Sentences with phrase «controversial study as»

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The EPA fracking study was commissioned in 2010 by the US Congress and stands as the most comprehensive review of the controversial mining technique, which releases natural gas by injecting a high - pressure mixture of water, sand, and chemicals into rock formations deep below ground.

Meanwhile, debates were held on the Environment and Industrial Relations as the WA government released a controversial study.

I offered to study the Qu'aran with him so we can both learn more about Islam as depicted by the interesting (though controversial) book.

The teacher's approach to such problems might start from three assumptions: (a) the teacher should be concerned with how science fits into the larger framework of life, and the student should raise questions about the meaning of what he studies and its relation to other fields; (b) controversial questions can be treated, not in a spirit of indoctrination, but with an emphasis on asking questions and helping students think through assumptions and implications; an effort should be made to present viewpoints other than one's own as fairly as possible, respecting the integrity of the student by avoiding undue imposition of the lecturer's beliefs; (c) presuppositions inevitably enter the classroom presentation of many subjects, so that a viewpoint frankly and explicitly recognized may be less dangerous than one which is hidden and assumed not to exist.

As anyone who studies the history of Christian thought knows, what is theologically controversial and needs clear justification is the liberal view that we should adopt a religiously neutral approach to public policy, including immigration and refugee policy.

Although normal doses of fish oil are not thought to be harmful, giving kids fish oil supplements is a little controversial, as not all studies have shown that they have any benefit.

Regnerus (the same sociologist behind a controversial study of how children of same - sex couples fare) says cheap sex — sex with little cost as far as time or emotional investment — is behind a host of societal ills, from fewer people marrying to the rise of unmarriageable men to more people living together to more children being born outside of marriage — you get the idea.

Colon cancer test Non-invasive, virtual colonoscopies — which involve a CT scan of the lower body — are as effective as standard colonoscopies at detecting large and medium - size polyps that can lead to colon cancer, according to the largest and most definitive study to date on the controversial technology.

The practice of ultrasound during pregnancy is highly controversial with authorities acknowledging that there are clear hazards as found in animal and cell studies.

«The Age» newspaper was chosen as the data source for this study as it has national distribution and regularly features news articles that report controversial issues particularly in the area of maternity care and childbirth.

The New York state government continues its study of fracking as advocates for and against the highly controversial drilling process in Broome County and across the Southern Tier wait for the decision of whether or not it will be allowed in New York state.

As scientists, clinicians and industry leaders study these fascinating but controversial mind - altering practices, one thing is clear: The idea of applying an electrical current to the scalp to boost learning or treat medical conditions in the comfort of one's own home is gaining traction.

But the pesticides have been controversial, because a number of studies have found that they can hurt pollinators as well as pests.

In a pilot study, South Carolina psychiatrist Michael Mithoefer is targeting PTSD with a controversial drug: methylenedioxymethamphetamine, or MDMA, commonly known as Ecstasy.

Hormone replacement therapy has been controversial over the past few decades as studies have associated it with both health benefits — lowering the risk of osteoporosis and improving some measures of heart health, for example — and risks, including links to cancer and stroke.

«This study provides an explicit test of some controversial ideas about how the brain reorganizes as we age,» said lead author Simon Davis, PhD.

UT has been clobbered with a tough outside review, made public yesterday by Provost Steven Leslie, of blunders in a controversial study on the use of hydraulic fracturing to extract natural gas, known as «fracking.»

When politicians want to cut funding, he notes, they focus on specific controversial studies or areas — such as climate change, stem cells or genetically modified organisms.

However, the experiments are controversial and, according to a new study at the Georgia Institute of Technology, perhaps not as effective as expected.

The study, published this week in Science, also makes a controversial claim: that heightened surveillance of families with a history of abuse may have biased some studies taken as evidence for the cycle of violence.

In 2013, the science committee subpoenaed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over communications related to a controversial study on the health effects of air pollution known as the Harvard Six Cities Sstudy on the health effects of air pollution known as the Harvard Six Cities StudyStudy.

As a controversial study of the H5N1 avian influenza virus published online today in Science shows, researchers are keenly interested in how mutations in the virus» genes might enable it to become transmissible in humans.

A study shows that the controversial «butterfly ballot» used in Palm Beach County, Florida, is indeed confusing, as many (mostly Democratic) voters have argued.

Health effects of acute and chronic marijuana use remain controversial and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has not officially approved marijuana as a medicine, nor has it been extensively studied within the general population.

According to a controversial new study, set to be published in The Journal of Political Psychology, the bedrooms and offices of liberals, who are generally thought of as open, tend to be colorful and awash in books about travel, ethnicity, feminism and music, along with music CDs covering folk, classic and modern rock, as well as art supplies, movie tickets and travel memorabilia.

However, only a small proportion has been replicated across studies, and the prevalence of positive selection as a mechanism of adaptive change in humans remains controversial.

The authors suggest that studies connecting micronutrients, such as the ones they measured, with physical fitness in any population has been controversial and limited.

Although WIRES Comp Stat itself is completely unrelated to climate studies, the original trio of editors — Wegman, Said and Rice University statistician David Scott — had collaborated earlier on the highly controversial congressional report on paleoclimatology known as the Wegman Report.

A role of HUWE1 has been very controversial in the context of cancer biology — some studies report HUWE1 as a tumor suppressor, while other studies show HUWE1 as having the potential to cause cancer.

This study aims to shed light on the ongoing (and controversial) debate about whether or not breastfeeding can influence a child's intelligence and behavior in the longer - term, since evidence as of now is conflicting.

«In our sample, I expected to see a large number of negative tweets based on traditional news coverage of the topic and because HPV can be portrayed as controversial because it brings together the fields of sexually transmitted infections, immunizations and cancer prevention,» said study co-author Philip Massey.

The federal agency made the announcement after completing a review of the results of a controversial study, known as the ENHANCE trial.

Hair analysis for toxic metals, while controversial, has been widely accepted and validated for epidemiological studies by the World Health Organization and the EPA [58] as being extremely useful and cost effective for identifying toxic metal exposures (when performed by laboratories with the appropriate expertise and quality control).

The area of bone health benefits from soy has remained nearly as controversial as the anti-cancer area due to the large amount of mixed evidence found in human studies on soy and bone health.

The study depicted in Experimenter (Grade: B --RRB- is just as controversial but less theatrical: A decade before Stanford started and aborted its own little autopsy of human behavior, Yale psychologist Stanley Milgram (Peter Sarsgaard, eventually rocking some unflattering facial hair) tested people's willingness to obey authority by instructing volunteers to administer electric shocks to strangers in another room.

The first season set the scene — St. Louis in the 1950s, a prestigious teaching hospital, a leading gynecologist pursuing research that is controversial at best in the conservative culture with a partner who has no acknowledged credentials but shows a keen interest in and understanding of the topic and a way with putting the human subjects as ease — and introduced the complexity of the study, which was condemned when the initial findings were presented.

I suppose it's the biggest irony that, just like a man who saw the most shocking of sexual behavior as little more than data for study, so too does Condon see one of the more controversial figures in 20th century America in a similar fashion — stripped away of all emotion, showing just incidents and behavior for our analytical perusal.

The studies are the first to gauge the effects of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's controversial academic standards known as Proposition 16.

The value of this is enormous as it enables competitive authoritarian regimes to avoid international isolation, as in each of the case studies examined, a prominent regional organization monitored and legitimized the controversial election results without question (AU, UNASUR, ASEAN, OSCE, etc.) providing support for the international legitimacy of the regime in question.

Utilizing the renowned case study format, investigate in a hands - on manner how we can facilitate and promote constructive and inclusive conversations across controversial issues such as race, culture, and class in our society.

By far the largest and most comprehensive study on this topic ever conducted, «THE ARTS AND ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: WHAT THE EVIDENCE SHOWS,» confirms claims that listening to music temporarily enhances spatial skills (the controversial «Mozart Effect»), as well as claims that children who study music gain skill in spatial reasoning.

The most controversial bill gave the state board of education extensive powers to regulate independent study or «nonclassroom» - based instruction that uses computers as the main instructional tool.

But there is risk of overstating results from any single study, especially on issues as controversial and polarizing as private school choice.

Many of his studies took him into controversial territory, including his investigation of whether incentives increase academic achievement (in most cases, no), and his investigation with Steven Levitt of whether there are systematic racial differences in mental ability among young children (no, when they're under the age of 1; yes, as they get older, hinting at the importance of environmental differences).

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy has just asked for a «pause» in implementation of a controversial new teacher evaluation system that uses student standardized test scores to assess teachers as well creation of a task force to study the implementation of the Common Core State Standards.

As the lead researchers on some of the most comprehensive (and controversial) national studies of charter schools, she and her colleagues have found that while charter schools seem to be doing slightly better than traditional public schools in reading and about the same in math, great variation exists within these results (CREDO, 2013).

Supporters of VAM, a controversial statistical tool that uses student test scores to come up with estimates of teacher effectiveness, tried to frame the positive IMPACT studies as proof of VAM's merit.

But as marketing falls more and more to the writer, and as self - published authors close the quality gap by employing freelance editors and skilled cover artists, the earnings comparison in our study suggests a controversial conclusion: Genre writers are financially better off self - publishing, no matter the potential of their manuscripts.

In many ways, however, since the inception of Kindle Unlimited last summer, Howey's sorting - through of the variables faced by authors has held a certain coherence because of (a) his «hybrid» status as a traditionally and self - publishing author, (b) his AuthorEarnings.com data work in a consistent if controversial analysis of authors» income potentials, and (c) his study of the Amazon subscription question as a shared conversation with readers and authors.

Corticosteroids, such as prednisone, are especially controversial: while veterinarians have long considered them to be the most common drug to cause pancreatitis, recent human studies have discounted this link.