Sentences with phrase «change your research questions»

It is acceptable to modify or change your research questions as you learn more and more information on your subject.

Not exact matches

Even apart from the fact that they don't know what they're talking about because they don't know what's out there, the bigger issues are that: (a) almost all of these reports come back with a variety of related findings that may be precisely on point; and (b) the very age of the prior research may be invaluable if the new questions and inquiries have to do with trend lines, changes in attitudes or different behaviors.

Whether it is changing text books to teach religion as a «science,» making laws that prohibit stem - cell research which would without question help those in need, to stopping of any kind of gay rights, trying to put religion (christianity) into schools, a woman's right to choose, etc, etc...

The «right to question», the «right to research», and the «right to change / convert» — these are some of the rights I was willing to defend with my life during my military years.

A November 2012 survey of adults in the United States found 37 percent affirm a belief that homosexual behavior is a sin - a statistically significant change from a September 2011 LifeWay Research survey asking the same question.

He was on the fence before doing any research and I think looking at the comments and the research in this blog he has changed to anticirc without any hesitation or question.

I asked her so many inappropriate questions and even tried to quote «statistics» and «research» to get her to change her mind.

There is no historical trend for the Pew Research question, so it is difficult to say how the level of difficulty men and women experience in balancing work and family life has changed over time.

Another major change in the landscape was precipitated by research that questioned the traditional punishment — abuse dichotomy.

She uses empirical research conducted in Bolivia, Sweden, the US, India, and Canada to explore and theorize shifting conditions and strategies of social change, including the criminalization of dissent, new approaches to law by social movements, and broader theoretical questions about the transformative potential of law.

At the time, we had been shortlisted for «Best Agency» by Research magazine — the most prestigious award in the market research industry — so I was a bit alarmed at first to receive a letter from Labour peer Lord Joffe, possibly frustrated that his attempts to change the law on assisted suicide had failed yet again, expressing unhappiness with the wording of a qResearch magazine — the most prestigious award in the market research industry — so I was a bit alarmed at first to receive a letter from Labour peer Lord Joffe, possibly frustrated that his attempts to change the law on assisted suicide had failed yet again, expressing unhappiness with the wording of a qresearch industry — so I was a bit alarmed at first to receive a letter from Labour peer Lord Joffe, possibly frustrated that his attempts to change the law on assisted suicide had failed yet again, expressing unhappiness with the wording of a question.

The research published in the journal BMC Psychiatry today questioned over 1,400 mental health professionals on whether they would attempt to change a client's sexual orientation if requested.

An outstanding question is how the seemingly inevitable leadership change will effect SUNY Poly's hundreds of millions in corporate research spending each year and multi-million-dollar research contracts, as well as projects pending across the state.

Research scientists question whether the order will reduce international collaborations and remain troubled by confusion surrounding communications restrictions placed on employees of the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Agriculture, two agencies that have played vital roles in the collection of scientific data on climate change.

SHANGHAI, CHINA — China today unveiled a sweeping revamp of its bureaucracy that is expected to reap benefits for public health, the environment, and combatting climate change — while raising questions about the management of basic research.

But Jennifer Francis, a Rutgers University researcher who uses satellite data to study Arctic climate change, said she had questions about the research.

Now, with tight funds, waning public patience and an increasingly urgent need for solutions to climate change, fusion research faces uncomfortable questions of which direction to go, how to get there and what gets left behind.

The research has also contributed to answering the important question whether the increase in rainfall observed in the tropics was simply caused by the fact of a warmer atmosphere or whether the underlying circulation in that region had changed.

Funded by the Norwegian Research Council, it addressed questions around how climate change might affect salmon species distribution and abundance.

«We really have to change the top - down approach, where we come to people and say «these are our research questions and you should participate, because — SCIENCE»,» says Jennifer Raff, an anthropological geneticist at the University of Texas at Austin.

«This means one of the most important questions of our time is how climate change is affecting the polar regions,» explains Dr. Marcello Passaro of the TUM German Geodetic Research Institute.

In the realm of research, academic hydrogeologists are broadening their time horizons to help forecast and mitigate the effects of climate change, and they're stretching the traditional boundaries of their field to explore questions such as how groundwater interacts with the surface water of lakes and rivers.

Rodney Weber, an atmospheric scientist, is being questioned by Rep. Lamar Smith (R - Texas), who wants to know why Weber's climate - change - related research deserved a federal grant in 2012.

Warinner and colleague, Cecil M. Lewis, Jr., co-direct OU's Laboratories of Molecular Anthropology and Microbiome Research and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in tResearch and the research focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in tresearch focused on reconstructing the ancestral human oral and gut microbiome, addressing questions concerning how the relationship between humans and microbes has changed through time and how our microbiomes influence health and disease in diverse populations, both today and in the past.

In recent years, a brand of research called «climate attribution science» has sprouted from this question, examining the impact of extreme events to determine how much — often in fractional terms — is related to human - induced climate change, and how much to natural variability (whether in climate patterns such as the El Niño / La Niña - Southern Oscillation, sea - surface temperatures, changes in incoming solar radiation, or a host of other possible factors).

Melting ice and changing ecosystems will pose complicated new questions, says National Research Council

There is a small minority, including people like Gene Koprowski, marketing director at the Heartland Institute, which has consistently produced research challenging the science behind climate change, who have called into question the pope's wisdom in taking up the issue, even suggesting that he was inspired by «pagan remnants.»

Kevin Trenberth, an atmospheric scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado, gets asked the question so often about the connection between big rain events and climate change that he had this response via email: «Here we go again.»

«Our primary question is how the Amundsen Sea sector of West Antarctica will contribute to sea level rise in the future, particularly following our observations of massive changes in the area over the last two decades,» said UCI's Bernd Scheuchl, lead author on the first of the two studies, published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters in August.

«One of the questions prompted by this research is whether DNA methylation changes relating to age could contribute to the deterioration of egg quality, subsequently affecting the success of either the embryo or the supporting placenta.»

«The big question is whether the ice sheet will react to these changing ocean conditions as rapidly as it did 14,000 years ago,» said lead author Dr Nick Golledge, a senior research fellow at Victoria's Antarctic Researchresearch fellow at Victoria's Antarctic ResearchResearch Centre.

Through her research, Dr. Gallagher addresses questions about the mechanisms governing how global climate change affects plant - pollinator interactions and the extent to which changes in the levels of pollination influence the ecology and evolution of plant populations.

he continues to pose questions and do experiments that affect our ability to understand the human genome... and he continues to change the way we think about the genome, how to navigate it, and what those changes mean in transcriptional regulation,» said Elaine A. Ostrander, NIH Distinguished Investigator and Chief of the Cancer Genetics & Comparative Genomics Branch at the National Human Genome Research Institute and one of those nominating Kruglyak for this honor.

«The question is whether people are going to be basing their real estate decisions on climate change futures,» said Hugh Gladwin, professor of anthropology at Florida International University, who says his research suggests higher - standing areas of Miami are becoming increasingly gentrified as a result of sea level rise.

Most famously, in 2003, Soon co-authored a paper in the journal Climate Research that questioned the standard interpretation of climate change over the past millennium and argued that recent warming is not unusual by historical standards.

Her research strives to answer such questions as: What changes have occurred in wild animals and plants in the past century with ~ 0.8 oC of warming around the globe?

According to the survey, 87 percent of the scientists questioned by the Pew Research Center said that climate change is mostly caused by human activity, compared with 50 percent of the public.

Other research is looking into questions about how seamount populations change in response to climate - induced shifts in ocean circulation and whether habitats disturbed by human activity can recover.

Eating disorder research is providing answers to the question, «Why!?!» The textbook eating disorder recipe: genetic predisposition, negative body image, and a change in eating habits (here's an article explaining this).

A lot of research into behavior change has been done to answer the question, «why are we so bad at changing?».

For decades, that question has fascinated a small circle of impassioned doctors and researchers — and now, their life - changing research is making headlines in the hit documentary Forks Over Knives.

Crunching the numbers on their blog, the team openly discusses research questions like what flirtation looks like on their site — what people are talking about and how it changes over time — so daters can learn from user trends.

Also students will research the effects of global warming and climate change and evaluate whether this is the biggest threat we face as humans Students will research destruction of natural resources — with an example of deforestation — and evaluate whether humans have the right to do what they want to the planet Students will then summarise our learning from this lesson and will answer some questions to demonstrate learning from this lesson

You can then have students draft quantitative research questions based on the parts of the game they wish to change, such as:

«Questions and Answers in the Measurement of Change,» in Review of Research in Education (ed by E.Z. Rothkopf), (1988)

Research Question 4: Does working in partnership with girls trained in science communication change scientists» attitudes about public engagement of science?

In this way, our students gain knowledge and skills for using theories of change to address the specific topics or research questions that are most significant to them.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

Lortie - Forgues, Tian and Siegler (2015) repeated the question with students of the same age in 2014 — 27 per cent got it right, leading the researchers to comment: «Thus, after more than three decades, numerous rounds of education reforms, hundreds if not thousands of research studies on mathematics teaching and learning, and billions of dollars spent to effect educational change, little improvement was evident in students» understanding of fraction arithmetic.»

They are willing to openly question their practices and use their research - based findings to initiate positive change in the classroom and in schools.