Sentences with phrase «studies during the past decade»

Several important studies during the past decade have demonstrated that breast - feeding has either no protective effect or predisposes infants to the development of atopy.

«Studies during the past decade have clearly documented that a genome is not a static entity but a dynamic structure continuously refining its gene pool,» van Montagu wrote in a recent memoir.

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This study covers the history of Sino - US trade relations with a particular focus on the past decade, during which time each has been a member of the World Trade Organization (WTO).

An obvious change in the study of religious ethics during the past couple of decades is its drift from its traditional moorings in the study of theology.

As the new literature about «theological education» began to grow during the past decade it quickly became clear [l] that for some participants the central issue facing «theological education» is the fragmentation of its course of study and the need to reconceive it so as to recover its unity, whereas for others the central issue is «theological education's» inadequacy to the pluralism of social and cultural locations in which the Christian thing is understood and lived.

Since the group's study revealed that burping and booming emissions are different acoustic phenomena, governed by different physical principles, it may also help explain some differences in measurements and interpretations regarding singing sand dunes made during the past decade.

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.

The extent of open water in the region during autumn has increased significantly in the past several decades, a signal other studies have linked to Arctic amplification.

Bird, Prendini, and co-author Robert Wharton, a professor at Texas A&M University, studied the jaws of 188 camel spider species representing all solifuge families from historical collections at the Museum and elsewhere, including material collected during expeditions by Prendini and Bird over the past decade — no easy feat.

The transitional forest studied by the researches happens to lie within an «arc of deforestation,» which has experienced very rapid deforestation during the past three decades.

Numerous studies during the past few decades have examined how to minimize the possibility that witnesses will finger an innocent person, and they have settled on showing people the photographs one by one, instead of all together.

During the past decade, Singh and his colleagues at DeBakey VA Medical Center for Innovation in Quality, Effectiveness, and Safety (IQuESt) and Baylor's section of health services research have quantified the issue in a series of studies, many of which were cited in the Institute of Medicine report.

Importantly, our study included analyses to assess cardiac arrest counts and survivor counts over time to add confidence that temporal results related to proportions are «true - true» and not a consequence of ascertainment bias.2 During the past decade, much focus has been drawn to increasing bystander CPR.

Two viruses that cause genital herpes, herpes simplex virus - 1 and -2, decreased in prevalence in the United States during the past 2 decades, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta published in the Aug. 23/30 Journal of the American Medical Association.

One of the best - studied examples involves the Hendra virus, one of a family of viruses discovered during the past two decades in Australia and South Asia.

The study finds that almost all of the very cold winters in central Asia during the past decade have coincided with particularly warm conditions in the Arctic.

The studies of the solar system during the past several decades have proven that the understanding of our own planetary system can leap forward only with the combination of dynamical modeling and physical observations.

Our study has drawn on information about the mathematics and science performance of students in many countries during the past four decades.

Despite all of the emphasis on education reform during the past decade, the retirement of an aging teacher corps has been substantially overlooked — a failure that could inhibit school improvement, a study by the Educational Resources Information Center clearinghouse on management suggests.

A new study analyzing changes at North Carolina's 44 teacher - education colleges during the enrollment decline of the past decade has found that those colleges committed to maintaining high standards are losing the most students because they have no flexibility in the present market.

And it was not news to me — and should not be to others — that the teaching of social studies and science had been cut back — if not smothered — during the past decade.

During the past decade, some studies have indicated that neutering can have several adverse health effects for certain dog breeds.

They have made it possible for the thousands of Americans, interested in the art movements of the old world, but who have not had the opportunity of late years to visit Europe, to see, study and compare the work of the founders, leaders and the followers of the various cults and movements which have so stirred France, England, Germany, Italy, and even Spain and Russia and the Scandinavian countries, during the past decade, and which have brought about, if not an art Renaissance in Europe — a stirring of the dry bones of conservatism and conventionalism in art abroad, and have had their direct influence here.

Extrapolating from their forest study, the researchers estimate that over this century the warming induced from global soil loss, at the rate they monitored, will be «equivalent to the past two decades of carbon emissions from fossil fuel burning and is comparable in magnitude to the cumulative carbon losses to the atmosphere due to human - driven land use change during the past two centuries.»

Although it's possible that stronger winds in the Southern Ocean over the past few decades may have caused the increase, satellite - based studies showing that transport has remained fairly steady during this time suggest that improved measurement tools, not increased wind, are responsible for the discrepancy.

A new study, to be published in the journal Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, found that a weakening polar vortex, potentially set in motion by the rapidly warming and melting Arctic, has become more common during the past four decades.

Monaghan et al. further note «recent literature suggests there has been little overall change in Antarctic near - surface temperature during the past 5 decades» and «the absence of widespread Antarctic temperature increases is consistent with studies showing little overall change in other Antarctic climate indicators during the past 50 years such as sea ice area and snowfall.»

The idea behind this course is that during past decades, programmes in EU Law, but also in related fields such as European Studies, International Relations, Global Governance and Intercultural Communication have widely proliferated across Europe and beyond.

During the past decade, the government has spent 500 million pounds ($ 1 billion) on spy cameras and now has one for every 14 citizens, according to a September report prepared for Information Commissioner Richard Thomas by the Surveillance Studies Network, a panel of U.K. academics.

This review addresses pediatric services that promote the optimal development of typically developing children from birth to 3 years of age in studies published during the past 2 decades.