But Fairchild, who was an observant plantsman and a meticulous record-keeper, was in a better position than the academic botanist to study the growth of plants in practice.
The anti-vaccination movement continues to grow, despite the retraction and thorough discrediting of the 1998 scientific study that spurred much of its growth.
Mike Masnick (who, full disclosure, has paid me to contribute to his Techdirt blog in the past) has a great new study out today about the growth of the entertainment industry.
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"Having these ways to look into the brain gives us a tool that we can then use to study the effects of music on the growth and development of the brain, " says Professor John Iversen of the Institute of Neural Computation at the University of California San Diego.
That's the finding of a study released Tuesday by brand abuse tracking firm, MarkMonitor, measuring the disturbing growth of counterfeit drug sales on the Web.
The findings of this study show the proposal is a recipe for economic growth and more jobs.
The study predicts that growth in emerging markets will remain the focus of luxury manufacturers for the next two to three years.
At the same conference Sugen was to present a smaller study indicating that SU5416 with chemo halted the growth of tumors in patients with advanced colon cancer for an average of at least nine months.
Moreover, the Durham University study also found a link between the duration of breastfeeding and the growth of the brain after birth, causing researcher Barton to suggest two years of breastfeeding may lead to increased cognitive functioning.
Dr Kessler says the low prevalence of suicidal thoughts observed in the current study can be explained by personal growth observed among respondents, including those with mental health problems.
Another mystery is the study's findings that most of the growth in incomes at the top of the income scale occurred before 1989.
Worldwide PC unit growth will be just 0.9% in 2012, International Data Corp. projects in a new study, for the second straight year of growth below 2%.
Arthur Laffer was the author of the above study, which showed that a 1% increase in money growth would produce a similar increase in real gross national product growth.
One of the implications of the study is that households and SMEs have been forced to subsidize growth at a cost to them of well over 4% of GDP annually.
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In this review of the literature, I find twenty-six such studies going back to 1983, and all but three of those studies, and every study in the last fifteen years, find a negative effect of taxes on growth.
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Doctors from Queen Mary, University of London, are also taking part in the study that looks for a gene called AIP, which causes abnormal growth of the pituitary gland.
Assuming the relation between test scores and future growth is indeed causal, the OECD study also works out the economic benefits of improving cognitive skills by the equivalent of nine months' worth of schooling.
But most of the economists I talked to who study China say that China should be capable of maintaining this level of growth for quite some time to come.
The research team found growth increases in 36 of 66 study locations.
What our study shows is that growth on average raises the income of poor households proportionally as much as it raises the income of the average household.
The Rand Corporation has just completed a study of prospects for comparative economic growth which clearly shows that Soviet bloc countries are further declining in importance in the international economy.
The study found major benefits of improving data attributes to measures of innovation and growth as well as operational excellence.
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The study design raises a lot of questions, from the reasonableness of assessing learning growth after only three full semesters of college to the reliability of the C.
Although the study notes that variations in growth between countries seem to be associated with some facets of geography, it does not focus on geography as such.
By 2007 that had fallen to just 10, 600, and although it's recovered a little to 13, 600 last year, that's at a time in major growth in overall applications, so the percentage of students looking to study the subject has fallen from 5% to 3%.
As our study indicates, each recession in the past 42 years was preceded by a period of negative growth in real gross total debt.
Growth of the Cox-2 class was fast and furious until an August 2001 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
As economist Robert Shapiro noted in a recent Progressive Policy Institute study, these provisions entail significant administrative and compliance costs and, more damagingly from the standpoint of economic growth, undercut markets' ability to allocate capital to its most productive uses.
The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which maintains a database on field and laboratory experiments measuring plant growth responses to CO2-enriched environments has reported 45 studies that have examined effects on the garden tomato (lycopersicon eculentum).
The computer model in the study builds on decades of research that shows that most species of fish, especially large ones, have maximum growth sizes based on the availability of oxygen in the water.
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