Not exact matches
The
study, released Monday, shows performance shares were
used as CEO rewards
by 51 % of companies surveyed last year, up from 47 % the
previous year and 41 % in 2011.
A
study by the Business Software Alliance and IDC found that in 2009 China
used the equivalent of US$ 7.6 - billion worth of illegal software, an increase of US$ 900 million over the year
previous.
Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States Stephen Jones, McMaster University Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia Jones and Riddell build on two
previous papers: one
by David Card and Riddell (originally published in Small Differences that Matter) that
studies the reasons for higher rates of unemployment in Canada than the U.S. in the 1980s, the other
by Jones and Riddell which
uses data from the U.S. Labor Force Survey to
study the differences in rates of job creation for people who are counted as unemployed versus those who are counted as out of the labor force.
«While the
previous decision
by the FDA to ban BPA in products
used by babies and small children is the step in the right direction, this new
study again raises an important question: should FDA consider banning BPA for more than just this vulnerable population?
Using data from
previous field
studies, the team estimates that the minerals and other nutrients released
by giant Antarctic icebergs (those longer than 18 kilometers) trigger as much as 20 % of the CO2 absorption
by life in the southern seas.
The
study is in line with
previous research published
by senior author Gratch, whose main interest lies both in how people express these tells — an unconscious action that betrays deception — and
using this data to create artificial intelligence to discern and even express these same emotional cues as a person.
It builds upon
previous studies by Ozcan's group that
used deep learning to reconstruct holograms and improve microscopy.
Coss, who taught drawing classes early in his academic career and whose
previous research focused on art and human evolution,
used photos and film to
study the strokes of charcoal drawings and engravings of animals made
by human artists 28,000 to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet - Pont - d'Arc Cave in southern France.
Led
by Jenna Goesling, PhD, of the University of Michigan, the
study identifies several «red flags» for persistent opioid
use — particularly
previous use of high - dose opioids.
The plant compounds
used by the UGA researchers — resveratrol, found in grapes; genistein, found in soybeans; and quercetin, found in apple peels and onions — have all been shown in
previous studies to be fat - busters, causing fat cells to burst and release their contents.
With
previous studies showing that higher temperatures, caused
by global warming, have led to more unstable mountain rocks — the scientists, who took part in the new
study, believe that
using the two monitoring techniques together could prove vital for thousands of skiers and mountain climbers who undertake trips every year.
Previous research has tested how well radiation - exposed rats do with basic learning tasks and mazes, but this new Johns Hopkins
study focused on tests that closely mimic the self - tests of fitness for duty currently
used by astronauts on the International Space Station prior to mission - critical events such as space walks.
In order to prevent just one case of psychosis, more than 20,000 people would have to stop
using cannabis, as shown
by a
previous study led
by the University of Bristol.
In sharp contrast, a
previous study by Greenfield analyzing American books found that the
use of the words «obliged» and «give» declined substantially from 1800 to 2000 as U.S. society shifted from being predominantly rural to predominantly urban.
Many
previous studies have focussed on the urban nesting grounds and the gulls» behaviour around landfill refuse sites, but this is one of the first large - scale
studies to investigate the
use of cities
by gulls in traditional breeding colonies and their contribution to these «nuisance events».
Previous work
by Hook
using satellite data indicated that many lake temperatures were warming faster than air temperature and that the greatest warming was observed at high latitudes, as seen in other climate warming
studies.
By using their more powerful statistical approach, the researchers found clusters of mechanistically related genes where
previous studies had merely suggested a few isolated SNPs.
Motivated
by their
previous finding of the presence of P - glycoprotein overexpression in the nasal lining of patients with CRS with nasal polyps, the
study authors conducted a randomized, double - blind, placebo - controlled clinical trial
studying the
use of low - dose Verapamil in 18 patients with CRS with nasal polyps.
Some
previous studies had found that the distance covered
by a domain wall was directly proportional to the length of the electric pulse
used to drive it, hinting that perhaps domain walls move without inertia — that is, they move at top speed or not at all.
«However, all
previous studies on sleeve gastrectomy, estimated blood alcohol levels
by using breathalyzers, which might not reliably estimate peak blood alcohol levels in bariatric patients,» she adds.
Their analysis — which
used DNA data from a Neandertal woman from the Altai Mountains in Siberia (SN: 1/25/14, p. 17) and 112,338 present - day British people — confirmed some links between Neandertal heritage and human diseases made
by previous studies (SN: 3/5/16, p. 18), but didn't find evidence that Neandertal gene variants contribute to obesity.
In
previous studies, pulsating magnetic fields have been
used to deliver drugs, but the heat caused
by the application can destroy healthy cells of patients.
Previous cancer
studies had shown that
by injecting tumors with magnetic nanoparticles made of iron oxide — «essentially rust, with well - tuned magnetic properties,» Anikeeva says — then exposing them to rapidly alternating magnetic fields, excited nanoparticles can be
used to heat and destroy cancer tumors while leaving surrounding, healthy tissue intact.
A
previous study by Steve Ross and colleagues found that 35 % of respondents mistakenly thought chimpanzees were not endangered due to their frequent appearances in film and television, and the continuing
use of primate «actors» is likely to reinforce this misconception.
The consent forms have been reviewed
by U.S. ethical panels in the United States and China, he says, and a
previous study of golden rice in adults in the United States did not
use the term «genetically modified» either.
By drawing on
previous studies, Dietz estimated what proportion of the population could realistically be persuaded to change their behaviour
using financial incentives, mass - media campaigns and so forth.
Previous studies by other researchers have shown that increasing the
use of nanotechnology in agriculture in densely populated countries such as India and China has made an impact on reducing malnutrition and child mortality.
Though
previous studies indicated that these tiny objects were manufactured
by a mercury - based method in fashion at that time, the new results suggest that the threads were gilded exclusively
by using an ancient method that survived for a millennium.
The duration (20 minutes)
used in the current
study was based on
previous work
by our group demonstrating attenuation of age - related bone loss in male mice (36), but this duration is also less than the 60 - minute protocol shown to promote bone formation in the
study by Jing et al. (44).
However, chondrogenesis assays in chick micromass cultures showed that enhanced signaling
by the mutant R206H ACVR1 can be partially inhibited
by the BMP antagonist Noggin, suggesting that in addition to BMP - independent activity
by the R206H ACVR1 receptor, this mutant receptor is also responsive to BMP, consistent with
previous BMP signaling pathway
studies that
used cells derived from FOP patients (48 — 50).
Aerosol administration was performed as follows, the residual cup was filled with 8mls of the cisplatin agent and the nebulisation time was 10 minutes (almost 1 ml / minute) as observed from our
previous studies.14 The aerosol was delivered to the mice (one
by one) within a nose only cage that has been previously presented.34 In the groups receiving the intratumoral cisplatin an insulin injection was
used to deliver the 2mls of cisplatin within the tumor in different depths, however; a quantity of the drug when the injection was made superficially was lost since it was not accumulated.
April 4, 2016 Consumers reveal obstacles to
using nursing home quality ratings A
study of dozens of people who placed a relative or friend in a nursing home in the
previous six months found that few people were aware of the Nursing Home Compare website, published online
by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to help families find the best and closest available care facility.
Thinking about a different movement activates a new assortment of neurons, a phenomenon confirmed
by cross-validation
using functional MRI in He's
previous study.
«It was already known from
previous studies that the method of loci can considerably increase memory performance,» said Martin Dresler, assistant professor of cognitive neuroscience at Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre in the Netherlands and lead author of the
study, noting that the loci method is
used, without exception,
by all world - class memory athletes.
We note that loci characterized
by high levels of differentiation, which are likely to be resisting introgression, were included in our estimates from
previous studies; therefore, if anything, the estimates of gene flow
used in the simulations are likely to be underestimates, and our results should therefore be conservative.
These results are similar to our
previous findings and 2 recent
studies of no association between influenza infection during pregnancy and ASD risk.8, 10,11,13 Our
previous 2
studies were limited
by small sample sizes and possible recall bias, which were addressed in this
study by using a larger sample size and electronic medical records.
These viral probes encompass probes from all
previous ViroChip designs, including the v2.0 design
used in the 2006
study by Urisman, et al. (GEO accession number GPL1834).
The
study reviewed the findings from 14
previous clinical trials that involved almost 3,000 patients and found that
using echinacea reduced the risk of catching a cold
by 58 percent and reduced the duration of the cold
by 1.4 days.
At this last weekend's Advanced
Study Weekend, Dr. John McDougall said that the problem with arsenic in rice is not the rice per se, but in the water
used to grow it and in some cases from soil affected
by previous water sources; and that California rice is OK, but rice from the southeast U.S. is not.
Second, the majority of
previous studies measured testosterone
using direct RIAs (14, 16, 19, 20, 22, 23, 28, 31), electrochemiluminescence immunoassays (18) or enzyme immunoassays (15), whereas we measured testosterone
by RIA following solvent extraction and Celite column partition chromatography, which improves assay accuracy and precision (72).
They are consistent with the result of a
previous study done
by the Intercultural Institute,
using qualitative methods on participants in a project involving cooperation between Roma and non-Roma young people.
Previous studies of evaluations
by principals have
used only the overall rating of the teacher, a less direct assessment of a teacher's ability to raise student performance.
Previous studies use the traditional mindset instrument developed
by Dweck (1999).
Using student - level data, they are able to surmount a criticism of the Skiba et al.
study by limiting the analysis of students involved in the same fight to a sample in which neither student had a
previous suspensions — so the only comparisons involve students with similar disciplinary records.
In this
study, 27 high - poverty elementary schools (75 — 100 % eligibility for free or reduced - price lunch) were matched
by prior reading achievement and poverty level and randomly assigned to one of two implementation conditions: a core treatment condition that directly replicated implementation procedures
used in
previous experiments, or a core treatment with structured teacher adaptations condition.
In this
study, we built on
previous neuroimaging
studies of mathematical cognition and examined whether the same cognitive processes are engaged
by two strategies
used in algebraic problem solving.
This contradicts findings
by earlier
studies that
used aggregate data, whereas the vol effect for non-cross listed firms is consistent with
previous evidence.
In a
previous post entitled Worldwide Glacier Retreat, we highlighted the results of a
study by J. Oerlemans, who compiled glacier data from around the world and
used them to estimate temperature change over the last ~ 400 years.
Mike's work, like that of
previous award winners, is diverse, and includes pioneering and highly cited work in time series analysis (an elegant
use of Thomson's multitaper spectral analysis approach to detect spatiotemporal oscillations in the climate record and methods for smoothing temporal data), decadal climate variability (the term «Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation» or «AMO» was coined
by Mike in an interview with Science's Richard Kerr about a paper he had published with Tom Delworth of GFDL showing evidence in both climate model simulations and observational data for a 50 - 70 year oscillation in the climate system; significantly Mike also published work with Kerry Emanuel in 2006 showing that the AMO concept has been overstated as regards its role in 20th century tropical Atlantic SST changes, a finding recently reaffirmed
by a
study published in Nature), in showing how changes in radiative forcing from volcanoes can affect ENSO, in examining the role of solar variations in explaining the pattern of the Medieval Climate Anomaly and Little Ice Age, the relationship between the climate changes of past centuries and phenomena such as Atlantic tropical cyclones and global sea level, and even a bit of work in atmospheric chemistry (an analysis of beryllium - 7 measurements).
Keep in mind there are error bars around this estimate, just as there are in
previous studies by Bokyoff
using sampling techniques and every other media analysis previously published that
uses sampling techniques.