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.

The Department acted as a catalyst for the admission of Africans to the University: as early as 1925 a limited number were admitted to the vacation course in African Studies.

Studies were conducted to produce contour maps of projected sound levels and carbon monoxide concentrations throughout the western approaches, for each alternative connection scheme.

These ideas were developed in The Counter-Revolution of Science: Studies in the Abuse of Reason, 1952 and in some of Hayek's later essays in the philosophy of science such as " Degrees of Explanation " and " The Theory of Complex Phenomena ".

The other works that helped fan the Revival flames were Carl Van Doren's The American Novel ( 1921 ), D. H. Lawrence's Studies in Classic American Literature ( 1923 ), Carl Van Vechten's essay in The Double Dealer ( 1922 ), and Lewis Mumford's biography, Herman Melville: A Study of His Life and Vision ( 1929 ).

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 have been performed in which hellbenders were captured, transported back to the lab, and then dissected to determine dietary habits.

As a leading authority on halakha he authored many important teshuvot ( responsa ), many of which were published in his influential " Responsa and Halakhic Studies ".

Studies done by Walter Auffenberg, which were documented in his book The Behavioral Ecology of the Komodo Monitor, eventually allowed for more successful managing and reproducing of the dragons in captivity.

* Apart from his treatises on the arts, Alberti also wrote: Philodoxus (" Lover of Glory ", 1424 ), De commodis litterarum atque incommodis (" On the Advantages and Disadvantages of Literary Studies ", 1429 ), Intercoenales (" Table Talk ", c. 1429 ), Della famiglia (" On the Family ", begun 1432 ) Vita S. Potiti (" Life of St. Potitus ", 1433 ), De iure ( On Law, 1437 ), Theogenius (" The Origin of the Gods ", c. 1440 ), Profugorium ab aerumna (" Refuge from Mental Anguish ",), Momus ( 1450 ) and De Iciarchia (" On the Prince ", 1468 ). These and other works were translated and printed in Venice by the humanist Cosimo Bartoli in 1586.

Courses in Media Studies were started at Touro University Worldwide in 2009.

Five works for phonograph ( known collectively as Cinq études de bruits — Five Studies of Noises ) including Etude violette ( Study in Purple ) and Etude aux chemins de fer ( Study of the Railroads ), were presented.

Soviet scholars were represented at the International Political Science Association since 1955 ( since 1960 by the Soviet Association of Political and State Studies ).

Barker was a Professor of Urdu and South Asian Studies at the University of Minnesota during the period when David Arneson, Gary Gygax and a handful of others were developing the first role-playing games in the Twin Cities and Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.

Other notable organizations that were founded during this period included the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies and the National Organization for Victim Assistance.

The Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies holdings fall into three main categories: rare books, most of which were printed before 1700 ( currently about 4, 000 titles ), modern books ( currently about 25, 000 volumes ), and microforms ( several thousand microfiches and reels ).

Studies mostly cite the causes of death due to starvation or as caused ( ultimately by the lack-of-food induced ) weakening of resistance to endemic diseases which repeatedly reached epidemic proportions amongst the general Central European population — the German states were the battle ground and staging areas for the largest mercenary armies theretofore, and the armies foraged amongst the many provinces stealing the food of those people forced onto the roads as refugees, or still on the lands, regardless of their faith and allegiances.

There is a history of pensions in Ireland that can be traced back to Brehon Law imposing a legal responsibility on the kin group to take care of its members who were aged, blind, deaf, sick or insane .< REF > THE IRISH CORPORATE GOVERNANCE SYSTEM AND THE ROLE OF IRISH OCCUPATIONAL PENSION FUNDS AS INSTITUTIONAL MONITORS-Lynn ( UCD PhD Thesis, 2005 )</ REF > For a discussion on pension funds and early Irish law, see F Kelly, A Guide to Early Irish Law ( Dublin, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1988 ).

In July 2006 the Center for World Indigenous Studies reported that government sanctioned killings were taking place in the southeastern city of Onitsha, because of a shoot-to-kill policy directed toward Biafran loyalists, particularly members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra ( MASSOB ).

Studies in patients that were a subject to bilateral cingulotomy, that involved fMRI analyses, showed that the anterior cingulate cortex has a key role in cognitive control and is highly likely to be involved in the control of attentional response, whereas the dorsal part of that region of the brain was not identified to be involved in such a process, although this is still under dispute.

His degrees were in Sanskrit and Indian Studies.

Studies based on a real as opposed to fictional story were 4. 03 times more likely to uncover a copycat effect and research based on televised stories was 82 % less likely to report a copycat effect than research based on newspapers.

Studies of Japanese postmenopausal women documented that those who can produce S-equol after soy consumption had milder menopause symptoms than those who were equol nonproducers.

In an August 2010 report, the Center for Immigration Studies, through direct communication with foreign government officials and analysis of relevant foreign law including statutory and constitutional law, was able to confirm that 30 of the world's 194 countries grant automatic birthright citizenship ( although they were not able to obtain definitive information from 19 countries ).

Studies suggest that only twenty percent of the people with RTT had the use of words, and most of these words were used out of context and without meaning.

Studies conducted in various sections of the United States indicate that many children in elementary schools are maladjusted emotionally, and that many of them are failing to make satisfactory progress in school subjects.

Studies conducted in 1985, 1995, and 2003 did not support an association between alcohol-containing mouth rinses and oral cancer.

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

* Kenrick, Philip M. ( 1986 ), Excavations at Sabratha, 1948-1951: a Report on the Excavations conducted by Kathleen Kenyon and John Ward-Perkins, ( Journal of Roman Studies Monographs 2 ), London: Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies, 1986.

Studies conducted in 2010 at the University of Derby by Karim Vahed, Darren Parker and James Gilbert found that the Tuberous Bushcricket ( Platycleis affinis ) has the largest testes in proportion to body mass of any animal recorded.

Studies conducted by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and the General State Archive of the Netherlands found the DEZ method, properly used, might be particularly applicable to archival materials.

Studies in Arabic morphology, conducted by and, date back to at least 1200 CE.

Studies have been conducted on the urban heat island effect via satellite imagery.

Studies conducted on freely moving rats and mice have shown that many hippocampal neurons have " place fields ", that is, they fire bursts of action potentials when a rat passes through a particular part of the environment.

Studies conducted in the Experimental Lakes Area in Ontario have shown a relationship between the addition of phosphorus and the rate of eutrophication.

The monitoring was conducted through newly formed centralised faculties and Boards of Studies, and King's and UCL now became constituent parts of the University of London.

In 1964 the program was transferred to the US Defense Department and conducted by the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam Studies and Observations Group ( SOG )

Studies of two-dimensional collisions are conducted for many bodies in the framework of a two-dimensional gas.

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 have been conducted showing the extensibility of the basic Centaur and Evolved Centaur designs to long duration space flight for exploration purposes and even for use as a Lunar Lander.

Studies conducted indicate differences in how the brains of those with algolagnia interpret nerve input.

Studies conducted in Istria in 1998 (?

Studies conducted in the 20th by T. M. Cunningham and David H. Ashton suggest that the re-growth habit of Eucalyptus regnans requires open space, and an ash layer.

Studies conducted in the United States and published in specialized media mention that mate has been consumed for several years in South America for medicinal purposes, and they refer to mate tea, such as Taragüí Vitality.

Studies on health networks have mostly been conducted on groups which typically suffer the most from extreme forms of diseases, for example cancer patients, HIV patients, or other life threatening diseases.

Studies conducted on flerovium demonstrate some noble gas behaviour, while analogous tests on ununoctium show non-noble gas characteristics.

Studies conducted upon samples from Apollo 14 have shown that the samples do not support the possibility that the landing site is floored by volcanic rocks, or basalts.