In 2012, " ASU students ranked fifth among all public universities in National Science Foundation grants for graduate study and 11th among all universities, including the Ivy institutions.

A study published in 2012 also found that conspiracy theorists frequently believe in multiple conspiracies, even when one conspiracy contradicts the other.

However, given the rapid progress in the industry they are working on a more in depth study to be concluded in May 2012.

In a 2012 study, each star of the 100 billion or so in our Milky Way galaxy is estimated to host " on average ... at least 1. 6 planets.

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York begin to recruit 10 participants for the study in July 2012.

NOAA conducted a new populations study in 2010-2011 ; those data will be available by 2012.

" A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment " a study commissioned by the U. S. State Department and conducted by Intermedia and released May 10, 2012 shows that despite extremely strict regulations and draconian penalties North Koreans, particularly elite elements, have increasing access to news and other media outside the state-controlled media authorized by the government.

On July 27, 2012 engineering services provider Royal HaskoningDHV announced that the Nicaraguan government has commissioned a feasibility study to be completed early 2013 at a cost of $ 720, 000.

A 2012 study, analyzing gravitational microlensing data, estimates an average of at least 1. 6 bound planets for every star in the Milky Way.

A recent study ( 2012, draft ) attempted to recreate a real-life controlled plea bargain situation, rather than merely asking theoretical responses to a theoretical situation-a common approach in previous research.

A 2012 literature study comparing homosexuality with paraphilias confirmed that homosexuality was sufficiently dissimilar from the paraphilias as to be considered an unrelated construct.

Spitzer recanted his study in 2012, and apologized to the gay community for making unproven claims of the efficacy of reparative therapy, calling it his only professional regret.

Spitzer renounced his own study in 2012, stating " I was quite wrong in the conclusions that I made from this study.

However, this prompted the The Department for Transport to undertake a desk study in to semi-trailer trucks, which has resulted in the longer semi-trailer trial which commenced in 2012.

The U. S. National Institutes of Health currently has registered 71 clinical trials completed or underway to study use of dietary curcumin for a variety of clinical disorders ( dated September 2012 ).

In the 2012 study, lead by scientists from the University of Vermont and the USDA, a " conservative spatially adjusted model indicated that a 10 % increase in tree canopy was associated with a roughly 12 % decrease in crime .... we found that the inverse relationship continued in both contexts, but the magnitude was 40 % greater for public than for private lands.

The study was replicated in 2010, but two studies published in 2012 failed to reproduce the effect.

A 2012 Chinese study concluded that Bt cotton halved the use of pesticides and doubled the level of ladybirds, lacewings and spiders.

A long-term study on the economic impacts of Bt cotton in India, published in the Journal PNAS in 2012, showed that Bt cotton has increased yields, profits, and living standards of smallholder farmers.

According to a February 2012 study conducted by the Los Angeles Times ( sampling over 5, 000 of its 5, 765 members ), the Academy is 94 % white, 77 % male, 14 % under the age of 50, and has a median age of 62.

In 2012, a study found that 47 out of 53 medical research papers on the subject of cancer were irreproducible.

In a 2012 study, led by neuroscientists at the University of Bristol, it was discovered that a cellular mechanism known as sodium channels was playing a direct role in the changing of activity of neurons, leading to a cognitive decline of the human brain.

With the definitions used before 2012, the astronomical unit was dependent on the heliocentric gravitational constant, that is the product of the gravitational constant G and the solar mass M < sub >☉</ sub >.

A paper published in January 2012 discussed the European New Gravitational wave Observatory ( NGO ) mission ( derived from the previous LISA proposal ) and referred to this derivative proposal by an informal name “ eLISA ”, and proposed that it will survey in the low-frequency gravitational wave band ( about 0. 1 mHz to 1 Hz ) with sufficient sensitivity to detect interesting individual astrophysical sources out to cosmological distances represented by a redshift z = 15.

A video game controller called the X-SKIN, using this system, was expected to be commercially available by 2010 to help make MMORPGs popular on console systems and ease entry of common data such as a username and password, but announcement of its release was available on the In10did website as of 4 March 2012.

The individual census data most recently released to the public was the 1940 census, released on April 2, 2012.

By the early 1990s, however, relational systems were dominant for all large-scale data processing applications, and they remain dominant today ( 2012 ) except in niche areas.

As of February 2012, NASA's Kepler mission had identified 2, 321 unconfirmed planetary candidates associated with 1, 790 host stars, based on the first sixteen months of data from the space-based telescope.

On 17 January 2012, the European Commission launched legal action against Hungary over the new central-bank law, judicial reforms, and the independence of the new data ombudsman.

* Note -- All data is current as of 1. 1. 2012

Note -- All aircraft data is current as of 1. 1. 2012

Death of a data haven: cypherpunks, WikiLeaks, and the world's smallest nation, March 2012, Ars Technica

As of August 2012 the company offers no way for customers of this service to sign up for faster speeds and / or unlimited data volumes in exchange for a monthly fee.

As of August 2012 no vendor web-site offered an unlimited mobile internet data plan ( the closest was an " unlimited during nights and weekends " from Claro.

* According to International Data Corporation, the total amount of global data is expected to grow to 2. 7 zettabytes during 2012.

OLYMPUS began taking data in early 2012.

Greenpeace's Cool IT Leaderboard of February 2012 " evaluates global IT companies on their leadership in the fight to stop climate change " and ranks Fujitsu 3rd out of 21 leading manufacturers, on the strength of " well-developed case study data of its solutions with transparent methodology " and " out in the Leaderboard for scoring high in the Future Savings Goal criterion.

In further extensions to the design logic, George and Bock ( 2012 ) use case studies and the IBM survey data on business models in large companies to describe how CEOs and entrepreneurs create narratives or stories in a coherent manner to move the business from one opportunity to another.

* Cosmic Eye ( 2012 ), complete remake of Powers of Ten based on state-of-the-art data, also available as iPhone / iPad / iPod app

* 2012 tinnitus awareness week, a visual representation of tinnitus data

Membership and market data for the largest airline alliances ( as of June 2012 )

Based on reported 2009-2010 IB / AP test participation data, Locust Valley High School is ranked 55th nationally, 10th in the northeast, and second on Long Island ( behind Jericho ) Magazine May 2012. This ranking being out of some 27, 000 public high schools nationally.

A 2012 study from the University of California, San Francisco published in the Archives of Internal Medicine analyzed 2009 data from nearly 20, 000 adult patients treated for appendicitis in California hospitals.

In 2012 Bhuvnesh Jain and others examined existing data on the rate of pulsation of cepheid variable stars in 25 galaxies comprising over a thousand stars in all.

* February 2012: EPIC filed a complaint with the FTC about Google's new consolidated Privacy Policy saying it allowed advertising companies easier access to the data the user viewed in Google services.

According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, the top 100 individual super PAC donors in 2011 – 2012 made up just 3. 7 % of contributors, but accounted for more than 80 % of the total money raised, while less than 0. 5 % of the money given to “ the most active Super PACs ” was donated by publicly traded corporations.