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.

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.

There results a study of literature freed from the tyranny of the contemporary.

The results of the study, based on collision integrals computed from the latest critically evaluated data on intermolecular forces in air, will be reported in the form of a table of viscosity, thermal conductivity, thermal diffusion, and diffusion coefficients at temperatures of 1,000 to 10,000 Af and of logarithm of pressure in atmospheres from Af to Af times normal density.

We are reporting these investigations here briefly because of their relevancy to problems of the study of apparently simple exchange reactions of chlorine and because the results furnish some information on the activation energy for abstraction of chlorine atoms from carbon tetrachloride.

From these results, one sees that the study of linear operators on vector spaces over an algebraically closed field is essentially reduced to the study of nilpotent operators.

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.

Although the present study was not a direct replication of their investigations, the results do not confirm their conclusion.

; Blocking: A schedule for conducting treatment combinations in an experimental study such that any effects on the experimental results due to a known change in raw materials, operators, machines, etc., become concentrated in the levels of the blocking variable.

In their 1999 study of the Prime Ministers of Canada, which included the results of a survey of Canadian historians, J. L.

The results of this study have been replicated in numerous other studies.

Carl Jung sought to invoke synchronicity to explain results on astrology from a single study he conducted, where no statistically significant results were observed.

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 ).

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

A complete map was published in 2009 ( Flood, et al., 2009 ) using these previous results with high quality mapping obtained in 2006 ( by researchers at Memorial University, Newfoundland, Canada who are project partners in this study.

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 ".

More general results from the study were that precipitation and water use lead to above-ground primary production, solar radiation and temperature lead to belowground primary production ( roots ), and temperature and water lead to cool and warm season growth habit.

Emerging evidence suggests a possible role for CBT in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ( ADHD ), hypochondriasis, multiple sclerosis, sleep disturbances related to aging, dysmenorrhea, and bipolar disorder, but more study is needed and results should be interpreted with caution.

A systematic study of category theory then allows us to prove general results about any of these types of mathematical structures from the axioms of a category.

In May 2009, the National Federation of State High School Associations released the results of their first true high school participation study.

A 1998 case study found that users would consult the help menu for an average of two or three screens, abandoning the assistance if desired results weren ’ t found by that time.

The case study yielded significant results:

* Coprophagia in the Canine-Erik Hofmeister ; Melinda Cumming, DVM PhD ; Cheryl Dhein, DVM, MS, DACVIM ; Douglas Island Veterinary Service ; detailed preliminary results of study of behavior and prevention in dogs

The authors provide no qualifications, although they are described in Hubbard's book Science of Survival ( where some results of the same study were reprinted ) as psychotherapists.