Sentences with phrase «review controversial study»

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The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

A new peer - reviewed study discredits findings of controversial research claiming that higher concentrations of dissolved methane in domestic water wells can be associated with proximity to nearby gas - producing wells in northeastern Pennsylvania — and it does so using a much larger sampling size and pre-drill baselines.

UT has been clobbered with a tough outside review, made public yesterday by Provost Steven Leslie, of blunders in a controversial study on the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, known as «fracking.»

A controversial study of hydraulic fracking will be reviewed by an independent panel of experts.

The bill also puts a roadblock in NIH's controversial plan to revamp how pregnant women will be recruited for the study: NIH can make «no changes to the current design or Vanguard pilot structure until at least 90 days after the IOM [Institute of Medicine] conducts a review of the proposed changes and impact on the results.»

Controversial studies of animals containing human stem cells could be funded if they pass agency ethics review

A controversial plan to study the health of 100,000 U.S. babies to age 21 has some strong points — but also a host of weaknesses that could further delay its launch, an outside review has concluded.

The federal agency made the announcement after completing a review of the results of a controversial study, known as the ENHANCE trial.

A Friday reading round - up that includes Art Forum on Mira Dancy and Sarah Peters, ArtNews on the Independent, Roberta Smith on Sharon Horvath, Martha Schwendener on Chris Martin, Raphael Rubinstein on Howardena Pindell, Jillian Steinhauer on Ken Johnson's controversial Grabner review in the NYTimes, Walter Robinson in conversation with Phong Bui, and young artists as... read more... «Quick study»

The Orange County Register advocated for expanded use of the controversial drilling technique known as fracking by citing an industry - funded study — peer - reviewed by an expert with industry ties — that concluded fracking is safe for California.

An editor's public resignation over his journal's acceptance of a controversial report illustrates both the shortcomings of peer review and the over-hyping of a study by some in the media.

For those parents - to - be who want to ensure that their children's lives are saddled with crushing debt and filled with 90 - hour work weeks reviewing irrelevant emails in a windowless room on the 22nd floor of a New York office building, Conrad Saam, head of marketing for the controversial «lawyer rating» site Avvo, has done a «groundbreaking new study on lawyer's [sic] names over the past 200 years.»

Contrary to the meta - analyses of Crits - Christoph5 andAnderson and Lambert, 7 studies of IPT werenot included (eg, Elkin et al30 and Wilfleyet al31), because the relation of IPT to STPPis controversial, and empirical results suggest that IPT is very close toCBT.9 Thus, this review includes only studiesfor which there is a general agreement that they represent models of STPP.As it is questionable to aggregate the results of very different outcome measuresthat refer to different areas of psychological functioning, we assessed theefficacy of STPP separately for target symptoms, general psychiatric symptoms (ie, comorbid symptoms), and social functioning.32 Thisprocedure is analogous to the meta - analysis of Crits - Christoph.5 Asoutcome measures of target problems, we included patient ratings of targetproblems and measures referring to the symptoms that are specific to the patientgroup under study, eg, measures of anxiety for studies investigating treatmentsof anxiety disorders.33 For the efficacy ofSTPP in general psychiatric symptoms, broad measures of psychiatric symptomssuch as the Symptom Checklist - 90 and specific measures that do not refer specificallyto the disorder under study were included; eg, the Beck Depression Inventoryapplied in patients with personality disorders.34, 35 Forthe assessment of social functioning, the Social Adjustment Scale and similarmeasures were included.36