Sentences with phrase «argue over study»
Response to Sydney Morning Herald «Nutritionist, soft drink makers argue over study» 17 February 2014 Beverage research provides much needed data around consumer behaviour «Australian beverage habits have been changing but there has been no conclusive research into the total consumption trends of non-alcoholic water based beverages in more than seven years,» said Australian Beverages -LSB-...]
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I argued with Christians over the existance of God and constantly studied scripture so I could uncover as many biblical contradictions as I could.
Opponents have been pushing DEC and the governor to add a public health assessment to the agency's review, and argue that the absence of such a study means DEC is skipping over essential science.
While he agreed there are numerous studies, he argued politicians «can't be flipping over in terms of decisions all the way.»
But some scientists argue that it's not low enough because there is no guarantee that subjects will get rid of their parasites when the study is over.
In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.
But some scientists argue that the study glosses over findings showing that the radioactive contamination has damaged individual animals.
Previous studies have used a variety of computer models and data from fossils and flood events to argue that ENSO has become more exaggerated over the past 11,000 years, known as the Holocene period.
He uses over 650 studies to argue that Heart Disease's root cause is focal scurvy.
She believes this is the first study to follow people over time, noting, «I would argue that no first study is clear evidence of cause and effect.»
Other studies have taken a less sanguine view of these achievement gains, arguing that they are misleading because states have made their assessment systems less rigorous over time.
We could spend an entire EdNext volume arguing over the CREDO results alone, but I think some things are clear: one, nationally, low - income kids gain faster in charters than in district schools; two, many of CREDO's state and city - specific studies show very strong comparative gains for low - income charter students; and three, the movement as a whole has made significant progress by doing exactly what the model calls for and closing low - performing schools.
In 1963, researchers argued that «the teaching of formal grammar has a negligible or, because it usually displaces some instruction and practice in actual composition, even a harmful effect on the improvement of writing,» and over 250 studies since that time, as well as a meta - analysis from the Carnegie Corporation in 2011, have widely supported that statement.
By backing away from previous cost studies (which I have argued elsewhere are completely unscientific), the Court hoped to avoid the prior constitutional conflict with the legislature over who held the purse strings.
Quantitative editor Andrew Flowers argued that a key part of the debate is over, and that recent studies have converged on the finding that value - added measures accurately predict students» future test scores.
Here, the study argues that, notwithstanding changes in tests and proficiency thresholds in the states over this period of time, the relative position of Arizona vis - a-vis these comparison entities remains very similar, with Arizona continuing to lag behind both in percent of ELL students achieving proficiency in reading and math.
While the DfE's recent announcement to increase school funding by # 1.3 bn over two years will help the financial situation for schools, the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues that schools still face an enormous financial challenge as their budgets will have fallen by 4.6 per cent in real terms between 2015 and 2020.
An article in New Media and Marketing argues that social networks, while good places to promote specials and make new initial contacts, rank low on the actual engagement spectrum: «In Razorfish's recent Liminal study, consumers rated the popular social networks near the bottom as places to engage with brands — especially if they're over 45, research clearly shows that your brand's website is a hell of lot more important than your Facebook page or Twitter account.»
Capital Group, based in Los Angeles, in a study released today, argued that its stock - picking mutual funds outperformed their benchmark indexes in the majority of almost 30,000 periods examined over the past 80 years.
And, over the past several months, TWS Executive Director / CEO Michael Hutchins has used the TWS blog to hammer the point home, arguing (and twisting the facts along the way), for example, that a 2011 NIH study provided «further evidence that feral cats are a menace to our native wildlife and should be controlled.»
As recently as February, Eversource and activists traded barbs over a study from Synapse Energy Economics that argued the Access Northeast pipeline is not needed.
Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.
Sceptics pointed out that, in spite of the claims that the debate was now over, the BEST study also argued that the «human component of global warming may be somewhat overestimated».
Ocean temperatures have risen only 0.1 degree Celsius over the last five decades, according to a landmark study some scientists argue could change the way researchers measure the ocean's temperature levels.
James Hansen of the Goddard Institute for Space Studies has been arguing for such a strategy for over a decade.
In a series entitled Growing Sustainable Biofuels over at WorldChanging, Patrick Mazza, Research Director of Climate Solutions, argues that while the recent studies do highlight areas for concern, they have also been subject to sensationalist reporting and selective quoting.
It could be argued that these «non-traditional evening students» have an advantage over the traditional evening students as a result because non-traditional evening students carry the lighter course load of traditional evening students without the study limitations.
He has co-opted onto his commission studying the subject some of those who argue that a British Bill of Rights would be given such a fair wind by the European Court of Human Rights» judges that it would achieve precedence over their own decisions.
Gottman and his team have been studying how couples argue and resolve conflict and have followed hundreds of couples over time to see if their marriages last.
Since the change of government, and the passage, with support from all parties, of a Parliamentary apology to indigenous Australians, Professor of Australian Studies Richard Nile has argued: «the culture and history wars are over and with them should also go the adversarial nature of intellectual debate», [34] a view contested by others, including conservative commentator Janet Albrechtsen.
Since it is argued that self - efficacy and depressive symptoms might influence each other over time, the current study examined the longitudinal and bidirectional associations between depressive symptoms and academic, social and emotional self - efficacy in a large sample spanning early to middle adolescence.
The latest assault in the heated battle over legislation that could double taxes on real estate partnerships and private equity firms comes in the form of a new study that argues the law would squeeze $ 5 billion in additional taxes from real estate investors alone.