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.
Certainly, that is Mr Lo's hunch: that updating the study for the past three years, when individual share-trading has grown to an unprecedented level, will show that the technical measures have worked even more strongly for Nasdaq stocks.
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 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.
The study measures problems experienced during the past 12 months by original owners of three-year-old vehicles.
On a panel I shared with Dr. Huiyao last year, he said China had sent 100 million students to study abroad over the past 30 years.
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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.
Sir Thomas, an ascetic former civil servant, was appointed by Gordon Brown, the prime minister, to study every expenses claim for the past five years.
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 study also noted that while dark chocolate had been linked to benefits for the heart in the past, milk chocolate was the preferred option in Sweden and in the study.
Magosaki quotes a historian to the effect that we study history not so much to understand the past, but to understand the present.
We checked records back to the earliest days of the major sports leagues--1901 in Major League Baseball, 1947 in the NBA and 1920 for the NFL. We made an exception for hockey, limiting the study back to 1967, after the NHL grew past six teams.
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.
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.
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Earlier versions of the study found bigger divergences, but the poor returns over the past 10 years muted the results.
Five hundred dresses and garments have been catalogued and photographed over the past 18 months for the Zandra Rhodes Digital Study Collection.
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.
Delta, at 27.1% availability in the study, says it has made major improvements in availability over the past year, driven largely by its low standing in the IdeaWorks research last year and coverage by this column.
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But the past few days have also seen developments in the study of Earth's backyard.
As our study indicates, each recession in the past 42 years was preceded by a period of negative growth in real gross total debt.
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.
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.
The data from the study also shows that the decrease in ice volume has accelerated in the past five years, as well.
The study also found that economies in Africa implemented more positive reforms in the past year than in any previous year on record.
The Accenture summary on the study found that more workers had added to their technology skills in the past five years than problem-solving, analytical and managerial skills.
To be more specific, the article discusses a study published in the journal Science states that higher temperatures over the past two decades have contributed to a nearly half-inch rise in global sea levels since 1992, attributing about 30% of that increase to melting of polar ice sheets.
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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.
The CXO study provides more evidence that past performance is not an indication of future results.
This running study attempts to answer the question of whether past performance is an indication of future results.
In addition, 3% of secondary heads had experienced physical violence in the past 12 months, up from 1% in the 2009 study.
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