Sentences with phrase «studies during the last decade»

But studies during the last decade have shown that hormones provide little or no protection.

Not exact matches

Nearly a third of older workers in the NORC study said they have brushed up their skills through job training or school during the last half decade, which could provide an income boost and help in finding late - career work.

As the wolves have died off on the island — only two remained during last year's winter study — the moose population has tripled in the past decade, reaching about 1,600 in the 2017 survey.

However, during winter field surveys over the last decade, lake ice has typically only grown to 1.5 meters (5 feet) thick, and has been as thin as 1.2 meters (4 feet),» said Christopher Arp, research assistant professor at the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) Water and Environmental Research Center and lead author of the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

A curious detail also shown by the study is a reduction in atmospheric pollution from lead during the last few decades, which, as Lozano concludes, «suggests that the global measures taken to reduce lead emissions, such as the use of lead - free gasoline, have helped to reduce the levels of this metal in the atmosphere.»

Professor Christopher Murray, Director of IHME and a co-author of both studies, says «China has experienced a remarkable demographic and health transition in the last three decades, and this is reflected by the changing picture of the nation's health that we see during this period.

Spider silks often display strong mechanical properties [1] and have been studied extensively during the last five decades.

With this final goal, during last decades, several studies were aimed to find strategies to prevent aging.

However, one of the panel's reservations was that ``... a statistical method used in the 1999 study was not the best and that some uncertainties in the work «have been underestimated,»...» The panel concluded «Based on the analyses presented in the original papers by Mann et al. and this newer supporting evidence, the committee finds it plausible that the Northern Hemisphere was warmer during the last few decades of the 20th century than during any comparable period over the preceding millennium.

Admittedly, both the Bryk and Powell studies were conducted during the waning decades of the last century, and much has changed, especially the electronic revolution that has produced computers, cell phones, and Internet games.

During the decade we studied, Fort Worth made steady improvements toward equity in noncategorical funding across its schools, while Austin's allocations became less evenly distributed over the last five years in our study.

This is partly due to the fact that the number of people studying computer science in the UK has dropped by 23 % at undergraduate level and 34 % at graduate level during the last decade.

According to dozens of studies conducted over the last four decades, videotaping instruction and providing feedback offers many benefits to classroom professionals, such as improving their ability to identify mistakes that went unnoticed during actual teaching, as well as enhancing «self - evaluative» skills and decision making.

Not much has changed during the last decade in terms of the limited amount of rigorous research, although a few more studies have been conducted.

During the early 1970s he studied with John Baldessari at CalArts; he was included in Douglas Crimp's epoch - defining exhibition, Pictures, in 1977; he showed at Metro Pictures along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo during the boom years of the 1980s; and he spent his last decade as a recluse in a trailer in EaDuring the early 1970s he studied with John Baldessari at CalArts; he was included in Douglas Crimp's epoch - defining exhibition, Pictures, in 1977; he showed at Metro Pictures along with Cindy Sherman and Robert Longo during the boom years of the 1980s; and he spent his last decade as a recluse in a trailer in Eaduring the boom years of the 1980s; and he spent his last decade as a recluse in a trailer in East LA.

The study not only reveals the Arctic's dramatic changes over the last few decades, but may also help researchers better predict when the Arctic Ocean will be ice - free during parts of the year.

For example, consider the Head Start program, which was rigorously demonstrated to produce lasting benefits during pilot studies, but found to produce only small transient changes after being implemented on large scale for decades.

Wang Tao et al., «A Study on Spatial - temporal Changes of Sandy Desertified Land During Last 5 Decades in North China,» Acta Geographica Sinica, vol.

Citing a study by professor Bill Henderson, MacEwen notes: * At $ 160,000, first - year salaries are actually at the lowest relative to PPP in the last 10 years: Just 11.7 % * Ten years ago in 1996, with first years at $ 70,000, the proportion was 14.3 % * And it reached its high during that decade, of 15.4 %, in 2001.

«Although mate choice studies in humans have routinely recorded pill use during the last decade to control for its confounding effects, little effort has been invested in understanding the consequences of such effects of the pill,» said study author Alexandra Alvergne from the University of Sheffield.

During the last 3 decades, multiple studies have consistently found participation in BCT by married or cohabiting substance - abusing patients results in significant reductions in substance use, decreased problems related to substance use (e.g., job loss, hospitalization), and improved relationship satisfaction.