Sentences with phrase «specific controversial studies»

When politicians want to cut funding, he notes, they focus on specific controversial studies or areas — such as climate change, stem cells or genetically modified organisms.

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Several studies have used cell - surface markers — proteins found on the outer membranes of tumor cells — to identify glioblastoma stem cells; but the specific markers used have been controversial and can not reflect molecular processes going on within tumor cells.

Nonetheless, studies are controversial and further research is needed to fully understand sex - specific associations of LBW and high birth weight with glucose metabolism.

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