Sentences with phrase «debate among»

«The second factor, which is still a subject of debate among experts, involves the priming of the skin by increased levels of hormones in pregnancy.

Introduction to a debate among experts.

There is, in fact, tremendous debate among the public health community about whether vitamin A supplements should be given to pregnant women and children in third world countries.

The effectiveness of knuckle replacement is a matter of ongoing debate among hand surgeons and rheumatologists.

There's still ongoing debate among scientists and experts about whether high heat turns cooking oils into nasty trans fats, but pretty much everyone agrees that this process is more likely to occur if the same oil gets used more than once.

The acid also known as hydroxycitric acid (HCA), has created a debate among nutritionists among nutritionists as to its alleged benefits.

With TV news crews from around the world in attendance at the assembly and camped outside Michael Brown's Pasadena office, the new definition was scrutinized in the debate among the IAU delegates and then put to the vote.

The question of whether or not the Voyager 1 spacecraft has left the solar system continues to inspire debate among scientists.

Even their distances from Earth were the subject of great debate among astronomers.

Since 2012 when researchers first realized its capacity for gene editing, CRISPR has been at the center of heated debate among scientists and bioethicists.

It is a sign of the times that the public debate among major players over Oregon's coal - free future saw little contention regarding the reality of climate change and focused mostly on the best way to address it.

No doubt each point was the center of vigorous debate among the ClinSeq team.

Thus, how a changing climate has affected and will affect future CH4 emissions remains a topic of debate among scientists.

That is as true of the debate among legislators as it is of public debate.

The question had been a subject of raging debate among astronomers for more than a quarter of a century.

Relevant to this issue, there is currently a debate among paleoclimatologists with respect to the following condundrum: A dramatic recession of the more - than - 11,000 year old ice cap of Mt. Kilimanjaro in tropical East Africa is taking place despite any clear evidence that temperatures have exceeded the melting threshold (one explanation is that the changes are largely associated with a drying atmosphere in the region; the most recent evidence, however, seems to indicate that melting may indeed now be underway).

The cold and shadowy fringe of the solar system known as the Kuiper belt is generating increasing debate among scientists as data accumulates on the growing population of objects discovered there.

But just how unpleasant has become the subject of renewed debate among planetary scientists trying to understand the planet's enigmatic topography.

Just how long Neandertals hung on after the arrival of Homo sapiens about 45,000 years ago has been a matter of fierce debate among researchers, some of whom argue that they hardly overlapped at all.

«There has been a longstanding debate among volcanologists about the orientation of ring faults beneath calderas: Do they slope toward or away from the center of the caldera?»

The failure to reauthorize the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technical Transfer (STTR) programs leaves in limbo the fate of the programs, which expire on 31 January 2011, and ensures that a debate among legislators, biomedical researchers, and venture capitalists over the size and scope of the programs will continue into the new Congress.

This proposal sparked lively debate among neuroscientists and psychiatrists, but arbiters for the DSM - 5 ultimately dropped the idea, largely to avoid labeling obese people, in essence, as mentally ill.

The study set off a furious debate among scientists and oceanographers studying climate change.

Young children's understanding of others» false beliefs is at the heart of a debate among psychologists trying to explain years of inconsistent findings.

Arnold's thesis puts me in mind of the debate among historians of science as to whether science at its most glorious (for example, the work of Copernicus, Galileo, Darwin, or Einstein) is a revolution or whether it emerges incrementally as evolution.

Demonstrating how these early humans acquired the extra energy they needed to sustain these shifts has been the subject of much debate among researchers.

There are testimonies of symptoms persisting — sometimes even resurfacing decades after the initial infection — though the exact cause of such post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome is a topic of debate among Lyme scientists.

These findings, reported July 13 in Nature, add fuel to a technical debate among researchers about how to tell what a gene does in an organism.

As concerned readers question our reports of hybrid species, a vast debate among specialists over how to define and identify species rolls on.

Krueger remembers a popular debate among social psychologists over which metaphor best drives home the depth of the mind's failings: Should researchers view the mind as a «cognitive miser,» emphasizing our limited resources and reliance on irrelevant clues, or is the mind more accurately depicted as a «totalitarian ego,» pursuing self - esteem at the cost of self - deception?

Deciding whether it's worth the effort to conserve what an artist obviously planned as an ephemeral form has given rise to a debate among critics and historians: Should art ever be allowed to die?

Conflicting estimates of the Hubble constant — a measure of the speed of the universe's expansion — have sparked debate among cosmologists.

Where the carbon dioxide comes from has been a source of debate among researchers over the past decade.

Similar ideas have also addressed the possibility of a fainter young Sun, but direct observational evidence in the geological record is currently lacking, making it the subject of debate among scientists.

But a report by the Tucson - based Center for Biological Diversity in May stirred a debate among biologists, environmentalists and policymakers about whether the act is due for an overhaul.

In the debate among clinics and researchers on SSRIs, it has been argued that SSRIs may lack specific therapeutic properties and that their beneficial effects observed in clinical trials, could be explained by different expectancies in the drug and placebo groups.

Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are commonly prescribed for depression and anxiety but their superiority over placebo has been questioned, generating considerable debate among researchers and clinicians.

In a sensitive and deeply reported cover story that begins on page 26, journalist Francine Russo examines the latest research and an ongoing debate among clinicians about how best to help children and adolescents with gender dysphoria — what experts describe as the «insistent, consistent and persistent» sense that one's sex is not what was written on the birth certificate.

The role of the Dpp concentration gradient in the regulation of tissue is the subject of intense debate among scientists.

by promoting reasoned and balanced policy discussions and debate among contending points of view on such issues.

There's a debate among Australians, he said, about the potential role of dingoes in suppressing introduced pests that have already decimated wildlife there.

The curious phenomenon of the cicada's periodical life cycle is the subject of much debate among scientists, who are limited to no small extent by the infrequency of the insect's visits to the surface.

Engle explores the debate among anthropologists, ever since the AAAS submitted its Statement on Human Rights to the United Nations in 1947, over the tensions between the limits of tolerance and cultural relativism with the pursuit of more universal norms of social justice.

Trump's presidency triggers a debate among mental health professionals about the 1973 Goldwater Rule.

The existence of free will is the subject of debate among psychologists, neuroscientists and philosophers.

Turing was by no means the only one considering the question: During the 1940s, when the early electronic computers were being created, it was a popular topic of debate among mathematicians.

BronxTalk host Gary Axelbank moderated a debate among the six candidates on August 29.

«I would have liked to have seen an open discussion and debate among the people interested in the nomination,» he said.

A genuine and sustained debate among MPs about the details of the policy regime, much of it centred around the proposals in a paper from moderate backbench critics Alan Whitehead and Peter Bradley, has led to significant government concessions and a new focus on questions of increasing access to university from a broader social intake.

The debate among the mayoral candidates began when Bill de Blasio, the public advocate, urged a court to overturn the taxi bill, which he called an unconstitutional usurpation of the Council's powers.