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After the radio ad began running, the use of the statistic was widely criticised by FactCheck. org, PolitiFact. com, by The Washington Post, and others who consulted leading cancer experts and found that Giuliani's cancer survival statistics to be false, misleading or " flat wrong ", the numbers having been reported to have been obtained from an opinion article by Giuliani health care advisor David Gratzer, a Canadian psychiatrist in the Manhattan Institute's City Journal where Gratzer was a senior fellow.

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He concludes that these data show a `` remarkably high '' percentage of consciously dissatisfied and unhappy persons among factory and clerical workers.

The report concludes that, on the basis of information presented, ECHELON was capable of interception and content inspection of telephone calls, fax, e-mail and other data traffic globally through the interception of communication bearers including satellite transmission, public switched telephone networks ( which once carried most Internet traffic ) and microwave links.

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.

The consensus report concludes that " although the data remain incomplete, National Assessment meeting participants concurred that methadone tablets and / or diskettes distributed through channels other than opioid treatment programs most likely are the central factor in methadone-associated mortality.

Fort wryly concludes that he went back to collecting data and taking even more notes.

He concludes that the data examined is that no evidence consistently indicates that primitive battles are proportionately less lethal than civilized ones.

One 2001 study found that 360-degree feedback was associated with a 10. 6 percent decrease in market value, and concludes that " there is no data showing that feedback actually improves productivity, increases retention, decreases grievances, or is superior to forced ranking and standard performance appraisal systems.

A 2011 study concludes, “ Our data demonstrate that both melatonin and resveratrol, as found in red wine, protect the heart in an experimental model of myocardial infarction via the SAFE pathway .”

He concludes that performance data do not suggest that Wales has improved more rapidly than England, although there are considerable difficulties in making these kinds of assessments.

Harris concludes that birth order effects keep turning up because people keep looking for them, and keep analyzing and reanalyzing their data until they find them.

The study ultimately concludes that its data and postulations are supported enough, according to researchers, to justify their use when conducting further research into similar questions about values and universality, and “ about how the whole integrated system of value priorities relates to background, attitude, and behavior variables .” The article is clear that ” By identifying universal aspects of value content and structure, this article has laid the foundations for investigating culture-specific aspects in the future ,” ( Shwartz, 60 ).

It concludes that the Lancet overestimated deaths and that the war-related death toll was most likely to be around 125, 000 for the period covered by the Lancet study, reaching its conclusions by correcting errors in the 2006 Lancet estimate and triangulating with data from IBC and ILCS.

" His analysis concludes that " there is likely fabrication in the death-certificate data " and that " these data do not give reliable support to Lancet survey's very high estimated death rate.

This paper " finds fundamental flaws in the data underpinning ORB ’ s estimate ", and concludes that the ORB data " are not suitable for deriving any credible estimate but, given proper scrutiny, it is clear that ORB has overestimated by a wide margin.

Recalling that the null hypothesis is that the population is normally distributed, if the p-value is less than the chosen alpha level, then the null hypothesis is rejected ( i. e. one concludes the data are not from a normally distributed population ).

This suggests that any analysis of testimony that concludes with an apparent confirmation by Jamison of the story originally presented by Salas reveals a group effort to establish these claims.

Don Foster concludes that the result of all the speculation has yielded only two " facts ," which themselves have been the object of much debate: First, that the form of address ( Mr .) suggests that W. H.

In a biography published in 2011, William M. Adler concludes that Hill was probably innocent of murder, but also suggests that Hill came to see himself as worth more to the labor movement as a dead martyr than he was alive, and that this understanding may have influenced his decisions not to testify at the trial and subsequently to spurn all chances of a pardon.

Dennett concludes by contemplating the possibility that people might be able to opt in or out of moral responsibility: surely, he suggests, given the benefits, they would choose to opt in, especially given that opting out includes such things as being imprisoned or institutionalized.

Anne Krueger concludes that, “ empirical evidence suggests that the value of rents associated with import licenses can be relatively large, and it has been shown that the welfare cost of quantitative restrictions equals that of their tariff equivalents plus the value of the rents ”

He suggests that both names come from Irish and concludes: " Lisburn, being shorter and more easily pronounced by the English settlers, became the familiar name and Lisnagarvey gradually dropped out ".

Piriya Krairiksh, an academic at the Thai Khadi Research institute, notes that the stele's treatment of vowels suggests that its creators had been influenced by European alphabet systems ; thus, he concludes that the stele was fabricated by someone during the reign of Rama IV himself, or shortly before.

" With no source or explanation, the same article suggests the total number of deaths to be " in the hundreds "; many official statements avoid offering any estimate, e. g., in a legal report reviewing an array credible sources, the Canadian Bar Association simply concludes that " Student deaths were not uncommon ".

Brunn provides Frontius ’ De aquaeductu Urbis Romae from AD 100 as an example of the “ various illegal uses to which public water in Rome was being diverted .” Christer Bruun suggests that as a recent find by a contemporary author, Caelius actually gave a speech in 50 BC when he was a curule aedile, ultimately proclaiming “ the worst misappropriation of public water in Rome ” which was due “ all the brothels, were enjoying an illegal supply of running water .” Furthermore, Bruun concludes that although these possible arguments can explain why Cicero attempted to connect Clodia to immorality and water, he simply used this argumentation to suggest Clodia ’ s case against Caelius was unfounded.

Osmund Bopearachchi suggests a preliminary dating of 95 – 80 BCE, but Senior himself concludes that Thraso was the son and heir of Menander ( c. 155 – 130 BCE ), since his coin not worn and found in a hoard with only earlier coins.

The author suggests the ultimate victory by Wintle was the “ right result by the wrong route ”, because at the time of the appeal to the House of Lords “ everyone was mindful of the newspaper headlines ”; he suggests that the Law Lords were forced to resort to sophistry to uphold Wintle ’ s appeal, and concludes that it “ is a case which has haunted this branch of the law for a generation ”.

The affidavit concludes in the standard format " sworn ( declared ) before me, of commissioner for oaths / solicitor, a commissioner for oaths ( solicitor ), on the at in the county / city of, and I know the deponent ( declarant )", and it is signed and stamped by the commissioner for oaths.

' " His biographer Trefousse concludes that, while his courageous stand for the Union paid handsome political dividends, Johnson did not succeed in the White House because of his failure to outgrow his Jeffersonian-Jacksonian background ; put in other words, " Johnson was a child of his time, but he failed to grow with it.

He concludes the volume by setting out the limits of knowledge once and for all.

Pentecost then outlines the biblical time period for this campaign to occur and with further arguments concludes that it must take place with the 70th week of Daniel.

Evaluating Collins ' approach, he considers " the wide geographical spread from which the material comes and the implicit assumption that linguistic developments would have occurred uniformly throughout this area " a weakness and concludes, " The character of the Hebrew and Aramaic could support a date in the fifth or fourth century for the extant written form of the book, but does not demand a second-century date.

It concludes a series of historical books running from Joshua through Judges and Samuel, the overall purpose which is to provide a theological explanation for the destruction of the Jewish kingdom by Babylon in 586 BCE and a foundation for a return from exile.

" Samar Khatiwala, an oceanographer at Columbia University concludes that the studies suggest " we cannot count on these sinks operating in the future as they have in the past, and keep on subsidizing our ever-growing appetite for fossil fuels.

Voltaire concludes with Candide, if not rejecting optimism outright, advocating an enigmatic precept, " we must cultivate our garden ", in lieu of the Leibnizian mantra of Pangloss, " all is for the best in the best of all possible worlds ".

In 1914, the historian George Lincoln Burr sided with Upham in a note on Thomas Brattle's letter, " The strange suggestion of W. F. Poole that Brattle here means Cotton Mather himself, is adequately answered by Upham ..." Burr also reprinted Calef in full and dug deep into the historical record for information on the man and concludes "... that he had else any grievance against the Mathers or their colleagues there is no reason to think.

It concludes that it needs to make planets more habitable for similar life-forms, and sends out other probes to foment supernovae to do so.

Most modern critical scholarship concludes that Luke used the Gospel of Mark for his chronology and a hypothetical sayings source Q document for many of Jesus ' teachings.

Edwards, for example, concludes that the " sense of time is so confused in Harvey's note that it is really of little use in trying to date Hamlet ".

After reviewing various literary theories, Freud concludes that Hamlet has an " Oedipal desire for his mother and the subsequent guilt preventing him from murdering the man who has done what he unconsciously wanted to do ".

Sukkot concludes with Shemini Atzeret, where Jews begin to pray for rain and Simchat Torah, " Rejoicing of the Torah ", a holiday which marks reaching the end of the Torah reading cycle and beginning all over again.

He concludes that " Perhaps there will ultimately be some serious contribution from the traditional smoke-and-mirrors social science treatment of IQ, but for now Rushton's framework is essentially the only game in town.

The story concludes with Miaoshan being transformed into the Thousand Armed Guanyin, and the king, queen and her two sisters building a temple on the mountain for her.

Binns concludes that it would be unwise to put forward a single explanation of the monster, and probably a wide range of natural phenomena have been mistaken for the monster at times: otters, swimming deer, unusual waves.

It concludes that the closest parallels with Isaiah's description of the king of Babylon as a fallen morning star cast down from heaven are to be found not in any lost Canaanite and other myths but in traditional ideas of the Jewish people themselves, echoed in the Biblical account of the fall of Adam and Eve, cast out of God's presence for wishing to be as God, and the picture in of the " gods " and " sons of the Most High " destined to die and fall.

Liberman concludes by saying he thinks " that many if not most of the complaints directed against G & M are motivated in part by ideological disagreement – just as much of the praise for their work is motivated by ideological agreement.

Orans concludes that Freeman's basic criticisms, that Mead was duped by ceremonial virgin Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu ( who later swore to Freeman that she had played a joke on Mead ) were false for several reasons: first, Mead was well aware of the forms and frequency of Samoan joking ; second, she provided a careful account of the sexual restrictions on ceremonial virgins that correspond's to Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' auma ' a's account to Freeman, and third, that Mead's notes make clear that she had reached her conclusions about Samoan sexuality before meeting Fa ' apua ' a Fa ' amu.

The author of the Catholic Encyclopedia article goes on to enumerate the accounts of each of these three persons ( the unnamed " sinner ", Mary Magdalene, and Mary of Bethany ) in the Gospel of Luke and concludes that based on these accounts “ there is no suggestion of an identification of the three persons, and if we had only Luke to guide us we should certainly have no grounds for so identifying them the same person .” He then explains first the Catholic position equating Mary of Bethany with the sinful woman of Luke by referring to, where Mary is identified as the woman who anointed Jesus, and noting that this reference is given before John ’ s account of the anointing in Bethany: