One of the first things that Physics students learn when they study radioactivity is the idea of the half-life.
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While the results of the breast cancer study backed the idea that exercise can improve survival rates or reduce tumour size, more research was needed in this area, she said.
Lead author Michael Dunn, an evolutionary linguist at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands, said the approach is akin to the study of pea plants by Gregor Mendel, which ultimately led to the idea of heritability of traits.
The study in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, contradicts the idea that being under pressure leads to bad habits like over-eating or shopping sprees.
"This is just the first study which was focused on the idea that men of a certain age view sex as a highly desirable goal, and if you present them with a provocative woman, then that will tend to prime goal-related responses, " she told CNN.
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The studios offered to conduct a study analyzing the impact of the new media, but the writers rejected that idea.
Over the next day and a half, the idea of the screening trial combined with a larger study that comes later gathered steam.
Yet the NACD commission is cool on the idea, and at least one prominent academic study has spelled out some of the risks.
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The idea of writing for others versus themselves is important because it steers study subjects away from the sense that the belonging intervention is remedial.
But the teachers would have none of the head's idea, arguing that all children have the right to study a broad curriculum.
"The idea of getting off drugs holds tremendous appeal for patients, " said the study's lead author, Professor John Scandling.
As the study authors themselves state, this idea that autistic people might show reduced deficits to the point of losing a diagnosis is not new.
Jamie Heywood, chairman and co-founder of PatientsLikeMe, said the idea for the new study came from patients.
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And even if we were able to settle upon an acceptable definition of consciousness, we really have no idea how to study the problem.
"We are hoping this study will in some small way help people feel more comfortable with the idea of removing a dam, and that more people will see it for what it is, " Johnson said.
To give you an idea of how widespread the problem is, a new study to be published in the Journal of Finance and Quantitative Analysis finds that option volume in a specific stock begins to surge three days before unannounced analyst upgrades or downgrades of a company.
"tronies" character-study heads were often identified as portraits of Rembrandt's family, bolstering the idea that he worked alone, unable to afford models.
This idea is supported by a study published in April in the Annals of Neurology, which showed that mice without plaques, but with floating beta-amyloid, were just as weakened by the disease as mice with both.
At any rate, study of the petitions makes one sympathetic to the view of the Founders that direct democracy was maybe not such a hot idea.
Now a team led by Michael Kuhlen of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, has devised an explanation that lends weight to this idea.
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With that in mind, Dr Fefferman has talked with Blizzard's programmers and she says they are willing to entertain the idea of incorporating diseases or other risks into their virtual world in order for her to study them.
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