She has written about British book publishing in the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and is a specialist in the use of quantitative methods in the study of the industry.
Yusuf founded Zaytuna Institute, which has "established an international reputation for presenting a classical picture of Islam in the West and which is dedicated to the revival of traditional study methods and the sciences of Islam, " according to his online biography.
It emerged in December that the authorities in the United States had recommended withholding from general publication the detailed results and methods of the study, as well as those of a second one led by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. (This also created transmissible strains, albeit less virulent ones.) Both studies had received grants from America's National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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The essence of the scientific method is reproducing precisely the methods and patient cohort of the original study, something most of us learn in 9th grade science.
The HDI tree was one of the graphical statistical methods introduced in the visualization study conducted by MIT professor Cesar A. Hidalgo with the help of Northeastern University Professor of Design Isabel Meirelles and designers Geoffrey House and Dave Landry.
The interpretation of the evidence obtained in this study, based on the use of advanced analytical methods, supports the hypothesis of an intentional therapeutic treatment, but alternative post-mortem practices are not ruled out.
In the latest work, the team, from London and the University of Oxford, used DNA sequencing methods to study XMRV.
The Army Corps, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Geological Survey continue to study the issue and hope within a couple of years to refine methods of determining the likely source of a particular DNA sample, she said.
Because the technique uses off-the-shelf wireless transceivers similar to those used in home computer networks, "the cost of this system will be cheaper than existing methods of monitoring breathing, " says Neal Patwari, senior author of a study of the new method and an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
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Recently, a group of doctors who study physicians diagnostic errors have come around to rejecting a recycling of the old systems methods and have said that methods of reducing hospital errors must be rethought and tried in experimental settings to prove their worth.
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Still, some psychologists quoted in the same issue of American Psychologist questioned how comparable this study is to Milgram's, given the differences in methods.
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But an unofficial study using the IMF's methods calculated a benchmark of about 2.9% of GDP over the medium term, which suggests China's surplus is about where it should be.
This rise in prestige has been mirrored by a revamp of undergraduate business programs, with the top ones increasingly resembling MBAs thanks to an emphasis on the rigorous study of economics, statistics and accounting and MBA-like teaching methods using case studies and team exercises.
Last year, a study by the Welsh Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and Methods (WISERD) also suggested undergraduates completing the Welsh Bacc fare less well at university than those who have not.
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In this new study, detailed this week in the journal Nature Methods, Hufnagel and colleagues recorded the movements of every cell nucleus in the embryo not only during the later developmental stages, but also throughout the first three hours of the embryo's life, when nuclei divide very rapidly.
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