In a German study that followed a group of teenagers for ten years, those who smoked pot at least 5 times were more than twice as likely to develop schizophrenia.
Meanwhile, Thomas Caldwell , a member of Thain's for-profit study group, was engaged in a very public seat-buying binge he'd begun in early 2004.
And everyone is waiting for the Iraq Study Group to come up with a face-saving way for Congress and the White House to come together.
But a new study from the Center for Retirement Research at Boston College, a group that is affiliated with M.
Duffy MacKay, vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade group for the supplement and energy-drink industries, called the study "a new, emerging hypothesis, " but said the researchers were drawing large conclusions from small studies of mice, bacteria and human biomarkers.
Duffy MacKay, vice president for scientific and regulatory affairs at the Council for Responsible Nutrition, a trade group for the supplement and energy drink industry, called the Nature study "a new, emerging hypothesis, " but said the researchers were drawing large conclusions from small studies of mice, bacteria and human biomarkers.
In one study, the average weight loss for a group taking a higher dose (32 mg) of naltrexone plus bupropion for about a year was 6.1% while for a lower dose (16 mg) it was 5%. (People taking a placebo had an average weight loss of 1.3%.) However, only half the participants who started the trial actually finished it.
Committee members were unanimous in their praise for the study group's efforts in drawing up 79 recommendations for a new approach to Iraq.
Researchers measured brain activity of 47 healthy adults -- a small but scientifically valid size group for this type of study -- while using a mobile device.
For example, a study by the Aite Group concluded that advisors were not getting the desired benefits of better brand awareness, competitive differentiation and revenue growth. 20% of advisors surveyed said that social media was unimportant to them while another 40% said that they were neutral on social media.
Bosse points to a study conducted by the Plan for Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses, a 25-member group of biologists, engineers and statisticians representing federal entities, states and tribes, that compared upriver stocks of salmon to downriver socks.
"Consumers will be very cautious with their wallets this Mother's Day, heeding Mom's advice that she really doesn't need much, " Phil Rist, spokesperson for BIGResearch, the group that collected the data for the NRF study, said in a press release.
And yet a study by the Tax Foundation, a not-for-profit, nonpartisan tax research group, concludes that if the goal is better economic growth, higher employment and increased domestic investment, cutting corporate taxes is the way to go.
In the United States, a bipartisan panel, the Iraq Study Group, has criticized the president's war policy and called for a conditional withdrawal of American combat forces by 2008.
So what we end up with is upper-middle-class taxpayers paying the highest actual percentage of their income, over 31%, according to a 2010 study by the group Citizens for Tax Justice.
Instead of joining the crowds attending the Shanghai Expo, I spent much of my summer preparing to serve as a chaperone for a group of college students traveling to India earlier this month on a two-week study tour.
Unfortunately, the team did not have a suitable group of Africans available for study.
In another study, psychologist Richard Wiseman invited a group of students out for drinks.
"When you've tried everything, try Henry George, " says Joshua Vincent, a historian and statistician who runs a Georgist group called the Center for the Study of Economics in the house where Henry George was born in Philadelphia.
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What really matters for jobs and competitiveness is not consumer price inflation, but the rate of change of unit labor costs. (Unit labor costs are wage rates adjusted for changes in productivity.) A recent study from the Boston Consulting Group suggests that Chinese unit labor costs will grow at about 8.5 percent per year over the next five years.
One examined 29 patients with Crohn's disease and found that after six months, 21 were considered remitted. (There wasn't a control group for comparison.) The other was study of 54 patients with ulcerative colitis.
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Researchers from The Research Alliance for New York City Schools out of NYU were one group conducting a study to help School of One learn, and they recently produced a helpful and measured study, which they also released on their website.
The two co-chairmen of the Iraq Study Group testified on Capitol Hill on Thursday about their recommendations for what they call a new way forward in Iraq.
For example, the task force recommends the creation of a new group to study the use of acoustic switches, devices that can shut off the well via remote control in a disaster.
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For the purposes of our study, for a former detainee to be considered "confirmed" that he had joined a militant group, there had to be a preponderance of information claiming he was directly involved in terrorist or insurgent activities.
W. Bush, is co-chairing a bipartisan study group that's examining the situation in Iraq and making recommendations for future policy there.
He acknowledged the need for a new course in Iraq, and said the report of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group (chaired by Republican James Baker and Democrat Lee Hamilton) had been helpful.
In a study the group produced with Tufts University, it says that with government accounting for only 13.4% of publicly distributed food (down from 22.2% in 1991), the private sector will have to make up for the shortfall by distributing a total of 24.5 billion lbs. of food in the next six years--enough to fill 5 million Army National Guard trucks.
In a 2010 laboratory study commissioned by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and analyzed by the Environmental Working Group, 17 popular fragrances were found to contain an average of 14 not-listed chemicals, including things like diethyl phthalate (DEP), which the Center for Disease Control has found in 97 percent of Americans and which has been linked to various developmental issues.
For example, in a study published last year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences a group of researchers looked at crustaceans (crabs, shrimps, woodlice and so on) over the past 550m years and found far more examples of groups of species evolving towards complexity than in the other direction.
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