Sentences with phrase «available evidence about»

The KidsMatter Early Childhood Framework is informed by the best available evidence about young children's mental health.

Knowing that a third - grader scored «Level 2» on the English Language Arts test may not be that meaningful to a parent, beyond other available evidence about what the child knows and can do.

Having surveyed the available evidence about community schools» outcomes — as well as evidence on component parts of the model, such as integrated student supports, expanded learning time, family and community engagement, and collaborative leadership — the authors argue that community schools are an evidence - based strategy that education leaders and policy makers should support.

«Dr. Borba compiles and succinctly summarizes the weight of available evidence about what works to prevent bullying at school.

But when the legislation passed, the only available evidence about the program consisted of testimony; a dozen or so empirical studies by the program's own staff that used primitive quasi-experimental designs; and the most - cited single study confounded the court - ordered introduction of the program with a simultaneously ordered reduction in class sizes of 40 percent.

«Although it is known that statins do increase the risk of diabetes, the best available evidence about the size of this excess risk comes from randomised trials, which have suggested a much smaller risk than was found in this study.

Based on available evidence about similar conditions, an individual who becomes infected with Zika is highly likely to have protection against future Zika infections.

The ideal process combines the best available evidence about the benefits and harms of an intervention with the patient's values and preferences, as part of a discussion with their general practitioner (GP) or health professional.

Overall, the standards synthesize the best available evidence about how to design and offer healthy and nutritious meals, snacks, and beverages for school - aged children and adolescents.

Yes, but the blindness to the evils of communism on the religious left was persistent, systematic, and unaltered by massive available evidence about the horrors being perpetrated.

Not exact matches

The Facts: There is no publicly available evidence to support this claim about the violent gang.

Lacking other evidence about product quality (which is usually not available for credence goods), later customers make decisions based on the best evidence they have, without realizing it may be flawed.

The report's author, Professor Sir John Beddington, wrote that «commonly held negative perceptions surrounding HFT are not supported by the available evidence» but said that «policymakers are justified in being concerned about the possible effects of HFT on instability in financial markets.»

In summary, evidence from simple tests with available data (about 16.5 years) does not support a belief that investors can reliably capture a value premium via popular value - growth ETFs.

The tightening in monetary policy is likely to have contributed to this decline, but the available evidence indicates that uncertainties about the tax package also had some effect.

The value of ten thousand of these accounts for which full information is available (including those where there is no evidence that the depositor perished) has been put at about $ 170 «$ 260 million, or roughly $ 20

From the available evidence it looks like California is about to go a bridge too far.

Because of God's transcendence it would be mythological to refer to God's action in terms appropriate only to objects available, in principle at least, to ordinary sense perception.13 This especially means that one can not speak of God in terms of the categories of time and space; 14 i.e., whatever is predicated of God can not apply only to some particular time and space, but must apply equally to all times and spaces.15 Thus the implication of Ogden's criterion for non-mythological language about God corresponds to his statement of several years ago, that «there is not the slightest evidence that God has acted in Christ in any way different from the way in which he primordially acts in every other event.

@Timothy, I'm not sure what definition of «Creationism» you are using, but the article is mainly talking about Young Earth Creationism, which is inconsistent with the scientific evidence available.

In 1938 the editors began constant reports on the little evidence available about pogroms and eventual threats of extermination of Jews.

@Ken, Bill Nye is, I think, talking about Young Earth Creationism, which is a belief in a strict literal interpretation of Genesis, which is inconsistent with the evidence we have available.

When the available evidence is examined in its entirety, Pius XII emerges as neither a saint nor a Nazi, but as a complex, enigmatic figure who reveals a great deal about the troubling ambiguity that characterized the Christian world's response to the Holocaust.

= > well good to see you understand that the odds of being right about the family are stacked against you based on your evidence and best tools available for testing.

The evidence that is available about food production and processing, but not included in the Green Paper, is that the sector's businesses are in the main under considerable financial pressure as a result of falling real commodity prices, rising input costs, increased government regulations, rising labour costs, and lower retail margins.

To start with give us evidence about the following: (1) They were available for sale; (2) They were willing to join Arsenal; and (3) They are better than players we have.

These decisions were not about being frugal, there were several economical options available then, they were evidence of an unwillingness to adapt.

And for those of us that are not entirely convinced by Arsene Wenger's vague words about not being able to find the right player available, there is today some evidence that he did at least try.

But it is difficult to have sympathy with anyone who has bought their line about frugal spending policies over the past 7/8 years, the evidence disproving this has always been available and this site especially has done an excellent job in highlighting it.

Policymakers and funders should use the available research on implementation and encourage future work to guide decisions about how to scale up evidence - based programs effectively and support them over time.

Practice Update: HIV and breastfeeding - Morrison P. - Essentially MIDIRS, August 2014; 5 (7): 38 - 9, available at page 38 HIV and breastfeeding: the unfolding evidence - Morrison P and Faulkner Z - Essentially MIDIRS, Dec / Jan 2015; 5 (11): 7 - 13, Breastfeeding for HIV - Positive Mothers - Morrison P - Breastfeeding Today, 1 November 2014; 26:20 - 25 What HIV - positive women want to know about breastfeeding - Morrison P - World AIDS Day 2013 issue of Fresh Start, Trinidad & Tobago, 1 December 2013 (see pages 8 - 12) Informed choice in infant feeding decisions can be supported for HIV - infected women even in industrialized countries - Morrison P, Greiner T, Israel - Ballard K - AIDS 2011, 24 September 2011, PMID: 21811145 Letter to the Editor (2014)- Pamela Morrison & Ted Greiner - Health Care for Women International, 35:10, 1109 - 1112, DOI: 10.1080 / 07399332.2014.954705 Conquering Fear and Stigma with Knowledge: HIV - Positive Mothers and Breastfeeding, Fresh Start by Best Start - Morrison P interviewed by Dr Amanda Gabrielle Jones - HIV / AIDS Awareness supplement towards an AIDS - Free Generation, Issue 6, p 8, December 2014 Breastfeeding with HIV, is breast still best?

The results will provide further evidence to help pregnant women, their partners and maternity care providers to make a more informed choice about place of birth than has been possible with previously available evidence.

We could not draw conclusions from the evidence available from randomised controlled trials about whether education and support helps mothers of multiples to breastfeed.

Do you what to know what available evidence and research literature has to say about the safety and quality of planned homebirth.

But, when we do we artificially limit the «available evidence» and this type of artificial limiting leads people to believe there is little evidence about neonatal safety with water birth.

Yesterday we talked about the types of evidence available for water birth, but what changes about interpreting the studies on water birth if this wide collection is mostly non-randomized studies?

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

An earlier systematic review from Cochrane states, ««In countries and areas where it is possible to establish a home birth service backed up by a modern hospital system, all low risk pregnant women should be offered the possibility of considering a planned home birth and should be informed about the quality of the available evidence to guide their choice.»

While there are still questions to address about how best to provide support, the key messages are clear — we have ample evidence to know that women need support to be available and to be provided using the characteristics we have identified to increase the duration and exclusivity of breastfeeding.

He said previous major terror cases saw all evidence available within four and 12 days - and that Ms Smith evaded his questioning about this during consensus meetings as a result.

The fact that there was a search at all instead of something like a subpoena suggests that the evidence already available before the search is very strong; Cohen is probably about to have a very bad time.

For more information, visit: http://www.educationforengineering.org.uk/ About the IET: Nigel Fine's oral evidence session can be viewed on demand at: http://www.parliamentlive.tv/Main/Player.aspx?meetingId=11848 For more information on the Science and Technology Committee, visit: http://www.parliament.uk/science/ The IET's 2012 Skills and Demand in Industry Annual Survey can be downloaded at: http://www.theiet.org/factfiles/education/skills2012-page.cfm Interview opportunities are available.

Even as it was unfolding, the Twitter angle was being downgraded in the face of evidence that the Moldvovan protesters seemed to be using just about EVERY online tool available — from Facebook to text...

Even as it was unfolding, the Twitter angle was being downgraded in the face of evidence that the Moldvovan protesters seemed to be using just about EVERY online tool available — from Facebook to text messages to blogs and email newsletters — to organize and spread the word (of course, it didn't help when it turned out that very few people in Moldova are even ON Twitter).

«My claim about groups like the Alliance for Workers Liberty is evidenced with publicly available information, if people care to look.

While officially Baghdad is now considering whether there is enough evidence of Turkey's involvement in oil trade with IS to file a formal protest at the UN Security Council, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman, Naseer Nuri, told Sputnik on Wednesday that «general information about the smuggling of Iraqi oil by trucks to certain countries, including Turkey» is already available to them, and «this oil is used to fund Daesh.»

«The information available is acknowledged to be insufficient either to allow the regulator to make evidence - based judgements about the safety or otherwise of implants that were in widespread use, or to allow patients» clinicians to know whether their individual patient is affected,» Mr Dorrell added.

Among the questions asked by the press: whether the city is working with Mexican government officials to encourage any eligible Mexican nationals to register with the city for assistance, whether all victims have been located and identified, what is the biggest remaining challenge at the site, whether there are continuing concerns of gas leaking at the site, whether there is any evidence of illegal gas connections in the basements of the destroyed buildings, what damage or evidence the FDNY will look for, the number of people needing housing assistance, whether any victims asked about the investigation when meeting with the mayor, the number and location of apartments being made available by REBNY to temporarily house victims, what the mayor would say to any employer not granting time off to a victim and whether the mayor is concerned about the pace of gas main replacements.

There is now adequate empirical evidence available around the world: Wherever people have brought about more efficient use of energy and greater use of renewable energy, you generate many more jobs than if you were to continue with conventional technologies and fossil fuels.

The researchers were unable to reach firm conclusions about the effect of labelling on calories purchased from grocery stores or vending machines because of the limited evidence available.

A large science education community is available to answer questions and offer advice about evidence - based teaching techniques.