Sentences with phrase «body of literature about»

The result is an illuminating and entertaining read that is a fresh addition to the body of literature about marriage.

After surveying a huge body of literature about the role of education in political socialization, political scientists M. Kent Jennings and Richard Niemi reported a broad consensus that interest in politics, the possession of political skills, political participation, and support for the liberal democratic creed all increase with years of schooling.

There is a large body of literature about how to include students with disabilities in general education.

Not exact matches

How to Fix the Future is a truly important book and the most significant work so far in an emerging body of literature — others of note are Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants and Zeynep Tufekci's Twitter and Tear Gas — in which technology's smartest thinkers are raising alarm bells about the state of the Internet, and laying groundwork for how to fix it.

It seems unlikely that the work was ever meant to have been taken seriously by Christians; instead, its purpose was to offer further conjectural details about the life of Christ as a pious entertainment, part of a larger body of Pilate literature.

There is a further condition brought out in the literature which can be expressed as «if the separation of the body and life can not be verified, or if there is doubt about the separation of the body and life, organ excision is morally prohibited and should not be allowed» [2].

This body of literature has generated some useful hypotheses about the effects of Puritanism on the rise of science, its legitimation of revolutionary dissent, and the qualities of religious rationality, to mention only a few of the themes that have been pursued.

The central project in this book is to examine critically a body of literature that grew up in the 1980s concerning theological education and what is theological about it.

An emerging body of literature in adults has begun to establish clear associations between gut microbiome composition and a wide range of health outcomes.1 - 6 In contrast, comparatively little is known about the gut microbiome in infants and children, the exposures that shape it, and its lifelong health effects.7 Although limited in their size and scope, a number of studies have established associations between intestinal microbiome profiles in infants, delivery mode, and / or breast milk exposure.8 - 15 These factors both have long - term health consequences.

An accompanying editorial, by James A de Lemos, M.D., said the findings support a growing body of literature that suggests identifying the location and type of fat deposits can provide important information about the risk of heart disease not found in the simple BMI measurement.

Not knowing anything about out - of - body experiences, Whinnery called these episodes dreamlets, kept detailed records of their contents, and began examining the literature on anomalous unconscious experiences.

Although literature on digital primary sources in K - 12 education is limited, the body of research is growing about their use in the social studies by teachers (Bolick, 2006; Friedman, 2006a, 2006b; Fry, 2010; Hicks, Doolittle, & Lee, 2004; Lee, Doolittle, & Hicks, 2006; McGlinn, 2007; Swan & Hicks, 2006 - 2007) and K - 12 students (Brown & Dotson, 2007; Dutt - Doner, Cook - Cottone, & Allen, 2007; Farmer, Knapp, & Benton, 2007; Friedman & Heafner, 2008; Tally & Goldenberg, 2005).

The report, «A Better Picture of Poverty: What Chronic Absenteeism and Risk Load Reveal About NYC's Lowest - Income Elementary Schools,» released Nov. 6, 2014 by the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School, is part of a growing body of literature that argues that the poverty level of schools» populations isn't necessarily a good way to identify schools that need extra resources.

In a review of a book by Steven Brill — Class Warfare, which was deeply critical of the UFT — she wrote, «Brill is completely ignorant of a vast body of research literature about teaching.»

Powerful pre-assessment has the potential to address a worrisome phenomenon reported in a growing body of literature (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999; Gardner, 1991): A sizeable number of students come into school with misconceptions about subject matter (thinking that a heavier object will drop faster than a lighter one, for example) and about themselves as learners (assuming that they can't and never will be able to draw, for example).

Out of government Scheuer has continued to be one of the most original and thoughtful interpreters of bin Laden and al - Qaeda, and in this volume he has distilled his decade and half of thinking about them to great effect, synthesizing a large body of literature to produce a portrait of bin Laden that is authoritative.»

Qaeda, and in this volume he has distilled his decade and half of thinking about them to great effect, synthesizing a large body of literature to produce a portrait of bin Laden that is authoritative.»

«being skeptical about the near two hundred year body of literature...» You are misrepresenting history by dishonestly attempting to portray the «CO2 is the primary cause of climate change» hypothesis was mainstream climate understanding and the «body of literature», for the last 200 years.

Ah, denialists try to play being skeptical about the near two hundred year body of literature that includes research into every posited alternative hypothesis, when the issue is really their paranoid conspiracy theory.

Adding to the body of knowledge about avian impacts at utility - scale solar facilities, the report summarizes current data along with a bibliography of relevant literature.

Responsible skepticism would not assert that an error about the rate of Himalayan ice melt or the the amount of land in the Netherlands below sea - level was proof that an enormous body of scientific literature on other climate change issues was fraudulent.

Another tactic frequently used by the climate change disinformation campaign that also constitutes reckless disregard for the truth are claims made about one controversy among the enormous body of scientific literature that supports the consensus view that assert that this controversy proves that the entire scientific basis for the consensus view has been undermined by this controversy.

Although such arguments continue to rage, there is no doubt that there is a significant body of scientific opinion (as well as published peer - reviewed literature [5]-RRB- that is sceptical of the alarmist claims by green activists about the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on the climate.

Yet many of the chief proponents of energy efficiency make problematic assumptions about how effective such measures are, neglecting a growing body of expert literature.

One objection to the selection of the cases here may be that they introduce an «asymmetry» through imperfect sampling; however, the purpose was not to draw general conclusions about the entire body of scientific literature but to learn from mistakes.

Spencer and Christy not only made a number of misleading statements in the UAH press release and in subsequent blog posts about it, they also ignored a body of scientific literature that contradicts their views on global climate change.

ROT might be applicable to scientific studies, but the climate debate is about competing assessments of the entire body of scientific literature.

They aren't quote so necessary when the results of a study will simply add to a body of literature that helps us gain understanding about science but does not lead to any particular decision immediately.

It's my guess that there is a large body of discussion and literature within judicial circles about what the duty of judges is, and how that is properly carried out.

Planned Parenthood Federation of America applauds today's preliminary injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Laurie Smith Camp against Nebraska's recently enacted «The Women's Health Protection Act,» which requires physicians who may perform an abortion to discuss the entire body of research literature about possible health risks related to abortion with their patients who are seeking abortions, even though much of this information may be outdated, false or misleading.

Without question, as a large body of literature demonstrates (e.g., Furstenberg and Cherlin, 1991; Seltzeret al., 1989; Seltzer, 1991a), many children are adversely affected economically when fathers fail to contribute financial support subsequent to divorce: only about half of divorced fathers comply fully and regularly with child support orders.