But much of that dip appears to be the result of microbes using oxygen to dissolve oil underwater, and the decline is not enough to be fatal to marine life, said National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration official Steve Murawski, the head the Joint Analysis Group studying the spill's impact.
Worried about how to handle an emergency, a government advisory group recommended studying the anthrax vaccine in children if independent ethics experts agreed it could be done appropriately.
His group is now studying massage as a treatment for generalized anxiety disorder.
Incidentally, her fiction and poetry (including an international bestseller) were infused with psychological themes inspired, in part, by her participation in a chat group of scientists studying neuropsychoanalysis.
Fouchier also receives some NIH funding, but the rest is supported by the European Union and other organizations, so his group can continue studying avian flu using those non-U.S. resources.
The most compelling discussion in that Psychology Today post is the note on the ethical duties of social scientists when studying group differences that can have harmful effects on the people studied.
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Baskar Vairmohan, the EPRI researcher who conducted the iPad test, said the group is now studying usage to understand whether the explosion of tablets is adding to power consumption or reducing it.
In 2010, after suspicions that crimes in Melbourne against Indian students were racially motivated, the number of university applications from India fell by half, reducing what is a big source of income for Australia (Indians are the second-largest group of foreigners studying in the country).
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Karg was helping to lead a group of university students studying in Yerevan, Armenia.
He stands on the sidewalk with a group of other men studying a newspaper pasted on a wall.
Sophie Leung, who teaches pediatrics at Hong Kong's Chinese University, has been studying a group of children from birth through pre-adolescence.
It's not a wide-ranging committee of experts on clinical trials, but instead a group with expertise on studying the arteries with imaging technology.
But those liabilities may not have remained with the communists: a group of Czech lawyers studying a 1968 treaty between Czechoslovakia and Italy suspects that, under it, life-assurance liabilities may have reverted to the Italians.
She is also studying a group of children to see how early M. smithii buildup occurs, and how soon in development it starts to set up a pattern of weight gain that might then be interrupted by changing the composition of the gut microbial world.
The Harvard proposal focuses on studying a core group of 100 unhealthy players -- both current and retired -- and 100 healthy players.
Another group, the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration, is studying cognitive distraction caused by the new technologies with a report expected late this year.
Psychologists are studying whether the treatment can be adapted to group settings in school, even if parents aren't using the same practices at home.
The "scale is so much bolder than things we've seen, " said Paul Ginsburg, president of the Center for Studying Health System Change, a Washington nonprofit group.
Allan Manne of Stanford University and Richard Richels, who works at the Electric Power Research Institute, an industry-funded policy research group based in Palo Alto, California, have been studying this idea.
She spent nearly three years studying boredom among the Warlpiri people, an aboriginal group in the central Australian settlement of Yuendumu.
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Sten Grillner's group at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm has therefore spent many years studying lampreys, in order to gain insights about vertebrate nerves.
"We are a group of students and recent grads from Parsons, NYU-ITP and Cooper Union studying art, engineering, environmental science, and design, " said the Windchimes team.
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But, after studying a high-tech corporate-services provider, a French grocery group, a German broking house and an American mail-order company, the authors found little correlation between loyalty and profitability.
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The group Care Not Killing, which has campaigned against assisted suicide, said it would be studying the new guidelines.
Born in Madrid to a wealthy family and the owner of a group of businesses, Mr Rato, who is 55, speaks excellent English thanks to his time studying at the University of California in the 1970s.
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