As the study points out, numerous comparative studies of organic and conventional yields have already been conducted with conflicting results.
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Although the United States has traditionally taken part in the major international comparative studies of student achievement, the results have tended to attract little attention domestically.
The organizers are: The Russian Academy for Public Administration, under the President of the Russian Federation, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO, UNESCO Chair for Comparative Studies of Spiritual Traditions, their Specific Cultures and Interreligious Dialogue, the UNESCO Network of Chairs on Intercultural and Inter-religious Dialogue and the UNESCO Moscow Office.
Thus, comparative effectiveness studies can be useful, at times both improving patient care and reducing medical costs.
Biopharmaceutical companies have been building such comparative effectiveness studies in their clinical development programs for the past decade.
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This gap in knowledge is what comparative effectiveness studies are intended to address.
Tenzin Seldon, a senior and a comparative-studies major from India, was one of five Rhodes Scholars chosen from Stanford this year.
Henry Jenkins is a professor of literature and director of the Comparative Media Studies program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Mr Obama wants to expand comparative effectiveness studies and health technology assessments.
President Obama is pushing "comparative effectiveness" studies that could pit pricey medical devices against cheap generic pills.
They findings are likely to provide ammunition to legislators and doctors pushing for more "comparative effectiveness" studies to be done as part of health care reform.
The methodologies of examining hip hop are borrowed from sociology, politics, religion, economics, urban studies, journalism, communications theory, American studies, transatlantic studies, black studies, history, musicology, comparative literature, English, linguistics, and other disciplines.
Among his major publications are studies on education planning, international and comparative education, intercultural and international dimensions of education, internationalization of educational policies.
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Mr. Liow is a professor of comparative and international politics and associate dean at S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore.
Senior Yale lecturers like Yale's diplomat-in-residence and eminent international security studies scholar Charles Hill, and Yale's Sterling Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature and Holocaust survivor Geoffrey Hartman, served on YIISA's faculty advisory committees and participated in its activities.
Zipes, a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Minnesota, has written sixty books on or of folk tales: critical studies, collections, translations.
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