Sentences with phrase «by empirical studies»

Models of juvenile sexual offending need to be informed by developmental theory and validated by empirical studies using measures that have demonstrated reliability and validity.

The SIOP Model is made up of eight components, each of which is supported by empirical studies, and the model itself has a growing research base (Short, Echevarría, & Richards - Tutor, 2011).

As repeatedly confirmed by empirical studies, it permits fair comparisons among teachers, schools, and school systems that serve differing student populations.

Each of the components is supported by empirical studies, and the model itself has a growing research base (Short, Echevarría, & Richards - Tutor, 2011).

Even the employer share of increased premiums will mostly be shifted over time to employees via lower monetary compensation, as indicated by empirical studies.

Of course, theology is to be informed by common sense and by empirical study.

Hypothesis generation and confirmation by empirical study is.

I think that Piers Forster did answer that point telling that choosing the prior can be used by everyone using the information provided by the empirical study in their subsequent analysis.

Not exact matches

He explained that some time ago he was conducting an empirical study of street prostitutes in the city of Chicago, and, through a connection at a company he was consulting with, met a high - end call girl who had read «Freakonomics,» and who was willing to help him with his study by providing data.

This study sheds light on a crucial relationship that is complicated by plenty of rhetoric, and where policy is sometimes founded on myth rather than empirical fact.

Our empirical studies on the analysis and assessment of entrepreneurial attitudes were conducted on the basis of data published by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development within the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study.

In his May 2016 paper entitled «An Empirical Study of Financial Analysts Earnings Forecast Accuracy», Andrew Stotz measures accuracy of consensus 12 - month earnings forecasts by financial analysts for the companies they cover around the world.

This claim is also contradicted by the evidence.A 2003 empirical study by Gottman, et al, of the interaction between heter.os.exual and hom.os.exual couples found that «same - s.

They may be driven by the need for empirical study, logic, and the scientific method, and thus reject spiritualism entirely.

Alison Gray, in a recent doctoral study on the empirical use of material relating to The Essay in Aid of a Grammar of Assent, in relation to the teaching of Key Stage Three religious education in a Catholic school in England, has shown the inherent capacity of children to reach belief by a proper use and understanding of the illative sense.

I could have gone into empirical evidence and biblical study (you didn't either, by the way), but my first post to you was merely introductory — the full discussion would be quite long as you know.

If «the reality of the religion of a people can be studied only through the empirical enquiry into the meaning appropriated by them as persons and community of persons in their life situations, «32 then Dalit theology needs to look carefully into popular level of Hindu - Christian religious encounter.

We must take this question into account as we discuss the meaning of the «resurrection of Jesus», just because the latter belongs to the faith of the Christian, and is not an empirical fact that can be studied objectively by Christian and non-Christian alike.

Such study, however, does attempt to be objective by sticking close to empirical data, to its critical analysis, and to projections based on it.

Nor have they drawn on the empirical studies bearing on the stability of «sexual orientation» or on the lives of children raised by same - sex couples.

By studying the operations of their models and the concrete systems they represent, both men suggest they can offer an understanding of the qualitative aspects of reality without compromising on the empirical character of the reality being symbolized by their models, and this, largely because of the immersion of their models in the empirical structureBy studying the operations of their models and the concrete systems they represent, both men suggest they can offer an understanding of the qualitative aspects of reality without compromising on the empirical character of the reality being symbolized by their models, and this, largely because of the immersion of their models in the empirical structureby their models, and this, largely because of the immersion of their models in the empirical structures.

This claim is also contradicted by the evidence.A 2003 empirical study by Gottman, et al, of the interaction between heter.os.exual and ho.mose.xual couples found that «same - s.

Yoga exercises are so interesting from the point of view of the physiologist because they incorporate unique empirical traditions in a sector of study which has not yet been appropriately analyzed by scientists.

Drawing on six case studies, examining the role of ideology in mass killing by Nazi Germany, the Soviet Union under Stalin, the Allied powers in their aerial bombardment of Germany and Japan, the terrorist campaigns of Daesh and Al Qaeda, the Rwandan Genocide and the Guatemalan Civil War, the project will develop theoretical and empirical understanding of the role ideology plays in mass killing.

The research by Dr Patrick Bourke, Senior Lecturer at the Lincoln School of Psychology, is the first empirical study demonstrating the relationship between lucid dreaming and insight.

Cohort studies, the empirical longitudinal research of people with a common characteristic, have played a crucial role in enhancing medical care and have dramatically reduced the risk of early death by revealing potential risk factors and unanticipated dangers.

These are the findings of a recent empirical study by researchers at the University of Tübingen and WU Vienna.

We need more empirical studies to truly understand who will be most affected by climate change in the future.»

Jeste and colleagues determined to see if PTSD might show a similar association by conducting a comprehensive review of published empirical studies relevant to early aging in PTSD, covering multiple databases going back to 2000.

The study, «Copycats Versus Original Mobile Apps: A Machine Learning Copycat Detection Method and Empirical Analysis,» was conducted over a five year period by Quan Wang, Beibei Li, and Param Vir Singh of Carnegie Mellon University.

The study is based on a unique empirical setting, in which a power plant located on the border between two states has polluted the downwind state for years with its pollution spillovers scientifically proven by the downwind state and also by the federal government.

Empirical studies and analyses range from simple experiments, particularly by measuring, weighing and counting, to extremely complex processes that require an enormous amount of time and money.

Mathematics, theology, philosophy and law are examples of fields that revolve within a stand - alone world in which new findings are derived by means of logical operations consisting of axioms, postulates or articles of faith (theology) that need not be proven true or accurate through empirical studies or analyses.

Tansley Review - The magnitude of hydraulic redistribution by plant roots: a review and synthesis of empirical and modeling studies.

His studies of collared flycatchers demonstrated, for the first time, that paternal investment in one year could influence investment by the same individuals in display behaviors in a subsequent year providing an empirical link between sexual selection and life history and a rare characterization of the long - term consequences of reproductive investment.

As it is unclear whether sparse or nonsparse combinations of FC patterns are most appropriate, and as this affects their interpretation and use as markers of cognitive processing, the goal of our study was to evaluate the impact of sparsity by performing an empirical evaluation of simulated, task - based, and resting - state dFC.

Climate model studies and empirical analyses of paleoclimate data can provide estimates of the amplification of climate sensitivity caused by slow feedbacks, excluding the singular mechanisms that caused the hyperthermal events.

In this study, we begin the empirical effort to determine the likely direction of immune - mediated virulence evolution by performing experimental evolution of the rodent malaria parasite, Plasmodium chabaudi, in laboratory mice.

An empirical study of the financial impact of online communities on commerce, conducted by the University of Michigan, found that engaged consumers spend more money.

This study introduces two empirical strategies that circumvent these obstacles by examining differences in cohorts of students - a school's group of 3rd graders in one year versus the next year's group of 3rd graders - rather than cross-sections of classrooms at the same grade level.

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.

A more recent summary, by Epple, Romano, and Urquiola, selectively included only 48 % of the empirical private school choice studies available in the research literature.

A 1997 study by the General Accounting Office (GAO) screened more than 200 empirical studies of Head Start and found only 22 that met their criteria for worthwhile research.

The Dina Feitelson Research Award was established to honor the memory of Dina Feitelson by recognizing an outstanding empirical study published in English in a refereed journal.

A recent study by Hill et al. (2008) provides empirical benchmarks for interpreting effect sizes in educational research more generally.

An empirical study by Alonso Bucarey of MIT uses enrollment changes observed after earlier financial aid reforms in Chile to predict that gratuidad will reduce enrollment among low - income students and push those who do enroll into lower quality institutions.

Only one study, conducted by Jay Greene and Marcus Winters and focusing on the D.C. voucher program, found that voucher competition had no effect on the test scores of non-participants, while no empirical study of acceptable rigor has found that a U.S. private - school - choice program decreased the achievement of public school students.

«The Bennett Hypothesis Turns 30,» a research paper by Jenna A. Robinson, merges findings from 25 empirical studies on the «Bennett Hypothesis»: Reagan - era Education Secretary William J. Bennett's theory that large amounts of federal student aid drive up the cost of tuition.

Eleven studies were identified in an extensive review of the empirical literature and were analyzed through a rigorous process developed by the MSP - KMD project (read a detailed description of the process) that applied standards of evidence to the findings of each study.

Our claim that these practices ought to be considered essential for successful leaders is based on reviews of empirical research and on illustrative original studies carried out in educational contexts.116 We also rely on a synthesis of evidence about managerial skills, compiled by Yukl (2002).