Sentences with phrase «current lack of data»
Due to the current lack of data linking individual students» attendance patterns and truancy referrals with their test scores, that contention is difficult to either prove or disprove.
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What Beijing seems not to understand is that current pessimism about the Chinese economy has less to do with the recent spate of bad news than with the lack of reliable data on the Chinese economy and the opacity of Beijing's process of economic policymaking and its intentions.
He argued that the lack of data on households with the current system makes social intervention programmes targeted at the vulnerable difficulty since there is no data as to who is poor and in which community.
They soon found, explains THESIS chairperson Christopher Mues, who is also a PhD student in mathematics, that with the lack of a comprehensive, up - to - date national survey on the country's PhD students, «it was difficult to propose improvements when we didn't have real data on the current situation.»
Dr Martin Hemberg, lead author on the paper from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, said: «It has been difficult to fully exploit single - cell RNA - sequence data due to the current lack of computational methods for analysing them.
Dr Missair and colleagues conclude, «Although there is a significant lack of scientific data, our search of the current literature identified some strategies that may be helpful to protect anesthesia staff from acquiring the virus while enabling them to provide appropriate medical care to their patients.»
Based on data gathered when participants entered each study, the investigators used four AHA - defined lifestyle factors — no current smoking; lack of obesity, defined as a body mass index less than 30; physical exercise at least once a week, and a healthy dietary pattern — to determine a lifestyle score, whether participants had a favorable (three or four healthy factors), intermediate (two factors) or unfavorable (one or no healthy factors) lifestyle.
An apparent lack of comparability between current clinical assays for CTX has become evident, indicating the possible limitations of combining such data for meta - analyses;
Current wireless implant prototypes thus suffer from a lack of accuracy as they lack the bandwidth to send out thousands of channels of raw data.
«This study is an important step towards developing precision medicine for at - risk and understudied minority populations,» Burchard said, «But the current lack of genomic data from these populations highlights the urgent need for a dedicated national effort to prioritize diversity in research.»
«The advantage of the current study is that it provides a framework for assessing the potential epidemic impact that might occur in environments that lack sufficient data,» said the study's co-author Mike Tildesley from the University of Warwick.
Virginity pledges, along with a 6 - hour curriculum, were first introduced in 1993 by an evangelical Christian group, and a 1995 survey suggested that 13 % of teens had taken such a pledge (current survey data are lacking, says Rosenbaum.)
It reads: «Given concerns about both the design and administration of the new assessments, the lack of preparation for schools, the inadequate time to implement the new curriculum for the current cohort, and the variations in approaches between schools resulting from delayed and obscure guidance, it is hard to have confidence in the data produced by this round of assessments.»
(Duncan strategically skipped over Hawaii's current lack of a permanent state chief, a reliable statewide data system, or any substantial record of accomplishment on teacher quality — and the fact that a new governor will take office in January).
His one major criticism of the current digital comics trend is the lack of transparency into the data generated by digital sales, as any data he does get from comiXology is basically limited to royalty statements and is usually «way old, usually from two quarters behind.»
Further, current scores can also can be inhibited by a lack of data, resulting in an inaccurate representation of a person's credit.
The lack of movement in the current market relating to 30 year mortgage rates is due to the fact that market expectations were so close to the actual data.
The current lack of consistency between various data sets makes it difficult, based on current knowledge, to attribute the millennial time scale large - scale climate variations to external forcings (solar activity, episodes of intense volcanism), or to variability internal to the climate system.
My other reason for «solution aversion» is the apparent lack of reliable data on current global warming trends and the poor peer review processes that have taken place in the climate science field so far.
Despite the lack of hard data to justify it, the current proposal includes just about every possible fire safety measure measure imaginable, layered one on top of the other in an unprecedented fashion.
If you want to base your entire analysis based on a data set that shows the most warming 1950 - 2000 and ignore the problems... lack of current warming and possibly overcorrected data in the 1940s, I find it illogical to claim that there is 95 % certainty that TCR is that high.
Until IPCC come to terms with the current «lack of warming» despite unabated human GHG emissions and concentrations reaching record levels, they are avoiding or ignoring an important «data point» in the «science» (because it doesn't fit the «religious beliefs»?).
I never saw such a thing, even in IPCC reports, and I doubt very much it exists, simply because of the lack of high quality data (which no one can charge climate scientists for, naturally); but if doesn't exist, you are simply unable to quantify the current variation, at some definite timescale, with respect to the «usual» former variation at the same timescale.
Here the letter conflates the issue of opposition to the current crop of nuclear power plants — which are simply uncompetitive quite separate from the very legitimate issues of safety, waste disposal, proliferation, and water consumption — with a supposed lack of support for next generation nuclear power plants (that will be magically cheaper, despite all trend data to the contrary).
The short version is this, though: The current, patchwork approach isn't working, with data collection lacking, and conservation efforts falling short of what is needed.
The fact, as the first year of the LPP process nears to a close, the LSUC hasn't introduced those number for public discussion is a damning criticism of the LSUC and its lack of transparency — the LSUC should have collected that data months ago and it should be part of the current discussion.
The current data economy and lack of consumer - focused privacy legislation has led to a free - for - all in the market, where companies create services that can act as lures to attract consumers and convince them to allow companies to use their data, often without realizing it.
It's starting at around # 25 per month on contract for basic amounts of data, which seems to fit the bill for a phone that doesn't have a high - end CPU and lacks features like waterproofing that you can find on the current «flagship» Sony phone, the Xperia Z5.
The main purpose of this is usually for small areas to tweak their FMRs to better reflect rents where the lack of data hampered a good initial calculation, to chase a skyrocketing or plunging market more closely (remember the 3 year rolling set of data HUD uses) or to soften big swings in FMR for current tenants.