Sentences with phrase «finds little evidence»

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

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.

The review finds little evidence though that supplementation with this vitamin has much of an effect at all.

«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.»

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

The survey also finds little evidence that businesses are reducing workers» hours to avoid the law's requirements to offer coverage.

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.»

She found little evidence to support the idea that owners participate in civic and community activities any more than renters, and after controlling for factors such as income, housing quality and health, she concluded that owners were no happier.

Legislative analysts, for example, found little evidence to tie Enterprise Zones, which offer generous tax benefits, to increased business activity.

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.

Sanders found little evidence for such a theology.

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.

The researchers found little evidence to suggest that mothers who work part - time or full - time have children with problems in later life.

There are some suggestions that optical brighteners may be harmful to the environment or your baby's skin, but I found little evidence from government or research sites other than environmental organizations to substantiate this.

However, in other cases, when AP courses are introduced without the necessary attention to student and teacher preparation, we found little evidence to indicate that the program contributes to student academic success.

«When AP courses are introduced without the necessary attention to student and teacher preparation, we found little evidence to indicate that the program contributes to student academic success».

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).

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).

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

More generally, our previous research has also found little evidence that the 2010 reforms had increased parliamentarians» engagement with the committee system in terms of attendance or turnover, nor that they had encouraged a new breed of parliamentarian (e.g. younger, less biddable, more rebellious, representing Parliament rather than government, and focused on scrutiny rather than climbing the ministerial ladder (see here, here and here)-RRB-.

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

But our surveys find little evidence to back this argument.

The Daily News reported yesterday that Cuomo's investigators have found little evidence to support a witness tampering case against Paterson.

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

Scientists have so far found little evidence that the electrical currents cause serious harm.

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

«Beyond this we found little evidence for a role of any other management techniques: neither the diversity of chemicals used — for example whether farmers used a variety of herbicides or just one — or diversity of cropping mattered, despite both being advocated as methods to reduce the evolution of resistance.»

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

Despite suboptimal conditions Tilbrook found little evidence that coral in the reef had reached their critical point.

Bad news for dairy cows and wine growers In the northern, tropical parts of the country, the researchers found little evidence rainfall will disappear.

But despite the rapid and widespread adoption of policies to require calorie counts at restaurants, most studies of calorie labels in fast - food restaurants in places that have already adopted labeling, including New York, have found little evidence that fast - food consumers are changing their behaviors in response to the labels.

The first scientists who studied the Amazon found little evidence to support Orellana's claims of large populations.

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.

But while the authors found little evidence that student debtors were more likely to end up on their parent's doorstep among all young adults, they also found evidence that the link between debt and boomeranging varied by race.

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.

But in a clinical trial reported Dec. 17 in the Journal of the American Medical Association, researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School found little evidence to support these claims.

Yet so far, tests find little evidence that the hoarded DNA still works, he and his colleagues report in the Dec. 20 Science.

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

A new study found little evidence that marijuana use affects kidney function in healthy young adults.

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.

(Despite popular perceptions, Lewandowsky found little evidence overall of a link between vaccine resistance and left - wing political views.)

The potential effects of climate change on the spread of insect - borne diseases is a major public health concern, but this study found little evidence that mosquito populations in these areas were responding to changes in temperature or precipitation.

By contrast, at meal termination, we found little evidence that hunger was mediated by a memory for the amount of food that had been presented at the beginning of the meal (300 ml or 500 ml).

In a 2017 review of eight randomized trials published in PLOS Medicine, Shanthanna and several colleagues found little evidence that gabapentinoids relieve chronic low - back pain.

Because clinical studies of Rozerem have found little evidence for abuse and tolerance (it was tested in patients with a history of drug abuse), it's the only prescription sleep medication not classified as a controlled substance by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

A 2011 review in «Obesity Reviews» found little evidence to support the use of many fat - burning and metabolism - increasing supplements like carnitine, conjugated linoleic acid, forskolin, chromium, kelp and fucoxanthin, but did declare that the studies examined showed caffeine and green tea «accelerated fat metabolism.»

By contrast, the researchers found little evidence that being bullied increased a child's risk of becoming depressed in later grades.

Researchers note several online dating sites offer matching algorithms to help pair compatible individuals, but researchers found little evidence to suggest matching algorithms actually predict compatibility.