The alarmists and their media allies aggressively focused attention on the study and made the additional assertion that global warming and carbon dioxide emissions must be to blame.
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Isaac is not easily distracted by bright skies or promising winds, and Henry envies the singular attention he devotes to his study of classical languages and the spiritual writings of Orestes Brownson.
And he draws attention to another positive feature: the attention the authorities have been paying to education and foreign-study programmes.
Admissions consulting firm Veritas Prep added a Myers-Briggs personality assessment to its application-prep and GMAT study packages this spring, after noticing that business schools were paying more attention to personality and emotional maturity.
In his youth, his commitment to study and his charisma caught the attention of influential Shiite clerics in northern Lebanon.
As the only report of its kind, CAIR's study normally gets a fair amount of media attention, and this year was no exception.
Another study metric, called Visual Attention Pattern, also found the iPhone and iPad drawing more attention than rival Android devices.
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Though features like number of apps, weight, battery life and Flash compatibility tend to attract the most attention in tablet assessments, a new study says typing is actually the most common frustration among tablet users.
And the study is relatively recent, but it did get a lot of attention when it first published.
One more thing to pay attention to: The patients in the Henry Ford study were all between the ages of 18 and 50.
Despite starting the research on 100 college students with the hypothesis that multitaskers had some special abilities, the study found that multitaskers were actually quite ineffective at managing information, maintaining attention, and getting results.
My attention was caught yesterday by a Time.com post about a new study about differences in how men and women use social media.
Prof Daniel Simons, author of the original invisible gorilla study, explained that this effect is not unique to radiologists and reflects the way our attention system works.
"With this data now available from more than one study, it really becomes the responsibility of parents, physicians, and teachers to pay attention to the relative-age effect and not intervene with treatment and labeling of children who it's no fault of their own what time of year they were born, " Garland says.
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After ten weeks of Tai Chi classes, the study group showed significant improvements in tests of their memory, language, attention, stress, mood and fatigue.
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But a new Kyowa-funded study of 60 healthy women found a monthlong regime of daily doses of citicoline resulted in improved attention and fewer errors on a cognitive test compared with placebo, says co-author Deborah Yurgelun-Todd, a scientist at the Brain Institute at University of Utah in Salt Lake City, who is a paid consultant to Kyowa.
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