Sentences with phrase «year study period before»

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Shortly before that date, Mattis extended the study period to the end of this year.

«There have been transitions before where the department headed off in new directions, but there is traditionally a period of new people coming in and studying and learning about issues before taking bold and dramatic new policy directions,» said William Yeomans, who spent nearly 30 years at the department.

Studies have shown that employees who are 50 years of age and older are not only more likely to be laid off during tough economic times, but they're also known to have longer periods of unemployment before being able to re-enter the workforce.

Heavier rainfall at the study sites from the year 0 to 400, and again during Europe's Medieval Warm Period, just before the Little Ice Age from about the year 800 to 1300, was probably caused by a centuries - long strengthening of El Niño.

The warmer temperatures are melting 60 times more snow from Mt. Hunter today than the amount of snow that melted during the summer before the start of the industrial period 150 years ago, according to the study.

The Persian carpet flatworm, the cuttlefish and the black ghost knifefish look nothing like each other — their last common ancestor lived 550 million years ago, before the Cambrian period — but a new study uses a combination of computer simulations, a robotic fish and video footage of real fish to show that all three aquatic creatures have evolved to swim with elongated fins using the same mechanical motion that optimizes their speed, helping to ensure their survival.

The researchers found that during the 3 - year study period, 1496 people were victims of homicide, and 6 % (90) of them had been under the care of mental health services in the year before their death.

For the birth control hormone study, researchers identified 305 women who had been diagnosed with MS or its precursor, clinically isolated syndrome, during a three - year period from the membership of Kaiser Permanente Southern California and who had been members for at least three years before the MS symptoms began.

Comparing the six - month period before the program was implemented to the same period a year later, the study showed a 61 percent decrease in post-incarceration deaths.

However, latest scientific studies show that this marine species colonized the Mediterranean between 20,000 and 200,000 years ago, so the colonization event took place before the last glacial period.

In our study, symptoms of depression occurred in the two weeks before interview and sexual dissatisfaction in the year before interview but, as we don't know when the period of infertility occurred, we can not make assumptions about causality and are in favour of further investigation into the long term impact of infertility on women's well - being.»

In the current study, researchers have identified individuals in Sweden who had their thymus surgically removed during the 1997 - 2009 period in connection with an operation for congenital heart diseases before they were five years old.

Hence, many survivors — nearly 40 percent of them, according to one study — stop taking AIs long before their customary five - year treatment period expires.

Wilson leads a large, multidisciplinary team that studies geology and fossils in the Hell Creek Formation to learn more about the period of time immediately before and after the mass - extinction event that killed off the dinosaurs and gave rise to the age of mammals, 66 million years ago.

In one study, heart attack - related hospital admissions to Tulane Medical Center rose three-fold in the decade after Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans compared with the two - year period before the epic 2005 storm.

Another study, which examined a variety of lifestyle factors and their relationship to changes in weight in more than 19,000 healthy older men over a four - year period, found that «one of the best predictors of weight gain over the four years was having lost weight on a diet at some point during the years before the study started,» Tomiyama said.

It was outside the scope of the study, but Florida recently lengthened the vesting period from six to eight years, meaning even more teachers are likely to become ex-teachers before qualifying for pension benefits, leaving even more money on the table.

Pass rates for remedial elementary algebra without workshops were similar during the study period and during the year before: 39 percent of study participants passed, compared to 37 percent of students in fall 2012.

The core of Bengen's findings was that no matter what day you retired on during the studied timeframe of 75 years (starting in 1926), if you withdrew 4 % of the starting balance at the beginning of a 30 - year retirement with a 50 % stocks and a 50 % bond portfolio, you would not run out of money before the end of the period.

With regards to the analysts and their expertise, I have here before me Malkiel's book where he says that in a study by Sandretto and Milkrishnamurthi, analysts earnings estimates were off by an annual average of 31 % over a 5 - year period.

A recent Spanish study compared dog bites during a four year period, 1995 - 1999, before BSL, and those from 2000 - 2004, following BSL.

from August 2nd to 28th Nick Meek studied photography in Leeds, West Yorkshire before spending a brief period as assistant to a London / New York based advertising photographer.An avid traveler Meek spent the following few years traveling the world building a solid portfolio of landscapes and still life studies.

The bright red patch, or «hot spot,» over the Four Corners persisted throughout the study period, but the readings were so extreme scientists still waited several more years before investigating the region in detail.

And we BC Hydro and consultants and put an enormous amount of work into studying and estimating the risk of that fault over a period of over 10 years before the decision was made to build.

On the basis of atmospheric CO2 data obtained from the Antarctic Taylor Dome ice core and temperature data obtained from the Vostok ice core, Indermuhle et al. (2000) studied the relationship between these two parameters over the period 60,000 - 20,000 years BP (Before Present).

Another study suggest that the EAIS has melted once before, during the Pliocene Epoch some 5 to 2.5 million years ago, a period that is comparable in atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global temperatures to those predicted for the end of this century.

For the study published in the Sept. 29 issue of Neurology, researchers found that, of the 16,409 people diagnosed with stroke over a four - year period, 2,032 — or 12.4 percent of them — had a TIA in the weeks before the stroke.

A National Highway Traffic Safety Administration study for the period from 2008 - 2010, before the ESC ruling, showed that the technology saved 634, 705 and 863 lives, respectively, during those three years.

The UC Berkely Safe Transportation Research and Education Center studied traffic crashes during the two - year period before the ban took effect and compared them to the number and cause of traffic crashes during the two - year period after the ban took effect.

Studies have shown that employees who are 50 years of age and older are not only more likely to be laid off during tough economic times, but they're also known to have longer periods of unemployment before being able to re-enter the workforce.

In a 10 - year study of personality and cognitive development of children in 110 families (41 of whom experienced divorce during the study), it was found that the fathers who eventually divorced withdrew from their children long before the crisis period and end of the marriage.