Mass screening of this sort is not, itself, a new idea in the search for drugs, but extending it so that it can study effects on entire animals rather than just isolated cells should make it even more productive.
That said, subtler effects of climate change such as more sudden rains and particularly hot days with disproportionate effects on yield are left out, which might mean the study underestimates the effects.
Then in March 1996, another challenge: A bill to study the effects of gambling on American society.
What one of the psychiatrists I spoke to said what they really need to do is show the effects in a controlled study.
David Begg, a former government adviser, points out that Sir Rod's remit was unusually clear to study the effects of transport policy on the economy.
There are presently only 260 terrestrial places around the globe where data on carbon-dioxide levels are monitored to help study the effects of global warming.
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Stem-cell research dates to 1981 and started out with mouse embryos, which researchers used to study the effects of individual genes and to try treating disease in mice.
Eventually, he somewhat backtracked, saying that we need to study the effects violent games have on behavior, a project already greenlit by the Obama administration in the wake of Sandy Hook.
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Milesi, who uses satellite data to study the effects of urbanization, estimates Americans use as much as 19 trillion gallons of water and 2.4 million metric tons of nitrogen-based fertilizer annually to care for their lawns.
The Queen and the duke later met Germany's chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder, at the ultra-modern Chancellery, and 24 British and German students, aged 16 to 19, working together to study the effects of climate change.
The European Space Agency and the Russian Institute of Biomedial Problems are scheduled to run a joint 520-day mock Mars expedition this year aimed to study the effects of extreme isolation and confinement on 12 volunteers.
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The satellite - which had been intended to study the effects of climate change - should have separated from the rocket and deployed its solar panels some nine minutes after take-off, at an altitude of 302km.
"We need to learn a good deal more about the mechanism by which a microbial population changed by gastric bypass exerts its effects, " said study author Dr Lee Kaplan, an associate professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
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Recently, researchers at the Institute of Neurology at University College London stimulated the brains of human subjects to push the brain toward beta band frequencies associated with focus to study the effects on motor processing, with the hope of helping those with Parkinson's disease.
The most common side effects reported in the study were: were dizziness (seen in 10.4% of those on Ampyra, 2.5% of those on placebo), nausea (3.9% Ampyra, 6.2% placebo), fatigue (5.2% Ampyra, 3.7% placebo), insomnia (5.2% dalfampridine-ER, 2.5% placebo) and arthralgia (2.6% Ampyra, 3.7% placebo).
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But William Boden, the University of Albany professor who ran AIM-HIGH, said it was too early to be certain which of the side effects seen in the study were due to niacin and which ones were due to laropiprant, the drug that Merck added to the combination.
"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.
The researchers said side effects were mild in the study, whose duration for participants averaged 1.2 years.
His fitness is tested as part of a study into the effects of training at the University of Hertfordshire.
In late 2011, academics at the University of Kent began carrying out a 12-month study into the effects of lap dancing clubs on communities.
This latest research at Swansea University's College of Engineering follows an initial study into the effects that a normal pregnancy has on women's cardiovascular function.
The UK trial - in which all eligible children will receive immunotherapy - will attempt to reduce the severe side effects seen in the US study.
Just as importantly, deeper study of the effects of taxation casts a light on how certain taxes affect where taxpayers decide to live and where businesses locate.
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And he wants a study on the effects of music and video games on youth violence--though the Congressman seems to believe he knows what the findings would be.
The objectives are the recovery and monitoring of whale populations, study of the effects of not whaling on whales and research on the effects of environmental change on whale populations.
Naurex said the main side effects in a Phase IIa study of its GLYX-13 compound with 116 people with depression were headache and sleepiness, similar to the effects of a placebo saline injection.
But the most scientifically credible study of the effects of Medicaid, based on randomly assigning 10, 000 people to Medicaid coverage in Oregon, found there was no statistically significant difference in ER use between those newly enrolled in Medicaid relative to the (largely uninsured) comparison group.
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Armitage said that the trial results are unlikely to be due to the side effects of laropriprant, since the main finding of a lack of benefit is consistent with the AIM-HIGH study and many of the side effects are known to be associated with the use of niacin.
For many drugs, just doing a study looking at the effects of medicines on African-Americans might be useful.
Eventually, the Wolfman, like his movie, slows down what good is state-of-the-art makeup and effects if no one gets to study them?
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