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 CIAT have shown that further improvement is possible even after a patient has reached a " plateau " period of recovery.

Studies have shown that while test scores have improved over time, the improvement is not fully correlated with latent factors related to intelligence.

Studies have shown hydrocodone is stronger than codeine but only one-tenth as potent as morphine at binding to receptors and reported to be only 59 % as potent as morphine in analgesic properties.

Studies of Charles Darwin's notebooks have shown that Darwin arrived separately at the idea of natural selection which he set out in his 1859 book On the Origin of Species, but it has been speculated that he may have had some half-forgotten memory from his time as a student in Edinburgh of ideas of selection in nature as set out by Hutton, and by William Charles Wells and Patrick Matthew who had both been associated with the city before publishing their ideas on the topic early in the 19th century.

Studies have shown that heterosexual men and lesbians have different standards for what they consider attractive in women.

Studies by doctors have also shown in Hong Kong that the game is beneficial for individuals suffering from dementia or cognitive memory difficulties, leading to the development of mahjong therapy.

Studies examining the role of pro-and anti-apoptotic factors support this model ; for example, the anti-apoptotic factor Bcl-2 has been shown to interact with IP3Rs to reduce Ca < sup > 2 +</ sup > filling of the ER, leading to reduced efflux at the MAM and preventing collapse of the mitochondrial membrane potential post-apoptotic stimuli.

Studies have shown that morphine can alter the expression of a number of genes.

Studies have shown that the average ice thickness has decreased in recent years.

Studies in 2007 have catalogued nucleosome positions in yeast and shown that nucleosomes are depleted in promoter regions and origins of replication.

Studies have shown that the abundances of these light elements are much lower than models of stellar evolution predict.

Studies of bacteria frozen in Antarctic glaciers have shown that DNA has a half-life of 1. 1 million years under such conditions, suggesting that while life may have potentially moved around within the Solar System it is unlikely that it could have arrived from an interstellar source.

Studies of production computer systems have consistently shown that a large fraction of all user-chosen passwords are readily guessed automatically.

Studies with sensory deprivation have shown that the brain is dependent on signals from the outer world to function properly.

Studies have shown that the invention and development of the railway in Europe was one of the most important technological inventions of the late 19th century for the United States, without which, GDP would have been lower by 7. 0 % in 1890.

Studies have shown that half of all patients whose treatment was delayed had complete loss of response to facial nerve stimulation.

Studies using neuropsychological tests and brain imaging technologies such as fMRI and PET to examine functional differences in brain activity have shown that differences seem to most commonly occur in the frontal lobes, hippocampus and temporal lobes.

* " The Vengeance of the Jews Was Stronger Than Their Avarice: Modern Historians and the Persian Conquest of Jerusalem in 614 " by Elliott Horowitz ( Jewish Social Studies Volume 4, Number 2 )

While Jews have not used the LXX in worship or religious study since the 2nd century CE, recent scholarship has brought renewed interest in it in the field of Judaic Studies.

* Reiter, Yitzhak, National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel ( Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution ), ( 2009 ) Syracuse Univ Press ( Sd ).

As part of its Religious Studies Unit PASSIA also holds regular meetings with religious leaders ( mainly local Muslim and Chris ­ tian dignitaries, but also involving Jews and foreign scholars ) in an effort to foster schol ­ arly under ­ standing.

Studies show that although Jews in France only amounted to one percent of the French population, they comprised about fifteen to twenty percent of the Résistance.

* Musial, Bogdan, “ The Origins of ‘ Operation Reinhard ’: The Decision-Making Process for the Mass Murder of the Jews in the Generalgouvernment ”, Yad Vashem Studies 28 ( 2000 ): 113-153.

* Witte, Peter, and Tyas, Stephen, “ A New Document on the Deportation and Murder of Jews during ‘ Einsatz Reinhardt 1942 ’”, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Vol.

In 1993 the AJC sponsored the first national conference on " Muslims and Jews in North America: Past, Present and Future " with the Institute for Islamic-Judaic Studies at University of Denver in October.

The textbook the MET wrote on the minority religions was called Talimat-e Maxhadi Vizheh-ye Aqaliathaye Mazhabi-( Kalimi, Zarthoshti, Masihi ); Religious Studies Specifically for Religious Miniorities: ( Jews, Zoroastrians, Christians.

He has received many honors in his career, including honorary membership of the Order of Saint John ( Bailiwick of Brandenburg ), an honorary doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in 1993 and the creation of the Richard von Weizsäcker Professorship at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies ( SAIS ) of Johns Hopkins University and the Robert Bosch Foundation of Stuttgart in 2003, and more than 11 other honorary doctorates, ranging from the Weizmann Institute in Israel to Oxford, Cambridge and Harvard universities, the Charles University in Prague and the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, the Leo Baeck Prize from the Central Council of Jews in Germany and the Buber-Rosenzweig Medallion from the Society for Christian-Jewish Cooperation.

" Jews and Other Differences: The New Jewish Cultural Studies.

More recently, since the late 20th century, along with the study of religion in general, the study of Judaism and Jews in China as an academic subject has begun to blossom ( i. e. Institute of Jewish Studies ( Nanjing ), China Judaic Studies Association ).

Mark Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University, in his Under Crescent and Cross, calls the idealized interfaith utopia a " myth " that was first promulgated by Jewish historians such as Heinrich Graetz in the 19th century as a rebuke to Christian countries for their treatment of Jews.

According to an oral tradition dictated by Xu Xin, Director of the Center for Judaic Studies at Nanjing University, in his book Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, the Kaifeng Jews called Judaism Yīcìlèyè jiào ( 一賜樂業教 ), lit.

* Reiter, Yitzhak, National Minority, Regional Majority: Palestinian Arabs Versus Jews in Israel ( Syracuse Studies on Peace and Conflict Resolution ), ( 2009 ) Syracuse Univ Press ( Sd ).

* Dippler, Christoph " The German Resistance and the Jews " pages 51 – 93 from Yad Vashem Studies, Volume 16, 1984.

* Dippler, Christoph " The German Resistance and the Jews " pages 51 – 93 from Yad Vashem Studies, Volume 16, 1984.

Muslims, Jews and Pagans: Studies on Early Islamic Medina, by Micheal Lecker, Bibliotheca Orientalis LV No. 1 / 2, January – April 1998, Column 275 – 8.

According to the Jewish Political Studies Review, author Yoel Cohen recorded that the official Israeli Chief Rabbinate adopted a mostly conservative stance toward the capture by Israel of the Temple Mount in 1967, in response to questions of whether to rebuild the Temple and reinstitute the sacrificial service to whether to allow Jews to ascend the Temple Mount to pray:

Reviewing Macdonald ’ s Separation and Its Discontents in the American Jewish Society Review in 2000, Zev Garber, Professor of Jewish Studies at Los Angeles Valley College, writes that MacDonald works from the assumption that the dual Torah is the blueprint of the eventual Jewish dominion over the world and that he sees contemporary anti-Semitism, the Holocaust and attacks against Israel as " provoked by Jews themselves.

* Daniel Frieilmann, " The Case of the Falas Mura " in Tudor Parfitt & Emanuela Trevisan Semi ( Editors ), The Beta Israel in Ethiopia and Israel: Studies on Ethiopian Jews, Routledge, 1999, ISBN 9780700710928

* Sidney Shapiro, Jews in Old China, Studies by Chinese Scholars, ( New York: Hippocrene Books, 1984 ), 2001 ISBN 978-0-7818-0833-0.