And she said the study's findings could influence how and when products were marketed to women.
Since 1995, Dr. Ryff and her Wisconsin team have been studying some 7, 000 individuals and examining factors that influence health and well-being from middle age through old age in a study called MIDUS, or the Mid-Life in the U.S. National Study of Americans, funded by the National Institute on Aging.
Industry trials can be well conducted, but there are many situations where a lack of independence has had an influence on the way the study was designed and the results that are released.
Glory was designed to study the influence of aerosols on climate and measure solar energy.
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Another problem with the Flegal study is that factors such as smoking and health status influence both body weight and mortality.
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Seeking to help donation programs improve and target their outreach campaigns, Anteby and his research team decided to study the individual factors that might influence co-donation by married couples.
When independent experts who are free from conflicts of interest come together in good faith to study an issue, they can have a profound and constructive influence on government policy.
Thus, our study indicates that smoking mentholated cigarettes does not appear to influence risk over and above the effect of smoking per se.
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In a recent Kelton Group study my firm commissioned, titled Social Commerce: Buying Behavior and Influence Online, consumers were asked who they were likely to trust the most and least for product recommendations.
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The Administration's inability to argue more effectively that the stakes preclude both of these options seems to have reflected yet another error: the growing influence in its ranks of those like former Secretary of State James Baker and the bipartisan Iraq Study Group he co-chairs with former Rep. Lee Hamilton.
But this new study is the first to extensively evaluate the influence of gut bacteria on the biochemistry and development of the brain.
Our study concluded that it is most likely the willingness to innovate and change business practices that influence growth and success.
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