In the study published in the February 2007 print issue of Nature Neuroscience, researchers have found a part of the brain that behaves differently for altruistic and selfish people.

In 2007, U. S. Department of Defense ’ s Telemedicine and Advanced Technologies Research Center ( TATRC ) began to study the antimicrobial properties of copper alloys, including four brasses ( C87610, C69300, C26000, C46400 ) in a multi-site clinical hospital trial conducted at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ( New York City ), the Medical University of South Carolina, and the Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center ( South Carolina ).

LiveScience. com recaps new evidence showing that the most dangerous sport for high school and college females is cheerleading: Another study found that between 1982 and 2007, there were 103 fatal, disabling or serious injuries recorded among female high school athletes, with the vast majority ( 67 ) occurring in cheerleading.

A 2007 study suggests some important steps are needed in creating a quality and effective test environment for software development.

A related 2007 case study noted that test users were able to describe roughly a third of the usability problems.

One 2007 study found this was because businesses were turning to bankruptcy-like proceedings under state law, rather than the federal bankruptcy proceedings, including those under chapter 11.

A 2007 study found that consumption of colas, both those with natural sweetening and those with artificial sweetening, was associated with increased risk of chronic kidney disease.

Researchers who employ relational ethics value and respect the connection between themselves and the people they study, and " between researchers and the communities in which they live and work " ( Ellis, 2007, p. 4 ).

A 2012 study of gravitational microlensing data collected between 2002 and 2007 concludes the proportion of stars with planets is much higher and estimates an average of 1. 6 planets orbiting between 0. 5 – 10 AU per star in the Milky Way Galaxy, the authors of this study conclude " that stars are orbited by planets as a rule, rather than the exception.

A 2006 and 2007 study on superstition by the University of Iceland ’ s Faculty of Social Sciences supervised by Terry Gunnell ( associate folklore professor ), reveal that natives would not rule out the existence of elves and ghosts ( similar results of a 1974 survey by Professor Erlendur Haraldsson, Fréttabladid reports ).

A 2007 study looked at the introduction of Fox News into local U. S. markets between 1996 and 2000, and found that in the 2000 presidential election " Republicans gained 0. 4 to 0. 7 percentage points in the towns that broadcast Fox News ".

In 2007 he collaborated on a study that found tropospheric temperature trends of " Climate of the 20th Century " models differed from satellite observations by twice the model mean uncertainty.

The study, released on May 25, 2007, emphasized that in real dollars, this generation's men made less ( by 12 %) than their fathers had at that same age in 1974, thus reversing a historical trend.

A 2007 study on the genetics of six subspecies — the West African, Rothschild, reticulated, Masai, Angolan and South African giraffe — suggests that they may in fact be separate species.

The first study to be announced was on 1 May 2007 Moorfields Eye Hospital and University College London's Institute of Ophthalmology.

A meta-study researching hypnosis as a quit-smoking tool found it had a 20 to 30 percent success rate, similar to other quit-smoking methods, while a 2007 study of patients hospitalised for cardiac and pulmonary ailments found that smokers who used hypnosis to quit smoking doubled their chances of success.

Studies over several years covering the key mineral area of the Central Pacific resulted in a technical study on biodiversity, species ranges and gene flow in the abyssal Pacific nodule province, with emphasis on predicting and managing the impacts of deep seabed mining A workshop at Manoa, Hawaii, in October 2007 produced a rationale and recommendations for the establishment of " preservation reference areas " in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, where nodule mining would be prohibited in order to leave the natural environment intact.

In July, 2007, The Federal Trade Commission ( FTC ) released a report presenting the results of a study concerning credit-based insurance scores in automobile insurance.

In 2007, a study done at Long Island University reported that over 90 percent of interstitial cystitis patients experience an increase in symptoms when they consume certain foods and beverages, especially coffee, tea, soda, alcoholic beverages, citrus fruits and juices, artificial sweeteners and hot pepper.

According to a study in August 2007 by GfK, 61 % of German households have a Payback card.

Prolonged playing of mahjong may trigger epileptic seizures according to a 2007 study.

A study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research in July 2007, Nuclear winter revisited with a modern climate model and current nuclear arsenals: Still catastrophic consequences, used current climate models to look at the consequences of a global nuclear war involving most or all of the world's current nuclear arsenals ( which the authors described as being only about a third the size of the world's arsenals twenty years earlier ).

The 2007 study discussed above noted that modern computer models have been applied to the Kuwait oil fires, finding that individual smoke plumes are not able to loft smoke into the stratosphere, but that smoke from fires covering a large area like some forest fires can lift smoke into the stratosphere, and this is supported by recent evidence that it occurs far more often than previously thought.

Recent studies ( 2006 ) substantiate that smoke from urban firestorms in a local nuclear war would lead to long lasting global cooling but in a less dramatic manner than a global nuclear war, while a 2007 study of the effects of global nuclear war supported the conclusion that it would lead to full-scale nuclear winter.

A characteristic expression of such concern and inquiry is found in Joseph P. Lyford's Introduction To The Agreeable Autocracies, a recent paperback study of the institutions of modern democratic society.

A contrast of the scripture reading of, let us say, St. Augustine, John Bunyan, and Thomas Jefferson, all three of whom found in such study a real source of enlightenment, can tell us a great deal about these three men and the age that each represented and helped bring to conscious expression.

Michelangelo found the rabbi in the room of study, a gentle old man with a white beard and luminous grey eyes, robed in black gabardine with a skullcap on his head.

Although Miller noted in 1907 that a difference in the pleural blood supply existed between animals, nowhere in his published works is it found that he did a comparative study of the intrapulmonary features of various mammalian lungs other than in the dog and cat ( Miller, '13 ; ;

Individual differences in Kohnstamm reactivity to controlled Kohnstamm situations were found among the subjects used in the study.

One study, which involved 1,524 pupils in grades one to six, found that 12 percent of the pupils were seriously maladjusted and that 23 percent were reading a year below capacity.

One study found that slightly altering photographs so that they more closely resembled the faces of study participants increased the trust the participants expressed regarding depicted persons.

Another study found more cooperative behavior the greater the number the perceived kin in a group.

One study examined the physical health of mothers who volunteered over a 30-year period and found that 52 % of those who did not belong to a volunteer organization experienced a major illness while only 36 % of those who did volunteer experienced one.

A study on adults ages 55 + found that during the four-year study period, people who volunteered for two or more organizations had a 63 % lower likelihood of dying.

For example, one study on volunteerism found that feeling overwhelmed by others ' demands had an even stronger negative effect on mental health than helping had a positive one ( although positive effects were still significant ).

" A small pilot study has found no benefit from packing of simple cutaneous abscesses.

The nature of classifiers and their constructions allows the speaker to use them more frequently in narratives ; one study found this to be 17. 7 %.

A study in 2008 found that both adults and children could detect images of snakes or spiders among a variety of non-threatening objects more quickly than they could pinpoint frogs, flowers or caterpillars.

The study found that the sensory scores of the taste, odor color and texture decreased with increasing amounts of amaranth.

In 1610 Pietro Della Valle found a Scot, George Strachan, resident at Anah ( to study Arabic ) as physician to the amir ( i. 671-681 ).

One study on respiratory tract infections found " physicians were more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients who appeared to expect them ".

A 2003 study by TD Bank Financial Group found the corridor is the only Canadian urban centre to amass a U. S. level of wealth while maintaining a Canadian-style quality of life, offering universal health care benefits.

The study found GDP per capita in the corridor was 10 % above average U. S. metropolitan areas and 40 above other Canadian cities at that time.

An international study of almost 6, 000 men and 11, 000 women found that persons who reported that they drank more than 2 units of alcohol a day had an increased risk of fractures compared to non-drinkers.

A 2002 randomized controlled UK university study of 93 people with clinically confirmed idiopathic Parkinson's disease found that participants who received Alexander Technique lessons reported sustained improvements in their physical functioning, as well as reporting themselves to be less depressed and to have improved attitudes towards themselves.

A 1996 Tel Aviv hospital study of 67 patients with back pain of more than three months duration found patients benefited from a multidisciplinary approach to treatment that included back schooling, psychological intervention, and treatment by acupuncture, chiropractic, the Alexander Technique and a pain specialist.