Sentences with phrase «despite decades of research»

Although, with the exception of Baggerly et al. (2010) and evidencebasedchildtherapy.com (2015), these sources have paid little attention to play therapy interventions for children despite decades of research that supports the evidence base for play therapy.

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.

Bullying affects between 8 % and 50 % of children around the world,1 - 7 with a recent US estimate of about 30 %.8 Despite decades of research, there are still gaps in our understanding of bullying.

Despite decades of research, relationships between clouds, aerosols and precipitation are poorly understood, concludes a review article in Nature today.

Unfortunately, despite decades of research and development on these submodels, they remain far from perfect.

Despite decades of research and thousands of peer - reviewed publications to the contrary, AFP rigidly adheres to the denialist arguments that greenhouse gas emissions from human activities pose no significant danger to Americans — or the rest of the planet.

Despite decades of research, we are still unsure of the relationships among these large centers.

Despite decades of research on how to do it, 20 % to 25 % of the weight of a junked vehicle, mostly shredded plastics, ends up in a landfill.

A New Wave of School Integration Districts and Charters Pursuing Socioeconomic Diversity shows responses to greater segregation today by race than in 1970s, despite decades of research showing academic, cognitive, and social benefits of integrated schools.

But «despite decades of research, the effect had not previously been demonstrated,» he says.

Still, despite decades of research, experts can't agree on whether eliminating dye - containing foods from a child's diet can ease ADHD symptoms like hyperactivity and impulsivity — except in perhaps a few special cases.

Despite decades of research clearly showing that HRT significantly increases breast cancer, millions of women worldwide are on unopposed estrogen for treatment of menopausal symptoms.

Despite decades of research indicating the dangers of BPA, governments and major manufacturers failed to take major steps to reduce BPA exposure until 2008.

Despite decades of research, the only medications currently available treat the symptoms alone.

Despite decades of research decoding the influenza virus — and great advances in treating and vaccinating against the disease — this infectious pathogen continues both to surprise and confound us

Yet, despite decades of research, the underlying mechanisms behind speech disruptions in people who stutter remain unclear.

But «despite decades of research, the effect had not previously been demonstrated,» he says.

Despite decades of research, scientists had been unable to reliably distinguish between two competing theories of coral growth.

But despite decades of research, the technology is still far from commercially viable.

Despite decades of research, some of the biological mechanisms behind this process remain unclear.

Despite decades of research, nobody is really sure how sensitive the climate is to carbon dioxide.

Despite decades of research, hydrogen fuel cells have failed to replace combustion engines in cars, thanks in large part to the cost of their platinum catalysts, says Signe Kjelstrup at the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in Oslo.

Despite decades of research, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is the leading cause of death among children between the ages of one month to one year.

Despite decades of research on sleep training, most studies have focused on outcomes related to sleep and daytime behavior, but few have examined babies» stress responses to this change.

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Despite decades of scientific research, there is no treatment that can slow the progression of Alzheimer's.

This sentiment has been fueled by a decades - long public campaign by the NRA to convince the US public and politicians that, in fact, the Second Amendment guarantees an individual right to bear arms, and that more guns will actually make people safer (by letting them protect themselves), despite research that shows higher levels of gun ownership actually lead to more gun violence.

The APA states despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience.

Despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay, and bise xual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience.

Crouse says the decline in marriage and a corresponding rise in cohabitation is happening despite at least a decade of research demonstrating the societal benefits of two - parent families.

Despite a growing body of evidence - based research over the past decade regarding the management of sport - related concussions, the question often raised by many healthcare professionals in the clinical field pertains to return to participation procedures.

And these research results are coming in despite a decade of decline in government spending on research.

«Despite decades of obesity research two issues remain elusive in weight management: significant, long - term weight - loss maintenance and widely accessible programs,» she said.

Despite all of the exciting potential, the number of physician - scientists within the United States has been steadily declining over the last 2 decades, mainly reflecting a drop in the number of physicians who after medical school decide to pursue research careers.

«Despite the difficult budget situation,» the chancellor announced in a statement, her campus is on a «steep upward curve — doubling our research income in less than a decade» and reaching «a new high» of over half a billion dollars a year.

Copelli's frustration — about the difficulty of getting things done in a system that, despite a recent infusion of cash, remains unwieldy and impoverished by decades of neglect — seems common among scientists working to create or overhaul research programs, especially in the country's less - developed northeast.

Despite the tremendous growth in global collaborative efforts such as Human Genome Project and Human Frontier Science Program during past few decades, only about 30 % of research output from the United States is internationally collaborative (Global Scientific Collaboration in the 21st Century, 2011, The Royal Society).

But despite 2 decades of research, several potential AIDS vaccines have failed to teach the immune system to produce antibodies that can stop HIV.

However, despite extensive research on TOR over the last decades, attempts to uncover the detailed structure of the protein kinase and its partners have been unsuccessful.

While the vast majority of research in this field is focused on developing stem cell, gene and tissue engineering therapies, these approaches have not yet delivered on their promise despite nearly two decades of research.

«Globally important wilderness areas — despite being strongholds for endangered biodiversity, for buffering and regulating local climates, and for supporting many of the world's most politically and economically marginalized communities — are completely ignored in environmental policy,» James Watson, director of science and research initiatives at the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York and the study's lead author, said in a statement, adding that we probably have only one to two decades to turn this around.

A new network of 25 regional stroke centers and satellite facilities - the NIH Stroke Trials Network (NIH StrokeNet)-- is working to change the way stroke research is conducted in the U.S. Despite advances of the last two decades, stroke remains a major public health problem.

One in 26 people develops epilepsy during the course of their life, and despite many decades of research, we still don't understand what causes seizures, and we still do not have a cure.

He appointed the late Mildred Cohn to a tenured faculty position in his department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in early 1960, when she had been struggling to earn a faculty position for several decades because of well - entrenched gender discrimination in U.S. academia, despite her sustained, brilliant research accomplishments.

«Our study highlights how, despite decades of paleontology research, new fossil discoveries and new ways of analyzing those fossils can still fundamentally impact how we view something as central to us as the evolution of our own clade, mammals,» Dr. Wilson said.

«Despite several decades of research, it has remained uncertain whether raised levels of triglyceride can cause heart disease,» said lead researcher Nadeem Sarwar, a lecturer in cardiovascular epidemiology at the University of Cambridge in England.

For example, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome was not recognized as a genuine condition by the Center for Disease Control until 2006, despite decades of previous research into the illness.

Despite the volumes of new research in the last decade in favor of this method, I believe it is still an underutilized tool for many conditions that do not respond to typical treatments.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

Despite more than two decades of research to determine whether elevated EMF exposure, principally to magnetic fields, is related to an increased risk of childhood leukemia, there is still no definitive answer.

Despite decades of relying on standardized test scores to assess and guide education policy and practice, surprisingly little work has been done to connect these measures of learning with the measures developed over a century of research by cognitive psychologists studying individual differences in cognition.