Sentences with phrase «body of scientific»

«There is a growing awareness and body of scientific evidence that indoor, built environments can affect human health and well - being, with the perception often being that indoor environments have a negative impact on health,» says Dr. Brent Bauer, medical director of the Well Living Lab and professor of medicine for Mayo Clinic Complementary and Integrative Medicine Program.

Currently, there is no clear - cut body of scientific data about some of the basic questions that underlie a custody recommendation.

This renewed momentum comes at a crucial time in the history of psychotherapy: on the one hand, we are witnessing an accumulation of knowledge about their efficacy thanks to the growing body of scientific research in a clinical environment; on the other hand, a debate is under way in various countries — including Switzerland — on the criteria for reimbursement of psychotherapy by the health insurance funds.

A growing body of scientific evidence about early brain development supports increasing the quality and access to early education experiences.

Perhaps you've read the growing body of scientific evidence that mindfulness improves mental and physical health, self - regulation, and quality of relationships.

Zeynep Biringen, Ph.D. has spent the last twenty years conducting research on emotional availability in parent - child relationships, adding to the growing body of scientific knowledge on the subject that has been amassed in the field of child - parent attachment.

These efforts fly in the face of a large body of scientific evidence showing that preventing unintended pregnancies strengthens the family.

It said, in part, «A substantial body of scientific evidence identifies important developmental, familial, and social risk factors for violence.

Fact: «A growing body of scientific literature demonstrates that children who grow up with 1 or 2 gay and / or lesbian parents fare as well in emotional, cognitive, social, and sexual functioning as do children whose parents are heterosexual.

A large body of scientific research has determined that the average student in a school with an effective SEL program where none previously existed significantly improves a student's:

Unfortunately, or fortunately, this flies in the face of a large body of scientific evidence that suggests neither women nor men outgrow the need for belonging, comfort, acceptance, and support.

Multiplying Connections» approach is based on a growing body of scientific evidence about the dynamic relationship between our experiences as children and our physical and mental health as adults.

Scientists have started to examine the neurological effects from heavy Internet usage, and a body of scientific literature has emerged that paints a disturbing picture.

8) If a testing device or other equipment is used, show that: a. the type of device used is reliable and / or accepted as dependable for such use by an appropriate body of scientific thought and by studies, experiments and field use; b. the method of operation of the device and the particular device used are of an accepted type and in good working order; c. the operator of the device was competent to use the device by training and experience; and d. that the particular test was correctly done.

The AGU said: «Mr. Michaels's op - ed reflects a political strategy to sway popular opinion on climate change without regard for facts or the enormous body of scientific evidence... The result damages the scientific community and is a disservice to the public.»

The body of scientific research has determined that GCRs are actually not very effective at seeding clouds.

Most of the science is flipped through fairly quickly within chapter one, and casual readers familiar with the IPCC report will find little to surprise them with sections including statements such as «An overwhelming body of scientific evidence indicates that the Earth's climate is rapidly changing, predominantly as a result of increases in greenhouse gases caused by human activities» etc..

In the case of global mean surface temperature, the IPCC AR5 presents a strong body of scientific evidence that most of the global warming observed over the past half century is very likely due to human - caused greenhouse gas emissions.

With respect to the first sentence, Federal Defendants admit that for over fifty years some officials and persons employed by the federal government have been aware of a growing body of scientific research concerning the effects of fossil fuel emissions on atmospheric concentrations of CO2 — including that increased concentrations of atmospheric CO2 could cause measurable long - lasting changes to the global climate, resulting in an array of severe deleterious effects to human beings, which will worsen over time.

Climate change and global warming refer to the body of scientific evidence showing that the earth's environment is warming due to human activity, including the burning of fossil fuels and deforestation.

A 2007 Supreme Court decision determined that legally, CO2 may be considered one such harmful pollutant, and that the EPA should decide whether it was or not, using the extant body of scientific evidence as its guide.

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

Next, economist John Gowdy asserted that the neoclassical model of economics on which policymakers rely is deeply flawed — instead of rational actors, there's a major body of scientific evidence supporting the notion that we're highly unpredictable, largely social beings.

Indeed R Gates, I wonder if Judith's persistence, honesty, and body of scientific work will end up giving the mainstream paradigm» ers the rosy cheeks of red - faced embarrassment.

It makes logical sense, but a growing body of scientific research being conducted in the field is revealing otherwise.

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.

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.

For those interested in perusing this growing body of scientific evidence all at once, a new page has been added to the NoTricksZone website.

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.

he challenged, directing me to a ton of information, including an article on the Organic Consumers Assn.'s website, which points to a growing body of scientific evidence that makes you question whether GMOs are harmless.

However, a growing aspect of SkS output is adding to the body of scientific knowledge by publishing our own peer - reviewed research.

Finally, advocates of the technology had a chance to present the overwhelming body of scientific evidence that nuclear is, in fact, our safest energy source precisely because it emits no deadly pollution into the environment.

Despite the large body of scientific evidence on climate change, developed over decades, we have not generally been as successful in providing the kind of information decision - makers need to identify and prioritize the specific actions required to manage the many individual (and interconnected) risks of climate change.

A growing body of scientific research concludes that increased temperatures and changing precipitation patterns are altering the timing and availability of water resources in the western United States [3].

Compared to earlier reports, the evidence presented is robust since it is based on a larger body of scientific, technical and socioeconomic evidence of climate change.

10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.

Failed predictions left and right, missing heat, an ever increasing body of scientific literature supportive of the skeptical case....

Your feelings may be hurt, but your incorrect ideas won't make it in to the accumulating body of scientific knowledge, which is what really matters:

But a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the projections of climate change that have been made by the current family of computerized climate models has been overdone — that the world will warm up significantly less than has been predicted as a result of our ongoing carbon dioxide emissions.

And finally, and perhaps most importantly, the future projection of temperature rise made by climate models (upon which the sea level rise projections are based) have been shown by a growing body of scientific research to be overestimated by about 40 percent.

Their paper argued, «a growing body of scientific research reports the wide array of negative effects of AGW on biodiversity» by citing Parmesan whose bogus claims about the negative effects of climate change on wildlife are well documented.

Muller and the BEST team are good scientists, so it was inevitable that they would eventually agree with the body of scientific literature on this issue.

The study's results support a growing body of scientific evidence that suggests it is possible to immediately slow the pace of climate change regionally by reducing emissions of short - lived climate pollutants, like black carbon.

While the body of scientific knowledge about climate change and its impacts has grown tremendously, future conditions can not be predicted with absolute certainty.

And yet the same kind of unhinged repudiation of an overwhelming body of scientific facts is treated not as the private obsession of a handful of nutcases, but as a legitimate part of the «debate» over global warming.

How had a small band of non-scientists managed to so quickly and thoroughly pursuade the nation's leaders to reject an ever more coherent and definitive body of scientific evidence?

Yes, according to the body of scientific literature.

It's hard and expensive work... but he's managed to add to the small body of scientific literature on Himalayan ice.

EPA is only one of numerous U.S. government agencies that conduct and support research related to climate change and is not designed to conduct, on its own, the vast body of scientific research that is reviewed in the IPCC Assessments, nor to carry out the massive assessment process embodied in the IPCC reports, which involves hundreds of authors and reviewers who make up most of the leadership of the international climate research community.

Then there are scientific claims such as, «There's a rapidly growing body of scientific research finding that California is in the midst of its worst drought in over a millennium (and) global warming has made the drought worse.»