, can you show
empirical tests on the physical capability of «greenhouse gases» to raise the temperaure from -18 °C to 15 °C?
Not exact matches
I will turn, rather, to the second sort of reasons, reasons which rest
on an
empirical examination of experience and the world, reasons which
test the adequacy of the implications of each of the two versions of process metaphysics — the centered and the decentered — to our world as we experience it.
In a general way, then, and «
on the whole,» our abandonment of theological criteria, and our
testing of religion by practical common sense and the
empirical method, leave it in possession of its towering place in history.
Not only does this provide us with more
empirical data, but focusing
on a «hard» case tends to be more fruitful when formulating and
testing theories.
Music based
on data has the potential to reveal new patterns to scientists and get data out of the arcane language of
empirical orthogonal functions, p - values and Kruskal - Wallis
tests and into a language that everyone can understand.
For over 25 years, she has conducted
empirical research — both quantitative and qualitative —
on the ethical and social implications of genetic
testing in the adult, pediatric and family contexts.
LA JOLLA — With forensic science facing mounting scrutiny as it plays an increasingly prominent role in the administration of justice, six scientists who recently served
on the National Commission
on Forensic Science are calling
on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of
empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of outcomes.
However, this hesitation has been based
on the
empirical experience of clinicians
testing for and treating SIBO.
Don't be afraid to
test the software opportunities and marketing strategies, analyze the results of your attempts and make your own conclusions, based
on empirical experience.
Teachers are taught (and via licensing exams,
tested on)
empirical observations (how kids think and act) as well as psychological theories.
These annual volumes make assertions about
empirical facts («students» scores
on the state
tests used for NCLB are rising»; or «lack of capacity is a serious problem that could undermine the success of NCLB») and provide policy recommendations («some requirements of NCLB are overly stringent, unworkable, or unrealistic»; «the need for funding will grow, not shrink, as more schools are affected by the law's accountability requirements»).
Phase 1 trials would be small, nongenerablizable
empirical studies whose dependent variable is not year - end
test scores, but «next - day or next - week outcomes: measurable effects
on student behavior, effort, or short - term learning.»
Empirical data
on the depth and breadth of
test refusals are hard to come by.
Only one study, conducted by Jay Greene and Marcus Winters and focusing
on the D.C. voucher program, found that voucher competition had no effect
on the
test scores of non-participants, while no
empirical study of acceptable rigor has found that a U.S. private - school - choice program decreased the achievement of public school students.
We provide the first
empirical test of the causal impact of HCZ charters
on educational outcomes.
Murray bases his
empirical claims
on what he calls «three reality
tests»: The Coleman Report, published in 1966, assessed the effects of inequality of educational opportunity
on student achievement.
Since 1999 the CCSR has published several studies of Chicago's attempt to end social promotion that help to provide an extensive,
empirical, and longitudinal look at the impact of the high - stakes
testing policies
on the Chicago school system.
The
empirical evidence simply does not support the use of one - size - fits - all curriculum standards and high stakes
testing as effective tools to improve the education and life outcomes of over 56 million public school students in the third most populous country
on the planet.
Accommodating students with disabilities
on large - scale
tests: An
empirical study of student response and
test administration demands.
Major changes to the
test include incorporating more relevant words such as «
empirical» — which the Common Core State standards call «academic vocabulary» — instead of the traditional «SAT words» such as «sagacious;» including an evidence - based reading section; narrowing the focus
on math topics to allow for deeper knowledge
testing; and eliminating the previous penalty for wrong answers.
Many of us education activists (and yes, this includes folks of color) challenge the fundamental assumption that high - stakes, standardized
testing provides ``... fair, unbiased, and accurate data...» as the civil rights organizations assert in their statement, and we challenge this assumption
on historical grounds,
empirical grounds, pedagogical grounds, political - ideological grounds, cultural grounds, and technical grounds, amongst others.
Accordingly, the state board resolved «until
empirical studies confirm a sound relationship between performance
on the SBAC and critical and valued life outcomes («college and career - ready»),
test results should not be used to make normative and consequential judgments about schools and students.»
An
Empirical Test of Efficiency Wages based
on Urban Economic Theory
This finding prompted him to conclude that «despite its increasing popularity within education, there is little
empirical evidence
on test - based accountability» (p. 4).
Flip through our complete summary of the high - quality
empirical research conducted
on school choice programs to date, including evidence based
on students»
test scores (of those using programs and those who remain in public schools), long - term educational attainment, integration / segregation, fiscal effects and students» civic values.
We score each of the vehicles based
on a testing criteria of five weighted categories that include Trail Performance (30 %), Empirical (25 %), On - Pavement (20 %), Interior (15 %), and Exterior (10 %
on a
testing criteria of five weighted categories that include Trail Performance (30 %),
Empirical (25 %),
On - Pavement (20 %), Interior (15 %), and Exterior (10 %
On - Pavement (20 %), Interior (15 %), and Exterior (10 %).
Four Wheeler experts evaluated the Armada and Grand Cherokee in five weighted categories: off - road performance,
empirical performance
testing,
on - road comfort, interior function and styling, and exterior function and styling.
After
empirical testing, judges are invited to take each vehicle
on a hot lap over the course to safely
test chassis dynamics, electronic stability, and ABS function.
The aim of this paper is twofold: to provide a theoretical framework and to give further
empirical support to Shiller's
test of the appropriateness of prices in the stock market based
on the Cyclically Adjusted Price Earnings (CAPE) ratio.
If
empirical evidence, based
on raw data,
tested and verified by skeptical scientists, using the same code, algorithms and methods used by Michael Mann, Phil Jones, the IPCC or anyone else showed a cause and effect relationship between rising anthropogenic CO2 emissions followed by rising global temperatures, the amount of which could be quantified and measured, I would have to accept that catastrophic AGW was the likely cause.
In contrast with ACR's 2010 methodology for N2O Emissions Reductions from Changes in Fertilizer Management, which incorporates site specific data into a peer - reviewed,
tested and highly parameterized computer model to calculate N2O emission reductions resulting from changes in how fertilizer is applied and used, the MSU - EPRI methodology is based
on empirical equations and NCR data to set conservative estimates for emission reductions.
This is really odd, you ask for experimental proof from basic traditional science
on this, which is grounded in
empirical industrial knowledge, continuous proof in
testing, yet you require only a thought experiment for a claim which contradicts the traditional teaching..
What this new theory is up against here is that any
empirical test of its validity is like
testing whether feeding pigeons in the park has any impact
on world pigeon population.
The required
empirical tests have already been made and they confirm that the model is wrong
on an essential point.
The fact that we have not
tested the AGW theory with repeated experiments
on the climate means the theory has no
empirical basis.
In they days before» post normal science» when hypothesese were falsified or not with real
empirical data it was expected that if one wanted to determine a change in some factor — for example response in corn yields to different rates of types of fertilsier the
test was done
on the same soil type in the same years.
Others have talked about what this might look like — regional impacts, measurement quality, reduced funding to GCM modeling (consistent with their strength in
testing subsystems rather than forecasting climate), and more
empirical work and modeling of those systems that have a large impact
on areas of risk.
It is for those that support the idea of AGW to describe the hypothesis in detail and to set out repeatable
tests based
on falsifiable
empirical evidence before the hypothesis can become an accepted theory.
The idea that limited scope work could improve access to legal help has been cited by many reports
on access to justice, but no one has ever conducted any
empirical research to
test the idea, says [/ span] John - Paul Boyd, executive director of the Canadian Research Institute for Law and the Family in Calgary.
Because our argument is substantially
empirical, resting
on our belief that everyday legal practice in the United States includes transborder legal issues, we found it desirable to
test that premise through some preliminary survey research.
To date, however, the related literature in Canada is slim and, to the extent it exists, does not deploy the
empirical methods necessary to
test independently for the influence of interveners
on the decisions of individual judges.
With various
empirical and theoretical initiatives starting in 1996 with the Cyberjustice Tribunal and ongoing to this day, we continuously centered our methodology
on understanding the needs of the participants of the System of Justice in order to innovate,
test, propose and build approaches that are consequential to the deployment environment.
The hypothesis was
tested based
on the
empirical data from a sample of 383 firms across 9 Chinese provinces and cities, and the main conclusions drawn are as follows:
By grounding the development and
testing of acceptance and mindfulness treatments in
empirical science, there is great potential to improve
on current approaches to child and family treatments and more broadly to influence cultural change.»
In this brief summary, Neele Reiss (lead author of the recent report
on three pilot studies
testing inpatient schema therapy) tells us about the development, and
empirical status, of this exciting mode of delivering schema therapy to patients with BPD.
Berliner and Conte (FN6)(1993) scathingly note «Indeed the entire scale (the SALS) and the Parental Alienation Syndrome
on which it is based have never been subjected to any kind of peer review or
empirical test.»
The clinical expertise of the center is founded
on empirical,
tested research.
This study connected two areas of research by focusing
on empirical studies that have
tested hypotheses drawn from social control theory and assumptions from attachment theory.