Sentences with phrase «early evidence on»

On top of that, early evidence on student achievement also points to negative outcomes for families that took advantage of the vouchers.

Unfortunately, there are more than a handful of examples where the early evidence on a policy turned out to be misleading, or where a policy seemed to have delayed effects.

«Early evidence on the potential value of e-cigarettes for cessation or reduction of cigarette smoking has been mixed,» said lead author Brian A. Primack, M.D., Ph.D., director of Pitt's Center for Research on Media, Technology and Health, and dean of Pitt's Honors College.

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As an example, they cited outside research and «early evidence» from a previous study Matias conducted on Internet messaging board Reddit that involved showing readers of Reddit's «r / science» forum rules for commenting.

Topics included: early reporting on inaccuracies in the articles of The New York Times's Judith Miller that built support for the invasion of Iraq; the media campaign to destroy UN chief Kofi Annan and undermine confidence in multilateral solutions; revelations by George Bush's biographer that as far back as 1999 then - presidential candidate Bush already spoke of wanting to invade Iraq; the real reason Bush was grounded during his National Guard days — as recounted by the widow of the pilot who replaced him; an article published throughout the world that highlighted the West's lack of resolve to seriously pursue the genocidal fugitive Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, responsible for the largest number of European civilian deaths since World War II; several investigations of allegations by former members concerning the practices of Scientology; corruption in the leadership of the nation's largest police union; a well - connected humanitarian relief organization operating as a cover for unauthorized US covert intervention abroad; detailed evidence that a powerful congressional critic of Bill Clinton and Al Gore for financial irregularities and personal improprieties had his own track record of far more serious transgressions; a look at the practices and values of top Democratic operative and the clients they represent when out of power in Washington; the murky international interests that fueled both George W. Bush's and Hillary Clinton's presidential campaigns; the efficacy of various proposed solutions to the failed war on drugs; the poor - quality televised news program for teens (with lots of advertising) that has quietly seeped into many of America's public schools; an early exploration of deceptive practices by the credit card industry; a study of ecosystem destruction in Irian Jaya, one of the world's last substantial rain forests.

LONDON, May 2 (Reuters)- Brent crude futures eased on Wednesday, surrendering early gains after evidence of further increases in U.S. shale supply and a rise in Iranian exports ahead of a possible renewal of U.S. sanctions on Tehran.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday released minutes from its meeting at the end of July, and it looks like Fed officials broached the subject of raising interest rates earlier than planned, but ultimately decided to wait for more evidence of an improved economic outlook.

«Our strong focus on execution across the business continues, as evidenced by three successful launches in the quarter and the entry into service of SES - 15 early in Q1.

«This is evidence of a big shakeup early on in the solar system's formation,» Glenn Orton, a co-author of the new study and a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, told Business Insider.

His running mate, Mike Pence, said earlier Friday that the Trump campaign will soon produce evidence to support Trump's denial that he forced himself on women.

Bankhaus Lampe, a private bank in Germany, downgraded the manufacturer to a «sell» rating on «strong evidence» that Apple is working on its own battery - saving chip for the iPhone - which could replace Dialog's power circuits as early as 2019.

This study, plus an earlier on in Israel, bolsters anecdotal evidence that in states where marijuana is legal, opioid overdoses decline.

Second, the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash is history's oldest major flash crash with such great causal uncertainty: strong evidence has been put forth to explain the earlier, major flash crashes on May 6, 2010 [12, 13] and April 23, 2013 [14].

«The US government acted as police force (identifying the foreign government's crime), prosecutor (making the legal arguments), jury (ruling on the evidence), and judge (sentencing the foreigner to US retaliatory punishment),» Chad Bown, a senior fellow at the pro-free trade Peterson Institute for International Economics, wrote in a memo about Section 301's history earlier in August.

«I think, given the extraordinary evidence we've heard so far today, it is absolutely astonishing that Mark Zuckerberg is not prepared to submit himself to questioning in front of a parliamentary or congressional hearing, given these are questions of fundamental importance and concern to his users, as well as to this inquiry,» Damian Collins, the member of parliament heading the UK committee, said earlier on Tuesday.

That would allow us to establish a strong market exposure on early evidence of improved market action.

New Evidence on How Skills Influence Human Capital Acquisition and Early Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United StEarly Labor Market Return to Human Capital between Canada and the United States Steven F. Lehrer, Queen's University and NBER Michael Kottelenberg, Huron University College Lehrer and Kottelenberg analyze the roles played by cognitive and non-cognitive skills in educational attainment and early labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United Stearly labor market outcomes using the Youth in Transition Survey from Canada and earlier results from a study of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth in the United States.

Housing Market Crawls Back Housing prices across the U.S. continued falling in March but not as sharply as earlier months, according to a report that offered the latest evidence of a real - estate market on the mend.

Early advocates of these type of tax cuts argued that lower tax rates would increase economic activity and thereby revenues. However, thereâ $ ™ s little evidence changes in tax rates, except in more extreme cases, have a major impact on real economic activity.

While «operating earnings» are not even defined under Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, and «forward operating earnings» only surfaced as a creature of Wall Street in the early 1980's, it's simple enough to impute historical values of forward operating earnings because they are almost completely explained by observable earnings and employment data — see Long - term Evidence on the Fed Model and Forward Operating Earnings.

Going back to the early church fathers and Augustine and Thomas Aquinas, Thatcher argues that children should be «regarded as evidence of the blessing of God on marriage.»

The journal Sex Education published an earlier article of mine in which I found some evidence (though not conclusive since the data on STIs available to us is far inferior to that on pregnancy rates) that STI rates amongst teenagers have increased fastest in those areas promoting the EBC the most.

At the beginning, their «psalms and hymns and spiritual songs» (Colossians 3:16: Ephesians 5:19) were probably taken over and adapted from the older heritage, and while the evidence on this matter is scant, the devotional services of the early churches doubtless leaned heavily on the Old Testament, especially the Psalter, and even on the customs of the synagogue.

Further evidence for the existence of table - fellowship with «tax collectors and sinners» as a feature of the ministry of Jesus is the role played by communal meals in earliest Christianity (E. Lohmeyer, Lord of the Temple [ET by Stewart Todd of Kultus und Evangelism (1942); Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1961], pp. 79ff, discusses the central role of table - fellowship in the ministry of Jesus, but he is particularly concerned with the development towards the Last Supper, which he sees as historical, rather than with the relationship between this table - fellowship and the cross, on the one hand, and the communal meals of early Christianity on the other.)

It therefore goes back to the earliest days; it is extremely important evidence, and we are on relatively sure historical ground here.

Though on a smaller scale than in the early «80s, political killings still go on, yet not one ranking military officer has ever been tried for human rights violations — not even in the Romero case, despite the unassailable evidence implicating (then Major) Roberto D'Aubuisson and his cohorts.

Prior to the time of the early church father Augustine, there is little evidence of discussion on the relationship of the synoptic gospels... and on side note of text book p. 47..

Later Einstein on other grounds developed the theory of relativity; only then did the Michelson - Morley experiment, performed twenty - five years earlier, appear as important evidence against all ether theories.

At the time Thornton had closely read The Concept of Nature (1920) and Principles of Natural Knowledge (2d edition, 1925), tended to interpret Science and the Modern World (1925) in line with these earlier works, and was acquainted with Religion in the Making (1926) though somewhat unsure what to make of its doctrine of God.2 He took comfort in Whitehead's remark concerning the immortality of the soul, and evidently wanted to apply it to all theological issues: «There is no reason why such a question should not be decided on more special evidence, religious or otherwise, provided that it is trustworthy.

But Gloege points out that there is evidence in the Jewish Targum, 21 which «shows that Jesus» resurrection «on the third day» was regarded as the fulfillment of Hosea's prophecy by Christians at a very early date; it erased the precise chronological reference «after two days» and «on the third day» and replaced them by the more general phrases «in the days of consolation» and «on the day of resurrection», in order to exclude the Christian interpretation.»

One might invoke Bedouin rule as parallel, but the better course is to drop the problem for lack of evidence and go on to our earliest sources for Israel's life after the settlement in Palestine.

Earlier writers had recognized that Volkmar went too far in his attempted demonstration of Mark's dependence upon Paul — he found evidence of such dependence on almost every page of the Gospel — but his view was such a welcome relief from the one - sided Tübingen theory, according to which Mark was a «neutral» in the great apostolic controversy over Jewish Christianity, that the main thesis of Volkmar was accepted without careful scrutiny of his supporting arguments.

The sufficient evidence of this point in the case of the New Testament writings is that all of them have now been shown to depend on sources, written or oral, earlier than themselves, and hence not to be the original and originating witness that the early church mistook them to be in judging them to be apostolic.

Also there is evidence of molecular mechanisms in the cell membranes that can amplify small changes in the field to produce large changes in neural activity.13 On the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studiesOn the other hand, earlier tests of Kohler's theory found that interference with electrical gradients over the cortex had no effect on behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studieson behavioral measures (see note 11 for reference to these studies).

Gods evidences for all mankind was displayed on a hill outside the walls of Jerusalem in the early 1st century A. D. (in the year of our Lord)

(Shalit presents convincing evidence that modesty was encouraged in part because it was believed that women liked sex too much, and they would get themselves into endless trouble if they didn't learn early on to exercise some restraint.)

The influence of these older evolutionary cosmologies on Whitehead's thought, moreover, is never carefully examined so much as it is presupposed.1 Against such presuppositions, I shall argue here that evolution and evolutionist theories play no significant role in Whitehead's metaphysics, and that there is no evidence in his major works of any significant influence from earlier process - oriented «evolutionary cosmologies.»

As I see it, both the Epistle to the Hebrews and the Fourth Gospel (not to mention I Corinthians) provide evidence of the early church's insistence on human communion, even in the face of persecution and death.

The sacramental teaching of the gospel, on the other hand, while much of it certainly reflects the experience of early Christians, seems, in comparison with the rest of the New Testament evidence, to be only partially based on the teaching of the Jesus of history.

Although they differ radically from one another and appear in widely varied contexts, these early prophets evidence in two significant ways their place in the movement of prophetism from premonarchic times to the decay and collapse of monarchy and on into the days of Jewish reconstruction.

On the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico, a Mokaya archaeological site provides evidence of the beverages dating even earlier, to 1900 BCE.

On the outgoing side of things, Wenger admitted early on that he had had to trim his heavy squad, but we have seen little evidence of that so far, with just Wojciech Szczesny the only sale of note so far, and the new Juventus keeper hasn't even been seen at the Emirates for the last two years..On the outgoing side of things, Wenger admitted early on that he had had to trim his heavy squad, but we have seen little evidence of that so far, with just Wojciech Szczesny the only sale of note so far, and the new Juventus keeper hasn't even been seen at the Emirates for the last two years..on that he had had to trim his heavy squad, but we have seen little evidence of that so far, with just Wojciech Szczesny the only sale of note so far, and the new Juventus keeper hasn't even been seen at the Emirates for the last two years....

Pogba had been linked with a move from Juventus to PSG earlier on in the summer, with some taking his appearance in Paris as evidence that the move may be back on — but PSG are unlikely to be able to afford such an expensive move under FFP restrictions after a profligate summer.

Everton confirmed their early season promise as they cruised to victory at Villa Park — and on this evidence Paul Lambert's side will face a Barclays Premier League relegation battle.

I still find evidence of those early childhood days: crayon marks on the fireplace bricks that won't wash off, permanent markers on the back of a bathroom door and stickers on the kids bedroom doors that I don't have the heart to peel them off now that they are all grown up.

Dr. Laugeson has been a principal investigator and collaborator on a number of studies funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigating social skills training for youth with developmental disabilities from preschool to early adulthood and is the co-developer of an evidence - based social skills intervention for teens and young adults known as PEERS.

The evidence for epigenetic effects on emotion regulation is quite solid: Early caregiving experiences can affect the expression of the genes that regulate a baby's stress and they can shape how the endocrine system will mobilize to stress.

The research provides some of the most conclusive evidence to date of fathers» importance to children's outcomes and reinforces the idea that early childhood programs such as Head Start should focus on the whole family, including mother and father alike.

There is currently no hard evidence suggesting that taking birth control pills during early pregnancy will have any negative effect on a developing fetus.

The research adds to a growing body of evidence on just how essential father - child bonding is, especially in the earliest part of a child's life.