Preliminary results have been impressive: the group recently collected a sample of eggs in two neighborhoods where the engineered mosquitoes had been released, and found that eighty-five per cent of them were genetically modified.
Herbert Needleman, the University of Pittsburgh psychiatrist and pediatrician whose work helped persuade the government to ban lead in the 1970s, recently studied a sample of juvenile delinquents in Pittsburgh; the group had significantly more lead in their bones than their peers.
Inefficiency is partly to blame, but corruption, in the police and the judiciary, more so.Marcelo Bergman, a crime researcher at CIDE, a Mexico city university, recently surveyed a sample of the country's prison population.
More recently, studying a sample of publicly listed firms in Hong Kong, He et al. (2010) insist upon the fact that the odds of going bankrupt increase with the level of restrictions imposed on corporate internal control.
[3]One of MARI's customers recently reviewed a sample of 100 stated income loans upon which they had IRS Forms 4506.
Amanda Hess recently provided a sample: "To Alyssa Royse, a sex and relationships blogger, for saying that she hated The Dark Knight: "you are clearly retarded, i hope someone shoots then rapes you".
For example, recently in a sample 1004 British 7- to 10-year-old children, Devine, Soltesz, Nobes, Goswami and Szűcs (2013) reported r = 0.626 correlation between standardized reading and mathematics scores.
The methods were based on the protocol used in the Harvard Medical Practice Study [ 4, 11, 18] with modifications introduced in subsequent studies undertaken in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Canada, the Netherlands, Sweden, Brazil, and, more recently, in a sample of 26 hospitals from eight developing and transitional countries [ 10- 15, 15- 18].
DOZENS of responses later, Mr. Allison, a curator of the project, recently offered a sampling of messages the phone line had received on an "All Things Considered" broadcast.
