But when you study the problem, you realise it's immensely hard to do this.
"The state is overwhelmingly dependent, " says Peter Bragdon, a lawyer who helped the Governor study the problem.
And even if we were able to settle upon an acceptable definition of consciousness, we really have no idea how to study the problem.
C. bought a database of subprime loans from a company called Loan Performance in order to study the problem more closely, something that, apparently, no other government regulator had thought to do.
He wants to see an immediate reduction in pesticide use until the effects are better understood, and is pressing for the formation of a European Union environment unit to study the problem.
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Second, by including the entire eligible Danish population, which is covered by a national tumor registry, the study avoids the problem of selection bias (that is, people who do not make it into your study for various reasons, including refusal).
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Instead the study showed the problem came from making copies of the cancer's genetic code.
Three years ago, when UNESCO commissioned the first Education under Attack study, the problem was little known.
But in other ways, Dr. Scott says his study underestimates the problem.
The EU study says says the problem of limited capacity is likely to worsen because many busy airports, including London Heathrow and Paris Orly, do not plan to expand.
At a briefing Monday, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Tax Policy Pamela Olson said President George W. Bush has asked the Treasury to study the AMT problem and come up with a permanent fix to be proposed in next year's budget.
Both the Credit Suisse study and the study on the economic benefits of equality avoid this problem.
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But the study also highlights an obvious problem for diners who eat the food handled by sick workers.
Every life company has a study group working on the problem.
The study cited overconfidence as the root cause of the problem.
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By the end of the study, 215 of the study participants had experienced a heart attack or other cardiovascular problem, and 325 had died from any cause.
Walsh says this was the first efficacy data for Raptiva, and so long as the problem in the rheumatoid-arthritis study was effectiveness, not safety, it shouldn't worry investors focused on Raptiva's near-term approval to treat psoriasis.
There had been a lot of forums and papers published, she says, but the field had been handicapped by a tendency on the part of drug companies to approach the problem on a study-by-study basis, often not following up with communities after the work is done.
The problem with this study is that it applies to a very small universe.
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That could be due to a problem with the study, or it could be Zetia didn't work as expected.
Their case study has more details on what the problem was they wanted to address and why they chose the Windows Azure cloud platform over other available solutions they considered.
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People who spent at least four hours per day watching TV, playing video games, or using a computer for fun were more than twice as likely as those who kept their recreational "screen time" under two hours to experience a heart attack, stroke, or other serious cardiovascular problem, the study found.
The problem with the study, Diet Soft Drink Consumption is Associated with an Increased Risk of Vascular Events in the Northern Manhattan Study ( Gardner et al., Journal of General Internal Medicine) is that the numbers are low enough to leave us uncertain as to whether diet drinks were the cause or simply correlated with other factors that led to these events.
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The firm's associate director, Andrew Howis, said the latest study was just one of several efforts under way aimed at tackling the problem of stray light.
Another problem with the Flegal study is that factors such as smoking and health status influence both body weight and mortality.
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All the babies in this study had this problem.
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Everybody knows how Lipitor works, Hazlett argued, so the problem must be the study, which used a technique called carotid intima media thickness (CIMT) to measure the thickness of the walls of an artery in the neck.
In the first study, Dr. Prahbat Jha and colleagues sought to answer how serious the smoking problem remains today and how effective smoking cessation programs have been on health in the years after quitting.
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And VEGF-Trap seemed to cause fewer bowel perforations, a big problem in the earlier Avastin study.
The subjects of the study were asked to solve a particular problem-solving task previously used in other psychology studies researching problem solving.
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