Sentences with phrase «study earlier this decade»

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Did the results jive with earlier studies that covered a mere decade or two and which found that personality pretty much stays the same?

A striking 46 percent of renters ages 25 to 34 — the core of the millennial population — spend more than 30 percent of their incomes on rent, up from 40 percent a decade earlier, according to a report by Harvard University's Joint Center of Housing Studies.

It is very difficult, according to women who have done both, to fit seminary, parish ministry, doctoral study, teaching, publication and child bearing into the two decades between college graduation and the age — the early 40s — at which tenure usually is granted.

Aquiares has been home to research studies for decades, starting with early sociological studies in the 1950's.

The most thorough of these studies, which has tracked for decades 1,000 children born in Dunedin, New Zealand, in the early 1970s, showed that children with strong noncognitive capacities go on to complete more years of education and experience better health.

Their presentations will be based on empirical research, some from decades - long studies exploring the longitudinal connections between early development and later problematic behaviors.

The experiment is similar to work done decades ago by Harry Harlow, in that it utilizes maternally deprived juvenile monkeys to study the effects of early adversity on young primate brains.

Such an exploration is not only an interesting study in its own right; it is also significant for assessing the prospects for the future of government in the coming decades, for example in assessing how government changed in the periods of cutbacks in the 1980s and early 1990s in the context of what is likely to be a period of prolonged fiscal restraint in the 2010s.

Decades - long studies show that early education can produce a range of effects lasting well into adulthood, but the quality and context of the programs are critical.

In 1980 he began studying one called verbenone that other researchers had isolated from beetle guts more than a decade earlier.

Published in the journal Surgical Neurology International the study compared 21 Western countries between 1989 and 2010 and found that dementias are starting a decade earlier than they used to in adults.

In the cerebral but engaging Myth, he deconstructs two decades of research and argues that flawed early studies led to years of simplistic assumptions about how these cells function.

Recent studies in those with an inherited form of early Alzheimer's detected the presence of rogue amyloid proteins up to two decades before symptoms emerged, suggesting that we're intervening too late, when the damage is irreparable.

Pearse was uniquely qualified: Decades earlier, she began her scientific career studying the genetic makeup of a species of flea that had a special taste for the Tasmanian devil.

When the study wrapped up four years later, Falloon found that the incidence of schizophrenia in the treatment zones was one - tenth of what it had been a decade earlier.

Given such uncertainties, Bush, much like his father a decade earlier, pledged additional funding for climate studies.

The analysis showed the date of peak tornado activity in the region moved earlier at a rate of 1.55 days per decade over the time period studied.

And the results of the P - curves suggested that about 95 percent of the recent studies and those from a decade earlier had a large enough effect size, or the size of the difference in the effect being studied.

Most research looks at aging in older people, but the seeds of age - related diseases are planted decades earlier — that's why these researchers believe it's crucial to study aging in the young.

During the early 2000s, environmental scientists studying methane emissions noticed something unexpected: the global concentrations of atmospheric methane (CH4)-- which had increased for decades, driven by methane emissions from fossil fuels and agriculture — inexplicably leveled off.

«This is a lifelong disease that often strikes people in their early years, leading to decades of suffering, an increased risk of colorectal cancer, and an increased risk of premature death,» said Brian Coombes, senior author of the study.

Two studies presented at the Biology of Genomes meeting in Cold Spring Harbor, New York, last week show how human genomes have changed over centuries or decades, charting how since Roman times the British have evolved to be taller and fairer, and how just in the last generation a gene that favors cigarette smoking led to early death in some groups.

Scientific studies of the bones will continue over the next decades, providing one of the first and possibly the biggest samples of research on an early Mediterranean population ever undertaken.

Late - summer water temperatures near the Florida Keys were warmer by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit in the last several decades compared to a century earlier, according to a new study by the U.S. Geological Survey.

Unchecked development, thousands of invasive species, climate change, and reduced budgets and staff all threaten America's national parks, says a decade - long study released earlier this week by the National Parks Conservation Association (NPCA), a Washington, D.C. - based advocacy group.

The study's authors found that starting in the early 20th century an additional 1.5 centimeters (0.6 inches) of water, or melted snow, was added to the ice sheet each decade.

An earlier study by Goodwin and colleagues showed that the use of cannabis by cigarette smokers had increased dramatically over the past two decades to the point where smokers are more than 5 times as likely as nonsmokers to use marijuana daily.

Weather - related insurance losses rose to $ 50 billion in 2005 from less than $ 10 billion a decade earlier, according to a study by Ceres, a Boston - based nonprofit group that lobbies corporations to be environmentally responsible.

«These results suggest that inflammation in mid-life may be an early contributor to the brain changes that are associated with Alzheimer's disease and other forms of dementia,» said study author Keenan Walker, PhD, of Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore, Md. «Because the processes that lead to brain cell loss begin decades before people start showing any symptoms, it is vital that we figure out how these processes that happen in middle age affect people many years later.»

The new paper is unique for showing that the climate change signal is constant across decades, said John Fasullo, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research and author of the earlier Australia study.

The team is hoping to explore this by looking at other dementia studies in which blood samples have been taken over decades and seeing whether the chemical changes can be detected that early.

«IRTF and other facilities have provided direct support to the Cassini — Huygens mission and made it possible to link that data to decades» worth of earlier and ongoing ground - based studies,» said IRTF director John Rayner.

Three decades of study commencing in the 1960's led to the Burgess Shale ultimately attaining the recognition of today as a remarkable rock record of early Cambrian life and its early diversification.

Neutron irradiation embrittlement of metals has been a well - known and studied process for several decades; from at least since the 1970s and very likely earlier.

This conclusion is confirmed by many studies finding that while the sun contributed to warming in the early 20th Century, it has had little contribution (most likely negative) in the last few decades:

For decades, scientists have turned to DNA to learn about our past, but their studies have been limited to eras much earlier than recorded history.

A new study led by Western University's all - star cosmochemist Audrey Bouvier proves that the Earth and other planetary objects formed in the early years of the Solar System share similar chemical origins — a finding at odds with accepted wisdom held by scientists for decades.

Most of the reporting from the decade - long study describe other animals that were present in the Triassic besides the early dinosaurs.

But the number of women surviving this advanced stage of the disease is rising: A study published this month in Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention found that the five - year survival rate for women initially diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer doubled from 18 % in the early 1990s to 36 % in the last decade or so.

Early in the last century, Dr. Weston A. Price, «The Isaac Newton of Nutrition», spent more than a decade of his life traveling, studying, and writing about 14 isolated, indigenous cultures from around the globe.

Last year, researchers published a study of more than 1,000 girls across the country, and found a «a higher prevalence of onset of breast development among girls at ages 7 and 8 years [old]... compared with those observed more than just a decade earlier.»

«Our study shows that people are able to observe and rate a friend's personality accurately enough to predict early mortality decades down the road,» Jackson said in the release.

In this study, the risk of developing Alzheimer's was lowest in women who started hormone therapy early and also continued it for a decade or more.

Over the past two decades, many studies have been carried out after the early warning in the early 1980 s that coffee consumption was related to pancreatic cancer risk.

After making his mark in the early thirties with two very different films, the anarchic send - up of the bourgeoisie Boudu Saved from Drowning and the popular - front Gorky adaptation The Lower Depths, Renoir closed out the decade with two critical humanistic studies of French society that routinely turn up on lists of the greatest films ever made: Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game (the former was celebrated in its time, but the latter was trashed by critics and audiences — until history provided vindication).

Look at the collected reviews of Pauline Kael since the early 70s, when academic film study in the U.S. was just getting started, and you'll be hard put to find a shred of evidence in more than two decades of energetic writing that such studies existed at all.

The film struggles to create a context in which the climactic murder seems inevitable, but the facts don't support a psychological case study — all indications are that du Pont more or less lost his mind in the weeks leading up to the murder, whereas most of Foxcatcher takes place almost a decade earlier — and screenwriters Dan Futterman (who also wrote Capote) and E. Max Frye (Something Wild — this is not) never manage to build a series of petty rivalries and resentments into tragedy.

Alain Resnais's alternately sublime and ridiculous study of fantasy and obsession represents a return to the «wildness» of his early films and, for my money, is also his best film in decades.

One of the most extensive studies of «Sesame Street» in more than two decades concludes that early viewing of the venerable educational television show appears to boost children's readiness for school.

A study in Anne Arundel county found that the «first bell has been ringing slightly earlier every year for the past decade,» states a Washington Post report.