Sentences with phrase «actual impact of this research»

The actual impact of this research into «emotional contagion» was tiny; the data showed that a user would post four more negative words per 10,000 written after one positive post was removed from his or her feed.

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Stefan Rahmstorf at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in Germany, and colleagues, compared the predictions made in the 2001 report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change with the actual subsequent data.

Norman Lederman, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics and Science at the Illinois Institute of Technology, said, «It has long been known that actual research experiences in science and mathematics impact students» attitudes toward science and mathematics as well as the STEM career aspirations of pre-college and college students.

The signatories — including Science Editor - in - Chief Bruce Alberts, who wrote an editorial on the subject in this week's issue of Science — make 18 recommendations, most of which discourage journal editors and hiring managers from considering only the prestige of the journals that applicants have published in and ignoring the content and impact of his or her actual research.

Weighted RCR is essentially defining an average paper's scientific impact based on actual citations as 1 (normalized by research field), and a given scientist's output can be compared against the average by adding together the citation count for that scientist's papers to give the Weighted RCR over a given period of time).

However, even if the hacked emails from HADCRU end up to be much ado about nothing in the context of any actual misfeasance that impacts the climate data records, the damage to the public credibility of climate research is likely to be significant.

Therefore, advocacy groups such as ASAPBio offer an excellent opportunity to take the cumbersome publication process in the life sciences to a new direction and focus once again on the actual quality of research work instead of mere impact factors.

In fact, in a meta - analysis of all research that measured the impact of forgiveness interventions, Nathaniel Wade and I found that a factor as simple as the amount of time someone spent trying to forgive was highly related to the actual degree of forgiveness experienced.

We all know that you need to take risks as a mathematician, and it's not until you start to ask kids to rate themselves in terms of contributing ideas or how comfortable do you feel asking a teacher a question or how comfortable do you feel telling your peer that they got it wrong, and you really start to break down what does it mean to take a risk in mathematics, that if you don't know your students and you don't apply teaching strategies to make an impact on those actual kids that you're doing the research for, then your impact is not going to be that great.

These days, he's jumping into a new research project based in Texas and Massachusetts that looks at the impact of high - stakes testing on outcomes other than the actual test scores.

The tricky research question is how to measure the impact of that professional learning on actual classroom practice and, as a result, on student learning.

Ullman says: «If we keep making curricular decisions that impact hundreds of thousands of kids, if we're making these decisions that impact huge groups of the school community based on assumptions, based on ideas with no actual research backing them up, based on fear — that's just curricularly - irresponsible.»

More and more actual research is showing just how devastating is the impact of TFA — not because of any individual TFA corps member, but because of the cumulative effect of churn on districts.

Although Herbst et al. (2013) found that animations have the same impact on preservice teachers» ability to reason about content and pedagogy as do video clips, more research is needed on how animations can be used in mathematics methods courses as an alternative to videos of actual classrooms, how different animation software provide different affordances or constraints for PSTs» reasoning, and how these animations impact PSTs» abilities to reason about students» approaches.

DOT has also established a Pilot Program for Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and Federal Transit Administration (FTA) grant recipients utilizing research authorities and authority under a General Provision in the Fiscal Year (FY) 2016 Consolidated Appropriations Act that enables such recipients to utilize local hiring preferences for purposes of evaluating the actual impacts on competition.

SYNCRETISM explored the merging of distinct cultural traditions, while PEOPLE»S CHOICE examined the actual aesthetic preferences of the American people and the impact of market research on its society.

«Although the climate change impacts of palm oil production on tropical peatland are becoming more widely recognized, this research shows that estimates of emissions have been drawn from a very limited number of scientific studies, most of which have underestimated the actual scale of emissions from oil palm,» said study co-author Ross Morrison of the University of Leicester.

Unfortunately, despite this clear empirical evidence, the climate change and global warming doomsday alarmists attempt to portray the 2017 season as a sign of CO2 - induced climate catastrophe - and that is not being well accepted by the actual hurricane experts (here, here, here) who have been on the front lines of tropical cyclone activity and impact research.

Independent, accountable, and transparent regulatory bodies, effective oversight of those bodies, the genuine engagement of citizens in the regulatory process, evidence - based research to fully assess the impact of regulation, and an approach to regulation that is proportionate and targeted to actual risks are essential for effective regulation.