His research primarily studies the effects of obesity and diabetes in pregnancy.
Elizabeth English studies the effects of hurricanes on buildings, at the Hurricane Center of Louisiana State University, in Baton Rouge.
The Division of Planning and Development reviews and studies the effects of land use to ensure orderly development.
"You pay attention to your own breath," explains Sara Lazar, a neuroscientist who studies the effects of meditation at Massachusetts general hospital in Boston.
But perhaps the best one I read came in an e-mail from a biologist who studies the effects of climate change in the Andes.
"I'd say forget that," said Dr. Keith A. Holsapple, a professor at the University of Washington who studies the effects of simulated nuclear explosions.
That way, he explained, when he studies the effects of weight loss he reduces the likelihood that his data will be confounded by other disorders.
Jean Ross, executive director of the California Budget Project, a group financed by private foundations that studies the effects of budget decisions, called the governor's strategy unorthodox.
"We saw some problems," said Mathias Basner, of the University of Pennsylvania, who studies the effects of sleep-loss on behaviour.
Among continuing studies: The effects of therapeutic horseback riding on children and adolescents with autism.
"There was a misapprehension at the end of the cold war that these industries would become engines of growth," said Michael Brzoska, research director at the Bonn International Center for Conversion, which studies the effects of Europe's military cutbacks.
