Sentences with phrase «surprisingly little study»

Yet there has been surprisingly little study of their consequences.

Surprisingly little study has been done on large, loopy networks like the ones in the brain — probably in part because it is easier to think about brains as tidy assembly lines than as dynamic networks.

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But it has been disappointing in that the kind of genetic variation it detects has turned out to explain surprisingly little of the genetic links to most diseases... One issue of debate among researchers is whether, despite the prospect of diminishing returns, to continue with the genomewide studies, which cost many millions of dollars apiece, or switch to a new approach like decoding the entire genomes of individual patients.The unexpected impasse also affects companies that offer personal genomic information and that had assumed they could inform customers of their genetic risk for common diseases, based on researchers» discoveries...

Surprisingly, very little research has been done on the dietary quirks of pregnant women, but studies on rats and insights from the hormonal changes that take place during women's menstrual cycles are providing some clues.

But if you look at the studies, there's actually been surprisingly little evidence to suggest that is true.

Professor Ian Hall from the University of Nottingham who co-led the study said: «Given how common COPD is, we know surprisingly little about the reasons why one individual develops the condition whilst another does not.

However, researchers know surprisingly little about the levels and types of pollution that cause different kinds of illness, said Stacey Boland, a systems engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California who was not involved in the study.

Striking catlike poses and oozing poison when required, she is also given a little humanity, including a surprisingly dorky, vulgar laugh that suggests just how studied and artificial her elegance is.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.

Surprisingly, the following study found that there was very little relationship in the scores received between the normal standardized test and the Scantron test.

Considering the central role these cats played in Hawkins» two - year study, he knew surprisingly little about their behavior — including various factors that surely had an impact on his findings.

Beluga whales are a mysterious, little studied species that lives surprisingly close to Alaska's few major centers of human population.

As Wired points out, «The researchers also found that so - called biological soil crusts, a little - studied layer of lichen and bacteria found in arid western regions, play a surprisingly large role in preventing erosion.

There is surprisingly little argument among those who have actually studied climates over multi-millennial time scales that we will be in an Ice Age 10,000 years from now.

I recently returned to the subject (and)... found that surprisingly little had been accomplished, in spite of the fact that the internet, which was basically unknown when I did my study, was now the perfect vehicle to make the law more accessible.

Contemporary family research studies have devoted surprisingly little effort to elucidating the interplay between adults» individual adjustment and the dynamics of their coparental relationship.