The study was halted when it became clear that those taking beta carotene (not even a high dose just 30 milligrams a day) actually had a higher rate of lung cancer and higher mortality rate than those taking a placebo.

The Opel Insignia Concept is a high-end luxury saloon presented by Opel in 2003. [ 14 ] [ 15 ] The purpose of the study was the exploration of technical and creative ways in order for the realization of a successor for the Opel Senator.

The aim of this study was to provide a tool which would be used for the analysis of horizontal web portals by experts in marketing, sociology, media studies, political science and the like.

The study was based on the views of 462 representatively selected teachers collected through a specially construed questionnaire.

Objectives: The objective of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of the fractional flow reserve (FFR) measurements in determining the degree of coronary stenosis and to establish the predictive value of FFR in the context of preventing major adverse cardiac event (MACE) in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) as compared to the patients without DM.

Summary Based on an experimental method with additional exercise in a parallel-alternating form of work, a study was conducted on a sample of 87 first to fourth form pupils (7 to 11 - year-olds) in 2002. It can be concluded that additional exercise increases the effective exercise time.

The goal of the study was to examine the influence of some item characteristics on the basic test psychometric properties such as reliability, homogeneity, criterion validity and factor structure.

The present study was meant as a contribution to this controversial area.

This procedure is time consuming. The aim of our study was to develop an adaptive procedure that could adequately replace the Freiburg test in situations when word recognition threshold is to be measured.

The study was authored by plant biologists Zhiqiang Pan of Arizona State University; Bilal Camara of the Institut de Biologie Moleculaire des Plantes, Strasbourg, France; Harold W.

Because of this, a study of patients with lower extremity starburst telangiectasias and predisposing factors associated with hyperestrogenemic and hyperprogesteronemic states was undertaken in order to look for estrogen and progesterone receptors in biopsy specimens of lower extremity telangiectasias noted to arise in this setting. Contrary to expected results, using immunocytochemical techniques, no patient in this study was found to have estrogen or progesterone receptors present in their lower extremity telangiectasias.

The Belon et al study was done at 4 separate locations, France, Netherlands, UK and Italy.

The study was conducted by Dr. Irina Ermakova, a leading scientist at the Institute of Higher Nervous Activity and Neurophysiology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS).

The first aim of the study was to find out whether the individuation dimensions (e. g. denial of attachment needs, engulfment anxiety, support seeking, separation anxiety, successful individuation) differ according to age and gender of adolescents.

The study was published in the April 18 issue of the journal Geophysical Research Letters

The study was prompted by the fact that the prevalence of allergic disorders has doubled over the last 20 years and that there are 30 - 50 million asthma and allergy sufferers in the U. S.

Again, the study was based on standard HD with 1080 lines of horizontal resolution.

The objective of this study was to compare caloric expenditure and substrate utilization during exercise begun at different time intervals following a standard test meal or in the fasted state.

According to a report by IslamOnLine, an Islamic website, 14,000 of England s elite have already converted to Islam, with more on the way.The report cites the first authoritative study of the phenomenon carried out by the Sunday Times on February 22, reporting that some of Britain s top landowners, celebrities and the offspring of senior establishment figures have converted to Islam in recent years.The Times study was carried out by Yahya (formerly Jonathan) Birt, himself a Muslim convert, who is the son of Lord Birt, the former director-general of the BBC.

This study was NOT concerned with talc applied to the legs, arms, etc

Osama al-Barr, head of the hajj institute, said the fuss was unwarranted because the study was meant simply to find a solution to the problem of overcrowding at the Grand Mosque.

The basis of this study was the idea that there was something special about the physiologies of babies that resulted in 1/3 of the babies studied being reactive or shy, inhibited; the remaining number demonstrated that they were unreactive or not shy.

" The study was made for safety and technical reasons, and it doesn ' t have any religious dimensions, " al-Barr said

The aim of our study was to determine the value of a new type of seating accommodation - - a large plastic ball.

While a single study of 21 patients reported responses in a majority of patients with Grade III disease, the small number of patients in this study was not sufficient to permit conclusions concerning the outcomes of photopheresis for treatment-refractory acute GVHD