Sentences with phrase «although strong evidence»

Not exact matches

Although evidence suggests that organizations with strong marketing and sales alignment generate nearly 40 % more revenue than companies lacking it, most marketing and sales teams remain in constant conflict.

Although data on export prices for the Asian countries are fairly scarce, evidence from South Korea shows their export prices have fallen significantly in world currency terms, stimulating strong growth in their export volumes.

Although the economy has performed better under the Trump administration, stock traders (i.e., the institutions) are now looking for more tangible evidence of a stronger recovery.

Wallace, for example, writes that, «although the evidence against the authenticity of the pastorals is as strong as any evidence against the authenticity of any NT book (save 2 Peter), it still can not overthrow the traditional view» [15].

Although there is not sufficient strong evidence on large numbers of subscribers being forced off the network, there is evidence that liberalization has not increased the penetration of telephone networks.

Although there's no strong evidence to point out its effectiveness, it is also known as liquid gold.

Although audit and feedback is often suggested as a way of improving hand hygiene, this study puts its use on a firmer footing than previous non-randomised studies, providing the strongest evidence yet that this is an effective way to improve hand hygiene when coupled with a repeating cycle of personalised goal - setting and action planning.

Although the falling populations can't be definitively attributed to Russia's political instability without stronger evidence, the findings do draw attention to the important connection between social welfare and wildlife health, the authors report online this month in Conservation Biology.

Although socio - economic status is known to influence health, strong evidence of the association between economic vulnerability in childhood and the health of older adults was still missing.

Although the correlation among healthful diet, physical activity, and CVD incidence is strong, existing evidence indicates that the health benefit of behavioral counseling to promote a healthful diet and physical activity among adults without obesity who do not have these specific CVD risk factors is small.

«Although evidence suggesting the presence of cognitive deficits in children with sleep apnea has been around for quite some time,» said Leila Gozal, MD, MSc, from the University of Chicago, «the relatively small groups studied made it difficult to demonstrate a strong relationship between increasing cognitive issues and increasing sleep apnea severity.»

Although the evidence of benefit from vitamin E against community - acquired pneumonia in elderly males is strong in this analysis, the overall findings about vitamin E have been complex.

Although the discovery doesn't prove that complex organic structures originated in space, it does present strong evidence that the basic ingredients for living organisms exist elsewhere in the galaxy — and that they could be seeding many young planets with life's building blocks.

Although the link is suspected, strong evidence from randomised trials is lacking.

Although long known as a way to build strong bones and teeth, there is increasing evidence of vitamin D's role in the cardiovascular and immune systems, kidneys, mental health, and more.

Her adviser told her to double check the morphology, warning that although she might be onto something «big,» no one would believe her findings without strong evidence.

The evidence for benefits was strongest for treating chronic pain, reducing chemotherapy - induced nausea and vomiting, multiple sclerosis patients have reported that it reduces spasticity — muscle tightness and movement difficulties — although when the measurements are taken by a doctor the evidence of reduced spasticity was weaker.

Although these economic models have provided a strong and unifying foundation for the development of theory about decision - making, several decades of research on these topics has produced a wealth of evidence demonstrating that, in practice, these models do not provide a satisfactory description of actual human behavior.

«Although it is widely postulated that a Western diet can promote prostate cancer progression, direct evidence supporting a strong association between dietary lipids and prostate cancer has been lacking,» said first author Ming Chen, PhD, a research fellow in the laboratory of Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute at BIDMC.

Although no compelling evidence of extraterrestrial life has yet been found, the possibility that biota might be a common feature of the universe has been strengthened by the discovery of extrasolar planets (planets around other stars), by the strong suspicion that several moons of Jupiter and Saturn might have vast reserves of liquid water, and by the existence of microorganisms called extremophiles that are tolerant of environmental extremes.

Little is known about the planetary systems around single white dwarfs although there is strong evidence that they do exist.

ABTs were associated with stronger evidence for evolving under positive selection, although this varied between functional categories, as did rates of diversification through recombination.

These discoveries represent strong evidence that, although hard for astronomers to detect, faint brown dwarfs which have had billions of years to cool may represent a significant population of the universe.

Disorders that affect how much time a person actually spends asleep — such as insomnia, restless leg syndrome, excessive sleep, or excessive daytime sleepiness — may increase stroke risk and harm recovery, as well, the researchers concluded, although the evidence wasn't as strong for these conditions.

«Although the evidence is strong, it's not yet conclusive,» she says.

Although there is some confusion as to the exact amount of calories that muscle burns, the strongest evidence seems to indicate that each pound of muscle on your body adds roughly 5 calories per day to your BMR (you can read more about this topic here: The Myth about Muscle and Your Metabolic Rate).

Although evidence seems to point out the importance of prioritizing speed over strength, skill over muscular development — see: «train the movement, don't train the muscles» (Vern Gambetta)-- it is imperative to realize how the key concept in developing stronger, more powerful athletes is training integration, a monumental quote from the work of Gregory Haff.

«'' Although dietary recommendations have focused on restricting saturated fat (SF) consumption to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, evidence from prospective studies has not supported a strong link between total SF intake and CVD events... A higher intake of dairy SF was associated with LOWER CVD risk.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396447/ — «Although dietary recommendations have focused on restricting saturated fat (SF) consumption to reduce cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk, evidence from prospective studies has not supported a strong link between total SF intake and CVD events... A higher intake of dairy SF was associated with LOWER CVD risk.

Although no definitive conclusions can yet be made there's strong evidence to suggest that omega 3's are associated with lower instance of depression and a heightened state of mental health.

Although until strong evidence of the safety and benefit of testosterone treatment in elder men is brought forward, it should be avoided for those with severe clinical signs of low testosterone.

This was a minor disruption compared to the previous year, when the festival was nearly cancelled due to a political conflict between the city and the festival organisers, relating to the screening of an anti-government documentary in 2014.1 Much has changed in the past year, most notably the impeachment of right - wing President Park Geun - hye, whose government the documentary had targeted, and the election of the left - liberal party headed by Moon Jae - in.2 While the contentious political atmosphere has not entirely dissipated, as evidenced by the student protest groups still demanding an apology from the local city government, this year's festival was an attempt to return to normalcy, despite the untimely death of one of the festival's driving forces, deputy director Kim Ji - seok, a much beloved figure within the community.3 Although the festival had a strong selection of international entries, including some of the best this year has to offer, such as Ruben Östlund's Palme d'Or winner The Square and Sean Baker's The Florida Project, I have decided to focus my report on the Korean films.

Aside: Although this 16x9 - enhanced featurette claims that little is known of Billy the Kid prior to his mother's relocation to New Mexico and marriage to a miner named William Antrim, strong evidence suggests that Billy (born Henry McCarty) spent the first few years of his life in New York City, and that his birth father was killed in the Draft Riots, which were recently depicted in Gangs of New York.

So we just used what everybody else is using to be honest, although we did systematically look at the evidence and bring everybody's evidence together and look for the strongest commonalities.»

This study does not establish causal connections among the arts and the various impacts noted, although the connective evidence is strong.

«Although there are many parenting programmes, there is still limited evidence that they are effective at improving children's learning or their capacity to make a strong start at school.

There is «strong empirical evidence» that targeting financial incentives in subjects where there is a shortage of teachers can help improve retention rates, but acknowledges that although schools can currently make these payments they are unable to do so due to budget pressures.

And although some of the measured academic differences to peers without preschool do shrink over time, there is strong evidence of meaningful, long - term positive impacts of preschool on important indicators including high school graduation, health, employment, crime, and other outcomes.

Conclusions: The findings provide evidence that principals are capable of effectively identifying and encouraging teachers with strong leadership potential to enter the principal pipeline, although additional training and a succession management plan may help ensure that teachers are selected based on clear leadership competencies.

To sum up, although it's pretty clear we should expect lower than historical average returns for stocks, there is little evidence for a strong downward force on stock returns due to expected interest rate increases that is anything like the bond situation.

Whether it is very common for the same bone to be the site of recurrence is not a matter of total agreement, although too many owners report it to be so, to ignore that strong anecdotal evidence.

Although periodontal disease affects cats and dogs equally, there is stronger evidence supporting a link between periodontitis and some major health problems in canines, including heart disease, kidney failure, diabetes, and various infections.

Although it may be difficult to fathom the possibility that dogs may not in fact contribute to reducing depression and improving our overall mood state, the evidence does not appear strong enough yet to support the favorable outcome that they do (nor has it yet been concluded that dogs definitely do not help with depression and / or anxiety).

Although this isn't a 100 % guarantee we'll see Solid Snake on the 360, it is however the strongest evidence suggesting Konami is leaning towards the direction that Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots will be a multiplatform game.

Although people will always say that correlation is not cause and effect, the evidence is far to strong to ignore the fact that sea levels are rising at a rapid rate.

But as a starting point, I'll propose now — and I'll change this if they disagree — the names of some leading scientists in this field who would NOT say there is sufficient evidence to conclude that human - caused global warming IS the main cause of increasing summer retreats of sea ice (although they would say there is strong likelihood that it will eventually dominate):

Some issue advocates have argued that the term climate change is more likely to engage Republicans in the issue, however, the evidence from these studies suggests that in general the terms are synonymous for Republicans — i.e., neither term is more engaging than the other, although in several cases, global warming generates stronger feelings of negative affect and stronger perceptions of personal and familial threat among Republicans; they are also more likely to believe that global warming is already affecting weather in the United States.

We always have multiple competing hypotheses, although in the initial stages, none of those hypotheses may have strong evidence to support it.

The patient is showing more and more of the syndrome, and although we can not be sure that each particular symptom is due to climate change rather than some other cause, the combined evidence justifies strong confidence that the syndrome is present.

It has also been known that a component of the variability seems to have a full period of about 60 years although the evidence has not been strong on any real periodicity or even quasi-periodicity.