Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to make or cause to be made a study covering -- ( 1 )

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.

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.

In contemporary use, the practice and study of typography is very broad, covering all aspects of letter design and application.

In a published article reviewing the findings of Harold Sackeim's 2007 study on the cognitive effects of ECT, Breggin accuses Max Fink and other pro-ECT researchers of having a history of " systematically covering up damage done to millions of patients throughout the world.

Martin Killias, in a 1993 study covering 21 countries, found that there were significant correlations between gun ownership and gun-related suicide and homicide rates.

A private study conducted by Investigaciones Económicas Sectoriales ( IES ), covering January – October 2006, found a 51. 2 % growth compared to the same period of 2005 ; by December 2007, the number of these units ( 40 million ) exceeded Argentina's total population.

" The West Virginia State Board of Education was directed to " prescribe the courses of study covering these subjects " for public schools.

The study of such sound waves is sometimes referred to as infrasonics, covering sounds beneath 20 Hz down to 0. 001 Hz.

* An experiment takes place at Lord's to study the effects of covering the pitch before the start of a match, the first time this is known to have been tried.

A study of the organization's markets, customers, competitors and the overall economic, political, cultural and technical environment ; covering developing trends, as well as the current situation.

is a study of 772 sex workers in New Zealand, covering Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch as main urban centres, and Nelson and the Hawkes Bay as secondary centres.

This Open Bible is filled with amazing study aids including comprehensive book introductions and outlines, 64-page concordance, Read-Along references and translation notes, and the classic Biblical Cyclopedic Index covering more than 8, 000 textual entries.

His work in documenting Romania's historical past could reach an unprecedented intensity, one such exceptional moment being a 1903 study trip to Târgu Jiu, a three-day interval during which he copied and summarized 320 individual documents, covering the entire period between 1501 and 1833.

Students study journalism in the classroom, but also by covering diverse neighborhoods of New York City with close guidance and mentoring from their professors.

The classic study of the vegetation of the Berkshire Highlands was Egler's 1940 monograph, covering the flora of an area stretching roughly from Pittsfield, MA in the west to Hatfield, MA in the east, and from Goshen, CT in the south, north to the Vermont border.

Visual rhetoric is a broader study, covering all the visual ways humans try to communicate, outside academic policing.

The study of Civil War military postal history and postmarks is an area of philately that involves a great volume of material covering town names, history, rarity, postmarks and other official markings found on mail to and from POW facilities.

The only published studies of Korandje based on first-hand data are Cancel ( 1908 ), a 45-page article by a French lieutenant covering basic grammar and vocabulary and a couple of sample texts ; Champault ( 1969 ), an anthropological study containing some incidental linguistically relevant materials such as sentences and rhymes ; Tilmatine ( 1991, 1996 ), an article ( published in German, then reworked in French ) revisiting Cancel and Champault and adding about a page of new data recorded by the author ; and Souag ( 2010a, 2010b ), the former arguing the case for Western Berber loans in the lexicon, the latter studying the effect of contact with Berber and Arabic on its grammar.

Exceptions to these rights are set out by the terms of Fair Dealing, these exempt users from copyright liability covering usage and reproduction when performed for private study, criticism or research.

268 firms with 8 million employees had signed on to this by 1964, while a nationwide study covering the period from May 1961 to June 1963 of 103 corporations “ showed a Negro gain from 28, 940 to 42, 738 salaried and from 171, 021 to 198, 161 hourly paid jobs ”.

" Curriculum B " is a more interdisciplinary, theoretical approach to legal study, covering an equal or wider scope of material but heavily influenced by the critical legal studies movement.

Art history usually refers to the academic discipline covering the study of the history of the visual arts.

In 1986, he followed up with a study covering early homosexuality in Europe, under the title of L ' homosexualité initiatique dans l ' Europe ancienne ( Payot 1986 ), which has yet to be translated into English.

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.

A study that asked participants to count each act of kindness they performed for one week significantly enhanced their subjective happiness.

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.

After reading popular conspiracy theories about the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, participants in this study correctly estimated how much their peers ' attitudes had changed, but significantly underestimated how much their own attitudes had changed to become more in favor of the conspiracy theories.

Additionally, over one third of the study participants experienced some disadvantage when using ClearType.

completed a study that had 3 phases for participants to take part in.

)</ ref > In a September 2009 interview with Examiner. com, Strassman described the effects on participants in the study: " Subjectively, the most interesting results were that high doses of DMT seemed to allow the consciousness of our volunteers to enter into non-corporeal, free-standing, independent realms of existence inhabited by beings of light who oftentimes were expecting the volunteers, and with whom the volunteers interacted.

Another infamous study found that when participants contorted their facial muscles into distinct facial expressions ( e. g. disgust ), they reported subjective and physiological experiences that matched the distinct facial expressions.

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

Although he attempted to regulate his daily routine to maintain more control over his results, his decision to avoid the use of participants sacrificed the external validity of the study despite sound internal validity.

Participants ' decision to participate may be correlated with traits that affect the study, making the participants a non-representative sample.

The Milgram experiment on obedience to authority figures was a series of notable social psychology experiments conducted by Yale University psychologist Stanley Milgram, which measured the willingness of study participants to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts that conflicted with their personal conscience.

Our research, however, demonstrates that when study participants are placed in real, rather than hypothetical, bargaining situations and are presented with accurate information regarding their statistical probability of success, just as they might be so informed by their attorney or the government during a criminal plea negotiation, innocent defendants are highly risk-averse.

A 2008 study tested participants repeatedly for 90 minutes in a magnetic resonance imaging ( fMRI ) environment and showed no detectable psi effect, no baseline measure outside of the fMRI was collected for comparison.

In Haldeman's view, those participants in the study who reported change were bisexual at the outset, and its authors wrongly interpreted capacity for heterosexual sex as change of sexual orientation.

Ariel Shidlo and Michael Schroeder found in " Changing Sexual Orientation: A Consumer's Report ", a peer-reviewed study of 150 respondents published in 2002, that 88 % of participants failed to achieve a sustained change in their sexual behavior and 3 % reported changing their orientation to heterosexual.

NARTH states that the Shidlo study has often been used by gay activists as " proof " that conversion therapy is on average harmful, but they advertised for study participants with an ad that said, " Help Us Document the Harm ".

Milgram became very notorious for this tactic, and his experiment was soon classed as highly unethical as it caused stress to the participants in the study.

Specifically, the OMH study found that among participants in the AOT program:

Additionally, many study participants reported a decided worsening of economic condition following the procedure.

In addition, the examiners tried to evaluate the social and family relations of the participants in the study.