Sentences with phrase «best empirical studies»

Admittedly, identifying the best empirical studies on relationships is a monumental feat.

«There is a need for better empirical studies, especially those focused on identifying mechanisms that can mitigate the adverse effects of the crisis,» they conclude.

What we really need are good empirical studies about the sensitivity of temperature to different variables.

Not exact matches

Toys Go Green, an empirical study of German consumers in November 2010, also reported that «in the last 12 months, more than 80 percent of consumers bought sustainable toys and are intending to do so in the future as well.»

The empirical evidence from studies of firm performance is, at best, mixed.

It seems to me that one way we get there is through deep and serious empirical study, so that we can determine with some reasonable degree of confidence whether the Eden Conservancy Project — and the general conservation strategy it represents — really is a good way for those of us who want to care for God's creation to invest our resources.

Today, empirical studies show that while Americans are more tolerant of religious and racial differences, they also believe that those being tolerated control their own well - being.

The authors reviewed 172 empirical studies on the efficacy of ability grouping as well as 125 studies on acceleration.

Researchers will integrate existing scholarly literature with new empirical findings from a survey of science communicators, case studies of science - relevant legislating, and qualitative interviews with policymakers to propose a set of best practices for presenting science to policymakers.

«Science would be better off if journals allowed for and participated in the empirical study and quality assurance of their peer review processes,» they write.

In this latest study, the team of researchers applied empirical and process - based models, to analyze local areas, as well as the global surface, and the effect of temperature and water availability variations on carbon exchange between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere.

This study therefore provides a helpful baseline for further empirical scholarship in business ethics, as well as a talking point for professionals moving from necessary discussion and debate into responsible action.

Even though there aren't many (or any) scientific studies on this topic, there is both implied and solid, empirical evidence that said that when you do pose, your muscle strength and development improve, but the best perk of them all?

There have been empirical studies that have shown people with darker eyes to be better at sports like boxing and tennis while people with lighter eyes are shown to be better at sports like bowling and golf.

That's difficult to prove, of course, but his study does give empirical backing to Pendoley's hunch: that there are better ways to help our young people transition to independence than we are currently providing.

For the academics... If you need some empirical evidence of the impact of curation in a university classroom, there is a good preliminary study from the School of Education at Tel Aviv University.

Perhaps the best source on this subject is the Friedman Foundation's Greg Forster, who releases a yearly scorecard on what empirical studies have revealed about school choice programs.

To determine what range of scores best matches each performance level, panelists used the performance level descriptors and actual test results and compared them to empirical studies to make their judgments.

This report collects the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.

Taking into account the need for more empirical information in this area, this study represents an exploration of the relationship between teachers» learning styles and their level of resistance to change within a group of schools implementing a large - scale technology intervention, as well as the relationship between those variables and teacher attrition.

The Charles H. Houston Center for the Study of the Black Experience in Education conducts empirical research, disseminates scholarly information, examines research - based best practices, addresses critical educational issues, and strives to produce research that makes a difference which informs the development of practices, policies, programs, and scholarship impacting educational and workforce outcomes among African Americans.

All of this is biased in and of itself (see also studies above for economists» and statisticians» other critiques), and quite frankly insulting to / marginalizing of the other well - respected scholars also conducting solid empirical research in this area (e.g., Henry Braun, Stephen Raudenbush, Jonathan Papay, Sean Corcoran).

Forster has conducted empirical studies on the impact of school choice programs in Milwaukee, Ohio, Florida and Texas, as well as national empirical studies comparing public and private schools in terms of working conditions for teachers, ethnic segregation and teacher and staff misconduct.

Greg Forster of the Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice collected the results of all available empirical studies using the best available scientific methods to measure how school vouchers affect academic outcomes for participants, and all available studies on how vouchers affect outcomes in public schools.

KB had taught accounting at his alma mater in Singapore Management University and had also published an empirical research paper Why «Democracy» and «Drifter» Firms Can Have Abnormal Returns: The Joint Importance of Corporate Governance and Abnormal Accruals in Separating Winners from Losers in the Special Issue of Istanbul Stock Exchange 25thYear Anniversary Best Paper Competition, Boğaziçi Journal, Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, Vol.

Precise recommendations for the dietary management of acute pancreatitis in dogs are hampered by the absence of controlled studies, and are often based on empirical wisdom and a best guess least harm approach.

«The evidence for the success of TVHR in this study depends on assumptions related to the reproductive physiology and behavioral ecology of domestic cats that, in our view, do not seem to be supported by available empirical evidence and remain to be better understood.»

Up until now, there has never been a study done on raw food's impact on the health of dogs, so no empirical evidence had existed to show why raw is better.

Here lies some issues too: if a couple of studies being heavily relied upon are being used that have some unknown flaws the Bayes approach may or may not be able to correct for those, whereas direct empirical observations can better correct for such issues, and there are some other frequentist approaches, though much more tedious, can better control for such errors.

Here, «it was very well known» and «proved by countless experiments» and the general «handwave to the past authority of Arrhenius / Tyndall / Fourier», enough to «prove they were right», while refusing to fetch any of these claimed empirical studies — those denying the Dogma were being successfully marginalised further by this wave of supercilious blocking of arguments from AGWs all the while they were hypocrically proclaiming their repulsion to the blocking of discussion on the science and objecting to the malpractices such as hiding open access of data.

So I am guessing that the IPCC TTD's (technical top dogs) will figure out a way to down - play / inflate / arm - wave away the best aerosol estimates and to ignore empirical studies which indicate low sensitivity.

SLR satellite data includes things such as the «GIA Adjustment» — which is the amount of SLR that there would have been if the ocean basin hadn't increased in volume and in the case of this new study, how much higher the sea surface would have been if it had not been suppressed by the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, another correction for ENSO / PDO «computed via a joint cyclostationary empirical orthogonal function (CSEOF) analysis of altimeter GMSL, GRACE land water storage, and Argo - based thermosteric sea level from 2005 to present», as well as other additions and adjustments — NONE OF WHICH can actually be found manifested in any change to the physical Sea Surface Height.»

Someone who knows better might try educating me (I'm open to all empirical studies) with knowledge that comes not from the GCMs.

references to several empirical studies but also discussion that reveals that even best experiments can not tell accurately what the errors have been.

On of the best recent studies is «Quantifying the CO2 savings from wind power»: http://docs.wind-watch.org/Wheatley-Ireland-CO2.pdf It's an excellent empirical study of EirGrid, the all Ireland grid.

As well, either not mentioned or ignored by you, are that ECS estimates based on empirical studies which use data up through the present time cluster below 2C.

Here is what makes me immediately suspicious, even at this point in the article: No one can acurately come up with an empirical proof of how much of the warming from 1973 - 99 was due to man's activities and how much was due to natural effects (the best you can find are studies that say «most» or «a lot of» or «some».

This analysis is all well and good, BUT it is NOT and empirical study demonstrating that a doubling of CO2 would cause ~ 1ºC warming, simply (as I understand it) a confirmation that, if all other things were equal and the other assumptions were right, the observed warming would constrain the CO2 impact to this amount.

In fact, in their recently published book, Catherine Cameron and Lance Long explain how empirical studies in other disciplines as well as in the legal writing field can inform the work of legal writers.4

Perhaps a better, or at least more interesting, empirical study would be to compare the quality of judicial opinions today to the classic decisions by judges of yore.

34 And, much can be gained from reaching out to academics in other specialties who do have expertise in empirical work, potentially leading to interdisciplinary work that could reach a broader audience.35 Long sums up the point well: «If we want legal writing as a discipline to be taken seriously, we must be able to show, throughrigorous studies, that we engage in serious legal writing scholarship.»

12 Shaun's article introduces us to the three empirical research strategies and how to apply those strategies to the study of legal writing, provides advice to new empirical researchers, and concludes with a bibliography containing a list of general resources on empirical research, as well a list of the legal writing empirical studies that have been done.13 Whether you wish to embark on a journey and write scholarship containing empirical research or not, as Shaun states in the introductory paragraph, «this Article should make you a more informed consumer of empirical scholarship.»

Some empirical studies using administrative data have examined these issues as well, and offer similar notions of the reasons for racial disproportionality, and strategies to reduce it.

The study provides the first empirical evidence that women diagnosed with eating disorders report experiencing pleasant as well as unpleasant emotions more frequently than do controls.

Although well studied with computational modelling approaches (Smith et al. 2008), the study of culture — gene coevolutionary theory of human behaviour has not yet received widespread empirical attention.

For over 30 years, The Journal of Early Adolescence (JEA) has provided researchers and practitioners in developmental psychology, educational psychology, human development and family studies, psychiatry, public health, social work, and sociology with the latest work concerning original theoretical work, empirical research as well as science - based practices regarding the early adolescent developmental period (10 through 14 years of age).

The present study suggests that this acceptance may have been premature... Results from this study indicate that the use of the IT / SCV typology does not consistently work better than a simple measure of the breadth of violent acts used by respondents» husbands to predict negative outcomes of partner violence victimization... [and] both of these measurement strategies fail to examine the general effect of husbands» control... The preliminary empirical evidence reported here suggests that these victims of coercive control are an unrecognized category of victims... IPV researchers should focus on the dynamics of coercive control in intimate abuse whether or not this control occurs in the context of physical violence.

Empirical studies in the adolescent population have established that different types of risk behavior cluster, i.e., those involved in one type of risk behavior often show other types of risk behavior as well (e.g., Donovan et al. 1998; Lynskey et al. 1998; Van Nieuwenhuijzen et al. 2009; Vazsonyi et al. 2008).

We collected empirical studies that tested assumptions from social control theory as well as from attachment theory.

This study examined the mediational role of self - esteem in accounting for the empirical link between perceived social support (parents, friends, and teachers) and school well - being (school satisfaction, positive affect in school, and negative affect in school).