Sentences with phrase «direct supporting evidence»

If you can provide direct supporting evidence, then you have supported the case for an afterlife.

Not exact matches

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.

Overall, evidence does not support a belief that advised investors either outperform or underperform self - directed investors.

While she has no direct evidence to support her belief, she rigidly sets out to destroy the priest anyway because she refuses to harbor doubt, considering it a weakness.

Because the claims of Darwinism are presented to the public as «science,» most people are under the impression that they are supported by direct evidence such as experiments and fossil record studies.

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

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

This evidence supports the American Public Health Association's recommendation8 to increase access to out of hospital maternity care services with direct entry midwives in the United States.

Prevent Child Abuse America is thrilled to partner with the Alliance for the additional support to nearly 4,000 HFA direct service providers and supervisors, allowing providers to continue to provide high - quality, evidence - based home visiting services to families nationwide.

«I have not seen any hard evidence to support the hypothesis that there is a secular trend toward greater peer influence,» says Kenneth Dodge, a psychologist and neuroscientist who directs Duke University's Center for Child and Family Policy.

«Whilst there is still no evidence of further threats, you'll understand our determination is to find out if either he acted totally alone, inspired perhaps by terrorist propaganda, or if others have encouraged, supported or directed him.

At trial, prosecutors presented evidence that the elder Mr. Skelos, 68, used his position as majority leader to pressure a real estate developer, an environmental technology company and a medical malpractice insurer — firms that depended on his support as senator for legislation that benefited their interests — to provide Adam Skelos with consulting work, a direct payment of $ 20,000 and a job that required him to do virtually no work.

Astrocytes provide structural and metabolic support for neuronal networks, but direct evidence demonstrating their active role in complex behaviors is limited.

«This study was the first direct evidence that interstitial pressure is a viable mechanism of long term load support and lubrication,» Burris said.

«Although it is widely postulated that a Western diet can promote prostate cancer progression, direct evidence supporting a strong association between dietary lipids and prostate cancer has been lacking,» said first author Ming Chen, PhD, a research fellow in the laboratory of Pier Paolo Pandolfi, MD, PhD, Director of the Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute at BIDMC.

Analyzing this wealth of data yielded several results, including the first direct structural evidence to support the idea that neurons that do similar tasks are more likely to be connected to each other than neurons that carry out different tasks.

We finally have direct evidence to support that theory.»

Growing evidences support a direct connection between regulation of nuclear positioning / shape, myonuclear domains establishment, microtubule architecture maintenance in muscle fibers and normal function of muscles.

This idea has been suggested before and there has been some circumstantial evidence for atmospheric escape, but this discovery lends the first evidence in direct support.

Evidence that A beta immunization also reduces cognitive dysfunction in murine models of Alzheimer's disease would support the hypothesis that abnormal A beta processing is essential to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease, and would encourage the development of other strategies directed at the «amyloid cascade».

The new finding offers direct, physical evidence supporting protein - based inheritance, thus strengthening the «prion hypothesis» of the cause of neurodegenerative diseases in mammals, such as sheep scrapie, mad cow disease (or bovine spongiform encephalopathy) and the kuru disease of the Papua New Guinea tribes.

A form of chemical energy believed to be capable of supporting microbes has been discovered on Saturn's moon Enceladus, making it the first extraterrestrial world where direct evidence of potentially life - giving reactions has actually been discovered, NASA announced on Thursday.

Like keratinocyte holoclones, cancer cell holoclones have been hypothesized to contain self - renewing stem - like cells although direct evidence supporting this hypothesis is still lacking.

And they found that blood serum obtained following the consumption of an almond meal inhibits human osteoclast formation, function, and gene expression, providing direct evidence to support the association between regular almond consumption and a reduced risk of developing osteoporosis.

A lot of available posts on the internet like to serve as romantic stories how we should eat like cavemen «Because that is how our ancestors ate», «it is the right thing to do», «we are not evolved to eat grains, because they did not eat them» we this and that and what not... The thing is, there is actually a substantial amount of direct, clear evidence that supports this eating pattern as one of the healthiest known to people (I dare not say healthiest due to lack of large scale and more long - term data).

Adhering to these traditional concepts the US Department of Agriculture has concluded that diets, which reduce calories, will result in effective weight loss independent of the macronutrient composition, which is considered less important, even irrelevant.14 In contrast with these views, the majority of ad - libitum studies demonstrate that subjects who follow a low - carbohydrate diet lose more weight during the first 3 — 6 months compared with those who follow balanced diets.15, 16, 17 One hypothesis is that the use of energy from proteins in VLCKD is an «expensive» process for the body and so can lead to a «waste of calories», and therefore increased weight loss compared with other «less - expensive» diets.13, 18, 19 The average human body requires 60 — 65 g of glucose per day, and during the first phase of a diet very low in carbohydrates this is partially (16 %) obtained from glycerol, with the major part derived via gluconeogenesis from proteins of either dietary or tissue origin.12 The energy cost of gluconeogenesis has been confirmed in several studies7 and it has been calculated at ∼ 400 — 600 Kcal / day (due to both endogenous and food source proteins.18 Despite this, there is no direct experimental evidence to support this intriguing hypothesis; on the contrary, a recent study reported that there were no changes in resting energy expenditure after a VLCKD.20 A simpler, perhaps more likely, explanation for improved weight loss is a possible appetite - suppressant action of ketosis.

The mechanism for this is not established but evidence supports direct action of KBs together with modifications in levels of hormones, which influence appetite, such as ghrelin and leptin.21 Here we can summarize (listed in order of importance and available evidence) that the weight - loss effect of VLCKD seems to be caused by several factors:

The mission is to support the educational activities of the resident report by directing residents to evidence and background information in response to clinical questions raised during report.

Indeed, Robert Brennan of the University of Iowa (who directs the Iowa testing programs), the psychometrician who said «no» and voted with the minority, wrote, «Crucial evidence from prediction studies does not support a conclusion that scores on College Board standardized tests administered with extended time to disabled students are comparable to scores on the same tests administered to nondisabled students without extended time.»

Crucially, for many purposes the law also treats as evidence - based a fourth category comprising activities that have a research - based rationale but lack direct empirical support — provided, that is, that they are accompanied by «ongoing efforts to examine the effects» of the activity on important student outcomes.

There is little evidence to support the assumption that state policies bypass the district and have a direct impact on the behavior of principals.

Studies of teacher leader practice provided converging evidence that, due to a lack of release time, teacher leaders were unable to provide substantive direct instructional support to classroom teachers.

Speaker Paul Ryan, in his «A Better Way» agenda, expressed support for the tiered evidence structure stating, «by following this process, federal dollars will be directed to the development and support of programs that truly promote opportunity.»

«Formative assessment is a planned, ongoing process used by all students and teachers during learning and teaching to elicit and use evidence of student learning to improve student understanding of intended disciplinary learning outcomes and support students to become more self - directed learners.»

Secondly, someone else in the comments and Quadfasel in the N&V piece mentioned the direct flow measurments in the Faroe — Shettland channel, one of the two main pathways for dense water out of the Nordic Seas, as supporting evidence.

And there is direct evidence (and volumes of it, at that) that this denialism is supported and nurtured by a deliberate, sustained PR campaign funded by economic and ideological interest groups.

The lines of evidence and analysis supporting the mainstream position on climate change are diverse and robust — embracing a huge body of direct measurements by a variety of methods in a wealth of locations on the Earth's surface and from space, solid understanding of the basic physics governing how energy flow in the atmosphere interacts with greenhouse gases, insights derived from the reconstruction of causes and consequences of millions of years of natural climatic variations, and the results of computer models that are increasingly capable of reproducing the main features of Earth's climate with and without human influences.

Ending up with nothing that challenges or requires amendment to AGW, the IPCC, the clear and unambiguous influence of moderate volcanoes, or the vastly rationally superior views expressed by Jennifer Francis about the influence of AGW on the Jet Stream as supported by direct high quality unfiltered evidence, and through the Jet Stream on extreme weather: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY0RdXmLGdU

«we find no direct evidence to support the claims that the Greenland ice sheet is melting due to increased temperature caused by increased atmospheric concentration of carbon dioxide.

There is even some more or less direct evidence to support this.

Now, one can haz support for a sciencey thing without having direct evidence for it.

These 5 major reviews have all come to the conclusion that evidence does not support any direct causal link between wind turbine noise and pathological effects in humans.

However, at least 18 states believe the Poitevent case carries direct nationwide significance, evidenced by a phalanx of amicus support.

No evidence is to be filed until after the FHDRA unless filed in support of a without notice application, directed on issue or directed for an interim application.

But, because Thomson did not produce any supporting evidence, her claim fails whether we review it as a direct appeal or discretionary review, de novo or for abuse of discretion.»

While it is accepted that racial profiling occurs, it will rarely be shown by direct evidence, the defense must normally rely on circumstantial evidence to support its claim.

He also identified the direct and indirect ways that magistrates» independence was being compromised, while providing strong evidence in support of all members of the Court being legally trained before appointment.

See, e.g., Langlois v. Wolford, 539 S.E. 2d 565, 567 - 68 (2000)(denying motion for directed verdict on issue of punitive damages because evidence that the negligent driver left the scene of an accident, was intoxicated, and had a history of DUI and other traffic violations was sufficient to support the jury's punitive damages award).

The tribunal also found evidence supporting the local authorities direct and indirect contribution to the occupation of the land and awarded Mr Houben US$ 209,340 as compensation for damages incurred.

Generally speaking, the Court is not going to award any damages for accelerated depreciation unless there is direct evidence supporting an actual loss suffered by the owner of the damaged vehicle.