Sentences with phrase «find little evidence of»

In short, we find little evidence of identity - protective cognition and no evidence of belief polarization across these groups.

We find little evidence of convergence or divergence in teacher effectiveness across teachers as they advance in their careers, but strong evidence that prior year estimates of job performance for individual teachers predict student achievement even when there is a multi-year lag between the two.

We find little evidence of systemic improvement so far.

But we find little evidence of a public backlash against Common Core and test - based accountability, at least on the basis of new information about local school district rankings.

Comparing districts with and without systems of choice, Schneider, Teske, and Marschall find little evidence of increasing inequities where choice is available; the academic performance of all schools appears to increase with even limited choice in a district; and parents become more engaged when allowed to choose their schools - thus enhancing the community's social capital.

Here again, they could find little evidence of a strong correlation between changes in wages of the UK - born and local area immigration.

Yet, despite his claims, those investigating the SNAP program find little evidence of any major misuse of funds.

IgA and IgG have the potential to retard streptococcal growth; streptococcus mutans is highly susceptible to the bactericidal action of lactoferrin, a major component of human milk.9, 10 Rugg - Gunn reported that cariogenic bacteria may not be able to utilize lactose, the sugar found in breastmilk, as readily as sucrose.8 Confirming the findings of other researchers, this author has evaluated approximately 600 skulls to find little evidence of problems with dental decay among our prehistoric breastfed ancestors.11, 12,13,14,15

Studies that formally tested for interaction found little evidence of sex differences in the association between breastfeeding and systolic or diastolic blood pressure (20, 43).

But geologists have found little evidence of activity in recent eons; the newest volcanic deposits date back millions of years.

But paleontologists have found little evidence of how the extinct arthropods reproduced — until now.

Although field studies have found little evidence of cooperative behavior in wild bonobos, it may simply be that their lush forest habitat provides enough easily accessible food that teamwork isn't necessary, de Waal says.

«Race and gender may not affect employer interest in resumes: New research finds little evidence of discrimination at the resume review stage of job application process.»

Now, the first large, longitudinal study to track how victims of child abuse treat their own children has found little evidence of a cycle of violence, but suggests that sexual abuse and neglect may indeed be passed down the generations.

At the same time, members of an independent team of international experts that visited the sites last weekend found little evidence of significant destruction.

Most academic studies have found little evidence of any tangible long - term economic impact, with the most recent concluding that in most cases the Olympics are a money - losing proposition for host cities.

We found little evidence of differential impacts for students in any of these groups.

Indeed, we found little evidence of students performing near the maximum levels on these tests in either the regression discontinuity or lottery samples.

Although students overwhelmingly like to use their devices, a growing research base finds little evidence of positive effects and plenty of indications of potential harm.

However, research to date finds little evidence of a strong positive effect of teachers» pay on student achievement.

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.

While Gallup's senior editor, Lydia Saad, suggested that Democratic support may have declined because chartering has become more closely tied to Donald Trump and Betsy DeVos, the Education Next staff said they found little evidence of a «Trump effect» because in their survey, support from both parties fell.

However, we found little evidence of collaboration between KIPP schools and the rest of the district.

We found little evidence of flex in the body, either, which should bode well for longevity.

Aaron Wildavsky's book «But is it True» is an investigation of the earlier efforts at projecting «harm» — and he found little evidence of truth in the various scares starting in the late 1950's and ending in the early 1990» s.

The MPs found little evidence of coordination among government, government agencies and public bodies on communicating climate science, despite various policies at national and regional level to mitigate and adapt to climate change.

When reporters visited Aurora Organic Dairy, a supplier to Walmart and Costco, several times over the past year, they found little evidence of grazing cattle, despite the fact that grazing is a key component of organic dairy.

Transparency International's 2011 report found little evidence of corruption in either the judiciary or the legal profession.

We found little evidence of differences between CBCT and a wait list in partner - reported relationship satisfaction, and partners» ratings of PTSD symptom improvements were not as consistent with the clinicians» ratings.

Finally, we found little evidence of an association between distal or proximal effects of parental alcohol use on youth mental health problems which have previously been shown in children of alcoholics to be largely related to distal factors for both externalizing and internalizing symptoms [51,52].

Not exact matches

This summer, two major research groups found strong evidence that drinking alcohol — as little as a glass of wine or beer a day — increases the risk of developing both pre - and postmenopausal breast cancer.

The researchers» most alarming observation, however, was the lack of any reliable connection to the illusive spark of creativity: «Despite the common assumption that arts education teaches creativity, we found little evidence for this hypothesis.»

«Taken together,» the authors conclude, «our results find little or no evidence of deterioration in the performance of daily deal promotions over the past year (April - May 2011 to May 2012) for small - and medium - sized businesses or with experience as the business operator runs multiple daily deals.

A more recent survey of the empirical research by Reed College's Kimberly Clausing found «very little robust evidence linking corporate tax rates and wages.»

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

Studies have also found little evidence that bequest motives are strong enough to explain low rates of spending in retirement (De Nardi et al. 2009b; Hurd 1987; Hurd 2003).

While the authors report having «found little evidence that the strong tendencies toward religious freedom and religious pluralism led to any lack of religious vitality» in the campuses they visited, their account suggests otherwise: faculty and administrators are afraid to offend students by supporting religious «rules and regulations» or by teaching Christian doctrine.

Some expert readers have claimed to find internal evidence that chapters 2 and 4 stand closest to 587 (on the strength, chiefly, of an «eyewitness» quality allegedly not present in the others); that chapters 1 and 5 are a little later; and that chapter 3 is the latest of the five.

Meanwhile, medal contender Park Tae - Hwan of South Korea was disqualified after winning his heat, though review found little evidence that he did anything to deserve the DQ.

A lengthy, well - researched, and powerful article in the Spring 2015 issue of the NCAA's Champion magazine, not only reports the belief of many top concussion experts that the media narrative about sports - related concussion trace has been dominated by media reports on the work of Dr. Ann McKee, which was the centerpiece of PBS Frontline's League of Denial, but Dr. McKee's, however belated, mea culpa that «There's no question [that her autopsies finding evidence of CTE in the brains of most of the former athletes were] a very biased study,» that they involved «a certain level of... sensationalism», that there were «times when it's overblown» and went «a little too far.»

When she looked at the medical benefits (documented in medical journals and scientific studies), she found «that breast - feeding is probably, maybe, a little better; but it is far from the stampede of evidence that Sears describes.»

The biggest problem with the equating of DHA to DHASCO and ARA to ARASCO is that the two are not the same and there is little evidence to support the claims that DHA / ARA found in formula provides the same benefits as that found in breast milk.

I always find plenty of «evidence» for extended breastfeeding but for some reason I have always been a little sceptical of it (and don't have the time, money or inclination to read the articles referenced)-- probably because the sources are pro-extended breastfeeding and therefore less than objective.

We found little evidence that between - study heterogeneity in estimates was explained by age at measurement of blood pressure (p = 0.5), decade of birth (p = 0.2), stipulation of a minimum duration of breastfeeding (p = 0.5), proportion of the target population in the main analysis (p = 0.2), whether breastfeeding was exclusive for at least 2 months (p = 0.2), method of blood pressure measurement (p = 0.4), or whether effect estimates controlled for socioeconomic factors (p = 0.9), maternal factors in pregnancy (p = 0.9), or current weight (p = 0.9).

Legislation against the drug in Europe and north Africa «had little success in curbing demand and has taken place with little consideration of evidence», it found.

DWP's own research concludes: «There is little evidence that workfare increases the likelihood of finding work.

Barbara Walter, another leading expert, finds little evidence that peacekeeping increases the duration of the peace.

In our study, we find little evidence that the presence of UNPKOs has a stabilising effect on peace overall.

The Commission's David Freidful says the report, titled «Increasing Without Evidence,» finds little data to support the exponential growth of the programs under Cuomo.

The commission's David Freidful said the report, titled «Increasing Without Evidence,» finds little data to support the exponential growth of the programs under Cuomo.