Sentences with phrase «evidence to date»

We believe that our findings present the strongest evidence to date of long - lasting academic benefits, and should be a cause for cautious optimism.

Most evidence to date suggests that they can boost student learning and parental satisfaction, but constraints have kept them from being tried in full.

All scientific evidence to date indicates that life can come only from previously existing life as we can see from observing life all around us.

Some say a new study provides the most compelling evidence to date for the «protein only» hypothesis.

There is no clear evidence to date that scientists violated important principles of scientific integrity.

Yet there is very little evidence to date on the validity of inspection ratings and the effectiveness of inspection - based accountability systems in improving school quality.

Performance pay for teachers is frequently suggested as a way of improving educational outcomes in schools, but the empirical evidence to date on its effectiveness is limited and mixed.

The research evidence to date indicates that some programs are more effective than others and that results vary greatly — even with the effective models — depending on the quality of implementation.

A 2008 scientific review of the best - available evidence to date finds that studies in the field are usually poor quality.

The study provides the most definitive evidence to date that smoking during pregnancy is associated with schizophrenia.

For some, their character, preferred phase, and intensity may be changing (aside from temperature extremes, the detection and attribution evidence to date is weak).

In addition, there is scant evidence to date that immune enhancing effects of psychological interventions are large or persistent enough to be of biological relevance.

They found the strongest evidence to date of a modest gene - activity interaction.

It does, however, provide some of the strongest evidence to date of a cause - and - effect relationship.

«There is no solid scientific evidence to date that global warming has been a major driving force of the twentieth century increase in epidemic infectious diseases,» he said.

With the overwhelming scientific evidence to date showing golden rice to be environmentally and nutritionally safe, Greenpeace has been forced forced to voice contrived objections such as, «Vitamin A rice could, if introduced on a large scale, exacerbate malnutrition and ultimately undermine food security because it encourages a diet based on one staple rather than increase access to the many vitamin - rich food plants.»

«This is the best evidence to date on the impact of retention on a student's likelihood of graduating from high school, the chief concern raised by critics of test - based promotion policies.»

Small business owners already using Kaspersky to keep their operations safe from cyberattacks seem unlikely to be impacted based on evidence to date, nevertheless they should continue to monitor the situation should new information come to light.

«This is the most conclusive evidence to date for causal reasoning in an animal.»

«We will continue to monitor scientific research in this area but it remains clear that the balance of scientific evidence to date continues to show that properly sited wind turbines are not harmful to human health and that wind energy remains one of the safest and most environmentally friendly forms of electricity generation.»

The biggest study of its kind offers the best evidence to date linking the sport to mood and cognitive impairments

This is the earliest evidence to date of creatures surviving in the harsh, arid continental interior (Palaeo 3, DOI: 10.1016 / j.palaeo.2010.06.020).

The findings, published online this week by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, provide the strongest evidence to date in support of the notion that sex chromosomes acting on single cells play a role in differences between male and female brains.

«While different chemical components of PM may have different effects on health, the available scientific evidence to date supports setting standards that provide protection against exposures to PM from all sources,» the EPA said in a statement to EHN.

So far it has photographed rock formations, analyzed sediment samples, and discovered a riverbed — the most direct evidence to date of potentially life - giving water on Mars.

Our study provides some of the most rigorous evidence to date regarding the degree to which increased prescription coverage is associated with decreases in downstream health care use and cost.»

The revelation represents the most concrete evidence to date that structural variations in the genome play a crucial role in the condition's development, marked by symptoms that include a failure to socially connect, communication difficulties and obsessive behavior.

But given evidence to date that links shorter sleep duration with obesity (mentioned above), attention problems, emotional problems, and impaired academic performance (Vriend et al 2013; Li et al 2013), I think we should be concerned.

A new study provides what scientists say is the most convincing evidence to date that the Italian adventurer and some of his crew contracted the disease during their voyage to the New World — and unwittingly introduced it to the old one circa 1493.

It is also the most striking evidence to date that some of Shulkin's own staff are trying to oust him.

As the battle over genetically engineered food and the use of chemical fertilizers rages on, many people are choosing to opt for organic food where possible, to avoid the risk, despite the fact that there is no significant evidence to date suggesting GM foods are dangerous.

The special counsel, Robert Mueller, announced charges against three advisers to President Trump's campaign and laid out the most explicit evidence to date that his campaign was eager to coordinate with the Russian government to damage his rival, Hillary Clinton.

While they are theoretically predicted to surround giant planets at birth, there has been little observational evidence to date for circumplanetary disks outside the solar system.

The study provides the most promising evidence to date that providing calorie information, either through numbers or icons such as traffic lights, encourages diners to take in fewer calories.

In doing so, she has offered some of the most substantial evidence to date regarding nature versus nurture.

The strongest evidence to date involves omega - 3 fatty acids, a group of compounds abundant in fish oil of the kind Gesch gave to prisoners, as well as in the membranes of and synapses between brain cells.

He compiled a list of key innovations that showed up in several groups of organisms and provided a big competitive edge and was able to find existing fossil evidence to date the origins of a dozen.

The findings are the first evidence to date of a dense stellar graveyard that has been theorized for years and indicate that the black holes and neutron stars will slowly be swallowed up by Sgr A * at a rate of about one every million years, leaving the central supermassive black hole about 3 percent more massive in a few billion years.

An exciting experiment, recently proposed (so - called scaled - up superposition), would furnish the most powerful evidence to date that the biocentric view of the world is correct at the level of living organisms.

While our analysis provides the most reliable evidence to date on the overall impact of the closure process on student outcomes, we can not identify the precise mechanisms that explain closures» impact or lack thereof.

Although a wealth of literature addresses performance - based compensation systems for teachers and their effects on student achievement, the best evidence to date comes from other countries and may not apply to the US K — 12 education system (Rand, 2009).