The phrase "a recent study projected" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to findings or forecasts made by a study that has been conducted recently.
Example: "A recent study projected that the global population will reach 9 billion by 2050."
Alternatives: "a recent study estimated" or "a recent study forecasted".
At last week's Commit Forum, held in New York, the authors of a recent study, Project ROI, claimed that a top level corporate reputation for responsibility and sustainability can account for 11% of a firm's value.
Another recent study projected that over a nine-year period, legal marijuana nationwide could provide 1 million new jobs and generate more than $132 billion in federal tax revenue, with nearly $52 billion in sales tax alone.
Another recent study projected that health care costs will eat more than half our income by 2037 if the trend isn't slowed.
And private companies are surely looking to get in on the action: One recent study projected the global predictive analytics market (of which US child services is obviously just a tiny fraction) will grow from $2.74 billion in 2015 to $9.2 billion by 2020.
A recent study has projected that the mean sea level along the California coast will rise from 1.0 to 1.4 m by the year 2100 under medium to medium-high emissions scenarios (Cayan et al. 2009).
Studies show that people who are freed from job lock (for instance, when they start qualifying for Medicare) are more likely to undertake something entrepreneurial, and one recent study projects that Obamacare could enable 1.5 million people to become self-employed.
Another recent study projects that the costs of the diabetes epidemic will have risen to $336 billion (2007 dollars) by 2034 as the diabetes patient population exceeds 44 million [8].
A recent national study projected the legal marijuana industry may be worth $10 billion by 2018.
A recent study by the Asian Development Bank projected that, on optimistic assumptions, China would by 2050 account for 22% of the global economy, compared with 14% for America and IndiaAmerica and India
What approach to use in a given project may be determined by the initial questions that are addressed and, as Lepoittevin et al. pointed out in a recent study, whether a project has a global or targeted approach is important to consider when choosing what SNP discovery method to use [ 12].
