Examining data from four major metropolitan areas, they found that companies with affirmative action policies employed blacks and Hispanics with slightly less education or credentials than those employed by companies without the policies.
MADISON AVENUE is closely studying the results of the Ad Bowl played during Super Bowl XXXV, examining data from surveys and polls both online and offline to help sharpen the advertising for next year's game, only CCCLXI days away.
In recent months, however, the federal Food and Drug Administration has been examining data from clinical trials indicating that some depressed children and adolescents taking antidepressants think more about suicide and attempt it more often than patients given placebos.
By examining data from car crashes, she demonstrated that the passengers most likely to die were those younger than 6 months.
We arrived at this conclusion after examining data from a project that tracks more than 10,000 people who graduated from Wisconsin high schools in 1957.
As Nicholas Christakis, a physician and social scientist at Harvard, found when examining data from a long-term study of the residents of Framingham, Mass., health habits can be as contagious as a cold virus.
Examining data from global positioning satellite markers, John Beavan, a geophysicist at GNS Science in New Zealand, a government-owned research institute, and his colleagues found that Niuatoputapu, a small Tonga island, had jumped about 16 inches to the east instead of the expected movement of less than an inch to the southwest.
A new study examining data from nearly 500,000 people living in 10 European countries discovered that consumers of processed meat (like ham, bacon, sausages and burgers) are 44 percent more likely to die prematurely than people who eat little or none of the stuff.
Examining data from teachers teaching different content areas at different grade levels could be challenging.
The citizen scientists discovered the planet by examining data from NASA's Kepler spacecraft.
Researchers examining data from the European Mars Express mission first announced spotting methane in March (ScienceNOW, 24 March).
