Sentences with phrase «found less evidence»

We found less evidence that early emotional difficulties are linked to bedwetting.

Although the study acknowledges that methane sources come from a range of natural and man - made activities — oil extraction, natural gas leaks, wetlands, landfills, warming permafrost — researchers say they found less evidence that the boom in oil and gas production is the primary driver of the spike.

Researchers found less evidence for the formation of new blood vessels and fewer protein markers that signal neuroplasticity, or the brain's ability to make new connections between neurons.

Not exact matches

Based on this examination, we find extensive evidence that brain - training interventions improve performance on the trained tasks, less evidence that such interventions improve performance on closely related tasks, and little evidence that training enhances performance on distantly related tasks or that training improves everyday cognitive performance.

A new study finds evidence to support the idea of «less is more».

While people who are breastfed are less likely to grow up to be obese, as the World Health Organization has noted, studies so far have found no evidence the act of breastfeeding offers protection against obesity.

The Senate investigators also found evidence that the company turned over substantially less money to the government than its public filings indicated.

As the article points out, the deeper into Christian hagiography you go, the less evidence of massive persecutions you find.

The evidence for it is less clearly found in Process and Reality than in Religion in the Making, yet it seems to be present in the philosophy of Whitehead in such a way that this third argument is really more fundamental than the two just summarized.

Leaderlessness often releases latent resources within a group and there is some highly suggestive evidence concerning the values of leader less groups.3 Until more substantial research findings are available, it would seem safer and better to opt for trained leaders whenever they are available.

It was those who were good at building systems who built the most fantastic and lunatic systems, who scarfed up every odd or stray fact and fit it in, and found that in the fact they could fit in such odd or stray facts evidence that they had seen what lesser mortals couldn't, or wouldn't.

I do not believe in a god because the more I look, the less evidence I can find.

There's no evidence that Noah or Moses even existed, much less finding an «ark» or a «Red Sea crossing».

I'm less than half way through them now, but so far I am finding that they get goals and assists at roughly 127.5 % the rate the model predicts, which to me is pretty conclusive evidence that they are in fact significantly better at shooting than the average MLS player.

Rumbelow explores the genesis of the World Health Organization «optimum» C - section rate of less than 15 % and finds that there is no scientific evidence to support it.

If you read the scientific and medical literature, the controversy about bed sharing safety primarily concerns babies less than 20 weeks old, and the most recent meta - analysis of published studies found no evidence of increased risk for babies over 3 months of age (Carpenter et al 2013).

Recently, as I searched for some long term evidence of the benefits of parent - infant co-sleeping, I came across a study of college age subjects which found that males who had co-slept with their parents between birth and five years not only had significantly higher self esteem, they experienced less guilt and anxiety and reported greater frequency of sex.

Stepfathers are widespread not only in modern industrial societies but also in subsistence - level societies as well.6, 51,52 Many studies have found that, compared with resident biological fathers, stepfathers invest less in the children who live with them, both in the United States37, 39,53 and other cultures.54 - 56 Stepchildren are more likely to have emotional and behavioural problems than resident genetic offspring, 39,40 although there is evidence that children who have close relationships with their stepfathers have better outcomes.41, 57

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 evidence that «herding» — whereby pollsters make design and reporting decisions that caused their polls to vary less than expected given their sample sizes — played a part in forming the statistical consensus.

We found some tentative evidence to suggest Labour voters had been less likely to actually vote than predicted but, even if this was the case, the effect would have been very modest.

The NAO found that no evidence the programme performed better or cost significantly less in contracted out areas than in those run by Jobcentre Plus.

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-.

He referenced a database which compiled records from more than 400 sites and showed that less than 2 % of fossils found show evidence of physical trauma.

Now, researchers have found evidence of the intended consequence: a less holy ozone layer.

A new study out today in Psychology of Women Quarterly examined a well - known space for candid sharing of thoughts — the comments sections of online articles — and found that men are much less likely to agree with scientific evidence of gender bias in STEM than women.

Researchers at Duke - NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke - NUS) have found evidence that the less older adults sleep, the faster their brains age.

And scientific evidence finds that MMR - related seizures are actually less frequent than ones that occur as a direct result of the measles infection itself.

Chris Curtis, an entomologist at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, says laboratory and field experiments in Britain, the US and Canada have found no evidence that female mosquitoes are repelled or bite less within «earshot» of a wide range of frequencies tested.

There's no evidence that our extinct cousins were less intelligent than modern humans, finds a review of archaeological evidence

A growing body of evidence finds that teacher turnover reduces student achievement, either directly because replacement teachers are less effective than exiting teachers or indirectly through the disruptions caused by high turnover rates.

In many of the wood frog populations studied, researchers found evidence of interacting temperature and precipitation influencing population size, such as warmer summers having less of a negative effect in areas that received more precipitation.

The researchers found strong evidence that people with higher genetic risk for several mental disorders — including schizophrenia, and to a lesser extent bipolar and major depressive disorder — are also at higher genetic risk for developing PTSD after a traumatic event.

Some philosophers have found that our sense of free will is less threatened by determinism than the commentators suppose — so even faced with incontrovertible evidence that behaviour is predetermined, we still see ourselves as free and responsible for our own actions.

In a new study, a Kyoto University team found evidence that such babies are less interested in other people compared to infants born full - term, when tested at 6 and 12 months of age.

«Given the magnitude of safety risks and parental concerns, it is important to find evidence - based solutions that reduce the likelihood of injury to children and can provide parents with less reason for worry,» he said.

Whether head modification conferred distinct privileges and higher status is unclear, but Velasco found bio-archaeological evidence that modified females possessed greater access to diverse food options and were less likely to encounter violence.

«Evidence suggests that the temperature - sex relationship found in the laboratory is less tight in nature and verification of sex ratios is often insufficient or absent,» said Wyneken.

Clearer, but less dramatic, evidence for overdiagnosis comes from a 2012 study in which psychologist Katrin Bruchmüller of the University of Basel and her colleagues found that when given hypothetical vignettes of children who fell short of the DSM - IV diagnosis, about 17 percent of the 1,000 mental health professionals surveyed mistakenly diagnosed the kids with ADHD.

«As we learn more and more about the importance of sleep for health, we find evidence that people seem to be sleeping less and less.»

Multiple studies have found evidence of a prehistoric turnover of canid mtDNA lineages sometime between the Late Neolithic and today, with haplogroup C, which appears in almost all Neolithic dogs but in less than 10 % of modern dogs, being replaced by haplogroup A in most of Europe5, 11,12.

«When we analyzed the Keck data, we found the emitting region of SDSS1133 is less than 40 light - years across, and that the center of Markarian 177 shows evidence of intense star formation and other features indicating a recent disturbance that matched what we expected for a recoiling black hole,» said Chao - Ling Hung, a UH Manoa graduate student performing the analysis of the Keck Observatory imaging in the study.

Comparing single - planet candidate KOIs to multi-planet candidate KOIs, we find an observed false positive fraction due to contamination of 16 % and 2.4 % respectively, bolstering the existing evidence that multi-planet KOIs are significantly less likely to be false positives.

The scientists developed a method to visualize the repair process based on genomic sequencing, and with it found good evidence for their hypothesis: In the cells that lacked GreA, less DNA degradation surrounded the sites of DNA breaks.

However, on September 8, 2008, a different team of astronomers (Thierry Forveille, Xavier Bonfils, Xavier Delfosse, Michael Gillon, Stephane Udry, François Bouchy, Christophe Lovis, Michel Mayor, Francesco Pepe, Christian Perrier, Didier Queloz, Nuno Santos, Jean - Loup Bertaux) submitted a paper (based on data from the ESO 3.6 - meter telescope and its HARPS spectrograph) which claims to rule out the mass of a Neptune - sized inner planet but found evidence for a less massive «Super-Earth» companion in an tighter inner orbit (Forveille et al 2008).

However, on September 8, 2008, a different team of astronomers submitted a paper (based on data from the ESO 3.6 - meter telescope and its HARPS spectrograph) which claims to rule out the mass of a Neptune - sized inner planet but found evidence for a less massive «Super-Earth» companion in an tighter inner orbit (Forveille et al 2008).

I find no evidence that exceeding your daily minimum protein requirements is dangerous to your health, so when in doubt, err on the side of eating more, not less.

They found two main things: «probable evidence for high intake of dietary fibre and nuts predicting less weight gain [over time], and for high intake of meat in predicting more weight gain.»

The new findings bolster evidence that it matters less what particular diet composition people follow and more whether a person sticks with that diet, said Linda Van Horn, a professor of preventive medicine at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine in Chicago, who wrote an editorial about the new study.

While many studies of vegetarians find that they tend to weigh less on average than omnivores, there is no evidence that people who avoid meat are more successful at losing weight than people who eat meat.