Studies of membership trends, even in some areas where population is expanding, show that numbers of churches have had little net increase, though many new members were received.

Studies have found that generosity increases linearly from sad to happy affective states.

Studies have also been careful to note that feeling over-taxed by the needs of others has conversely negative effects on health and happiness.

Studies examining falls in this population show that 74-93 % of patients have fallen at least once in the past year and up to 60 % admit to fear of falling.

Studies with crickets have shown that a fear of spiders can develop before birth.

Studies of phytoplankton stocks in the southern sea have shown that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current is dominated by diatoms, while the Weddell Sea has abundant coccolithophorids and silicoflagellates.

Studies using mice have shown a similar treatment results in a permanent cure for about a third of the test subjects.

Studies have shown that numerous biological systems, such as Xenopus oocyte maturation, mammalian calcium signal transduction, and polarity in budding yeast, incorporate temporal ( slow and fast ) positive feedback loops, or more than one feedback loop that occurs at different times.

Studies have attempted to estimate a monetary loss for industries affected by piracy by predicting what portion of pirated works would have been formally purchased if they had not been freely available.

Studies have also found significant levels of toxins in fish and the waters they inhabit within the basin.

Starting in the 1980s, an expanding community of neuroscientists and psychologists have associated themselves with a field called Consciousness Studies, giving rise to a stream of experimental work published in books, journals such as Consciousness and Cognition, and methodological work published in journals such as the Journal of Consciousness Studies, along with regular conferences organized by groups such as the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness.

Studies of the neuroscience of free will have also shown that the experiences that people report when they behave purposefully sometimes do not correspond to their actual behaviors or to the patterns of electrical activity recorded from their brains.

Studies conducted by the APPA show substantial evidence that young adults who feel a sense of belonging in a community, particularly small communities, develop fewer psychiatric and depressive disorders than those who do not have the feeling of love and belonging.

Studies have shown that the amount of glycerol in cervical fluid increases during sexual excitement.

Studies have found 50-85 % of conditioned athletes have benign sinus bradycardia, as compared to 23 % of the general population studied.

Studies have demonstrated that, due to the high incidence of accidents at these sites, some such segregated schemes can actually increase the number of car-bike collisions.

Studies in the brine shrimp have examined how water affects cell functions ; these saw that a 20 % reduction in the amount of water in a cell inhibits metabolism, with metabolism decreasing progressively as the cell dries out and all metabolic activity halting when the water level reaches 70 % below normal.

Studies on raccoons in the Southeast have yielded infection rates ranging from 47 % to as low as 15. 5 %.

Studies have been conducted to isolate the genes involved in the substance's production, so that it could be obtained recombinantly.

Studies showed that dentists graduated from different countries, or even from different dental schools in one country, may have different clinical decisions for the same clinical condition.

Studies have shown that, in many environments, the rate of erosion and runoff decreases exponentially with increased vegetation cover.

Studies have also shown that the PFC is extremely involved with autonoetic consciousness ( See Tulving's theory ).

Studies of Finnish mobility patterns since World War II have confirmed the significance of this exodus.

Studies in the 1980s confirmed the autoimmune nature, and research in the 1990s demonstrated the link with antibodies against P / Q-type voltage-gated calcium channels.

Studies of this kind outside of Europe are even rarer, so it is difficult to make generalizations, but one small-scale study that compared transnational police information and intelligence sharing practices at specific cross-border locations in North America and Europe confirmed that low visibility of police information and intelligence sharing was a common feature ( Alain, 2001 ).

Studies have also confirmed a direct correlation between resistin levels and T2DM.

Former Professor of Islamic Studies Denis MacEoin studied documented deaths, both for individuals and for round figures, from Bábí, Bahá ' í, European, and Iranian sources, and confirmed at most two to three thousand.

Studies have also been done on Florida Scrub Jays ( Aphelocoma coerulescens ) and results have confirmed the hypothesis that increased prolactin levels are correlated with an increase in parental behavior in helper birds ( Schoech, 1998 ).

Studies in Ohio and Michigan soon confirmed her findings pointing to the use of aspirin during an upper respiratory tract or chickenpox infection as a possible trigger of the syndrome.

He co-founded the Institute of United States Studies in 1963, the same year in which his tenure as a lecturer at King's was confirmed.

A staff member of the Heinrich Barth Institute for African Studies where the letters are located, also confirmed that " Egyptian princes were among Almásy's lovers ".

The results of the CLASS study were confirmed by the Successive Celecoxib Efficacy and Safety Studies ( SUCCESS ) study, which examined the effectiveness and safety of celecoxib 200 mg and 400 mg daily and how well it was tolerated by patients in terms of adverse effects, compared with the most common NSAID regimens in the countries studied ( diclofenac 100 mg daily and naproxen 1000 mg daily ).

The ceremonial opening of the university took place February 16, 1922, while on the 12th of April the President of Lithuania confirmed the university's Statute along with six faculties: Theology-Philosophy, Humanities, Law, Mathematics and Sciences, Medicine and Technical Studies.

Studies have confirmed that the potency of some topical steroid products may differ according to manufacturer or brand.

Studies from the mid 80s to the early 90s nearly all confirmed that pornographic magazines contained significantly less violent imagery than pornographic films.

Studies of wind patterns confirmed that fall-out from an explosion in the southern Indian Ocean could have been carried from there to southwestern Australia.

Studies using electrophysiology and radioactive-labeled dopamine have confirmed that the dopamine transporter is similar to other monoamine transporters in that one molecule of neurotransmitter can be transported across the membrane with one or two sodium ions.

Studies based on the prices paid for options have also confirmed similar discounts.

Studies of the watermarks of the blockbooks by Allen Stevenson at the British Museum in the 1960s confirmed that none of them predated the 1460s, so Master E. S .' engravings are the earliest printed versions, dating from around 1450.

Hill accepted a position as a visiting scholar at the Institute for the Study of Social Change at University of California, Berkeley in January 1997, but soon joined the faculty of Brandeis University — first at the Women's Studies Program, later moving to the Heller School for Social Policy and Management.

He does a brief stint at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, then accepts a position at the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland as a civilian professor of history.

Weygand returned to France in 1925, when he became director of the Center for Higher Military Studies, a position he had for five years.

" Cato's Director of Foreign Policy Studies, Christopher Preble, argues in The Power Problem: How American Military Dominance Makes Us Less Safe, Less Prosperous, and Less Free, that America's position as an unrivaled superpower tempts policymakers to constantly overreach and to redefine ever more broadly the " national interest ".

He was hired by Goddard College in the fall of 1973 to lecture on technology ; his lectures led to a teaching position and to the creation of the Social Ecology Studies program in 1974 and the Institute for Social Ecology soon thereafter, of which he became the director.

Abernathy began his professional career in 1950, when he was appointed Personnel Director at Alabama State University ; he later assumed the position of Dean of Men and Professor of Social Studies and Mathematics.

After completing his Ph. D. Lerner moved to Hartford, Connecticut where he served as professor of philosophy at Trinity College until 1975, when he moved back to Berkeley, joined the faculty at the University of California in the Field Studies program and taught law and economics until 1976 when he accepted a position at Sonoma State University for one year in sociology, teaching courses in social psychology.

In the closing months of World War 1, Bennett undertook an intensive course in Turkish language at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London, and was posted to Constantinople, where he held a sensitive position in Anglo-Turkish relations.

he holds the position of director of the theoretical philosophy group at the department of philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz and is an Adjunct Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies and on the advisory board of the Giordano Bruno Foundation.

He is the founding Executive Director of the African Centre for Development and Strategic Studies ( ACDESS ) in 1991, a position he holds till date.

Being the founding president of the International Transpersonal Association ( founded in 1977 ), he went on to become distinguished adjunct faculty member of the Department of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies, a position he remains in today.

After leaving his position as Chief of Staff, Ya ' alon has spent time in the think tank Washington Institute for Near East Policy and became a Senior Fellow at the Adelson Institute for Strategic Studies at the Shalem Center Institute for International and Middle East Studies.

Ashton's position also presides over several European institutions, including the European Union Institute for Security Studies as the Chair of its Board.

Continuing at Leipzig as Privatdozent ( unsalaried senior lecturer who may be called to a professorship ), he became, in 1932, Professor extraordinary ( full professor without a chair ) of Late Jewish Studies within the Faculty of Philosophy, the only such position within a German university.

Studies show that turning the baby at term ( after 36 weeks ) is effective in reducing the number of babies born in the breech position.

He also retained his position on the faculty of Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

He is currently Associate Provost, Information Systems & Technology at UW, a position he has held since July, 2003, and also has been serving as interim Dean of Graduate Studies since October, 2007.

They defended Chicana feminist Rosa Morales, victim of a sexist firing from her position as Chicano Studies staff-person at the University of Washington.

He still holds this position, and is still active in undergraduate teaching as of Autumn quarter 2011, teaching the course titled " Introduction to Religious Studies ".

In 1967 he took a position as Professor of English Studies at the University of Ulster.

In 1999, John McIntosh, the London Oratory School's headteacher at the time and member of the Centre for Policy Studies ( a centre-right ' think tank ' with links to, but independent from, the Conservative Party ), was accused of using his position as headteacher to embarrass Labour.

Jung Institute and was then appointed as Director of Studies at the institute, a position he held until 1969.

In January 2005, the former mayor began an unpaid position as a Dean's Visiting Fellow in the College of Urban and Public Affairs ' Institute of Portland Metropolitan Studies at Portland State University.