Kao said she cautions against forming any generalizations based on any one of the studies, noting that more background characteristics of the students need to be studied and explained.

Before she went to Brazil, she studied Portuguese for three months.

He studied the designs of various choices.

Dutt and her colleagues studied more than 1,200 letters of recommendation for postdoctoral positions in geoscience.

For many years I have studied global agricultural, population, environmental and economic trends and their interactions.

Lawrence Patihis at the University of Southern mississippi recently studied around 20 people with HSAM and found that they scored particularly highly on two measures:fantasy proneness and absorption.

Many scientists have studied the green sea slugs to confirm that they are actually able to create energy from sunlight.

Medical researchers have studied the health benefits of the new tea.

One company Werbach has studied uses gamification to create a sense of community and boost employees' morale.

They found that, overall, 31% of marriages ended in divorce over the period studied.

To take a closer look, her team studied healthy people as they slept in the unfamiliar environment of the university's Department of Psychological Sciences.

While the top of the ocean is studied, its depths are more difficult to explore.

But Schweitzer contends the "mounting causal evidence" linking goal-setting and harmful behavior should be studied to help spotlight issues that merit caution and further investigation.

If you look at who enters college, it now looks like America," says Hilary Pennington, director of postsecondary programs for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has closely studied enrollment patterns in higher education.

A chronicle professor, Henry Louis Gates, recently studied are search project looking into 19th century African-American fiction and poetry.

Russell Fazio, an Ohio State psychology professor who has studied interracial roommates there and at Indiana University, discovered an intriguing academic effect.

After conducting extensive research in which he studied the festivals of many African groups of people, he decided that the new holiday should be a harvest or "first fruits" celebration, incorporating ideas from many different harvest traditions.

At the Exploratorium in San Francisco, we recently studied how learning to ask good questions can affect the quality of people's scientific inquiry.

At the start of her career, Farrant studied "recalcitrant seeds (頑物性種子)," such as avocados, coffee and lychee.

For example, a team at Tohoku University in Japan has studied materials that can store large amounts of heat.

Smartphone-based data collection comes at an appropriate time in the evolution of psychological science Today, the field is in transition, moving away from a focus on laboratory studies with undergraduate participants towards more complex, real-world situ

The Queensland rock violet is one of the best studied resurrection plants so far, with a draft genome(基因圖譜) published last year by a Chinese team.