One study suggests that people who appeared more confident achieved a higher social status than their peers.
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Eating organic produce could be a partial solution, although one study suggests that the cost of avoiding intensive farm chemicals would mean a 31% increase in food prices.
This created a peculiar incentive: at least one study suggests that firms just below the threshold began disbursing unusual amounts of cash to shareholders and making fewer investments.
One study suggests yearly shrimp-fishery losses of nearly 13%.
If you compare a private college with a public one based on tuition and post-graduate salaries, one study suggests that private college tuition pays itself back in a bit over six years.
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Indeed, the population of snow geese in the north has recently grown dramatically, and one study suggests that the abundance of goose nests could offset some of the nutrients lost because of a shorter seal-hunting season.
One study suggests that when you consider all taxes, the share paid by the wealthiest 1% falls to 21.6%, close to their share of pre-tax income, whereas the poorest quintile pay 2.1%, not much below their share of pre-tax income.
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One study, however, suggests people as young as 33 can benefit from moderate alcohol consumption.
The new study suggests that having more than one kind of cathelicidin offers extra protection.
The study suggests that each reduction of one percentage point in the marginal tax rate could increase the number of new businesses by as much as 2%.
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Flame has been described as one of the most complex computer threats ever discovered, but the study suggests attempts to destroy all evidence of it went wrong because of a spelling mistake.
In fact, one surprising recent study by two American academics, Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth, suggests non-violent campaigns are more effective than armed uprisings.
The study also finds a huge variation in readmissions from one part of the country to another, which suggests that, with the right motivation and tools, health systems can get a handle on this challenge.
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Just what proportion of trials are kept under wraps is unclear - one of Donald Rumsfeld's known unknowns - but a 2010 study from the National Institute of Health Research suggests that half are never published, and those with positive results twice as likely to get into print.
One much discussed study, from the early nineteen-eighties, by the Canadian psychologists Martin Daly and Margo Wilson, suggests that parents are more likely to abuse stepchildren than to abuse their own offspring.
Their study of more than 7, 000 people suggests exposure to bleach and other chemicals is a factor in one in six cases of adult-onset asthma among British people in their mid-50s .
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