Sentences with phrase «doing substantial research»

Woolley says that «during that time, they are doing a substantial research project, normally in the area they were in before their career break.

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Decades of research, including a new study published in December in the Journal of the American Medical Association, has failed to find substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any significant good.

Decades of research has failed to find any substantial evidence that vitamins and supplements do any significant good.

The first large and comprehensive review of all the published research on e-cigs added some additional weight to that conclusion, finding «substantial evidence» that young people who vape are more likely to smoke conventional cigarettes than those who don't.

«There is no doubt these are real costs — often more substantial than the expense ratios that are more easy to discover — but fund companies certainly don't make it easy to discover, and one really has to subscribe to third party research to find these costs.»

When I was doing my first keyword research 4 years ago, I had no idea how substantial is a number of relevant keyword suggestions for the process.

Interestingly, while previous research had established that the CPS doesn't fully capture irregular withdrawals from IRAs and DC plans, the authors find that the CPS also seems to miss a substantial share of traditional defined benefit (DB) pension income.

They do NOT claim that soy CAUSES cancer... only that substantial research exists that shows it accelerates the growth and multiplicity of tumors in patients who already have cancer.

Seems the research on aluminum and Alzheimer's disease is not substantial, and probably doesn't amount to much.

Intuitively, the arrival of a sibling would subject a firstborn child to substantial stress and emotional distress, but the research does not support this perspective.

The Code is an international agreement about what infant formula companies can and can not ethically do to promote their products, based on substantial research that infant formula marketing undermines breastfeeding.

First, in a lot of cases, people have been given substantial grants to do honest research, so it really is no different from financial fraud or theft.

Even if the negative aspects of leaving research don't deter me, I must consider the substantial challenges of essentially starting fresh in patent law.

«The most exciting finding of our research was that not only did we see slower degeneration in the articular cartilage, we saw that the menisci degenerated a lot slower in overweight and obese individuals who lost more than 5 percent of their body weight, and that the effects were strongest in overweight individuals and in individuals with substantial weight loss,» Dr. Gersing said.

Many other countries do a very substantial share of their science at freestanding research institutes.

«Unfortunately, more research is still needed, as the current treatments have substantial risk of side effects, and few studies have been done on the long - term effects of these drugs.»

Previous research has already demonstrated that substantial quantities of self - motile or active agents such as bacteria in a fluid environment can be harnessed to do mechanical work like moving microscopic gears and ratchets.

«There's a substantial amount of evidence suggesting that student mobility poses serious problems for the students who change schools, as well as their schools, teachers and even peers who do not change schools,» said Ruth López Turley, an associate professor of sociology at Rice and director of the Houston Education Research Consortium.

Writing in a linked Comment, Dr Daniel J Clauw, Chronic Pain and Fatigue Research Centre, the University of Michigan, USA, says: «The finding that graded exercise therapy is effective even when exercise is not being witnessed and directly guided by a physiotherapist is a substantial advance, since many patients with chronic fatigue syndrome and other functional impairment have difficulty getting to physiotherapy or do not have access to appropriately trained physiotherapists... In summary, findings from this pragmatic randomised controlled trial add to the evidence that straightforward, non-pharmacological therapies can be helpful in the management of symptoms such as fatigue in individuals with chronic fatigue syndrome.

But the research team, an international collaboration that included researchers and clinicians from across Africa, had to do substantial legwork spanning 10 years to unmask the changes.

A number of scientific results suggest a biological basis for sexual orientation, but these results do not point to one simple biological or genetic explanation.2 Perhaps the best recent reviews of the scientific research relevant to this issue are found in a special issue of the journal Frontiers of Neuroendocrinology, the official journal of the International Neuroendocrine Federation and the American Neuroendocrine Society, that was published in April 2011.3 The papers in the special issue make clear that substantial evidence exists in animals for biological bases of sexual partner preference based on sex.

Research in the lab of Edward P. Feener, Ph.D., Investigator in the Section on Vascular Cell Biology and Director of the Proteomics Core at Joslin Diabetes Center and an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, now has shown that a substantial percentage of patients with DME do not have high levels of VEGF in the fluid inside their eyes but do have high levels of a protein called PKal (plasma kallikrein) and associated molecules that are key players in an inflammatory molecular pathway involved in the disease.

Finally, and perhaps most at odds with conventional wisdom, there is substantial research that dairy products — the foods we all associate with calcium — do not contribute to bone strength.

I did a bit of research and apparently Paul Newman owned a substantial sized hardware store locally in the early 1900s.

Research supporting the existence of classic site fm a substantial change circumstances and it does nt have to be about an equal.

When I was in I think it was Narrabri, I was in a consultation group there where what seemed to be very much alive and well was a very substantial and significant in - school professional development program — I think it was in a cluster of schools — a strong partnership between a regional university, some really good academics had done very appropriate and relevant research, and a school which was committed to that, to teacher development, and had made it a priority in a very targeted way.

A substantial body of research demonstrates that such instruction does not translate into higher student performance.

Although panels of scholars warned against using VAMS to make high - stakes decisions because of their statistical limitations (American Statistical Association, 2014; National Research Council & National Academy of Education, 2010), policymakers in many states and districts moved quickly to do just that, requiring that VAMS scores be used as a substantial component in teacher evaluation...

This is the nature of research — it errs on the side of assuming that something does not work until substantial evidence establishes that it does.

However, decades of school reform research «has shown that school improvements tend not to deepen at single schools or spread across schools without substantial support from district central offices,» as Mike Copland and Meredith Honig, University of Washington researchers, point out in their recent Education Week commentary, «Don't Cut Out the Center.»

Did the above exercise yield substantial background literature and supporting research to confirm that a problem really exists in terms of learning and performance?

Abstract In this article, I consider social class and reading performance, outline a non-categorical approach to reading disability, describe the reading intervention program we have developed for older low - progress readers, and seek to demonstrate how students from socially disadvantaged backgrounds can, and do, make substantial progress when offered effective reading instruction based on the available scientific research evidence.

The research is clear and substantial, and the evidence is unequivocal: Students who enter first grade with a wealth of phonological awareness are more successful readers than those who do not.

Fact: According to W. Steven Barnett, director of the National Institute for Early Education Research and a preeminent early childhood education researcher, some measured benefits of preschool decline after children enter elementary school, but «on average [these benefits] did not disappear and remained substantial throughout the school years.»

Despite being a Jeep family and a GC fan, I did a substantial amount of research before purchasing this $ 50K SUV given the amount of recalls on Chrysler products recently.

And as more from the research is presented in the official sessions of the event, summit attendees will hear that there does seem to be substantial offset of that erosion in traditional sales coming from the busy self - publishing authors of romance.

You should ensure you consider all aspects of prospective cards prior to applying — applying for cards can impact your credit score and should not be done without substantial research.

We dedicate a substantial amount of resources into researching these topics and then educating our clientele through advice as well as articles, charts, and videos because those incremental pockets of value do add up overtime.

After my research, I found out that I don't pass the substantial presence test since I was under F1 student visa (OPT) for...

We hadn't spent a substantial amount of time considering Hyatt options in this part of the world prior to doing research for this feature.

But there is a substantial body of research that has been done looking at how various factors (such as El Nino, the North Atlantic Oscillation, etc.) may influence Atlantic tropical cyclone numbers.

Instead, before substantial costs are incurred on third parties, the supporting research must be shown to have been done right.

He accuses the NYT of playing down the seriousness of global warming by ignoring: «the substantial number of climate scientists who believe that the consensus predictions are much too optimistic, including some of the leading scientists right here [at MIT] who have recently run what they call the most extensive modelling ever done and concluded that it's far worse than anticipated and that their own results are an understatement...» That would be the MIT Climate Research group financed by Exxon, Shell, BP and Total.

Recently, Roger Pielke has done a substantial amount of research on a different type of anthropogenic forcing.

«While it may be theoretically possible to stabilize the climate without nuclear power, in the real world, there is no credible path to climate stabilization that does not include a substantial role for nuclear power,» states the letter from Ken Caldeira (senior scientist, Department of Global Ecology, Carnegie Institution); Kerry Emanuel (atmospheric scientist, MIT); James Hansen (climate scientist, Columbia University Earth Institute); and Tom Wigley (climate scientist, University of Adelaide and the National Center for Atmospheric Research).

Doing so effectively calls for research skills beyond those that students acquire through working with domestic legal resources.56 Mary Rumsey explains that students must go beyond their dependence on domestic databases to learn how to access the different resources relevant to international and comparative law.57 She describes, as examples, the need to find customary international law through treaties, laws of other nations, diplomatic correspondence, and scholarly works, and she points out that civil law research requires much more emphasis on statutes and scholarship than on the case law that plays such a dominant role in American legal analysis.58 While there have been significant advances in access to foreign and international legal sources, there are still substantial barriers, 59 and the research methods needed to obtain these resources can be different (in ways either subtle or stark) from those that apply to domestic law.

One litigator outlined: «My first year and a half was spent typically doing junior associate tasks like case management, discovery related work and heavy research but in the last half a year I've taken on a substantial amount of drafting, taken control of briefs and second chaired depositions.»

Associates write briefs that senior attorneys get credit for, judicial clerks draft opinions that judges sign their names to, and research assistants do substantial work on articles that are authored by professors.

In reality, it was common knowledge that an associate probably did a substantial amount of work on the article (research, writing the first draft, or even writing what turned into the final draft).

A number of studies have shown that while a substantial number of individuals or couples indicated initially — pre-IVF treatment — that they would be interested in donating their surplus embryos for third - party reproduction or research, the vast majority did not follow through when asked again to make a decision following treatment.