Direct observation in the home shows that much aggressive behaviour in children is influenced by the way parents behave towards them.
The parent daily report questionnaire records 36 behaviours as present or absent each day for a week.19 This measure is widely used as an alternative to prolonged
direct observation in the home by an independent observer.
Since 1981, the few studies that have evaluated maternal feeding style by
direct observation in association with child weight status have included a total of only ∼ 200 child participants, and > 80 % of these participants have been white (3, 4, 10, 18, 28, 29).
With 25 years of data acquired through
direct observation in the record, it appears the IPCC's scenarios have no statistical relevance to reality.
My most recent bodies of work, Cutaway and Screen paintings, are made from
direct observation in my own home.
Porter's insight into the nature of
direct observation in painting put him ahead of his time.
Bailey does not use photographs or
direct observation in his compositions.
Bjornlie, for instance, collected specific data on the number of bison in one research area and on their distribution, movement and activity through
direct observation in the field.
The chief techniques for gathering such data include mail questionnaires, interviews, retail store shelf audits, use of electronic scanners at retail checkout counters, and
direct observation in stores.
If the experiment based upon our best guess of the pertinent input parameters does not reproduce the directly - observed characteristics of the excursion, we do not discard
the direct observations in favor of the experiment results.
Not exact matches
That includes both
direct findings and adjacent / tangential
observations and conclusions — anything anywhere
in the company's files and archives through a KH dashboard that virtually anyone
in the company can quickly learn to use.
Only with the dawn of the space age
in the 20th century has it been possible for humans to travel far enough into space to verify by
direct observation that the earth is a globe.
At any rate it is remarkable that this is the only place
in the gospels where the belief that Christ had risen is a
direct inference from
observation of the state of the tomb.
What is often called «
direct observation» is
in point of fact a highly sophisticated mental function
in which the causal impact of objects on the observer is interpreted selectively by observers according to their purposes.
Induction has been accused of many shortcomings, but the common denominator of the various criticisms leveled against it, from Popper to Kuhn to Feyerabend, is that belief
in induction is responsible for a naive empiricism which views science as based on uninterpreted
observation and
direct verification of theories by the «facts.»
In a manner analogous to Aristotle's grounding of induction in «experience,» Whitehead is quite emphatic in stating that direct observation is incapable of serving as the springboard for arriving at the larger generalitie
In a manner analogous to Aristotle's grounding of induction
in «experience,» Whitehead is quite emphatic in stating that direct observation is incapable of serving as the springboard for arriving at the larger generalitie
in «experience,» Whitehead is quite emphatic
in stating that direct observation is incapable of serving as the springboard for arriving at the larger generalitie
in stating that
direct observation is incapable of serving as the springboard for arriving at the larger generalities.
Direct observation is not only unnecessary in science; direct observation is in fact usually impossible for the things that really m
Direct observation is not only unnecessary
in science;
direct observation is in fact usually impossible for the things that really m
direct observation is
in fact usually impossible for the things that really matter.
An atonement theology
directed towards the assuaging of guilt before God is a powerful gospel —
in contexts where God is immediately and almightily real; or where (as we may note more skeptically) a religion is still powerful enough to hold up before its host culture the image of a holy and righteous deity before whom none is worthy except through the appropriate cultic
observations.
Again, the
observation of a rabbit fossil
in pre-Cambrian strata, human fossils alongside dinosaurs, a true chimera, or the
direct observation of an organism ex nihilo would undermine evolution.
The atom is not just inaccessible to
direct observation and unimaginable
in terms of sensory qualities; it can not even be described coherently
in terms of classical concepts such as space, time and causality.
Drawn from
direct observation by Basketball Editor Jeremiah Tax and correspondents
in the field, as well as from analyses especially prepared by coaches of each team, the reports cover 180 teams, including all those eligible for the NCAA championship.
Six models showed favourable effects on primary outcome measures (e.g., standardized measures of child development outcomes and reduction
in behaviour problems).13 Only studies with outcomes using
direct observation,
direct assessment, or administrative records were included.
«The
direct observation of how energetic plasma species behave on nanosecond timescales
in the Neptune beam will help us to better control the processes that underpin neutralization,» Dedrick said.
Many physicists are hopeful that LIGO will make the first
direct observation of gravitational waves
in the next few years.
This was done through a combination of
direct observation and recording evidence such as footprints and feces, as well as
in - depth interviews with landowners and residents, who were quizzed about species presence through photographs, animal noises and local knowledge.
«Although a
direct causal link has not been established between the atmospheric phenomena observed
in late October 2012 and the record - breaking sea - ice loss observed during the preceding summer months, all of the
observations are consistent with such an interpretation,» states the Oceanography article.
«Because neutron spectroscopy could «see» hydrogen due to its large neutron scattering cross-section, it succeeded where optical spectroscopy techniques failed and enabled the first
direct observations of cerium hydrides both on the surface and
in the bulk of a cerium oxide catalyst,» Wu said.
«The
observation of the first neutrino events
in MicroBooNE is an important step toward testing whether our picture of neutrino oscillations is correct,» says Mark Convery, who
directs SLAC's LBNF / DUNE group.
«The presence of such dust
in so many systems could therefore become an obstacle for future
observations, which aim to make
direct images of Earth - like exoplanets.»
In the dry season, surface water reservoirs are at the same level as the aquifer that feeds them: altitude measurements of the surface water then made possible
direct observations of the height of the groundwater.
«
Direct and regular
observation of plasma by satellites started after the late 1960s — almost a decade after the first human - made satellite, Sputnik 1, was launched
in 1957,» explains Masahito Nosé, an author of the study.
Astronomers detect planets too far away for
direct observation by the dimming
in light when a world passes
in front of, or transits, its host star.
But it may also soon host one of the most important experiments
in particle physics — one capable of confirming our best
direct observations of dark matter.
For
direct evidence of endurance hunting, Bramble and Lieberman point to the
observations of Louis Liebenberg, author of The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science, who has spent time on the traditional hunts of the Bushmen hunter - gatherers
in the central Kalahari Desert
in Botswana.
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with direct observations of whales in their oceanic environmen
In the largest study of its kind to date, researchers used mitochondrial DNA microsatellites from skin samples gathered from more than 3,000 individual humpback whales across the Southern Hemisphere and the Arabian Sea to examine how whale populations are related to one another, a question that is difficult to answer with
direct observations of whales
in their oceanic environmen
in their oceanic environment.
«This is the first
direct observation that these two phenomena are linked: The density waves with their associated nanoscale distortions disappear and the electrons
in the material change their personality suddenly at a well - defined material composition,» Billinge said.
For the first time, scientists have obtained
direct, quantifiable
observations of cloud seeding for increased snowfall — from the growth of ice crystals, through the processes that occur
in clouds, to the eventual snowfall.
«We now have
direct observations that seeding of certain clouds follows a pathway first theorized
in the mid-20th century.»
However, scientists from the Canadian - French - Hawaiian project OSSOS detected biases
in their own
observations of the orbits of the TNOs, which had been systematically
directed towards the same regions of the sky, and considered that other groups, including the Caltech group, may be experiencing the same issues.
The detail on the right is a simulation of the micro-gravitational lens effect
in the gamma ray region;
direct observation of the orange ring — it also represents images of the blazar — is not possible due to its small size.
In 1919,
observations of an eclipse from Brazil and the African island of Príncipe offered the first
direct proof of Einstein's theory of general relativity.
Based on
direct observations of the 2010 Eyjafjallajökull plume, on the correlation with the associated fallout deposit, and on dedicated laboratory analogue experiments, Irene Manzella and colleagues show how fine ash
in these particle - rich fingers settles faster than individual particles and that aggregation and gravitational instabilities are closely related.
«Scientists achieve first
direct observations of excitons
in motion.»
On the basis of its intended flight route, the Perlan glider might be able to provide the first
direct observations of polar stratospheric clouds, a unique type of ice cloud that forms
in the polar stratosphere and helps to deplete ozone, Gong adds.
«Even very short
direct observation of the sun has the potential to cause damage,» said Dr. Russell Van Gelder, a clinical spokesman for the American Academy of Ophthalmology (AAO) and director of the University of Washington Medicine Eye Institute
in Seattle.
The ability to accurately determine the rate of this H - 17O fusion reaction provides nuclear physicists with another key puzzle piece, alongside
direct observations of oxygen elemental and isotopic abundances
in stellar atmospheres and
in primitive meteorites, to zero
in on complete and accurate models of stars.
Direct observations of the fault were scarce, so Eric Dunham, an assistant professor of geophysics
in the School of Earth Sciences, and Jeremy Kozdon, a postdoctoral researcher working with Dunham, began using the cluster of supercomputers at Stanford's Center for Computational Earth and Environmental Science (CEES) to simulate how the tremors moved through the crust and ocean.
The
observations «for the first time draw a
direct link between surface pollutants
in Asia and aerosols
in the tropopause,» says Kenichi Ueno, a climate scientist at the University of Tsukuba
in Japan, who is not involved
in the study.
The methodology is demonstrated on two model systems: the time - dependent spontaneous dissociation of photosynthetic light - harvesting antenna complexes and
direct observation of DNA strands binding and unbinding
in solution.
«The really exciting aspect of all this is that if you see a signal
in a
direct - detection dark matter experiment and a signal for supersymmetry at the LHC, you can compare those two
observations and investigate whether they are compatible with each other,» says Tovey.