Sentences with phrase «as evidence of their impact»

The presence of shocked quartz crystals in rocks from both regions have been cited as evidence of impacts, although the new findings suggest that the rocks could have just as easily been made by lightning strikes.

African American and Latino students, as well as children and youths from low - income families, have been particularly hard hit, according to the unanimous court ruling, which pointed to dismal test scores and graduation rates as evidence of the impact of insufficient funding.

Those are the types of documentation hundreds of arts educators in Tennessee recently assembled as evidence of their impact on student learning.

«KittyCam» Reveals High Levels of Wildlife Being Killed by Outdoor Cats (2012) I suppose it's no surprise that HAHF would cite Loyd's overhyped «KittyCam» study as evidence of the impact of cats on wildlife.

The Museum has worked with Turner prize winning artist Jeremy Deller to present the destroyed vehicle, a major new acquisition which serves as evidence of the impact of modern war on civilians.

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innovation results — i.e., evidence of the impact of research, innovation and commercialization as captured in patents, and overall labour productivity.

And pricing power becomes a concern when it's Amazon (or another platform company) that owns the customer relationship, as evidenced in the retail sector, where big brands have sought to build their own direct - to - consumer sales channels to offset the impact of Amazon's pricing power.

As evidence of the economic impact RFRA laws can have on local economies, ratings and reviews site Angie's List, founded by Bill Osterle and Angie Hicks in 1995, announced over the weekend that it was halting a $ 40 million expansion of its Indianapolis headquarters, expected to bring with it an additional 1,300 jobs, while it examines the implications of the law.

Small rate changes or more evidence of earnings and capacity to pay is also unlikely to impact on high net worth buyers, which is typically defined as those with assets worth more than $ 2m in addition to their home.

But, judging from recent messaging, Fed policymakers have yet to see compelling evidence of an acceleration in overall activity, viewing growth as set to remain at around trend rates, and are reluctant to factor in any significant impact from the Trump administration's future policies.

The last two weeks drop in global markets is solid enough evidence of that, as is the freakish weather conditions in different parts of the world that have had a negative impact on the farming sector.

While a smaller issue in comparison, largely because it doesn't impact the live ethereum network, the problems facing the Casper test network also provide evidence of the early - stage nature of ethereum as a technology.

«Wal - Mart continued to capitalize on its investments in [the third quarter] as evidenced by its impressive online sales performance, with growth of over 20 percent on a $ 14 [billion] to 15 billion base, without a full quarter of impact from Jet.com,» Moody's analyst Charlie O'Shea said in a note.

To generate consensus in support of trade policies that will benefit Canada as a whole will require transparent, evidence - based analysis of how trade agreements will impact not just different sectors, but also different provinces.

My guess is that it will be a difficult case to argue against the impact of the contraceptive coverage rule as anything but an «incidental effect» given it targets a market and there's no evidence that the rule is over or under inclusively fashioned as a pretext to target the religious beliefs of those opposed to contraception.

In light of such claims, it is perhaps not surprising to encounter these study questions on the scrolls: «Describe the impact of this discovery on those who do not accept the authenticity of the Bible» and «Determine the evidence from the Dead Sea scrolls confirming the claims of Jesus as the Bible describes him.»

To be sure, millions had heard and attended his meetings, but there was no evidence that his impact on Protestantism was either as permanent or as deep as was that of Moody.

[8] The pressure of Islamic extremism like the pressure of violence in Northern Ireland, has called forth the same response as in 1841 (when there was a threat of Fenianism): if we lessen the impact of religion, we will contribute to overall peace and harmony But there is no evidence of this.

«Plenty of research exists today that suggests a direct benefit to increased protein intake and its impact on health, and consumers clearly have interest as evidenced by the number of new protein - enhanced snacks on the market,» said Dan Hammer, senior vice president and general manager of frozen division at Inventure Foods, Inc. «However, we found that while some snacks delivered on nutrient levels, many fell well short on taste.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

«Having credible, science - based, evidence - based information helps people understand the benefits [of BIC],» said Crista, citing FRAC's school breakfast information and The Wellness Impact report from GENYouth Foundation and National Dairy Council as examples of places to start.

Multiple lines of evidence point to relationships between excessive crying and long - term social and emotional development, 42 as well as the impact of maternal depression.

APPPAH educates professionals and the public worldwide, as shown through scientific discoveries and continually emerging evidence, that prenatal and perinatal experiences have a profound impact on the subsequent quality of health and human behavior and that life is a continuum which starts before conception, not after birth.

2011 — The final report of the Healthy Families New York RCT was published, furthering the evidence for HFA as a program that can make an impact on child maltreatment.

The small studies that chiropractors refer to as evidence have been criticised for having poor scientific design that may have impacted the results, for example there was room for unconscious biases and one study did not record the number of dropouts and reasons for dropping out.

In a report released earlier this year, the commons education committee also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

IAS Director Katherine Brown will today present the report's findings in an oral evidence session of the All - Party Parliamentary Group on Alcohol Harm, as part of an inquiry into the «Impact of Alcohol on the Emergency Services.»

Miliband argued that immigration should be seen as a class issue, since the evidence shows lower - paid workers and the unskilled suffer disproportionately, especially from the impact of cheap eastern European labour.

Kirsty Williams AM, Leader of the Welsh Liberal Democrats, said: «The evidence presented to the Committee has been clear that this ban would have an adverse impact on the health of vapers, many of whom use e-cigs as a tool to give up smoking.

They also found «no convincing evidence of the impact of academy status on attainment in primary schools», adding that while «some chains such as Harris have proved very effective at raising attainment... others achieve worse outcomes than comparable mainstream schools».

The warning is sounded as the professional engineering body submits evidence to the Transport Select Committee, which is investigating the impact of the Government's Strategic Framework for Road Safety [i].

Reclassification of cannabis to Class B was, the government said, «a preventative measure» which «takes account of its known risks to health as well as the potential long - term impacts on health where the evidence is not conclusive.»

More work is needed, he added, to understand how «hard driving» is having an affect on air quality and further evidence is required as to the impact the country's existing fleet of vehicles is having on pollution levels.

As if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade grouAs if we needed more evidence on Gannett's Jon Campbell's impact as the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade grouas the LCA's resident fracking scoop artist, a coalition of groups and Senate and Assembly Democrats today seizing on his report that one of the experts hired by the Department of Environmental Conservation to help write hydrofracking regulations is a member of the gas industry trade group.

Authors presents evidence of the impact of patents on health and access to medicine using South Africa, Brazil, and Thailand as case studies.

The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»

Each grainy image took eight hours to receive, but the payoff was huge: Surprising evidence of deep impact craters banished the popular idea of Mars as a chillier version of Earth.

While it is too soon to tell whether these cuts have direct impact on the provision of services in these regions, the research found evidence that measures related to A&E admissions and waiting times for treatment are deteriorating at a faster rate in London than in the North of England, while pupil - to - teacher ratios in the North are not improving as well as in London.

Therefore, the presence of shock features in quartz should not be taken as unequivocal evidence for an extraterrestrial impact.

A study provides the first evidence that pollen production is significantly stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in a grass species as a result of climate change, which may have significant impact on human health.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

Using a Raleigh apartment complex as a study site, the researchers searched specific apartments for evidence of bed bugs and also for apartments not impacted by bed bugs, and then collected the household dust in both apartment types.

The guidance paper, jointly published this month in ACOEM's Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (JOEM) and AAOHN's journal Workplace Health & Safety, summarizes current evidence regarding marijuana consumption; discusses possible side effects, including temporary impairment as it relates to the workplace; reviews existing federal and state laws that impact employers; and suggests various strategies available for monitoring marijuana use among employees.

Finding evidence for these strong electron - lattice interactions, known as polarons, emphasizes the need to quantify their impact on complex phenomena such as superconductivity (the ability of some materials to carry current with no energy loss) and other promising properties.

Carbonate rock deposits found within the mountain ranges of south - central Nevada, USA, record evidence of a catastrophic impact event known as the Alamo impact.

Although their analysis does not include data after 2004, the researchers note that they doubt that the use of DNA identification technology would have much impact on false conviction rates — because DNA evidence is primarily used in cases such as rape rather than homicide.

Published in the current issue of the journal Nature Geoscience, the paper uses laboratory simulations of an Earth impact as evidence that a stratified layer beneath the rocky mantle — which appears in seismic data — was created when Earth was struck by a smaller object.

He found only 20 percent (11 cases) yielded no evidence of any impact to the baby's skull — such as a fall from a changing table.

But the arguments are changing as scientists see more evidence of the coming impact of climate change on the Atlantic fisheries.

«The research provides the first evidence that, as early as 15,000 years ago, humans were living in one place long enough to impact local animal communities — resulting in the dominant presence of house mice,» said Fiona Marshall, study co-author and a professor of anthropology at Washington University in St. Louis.