Was it something you stumbled into, or a move you made after long, thought out study?
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Dr Nick Hopkinson, a member of the British Lung Foundation, thought the study was helpful back-up when patients ask them for antibiotics.
Unless the orator calls in the aid of memory to retain the matter and the words with which thought and study have furnished him, all his other merits, however brilliant, we know will lose their effect.
As a schoolboy in Bavaria, he learned about the Greeks and the Romans, and thought he would study them when he grew up.
But if manufacturing productivity is better than was thought, the study says, the flipside is that productivity in the service sector must be much worse.
One of the study's co-authors, Robin Ejsmond-Frey, rowed for Oxford and thought it would be a good activity to study.
Paul Franco's study of Oakeshott's thought leaves his outwardly cheerful life on one side.
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That disturbing thought was the intriguing conclusion of a study I recently happened across in Harvard Business Review.
The study of art, they thought, should be direct and immersive.
"To our complete surprise, we found several red dwarf binaries with orbital periods significantly shorter than the 5-hour cut-off found for sun-like stars, something previously thought to be impossible, " the study's lead author Bas Nefs, from Leiden Observatory in the Netherlands, said in a statement.
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Those thought to have pneumonia were excluded from the study due to the severity of the disease if not treated promptly.
The study found that those workers who thought the tax cut would last longer than a year were somewhat more likely to plan to spend the extra income than those who believed it was only a one-year break.
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Scotland's Parliament came close to adopting a 45p minimum last year (the proposal was voted down), and a much-discussed study in 2008 by academics at Sheffield University thought 50p was the lowest that should be contemplated.
The same study showed that many people, including owners, thought that manufactured homes depreciated in value, even though they generally appreciate, albeit at a slower rate than site-built houses.
Many sharks perish as bycatch, but increasingly they are being hunted for their fins, a delicacy in China and a lucrative commodity. (The annual export of fins is thought to be worth about a billion dollars.) One study, published in Ecology Letters last year, estimates that between twenty-six million and seventy-three million sharks are killed for their fins every year.
In other words, the drug's dosage was too high, and further study might show it to be more effective than previously thought.
But Robert Harrington, a well-known Duke University Medical Center cardiologist, thought that the good and bad results from the drug made the study neutral, meaning there was no clear benefit from the medicine.
Besides bringing new species to the textbooks - and relegating them immediately to the "extinct" category - the study sheds new light on the extinction event, widely thought to have been caused by an enormous asteroid impact at the end of the Cretaceous period, about 65.5 million years ago.
Hawkins, who will continue to work as chief technical officer of Treo maker palmOne (nasdaq: PLMO - news - people ), already has his own research lab to study the neocortex, a massive part of the brain thought to hold such higher level functions as language, learning, memory and complex thought.
The study carried out by the UK gaming industry found many parents thought their children were mature enough not to be influenced by the content of the games, and parents tended to view them as a guide to the content rather than a prohibition.
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This latest study suggests that this may be less of a problem than previously thought.
The power of this type of genetic analysis was demonstrated earlier this year when a study of 2, 000 breast cancers showed the cancer should be thought of as 10 completely separate diseases.
The biggest risk in many of the current batch of deals is that the private-equity firms discover the cash-flow models to be less predictable than they thought, says Colin Blaydon of Tuck Business School's Centre for the Study of Private Equity and Entrepreneurship.
The study also suggests Flame dates back to 2006, much earlier than previously thought.
In 2007, an RHS study of young people aged between 13 and 18 found that 62% thought horticulture was another word for farming, while most said it was a career for "old or retired people".
The study could not control for whether the individuals were in a situation where they thought they would be in danger.
Public health experts have long thought that living in poor neighborhoods could ruin a person's health, but this study put the idea to a rigorous test.
The study could not control for whether the individual was the kind of person who thought that someone they know may be planning on trying to shoot them.
The breadth of the study and involvement of an independent foundation without a political bent on fracking is thought to be able to trump other, conflicting studies performed so far.
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