Half the subjects performed the task in English using the QWERTY keyboard; the other half conducted the test in their native Mandarin using iOS' Pinyin keyboard.
Lassen Park fire managers had, over the previous decade and a half, conducted a prescribed burn and managed several other fires that, taken together, formed "a nice, continuous solid layer of previously burned areas, which had consumed a lot of the forest," as Farris put it.
For the study, a committee of residents, property owners, and business and institutional representatives spent a year and a half conducting independent research and gathering community input from public meetings, workshops, and events to create a new design framework for Kendall Square areas.
U.S. Department of State spokeswoman Jen Psaki condemned the attacks, saying in a statement that they are similar to suicide and vehicle bomb attacks in the country in the past month-and-a-half conducted by al-Qaida's Iraq branch.
In the first half, Mr. Schwarz conducted excerpts from Carl Maria von Weber's opera "Der Freishutz," which may be the most significant opera that you almost never hear.
During the next hour and a half, he conducted a high-speed tour of his vision of the good life, rooted in his conviction that, "physically, mentally, emotionally, we are the same".
Fittingly for two teams that share a storied postseason tradition, much of the first half was conducted in a wind-whipped downpour, on a darkening field, in sodden uniforms, giving the game a throwback look.
He also expressed concern about Iran's high rate of executions, reporting 497 executions in 2012, of which about half were conducted in "secret" — meaning families and lawyers of the condemned had not been given advance notice.
Of the 132 core studies identified by Saha and colleagues, more than half were conducted in only 4 countries (United States, United Kingdom, India and Canada).
Nearly half were conducted in the UK (n = 29) or the US (n = 17), but 21 other countries were also covered.
