Sentences with phrase «finding empirical supports»

God's supraluminal influence on worldly events may be finding empirical supports in addition to its metaphysical necessity.

They find empirical support for some common intuitions about how the networks probably work.

After finding no empirical support for standard explanations, such as selection or income effects, we offer a new explanation.

«But all of us aren't purely rational creatures, and we found empirical support that psychological factors can be helpful.

Not exact matches

Normally, I wouldn't follow this type of thread, but your inability to concede the difference between actual knowledge and faith founded in the absence of empirical supporting evidence is both perplexing and frustrating.

Because last I checked there was still not a single shred of tangible, measurable, empirical evidence in support of any form of Theism, let alone something as backwards, corrupt, and atrocious, morally reprehensible (historically), and specific as Catholicism, which isn't even a very accurate form of Christianity when compared to the oldest Biblical scripts we've yet found.

Recent findings have provided direct empirical and quantitative support for economic models that acknowledge the influence of emotional factors on decision - making behavior.

Discussing a wide range of ideas and empirical studies that support them, West - Eberhard focuses on showing what recent findings in development, physiology, and behavior suggest about the origins of evolutionary novelties.

Planners had already suspected many of the study's findings, but the research provides empirical support for the theories and suggests that natural rules may guide the self - organization of cities.

Our findings add empirical support to the contribution of low - frequency variants in complex traits, demonstrate the advantage of including population - specific sequences in imputation panels and exemplify the power gains afforded by population isolates.

Offering support for their new perspective, the predictions of the analytical model are compared with empirical measurements from two different sources and found to be in agreement.

After an extensive search, the report's authors were unable to find any empirical evidence supporting this breakdown.

Thankfully, there is an increasing amount of research that is finding the empirical evidence required to support the claims the benefits of mobile learning to the educational community.

In a review of the empirical literature on teacher leadership, nine studies were identified that included findings related to teacher leaders providing instructional support through lesson planning.

These findings add to the growing empirical support for PK - 3 programs and practices.

The explanation for this finding that receives most empirical support is that state funding for kindergarten crowded out participation in federally - funded early education among the poorest five year olds.

Four reports from USDE (2014)[I found three] show that there is no empirical research to support the use of the SLO process (and associated district - devised tests and cut - off scores) for teacher evaluation.

Their findings provide empirical support for long - standing beliefs about the power of writing to facilitate reading.

The trouble is that there remains little empirical evidence to support the idea, as we were surprised to find out when we talked to UC San Diego atmospheric physicist Veerabhadran Ramanathan about his research showing that another type of aerosol — black carbon — had a significant warming effect:

What I was taught to look for, what I have tried to find for my whole scientific career, and what I will still go on loooking for, is empirical data to support any particular scientific idea.

If we want understanding NOW, then all climate models are close to worthless because it will be impossible to invalidate them (or find enough empirical evidence to support them) during my lifetime (old as dirt here) and probablys yours, too.

Take a look at «Constraints from the Instrumental Period» and «Palaeoclimatic Evidence:» you'll find lots of empirical data based on physical observations or reproducible experimentation which support the hypothesis.

By the same token, I'm tempted to argue, the drive for open access to research and scholarship should gain a similar uptick in support — as we seek to flip subscription journals to open access, with research libraries providing the same support — as we realize how vital public access is today to empirical findings and scholarly analysis.

The Court also noted that the CBSA's position was based on what the Tribunal found to be «impressionistic» evidence, rather than empirical or objective evidence, in support of its claim that it could not accommodate Ms Johnstone.

Marleen Rijkeober gave a keynote address focused on empirical findings related to schemas, coping styles and modes; several talks and symposia brought news of innovations ranging from online applications that support schema therapy (a talk by Gitta Jacob» and her colleagues) to work linking schemas and modes to neurobiology (in a symposium by George Lockwood and others).

Moreover, although empirical evidence for the efficacy of social affect regulation and EFT is well established, these findings provide a critical window into the neural mechanisms supporting both.

Empirical studies yield mixed findings on the child support — visitation linkage for all noncustodial parents.

A number of empirical findings have offered support for a negative association between self - efficacy and stress or test anxiety among college students (e.g., Barrows et al., 2013; Bandalos, Finney, & Geske, 2003; Bandalos, Yates, & Thorndike - Christ, 1995; Bong, Cho, Ahn, & Kim 2012; Gigliotti & Huff, 1995; Nie, Lau, & Liau, 2011; Onyeizugbo, 2010).

Subsequent empirical findings continue to support the validity of the construct and usefulness of the measure (Pavot & Diener, 2008).

Findings from prior empirical studies generally support the trustworthiness — trust relationship (e.g., Colquitt et al. 2007; Davis et al. 2000; Frazier et al. 2010; Mayer and Davis 1999).

«AASECT 1) does not find sufficient empirical evidence to support the classification of sex addiction or porn addiction as a mental health disorder, and 2) does not find the sexual addiction training and treatment methods and educational pedagogies to be adequately informed by accurate human sexuality knowledge,» the statement said in part.

In addition, these findings may provide empirical reference to help to establish effective psychosocial interventions with the aim of improving social support and family function in university students with low self - esteem, and hence improving mental health status.

AASECT 1) does not find sufficient empirical evidence to support the classification of sex addiction or porn addiction as a mental health disorder, and 2) does not find the sexual addiction training and treatment methods and educational pedagogies to be adequately informed by accurate human sexuality knowledge.

In the previous section, we found support for this notion and discussed research that has provided some empirical evidence for the effects of teacher — student relationships on teacher wellbeing.

However, the authors found no empirical evidence to support this.

However, previous longitudinal studies conducted on stepfamilies have found little empirical support for this (Hetherington & Clingempeel, 1992; Kurdek, 1991).

But see Maccoby & Mnookin, supra note 27, at 11 (finding that no empirical studies exist to support the contention that divorcing husbands routinely use the threat of a custody fight to reduce or eliminate their alimony and child support obligations).

The significant association of health anxiety reduction and cost reduction found in this study and in a previous clinical trial of the same treatment delivered in a face - to - face format19 provides empirical support for this.

Empirical findings support Yalom's hypothesis.

The contextual environment was found to moderate the biological process of evocative biology - environment correlation, providing empirical support for the Bronfenbrenner and Ceci (1994) Bioecological Model.