Sentences with phrase «from empirical studies»

Drawing from empirical studies and real - world experience, the chapter demonstrates how increased gender, ethnic, and other aspects of diversity can lead to measurable increases in employee engagement and productivity, overall business results and a company's enduring reputation.

Because there have been only limited studies specifically related to the effects of religious television, in order to answer the question thoroughly the researcher in religious television is forced to extrapolate from empirical studies in related mass - communication areas.

Results from empirical study after study reported the elimination of the arts and physical education, the over teaching of mathematics and language arts to the determinant of science,, foreign language, the arts, and other «non-core areas.

Clinical Legal Education and Professional Identity Formation: Reflections from an Empirical Study

Evidence from this empirical study suggests a nexus of the Trauma, Feminist and Intergenerational Transmission of Family Violence theories in explaining the underlying factors why men perpetrate violence against intimate partners.

Not exact matches

Dr. Marc Reinganum of the University of Southern California has also done empirical studies on the rate of return from investing in smaller firms.

The empirical evidence from studies of firm performance is, at best, mixed.

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But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

From the speculative endeavor of «On Mathematical Concepts of the Material World» (1906) in which Whitehead was showing how one could construct alternative concepts of the physical world, i.e., cosmologies, he moves into his nature philosophy in which his speculative work is infused with empirical studies.

Contemporary empirical science takes a different approach and studies phenomena from the point of view of quantity, or more precisely, measure.

In the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emerge.

If I were choosing recent books in this area which most deserve to be read outside the country, I would start with Oliver O'Donovan's political theology in The Desire of the Nations; John Milbank's critique of the social sciences in Theology and Social Theory; Timothy Gorringe's provocative political reading of Karl Barth in Karl Barth: Against Hegemony; Peter Sedgwick's The Market Economy and Christian Ethics; Michael Banner's Christian Ethics and Contemporary Moral Problems; Duncan Forrester's Christian Justice and Public Policy; and Timothy Jenkins's Religion in Everyday Life: An Ethnographic Approach, which argues with a dense interweaving of theory and empirical study for a social anthropological approach to English religion which has learned much from theology.

Yoga exercises are so interesting from the point of view of the physiologist because they incorporate unique empirical traditions in a sector of study which has not yet been appropriately analyzed by scientists.

Our study period is from 1998 to the present day; and, in order to be included, publications must draw on empirical research (UK samples) or describe or reflect on relevant research methodologies, or on UK policy or practice.

Their presentations will be based on empirical research, some from decades - long studies exploring the longitudinal connections between early development and later problematic behaviors.

As an example of why this argument shouldn't dissuade moms from seeking help, there are NO empirical studies saying that jumping out of an airplane without a parachute can be harmful to your health.

The results of the empirical study show a clear distinction between the damage to the white blood cells from patients with cancer, with pre-cancerous conditions and from healthy patients.

Such claims have linked the rise in occurrence of corn diseases like Goss's wilt, which causes leaf blight and systemic wilt, to the adoption of transgenic corn across the U.S.. However, a new study from the USDA - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) provides empirical evidence showing no increase in disease susceptibility in transgenic sweet corn treated with glyphosate.

She and Mack T. Ruffin IV, M.D., MPH, professor emeritus and chair of the Department of Family and Community Medicine at Penn State Hershey Medical Center, studied excessive drinking behavior in women from rural Appalachian Ohio because of a surprising lack of empirical data.

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

Researchers will integrate existing scholarly literature with new empirical findings from a survey of science communicators, case studies of science - relevant legislating, and qualitative interviews with policymakers to propose a set of best practices for presenting science to policymakers.

Porpino analyzed previous research findings from 24 peer - reviewed papers, and empirical data from a study conducted in households in the US and Brazil.

Through an empirical study using data from the United Kingdom and the United States, they establish that the scale, which they call the Consumer Ethnocentrism Extended Scale, or CEESCALE.

This study therefore provides a helpful baseline for further empirical scholarship in business ethics, as well as a talking point for professionals moving from necessary discussion and debate into responsible action.

The study takes a wide view of the world's songbirds, putting empirical evidence behind the observation that tropical birds are more colorful than their cousins from temperate climates, probably because they do not migrate.

«The empirical evidence from that Nature study and numerous other local studies, including the Cochrane review of bed net trials against malaria, therefore demonstrate a consistent positive effect of bed nets across a wide range of different mosquito ecologies even when protection is partial.

Empirical studies and analyses range from simple experiments, particularly by measuring, weighing and counting, to extremely complex processes that require an enormous amount of time and money.

In this talk, I will discuss the progress made from two lines of neuroscience research toward this goal involving pairs of nonhuman primates, presented with specific empirical results from the studies of social decision - making and social gaze interaction.

This report reviews 18 empirical studies published from 2000 to 2015 on arts participation and early childhood social - emotional development.

For the academics... If you need some empirical evidence of the impact of curation in a university classroom, there is a good preliminary study from the School of Education at Tel Aviv University.

A review of 16 empirical studies, from 1982 to 2008, found that sitting meditation, including mindfulness and Transcendental Meditation practices seems to be an effective intervention in the treatment of physiologic, psychosocial, and behavioral conditions among youths ages 6 - 18.

This review synthesizes results from four multischool empirical studies of K - 12 1:1 computer programs, which varied in their settings and unique attributes.

Combining into one dataset my original empirical data from qualitative field studies in multiple conflict and Diaspora settings (Afghanistan, DR Congo, Haiti, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Uganda, Zimbabwe), I propose to conduct an innovative set of analyses.

«The Bennett Hypothesis Turns 30,» a research paper by Jenna A. Robinson, merges findings from 25 empirical studies on the «Bennett Hypothesis»: Reagan - era Education Secretary William J. Bennett's theory that large amounts of federal student aid drive up the cost of tuition.

As an external check on the KMD project's work to situate research on teachers» mathematics and science content knowledge, the external evaluator audited the KMD project team's narrative documentation of what is known from empirical research for all studies that examined the relationship between teacher leaders» practice and teachers» practice.

To read more analysis from this synthesis of 100 empirical school choice studies, visit edchoice.org/Win-Win.

The national report compiles results from rigorous empirical studies that examine the academic outcomes of school choice students, the academic effect of competition on public schools, the fiscal impact of school choice on taxpayers and government, racial segregation in schools and the effect of school choice on civic values and practices.

Racial integration, ethnic diversity, and prejudice: empirical evidence from a study of the British National Party

Although these studies employed some analysis of empirical data, they focused primarily on motivation and student beliefs rather than identifying what students gained from participating in the online environments.

He also looked at eight empirical studies that have examined school choice and racial segregation in schools, and reports, ``... seven find that school choice moves students from more segregated schools into less segregated schools.

He received his Ph.D in Economics from the University of Oregon in 2014, and uses his training in empirical labor economics to study topics in education.

Empirical studies of consolidation yield overall estimates of cost savings that are relatively modest, with the largest percentage of savings accruing from consolidating very small districts.

[1] A recent study [2] showed that more than 99 percent of teachers in a number of districts were rated «satisfactory,» [3] which does not comport with empirical evidence that teachers differ substantially from each other in terms of their effectiveness.

This study uses detailed administrative data on teachers and students from the state of North Carolina to revisit the empirical evidence on master's degrees, with attention to teachers at the middle and high school levels.

Econometrics uses Empirical data from mathematics, statistical studies and computer science to quantify economic data.

Empirical data from multiple studies (see paper) show that, in fact, these concentrated managers persistently outperform indexes.

Results of empirical studies also show that only one in 37 mutual funds showed any benefit from market timing.3

KB had taught accounting at his alma mater in Singapore Management University and had also published an empirical research paper Why «Democracy» and «Drifter» Firms Can Have Abnormal Returns: The Joint Importance of Corporate Governance and Abnormal Accruals in Separating Winners from Losers in the Special Issue of Istanbul Stock Exchange 25thYear Anniversary Best Paper Competition, Boğaziçi Journal, Review of Social, Economic and Administrative Studies, Vol.

For example, in 2015, Deutsche Asset & Wealth Management conducted an analysis that aggregated evidence from more than 2000 empirical studies on ESG variables and financial performance.