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.

In a 1991 study, Bailey and Pillard found that 52 % of monozygotic ( MZ ) brothers and 22 % of the dizygotic ( DZ ) twins were concordant for homosexuality.

A study of 80 pairs of human monozygotic twins ranging in age from three to 74 showed that the youngest twins have relatively few epigenetic differences.

on twins however found much lower concordance rates for monozygotic twins regarding homosexual orientation of only 20 % for men and 24 % for women pointing to a significant contribution of environmental factors in sexual orientation ; Bailey suggests an explanation for the much lower concordance rate among monozygotic twins in this study as opposed to previous studies: In those previous studies, twins deciding whether to participate in a study clearly related to homosexuality probably considered the sexual orientation of their co-twins before agreeing to participate.

How and why this process occurs would provide an interesting separate subject for study.

Dr. Isaacs was so pleased with the quality of her biographical study of Sara Sullam that he considered submitting it to the Century Magazine or Harper's but he decided that its Jewish subject probably would not interest them and published it in The Messenger, `` so our readers will be benefited instead ''.

A sketch of the emotional value of the study of literature would have to take account of all of these.

I would say, too, that the study of literature tends to give a person what I shall call depth.

No one will deny that such broad developments and transitions are of great intrinsic interest and the study of ideas in literature would be woefully incomplete without frequent reference to them.

After a pause, during which he studied Scotty's face as if Scotty were not there and could not study him too, Mr. McKinley would ask the same questions he had asked downstairs.

The detection and study of such line spectra would add considerably to present information on interstellar gas clouds and, perhaps, planetary atmospheres.

If the artist would study his work more thoroughly and move certain units in his design, often only slightly, finer pictures would result.

The element of public danger which enters so largely into architectural certification, however, would demand a prolonged study of structure.

The second step in processing was to compare the responses from companies on the AIA list with those from companies on the TR list in order to determine whether it would be appropriate to merge the responses for the purposes of the study.

He assured Mr. Martinelli and the council that he would study the correct method and report back to the council as soon as possible.

There would seem to be some small solace in the prospect that the missile race between nations is at the same time accelerating the study of the space around us, giving us a long-sought ladder from which to peer at alien regions.

From behind us came the rapping of the stick and the high-pitched voices of the boys who would grow to devote their lives to rigid study and prayer.

Power analysis can assist in study design by determining what sample size would be required in order to have a reasonable chance of rejecting the null hypothesis when the alternative hypothesis is true.

The study of Aristotle brought him to study and comment on the teachings of Muslim academics, notably Avicenna and Averroes, and this would bring him in the heart of academic debate.

Of his Italian works one, La scuola de ' gelosi ( The School for Jealousy ), a witty study of amorous intrigue and emotion, would prove a popular and lasting international success.

Although it has been known for a while that the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara flow into each other in an example of a density flow, findings of a study by the University of Leeds in August 2010 reveal that there is in fact an underwater channel of high density water flowing across the floor of the Bosphorus ( caused by the difference in density of the two seas ), which would be the sixth largest river on Earth if it were to be on land.

A 2011 study found that highly Machiavellian people are more likely to believe in conspiracy theories, since they themselves would be more willing to engage in a conspiracy when placed in the same situation as the alleged conspirators.

One approach to understanding this process would be to study behavior through direct observation.

Another approach would be to study the firings of individual neurons while a person is trying to remember the phone number.

Far from trying to build a systematic or formalist theory, he wanted his disciples to master and internalize the old classics, so that their deep thought and thorough study would allow them to relate the moral problems of the present to past political events ( as recorded in the Annals ) or the past expressions of commoners ' feelings and noblemen's reflections ( as in the poems of the Book of Odes ).

After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War ( 19 July 1870 ), Monet took refuge in England in September 1870, where he studied the works of John Constable and Joseph Mallord William Turner, both of whose landscapes would serve to inspire Monet's innovations in the study of color.

A study from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, however, found there was no indication of population decline, and suggested, as pelt prices were not increasing, the decrease in harvest was likely due to decreasing demand, and not increasing scarcity ( where pelt prices would go up.