Glory was designed to study the influence of aerosols on climate and measure solar energy.
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Scientists trying to determine whether genetic or environmental factors influence disease risk often study twins.
The European mission will instead study the influence of dark energy by looking for subtle distortions in the way galaxies appear as they line up on the sky, and by measuring the patterns in the three dimensional distribution of galaxies through time.
While this is one of many factors that influence teen pregnancy, the study is compelling, given that adolescents spend a significant amount of time watching television, Chandra said.
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.
If the first six months of a child's life matter as much as most people think they do, then spending even that short time together could influence the result of a twins study.
And she said the study's findings could influence how and when products were marketed to women.
Take a look at Dell and Gateway's iMac knockoffs, introduced last year, for a case-study in Apple's influence.
Take a look at Dell (nasdaq: DELL - news - people ) and Gateway's iMac knockoffs, introduced last year, for a case-study in Apple's influence.
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.
Scientists have begun a study to see if it is possible to influence what we dream about.
But this new study is the first to extensively evaluate the influence of gut bacteria on the biochemistry and development of the brain.
Criticism over unseemly influence from corporate sponsors forced the NTP to revise its study, but a draft of its new report (published earlier this year) came to many of the same conclusions much to the chemical industry's relief.
To be clear, the study found that warm weather not cold might wrongly influence people.
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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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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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.
The study reveals that policy makers may be overlooking key factors which directly influence public health.
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While this study may be the first to suggest that a personality trait may influence the risk of a repeat heart attack, many cardiologists have long known mood can affect health.
People, I believe, are far more complex than the "facts" which a study that is already slanted to a specific position ("the influence of working women on the divorce rate" for example) will provide.
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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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.
"Study after study has shown that... on-screen smoking has a powerful influence on behavior, " Fiore says.
You know, maybe the influence of the past 40 years can't be eradicated in even a long intervention study that goes on for about eight years.
Now there's a new field of study around ranking users in social networks PeopleRank according to their influence: how many of their tweets are read, re-tweeted, include links that others click on, etc.
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Scientists are keen to study Antarctica's subglacial hydrological systems because liquid water beneath the ice sheet will influence its movement (the ice above Lake Whillans is moving at about 300m per year).
And a mooted fixed cap on foreign student numbers, to go with the previously announced limit on skilled workers, has been shelved, allegedly because of Lib Dem influence though Mrs May hints that she might reconsider if the number of post-study workers balloons.
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.
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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The study found that so-called "sociometric" leaders like Physician 184 had more of an influence on word-of-mouth buzz than the self-reported opinion leaders, perhaps because the latter group tend to be less involved with their peers.
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