Britain's Treasury recently commissioned a study on the effect of high-frequency traders on markets.
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The people in the study were part of a larger study on the effect of diet and lifestyle on cancer risk.
He said the study showed the effect on the baby depended on the stage of pregnancy the woman was at when she experienced the stressful event.
The estate had claimed the council had not carried out a full study of the effect on the stone curlew, which nests on the ground in the area.
In April he told a reporter with The American Prospect that he regretted the 2001 study and the effect it had on the gay community, and that he owed the community an apology.
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Because 41% of scientific papers originate in Europe (compared with 31% in America), the results of this study could have a big effect on the publishing industry.
Honey Langcaster-James, a psychologist who specialises in celebrity behaviour, said so few people achieved star status that it made it difficult to scientifically study the effect on people's lives.
The second study looked at the effect of aspirin on cancer metastases and found that aspirin appeared to reduce the risk of cancer spreading by 36 percent over 6.5 years.
But there's another question worth asking: Did Merck do enough to study Vioxx's effect on the heart?
The site's disappearance provides a dividing line for a before-and-after study, but that study can't comment on the effect of other digital-piracy sources or on the impact of DVD piracy, and it is silent on piracy in countries where sales data weren't available or Megaupload wasn't popular.
While the study didn't test the effect of shrimp on people with high cholesterol, health experts say moderate amounts of shrimp should be fine for them too.
The study authors believe it was the B vitamins' effect on levels of homocysteine that helped slow the rate of brain shrinkage.
"The study brings home the powerful effect that the online medium is having on people's lives, " said Philip Rowley, President of AOL Europe.
Subsequent studies will study the impacts of business travel, as well as the effect of travel on private sector development, local communities and the US economy.
This time the agency asked for a new study to test the effect of a high dose of the drug on heart rhythm.
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In addition to his many papers exploring the basic science of the renin-angiotensin system, Matsubara was the chief investigator of the KYOTO HEART Study, a randomized, open-labeled trial studying the add-on effect of valsartan to conventional therapy in high-risk hypertension.
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In preparation for longer spaceflight, scientists have designed shields to deflect harmful energetic particles, and continue to study the ill-effect of weightlessness on astronauts.
The study also discovered that this effect is found in the events they choose to report on, which narrow as the bubble grows.
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The study was based on data contributed by 596 patients with the disease, formally called amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or ALS. By showing that the drug didn't have any effect on progression of the condition, it contradicted a small study three years ago that suggested such a benefit was possible.
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He left a note to send his brain for use in the ongoing study of the effect of concussions and head trauma on depression and suicide.
In November the government announced an affordability study assessing the benefits available and the effect of switching to water meters, which could help people on low incomes.
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Sands Research Inc. an El Paso, Texas, firm that specializes in neuromarketing, the study of advertising's effect on brain activity, says it worked with five Super Bowl advertisers this year, up from two last year.
Fortunately, recently, professors Nick Bloom, Toby Kretschmer, and John van Reenen (from Stanford, the University of Munich, and the London School of Economics) conducted an extensive study examining the effect of family-friendly practices on hard variables such as firm sales per employee and return on capital employed, using a large database of firms from the US, the UK, Germany, and France.
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This study is another reminder that the effect of a drug on cholesterol levels may not predict what happens to patients.
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But he calls for Bristol-Myers to do a large study to examine the drug's long-term effect on the heart.
For one example, look to a study in Nature Climate Change, examining the effect of climate on hurricanes and coastal flooding.
Two conventional on-going ALS studies are designed to see if lithium has a very small effect on survival, something the PatientsLikeMe study wouldn't be able to pick up.
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Steven Nissen, the chairman of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic and head of the American College of Cardiology, will present one key study that will use ultrasound probes to measure the effect of torcetrapib on plaque in the coronary arteries at the ACC meeting in New Orleans next March.
In this review of the literature, I find twenty-six such studies going back to 1983, and all but three of those studies, and every study in the last fifteen years, find a negative effect of taxes on growth.
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Merck is setting a good example by evaluating the drug in steps, carefully assessing its effect on patients, and not proceeding toward approval before testing the effect of the drug on patient outcomes in a large study.
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