A study of their activity on thyroglobulin has shown that thyroxine is not preferentially released and that the degradation proceeds stepwise with the formation of macromolecular intermediates ( Alpers, Petermann and Rall, 1956 ).

Another useful term is the heat of combustion, which is the energy released due to a combustion reaction and often applied in the study of fuels.

The study was completed in 1936 and the ban lifted, at which point large-scale releases were undertaken ; by March, 1937, 62, 000 toadlets had been released into the wild.

In May 2009, the National Federation of State High School Associations released the results of their first true high school participation study.

In October 2009, the American Association of Cheerleading Coaches and Advisors ( AACCA ), a subsidiary of Varsity Brands, released a study that analyzed the data from Emergency Room visits of all high school athletes.

According to a study, " in most areas studied, the various ventures that prompted deforestation rarely generated more than US $ 5 for every ton of carbon they released and frequently returned far less than US $ 1 ".

A WHO study released in January 2008 found that mass distribution of insecticide-treated mosquito nets and artemisinin – based drugs cut malaria deaths in half in Rwanda and Ethiopia, countries with high malaria burdens.

Only summary details are known, and the finders have not yet released a peer-reviewed study.

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.

In September 2009 the Gibraltar Chamber of Commerce released an Economic impact study and analysis of the economies of Gibraltar and the Campo de Gibraltar produced by Professor John Fletcher of Bournemouth University.

In 1972, a three-month-old gray whale named Gigi ( II ) was captured for brief study by Dr. David W. Kenney, and then released near San Diego.

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.

A PricewaterhouseCoopers study released in 2009, which surveyed the 2008 GDP of the top cities in the world, calculated Karachi ’ s GDP ( PPP ) to be $ 78 billion ( projected to be $ 193 billion in 2025 at a growth rate of 5. 5 %).

On 6 December a study was released showing that some children had been infected before the six arrived in Libya, but it was too late for inclusion as evidence.

MINIX ( from " mini-Unix ") was first released in 1987, with its complete source code made available to universities for study in courses and research.

In 2006, U. S. National Academy of Sciences released the report of a study of molecular manufacturing as part of a longer report, A Matter of Size: Triennial Review of the National Nanotechnology Initiative The study committee reviewed the technical content of Nanosystems, and in its conclusion states that no current theoretical analysis can be considered definitive regarding several questions of potential system performance, and that optimal paths for implementing high-performance systems cannot be predicted with confidence.

" 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.

In contrast, paracetamol ( acetaminophen ) is regarded as being safe and well-tolerated during pregnancy, but Leffers et al released a study in 2010 indicating that there may be associated male infertility in the unborn.

In 2005, the Kingston Police released the first study ever in Canada which pertains to racial profiling.

First released in 1997, REBOL was designed over a 20 year period by Carl Sassenrath, the architect and primary developer of AmigaOS, based on his study of denotational semantics and using concepts from the programming languages Lisp, Forth, Logo, and Self.

Above-ocean meteor strikes with energies as high as 4. 2 × 10 < SUP > 13 </ SUP > J ( equivalent to that released by an explosion of ten kilotons of TNT ) have been recorded by seismographs, as have a number of industrial accidents and terrorist bombs and events ( a field of study referred to as forensic seismology ).

In 2010, University of Pennsylvania researchers released a model study showing that abstinence programs can be effective.

While the debate remains hotly disputed, it is therefore not surprising that a comprehensive review of published studies of gun control, released in November 2004 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was unable to determine any reliable statistically significant effect resulting from such laws, although the authors suggest that further study may provide more conclusive information.

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.

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 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.