Sentences with phrase «studies over the past decade»

Numerous studies over the past decade have revealed the devastating long - term impact that football can have on the human brain.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

But dozens of studies over the past decade challenge that view, suggesting instead that our thoughts are inextricably linked to physical experience.

Studies over the past decade have revealed that the complexity of the genome, and indeed almost every aspect of human biology, is far greater than was previously thought.

By reinsulating damaged nerves and regenerating nerve cells, Schwann cell transplants have earned their stripes in paralyzed mouse, pig and primate studies over the past decade.

Studies over the past decade have hinted at a different explanation.

Several studies over the past decade have shown that a strong emotional shock can lead to sudden heart failure in people with no known risk factors for heart disease.

Genetic and embryological studies over the past decade have informed us about the development and function of the notochord.

Coenzyme Q10 is considered a premier supplement for supporting overall cardiovascular health, and many studies over the past decades have supported its use in this regard.

The results also confirmed the positive relationship of key characteristics of professional - development design identified in previous studies over the past decade to student outcomes: sustained, active teacher learning that is coherently aligned with the school's organization.

Star and colleague Bethany Rittle - Johnson of Vanderbilt University have conducted a number of studies over the past decade that demonstrate the benefits of comparing a variety of problem - solving approaches for learning math, especially algebra.

In short, the 97 % consensus on human - caused global warming is a robust result, found using several different methods in various studies over the past decade.

While it is difficult to pinpoint the exact percentage at any given moment, experts have conducted studies over the past decade that indicate anywhere from 25 % to over 65 % of resumes omit information or provide misinformation.

Not exact matches

I've seen studies that suggest the percentage of Americans who report chronic feelings of loneliness has risen over the past few decades.

Indeed, a recent study suggests the number of retail gas stations has been slowly dropping over the past two decades, with a «continued lack of profitability» as the driving force behind the decline.

Just 8 % of hires over the past decade - and - a-half have been women, according to the study.

Given all the changes over the past three decades, Davidoff citing a study of the impact of New York financial transaction taxes from 1932 to 1981 is interesting from a historical perspective but not much more.

With global soup sales declining steadily over the past half of a decade, a new study indicates that an iconic packaging format may be to blame.

Over the past decade, in fact, the SPHERES program has led to more than 100 different academic studies.

NerdWallet's 2017 household debt study shows that several major spending categories have outpaced income growth over the past decade; many Americans are putting medical expenses on credit cards; and the average indebted household is paying hundreds of dollars in credit card interest each year.

Over the past three decades, the Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development has estimated both the cost and the years it takes for companies to develop new medicines.

There are various studies that have tracked the probability of success of technology startups over the past decades, such as MIT's Edward Roberts.

Today's National Post gave front page coverage to a «study» from the Frontier Centre claiming that wages of public servants have far outstripped those of private sector workers over the past decade.

«While falling oil prices have hurt Alberta revenues, uncontrolled spending increases over the past decade have significantly weakened the province's financial position,» study co-author Steve Lafleur said in a news release.

The study has been stretching back over the past few decades, and following the lives of 1500 intellectually «gifted» people.

The study indicates that over the past decade the number of allegations of sex abuse against churches and church agencies has averaged about seventy per week.

Consider what has happened in religious studies departments over the past few decades.

I have realized over the past decade or so that one of the things I really enjoy doing is studying Scripture.

Part of the personalization of our studies is evinced in the shift over past decades to a primary interest in the major living religions of the world.

Neuroscientists have over the past decade uncovered evidence, both in rodent and human studies, that parental caregiving, especially in moments of stress, affects children's development not only on the level of hormones and brain chemicals, but even more deeply, on the level of gene expression.

The latest study published in June 2012, showed that high school students in the United States had significant progress over the past two decades in improving many youth risk behaviors associated with the leading cause of death in their age group, car crashes.

Over the past decade, doctors have studied late preterm births in depth.

Over the past decade, study after study has highlighted the dangers of BPA, linking the chemical to breast cancer, testicular cancer, diabetes, hyperactivity, obesity, heart disease, low sperm count, miscarriage and other reproductive problems.

Over the past decade, a growing body of scientific studies has linked the chemical to breast cancer, testicular cancer, diabetes, hyperactivity, obesity, low sperm count, miscarriage and other reproductive problems in laboratory animals.

Focussing on the past decade, and systematically studying press output from across six European countries (UK, France, Poland, Spain, Italy and Germany), this project uses advanced methods of qualitative content analysis and quantitative discourse analysis to understand patterns of European memory, the way the discourse is expressed and by whom, and how it has changed over time.

Our study aimed to fill that gap, for the case of the UK over the past three decades.

CWM stepped up its donations over the past decade, when the DEC was studying the need for hazardous waste facilities, and when the Siting Board subsequently took up the application.

In particular, devotees of genetics might want to cede a little ground to their colleagues in epidemiology, who over the past decade have amassed a provocative, interlocking set of studies implicating urban birthplace and migrant status as persistent risk factors.

Extensive studies by the authors over the past decades on these islands have documented stratigraphic, sedimentologic, and geomorphic evidence of major oceanic and climatic disruptions at the close of the last interglacial.

For their study the scientists evaluated data from six forest censuses conducted over the past decades on Barro Colorado Island in the Panama Canal.

However, scientific assessments have generally ranked fishing and habitat loss as the highest threats to marine environments over past decades and centuries, while in this study, the general public perceived pollution as the highest threat.

Instead, much of the work on permafrost degradation over the past few decades has focused on the widespread, slow melting of the icy soils from the top down, says Vladimir Romanovsky, a geophysicist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who was not involved in the new study.

The findings, including the key role played by the prefrontal cortex in coordinating all the activated regions of the brain, are in line with what neuroscientists have pieced together over the past decades from studies in monkeys and humans.

The research looks at the causes for these changes by studying how families have split up work time in the United States over the past three decades.

Lyme disease has been spreading across the United States over the past several decades, and a new study has confirmed that ticks carrying the disease are present in eastern national parks.

Hormone replacement therapy has been controversial over the past few decades as studies have associated it with both health benefits — lowering the risk of osteoporosis and improving some measures of heart health, for example — and risks, including links to cancer and stroke.

Over the past decade, NASA has sent the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter to map the Moon; the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite to crash land near the south pole in search of water; the Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory to plumb the Moon's gravity field; and the Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) to study its tenuous outer atmosphere.

Studies published over the past two decades suggest that blocking this protein can promote clotting, which could curb bleeding in people with haemophilia.

With the rapid rise of esophageal adenocarcinoma paralleling the disappearance of the microbe in developed countries, a slew of studies have emerged over the past decade examining the potential role of H. pylori in preventing this cancer.

Over the past decade, dozens of regional research programs have developed in coastal Africa, and connected with peers in Europe and Asia, in a way re-creating the trade routes they study.