Sentences with phrase «analysis of the evidence at»

The whole point of the scientific process is to move beyond, as much as is humanly possible, the political and cultural biases that every human being has, and to instead encourage rational, objective analysis of the evidence at hand.

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«When you have evidence of a problem like this, regardless of what the standards say, automakers should develop a better approach,» says David Friedman, who served as NHTSA's acting administrator in 2014 and is now director of cars and product policy and analysis at Consumers Union, the policy and mobilization division of Consumer Reports.

«And to focus more precisely on the issue of «scientific evidence,» the sciences, ordered by their nature and method to an analysis of empirically verifiable objects and states of affairs within the universe, can not even in principle address questions regarding God, who is not a being in the world, but rather the reason why the finite realm exists at all.......

Precious Metals the Result of Meteorite Bombardment, Rock Analysis Finds Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed.

The perceived seriousness of the controversy increased when, at the end of June 2000, a group of economics professors published their own a petition, backing the students and offering further analysis and evidence of the need for reform.

What we can do is follow the divergence in extant species, look at the genetic / morphological data and then cross-reference this to the extinct species in the fossil evidence with the occasional support of an extant / extinct genetic analysis.

Sep. 9, 2011 — Ultra high precision analyses of some of the oldest rock samples on Earth by researchers at the University of Bristol provides clear evidence that the planet's accessible reserves of precious metals are the result of a bombardment of meteorites more than 200 million years after Earth was formed.

This analysis of longitudinal growth data from > 2000 children in the Gemini twin cohort has demonstrated that higher protein intake at 21 mo is associated with higher weight gain and higher BMI (but not height) between 21 and 36 mo and 21 and 60 mo, with no evidence of diminution over time.

Let's remember that current school meal nutrition standards were established not by the Obama administration but by the non-partisan Institute of Medicine — and they were hailed at the time as the «gold standard for evidence - based health analysis.»

In order to look at the evidence from all relevant studies a vote - counting exercise was undertaken to assess the results of included studies that had not used one of the predominant child - behaviour measures or had not provided enough statistical information to be included in the meta - analysis.

40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Direct evidence for a link between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting is not currently available at the systematic review level, though a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis of intervention studies assessing the effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on child growth found no significant effect on length or height z scores.

They were science - based recommendations from the Institute of Medicine, recommendations which were referred to at the time of their release as representing the «gold standard for evidence - based health analysis.»

For cessation of any breastfeeding at up to six months there was no evidence of a differential effect according to type of support (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 0.40, df = 2 (P = 0.82), I ² = 0 %; Analysis 3.1).

For cessation of any breastfeeding at up to six months, there is no evidence of a difference in the effectiveness of the intervention according to the background breastfeeding rate (test for subgroup differences: Chi ² = 0.56, df = 2 (P = 0.76), I ² = 0 %; Analysis 5.1).

Again, there was some evidence that the treatment effect may be partly due to bias; sensitivity analysis including only those studies assessed as being at low risk of bias for allocation concealment showed that results still favoured the intervention group although the treatment effect was less pronounced in the studies at lower risk of bias (Analysanalysis including only those studies assessed as being at low risk of bias for allocation concealment showed that results still favoured the intervention group although the treatment effect was less pronounced in the studies at lower risk of bias (AnalysisAnalysis 1.8).

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

When you know that the outcome of any piece of careful policy analysis may be little more than a chip to be run across the back of a minister's fingers at the poker table, it does rather take the gloss off making sure all the evidence supporting it is just so.

In 2015 we conducted an event at the 2015 Conservative Party annual conference at which we presented analysis of the Conservative's electoral position and prospects, we were invited to submit independent scholarly evidence to Labour's Learning the Lessons Review, chaired by Margaret Beckett, and we co-hosted a 2015 post-election event in June 2015 with cross-party attendance and participation by a broad political range of commentators, and also leading UK journalists.

My Department's analysis shows that falls in the oil prices are passed on, but nevertheless, I am going to ask my officials to look at this matter again, to revisit their analysis, as a direct result of this debate and my Hon. Friend's [Robert Halfon's] contribution today... The Government would be happy to take action again if the evidence legitimises it.

In regard to the first part of the aforementioned analysis, Kagan went on to note that «a plaintiff succeeds at this stage even if the evidence reveals that a legislature elevated race to the predominant criterion in order to advance other goals, including political ones.»

The report draws on government and trade statistics, academic evidence and economic theory to challenge arguments that the health and social benefits of reducing alcohol consumption are likely to come at a cost to the economy, finding: · Any reduction in employment and income resulting from lower spending on alcohol would be offset by spending on other goods · Econometric analysis of US states suggests that a 10 % decrease in alcohol consumption is associated with a 0.4 % increase in per capita income growth · Lower alcohol consumption could also reduce the economic costs of impaired workplace productivity, alcohol - related sickness, unemployment and premature death, which are estimated to cost the UK # 8 - 11 billion a year The analysis comes at a timely moment, with health groups urging the Chancellor to raise alcohol duty in next month's Budget.

The letter comes in response to an announcement Rosenstein made at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences on Feb. 21 in Seattle disclosing that the Justice Department has approved «Uniform Language for Testimony and Reports» to be used by its forensic examiners in statements about analyses of forensic latent fingerprint evidence conducted in its labs.

Researchers at St. Michael's Hospital undertook a systematic review and meta - analysis of all of the available evidence from randomized controlled trials, the gold standard of research design.

«Taken together, these wide - ranging analyses have provided the necessary evidence to pursue clinical implementation of brain training in the aged - care sector — while continuing research aimed at improving training effectiveness,» Dr Lampit said.

That's clearly at odds with archaeological evidence of earlier settlements in the Americas, but Hey says that his analysis simply gives the most likely date.

Such anecdotal evidence hints at long - term effects of childhood obesity, which Berger supports with other analyses.

The analysis should serve as a warning to geologists not to rely only on that line of evidence, says Matthew Pasek, a geochemist at the University of South Florida in Tampa who was not involved in the study.

Based on a statistical analysis of a published paper, a national research integrity panel in the Netherlands has found evidence of data manipulation in the work of Jens Förster, a social psychologist at the University of Amsterdam.

«The Academy of Radiology Research undertook this analysis to address a need from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to develop econometric evidence to better guide federal R&D budgets,» said Michael Kalutkiewicz, co-author of the report and senior director for government affairs at the Academy of Radiology Research.

From the geochemical analyses carried out on the sediments deposited during the past 10,000 years in the Laguna de Rio Seco lagoon, a remote alpine lake in Sierra Nevada, at 3,020 m. above sea level, evidence has been found of atmospheric pollution from lead.

«To untangle the history of domestication,» Denham said, «scientists will need to bring to bear all of the evidence at their disposal, including archeological and ethnographic evidence, and the analysis of both modern and ancient DNA.»

A new analysis by researchers at the National Institutes of Health has provided the strongest evidence to date that nausea and vomiting during pregnancy is associated with a lower risk of miscarriage in pregnant women.

The study has solid geographical sampling, and the team's statistical analysis of two DNA genomes — mitochondrial and nuclear — shows pretty good evidence for the new species, says Bryan Stuart, a curator of herpetology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, who was not involved in the work.

In three separate large analyses published between 2015 and this year, researchers at the University of Sydney and their colleagues compared evidence from dozens of studies to determine how well various pharmaceutical options assuage back pain and found all the drugs lacking.

«The evidence in this analysis is too flimsy to warrant getting very excited,» says Thomas Kirkwood, a gerontologist at the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom.

But in an analysis of the movements of some 300 stars located at least 6,000 light - years beyond the galactic plane, Christian Moni Bidin, an astronomer at the University of Concepción in Chile, and his colleagues conclude that there is «no compelling evidence» for such a dark disk.

«Intuitively, many had thought that men with «poor» nutritional status at baseline may benefit more from long - term multivitamin use on cardiovascular outcomes; however, we did not see any evidence for this in our recent analysis,» said corresponding author Howard Sesso, ScD, MPH, of the Division of Preventive Medicine and the Division of Aging at BWH.

Jiang says that's a fair critique, but he and others say further analysis of the wealth of eggs at the site will eventually provide firmer evidence one way or another.

Based on this new fossil evidence and analysis, the team suggests that the human branch of the tree (shared with chimpanzees) split away from gorillas about 10 million years ago — at least 2 million years earlier than previously claimed.

Bootscanning analysis revealed no evidence for recombination of TMAdV with other adenoviruses at either the whole - genome or individual gene level (Fig.

Researchers at the University of Huddersfield, who specialise in the analysis of human DNA, have found new evidence that there was one or more of these shelters in what is now Southern Arabia.

Those remaining questions, Christensen said, include determining the source of water at the gully sites, and making in - depth spectral analyses to confirm the photographic evidence of liquid water.

There is evidence that rTMS is safe and not associated with any adverse events, but given the variability in technique and outcome reporting that prevented meta - analysis, the evidence for efficacy of rTMS for seizure reduction is still lacking despite reasonable evidence that it is effective at reducing epileptiform discharges.

For the remaining genes, all genes detected at TPM > 1 in at least one of the tissues or cell lines used in the RNA - seq analysis are classified as «Evidence at transcript level».

Zeno Geradts is a senior forensic scientist at the Netherlands Forensic Institute of the Ministry of Justice at the Digital Evidence and Biometrics section in the area of forensic (video) image processing and biometrics within the team Forensic Big Data Analysis.

«Analyses such as this help provide empirical evidence about the trajectory of natural selection in our species and the time frames of those processes,» Cynthia Beall, an anthropologist at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, who also did not participate in the work, writes in an email to The Scientist.

Here we report that at least 96 % of the protein - coding genes have been identified, as assessed by multi-species comparative sequence analysis, and provide evidence for the presence of further, otherwise unsupported exons / genes.

Broadly speaking, however, analysis of transcriptional regulation at the single cell level has provided evidence for a strong stochastic element: genetically identical cells within the same environment show significant variation in molecular phenotype, in a fluctuating manner [24].

He also performed an extensive analysis of over 20,000 samples of dairy products sent to him at two - week or four - week intervals from all over the world and created charts of the seasonal fluctuation of the amounts of fat - soluble vitamins in the butter and found that in each district, the government records for pneumonia and heart disease showed a pattern inversely associated with the fat - soluble vitamin content, which was one of many pieces of evidence supporting his theory that tooth decay and other degenerative diseases shared a common nutritional cause.