Then there was the Japanese pediatrician Shimesu Koino, who ate 2, 000 eggs of an intestinal roundworm in order to study the life cycle of the organism firsthand.
The Institute comprises three centers, the Center for SETI Research, the Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe and the Center for Education and Public Outreach.
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He said that one of the happiest times of his life was spent at the American School of Classical Study in Athens in the 1930s.
In the film I interview John Jackson who led a major investigation on the shroud in 1978 and has made the study of the Shroud his life's work.
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Since 1995, Dr. Ryff and her Wisconsin team have been studying some 7, 000 individuals and examining factors that influence health and well-being from middle age through old age in a study called MIDUS, or the Mid-Life in the U.S. National Study of Americans, funded by the National Institute on Aging.
The ability to isolate the single organism makes possible the study of the environment's role in its life cycle.
Not so, says a National Academy of Sciences study that attributes two thirds of the retractions in the biomedical and life-sciences to scientific misconduct.
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The Vatican quotes Anthony Valle, a professor of theology, as saying the pope has been open to scientific inquiry in his own study of Jesus' life.
Professor Bob Rowthorn, of the Institute for the Study of the Family in Cambridge, worries that this may mean greater state intrusion into family life.
This new book is enabling many of those who have devoted their life to the study and promotion of freedom to engage in the debate of how to measure a more elaborate concept.
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According to a Goldman Sachs research study into women's participation in the economic life of a developing countries, it brings lasting benefits to the entire nation, not just the women involved.
Prof Monaghan says the study shows the importance of processes acting early in life.
The Institute University of Leipzig, in Germany has a major genetic study called LIFE to examine disease in populations.
The study found that the gap in life expectancy between black and white women of non-Hispanic origin closed to 3.7 years in 2008, down from 4.6 years in 2003.
About three-quarters of people in the UK are satisfied with life, according to a study to measure well-being by the Office for National Statistics.
So she decided she wanted me to go to a military school in Pennsylvania, and that really ended up being one of the turning points in my life -- having the opportunity to study there and really remake my own identity.
Anxiety disorders emerge early in life: The median age of onset is 11, according to the study.
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In the study, researchers used a questionnaire, called the Carolinas Comfort Scale, to assess quality of life with such questions as whether patients feel a "sensation of mesh" after surgery or pain or movement limitations during daily activities.
Moreover, with nothing stopping these students from forming their own virtual and in-person clubs, study groups, co-ops, and all the other aspects of traditional student life.
When he attended college in Cairo, he undertook a study of Jewish life there, associating with Jews and reading the works of Zionists such as Theodor Herzl.
This could have been a dry, academic treatise, but Bolton wisely begins each chapter with a case study, in which women or composites of women whom she and her associates interviewed describe the work-life issues with which they grapple.
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Two-thirds of the terminal-cancer patients in the Coping with Cancer study reported having had no discussion with their doctors about their goals for end-of-life care, despite being, on average, just four months from death.
The study, released Monday by the journal Health Affairs, found declining life expectancy for women in about 43% of the nation's counties.
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Second, the study looks retrospectively at all patients who have died though in some cases nobody would expect them to receive end of life care.
Parks, gardens and green space in urban areas can improve the wellbeing and quality of life of people living there, says a University of Exeter study.
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We don't need a study commission to know that tensions are inevitable in conditions offering little or no privacy, increasing the stress of daily military life.
According to a study of off-ramping professional women sponsored by The Center for Work-Life Policy (completed in 2005, updated in 2010, ) almost one third of professional women off-ramp at some point, often pulled by family considerations.
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