Sentences with phrase «similar studies say»

The authors of this and similar studies say the causal link between TV and aggressive behavior is now nearly as strong as the link between smoking and lung cancer.

Not exact matches

However, in an emailed release, Bucher said the tumors observed in the studies «are similar to tumors previously reported in some studies of frequent cellphone users.»

«If choosing a major is solely based on students» wants, some majors will be overcrowded and others will have difficulty enrolling enough students,» Lu reportedly said, adding that other institutions have adopted similar policies and that among the 400 or so students who have to leave their majors to fate, the highest achievers can apply to change their specializations after a year of study.

Ottawa said in its budget last month that it is going to study the merits of open banking, similar to what the Ministry of Finance said in a consultation paper last August.

Researchers studied disagreements by teaching two groups of students a card game that contained largely similar rules, except for one key difference — one group was taught aces were the highest card in the game, while the other was taught aces were the lowest, Greer says.

In a similar, follow - up experiment in the same study, some said the unselfish teammate made them look bad; others suspected they had ulterior motives.

But she stresses that study groups show that investors have an affinity for advisers of a similar gender or ethnic background — those «who «get them» and share common experiences,» she says.

A word might be said here about these healing these stories; this is the first one in a series, and we shall come up against many similar stories in the two gospels we are studying.

Without even remotely implying there are not similar or better studies on the topic, I do venture to say that I have not personally seen such a complete study on this.

Studying the Bible, the original languages, the cultural context, what the writer was trying to say to his original audience and how they would have understood it, and other similar considerations may help us develop a better «paper theology».

Some idea of the vividness of Jesus» teaching can be seen by comparing this saying with a rabbinical one of similar import: «If a man was walking by the way and studying and he ceased his study and said, «How fine is this tree!»

It is also important to note that the raised blood pressure reported in this study was minimal — similar to what is experienced when climbing a flight of stairs — and, the researchers themselves say the results of the study are «not alarming.»

«The fact is that, given that there's often two parents in the home working with the child, both parents» depressive symptoms can have a very similar level of effect to the point that both need to be addressed,» says Sheehan D. Fisher, a co-author of the study.

«Right now, cfDNA is being studied for use in low - risk women, and the accuracy seems to be similar to that for high - risk women,» says Dr. Hill.

Yet, when I analyzed all of the studies that the Midwives» Alliance of North America (MANA) says comprise the best evidence for the safety of home birth, I found that every study that looked at nonhospital birth in the United States (and many of the studies that looked at other countries, as well) reported much higher death rates for babies when compared to similar hospital births.

A study by the Department of Applied Educational Science at Umeå University in Sweden came to similar conclusions, saying performance assessment does not motivate teaching staff.

Roughly 140 municipalities across the country have passed similar legislation, including Los Angeles, San Francisco and Santa Fe, N.M., said Robert Pollin, an economics professor at the University of Massachusetts - Amherst who has studied living wage issues.

Dr. Pollin, who has completed similar studies, said he found that businesses adjusted to the salary requirements by increasing productivity or raising prices slightly.

«Blacks and Latinos have aligned goals on issues such as economics and healthcare because African - Americans and Hispanics have similar problems in those areas,» said David Bositis, senior research associate at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - AmeStudies, a Washington, D.C. - based think tank that studies public policy issues affecting African - Amestudies public policy issues affecting African - Americans.

A new study says that on average, New York City charter school students show growth equal to 23 extra days of learning in reading and 63 more days in math each year, compared with similar students in traditional public schools.

A source said Gov. Cuomo is studying how to get a similar program done in New York, with the Justice Department raising complex issues.

Renno, who co-authored a paper suggesting such a dust - boosting feedback loop in 2008, says he is seeing similar phenomena in field studies at California's Owens Lake.

In that sense, they «are remarkably similar to an actual stomach», says study leader James Wells, a developmental biologist at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio.

Contrastingly, very harmful mutations are found at similar frequencies in all individuals of the world, as if there was a maximum threshold any individual can stand,» says Stephan Peischl, a SIB member from Bern, and one of the main authors of the study.

Similar compounds could be developed for people with mental health disorders, for whom social ties are vital, says the study's team.

These mice have been followed for several more weeks with no signs of toxicity, and Moderna has similar results from nonhuman primate studies that they plan to publish soon, he says.

Yet, Sacks says, this is the first large - scale prospective study with healthy subjects to show that apoC - III on HDL may have similar effects.

«The results show that evaporation at high temperatures, similar to those at the beginning of planet formation, leads to the loss of volatile elements and to enrichment in heavy isotopes in the left over materials from the event,» said Day, a Scripps geoscientist and lead author of the study.

In 2009, a similar study had been conducted with just on - the - ground and satellite data, said DeMott, but because it lacked the cloud sampling it was more difficult to understand what was actually happening with the dust in the atmosphere.

What unites the sociologists, physicists, biologists, and other scientists studying networks is the recognition that «whether they're networks of people, computers, genes, [or] neurons, they often obey similar mathematical rules and have similar properties,» says Nicholas Christakis, a professor of sociology and of medical sociology at Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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.

«Crocodiles and dolphins seem so different to us, but our study shows that many of them are in fact remarkably similar, and this is really down to how they catch their food,» said study co-author Associate Professor Alistair Evans, also from the Monash School of Biological Sciences.

«Before this study, it was not known if it is possible to produce sufficient numbers of these cells and successfully use them to remuscularize damaged hearts in a large animal whose heart size and physiology is similar to that of the human heart,» said Dr. Charles Murry, UW professor of pathology and bioengineering, who led the research team that conducted the experiment.

«Most interestingly, we found a similar dynamic, or circadian, looping when we studied a gene called Glycogen synthase 2,» says Felix Naef.

«The type of inflammation seen in psoriasis is known to promote insulin resistance, and psoriasis and diabetes share similar genetic mutations suggesting a biological basis for the connection between the two conditions we found in our study,» said the study's senior author Joel M. Gelfand, MD MSCE, a professor of Dermatology and Epidemiology at Penn. «We know psoriasis is linked to higher rates of diabetes, but this is the first study to specifically examine how the severity of the disease affects a patient's risk.»

If future similar studies can further expand and eventually provide a brain - based predictive best - therapy option for individual patients, it would dramatically decrease unnecessary exposure of patients to ineffective therapies and decrease the duration and magnitude of pain suffering and opioid use, Baliki and Apkarian said.

It was a surprise to find relatively similar DTI changes in both groups exposed to primary blast,» said Katherine H. Taber, Ph.D., a research health scientist at the W.G. (Bill) Hefner Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the study's lead author.

«In this respect they are believed to have behaved in a similar way to hyenas today,» said the study's lead author, Steven E. Jasinski, a student in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science in Penn's School of Arts & Sciences and acting curator of paleontology and geology at the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg.

Jeffrey Stark, director of research at the Foundation for Environmental Security and Studies, said his time in Uganda taught a similar lesson.

Similar studies had found that teachers generally improve with experience, but none had investigated whether improvement depended on what grade the teacher taught, Ost said.

In 2009 NIH geneticist Julie Segre published a study showing that physiologically comparable parts of the body host similar microbial ecologies, whereas contrasting areas — say sweaty underarms and dry forearms — have drastically different communities.

Dr Jason Tye - Din, head of celiac research at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute and a gastroenterologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital, said the study showed oats were well tolerated by most people with celiac disease, but in a proportion of people with celiac disease oat consumption could trigger immune responses similar to those caused by eating barley.

«Our results demonstrate for the first time that human adult skin cells can be used to efficiently and rapidly generate functional pancreatic cells that behave similar to human beta cells,» says Matthias Hebrok, PhD, director of the Diabetes Center at UCSF and a co-senior author on the study.

Yeh said the team's approach could also be used to study how four or more pharmaceuticals interact, and a similar mathematical framework could be used to better understand climate change (for example, to understand how temperature, rainfall, humidity and acidity of the oceans interact) and other scientific questions that have three or more key factors.

If other white dwarfs turn out to be similar, the results will send theorists who study stellar evolution back to the drawing board, he says.

«We hope that this study and similar ones will help wildlife managers and government agencies to anticipate where conservation measures to protect the region's unique primates, such as the mountain and Grauer's gorillas, birds, reptiles, and other unique species will be most effective,» said Sam Ayebare of WCS Uganda and lead author of the paper.

«The next step is to perform similar studies in other individuals who make broadly neutralizing antibodies, and determine if this is a general mechanism for induction of other specificities of such antibodies,» Haynes said.

The results are somewhat surprising, especially because similar studies have shown that oil and gas development affect prairie chickens, Sandercock said.

The researchers behind the new study say that the fact that this mechanism is highly similar in human cells and yeast cells suggests that it plays a key role in ensuring proper chromosome distribution following each cell division.

The work, published this week in mBio ®, an online open - access journal of the American Society for Microbiology, suggests that immunizing pregnant women against HSV and similar infections could prevent serious brain disease related to these conditions in fetuses and newborns, said senior study author David A. Leib, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology at the medical school.