Sentences with phrase «few studies claim»

A few studies claim that school choice has not led to academic benefits in other countries.

Although a few studies claim otherwise, it is possible that the essential oil contains far less (if any) Boswellic acid.

On the other hand, a few studies claim that there are no relations between the use of marijuana and pregnancy.

Not exact matches

A study of insurance claims revealed that Alzheimer's alone is not all that expensive, because there are few medications or tests.

One study examined sexual assault claims for a few months last year.

It's not hard to see why we have a plethora of one - size - fits - all business advice dispensed by management gurus and bestselling authors, either extracting so - called universal principles from a few case studies, or claiming to dissect a new trend that winning companies are already exploiting.

Given the latest medical data concerning the distinct characteristics of the fetus and its ability to survive outside the womb at a startlingly early age, it is little wonder that in the past few years several of the denominations that once took a more open position on abortion have retreated somewhat: the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) is now studying the issue; in a 1980 statement on social principles, the UMC moved to a more qualified position; the Episcopal Church and the recently formed Evangelical Lutheran Church in America seem to be in the process of toning down their earlier positions (or those of a predecessor body) The Lutherans defeated a resolution in their 1989 Assembly which would have been consistent with the liberal position of the LCA predecessor body, and a 1988 Lutheran - Episcopal dialogue report refers to the fetus as «embryonic humanity» with claims on society.

Its funny to me that this man who claims he has studied the bible for so long would miss those few verses.

Yet, Zuckerman claims, there have been few studies of the de-converted, despite the rising numbers.

There are few theological schools where these groups do not compete for the students» interest and time, where some members of the former group do not feel that the scholarliness of theological study is being impaired by the attention claimed for field work and counseling, where teachers of preaching, church administration and pastoral care and directors of field work do not regard much of the theological work as somewhat beside the point in the education of a minister for the contemporary Church.

Sears cited studies to back up his claim, but those studies looked at babies who were suffering from colic and a condition known as persistent crying, both of which are a far cry from allowing a child a few minutes of crying time.

Personally, I find it rather ironic that you're lecturing the blog author on the rigor of language, when, faced with the need to support the claims made by a documentary that has faced absolutely no real standards of intellectual rigor or merit (the kind of evidence you apparently find convincing), you have so far managed to produce a study with a sample size too small to conclude anything, a review paper that basically summarized well known connections between vaginal and amniotic flora and poor outcomes in labor and birth before attempting to rescue what would have been just another OB review article with a few attention grabbing sentences about long term health implications, and a review article published in a trash journal.

While advocates of solitary infant sleeping arrangements have claimed any number of benefits of infant sleeping alone, the truth o the matter is, few, if any, of these supposed benefits have been shown to be true through scientific studies.

Since the few studies GFI cites are from lesser known medical journals, and even those studies don't fully back up their claims, one must wonder whether they are citing all the information they view as being «friendly» while ignoring the bulk of scientific research.

Few, if any, existing studies of home birth in the UK can claim to have overcome this many of the problems commonly associated with the study of home birth.

But while past research has shown that women are involved in more multi-tasking than men, there have been few scientific studies that have interrogated this widely believed claim.

But she also claims there are a few potential problems with Coughlin and colleagues» study — particularly its statistical (rather than case by case) approach to analyzing Kepler data.

Zwally's study team claimed that if mass losses in West Antarctica continued to increase, it would only be a few decades before they overtook the gains in the east.

Those claims are among the few that genome studies support.

According to a widely - held view, fewer than one in three embryos make it to term, but a new study from a researcher at the University of Cambridge suggests that human embryos are not as susceptible to dying in the first weeks after fertilisation as often claimed.

In one of the few studies to directly address Vera's claims, paleoecologist Fraser Mitchell of Trinity College in Dublin compared Irish pollen records to those from mainland Europe from around the same time.

These claims are largely unproven, as there are very few studies about kombucha, but we do know that it contains a variety of vitamins and beneficial acids.

However, Danny links to a few studies on his blog that suggest the opposite (ex: http://ajpgi.physiology.org/content/253/3/G390.short) and he claims some great advances with what seem like huge quantities of fructose.

It's not hard to find people claiming this absorbs more effectively than monohydrate, but like hydrochloride and everything else on this list, there have been very few studies performed on it.

Nevertheless, this study «officially» supports what some cardiologists and others have come to claim over the past few years, defying conventional medicine's false culprit of cholesterol from saturated fat while pointing to arterial inflammation.

In the last few years, though, that orthodoxy has been challenged by a few studies that claimed to see muscle increases after just a few weeks of training.

There are far and few studies documenting the true effectiveness of creatine ethyl ester, and even fewer studies backing up the claims made by the promoters of CEE.

She says it calms inflamed membranes and eases a cough — the latter claim supported by a few studies.

Hanushek and Lindseth claim that states in which courts have ordered «extraordinary spending increases,» or at least the select few they have studied, have shown no improvement in student test scores.

To support its claim regarding the supposed lack of evidence for the success of school choice programs, CBTA points to a few studies of school voucher programs.

Not only have newspapers alleged cheating at a few specific schools in the District of Columbia during Michelle Rhee's tenure as Chancellor of Schools for the District of Columbia, but Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, claims that the results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), a test where cheating is improbable, reveal her to have been no more effective than her predecessors.

But because the evidence supporting this claim comes from just a few limited studies, and because other studies contradict some of that evidence, it would be unwise to conclude that confounding is not a problem.

While legally required to offer a public - school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that more than a few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything more than basic math, grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.

In addition, studies of school leadership are replete with other adjectives purporting to capture something uniquely important about the object of inquiry — for example, learning leadership, 19 constructivist leadership, 20 and change leadership.21 Few of these efforts, however, have been products of a sustained line of inquiry yielding the sort of evidence needed to justify their claims.

A separate study shows they also have fewer insurance claims.

Details of the study show that the XC60 was involved in 27 percent fewer property damage claims, and 51 percent fewer bodily injury claims than other mid-sized luxury SUVs.

The real reason that it's used is that a few studies have shown a correlation between certain negative credit events and increased claims frequency.

That said, there is little research to back up these claims — there have been few (if any) studies on the effects of oregano on the feline body.

Then again, very few studies make the kinds of claims made by the paper's authors — claims the media has accepted without the slightest bit of scrutiny.

In here, they claim studies have proven clinically that i / d dog food can settle GI upset in as few as 3 days.

A recent one claimed that even the current level of CO2 in the atmosphere is acidifying our blood, whereas NASA a few years ago did a study of men in a submarine under conditions with CO2 levels 20 - 30 times what we have now and it was shown that our blood adjusts within a week.

Earlier last year, following an article reviewing 6 (also alarmist) books on the environment including Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Nicholas Stern's report, and George Monbiot's Heat, we discovered that, inconveniently, May had taken a few liberties with the facts himself, citing a single study, referenced in the Stern Report to make the claim that» 15 — 40 per cent of species «were vulnerable to extinction at just 2 degrees of warming, and that oil companies were responsible for a conspiracy to spread misinformation, and prevent action on climate change.

Of the few studies that do claim to refute man - made global warming, these repeat well debunked myths.

A few recent studies still claim that corn ethanol produces fewer emissions than gasoline, but a careful look reveals that their methods don't properly account for land use change.

But the CO2 - as - demon narrative has been in need of assistance, as top scientists such as MIT's Richard Lindzen, University of Melbourne's Ian Plimer, Colorado State University's Roger Pielke, Princeton University's William Happer, the University of Connecticut's Howard Hayden, and Dr. Sherwood B. Idso of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change — to name but a few — have shredded the claims that manmade CO2 is a danger to humankind or the planet.

Quite a few of these studies were completed before alarmists made their initial claims about anthropogenic warming.

Now, with the caveat that Latif claims no «skill» in any forecast after 2015 — a caveat the media and deniers never print — as you can see, their model suggests we'll see pretty damn rapid warming in the coming decade, just as the Hadley Center did in a 2007 Science piece and just as the US Naval Research Lab and NASA recently predicted (see «Another major study predicts rapid warming over next few years «'' nearly 0.3 °F by 2014 «-RRB-.

We've previously written about their study claiming 90 % fewer emissions than equivalent

«Studies have shown that there is a 144 percent increase in compensation on VA claims, and veterans can have a VA decision in just a few weeks (with assistance from an attorney),» said Caruso.

The Center claims to provide one of the few statistically - significant studies on the use of social media by corporations.