As a positive study submitted to the European Parliament by University of Duisburg-Essen professor Ansgar Belke shows, using gold collateral to raise cheaper loans is hardly new to sovereign governments either.
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Flying Dog advertises its status as the favoured drink of the celebrated radical journalist Hunter S Thompson, and a 2012 study found a positive correlation between the concentration of microbreweries in a state and its likelihood to vote for Barack Obama.
It was emphasised that nothing would be done which risked breaching European regulations, or offered a positive incentive to study outside of, rather than in, Scotland.
Celldex CEO Anthony Marucci has said previously that a meaningful and positive response rate in the study would be 12% to 15% with a progression-free survival of greater than 12 weeks.
For a case study in the positive power of regret consider the case of Tom Cox.
On a more positive note, the study team also revealed that exercise did make children nimbler, making them more likely to engage in sport in the future.
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But one of the world's most prominent medical journals wouldn't give this much publicity to a tiny study by a tiny company if it were not positive.
In the case of Yoga, a recent pilot study at Indiana University showed some positive results in using yoga as a follow-up to physical rehabilitation therapy for elderly stroke victims.
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Dr. Robert Bonow, chief of cardiology at Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine, notes that about 10 percent of study participants with a positive test had normal coronary arteries, and 17 percent of those with a normal test had coronary disease.
This comes on top of less-than-positive results concerning a late-stage study of Erbitux, ImClone's multi-billion colorectal drug, combined with chemotherapy.
VACS, a study that includes HIV-positive as well as HIV-negative veterans, follows participants over time and evaluates the health of veterans.
The study found there was a positive link between good information technology and national test results, of 0.07 under the Spearman Rank Correlation statistical measurement system.
Part III is a more detailed case study illustrating the positive results arising from learning skills, which have led to fruitful, creative, commercial enterprises in Harare, Zimbabwe.
Researchers at Northwestern, in a small study using brain imaging, have found preliminary evidence that being in a positive mood aids the creative process in problem solving.
Dr Veerman said his latest study is meant to have a positive message, that every step counts.
As early as age 3, children have what researchers call a "positivity bias" a tendency to see themselves as smart regardless of their abilities, and to exaggerate positive traits in others, says a 2010 study in the journal Child Development Perspectives.
"This is a completely new way of treating HER2-positive breast cancer, " said Kimberly Blackwell, the study's lead researcher and a professor of medicine at Duke University.
In 2008, a similar study concluded that when a woman is better looking than her mate, the relationship is more positive and supportive.
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Indeed their methods on this study come across as likely to produce a positive message.
But with solanezumab, an extension study will continue, which Anderson sees as a positive.
Still, this study is yet another positive for Zometa, a drug many have speculated could be a blockbuster.
To see if chocolate really does have a positive impact on weight, Dr. Golomb says, a study specifically designed to compare chocolate eaters to non-chocolate eaters needs to be conducted.
Twitter, the study found, had a far more negative tone than positive.
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At the same time, there were hints that Simdax did have a positive effect, albeit a considerably smaller one than doctors designing the study had posited.
Merck could have found enough of the kind of patients who take Zetia to do a study that would have been more likely to have a positive result.
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Of the U.S. adults who shopped at a Best Buy store in the last 12 months, a whopping 92.7% report they had a positive shopping experience, according to the GfK MRI Focus: Retail study.
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He says because the companies didn't decide to divide patients into those with and without APOE until after the study finished, there is a meaningful risk that the positive results are due solely to chance.
Previous studies have shown that quick, insightful solutions tend to be more correct than analytic solutions (at least, for the types of tasks in the study), and other studies have shown that a positive mood enhances overall cognitive performance.
But this study showed this did not work as effectively as a more positive message.
In a study of 150 melanoma patients, 95% of those testing positive for melastatin stayed in remission for four years, versus half of those testing negative.
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