Sentences with phrase «direct evidence on»

While descriptive research provides valuable information on health patterns and determinants, it does not provide direct evidence on how to create change, and does not produce change as it occurs.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

There was not really any other direct evidence on that question.

Alternatively, direct evidence on this point may carry the day in Court.

There is no direct evidence on whether there is an association between electromagnetic radiation produced by wind farms and health outcomes.

That's direct evidence on the fact that F&R was based on overfitting to too little data.

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

But more direct evidence on teachers» skills confirms the findings regarding wages.

Dodenhoff claims that these characteristics are highly correlated with the likelihood that a parent will be choosing a school, but he presents no direct evidence on this point.

Although we do not have direct evidence on student confidence, we can make use of student course grades and rank within the class to probe for evidence consistent with this kind of effect.

The USPSTF commissioned a systematic evidence review to update its 2009 recommendation, which focused on the direct evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for depression in adult populations, including older adults and pregnant and postpartum women.

The USPSTF found no direct evidence on the harms of screening for syphilis in nonpregnant persons who are at increased risk for infection.

Because of the unprecedented nature of the world Ebola epidemic, so far there is little direct evidence on the anesthetic management of EVD.

Direct evidence on the effectiveness of screening in reducing melanoma morbidity and mortality is limited to a single fair - quality ecologic study with important methodological limitations.

It also provides direct evidence on smaller pollution particles that are more often the subject of environmental regulations (PM10).

The USPSTF found inadequate direct evidence on the benefit of screening for OSA in asymptomatic populations.

Although there is no direct evidence on the impact of the reduced pesticide use, it is certainly a contributor to richer bird life in and around the farm.

We don't have any direct evidence on entrepreneurs.

Not exact matches

Today, digital forensics isn't just used to zero in on direct evidence of a crime.

But Canadian officials expressed skepticism, noting that the war had been grinding on and that «there may be little reliable evidence to gather» and that «organizers of whatever (improvised explosive device) cell (which) supported and directed the dead bomber have been killed» by special forces.

This is a good option for those wishing to have more direct control over their investing, though evidence is mixed on whether this actually results in higher returns for the investor.

Thank you for explaining why it makes complete sense that we don't have direct evidence for every piece of the evolutionary process for every species on the planet.

Heresay — Evidence that is offered by a witness of which they do not have direct knowledge but, rather, their testimony is based on what others have said to them.

The absence of any direct empirical evidence of cosmic purpose is intricately linked with the lack of any immediately tangible evidence of morphogenetic fields that would exercise a causative influence on the formation of discrete systems in the natural world.

But if we hold, as for example in Process and Reality, that all final individual actualities have the metaphysical character of occasions of experience, then on that hypothesis the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediately present occasion of experience with one's immediately past occasions, can be validly used to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature.

Regarding the Pod Mrcaru lizards, as I conceded, it is just a «hypothesis»; but, again, although contingent on a final direct sequencing experiment, the available evidence is squarely in the corner of a heritable genetic basis.

But on Whitehead's hypothesis, «the direct evidence as to the connectedness of one's immediate present occasion of experience with one's immediately past occasions, can be validly used to suggest categories applying to the connectedness of all occasions in nature» (Adventures of Ideas 284)

In identifying specific causal relations, event A, is almost always judged to be the cause of B, (that is, when our judgment is reasonable) because of the prior conjunction of events of sort A with events of sort B, or analogous evidence, rather than on the basis of direct discrimination of a process in B, taking account of, flowing from, or forming itself by virtue of Ai (PNK 87).4

One has little direct evidence to go on, mainly his discussion of the sixth constant of externality, The Community of Nature (PNK 78f).

I shall assume that the aim of an explication of «valid induction» is to find a numerical or comparative function c (h, e)-- the «confirmation of hypothesis h given evidence e» — which is a syntactic function of the statements h and e, and which has a high or comparatively high value in those cases where normally accepted or intuitive inductive methods would direct us to accept hypothesis h on evidence e, at least in comparison with other hypotheses having lower c - value.

This broadly phenomenological type of argumentation is necessary to the sort of «explicit» conviction that depends on direct and first - hand evidence, even while it properly recognizes that «our thought unavoidably moves within a hermeneutical circle which excludes any simple resolution of fundamental differences» (PP 87).11 Since it makes immediate reference to the evidence of one's own experience, a description of which is at issue, and only then is extended to all others one sympathetically imagines to be like oneself, it is essentially an autobiographical type of argumentation.

'» [1] The Greatest Work of God It seems fair to summarise St Thomas» view by saying that he relied on the direct testimony of two scources, the Scriptures and the Church Fathers, rather than on the arguments of human logic, and since he found no evidence for the Scotist position in either source, he did not entertain it.

We need no further evidence, in my view, to prove scientifically that the social in - folding which we are undergoing is nothing other than the direct and logical extension, over our heads, of the process of cosmic in - folding which gave birth to the first cell and the first thought on earth.

But, interestingly, Ford has never provided any direct or external evidence for the compositional habits he attributes to Whitehead, though his bold assertions on the matter leave most readers with the impression that such evidence exists and would be forthcoming if only someone requested it.

(Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 60) His evidence of the concurrence on this»... doctrine of no direct vision of a personal God» (Religion in the Making, Cleveland: Meridian Books, 1960, 61 & 84) is the religious thought of Greece, India, and China as well as Christianity.

He does not, however, go on to offer any direct empirical evidence for this claim.

Although a considerable body of scientific evidence substantiates the positive correlation between curcumin consumption and a reduction in the risk of cancer, the paucity of suitably designed human clinical trials that clearly demonstrate any direct effect of curcumin on cancer markers may prevent Health Canada from approving a cancer risk reduction claim for curcumin within the current regulatory framework.

«Plenty of research exists today that suggests a direct benefit to increased protein intake and its impact on health, and consumers clearly have interest as evidenced by the number of new protein - enhanced snacks on the market,» said Dan Hammer, senior vice president and general manager of frozen division at Inventure Foods, Inc. «However, we found that while some snacks delivered on nutrient levels, many fell well short on taste.

On the stand, Ziskis was able to reveal little of his evidence because, he alleges, «all the questions were directed around what I wanted to say.»

As you can see, there's a direct correlation between decreasing public support and increasing profits as evidenced by the return on investment.

I only have a problem with all this when people come on here shouting a name with an authority that is not warranted — they are recycling popular opinion and secondhand hearsay rather than direct first person evidence.

Evidence dating back to at least the 1930s linking troubled marriages and child behaviour problems led to the hypothesis that while some of the association between marital processes and child functioning is direct and unmediated via parenting, 31 some of it derives from the effect of marriage on parenting.6, 32,33,34

Because CLC training focuses on providing evidence based practice, current information and counseling and listening skills to assist mothers in their feeding goals, these ideals fell into direct alignment with what B2B founders believe as professionals.

Coloured icons indicate that there is evidence of a direct link between the intervention of interest and target (s); i.e. systematic reviews are available assessing the effect of the intervention on an outcome directly relevant to the targets (e.g. prevalence of stunting, rate of breastfeeding, etc.).

40 % reduction in the number of children under - 5 who are stunted Direct evidence for a link between exclusive breastfeeding and stunting is not currently available at the systematic review level, though a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis of intervention studies assessing the effect of breastfeeding promotion interventions on child growth found no significant effect on length or height z scores.

No increase in childhood overweight Direct evidence for the effect of exclusive breastfeeding on childhood overweight comes from a 2015 systematic review and meta - analysis in which individuals with any breastfeeding were shown to be less likely to be overweight or obese later in life compared to non-breastfed individuals.

Finding direct scientific evidence of the association between a vaccine and a disease puts an impossible burden on the complainer.

Attention after today's hearings will focus on Thursday's evidence sessions, when Peter Clarke, the former deputy assistance commissioner who led the day - to - day work of the 2006 phone - hacking inquiry and former assistant commissioner Andy Hayman, his direct superior at the time, will appear.

On the issue of whether Orwell had the Fabians in mind: I think the direct evidence is weak.

Decision: In the absence of direct evidence to the contrary, the Commission accepts that the duty paid on the vehicle was the regular duty payable under the law, and therefore the State did not lose revenue on the vehicle.