Sentences with phrase «find consistent evidence»

We do not find consistent evidence of impacts on student performance on the preliminary ACT (called PLAN) exam taken in the fall of 10th grade, but we do find impacts on the 11th - grade PLAN (see Figure 1).

Using multiple methods, we find consistent evidence that (a) OTL has a significant relationship to student outcomes, (b) a positive relationship exists between SES and OTL, and (c) roughly a third of the SES relationship to literacy is due to its association with OTL.

We find consistent evidence that search frequency increases due to the expansion of school choice as a result of NCLB and the growth of charter schools.

The only potentially important resource measure we can observe is pupil - teacher ratios, and we find no consistent evidence that ERI altered the number of students per teacher in the schools it affected most.

Again, however, we do not find consistent evidence that NCLB increased reading performance at either grade level.

The scientists also found consistent evidence of increased pro-inflammatory markers, such as C - reactive protein and tumor necrosis factor alpha, associated with PTSD.

We found no consistent evidence for associations between parental cardiometabolic risk factors and child obesity.

We employed structural equation modeling and supplementary multilevel modeling, finding consistent evidence that the association between delinquency and the parent — child relationship is at least partially shared environmental in origin.

Not exact matches

These limitations and complexities aside, the researchers concluded that their findings provide more evidence consistent with the idea that «some men high in homophobia indeed have a sexual interest toward homosexual stimuli, whereas others do not» and that they «provide a better understanding of the psychological processes involved in the processing of erotic gay material among men high in homophobia...».

Consistent with their hypothesis, Jagolinzer and his colleagues found no evidence that insider trades boosted performance in the two years prior to the crisis and the creation of TARP.

One study provides evidence consistent with one explanation of the overall lack of strong findings: optimal board structures may vary by firm size, with smaller firms benefiting from a unified chair / CEO position, with the clarity of leadership that structure provides, and larger firms benefiting from the extra monitoring that an independent chair may provide given the greater risk of «agency costs» at large companies.

Like all past explorations by science that were previously unknown or consisted of lacking evidence, as more consistent evidence was found the supernatural answer become utterly disregarded, unnecessary, & superfluous.

In my research throughout the world, I've found no evidence of one consistent model for fatherhood.

This novel finding is consistent with evidence implicating PTPRF overexpression as a contributor to insulin resistance in other organ systems [34], [36] and in the pathogenesis of Type II diabetes [37].

«It also found varying practice, with no evidence that the good and thoughtful approach of some staff was mirrored in clear and consistent standards of treatment, support and communication.

There is consistent evidence of a human presence in the Scandinavian peninsula from around 11,700 years ago, and similarities between stone tool artefacts found in Scandinavia and those seen in both Western Europe and Eastern Europe suggest that several groups may have migrated into the area when the ice retreated.

The findings of the effect on mortality indicated borderline evidence, but remained consistent with benefit.

«I also found evidence of specificity in hole sizes, so different species show different characteristic hole sizes, which is consistent with what we know about modern vampire amoebae and their food preferences,» Porter said.

The findings offer the first experimental evidence on the metabolic consequences of consistent delayed eating compared to daytime eating, and will be presented at SLEEP 2017, the 31st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS), on Sunday, June 4.

The report also finds what appear to be consistent differences between the gut microbial population — also called the microbiota — of individuals in developed countries like the U.S. and those the developing world and provides some of the most complete evidence that the gut microbiota usually return to normal after cholera infection.

The findings not only supply evidence for Gnptab's role in stuttering, but they also show that its function remains relatively consistent across multiple species.

«It's well established that emotional arousal enhances memory consolidation, and it's widely assumed that this may contribute to PTSD, but the finding is important as it provides genetic evidence consistent with that hypothesis.»

While the researchers found evidence supporting the use of medical cannabinoids to be limited, side - effects were both common and consistent.

The NRC panel, chaired by neurobiologist Charles Stevens of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, looked at more than 500 human, animal, and cellular studies on EMFs and found «no conclusive and consistent evidence... that exposures to residential electric and magnetic fields produce cancer, adverse neurobehavioral effects, or reproductive and developmental effects.

Both groups found rare, but consistent, evidence that the donor cells contributed to mature muscle fibers.

Of those 633 peaks, Milliken and Sun found 265 that have evidence of hydrated minerals, the majority of which were consistent with clays.

Findings in the paper, «Worldwide Evidence of a Unimodal Relationship between Productivity and Plant Species Richness,» reveal a consistent biological rule governing the link between plant biomass and species richness in grassland ecosystems — plant species diversity is generally greatest at intermediate levels of plant biomass.

«Broadly what we found is that state laws and regulations, as well as consistent enforcement, were crucial factors in preventing childhood motor vehicles fatalities — evidenced by the wide variation in child fatalities by state,» said Dr. Faisal Qureshi, Associate Professor of Surgery at UT Southwestern and a pediatric surgeon at Children's Health ℠.

«This is a great piece of work,» says Alexander Bentley, an anthropologist at Durham University in the U.K. Bentley adds that the new findings, including the signs of violence on the skeletons — such as multiple skull fractures — are consistent with other archaeological evidence from Central Europe that men raided outside communities and captured their women.

This finding is consistent with much other genetic evidence that modern humans originated in Africa, says Alan Templeton a population geneticist at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri.

We find no evidence of a major population replacement; instead, our results are consistent with a scenario where modern European dogs emerged from a structured Neolithic population.

Using new methods to analyze stone projectile points crafted by North America's earliest human inhabitants, Smithsonian scientists have found that these tools show evidence of a shift toward more experimentation in their production beginning about 12,500 years ago, following hundreds of years of consistent stone - tool production created using uniform techniques.

Overall, consistent with the findings of Huntington (2006), the evidence for increases in both severe droughts and heavy rains (Section 3.8.2) in many regions of the world makes it likely that hydrologic conditions have become more intense.

This is consistent with the researchers» findings in a prior study of mSMT in patients with MS, which provided the first Class I evidence for the efficacy of cognitive rehabilitation in MS. (Chiaravalloti N, et al: An RCT to treat learning impairment in MS. Neurology 2013 (81) doi: 10.1212 / 01.

These findings are consistent with evidence that the effects of climate change have increased average surface temperatures around the world and shortened winter seasons.

This finding is consistent with anecdotal evidence suggesting that this Swedish breed of chicken inherited their black skin and internal connective tissue color from Asian chickens that were first brought to Norway by a sailor on the East Asian trade routes centuries ago.

In GAD, we find evidence of an intra-amygdalar abnormality and engagement of a compensatory frontoparietal executive control network, consistent with cognitive theories of GAD.

One cited study, which attributes stroke to excessive salt intake, is a meta - analysis of thirteen studies published between 1966 and 2008 in which most measurements of sodium intake were highly inaccurate estimates based on food frequency questionnaires.22 The second is a review of fifty - two studies, which concluded that strokes are not caused by excess sodium but rather by insufficient potassium, a finding that is consistent with the preponderance of evidence.23 Cordain ignores more recent large clinical and epidemiological studies, which have found that sodium intakes of less than 3 grams per day significantly increase cardiovascular risk.3, 4

While consistent, this approach to selectively reviewing the evidence and generalizing the findings to the U.S. maternity care system is disingenuous and deliberately misleading to American obstetricians and their patients.

To date, the strongest evidence appears to involve breast cancer and lung cancer where decreased risk is a more consistent finding.

The modest or weak evidence of these dietary exposures is mostly consistent with the findings of RCTs, although RCTs have yet to be conducted for several factors.

We found a stronger inverse association between increased intake of higher - fiber, lower - GL vegetables and weight change, consistent with experimental evidence suggesting an influence of these factors on satiety [8], glucose and insulin responses [21], fat storage [21], and energy expenditure [9].

This last finding is consistent with recent evidence showing no academic benefits of attending a Boston or New York City exam school for students who just met the admissions criteria (see «Exam Schools from the Inside,» features, Fall 2012).

Consistent with the Wisconsin evidence, parallel studies in Colorado and Maryland found that weather - related differences in the number of days students had spent in school when they were tested had noticeable effects on their achievement.

Not a dramatic difference, but completely consistent with the other findings reported here, it bolsters the evidence that Catholic schools deliver a high - quality civic education.

The findings are consistent with lottery - based evidence for the full student population that shows that charter schools with these characteristics also generate academic gains for the full student population in Boston, [5] Denver, [6] and New York.

This evidence is consistent with a simple theory of teacher labor markets that predicts that lower quality teachers will be disproportionately found in schools with low ‐ achieving, poor and non-white students.

There is some evidence, however, that African American students transferring to charters are more likely to end up in schools with higher percentages of students of their own race, a finding that is consistent with prior results in North Carolina (Bifulco and Ladd, 2007).

Wilson and Korn's literature review (a lit review analyzes a lot of research on a topic) on student attention during lectures found little evidence of a consistent attention span among students.

These results were consistent with the qualitative findings from student interviews conducted in Year 2 and subsequent anecdotal evidence collected in Year 3.