Furthermore, the study concluded that despite its record growth on most macro-economic metrics, Armenia is " low and lagging " in competitiveness.

A study by Brazilian scientists concluded that the Amazon is actually longer than the Nile.

A 1997 study published by The Gerontological Society of America concluded that Alexander Technique instruction shows signs of helping to improve balance and increase functional reach in women over the age of 65.

The study concluded that one-on-one lessons in the Alexander Technique from registered teachers have long term benefits for patients with chronic back pain, and that six lessons followed by exercise prescription were nearly as effective as 24 lessons.

study and concluded that it ".. presents no admissible scientific element likely to ascribe any haematological, hepatic or renal toxicity to the three re-analysed GMOs.

study concluded that the results were due to chance alone.

The study concluded that Prahlad Jani was able to survive under observation for two weeks without either food or water, and had passed no urine or stool, with no need for dialysis.

The same year, a study by the Boston Society for Psychical Research concluded that Chaplin was " an American obsession.

However, given the rapid progress in the industry they are working on a more in depth study to be concluded in May 2012.

Once the toads were established, a 1963 study concluded, as the toad's diet included both harmful and beneficial invertebrates, it was considered " economically neutral ".

Mail armour provided an effective defence against slashing blows by an edged weapon and penetration by thrusting and piercing weapons ; in fact a study conducted at the Royal Armouries at Leeds concluded that " it is almost impossible to penetrate using any conventional medieval weapon " Generally speaking, mail's resistance to weapons is determined by four factors: linkage type ( riveted, butted, or welded ), material used ( iron versus bronze or steel ), weave density ( a tighter weave needs a thinner weapon to surpass ), and ring thickness ( generally ranging from 18 to 14 gauge in most examples ).

A 2004 case study concluded that the proper use of screenshots can significantly support a user ’ s “ developing a mental model of the program ” and help in “ identifying and locating window elements and objects .” This research concluded that screen shots allowed users to “ learn more, make fewer mistakes, and learn in a shorter time frame ,” which can certainly assist in increasing the time frame for full implementation of a CRM system with limited technical or human support.

The study concluded that knuckle-cracking did not cause hand osteoarthritis, no matter how many years or how often a person cracked their knuckles.

An earlier study also concluded that there was no increased preponderance of arthritis of the hand of chronic knuckle-crackers ; however, habitual knuckle-crackers were more likely to have hand swelling and lowered grip strength.

The study therefore concluded that the economic model of opportunity cost better explained the findings.

In one study, a detailed analysis of historical fire data concluded that fire suppression activities have failed to exclude fire from southern California chaparral, as they have in Ponderosa Pine forests.

performed a study with emotional versus neutral pictures and concluded that REM sleep facilitates consolidation of emotional declarative memories.

A 2004 study concluded that school results in public schools improved due to the increased competition.

* " On Thin Ice: How Advocates and Opponents Could Misread the Public's Views on Vouchers and Charter Schools ," Public Agenda, 1999 Public opinion study that concluded most Americans did not understand the voucher concept, even in communities that already had such programs.

In a study of the use of econometrics in major economics journals, McCloskey concluded that economists report p values ( following the Fisherian tradition of tests of significance of point null-hypotheses ), neglecting concerns of type II errors ; economists fail to report estimates of the size of effects ( apart from statistical significance ) and to discuss their economic importance.

The study concluded that there was " no evidence that the wall material has any appreciable effect on the sound color or dynamic range of the instrument ".

A 2010 study by Sean Aday comparing Fox News Channel's Special Report With Brit Humes and NBC's Nightly News coverage of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan during 2005 found that both underplayed bad news ; it concluded that " Fox News was much more sympathetic to the administration than NBC ", suggesting that " if scholars continue to find evidence of a partisan or ideological bias at FNC ... they should consider Fox as alternative, rather than mainstream, media ".

A study published on the British Medical Journal concluded that " identification as belonging to the Goth subculture some point in their lives was the best predictor of self harm and attempted suicide young teens ", and that it was most possibly due to a selection mechanism ( persons that wanted to harm themselves later identified as goths, thus raising the percentage of those persons who identify as goths ).

The FDA study concluded: "... steps such as heat, alkaline treatment, and filtration could be effective in reducing the level of contaminating TSE agents ; however, scientific evidence is insufficient at this time to demonstrate that these treatments would effectively remove the BSE infectious agent if present in the source material.

The study comprised 16 male patients, ranging in age from 27 to 72.

Whether this abnormal TSH differs chemically from pituitary TSH, or is, alternatively, normal TSH with its period of effectiveness modified by some other blood constituent, cannot be decided without chemical study of the activity in the blood of these patients and a comparison of the substance responsible for the blood activity with pituitary Aj.

Training likely needs to be intense and focused — as indicated by one study performed with stroke patients experiencing limb ataxia who underwent intensive upper limb retraining.

One study on respiratory tract infections found " physicians were more likely to prescribe antibiotics to patients who appeared to expect them ".

A 1996 Tel Aviv hospital study of 67 patients with back pain of more than three months duration found patients benefited from a multidisciplinary approach to treatment that included back schooling, psychological intervention, and treatment by acupuncture, chiropractic, the Alexander Technique and a pain specialist.

The same study also found patients treated with SSRIs were 64 % more likely to achieve a 50 % absolute reduction in HRSD than patients given a placebo.

In a large clinical study, one of the agents in the ACE inhibitor class, ramipril ( Altace ), demonstrated an ability to reduce the mortality rates of patients who suffered a myocardial infarction, and to slow the subsequent development of heart failure.

While controlled clinical trials of atypicals reported that extrapyramidal symptoms occurred in 5 – 15 % of patients, a study of bipolar disorder in a real world clinical setting found a rate of 63 %, questioning the generalizability of the trials.

A study found that the patented method called Circulator Boot achieved significant results in prevention of amputation in patients of diabetes and arterioscleorosis.

Another study confirmed the seriousness of the disorder as " the standardized all-cause mortality ratio among patients with bipolar disorder is increased approximately two-fold.

Also, bioethicists may be concerned with the ethical implications of consciousness in medical cases of patients such as Karen Ann Quinlan, while neuroscientists may study patients with impaired consciousness in hopes of gaining information about how the brain works.

Placebo-controlled studies have found that AZT as a single agent produces modest and short-lived improvements in survival and delays the development of opportunistic infections ; it certainly did not cause AIDS, which develops in both treated and untreated study patients.

A negative study may reflect a lack of benefit, or simply a lack of sufficient quantities of patients to detect a difference.

Interestingly, these patients are often first diagnosed when they have their first generalized tonic-clonic seizure later in life, when they experience sleep deprivation ( e. g., freshman year in college after staying up late to study for exams ).

A study of patients with previously untreated epilepsy demonstrated that 47 % achieved control of seizures with the use of their first single drug.

In addition, there may be a link between ET and Parkinson's disease, with one study showing ET patients having an approximately 4 times greater likelihood of developing Parkinson's disease.

The study found that 36 percent of the cancer patients had HPV compared to only 1 percent of the healthy control group.

However another study, had observed that pusher syndrome is also present in patients with left hemisphere lesions, leading to aphasia, providing a stark contrast to what was previously believed regarding hemispatial neglect, which mostly occurs with a right hemisphere lesion.

Results from a study on patients with severe hemiparesis concluded that MT was successful in improving motor and sensory function of the distal hemiparetic upper limb.

Recent study confirm the fact that HDL has a buffering role in balancing the effects of hypercoagulable state in type 2 diabetics and decreases high risk of cardiovascular complications in these patients.

Public authorities should oppose laws which undermine natural law ; scientists should further study effective methods of natural birth control ; doctors should further familiarize themselves with this teaching, in order to be able to give advice to their patients, priests must spell out clearly and completely the Church's teaching on marriage.