Sentences with phrase «empirical analysis by»

Anyone who is keen to study what judges actually do must read a new empirical analysis by giants in their respective fields of political science, economics and law.

I begin the empirical analysis by examining how the funding initiatives affected kindergarten enrollment.

Not exact matches

Our empirical studies on the analysis and assessment of entrepreneurial attitudes were conducted on the basis of data published by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development within the framework of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) study.

[Brightman's] notion of the Given as an intrinsic limitation of God's power, a passive element in his activity, analogous to sensation and emotion in us, can be defined and defended only in the context of an adequate analysis of what is or can be meant by «passivity,» «sensation,» etc.; and the exploration of such concepts taken in their most fundamental or general senses, as they here must be, can only amount to a metaphysical system whose defense is not merely empirical, since the very meaning of «experience,» «facts,» etc., will have to be grounded in this system.54

Such study, however, does attempt to be objective by sticking close to empirical data, to its critical analysis, and to projections based on it.

In other words, Ogden's analysis of various descriptions of experience is informed by two distinctions, both of which apply to the noetic pole of experience: a twofold distinction between nonsensuous and sensory modes of experience and a threefold distinction of what Whitehead calls «the feeling of the ego, the others, the totality,» that is, of self, other, and whole (PP 84).8 This comprehensive hermeneutical grid then permits an explanation of what he claims is a «sense of ourselves and others as of transcendent worth,» as precisely an «awareness of ourselves and the world as of worth to God» (PP 86f) Y Ogden notes that such an evidently theistic explanation is not open to empirical or experiential confirmation on either of the two more restrictive descriptions which, as he observes, must either «refer the word God» to some merely creaturely reality or process of interaction, or else., must deny it all reference whatever by construing its meaning as wholly noncognitive,» if they seek experiential illustration for such a sense at all (PP 80) 10

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

It has, however, recently been challenged by an interpretation which convincingly argues that Whitehead's concept of actual entities and their process of feeling constitutes an analysis of the nature and structure of «any concrete existent whatsoever».13 And in the present context this means that actual entities and their process of feeling are not to be conceived as a substratum from which the empirical world is derived.

They've created an empirical model fed by careful analysis of 37 years of historical weather data.

This human - agent model of disease dynamics can then be used to provide reproducible empirical analyses, yielding greater insights into the behavioural reactions and individual responses of people threatened by outbreaks of disease.

The study, «Copycats Versus Original Mobile Apps: A Machine Learning Copycat Detection Method and Empirical Analysis,» was conducted over a five year period by Quan Wang, Beibei Li, and Param Vir Singh of Carnegie Mellon University.

Construct public policy arguments informed by the analysis of empirical and normative scholarship in bioethics.

Empirical studies and analyses range from simple experiments, particularly by measuring, weighing and counting, to extremely complex processes that require an enormous amount of time and money.

Mathematics, theology, philosophy and law are examples of fields that revolve within a stand - alone world in which new findings are derived by means of logical operations consisting of axioms, postulates or articles of faith (theology) that need not be proven true or accurate through empirical studies or analyses.

In a random effects analysis, ALE scores were tested against a null hypothesis of random distribution across the brain, thereby identifying those regions where empirical ALE values were higher than could be expected by chance.

Climate model studies and empirical analyses of paleoclimate data can provide estimates of the amplification of climate sensitivity caused by slow feedbacks, excluding the singular mechanisms that caused the hyperthermal events.

Students may learn more about environmental issues by wrestling with empirical data for themselves, rather than receiving pre-digested data and analysis from lectures, the media or any other secondary sources.

Stanford University education professor Martin Carnoy declares his intent to interject a «balanced perspective» in an empirical literature written «mainly by researchers who openly and actively support vouchers» and media that «report results from these analyses without necessary caveats and alternative views.»

A 2011 meta - analysis study of more than 30 studies (including the oft - cited 2011 Friedman Foundation Report) by the Center for Education Policy found that «the empirical evidence on vouchers is inconclusive and further found that any gains in student achievement are modest if they exist at all» (amicus brief, Schwartz v. López, 2016).

This paper, co-authored by WestEd's Robert Linquanti, illustrates how states can explore these options using empirical analyses based on guidelines from a recently published federal guide.

Detailed empirical research on markets undertaken by our investment team strongly indicates that company analysis should be concentrated on a longer - term, five - year horizon.

According to empirical analysis, the results of different investment models are analyzed and compared with the one gotten by the method in this paper.

In a simple empirical analysis, he showed how a 4 percent initial annual withdrawal rate from the portfolio, subsequently increased by the rate of inflation (or decreased by the rate of deflation), could be sustained for more than 30 years from an investment portfolio evenly and consistently allocated between stocks and bonds (50/50).

A recent paper by Loehle & Scafetta (L&S 2011) in a journal known as the «Bentham Open Atmospheric Science Journal «(also discussed at Skeptical Science) presents some analysis using regression to describe cycles in the global mean temperature, showing us many strange tricks one can do with curves and sinusoids, in something they call «empirical decomposition» (whatever that means).

All in all the Miskolczi paper is an odd mixture of interesting calculations which use empirical data and a detailed radiation model and conclusions largely unsupported by the results of the analyses and in some cases internally contradictory.

SLR satellite data includes things such as the «GIA Adjustment» — which is the amount of SLR that there would have been if the ocean basin hadn't increased in volume and in the case of this new study, how much higher the sea surface would have been if it had not been suppressed by the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, another correction for ENSO / PDO «computed via a joint cyclostationary empirical orthogonal function (CSEOF) analysis of altimeter GMSL, GRACE land water storage, and Argo - based thermosteric sea level from 2005 to present», as well as other additions and adjustments — NONE OF WHICH can actually be found manifested in any change to the physical Sea Surface Height.»

An analysis of satellite temperature dataset, through February 2014, identifies only two 5 - year periods having significant warming and five periods that exhibit either zero warming or cooling... the consensus experts» predicted reaction, by the climate, to a surge of human CO2 emissions is not supported by empirical evidence

As this analysis indicates, consensus corruption of empirical science by U.S. scientists is active and robust, done with a seemingly obvious intent to deceive.

Climate model studies and empirical analyses of paleoclimate data can provide estimates of the amplification of climate sensitivity caused by slow feedbacks, excluding the singular mechanisms that caused the hyperthermal events.

When the Figure 9.20 is interpreted solely as a summary of analyses that tell, what we have learned from empirical observations combined with modeling needed in its interpretation, the information is given by the values of the curves at each value of S relative to the values of the same curve at other values of S.

I think that Piers Forster did answer that point telling that choosing the prior can be used by everyone using the information provided by the empirical study in their subsequent analysis.

2) the existence of major quasi 60 - year and quasi 20 - year cycles are easily detected by power spectrum analysis, see figure 3, 10 & 11 in N. Scafetta, «Empirical evidence for a celestial origin of the climate oscillations and its implications».

By the same token, I'm tempted to argue, the drive for open access to research and scholarship should gain a similar uptick in support — as we seek to flip subscription journals to open access, with research libraries providing the same support — as we realize how vital public access is today to empirical findings and scholarly analysis.

The study, «Let's Not Make a Deal: An Empirical Analysis of Decision Making in Unsuccessful Settlement Negotiations,» by M. Asher, R. Kiser and B. McShane, is to be published in the forthcoming volume of Cornell's Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (Vol.

See, e.g., Brent E. Newton, Law Review Scholarship in the Eyes of the Twenty - First Century Supreme Court Justices: An Empirical Analysis, 4 Drexel L. Rev. 399 (2012)(discussing citations of law review articles by the Supreme Court).

Those interested in valuable empirical analysis of analogous unmet needs should read The National Self - Represented Litigants Project: Identifying and Meeting the Needs of Self - Represented Litigants Final Report May 2013 by Professor Macfarlane at http://www.representing-yourself.com/doc/report.pdf

Second, the «cited by» function in Scopus was used to retrieve empirical articles that have cited the previous meta - analysis.12 Third, review articles about consequences of bullying were reviewed for possible relevant citations.

We formally tested for mediation of the relation between IPV and obesity by maternal depression using a bootstrap method.49 Owing to theoretical and empirical data suggesting differing associations between family and neighborhood violence exposure and BMI by sex, additional stratified analyses were conducted and effect modification was tested using interaction terms.

A covariate was included in the multivariate analyses if theoretical or empirical evidence supported its role as a risk factor for obesity, if it was a significant predictor of obesity in univariate regression models, or if including it in the full multivariate model led to a 5 % or greater change in the OR.48 Model 1 includes maternal IPV exposure, race / ethnicity (black, white, Hispanic, other / unknown), child sex (male, female), maternal age (20 - 25, 26 - 28, 29 - 33, 34 - 50 years), maternal education (less than high school, high school graduation, beyond high school), maternal nativity (US born, yes or no), child age in months, relationship with father (yes or no), maternal smoking during pregnancy (yes or no), maternal depression (as measured by a CIDI - SF cutoff score ≥ 0.5), maternal BMI (normal / underweight, overweight, obese), low birth weight (< 2500 g, ≥ 2500 g), whether the child takes a bottle to bed at age 3 years (yes or no), and average hours of child television viewing per day at age 3 years (< 2 h / d, ≥ 2 h / d).

SFBT has had a large number of empirical studies, in fact enough to have been examined in two recent meta - analyses and to be officially supported as evidenced - based by numerous federal and state agencies and institutions, such as SAMHSA's National Registry of Evidence - Based Programs & Practices (NREPP).

An empirical way to study the individual stability of problem behavior, while taking into account developmental changes in the presentation of problem behavior, is by using latent transition analysis (LTA; Collins and Lanza 2010).

Although there is currently no universally - accepted definition of the term «evidence - based», the general understanding of this concept involves support of the safety and efficacy of an intervention by empirical research following specific rules of data collection, analysis, and reporting.

Our analysis was motivated by the incongruities in empirical findings regarding the existence and magnitude of the difference in parental stress levels between parents of preterm and term infants, and between mothers and fathers of preterm infants.

The Bureau also believes that the structural flaws in HUD's 2008 RESPA Final Rule the Bureau identified in the proposal and described in this section - by - section analysis justify the Bureau taking this action in this final rule, even though the Bureau's empirical support rests on anecdotal evidence, rather than systemic data, because of the significant harm that can result from increased closing costs to consumers.