Sentences with phrase «effecting larger questions»
It's about effecting larger questions facing contemporary life and art, from an intimate and tangible scale that's within everyday reach.
http://www.contemporaryartsociety.org/ Not exact matches
Through the effect known as the wisdom of the crowd, a large group's aggregated answers to certain questions are often better than those arrived at separately by individual members.
The models specified are inappropriate for properly addressing this question, both in their use of road expenditure data (based on a misunderstanding of how this may relate to traffic growth) and specification of a model that does not account for other variables that generally have a large effect on traffic growth (notably population and income growth).
On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Assemblymember Kavanagh, Chair of the Consumer Affairs and Protection Committee, held a press conference with Energy Chair Amy Paulin, Corporations Chair Jeffrey Dinowitz, Environmental Conservation Chair Steve Englebright, and other Assemblymembers to question the lack of transparency by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC) regarding massive subsidies to a large corporation to operate upstate nuclear power plants that are set to take effect on April 1.
One large clinical trial known as JUPITER reported in 2008 that rosuvastatin (Crestor) lowers the risk of heart attacks and other events by 44 percent in healthy subjects but experts have since raised questions about its methodology in part because the trial was stopped early, which might have created the effect of overestimating the drug's benefits.
To further investigate the prevalence of the phenomenon, the researchers carried out the first large - scale online study of this barely - known effect, and recruited 4,128 participants to answer a survey, with 1,058 of these also answering additional trait - related questions.
The researchers say follow - up studies could explore questions such as what extent demographic changes — especially a larger population of older adults — will have on heat - related mortality, and the effect of specific interventions related to adaptation and greenhouse gas reductions.
«We are also interested in sex - specific effects, but for these questions larger studies may be needed.»
In the search for compounds that might alter a protein's behavior or function — such as that of alpha - synuclein — drug companies often rely on so - called target - based screens that test the effect large numbers of compounds have on the protein in question in rapid, automated fashion.
Complex questions such as these are addressed by biological systems science, where these results can be used to understand the effects of genetic perturbations on inherited and expressed characteristics in a larger context.
The American Heart Association (AHA) and the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), a government - appointed panel of experts that studies large health questions, also have concerns about the drug's side effects.
«The positive ecological correlations between national intakes of total fat and saturated fatty acids and cardiovascular mortality found in earlier studies were absent or negative in the larger, more recent studies,» the authors wrote, concluding that «the harmful effect of dietary saturated fatty acids and the protective effect of dietary polyunsaturated fatty acids on atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease are questioned.»
Over the last few years as education researchers at University of Michigan and Michigan State University, we have worked to address this question through a large study of the effects of PBL on social studies and some aspects of literacy achievement in second - grade classrooms.
[ii] The question facing policymakers and the public is not whether eliminating tuition at public colleges for most families will have a positive effect, but whether it is the best use of a large new federal investment in higher education.
A remaining question is whether the effects we find are small or large.
A question about the effect of a larger, maybe more conceptual, item: academic standards.
Our research raises serious questions about the value of the Open Court assessments and the larger movement they represent, with particularly detrimental effects for English Learners.
Currently, school districts in the United States spend $ 18 billion annually on professional development for teachers, 52 and the 50 largest school districts spend $ 18,000 per teacher per year.53 New research questions whether these funds are being spent effectively, as many forms of professional development have been shown to have little to no effect on teacher practice or student learning.54 Redistributing some of the funding currently used for one - off workshops and other less effective professional development activities to more school - based collaborative learning time could make it possible to provide teachers with increased time to collaborate and plan.
The question that I have at this point in the cycle is how low the Fed will get before they get scared about inflation, and flatten out policy to see which effect is larger — deflation from overvalued housing assets purchased with debt, or inflation of goods and services prices.
Questioning the effects of a rapidly evolving culture on «our sense of self and identity as well as on art's form and larger social role» — as the exhibition claims to do — has been a concern of varying degree within the arts since the early modern period and will likely continue to have new permutations every generation.
Piotr Chizinski's larger sculptural practice questions the effects of historical digital technologies to offer sociopolitical inquiries about the present.
Whether this is the case in the real world is an active research question (though climate models suggest it is not a large effect).
My question is: does the retroreflectivity of the larger droplets, i.e. back towards the light source, play into the sulfur aerosol issue or is it simply averaged out by the bulk effect of all the aerosol particles present in the apparently white haze?
The question is whether or not the change in the amounts of Co2 is large enough on scale to have the claimed effect outside of other observations because the raw physics equation doesn't side with observations.
The answer to the second question is certainly: No, it would not negate GHE, only reduce it a bit, because a very large part of the effect comes from the upper troposphere, where CO2 dominates over H2O as GHG.
The question is whether the loss of volume on condensation creates a sufficiently strong vacuum effect to contribute to the observed affects of low pressure at the surface and especially large scale circulations such as Hadley Cells.
The scientific problems and side effects are serious enough, however, there are much larger questions.
An obvious question is whether this underlying shock is large enough to have substantial effects in itself, or whether the problem is mainly one of liquidity and confidence.
One question, how would a paper which accepted the basic chain of human emissions - > more CO ₂ in the atmosphere - > warming - > positive feedbacks (water vapour, etc) but then proposed that there were large negative feedbacks which cancel out most of the effect be counted?
And I think you hit the nail on the head with: «5) Once we scientifically - oriented Skeptics accept the reality of the Atmospheric «greenhouse effect» we are, IMHO, better positioned to question the much larger issues which are: a) HOW MUCH does CO2 contribute to that effect, b) HOW MUCH does human burning of fossil fuels and land use changes that reduce albedo affect warming, and, perhaps most important, c) Does the resultant enhanced CO2 level and higher mean temperature actually have a net benefit for humankind?»
If your answer is YES, then it just might be possible that a much larger reforestration (land reclaimed by high - density, fast - growing Neotropical biomass from that used by 50M people doing low - density agriculture) might have had an effect... One more time: the relevant - to - this - post interesting scientific question is whether or not a cooling that certainly happened would have had different * regional * fingerprints depending on the relative contributions of:
An important question regarding the adequacy of resolution is deciding whether the information produced at finer scales at higher resolution feeds back on the larger scales or do the finer scales simply add to local effects (Williamson, 1999).
Comment: A few commenters raised the question of the effect of a restriction agreed to by one covered entity that is part of a larger covered entity, particularly a hospital.
Although some of these other effects might have achieved statistical significance with a much larger sample, their clinical significance may be questioned.
Prior research has established the influence of maternal depression on the child's behavioral and emotional health3, 27,28 and its relevance for pediatric practice.29, 30 Several studies have analyzed the independent effects on children of mothers» and fathers» mental health, but few have examined the more clinically relevant question of how the mental health of parents jointly influences child outcomes.16, 31,32 The largest study of the joint effects of mothers» and fathers» mental health on children was a population - based study of twins and their parents.16 Similar to our results, the combination of maternal and paternal depression was associated with the largest increase in children's depressive symptoms.