The study of the past doesn't yield unalterable laws that allow one to predict the future with the same certainty that a physicist can chart the trajectory and velocity of a falling object.
This contains a study of the past two downturns in American retailing, in 1990-91 and 2000-01, which found that retail revenues were quick to fall and slow to recover, even once the economy started to pick up.
Because light takes so long to reach the earth from distant galaxies, astronomers were able to study the value of alpha in light from the distant past.
Kelvin Lui and Alan Wong from The Chinese University of Hong Kong published a study this past spring that showed that those who frequently use different types of media at the same time appear to be better at integrating information from multiple senses when asked to perform a specific task.
Nothing, barely even a word of acknowledgment from the people who'd been citing the study and condemning people to the harmful effects of austerity for the past four years.
According to the Harvard study, during the past 20 years the average number of children fell by about 50% more in the richest households than it did in the poorest.
This running study attempts to answer the question of whether past performance is an indication of future results.
But now he says he and the other members of the Iraq Study Group are ignoring past errors and looking to what can be done in Iraq from here on.
But the past few days have also seen developments in the study of Earth's backyard.
The study measures problems experienced during the past 12 months by original owners of three-year-old vehicles.
According to the study, 21 percent of mobile phone owners have used mobile banking in the past twelve months, and an additional 11 percent think they will probably use it within the next year.
Obviously data from the study is not included in chapter 43 of the The Complete Dinosaur - Extinction: Past and Present Perspectives written by San Diego State University's J.
The centerpiece of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, the Curiosity rover comes packed with a slew of instruments to study not only today's Martian surface, but also the surface of the past.
MSN: Curiosity aims to unlock Mars mysteries - Technology & science - Space - Space.com | NBC News
Mike Masnick (who, full disclosure, has paid me to contribute to his Techdirt blog in the past) has a great new study out today about the growth of the entertainment industry.
FORBES: Why We Shouldn't Worry About The (Alleged) Decline Of The Music Industry
The study confirmed some of the trends that have been playing out in the industry for the past few years and offered up some interesting data which advisors can use to see how they match up with their peers.
Mike was a pioneer in the study of groundwater as an archive of past climate change and his research provided seminal scientific advances on controls on water quality in regional aquifers, recharge over time and space.
The study, which was published by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, looks at the past six decades of global temperatures and finds what Hansen described as a "stunning" rise in the frequency of extremely hot summers.
The study looked at several financial crises during the past five years and found that, in most of them, foreign institutions did not in fact pull out large amounts of money.
The South Pole Telescope could thus see 10 billion years into the past, and might turn up thousands of clusters more than enough to study the evolution of dark energy.
Earlier versions of the study found bigger divergences, but the poor returns over the past 10 years muted the results.
The CXO study provides more evidence that past performance is not an indication of future results.
As our study indicates, each recession in the past 42 years was preceded by a period of negative growth in real gross total debt.
You know, maybe the influence of the past 40 years can't be eradicated in even a long intervention study that goes on for about eight years.
Supporting past evidence, a new study finds a strong link between the age of the parents (especially the father) and the number of genetic mutations in the child.
FORBES: Parental Age, Especially The Father's, Is Linked To Genetic Mutations In The Child
The U.S. Education Department just announced that the national student loan default rate rose for the fourth year in a row and an Institute for Higher Education Policy study showed that only 37% of federal student loan borrowers actually made their payments without interruption over the past five years.
FORBES: Student Loan Borrowers Need Help to Understand Repayment Rights
Professor Lobell said the study only referred to past relationships, as extrapolating the findings to predict future trends would require a number of assumptions to be made.
The findings of the study are published in The Lancet medical journal, alongside an analysis of all other trials of the drug from the past 20 years.
Of the 315 sudden deaths in the study, 75 were among current smokers, 148 were among recent or past smokers and 128 occurred in people who had never smoked.
BBC: Light smoking 'doubles sudden heart death risk in women'
Like its namesake navigator, the Fidelity Magellan fund has seen its share of glory, though for the past several years the once mighty mutual fund has been a study in mediocrity.
Adele Schneider, director of clinical genetics at Einstein Medical Center Philadelphia and principal investigator of the current research, says the study came together after she saw three families of Irish descent who all had children with Tay-Sachs in the past few years.
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