The 2010-11 preliminary report, expected to be released Wednesday, will show the downward trend has continued, according to study author Mycle Schneider.
As mobile technology unties workers from their offices, they engage in significantly more risky behavior, according to a study released Tuesday by Trend Micro.
The Women's Health Initiative study may reveal another trend.
The trend was signaled in a Gartner Group study, which found that Chief Financial Officers alone authorized a whopping 26% of all IT spending decisions at their organizations, as opposed to just 5% by CIOs.
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The study shows, however, that the trend has been steady ever since, with no period of leveling off.
Yet the study revealed an important exception to that trend: an uptick in the number of people who binge drink at least once a month.
Given the small effect observed in this large study, the lack of a clear trend with increasing coffee consumption, and the fact that other risk factors are likely to be correlated with coffee consumption, any conclusion regarding the relationship of coffee drinking to risk of stroke remains moot.
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And one driver of that trend, says Gregory Guldner, director of the Center for the Study of Long Distance Relationships, is the perception that technology reduces the emotional separation of distance.
More troubling, independent experts said, is that patients who were expected to do the best based on genetic and other tests surprisingly had a worse survival trend 16 months versus 25 months for others in the study.
If the results are in his favor then further study would be indicated to see if this is indeed a trend and the recommendation is valid for whatever reasons.
Use of the morning-after pill in the US is on the rise, a trend driven largely by wider use among younger women, a major government study has found.
According to a recent Harris Interactive study, 96% of US adults prefer free apps, a trend that holds steady across more affluent demographics.
Liquidity has improved, thanks to the widespread use of real-estate investment trusts (REITs). (The American-based National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts commissioned the Ibbotson study.) But the global enthusiasm for REITs, together with the growing trend for property launches in the British mutual-fund sector, has a top-of-the-market feel.
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