Sentences with phrase «widespread research and study»

Fashion is a huge area of academic discipline, and hence its dissertation requires widespread research and study by the student.

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A study published in Geophysical Research Letters in 2011 found widespread declines in oxygen concentration in the upper ocean between the 1970s and the 1990s.

The study, which was supported by the UK Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) and the General Research Directorate of the Government of Catalonia, also demonstrates for the first time the widespread presence of tobacco related carcinogens in house dust, even in «smoke - free» environments.

What sparked the conference, conducted by the National Academy of Sciences and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, was the widespread press attention to two research papers.

«In addition to the direct loss of forest, there was a widespread shift of the remaining global forest to a more fragmented condition,» explains Kurt Riitters, a research ecologist and team leader with the U.S. Forest Service Eastern Forest Environmental Threat Assessment Center and the lead author of a study describing the phenomenon, published in the January 2016 issue of Landscape Ecology.

Americans are concerned by potentially negative impacts of new biotechnological innovations, and yet they expect these technologies to be widespread within the next 50 years, according to a new Pew Research Center study.

«Despite large variation in health care prices, prevalence of high - deductible health plans and widespread interest in price transparency, we did not find evidence that offering price transparency to employees generated savings,» said Sunita Desai, a research fellow in health care policy at Harvard Medical School and lead author on the study.

In light of the widespread attention given to the Chetty, Friedman, and Rockoff research, Education Next asked four experts to comment on the study's implications for teacher policy.

While this study provides evidence for more widespread use of learning mindset programs in schools, new research by members of the Mindset Scholars Network is examining how these programs interact with diverse contexts to understand for whom and under what conditions they are most effective.

3 BSCS is a nonprofit corporation that endeavors to improve all students» understanding of science and technology by developing exemplary curricular materials, supporting their widespread and effective use, providing professional development, and conducting research and evaluation studies.

He recently wrote a Policy Forum paper in Science reviewing his and other research on widespread misunderstanding of this kind of risk, including a 2007 study he was a co-author of in which 84 percent of 212 M.I.T. participating grad students drew curves for proposed emission trends that would result in concentrations continuing to climb.

A joint study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council estimated that by 2050, widespread adoption of plug - ins could reduce greenhouse - gas emissions by 450 million metric tons annually — equivalent to removing 82.5 million passenger cars from the road.

Despite widespread denial among climate activists, a growing number of scientific research papers in recent months have confirmed the global warming hiatus, trying to explain its possible reasons (for the latest studies see here, here and here).

There is widespread concern regarding the negative impacts of the extra livestock needed to satisfy this demand, and the aim of our new study, published in Environmental Research letters (ERL), was to make a multidimensional analysis of the environmental impacts of different beef production systems in Uruguay using a set of available models.

A second study, published in Geophysical Research Letters, reports the widespread retreat of Thwaites and other glaciers on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet — and says the retreat can't help but continue.

Feeley and Wright hope that their research will now prompt other scientists to study tropical regions with similar climate patterns to see if this phenomenon is widespread.

Several research projects and studies point to widespread adoption of smart speakers, and the platforms are a natural match to audio - first programming.

Fortunately, with widespread recognition of the importance of early childhood development for later school achievement (fostered by advances in brain development research and studies of the long - term benefits of high quality early child care), public discourse concerning child care quality is increasingly regarding child care as an important developmental influence warranting public investment.

The industry (which has a financial interest) marshals studies and arguments claiming the clear plastic is safe, while environmental safety groups claim otherwise, and point to research that has found widespread harms in animal studies.