The study, which used the Standard & Poor's index as a gauge, comes with caveats.
In the Michigan study, which used a checklist modeled on Kaiser Permanente's, a nurse needed only 2.5 minutes to identify which patients were candidates for telephone management.
The study, which used downscaled climate model simulation projections for Nepal, anticipates temperature increases of 3-5C by the end of the century.
A study, which used data from the Office for National Statistics, looked at the relationship between different jobs and levels of life satisfaction.
The study, which used a tiny device called the Bodyguard to monitor heart rate variations, compared travelers with nontravelers during a 72-hour period.
Ninety students (N = 90) were involved in this study, which used a quasi experimental design.
The McKinsey study, which used data from the Uptime Institute, a research and advisory organization for data center users, said corporations should set the goal of doubling the efficiency of their data centers by 2012.
The study, which used Morningstar data covering January 1977 to December 1992, simulated investing $600 monthly in one or more of six types of mutual funds: aggressive growth, growth, growth and income, small company, international and balanced.
The study, which used data from a Swedish registry of more than 1 million children, found that children growing up on farms with animals had a 50% reduction in their risk of asthma at school age.
Recently, a NASA-funded study, which used satellite data collected by the Department of Defense, determined that, including golf courses, lawns in the United States cover nearly fifty thousand square miles — an area roughly the size of New York State.
The underpinning of the study, which used observation as well as interviews in its research, is a belief that the store is becoming a medium as important as television, newspapers or the Internet.
