) This was changed because a government study showed that many people were in effect " saving up " their units and using them at the end of the week, a phenomenon referred to as binge drinking.

In 2005 the US government body NIMH published the results of a major independent ( not funded by the pharmaceutical companies ) multi-site, double-blind study ( the CATIE project ).

In the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Four Books and Five Classics were the subject of mandatory study by those Confucian scholars who wished to become government officials.

Indeed many students from wealthy and influential families came to Alexandria purposely to study privately with Hypatia, and many of these later attained high posts in government and the Church.

The word is most commonly used in medical and philosophical theories, where it is used to refer to the study of why things occur, or even the reasons behind the way that things act, and is used in philosophy, physics, psychology, government, medicine, theology and biology in reference to the causes of various phenomena.

In January 2005 Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi appointed a special panel composed of judges, university professors, and civil servants to study changes to the Imperial Household Law and to make recommendations to the government.

On 26 August 2005, the government announced plans to study ways to reduce the size of the military.

Writing to The Times, Hayek said, " May one who has devoted a large part of his life to the study of the history and the principles of liberalism point out that a party that keeps a socialist government in power has lost all title to the name ' Liberal '.

In 1812, he went to Paris at the expense of the Bavarian government, with a view to devoting himself vigorously to the study of Sanskrit.

The consortium Alcan and Alcoa, partner with the Guinean government in the CBG mining in north western Guinea, have announced the feasibility study for the construction of a 1 million TPa alumina smelter.

Contarini remains the most important source for the study of sixteenth and seventeenth century Venice's unique system of government.

GM's study was ultimately chosen because of its low level of government intervention.

The Japanese government in 1974 started feasibility study under grant aid to develop and built Television in Afghanistan.

A survey of same-sex couples in the United States showed that between 2000 and 2005, the number of people claiming to be in same-sex relationships increased by 30 %— five times the rate of population growth in the U. S. The study attributed the jump to people being more comfortable self-identifying as homosexual to the federal government.

" A Quiet Opening: North Koreans in a Changing Media Environment " a study commissioned by the U. S. State Department and conducted by Intermedia and released May 10, 2012 shows that despite extremely strict regulations and draconian penalties North Koreans, particularly elite elements, have increasing access to news and other media outside the state-controlled media authorized by the government.

After returning from Copenhagen, Abel applied for a government scholarship in order to visit top mathematicians in Germany and France ; but instead, he was granted 200 speciedaler yearly for two years, to stay in Cristiania and study German and French.

On July 27, 2012 engineering services provider Royal HaskoningDHV announced that the Nicaraguan government has commissioned a feasibility study to be completed early 2013 at a cost of $ 720, 000.

Political philosophy is the study of such topics as politics, liberty, justice, property, rights, law, and the enforcement of a legal code by authority: what they are, why ( or even if ) they are needed, what, if anything, makes a government legitimate, what rights and freedoms it should protect and why, what form it should take and why, what the law is, and what duties citizens owe to a legitimate government, if any, and when it may be legitimately overthrown, if ever.

The study was sponsored by the Public Health Service, the National Institutes of Health and the Pan American Health Sanitary Bureau ( now the World Health Organization's Pan American Health Organization ) and the Guatemalan government.

Our research, however, demonstrates that when study participants are placed in real, rather than hypothetical, bargaining situations and are presented with accurate information regarding their statistical probability of success, just as they might be so informed by their attorney or the government during a criminal plea negotiation, innocent defendants are highly risk-averse.

Political science is a social science discipline concerned with the study of the state, government, and politics.

All elders elected to serve on the congregation's session of elders are required to undergo a period of study and preparation for this order of ministry, after which the session examines the elders-elect as to their personal faith ; knowledge of doctrine, government, and discipline contained in the Constitution of the church, and the duties of the office of elder.

Such study may take many forms.

In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.

The Space Merchants, like such humanist documents as Joseph Wood Krutch's The Measure Of Man and C. S. Lewis's The Abolition Of Man, considers what may result from the scientific study of human nature.

Being a strictly physiological procedure, one may expect from such a study additional information on the nature of the emotional process itself.

For example, the level of improvement noted in a recent experiment with a short course of immediate treatment for parent-child relationship problems compared favorably with the results reported by typical child guidance clinics where the hours spent in purely diagnostic study may equal or exceed the number of hours devoted to actual treatment interviews in the experimental project.

Merton's functional sociology may have great practical use in the study of different cultures, yet it is perfectly clear, as Nagel ( 1957::

Similarly, a girl who graduates with a good working knowledge of stenography and the use of clerical machines and who is able to get a job at once may wish to improve her skill and knowledge by a year or two of further study in a community college or secretarial school.

This paralysis may be expressed in the female's starting -- and never completing -- many jobs, tasks, and courses of study ; ;

If the response variable is expected to follow a parametric family of probability distributions, then the statistician may specify ( in the protocol for the experiment or observational study ) that the responses be transformed to stabilize the variance.

" While chemical issues in the brain that result in anxiety ( especially resulting from genetics ) are well documented, this study highlights an additional environmental factor that may result from being raised by parents suffering from chronic anxiety.

Interim analysis of data from this study suggests that " wound packing may significantly increase the failure rates.

Alternative history may refer to a number of subjects relating to history, the chronology and study of the past.

They receive the vows of the nuns of the abbey ; they may admit candidates to their order's novitiate ; they may send them to study ; and they may send them to do pastoral and / or missionary work and / or assist — to the extent allowed by canon and civil law — in the administration and ministry of a parish or diocese ( these activities could be inside or outside the community's territory ).

The term archaeoastronomy was first used by Elizabeth Chesley Baity ( at the suggestion of Euan MacKie ) in 1973, but as a topic of study it may be much older, depending on how archaeoastronomy is defined.

One study has suggested that cannabidiol may be as effective as atypical antipsychotics in treating schizophrenia.

A recent study suggests Alioth's 5. 1-day variation may be due to a substellar object of about 14. 7 Jupiter masses in an eccentric orbit ( e = 0. 5 ) with an average separation of 0. 055 astronomical units.

" The CDN also may " study, propose, and monitor the progress of initiatives necessary to guarantee national independence and the defense of the democratic state.

The writers of the study had initially speculated that the reason for this is due to endocrinology with larger breasts indicating higher levels of estrogen and a sign of greater fertility, but the researchers said that " Men may be looking more often at the breasts because they are simply aesthetically pleasing, regardless of the size.

A gene concatenation study found similar results to Xu and Cote ', but with a much more limited number of species in terms of groups, but used Listeria as an outgroup, so in light of the ARB tree, it may be " inside-out ".

Concerned with the intricate and thorough study of the properties and function of human body systems, bionics may be applied to solve some engineering problems.

Computational modeling uses simulations to study how human intelligence may be structured.

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.