The subjects of the study were asked to solve a particular problem-solving task previously used in other psychology studies researching problem solving.
There's only one problem: Cancer studies are not what others heard Merck promise at its meeting with the financial community in 2001.
The problem is that many studies in this field are small and have many limitations.
According to Revolymer, the rain-soaked streets of Britain won't be a problem either--preliminary studies show the product disintegrates "in months" in rainwater.
The problem with many of the studies that supposedly establish a link between neonicotinoids and bee deaths is that they fail to simulate the exposure levels bees are likely to encounter in the wild.
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In this scenario, however, there can be many unexpected findings that have not been reported in medical journals and likely never will be the subject of published follow-up studies because the problem of researching these multitudinous findings simply cannot scale.
But, as Thomas Mayer and Daniel Gros identified in a recent paper for the Centre for European Policy Studies, this problem can't be solved by simply expanding the EFSF - and not just because it takes so long to do it.
In fact studies suggest that the problem with French employees is less that they are work-shy, than that they are poorly managed.
But thousands of Pakistani students have lost the money they paid in tuition fees and haven't been able to start their studies because of this problem.
"Seven out of 10 studies looking at this problem, using the latest genetic fingerprinting techniques, find a significant association between the MAP strain found in cattle and Crohn's disease, " he said.
Only recently, five months after I tried to break this addiction, studies have begun to underline the problem.
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The problem is that it is difficult to conduct studies of RF in the laboratory using cells and animal models.
While this might be true today, it is the liberal arts studies that prepare students with the problem solving and critical thinking skills that can be applied throughout their lifetime.
"New studies indicate this is a global problem, " says Kimberly Young, a clinical psychologist who wrote the first book on the subject of Internet addiction, "Caught in the Net, " and founded the Center for Internet Addiction Recovery in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
To get around this potential problem, the University of Pennsylvania study only examined studies without a washout period.
He said his research and other studies suggest amblyopia is actually a two-eye problem and that patching the good eye may hinder rather than help the weak one.
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Further studies were needed to find out what had caused the problem, he said.
As with all climate studies, Dr Scherer said, uncertainty was the key problem.
For instance, studies show that people give more creative solutions to a problem after seeing an Apple logo than an IBM logo.
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John Kastelein of the University of the Netherlands, who conducted another set of torcetrapib imaging studies, says he also found evidence of the same problem.
The problem is that while there are lots of observational or cross sectional studies on soda and weight gain, there are very few studies which, by their design, can show cause and effect.
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"This is going to be a major problem, " Professor Gordon Hamilton of the Department of Earth and Environmental Studies at the University of Maine told BBC News Online.
Part of the problem this year was that companies provided less money to prospective students for their studies.
In addition, physically active kids do better in school, with studies showing that physical activity enhances important skills, like concentration and problem solving, which have been shown to improve academic performance.
Of the few studies cited, none showed evidence on whether students participating in the problem solving model made academic progress, none shared what the interventions used were or if they were delivered with fidelity.
Medway said that it is hard to compare studies from different wars but that duration does point to a key problem in the current conflicts, since many troops are redeploying after a year, meaning the family never really gets a chance to settle back down.
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Merck denies there's any such problem for either Vioxx or follow-up Arcoxia, and plans to conduct new studies to prove it.
Under the new system, people who binge drink during adolescence and early adulthood will be seen, essentially, as "mild" alcoholics -- even though studies show that they are much more likely to grow out of the problem than they are to wind up with longer term alcohol-related problems.
He asserts that the problem is lack of inspiration, and he supports this with twenty years of real case studies from his own experience.
"At this point we have mounting evidence - data and studies - that show it's not getting the shot that causes the problem, but getting the flu that's the problem, " Dolan says.
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