Sentences with phrase «small study area»

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Studies shows that when people are presented with facts and figures, smaller areas of the brain are activated which indicates that information is being processed.

SAN FRANCISCO, May 21, 2015 — To gain more insight into the experiences of diverse business owners in the areas of lending and operating their businesses, Wells Fargo commissioned Gallup to conduct a national study of small business owners.

And while it can sometimes be helpful to people studying history or archeology or sociology with respect to a certain period in a small region of the Near East, it is hardly the place we would look for a summation of the current knowledge in these areas.

Budget problems faced by small churches, and even larger ones, could be alleviated if a new passion for tithing were to catch hold in church life, said Anthony Pappas, an American Baptist area minister in southeastern Massachusetts who commented in the study on Lummis's findings.

Dinosaur - Era Climate Change Study Suggests Reasons for Turtle Disappearance Mar. 14, 2013 — The dry, barren prairie around Alberta's Drumheller area was once a lush and subtropical forest on the shores of a large inland sea, with loads of wetlands inhabited by dinosaurs, turtles, crocodiles and small mammals.

Bill was the new pastor of a small church in a once - rural area who formed a new Bible study group.

There are comfortable common areas like an outdoor courtyard and interior Living Room Lounge with community bar that beckon you to sit and relax — if even just for a moment, and a quiet study can accommodate small groups and private meetings.

Previous attempts to evaluate the Baby Friendly Initiative within an observational study design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differestudy design have often been limited by small sample size or reliance upon ecological measures of confounding factors.16, 17 The advantage of the Millennium Cohort Study is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differeStudy is the availability of individual - level social and demographic information, as well as the circumstances of pregnancy and delivery, allowing adjustment for factors that in other studies may be associated with both policy intervention and infant feeding practices, via area or individual population differences.

Mothers who breastfeed have been found to report lower levels of perceived stress and negative mood, higher levels of maternal attachment, and tend to perceive their infants more positively than mothers who formula - feed.9, 19 - 21 There is evidence to suggest that breastfeeding mothers may also spend more time in emotional care and be more sensitive to infant emotional distress cues than bottle - feeding mothers.22, 23 Relatedly, a small fMRI study of 17 mothers in the first postpartum month, found that breastfeeding mothers showed greater activation in brain areas involved in empathy and bonding than formula - feeding mothers when listening to their own infant's cry.24 These brain areas included the superior frontal gyrus, insula, precuneus, striatum and amygdala.

The study was carried out in 2 hospitals serving urban areas and neighbouring small towns in the interior of the State of Pernambuco, north - eastern Brazil.

The amygdala, the small group of nuclei critical to emotional learning, is the brain area that has been reported most often in studies regarding attitudes to race.

The study of ideologies as serious forms of political thinking is a growth area within the discipline of politics as more and more research focuses on the «small print» of political thinking and on the comparative contexts in which it takes place.

«While the small - scale study suggests that beta - blockers may reduce the risk of breast cancer returning, more research is needed in this area to determine the effectiveness and safety of the treatment before it can be routinely offered to breast cancer patients.

NYSUT, meanwhile, backed a study to determine whether any changes to the funding formula is necessary, which would also take into consideration the impact on a small school district when a resident receives a windfall through inheritance or winning the lottery — a factor that throw aid formulations out of whack in areas with few wealthy people.

A network of smaller peatlands in the Amazon Basin adds up to 629,000 square kilometers, an even larger area than the Congo find, says study coauthor Louis Verchot of the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Cali, Colombia.

[BOX 8] Committee on Science in Secondary Schools - Education Council Study, 1963 Council Study / Committee on Natural Areas as Research Facilities, 1962 - 1977 AAAS Meetings, 1965 - 1977 Graduate Science Education and Standards, 1960 - 1963 Administrative of Science Work, 1960 - 1963 Ethics and Responsibilities of Scientists files I, 1966 - 1975 Ethics and Responsibilities of Scientists files II, 1965 - 1966 Production of PhDs in the Sciences, 1965 - 1966 Natural Areas as Research Facilities (book) Council Study / Committee on Research in Small Colleges, 1960 - 1964 Population Explosion and Birth Control, 1965 - 1968 AAAS Cooperation with Developing Countries, 1965 - 1967 International Scientific Communication, 1960 - 1962 Air Conservation Commission, 1962 - 1964 Race (proposed Commission on), 1962 - 1963 Committee on Environmental Alterations (Ad Hoc - DuBos), 1967 Committee on Environmental Alerations Files (See also: Herbicide Assessment Commission): I, 1968 - 1976 Committee on Environmental Alerations Files (See also: Herbicide Assessment Commission): II, 1968 - 1976 Herbicides Files: Vietnam (Council; Board; Defense Dept., Midwest Research Institute; Report, etc.) I, 1965 - 1969 Herbicides Files: (Council; Board; Defense Dept., Midwest Research Institute; Report, etc.) II, 1967 - 1968 Herbicide Assessment Commission (older), 1969 - 1970 Herbicide Assessment Commission (See also: Herbicides - Vietnam; See also: Committee on Environmental Alterations), 1970 - 1979 Committee on Cooperation Among Scientists, 1959 - 1957 Committee on Fallout, 1955 Cooperative Committee on the Teaching of Science and Mathematics Files: I, 1964 - 1970 Cooperative Committee on the Teaching of Science and Mathematics Files: II, 1951 - 1963 Evaluation of Scientific Merit, Committee on, 1950 - 1952 Membership Development Committee, 1954 - 1957 Metric Education, Ad Hoc Committee on, 1974 - 1975 Metric Committee, 1957 - 1958

This study shows that coexistence of conservation and development is possible, provided that wildlife are offered refuges, such as the small protected areas that constitute the Great Indian Bustard Sanctuary.

The lidar - based tools developed in the study have the potential to assist in these tasks, since the laser scans are obtained throughout entire forest areas, providing high - resolution maps of changes within small forest areas.

«In the United States, only about 10 percent of physicians practice in rural areas, and less than 3 percent of entering medical students nationally plan to practice in a rural community or small town,» said Kevin Kane, MD, a professor of family and community medicine at the MU School of Medicine and lead author of the study.

In a study of small fishing communities, Xavier Basurto, an assistant professor of sustainability science at Duke University and colleagues, show that the coexistence of pro- and anti-sociality in groups may be more common than previously thought, especially for fishers living in marine protected areas.

New sociological evidence from a a small fishing village in Baja California, Mexico suggests that the creation of marine protected areas, which influence who gets to fish and how much of species they can take, generates both extreme pro-social and anti-social behaviors among fishers, a finding that differs from previous economic and psychology studies.

The study shows that there's an imbalance, with less species diversity in smaller and less conserved areas,» said another author of the study, Mauro Marrelli, associate professor at FSP - USP and Medeiros - Sousa's PhD supervisor.

At Wonderwerk, Boston University archaeologist Paul Goldberg — a specialist in soil micromorphology, or the small - scale study of sediments — dug chunks of compacted dirt from the old excavation area.

«The discovery of so many satellites in such a small area of the sky was completely unexpected,» said Cambridge's Institute of Astronomy's Sergey Koposov, the Cambridge study's lead author.

But if proposed protections are put in place, the study projects a much smaller area of forest would be lost — 41,650 square kilometers, over 113,000 square kilometers less than under the agricultural development scenario.

But a new study reveals that subsistence hunters from small communities in large areas of intact forest and with access to healthy fish stocks do not appear to be emptying their forests.

Tidal wetlands and estuaries, despite being the smallest ecosystems in the study domain at 2.4 percent and 9 percent of the area, respectively, buried the majority of the region's carbon, the team found.

A new study shows that certain requirements for the lasers used in an emerging type of small - area particle accelerator can be significantly relaxed.

Produced by the UK Small Area Health Statistics Unit (SAHSU), part of the MRC - PHE Centre for Environment & Health based at Imperial College London, the open - access atlas allows researchers, policy makers and members of the public to study the geographical pattern of 14 diseases and conditions such as lung cancer, breast cancer, heart disease, leukemia and low birth weight.

Fishing businesses in the area are mostly small - scale, and the study says damage done by dolphins costs them thousands or even tens of thousands of euros per year.

Studying climate change — past or present — can send researchers to the Arctic or the Amazon, throwing small research teams into isolated areas.

With this study we could show that small changes in one area can have large impacts in remote places, something that should be considered in future assessments of climate projections.»

And yet, these two independent invasions — in the United States and in Europe — appear to have originated from the same small area in the native range, likely located in Uruguay, according to the new study, which appears online in the journal Molecular Ecology.

The astronomers used the VLA and ALMA to study galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field, a small area of sky observed since 2003 with NASA's Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

A new study by a University of Texas at Arlington physics team in collaboration with bioengineering and psychology researchers shows for the first time how a small area of the brain can be optically stimulated to control pain.

The study found that turtles spend most of their time outside these protected areas, and suggests supplementing large protected areas with smaller MPAs.

A microwave detector may also be useful for thermodynamics of small systems, a new research area Möttönen has studied in collaboration with his Aalto colleague Professor Jukka Pekola.

To better their survival chances, entrepreneurs and owners of small businesses in rural areas must successfully pitch their ventures to «faraway, unknown banking officials» rather than relying on local lenders as in the past, according to a Baylor University study.

In a 2000 study, Jarvis and his team discovered that the more vocally adept birds have seven small brain areas that are not present in their preprogrammed peers.

Finding this connection was no accident: Along with being the senior administrator of a regional campus in a small metropolitan area of 50,000 residents, Gavazzi is a professor of human sciences at Ohio State and has long studied marriage and family relationships.

The small, local areas of stiff tissue found in the new study are particularly likely to be missed, she adds.

Amy Townsend - Small, the lead researcher for GRO and a UC assistant professor of geology, says the UC study is unique in comparison with studies on water wells in other shale - rich areas of the U.S. where fracking is taking place — such as the Marcellus Shale region of Pennsylvania.

Paus's TMS / PET study confirmed that humans also have this connection, by showing that a small TMS pulse in the eye field also activated distant visual areas.

What's more, according to a new study, the large number of lumps discovered within a very small area hints that these fossils may be all that's left of a mysterious mass die - off of the giant creatures.

«Past studies that confirmed Bergmann's rule were mostly looking at just a few species at a time, over only small areas, or were data limited,» says Riemer.

To overcome these shortages, researchers studied a small modification in the Gutenberg - Richter law, a term which modified the curve precisely in the area in which probabilities were the smallest.

«This study also shows that you can not ignore small geographic areas with pig farms — places in which the 2009 pandemic originated and which the next, perhaps more severe global flu, may come from.»

But those prior studies considered small areas, he said.

Trauma had previously been found to be associated with PsA in smaller studies,, which in turn had led to the idea of a «deep Koebner» phenomenon playing a role in PsA, mirroring the superficial Koebner phenomenon seen in skin psoriasis.5 Koebner found that when an area of skin in people with psoriasis became traumatised following injury, a psoriatic lesion often appeared in the same location.

In the Sandy Hook study, queries can be matched with particular states or smaller geographic areas to see whether searches from politically conservative, or «red,» states differ from searches from «blue» states.