Sentences with phrase «examining decades of data»

One recent review from Baylor University examining decades of data, suggests that getting good sleep in middle age and young adulthood protects against age - related cognitive decline during senior years.

Not exact matches

To demonstrate «critical slowing down» as an early warning signal of societal collapse, Downey and his fellow researchers examined five decades» worth of data on Neolithic European settlements published in archaeological journals.

Before you accept someone's view about market valuation, examine the data — decades of it.

This brief uses data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement5 to examine the importance of public pensions to black retirement security, and why the twin threats to public pensions — cuts to state pension benefits and the decline in public employment over the past two decades — particularly threaten the retirement security of African American workers.

The scientists then examined two decades of monitoring data from the Alert monitoring station in the Canadian province of Nunavut.

Using over a decade's worth of data from the Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research project, supported by the National Science Foundation, the investigators examined the effects of kelp on groups of organisms in the kelp forest ecosystem.

Lloyd - Jones and colleagues examined long - term data on more than 5,200 men and women aged 28 to 62 who were free of cardiovascular disease at the time of their enrollment in the Framingham Heart Study, a decades - long cardiovascular study.

To look at farming's impact on overall survival rates, marine biologists Jennifer Ford and the late Ransom Myers of Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, examined three decades» worth of data from Ireland, Scotland, and Canada.

Seeing himself as a strict empiricist whose hurricane predictions are based on decades of «crunching huge piles of data,» Gray is convinced that the atmosphere is too complicated to be captured in computer simulations, at one point fulminating that «any experienced meteorologist that believes in a climate model of any type should have their head examined.»

From both decades of research and the craft knowledge of educators who've jumped in and turned around schools, we know these practices generally yield improvement: (1) a focus on what kids need to learn: (2) collaboration on instruction and assessment; (3) examining assessment data; (4) using patterns in data to improve instruction; and (5) building trusting relationships.

«The skill of the model is examined by comparing its output to sea ice thickness data gathered during the last two decades.

From everything I have gathered and examined, no matter how you reasonably slice the data with either accepted, or marginally accepted statistical analytic practice, in consideration of the data set at hand, we still end up with a «Hockey Stick» at the end of the day, month, year, decade, whether or not tree ring data is included, or not.

That's the temperature series with the data examined in the Daily Mail article replaced with a linear trend of approximately -.01 degrees per decade.

If we heed the findings of Santer et al. and examine at least 17 years worth of data, the trend over that period is positive in both UAH (0.14 °C per decade) and RSS (0.07 °C per decade).

Thereafter, in my third article, Official: Satellite Failure Means Decade of Global Warming Data Doubtful we saw the smoking gun evidence of a cover up after examining the offending satellite's AVHRR Subsystem Summary.

Ding, now a PSC affiliate, along with Schweiger and other colleagues from UW and NOAA used decades of data to examine the contribution of the atmospheric circulation to Arctic sea - ice variability.

Using data from 2,254 locations that they obtained from the Chinese National Meteorological Information Center, the eight researchers examined trends in both the occurrence of hail days (frequency) and the mean size of hail (intensity) over the period 1980 - 2015»... «Ni et al. conclude that these observational changes «imply a weakened [frequency and] intensity of hailstorms in China in recent decades.»

Despite decades of research describing the harmful effects of family poverty on children's emotional and behavioral development, eg,12 - 17 experimental or quasi-experimental manipulations of family income that could go beyond description are rare18 and tend to examine the effect of such manipulations on physical health or academic attainment, rather than emotional or behavioral functioning.19, 20 Other analyses of the Great Smoky Mountains data set have focused on educational and criminal outcomes.21 The few studies looking at emotional or behavioral outcomes tend to have a short time frame.22, 23 Some studies of school - based interventions have followed up with children through to adulthood, 24,25 but we have found none that have looked at the long - term effects of family income supplementation on adult psychological functioning.