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 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.

Doke took up his appointment in the new Department of Bantu Studies at the University of Witwatersrand in 1923.

* Greiner, H. ' Operation Seelowe and Intensified Air Warfare Against England up to the 30 October 1940 ', in Detweiler, D. World War II German Military Studies, Volume 7 of 24 ( New York, 1979 )

Studies generally looked at platforms launched by the Saturn V, followed up by crews launched on Saturn IB using an Project Apollo | Apollo Command / Service Module, or a Gemini capsule on a Titan II-C, the latter being much less expensive in the case where cargo was not needed.

Among the think tanks set up by the government, Bangladesh Institute of International and Strategic Studies ( BIISS ) stands as one of the prime organizations that works to undertake and promote research and deliberation on international affairs, security and developmental issues of the country.

Due to an overflow of handwritten notes, photographs, and data piling up at Jane's home in Dar es Salaam in the mid-1990s, the Jane Goodall Institute ’ s Center for Primate Studies was created at the University of Minnesota to house and organize this data.

The School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) is one of three United States Army schools that make up the United States Army Command and General Staff College ( CGSC ) at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

The college is renowned for its strong Legal and Medical tradition, the former subject being built up by the late Professor Clive Parry, his pupil and successor John Hopkins ( now an emeritus fellow ) and the current Director of Studies in Law and Senior Tutor, Graham Virgo.

In addition, Castle was instrumental in setting up an Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex to devise ways of tackling global socio-economic inequalities.

Studies found out that high-income blacks were almost twice as likely to end up with subprime home-purchase mortgages as low-income whites.

* While Ralph Messenger is busy organizing the International Conference on Consciousness Studies (" Con-Con "), to be held at Gloucester University this year, his ( recent ) past catches up with him: During a symposium in Prague some weeks ago, he spent the night with a young scientist called Ludmila Lisk, who now, by way of email, threatens to expose him as an adulterer if she is not allowed to attend the conference.

Studies have found that spinal manipulation provides relief from low-back pain at least over the short term ( i. e., up to 3 months ), and that pain-relieving effects may continue for up to 1 year.

A. W. Verrall ( Journal of Hellenic Studies, xx., 1900, p. 115 ) explains the name differently, as a feast of " revocation " ( from ἀναθέσσασθαι, to " pray back " or " up "), at which the ghosts of the dead were recalled to the land of the living ( cf.

When John L. Caskey of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens outlined the results of his excavations at Lerna from 1952 up until 1958, he stated that the hallmarks of Middle Helladic culture ( i. e. Gray Minyan ware and the fast potter's wheel ) may have originated from Early Helladic III.

In 1973 he set up the first ever Jazz Studies course in the Southern Hemisphere at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music.

In 1986, a Chair of Irish Studies was set up in his honour at St. Mary's University, Halifax.

Studies with HIV have also shown stress to speed up viral progression.

Studies of lava flows on Steens Mountain, Oregon, indicate that the magnetic field could have shifted at a rate of up to 6 degrees per day at some time in Earth's history, which significantly challenges the popular understanding of how the Earth's magnetic field works.

Studies have shown that Asian Americans suffer from higher rates of stress, depression, mental illnesses, and suicides in comparison to other races, indicating that the pressures to achieve and live up to the model minority image may take a mental and psychological toll on Asian Americans.

Studies have shown that, if simple questioning does not reveal the cancer's source ( coughing up blood —" probably lung ", urinating blood —" probably bladder "), complex imaging will not either.

Meanwhile, the senior wizards ( made up of Archancellor Mustrum Ridcully, the Dean, the Bursar, The Chair of Indefinite Studies, the Lecturer in Recent Runes, the Senior Wrangler, and Ponder Stibbons ) of Unseen University are trying to find a cure for the Librarian's magical malady, which causes him to transform into a native object, such as a book when near a library, whenever he sneezes.

After graduating, Norman took up a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Cognitive Studies at Harvard University and within a year became a Lecturer.

Studies have also shown that skeletal remains from larger settlements in the Tōhoku corresponding to where burial mounds ( kofun ) were built have traits that are halfway between Ainu and present day Japanese, so the idea that the Emishi were made up solely of Ainoid ancestors is untrue.