WASHINGTON — The N.F.L's first attempt at a long-range study on the effects of concussions was riddled with problems from the manner in which data was collected to conflicts of interest for those overseeing it.
Page B2 Sports N.F.L. COMMITTEE PLANS NEW CONCUSSION STUDY Nearly two years after the N.F.L.'s unsuccessful attempt at a long-range study on the effects of concussions was shut down, the league's committee on concussion research is planning a considerably broader study -- an effort that could begin gathering data as soon as next season.
Dr. Poindexter has said publicly that he has begun discussions with the National Academy of Science to finance a long-range study of the privacy implications of new surveillance technologies.
Since 1999, the Australian Wine Research Institute has been conducting a long-range study of a semillon white wine bottled with 14 different closures: two of natural cork, two of cork with a synthetic component, nine with plastic corks and one with a screw cap.
There's a streak of ugliness in many jokes, but here, ugliness predominates and risks straining the relationship between Hudgins and his readers, in part because "The Joker" is a personal account, not a long-range study of regional history and folk literature.
In 1985 the Steering Committee appointed a board of experts to conduct a long-range study of "Accidents and traumatology" (traumatology being that aspect of medicine concerned with the treatment of accident victims).
Eating red meat -- any amount and any type -- appears to significantly increase the risk of premature death, according to a long-range study that examined the eating habits and health of more than 110,000 adults for more than 20 years.
A few years earlier the Town Board ordered a long-range study.
And no one has followed up with any long-range studies of the criminal behavior of the group that was in the program, either.
Then came the damning conclusions of the first long-range studies of the national postwar epidemic of heart disease, and the countrywide fear of saturated fats.
There have been few long-range studies of colicky infants; the most substantial data in support of Lester's claims come from the Finnish Family Competence Study Project, by researchers at the University of Turku, in Finland.
