There are some small studies that show it gives protection for at least a year and possibly longer.
But the small studies that have been done suggest that discussions that get students working through moral quandaries and community service activities have measurable results.
That's when you need to remember that small studies that have not been replicated shouldn't shift your thinking on a given topic.
Still, it appears that at least a couple of small studies that may have raised questions about the drug have been suspended.
In her field, cardiovascular medicine, she has seen many exciting findings in small studies that fall apart in larger or longer ones.
The belief has endured over the centuries and well into the present, likely fueled by a combination of folklore and small studies that have repeatedly yielded mixed results.
Those "preliminary results" necessary to acquire funding for new ideas used to come from small studies that emerged down unexpected byways while doing the primary research on a large grant-funded project.
The last part of the exhibition presents paintings, drawings and small studies that are based on double- and triple-exposed photographs of old mills in New England, all from the 1940's and 50's.
As far back as 1959, the medical literature was reporting on small studies that showed that procedures like internal mammary artery ligation, a surgical procedure used to treat angina, were no better than a fake incision.
This showed that, for parameter values derived from the scientific literature, researchers acting to maximize their 'fitness' should spend most of their effort seeking novel results and conduct small studies that have a statistical power of only 10 40%.
Astone is unusual in that her background includes studies that employ advanced statistical methods using large omnibus, nationally representative data as well as small studies that were done with community based participatory approaches and qualitative data collection and analysis.
