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 show that AAC use does not impede the development of speech, and may even result in a modest increase in speech production.

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 of skeletal remains show that this growth was due to increased fertility rather than decreased mortality.

Studies published in 2004 and 2007 show the combined frequency of M7a and N9b to be at least 28 % in Okinawans ( 7 / 50 M7a1, 6 / 50 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 50 N9b ), 17. 6 % in Ainus ( 8 / 51 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 51 N9b ), and 10 % ( 97 / 1312 M7a ( xM7a1 ), 1 / 1312 M7a1, 28 / 1312 N9b ) to 17 % ( 15 / 100 M7a1, 2 / 100 M7a ( xM7a1 )) in mainstream Japanese.

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 comparing cognitive functions before and after treatment for acute malarial illness continued to show significantly impaired school performance and cognitive abilities even after recovery.

Studies show that though many people participate in gambling as a form of recreation or even as a means to gain an income, gambling, like any behavior which involves variation in brain chemistry, can become a psychologically addictive and harmful behavior in some people.

Studies of miners and astronomers working at 3000 meters and above show improved alveolar pO < sub > 2 </ sub > with full acclimatization, yet the pO < sub > 2 </ sub > level remains equal to or even below the threshold for continuous oxygen therapy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ( COPD ).

Studies have suggested that the earliest hominins were dimorphic and that this lessened over the course of the evolution of the genus Homo, correlating with humans becoming more monogamous, whereas gorillas, who live in harems, show a large degree of sexual dimorphism.

Studies of recent interest show that the Insulin / IGF axis play an important role in aging.

Studies show that lesbians have a higher body mass and are generally less concerned about weight issues than heterosexual women, and lesbians consider women with higher body masses to be more attractive than heterosexual women do.

Studies show up to half a million cases of Lassa fever per year in West Africa, with 5000 resulting in death.

Studies also show that married couples find the highest level of satisfaction in egalitarian relationships.

Studies show that nicotinamide has anxiolytic ( anti-anxiety ) properties.

Studies show that risk of ulceration is less with nabumetone than with ibuprofen alone.

Studies involving rapidly changing scenes show the percept derives from numerous processes that involve time delays.

Studies show that private market factors can more efficiently deliver many goods or service than governments due to free market competition.

Studies utilizing positron-emission tomography ( PET ) have found during tasks that invoke disfluent speech, stutterers show hypoactivity in cortical areas associated with language processing, such as Broca ’ s area, but hyperactivity in areas associated with motor function.

Studies by Keith Ward show that overall religion is a positive contributor to mental health.

Their data show that the most-cited think tank was the Brookings Institution, followed by the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Enterprise Institute, the Heritage Foundation, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

Studies show that under ideal propagation conditions ( simulations ), Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum ( DSSS ) provides the highest throughput for all nodes on a network when used in conjunction with CSMA / CA and the IEEE 802. 11 RTS / CTS exchange under light network load conditions.

Studies show a high incidence of psychiatric disorders in suicide victims at the time of their death with the total figure ranging from 98 % to 87. 3 % with mood disorders and substance abuse being the two most common.

Studies using Vanessa atalanta in a windtunnel show that they use a wide variety of aerodynamic mechanisms to generate force.

Studies show that children with disabilities, like CP, participate mainly in informal activities that are carried out in the family environment and are organized by adults.

Studies have shown the mean attributable fraction of adult asthma due to atopic sensitization was 30 % and 18 % for sensitization to dust mites.

Studies have shown that noctilucent clouds are not caused solely by volcanic activity, although dust and water vapour could be injected into the upper atmosphere by eruptions and contribute to their formation.

* Studies of the vicinity of Mars, including its radiation environment, plasma and dust ;

The state governments are responsible for the management of decentralised institutions, such as the State Centres for Scientific and Technological Studies ( CECyTE ) and Institutes of Training for Work ( ICAT ).

For example, the Dhaka Integrated Transport Studies conducted by the Ministry of Planning in 1991-1994 found that not only did the uncoordinated activities of Dhaka City Corporation ( DCC ), Rajdhani Unnayan Kartripakkha ( RAJUK ) and Bangladesh Road Transport Authority ( BRTA ) not yield the desired effects or alleviate the problems but also that there was no single organization responsible for improving the transport and traffic problems of the city.

Studies suggest that they feed on ungulate faeces to obtain carotenoid pigments responsible for their bright yellow and orange facial skin.

Many people were involved in the production, most notably: Nicholas Negroponte, founder and director of the Architecture Machine Group, who found support for the project from the Cybernetics Technology Office of DARPA ; Andrew Lippman, principal investigator ; Bob Mohl, who designed the map overlay system and ran user studies of the efficacy of the system for his PhD thesis ; Richard Leacock ( Ricky ), who headed the MIT Film / Video section and shot along with MS student Marek Zalewski the Cinéma vérité interviews placed behind the facades of key buildings ; John Borden, of Peace River Films in Cambridge, MA, who designed the stabilization rig ; Kristina Hooper of UCSC ; Rebecca Allen ; Scott Fisher, who matched the photos of Aspen in the silver-mining days from the historical society to the same scenes in Aspen in 1978 and who experiment with anamorphic imaging of the city ( using a Volpe lens ); Walter Bender, who designed and built the interface, the client / server model, and the animation system ; Steve Gregory ; Stan Sasaki, who built much of the electronics ; Steve Yelick, who worked on the laserdisc interface and anamorphic rendering ; Eric " Smokehouse " Brown, who built the metadata encoder / decoder ; Paul Heckbert worked on the animation system ; Mark Shirley and Paul Trevithick, who also worked on the animation ; Ken Carson ; Howard Eglowstein ; and Michael Naimark, who was at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies and was responsible for the cinematography design and production.

In the University of Cambridge, a Tutor is an officer of a college responsible for the pastoral care of a number of students in cognate disciplines, as against a Director of Studies who is responsible for the academic progress of a group of students in their own discipline, with both Tutors and Directors of Study answering to a Senior Tutor.

These exams are administered by the Board of Studies, which is responsible for the overall oversight of the HSC.

President Nathan M. Pusey is credited with initiating the program in 1945, although Professor Waples chaired the Freshman Studies Committee and was responsible for implementing the program.

Studies of racing pigeon deaths found that Eurasian Sparrowhawks were responsible for less than 1 %.

Studies have suggested that shrimp trawling is responsible for the highest rate of by-catch.

Blackburn was responsible directly to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and had also been the first commander of the covert Studies and Observation Group in Vietnam.

Studies of soldiers with such wounds to the back of their head showed that areas of blindness in the visual field were dependent on which part of the occipital lobe had been damaged, suggesting that specific areas of the brain were responsible for sensation in specific visual areas, known as retinotopy.

The Committee on Studies is responsible for reviewing and approving all studies undertaken in the name of the Academy and helping to identify proposed studies that will make optimum use of Academy expertise and resources.

The Audubon Society now partners with Bird Studies Canada, the Gulf Coast Bird Observatory of Texas ( responsible for CBCs in Mexico ), and the Red Nacional de Observadores de Aves ( RNOA, National Network of Bird Observers ) and the Instituto Alexander von Humboldt of Colombia.

The Center for Documentation and Information Dissemination is responsible for documentation and dissemination of information produced by the institute as well as coordinating the 27 SDDIs in the country, and the National School of Statistical Sciences besides being responsible for training the institute's employees, is a federal institution of higher learning that offers the following courses: BA in Statistics ; specialization in Environmental Analysis and Management Planning, and Masters in Population Studies and Social Research.

The Federal College for Security Studies is responsible for providing comprehensive advanced training beyond ministerial bounds for current and future executive personnel both from federal and state institutions and from private sectors of relevance to security policy.

DuBois ' " The Souls of White Folk " chapter in " Darkwater ", and fields such as History and Cultural Studies are primarily responsible for the formative scholarship of Critical Whiteness Studies.

Studies conclude that coal power plants are responsible for 23, 600 premature deaths in the U. S. per year, and conservatives should hold them accountable, he said, perhaps with a carbon tax on their emissions.

Studies in early neural tube development have shown that the Wnt / β-catenin pathway is largely responsible for regulating Shh expression in the dorsal region of the neural tube.

Many universities also have a Dean of Graduate Studies, responsible for work at the postgraduate level in all parts of the university.

It is also responsible for such English-language publications as the YIVO Annual of Jewish Social Studies ( founded 1946 ).

Studies on rhythmic discrimination reveal that the right temporal auditory cortex is responsible for temporal segmenting, and the left temporal auditory cortex is responsible for temporal grouping.