Sentences with phrase «demonstrating significant advances»

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«This paper demonstrates that despite all of the advances made over the last 100 years, the experience of discrimination continues to be a significant problem for people with epilepsy,» said Dr. Victoria Nimmo - Smith, first author of the Epilepsia study.

Furthermore, as part of this study the team demonstrated the ability to position gold nanoparticles into prescribed 2D architectures less than two nanometers apart from each other along the crystal structure — a critical feature for future quantum devices and a significant technical advance for their scalable production, said co-lead author Wei Sun, Ph.D., Wyss Institute Postdoctoral Fellow.

After five weeks of treatment, mice with advanced artherosclerosis demonstrated significant repair to damaged arteries as well as stabilization of plaque.

The bill eliminates certain standards, one of which participating schools must achieve — either that 70 percent of voucher students advance one grade level, 80 percent demonstrate significant academic progress, average attendance rates among participants of 90 percent or 70 percent of voucher parents meet participation goals.

While teaching 3rd grade, 22 out of my 23 students received a score of «advanced» on the ISAT, and ALL students demonstrated significant growth on their MAP math scores.

The strong utilization of TIFIA credit assistance for the wide array of projects described in this report demonstrates the significant importance of the program to advance infrastructure investments across the United States while ensuring private sector engagement in infrastructure financing.

If significant results are found, it will further demonstrate that animal - assisted interventions are a valid approach for teaching children with ASD the skills necessary to engage with peers and will further support the role of the human - animal bond in advancing children with developmental delays.

EIA's report demonstrates that there are both significant shortcomings in the approach and rules of the FCPF, as well as constrains in the ability of the FCPF to influence business as usual lending by the World Bank, or business as usual development strategies by developing countries, so that opportunities to advance forest governance have been missed, and readiness efforts have been sidelined in favor of getting Carbon Fund programs underway.

We would like to invite you and your client to meet with us to discuss an alternative means to resolve this matter in a way that is fair to our clients and respects the mandate of yours... We are of the opinion that, viewed objectively, the state of the evidence to this point demonstrates that this prosecution has no reasonable prospect of success... You have no evidence to respond to our experts and, it seems to us, no reasonable basis to expect they will be disbelieved... We think you will agree that an objective review of Mr. Marschdorf's evidence exposes serious weaknesses in the prosecution case and significant areas of agreement between the defence and your only witness... You are dependent on a theory advanced by Mr. Osborne which misconceives the law.

«The judgment is significant as it clearly demonstrates a willingness by the judiciary to adopt technological advances in order to reduce the costs of litigation.

While several investigators have demonstrated that women who receive EC before they need to use it («advance provision») are more likely to use it if unprotected intercourse occurs, there have been no trials in the United States evaluating the impact of pharmacy access on key reproductive health outcomes.4 - 6 Glasier and Baird demonstrated that Scottish women who had an advance supply of EC on hand were almost twice as likely to use the medication if needed; however, the sample size was small and the difference in pregnancy rates between access groups was not statistically significant, making it difficult to draw conclusions about the effect of advance provision on unintended pregnancy rates.7

A few of these factors are discussed next in order to demonstrate how considering psychosocial and contextual factors can advance our understanding of sleep in adolescents with ADHD, a population of youth at heightened risk for experiencing significant sleep difficulties.