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The range of expertise included general medicine, palliative care, neurology, disability studies, gerontology, psychiatry, psychology, law, philosophy, and bioethics.
So, too, on the other side, did Hans van Delden, a Dutch nursing home physician and bioethicist who for the past 20 years has been involved in all of the major empirical studies of end-of-life decisions in his country.
When I left India in 1975 for graduate studies in the United States, the country had roughly 600 million residents and just two million land-line telephones.
If equal opportunity for all is what is desired, a situation must be created whereby talented students from poor families receive, through stipends and tuition exemptions, a truly free education, including some funds for books and accommodation, while less talented students from well-to-do families pay the full cost of their studies.
They announced that the therapy they were testing, an antiretroviral drug called Truvada, had proved effective enough to end the randomized phases of the trials, and that they were offering the pill to all of the studies’ participants.
In evolutionary studies, because heritable non-genetic variations are often induced by the environment, we have to expand our notion of heredity and variation to include the inheritance of acquired variations, the once disparaged idea that was part of Lamarck’s theory.
Other studies, however, point to other adverse side effects arising from hosting a super-sized financial sector.
Other studies suggest that the negative effects begin to be felt when credit to the private sector exceeds 80-100% of GDP.
Yet the lesson of recent studies is that beliefs about what the government can and should do are not immutable.
Curiously, this finding did not spur much interest, and no similar studies were reported until 2002.
Since then, however, many studies have explored the association between cannabis use and psychotic illness.
In 2007, a compilation of the best studies concluded that frequent (daily) cannabis use doubles the risk of a psychotic outcome.
Some studies have also explored the role of cannabis use in disorders such as depression and anxiety.
Many studies have focused on the possible negative impact of cannabis use on memory and other cognitive functions.
That is appropriate, for it is of the utmost importance that the leader of the world’s 1.2 billion Roman Catholics has unequivocally stated that scientific studies attribute “most global warming” in recent decades to greenhouse gases, “released mainly as a result of human activity.”
Having deduced the presence of polypeptide chains, Astbury continued to pursue his pioneering studies of their configurations in fibrous proteins.
Theoretical studies suggest that inflation in the accession countries will remain stubbornly higher than the Maastricht Treaty allows.
As for geoengineering, we do not yet have enough information to decide, but preliminary studies show that it presents more problems than it solves.
One management expert summarizes recent studies as describing an increase in the use of more participative processes.
The fact that these results were obtained using well-controlled field experiments and replication across a number of studies instills confidence in the findings.
A series of recent studies shows how fragile the water balance is for many impoverished and unstable parts of the world.
The United Nations agency UNESCO recently issued The UN World Water Development Report 2009 ; the World Bank issued powerful studies on India ( India’s Water Economy: Bracing for a Turbulent Future ) and Pakistan ( Pakistan’s Water Economy: Running Dry ); and the Asia Society issued an overview of Asia’s water crises ( Asia’s Next Challenge: Securing the Region’s Water Future ).
For example, ten years of studies of the possible health effects of a class of carbon-based nanomaterials known as fullerenes report that the soccer-ball-shaped fullerene molecules known as “buckyballs,” are powerful antioxidants, comparable in strength to vitamin E. Other studies report that some types of buckyballs can be toxic to tumor cells.
Two recent studies concluded that buckyballs could impair brain functions in fish and were highly toxic to human-tissue cultures.
But the conclusions from these studies are difficult to interpret, in part because the nanomaterials that they used were contaminated with an organic solvent added to mobilize the fullerenes in water.
The fullerenes that have been the focus of early toxicity studies are among the least mobile of the nanomaterials we have studied to date.
Indeed, studies in the US, Australia, and elsewhere show that drug treatment rates tend to remain steady or rise, because syringe exchange participants gain greater access to rehabilitative care.
Armed with data from these and other studies, governments in low-income countries should be able to plan smarter immunization campaigns and substantially lower rates of infant morbidity and mortality.
For starters, while recent studies have concluded that higher levels of inequality produce lower long-term growth, other data have challenged this assumption, making definitive claims that are impossible to support, partly because different sources and types of inequality likely have different impacts on growth.
Repeated studies have shown that well-designed buildings are more comfortable.
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