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 one such study, from Hamburg, Germany, the risk of cancer mortality increased by 170 % after working for 10 years at the 2, 4, 5-T-producing section of a Hamburg manufacturing plant.

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.

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.

A Danish study in 2000 found that even after adjustment for other risk factors, including leisure time physical activity, those who did not cycle to work experienced a 39 % higher mortality rate than those who did.

It is similar to the earlier mentioned study regarding estimated theoretical infant mortality caused by DDT and subject to the criticism also mentioned earlier.

The study found that the absolute wealth within a country had little effect on the citizens ' well-being or social cohesion, and that income inequality correlated strongly with social problems such as homicide, infant mortality, obesity, teenage pregnancies, emotional depression and prison population.

The study argues that " at present rates of fertility and mortality and in the absence of changes within countries, the average IQ of the young world population would decline by 1. 34 points per decade and the average per capita income would decline by 0. 79 % per year.

A 1994 study found a mean excess mortality with inbreeding among first cousins of 4. 4 %.

In a study conducted at the U. S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases ( USAMRIID ), treatment with ST-193 once a day for 14 days resulted in significant reduction in mortality ( 71 % of the animals survived at the low dose ), whereas all untreated animals and those treated with ribavirin died within 20 days of the infection.

Another study of sleep duration and mortality risk in women showed similar results.

Other studies show that " sleeping more than 7 to 8 hours per day has been consistently associated with increased mortality ," though this study suggests the cause is probably other factors such as depression and socioeconomic status, which would correlate statistically.

Demographers most commonly study mortality using the Life Table, a statistical device which provides information about the mortality conditions ( most notably the life expectancy ) in the population.

A Finnish study suggested reduced mortality in bacterial infections when fever was present.

When patients with congenital heart disease were omitted from the sample of the study, the mortality from circulatory disorders was not significantly increased.

Interestingly, another study found comparative effects but only in the maternal grandmother – paternal grandmothers had a detrimental effect on infant mortality ( probably due to paternity uncertainty ).

A 15-year study of elderly men published in the Archives of Internal Medicine in 2006 found a 50 percent reduction in cardiovascular mortality and a 47 percent reduction in all-cause mortality for the men regularly consuming the most cocoa, compared to those consuming the least cocoa from all sources.

An epidemiological study conducted by WHO and Uganda Ministry of Health scientists determined there were 116 confirmed and probable cases of the new Ebola species, and that the outbreak had a mortality rate of 34 % ( 39 deaths ).

Kathleen Cohen's study of five French ecclesiastics who commissioned transi tombs determined that common to all of them was a successful worldliness that seemed almost to demand them shocking display of transient mortality.

The study, funded in large part by Ramat Hovav, found higher rates of cancer and mortality for the 350, 000 people in the area.

A 2000 Spanish study of bedside percutaneous tracheotomy reported overall complication rates of 10 – 15 % and procedural mortality of 0 %, which is comparable to those of other series reported in the literature from the Netherlands and the United States.

Hull House used the latest methodology ( pioneering in statistical mapping ) to study overcrowding, truancy, typhoid fever, cocaine, children's reading, newsboys, infant mortality, and midwifery.

Moreover, the study also showed the mortality rate of mice with experimental sepsis was reduced when treated with a SphK1 blocker.

In a study published in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, nitrite treatment, in sharp contrast with the worsening effect of inhibiting NO-synthesis, significantly attenuates hypothermia, mitochondrial damage, oxidative stress and dysfunction, tissue infarction, and mortality in mice.