Sentences with phrase «direct evidence»

Such authentic assessments can provide for direct evidence of skill acquisition as well as being a learning activity itself.

Two independent teams have found what may be the first direct evidence of water ice on the surface of an asteroid.

The concept of quantum spin liquids was first proposed in 1973, but the first direct evidence for such a material was only found within the last few years.

The new study doesn't provide direct evidence of this group migration in human cancer.

But scientists have not previously found direct evidence of that water.

The same sort of farming seems to have been possible for much of the intervening time, therefore the farming can not be taken as direct evidence of warmer conditions.

Of course, previous successes provide more direct evidence of a network of the right people.

If one teaching strategy is more effective than another, the most direct evidence of that will be a difference in the improvements they have produced.

Many researchers agree that shifts in climate and environment shaped human evolution, but there has been little direct evidence about exactly how.

Although not supported by direct evidence, it is unlikely to ever be shown untrue.

Even though it may be difficult to see direct evidence of the benefit of joint supplements in some cases, it can help the joints and may help with longer term mobility.

You must have very strong direct evidence supporting a loss.

To be honest, our study is the only one of its kind to show direct evidence of chile pepper use.

Without direct evidence, then it will always be a guess.

It may even be the earliest direct evidence — with weapons and warriors together — of a battle this size anywhere in the ancient world.

But little direct evidence exists to prove which tree species filled the forests before they were cleared for fields and fuel.

That would be the ultimate direct evidence that these mergers are indeed producing all of these elements.

Researchers now announce the first direct evidence for this cosmic inflation.

It would also be our first direct evidence for the quantum nature of gravity, the most outstanding puzzle in theoretical physics over the past century.

Unfortunately, direct evidence on the distribution of teacher quality and its impact for disadvantaged students is hard to come by.

Thus the failure of the settlements can not be taken as direct evidence of cooler conditions.

Results from these studies will provide direct evidence for the importance of these nutritional factors in maintaining retinal health and preventing advanced retinal disease, and may reveal new options for therapeutic intervention.

Perhaps the most direct evidence that female fast - growth entrepreneurs have been consistently underrated, and won't be much longer, comes from the experience of current company builders.

Researchers at that time simply had little direct evidence to offer.

While that's good news, it's important to keep in mind that this result can't be taken as direct evidence of the drug's efficacy.

By painstakingly recording the activity of individual granule cells with microelectrodes in a living electric fish, neuroscientist Nate Sawtell of Columbia University's Kavli Institute for Brain Science, where I am currently a Ph.D. candidate, has uncovered some of the first direct evidence in support of the 1960s theory that granule cells may enhance the cerebellum's ability to learn skills such as fine movements.

«ELITE provides proof of concept and first direct evidence from human investigation that timing of hormone therapy is imperative for success in the prevention of atherosclerosis progression, the primary underlying pathway that leads to heart disease and stroke,» Hodis added.

«Our new study provides direct evidence linking excessive NFκB - TNFα signaling with obsessive behaviors in progranulin - deficient FTD and may point the way to new therapeutic strategies.»

The two have reported the most direct evidence yet for the invisible mass that has gone missing from cosmological surveys.

As Charles Murray has argued persuasively, a much better system would be one in which employers «rely more on direct evidence about what the job candidate knows, less on where it was learned or how long it took.»

Lee's team argues that these tracks represent the earliest and only direct evidence of bipedal running in an ancient lizard.

The court, drawing upon a 2003 U.S. Supreme Court Title VII case, decided that a plaintiff does not have to produce direct evidence in order to pursue a mixed - motive theory.

The Cox - Johnson case highlights a number of features of claims where the validity of a will is in dispute, the central one being that the key witness — the testator — can not give direct evidence.

«At present, there is little direct evidence demonstrating that electronic alcohol screening and brief counseling intervention has a meaningful population - level effect on excessive alcohol consumption or related harms in any group, and therefore its utility as a stand - alone public health approach is in doubt.

There's now direct evidence about garbanzo beans and appetite!

The most direct evidence comes from the tick grasping a feather that belonged to a theropod dinosaur, a member of the group that ultimately gave rise to modern birds.

Studies of pre-k in Tulsa, by William Gormley and his colleagues at Georgetown, provide good direct evidence on the relative effects of a state pre-school program on kindergarten readiness for different income groups.

Embers Monkey Trials: The C6 antibody test failed to detect Lyme disease in 50 % of monkeys with persistent Lyme disease over time even though direct evidence of the bacteria confirmed persistence.

Researchers raised the possibility of local production in Ife, although direct evidence for glassmaking and its chronology was lacking.

Fox writes: «The distinction between direct evidence, which proves a fact in question without reliance on inference or presumption, and indirect evidence is critical in determining whether the McDonnell Douglas burden shifting analysis is used.»