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For example, studies of epidural steroid injections for back pain have been shown to be almost three times more likely to yield positive results when conducted by doctors who routinely administer them.
Such an approach would be more relevant and generalizable than industry-sponsored short-term studies that compare new treatments to placebos in a fastidiously chosen population that does not reflect real-world conditions.
Because the future economy will need technologically capable workers, curricula should be reoriented toward STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) subjects and away from the social studies that were long prized by public-sector employers.
Finally, a third theory suggests that racial bigots in past studies were better at identifying Jewish people simply because they selected “Jewish” for more faces.
But other studies have confirmed that medication can alter a person’s racial prejudice.
Studies show that benefits are higher than the costs.
A newly created Minister of Social Cohesion has begun to commission studies documenting discrimination.
But Lebanon is not alone in that respect: according to the UN and several independent studies, countries in transition from war to peace face roughly a 50% chance of sliding back into warfare.
Of the 250 members of provincial Communist Party standing committees, an elite group including party chiefs and governors, 60 claim to have earned PhDs.Tellingly, only ten of them completed their doctoral studies before becoming government officials.
There is even a mentorship program to help girls affected by conflict continue their studies.
The Age of VulnerabilityNEW YORK – Two new studies show, once again, the magnitude of the inequality problem plaguing the United States.
So-called “evidence-based medicine” entails a hierarchy of empirical proof that ranks medical studies according to their quality.
Observational studies that compare outcomes for patients who receive particular treatments and control subject who do not rank higher, but may still be misleading.
Convincing studies of drugs and surgical procedures usually come only from randomized trials, in which patients receive treatment or don’t according to a process analogous to a coin flip.
These recommendations, based on physiological and observational studies, proved profoundly misleading.
The primary studies forming the basis of these reviews come largely from the United States, where for-profit and not-for-profit providers work side by side in the same environment, and where large administrative databases allow accurate detection of death rates.
Indeed, computer-grading of essays is a surging science, with some studies showing that computer evaluations are fairer, more consistent, and more informative than those of an average teacher, if not necessarily of an outstanding one.
Recent studies indicate that the net effects of automation on employment, achieved through upstream industry linkages and demand spillovers, have been positive.
When I left India in 1975 to go to the United States for graduate studies, there were perhaps 600 million Indians and just two million land-line telephones.
Of course, replicating studies is crucial, and science is now plagued by a reproducibility crisis.
This finding is supported by both tightly controlled laboratory experiments and historical case studies.
Moreover, these studies typically pool castes into three large groups, which distorts the real picture.
Brain imaging studies have found that parts of the temporal lobe activate during these hallucinations.
Our research at Yale University, as well as studies conducted at the Institute of Psychiatry in London, also detected activation in an area of the brain known as Broca's region during production of "inner speech" or verbal thought.
These results, although preliminary, suggest an alternative treatment if validated in larger-scale studies.
The first is based on studies suggesting that schizophrenia patients suffer from reduced brain connectivity.
It is certainly difficult to determine whether the outsize revenue estimates of the Sanders campaign could be realized; many studies suggest otherwise.
And two recent studies commissioned by Standard Chartered Bank indicate that the growing ranks of the affluent view education as a top priority.
Sri Lanka took a similar stance, using studies from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change to calculate that in 2008, environmentally permissible carbon emissions totaled no more than 2,172 kilograms per person.
Recent studies by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), the World Bank and the CASE Foundation show that geographical distance from centres of development, mountainous terrain, lack of "market memory"- recent historical experience of an entrepreneurial tradition - and failures of economic policy are the main causes of the lack of recovery after the collapse of the Soviet-era economy.
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