Sentences with phrase «for empirical research»

«We see law libraries being able to use the data for empirical research by law professors who want to track agency activities.

Part V offers practical advice to new empirical researchers about potential questions for empirical research, data collection issues, the role of institutional review boards and methodologists, and writing up a study.

Frey, B. S. and Stutzer, A.: 2006, Environmental morale and motivation, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics Working Paper 288.

She often used materials associated with gathering information for empirical research, such as graph paper, photographic film and audio tapes, chosen for their utilitarian qualities.

Eugene Fama was one of Rolf Banz's professors at the University of Chicago; in fact, as a member of Banz's dissertation committee, he was intimately familiar with Banz's research on the small - cap anomaly.3 Fama and Kenneth French included the size premium in their influential three - factor model, an analytical advance that opened the gate for empirical research into studying factors previously unexplained by then - existing theories.

Following the summary, each study was reviewed using a set of standards of evidence for empirical research.

(See Codebook for Standards of Evidence for Empirical Research [PDF 188K], which details both the standards and their application.)

The conceptuality developed rationalistically provides hypotheses for empirical research that are often strikingly different from the ones actively tested by most scientists, since the latter work, largely unconsciously, out of a different metaphysics.

Not exact matches

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

Some of the traditional psychoanalytic methods for opening up blocked communication between the unconscious and the conscious mind, e.g., free association and analyzing the transference neurosis, are unnecessarily time - consuming and expensive and their therapeutic effectiveness does not seem to be confirmed by empirical research evidence.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1974).

«The forms of a living being are not but rather come to be,» says Ludwig von Bertalanffy (BW 120), and his «organismic» biology and later general system - theory for overcoming the opposition between mechanism and vitalism has given central insights of Whitehead a new formulation on the basis of science, 8 Something similar holds for all the directions of research which Jean Piaget has brought to the [264] concept of genetic structuralism.9 The genetic epistemology founded by Piaget has proved through empirical research on the problem of knowledge the fruitfulness both of genetic analysis and of Whitehead's principle of process.

Future planning for religious uses of television should take seriously those insights provided by empirical research both into general television use and effects and into specifically religious television use and effect.

Though there is a substantial amount of empirical information accumulated over the past 25 years on religious broadcasting and of relevance to religious broadcasting, this research has not been collated into a comprehensive statement and therefore has not been readily available for reference concerning specific aspects of religious broadcasting's extent and influence.

The broadcasters who have had money available for research into religious television's effectiveness, namely the evangelical and fundamentalist organizations, do not have a tradition of using empirical research for evaluating effectiveness.

Finally, let us look at the empirical implications of process cosmology for research in the field of comparative psychology.

Keep in mind we need a lot more research to substantiate all of this, but by its very nature, falsifiable empirical inquiry is limited in scope for the same reason it's so reliable, and it's not the only thing we have to go by as we navigate through our lives.

Empirical evidence through individual case studies and psychological research has revealed that the quest for increased wealth, and associated characteristics of greed, ego, arrogance and the like burdens the mind with anxiety and frustration.

Empirical evidence through individual case studies and psychological research suggests that the appetite for increased wealth, and associated characteristics of greed, ego, arrogance and the like burdens the mind with anxiety and frustration.

The AAP's media kit includes extensive information about age - specific suggestions for all stages of development and empirical research on the effects of screen time and types of programming (e.g. violence).

Research on female combatants may be especially helpful in contributing theories for further empirical inquiry into the choices male rape victims make, including possible relationships between male SGBV victims and men who choose to join combatant groups.

After poring over the literature, Mendum and Njenga reported that little previous empirical research into wood burning in sub-Saharan Africa has been conducted, so policy makers have scant data to guide them in formulating best practices for sustainable biomass production and consumption.

I developed a generic model for emissions prediction based on thermodynamic principles (fundamental research), but using empirical constants so as to ensure its valid application to different engines (applied research).

The elicitation format allows experts to synthesize and adjust the empirical findings for limitations in the research area.

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

For example, Mayer and McHugh claim that the concept of sexual orientation is «ambiguous» and that there are «no agreed - upon definitions for purposes of empirical research.&raqFor example, Mayer and McHugh claim that the concept of sexual orientation is «ambiguous» and that there are «no agreed - upon definitions for purposes of empirical research.&raqfor purposes of empirical research.»

In his lecture Blom will mention a number of examples of disturbances that in practice are often mistaken for schizophrenia, and he will explain how empirical scientific research can contribute to improving care for people with diverse psychotic disturbances.

Susan Gould Fogerite, director of research for the Institute for Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the School of Health Related Professions, said that although there is widespread evidence that yoga is being used as a form of exercise by those with MS, much of the feedback has been anecdotal and there isn't much empirical data regarding its safety and efficacy.

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.

Research in support of this hypothesis, theoretical and empirical, has focused on the possible kindred advantages of post-reproductive life and if such contributions are sufficient to explain the maintenance of menopause [2], [40], [53]--[58], as they would have to overcome the twofold cost for a grandmother to raise each grandchild rather than one of her own.

The Trust and Influence Program aims to develop a basic research portfolio that provides empirical foundation for the science of reliance and contemporary influence.

For the first time, the World Conference invites proposals of presentations on empirical research on research integrity and analyses of related topics.

Gradually came the recognition of this kind of research; Empirical testing of materials for particles and light of different grades is the backbone of materials research.

For over 25 years, she has conducted empirical research — both quantitative and qualitative — on the ethical and social implications of genetic testing in the adult, pediatric and family contexts.

LA JOLLA — With forensic science facing mounting scrutiny as it plays an increasingly prominent role in the administration of justice, six scientists who recently served on the National Commission on Forensic Science are calling on the scientific community at large to advocate for increased research and financial support of forensic science as well as the introduction of empirical testing requirements to ensure the validity of outcomes.

For example, hundreds of years of empirical evidence have shown that garlic can help reduce high blood pressure and lower cholesterol, and modern research has corroborated this claim and has also identified the unique amino acids responsible.

Sure, sugar, processed grains, and oils are not healthy, but plenty of empirical research (in fact, the balance of the scientific research) bears out that beef and eggs are not health food and that plant - based diets are the way to eat for long - term health.

This empirical research resulted in statistical models which were then associated with cut - off thresholds for scores that indicated a high probability of being in a successful relationship if married.

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Although the empirical research base on the effects of tracking is decidedly mixed, I am willing to grant Burris the point that ability tracking, as typically practiced in district schools, probably is bad for lower - ability students.

«We have built the beginnings of a multi-dimensional, connected structure influenced by theoretical perspectives, international evidence and empirical research, whilst keeping an eye on what new mathematics could be incorporated into a framework fit for the 21st Century.»

The purpose of this grant is to build a community of scholars, based at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) but reaching out across the broader Harvard community, that will support the development of a highly select group of Early Career Scholars, stimulate significant work in the field of civic learning and action, and establish a major site for developing and disseminating empirical and theoretical work in these areas to the worldwide research community.

Finally, several alternative explanations for falling relative quality do not fit all of the empirical facts as well as the theory presented in this research.

A 1997 study by the General Accounting Office (GAO) screened more than 200 empirical studies of Head Start and found only 22 that met their criteria for worthwhile research.

The most recent critique of our efforts, from Dan Butin of Gettysburg College, calls me «disingenuous» for distinguishing empirical research about learning to read from opinions of professors who teach foundations courses.

A recent study by Hill et al. (2008) provides empirical benchmarks for interpreting effect sizes in educational research more generally.

This research includes empirical studies to compare the usefulness of AR - based learning with traditional approaches, and follow - up studies to identify their affordances for collaborative learning.

In both, our pedagogic approach has been to embed the learning of innovative methods for causal inference in substantive contexts, using empirical research papers from a variety of fields to introduce, explain, and illustrate the application of these methods.

Students are tested in reading, but empirical research frequently finds less teacher - driven variation in reading achievement than in math, and ultimately this is the case for the present analysis as well.