Sentences with phrase «body of literature says»

Further, there is a substantial body of literature says that indoor cats are more inclined to get bored and thus have special needs in terms of additional playtime and scratching posts.

Not exact matches

«This is a nice study that adds to the body of literature trying to figure out exactly the conditions under which bilingualism improves cognitive function,» said Dr. Ellen Bialystok, a professor and bilingualism expert at York University in Toronto, who was not involved in this research.

It is not hyperbole to say that Hamann's writings constitute probably the most difficult body of literature within the German language: they are brief, compressed, manic, irrepressibly inventive, at once diffuse and piercing, and almost occult in their impregnability.

Yet a great part of the extensive body of sacred Buddhist literature purports to be the record of what he did and said.

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.

The identification of the secondary breakdown product adds to a growing body of literature investigating the potential health effects of coffee drinks, says Peter Martin, a professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and director of the university's Institute for Coffee Studies.

«One of the biggest barriers for broader understanding is that there is scant knowledge on the female genitalia of reptiles, compared to a relatively large body of literature on male genital development and diversity,» she said.

«There's a whole body of literature that shows that mining boom towns undergo similar changes,» Beckmann says.

«We have animal literature, which shows direct links between exposure and adverse health outcomes, the limited human studies, and the fact that 90 to 100 percent of the population has measurable levels of these compounds in their bodies,» said John Meeker, an assistant professor of environmental health sciences at the University of Michigan School of Public Health and a lead author.

There's literature that says there's no effect, that people aren't bothered by infrasound, and yet there's another body of literature that says they are.»

«These findings add to a growing body of literature underscoring an increasingly important relationship between systemic inflammation, central inflammation, and pathological outcomes,» she said.

«If you look at the last 500 years of literature in Western anatomy, it is the one major body system that hasn't really been studied,» said Thomas W. Myers, author of the seminal text Anatomy Trains: Myofascial Meridians for Manual & Movement Therapists and arguably the leading expert on fascia in America.

«Ancient Vedic (the oldest known Sanskrit literature) knowledge tells us that we have a vital energy called prana moving through the energy channels in the midline of the body, with each chakra, or center of energy, identifying a core human need,» says Candice Covington, a certified aromatherapist, massage therapist, and energy worker at The Chopra Center in Carlsbad, California.

«The study adds to a growing body of scientific literature that indicates HFCS consumption may result in negative health consequences distinct from and more deleterious than natural sugar,» Michael Goran, of the University of Southern California Department of Preventive Medicine and co-author of the new study, said in a prepared statement.

Although the study makes a contribution to the growing body of literature on end - of - life care, the fact that the researchers relied on caregivers and doctors to describe the patient's experience is a shortcoming, says Michael Levy, M.D., director of the pain and palliative care program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, in Philadelphia.

Meanwhile, Picus and Odden ignore a large body of literature that shows little impact on advantaged students and smaller impacts on disadvantaged ones, to say nothing of the empirical reality that the 56 percent of students currently attending schools that have full - day kindergarten do not surpass the remaining 44 percent attending schools without full - day kindergarten by anything like a 0.77 margin.

Luc Sante said: «The body of literature on squatting is regrettably small.

As for appeal to authority, well the wide body of literature has authority (although individual papers may be badly flawed), so although it would be wrong to say that because it supports AGW then AGW must be true it is still perfectly legitimate to present it as indicative of our current level of scientific understanding of the subject and evidence that the skeptical view is, rightly or wrongly, a minority one.

I realize that there is a whole body of literature out there on this, and people like Roger Pielke say that all scientists should be actively involved in assessing the policy implications of their research.

Schiess observes that «one commentator has said that lawyers, in their reading, are exposed to «the largest body of poorly written literature ever created by the human race.»»