mass medium even when, by its own terms, it is performing superbly.»
The
researchers think that the falling testosterone levels are Mother Nature's way of protecting the offspring
from male aggressiveness and also facilitating a caring mindset for the dad.
As noted above, nurturing touch appears to protect babies
from harmful stress, and
researchers think they know why.
Indeed, no legitimate SIDS
researcher nor forensic pathologist should render a judgment that a baby was suffocated without an extensive toxiological report and death scene investigation including information
from the mother concerning what her
thoughts are on what might or could have happened.
Many manufacturers made the switch to BPS because
researchers thought that less of the material would leak out
from the plastic.
As a
researcher in SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome), Professor McKenna explains that these small transient arousals may lessen a baby's susceptibility to some forms of SIDS which are
thought to be caused by failure to arouse
from deep sleep to re-establish breathing patterns.
Researchers aren't sure where this ability to pick up on a sick beat comes
from, but
think it may have something to do with the baby jamming out to his mother's heartbeat for his entire stay inside of the womb.
So a new report
from the
think - tank Civitas, launched by veteran Labour MP Frank Field and parliamentary
researcher Andrew Forsey, should be given credit for positive
thinking.
But we know that the media take their cue
from politicians, campaigners and
researchers - and with a new wave of economics
thinking emerging
from these quarters, we have cause for hope.
Now,
researchers think we could be on the cusp of a CO2 - recycling revolution, which would capture CO2
from power plants — and maybe even directly
from the atmosphere — and convert it into these fuels at scale, they report today in Joule.
While many
researchers think of citizen science as a way to engage children and teenagers, many of citizen scientists are adults, some of whom bring scientific expertise
from other fields, she said.
The new theory suggests the first of the two explosions reported by eyewitnesses was a nuclear and not a steam explosion, as is currently widely
thought and is presented by
researchers from the Swedish Defence Research Agency, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, and Stockholm University.
Honeybees may have pushed north into Europe
from warmer, Mediterranean locales several thousand years earlier than previously
thought, the
researchers propose in the October Antiquity.
Although the study participants all suffer
from bipolar disorder, the
researchers behind the study
think that the mechanisms also apply to other psychotic disorders, such as schizophrenia.
As suicide rates rise,
researchers separate
thoughts from actions.
The
researchers found that black women in the United States are dying
from cervical cancer at a rate 77 percent higher than previously
thought, while white women are dying at a rate 47 percent higher.
Researchers now
think that in female animals, the presence of estrogen promotes female development at specific life stages, and having a second X chromosome makes female brains different
from those of males.
Some
researchers think stone tools can answer the big questions in human evolution: How do we differ
from other primates and when did our unique human traits emerge?
«The
researchers have taken a technique that most in the field
thought would be impossible for complex organs such as the kidney, and have painstakingly developed a method to make it work,» says Jamie Davies at the University of Edinburgh, UK, who was part of a team that last year made some headway in their attempts to grow kidneys
from scratch in the lab.
The
researchers fed the data
from the scans into a machine - learning computer program, which eventually could identify which concept a volunteer was
thinking about based on his or her brain activity.
Just as the finding that tea made
from willow bark could alleviate headaches led scientists to the discovery of salicylic acid — which in turn led to the invention of aspirin — many acupuncture
researchers think that their work might lead to a treatment for pain that is more effective than acupuncture.
Researchers think similar effects contribute to death
from anthrax and pandemic flu.
A team of international scientists, including a
researcher from Simon Fraser University, has isolated a gene
thought to play a causal role in the development of Alzheimer's disease.
I also
think both clinicians and
researchers can learn a lot
from paying more attention to individual symptoms and their interactions.
«Innovation is fundamental to all aspects of our business,» adds Norbert Bischofberger, Gilead's executive vice president, research and development, and chief scientific officer, «
from what our
researchers do in the lab to how we
think about reaching patients to the way we work with government, public health, and industry partners.»
Nestlé
researchers think the protein could turn out to help adult patients suffering
from the immune responses that cause Crohn's disease.
In addition, it's been difficult to repeat the findings
from individual genetic studies — partly,
researchers think, because autism is so variable and may really be many different diseases.
The
researchers think the skull is better for assessing sex because it's not a load - bearing bone, meaning it is subject to fewer outside forces — allowing forensic practitioners to detect bone mineral density differences that result
from an individual's biological sex.
I don't
think I would have made as strong a connection... not only because he is a Mexican scientist, but also because he is a top
researcher and one of the main promoters and supporters of minority students
from around the world.»
The number of veterans at risk is large: traumatic brain injury caused by explosive blasts is
thought to afflict about 20 percent of the 2.3 million servicemen and women deployed in combat since 2001, according to a team of
researchers from Boston University, New York Medical College and the Veterans Affairs Boston Healthcare System.
At the US Geological Survey's Patuxent Wildlife Research Center in Wisconsin, whooping cranes are raised
from birth by
researchers dressed as cranes, a ploy which tricks the birds into
thinking the scientists are their parents.
The
researchers think that men may get a boost in self - esteem
from feeling desired.
We had initially
thought our focus would be in the United States but we have had a lot of interest
from overseas
researchers, particularly interest in the facilities that are available here.
Both methods for obtaining nectar were effective, but the
researchers think that the grooved - tongue bats may have an advantage in acquiring nectar
from flowers of certain shapes that hold the sweet liquid differently.
Researchers had
thought that since there were no other obvious energy inputs, the fodder for bacterial life must fall
from the surrounding forest into cenotes, eventually floating into the deep parts of the caves.
Most
researchers — including Stringer and McPherron —
think the bulk of cultural exchange passed the other way,
from humans to Neanderthals.
The next
thoughts of the
researchers who probed the calamity, aside
from outrage, were how and why it happened
from an engineering perspective.
By reconstructing past global warming and the carbon cycle on Earth 56 million years ago,
researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute among others have used computer modelling to estimate the potential perspective for future global warming, which could be even warmer than previously
thought.