Sentences with phrase «further rigorous studies»

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Social action was not informed by a lively sense of Christian community, rigorous prayer, and disciplined Bible study; our secular critics and our conservative brothers and sisters were not far off the mark in describing Christian social analysis as warmed - over liberalism.

«A 2006 «Study of the Thera - peutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)» led by Harvard professor Herbert Benson was by far the most comprehensive and rigorous investigation of third - party prayer to date.

Third, efforts to augment existing home visitation services with mental health interventions aimed at preventing and treating maternal depression should be further tested with rigorous research studies and scaled up as appropriate.

An emerging controller of the cholinergic effect of inflammation is micro-RNA-132 (5), whose involvement with post-stroke recovery awaits further studies and might open new venues for more rigorous assessment of the post-stroke risk of survival and systematic infection and the identification of conceptually novel targets for therapeutic interference.

However, if the promises of findings reported in the studies by Mahajan and colleagues and Herberg and colleagues are fulfilled by replication and refinement in other rigorous investigations, it may be possible that such advances will further reduce morbidity, mortality, and costs associated with caring for febrile children.

So far only LB1's skull, pelvis, and leg bones have undergone rigorous study.

Despite some earlier studies claiming that genetic variants predict whether someone has a better chance of shedding pounds on a low - carbohydrate or a low - fat diet, and despite a growing industry premised on that notion, the most rigorous study so far found no difference in weight loss between overweight people on diets that «matched» their genotype and those on diets that didn't.

Researchers responsible for both regimens will study them further in rigorous clinical trials being launched this year.

Older studies went as far as estimating 1.5 g per lb (3 g / kg) of body weight are necessary to increase muscle mass, while the International Society of Sports Nutrition in its 2007 stand advises those that undergo «rigorous» resistance training to aim for 0.8 g per lb (1.5 g / kg) of body weight.

A DfE spokesperson said: «These rigorous new computer science qualifications, backed by industry experts, will give pupils the skills they need to progress to further study and a range of top jobs.

«Clearly, there is a great need for rigorous evaluation research, which should focus both on the impact of school discipline reforms and on their potential unintended consequences,» the authors note, emphasizing that reducing suspensions is a starting point in effective school discipline reform but that changing school culture can have «spillover» effects on teachers and peers which raise important questions for further study.

The plans are to introduce a more rigorous maths curriculum, new AS and A level maths qualifications and high quality «core maths» qualifications so that more young people can secure their first job, an apprenticeship or go on to further study.

And rigorous studies of large - scale curricular reforms are few and far between, so we don't have a huge body of research to pull from and one study should never be relied on too heavily.

«We have introduced the EBacc so more pupils are encouraged to study the core academic subjects that universities and employers demand and we will be introducing a new, far more rigorous examination system.»

Further, the evaluation of the D.C. voucher program only assessed one year of achievement data; however, these are similar to the longer - term impacts found in the other three recent rigorous studies compared here.

(So far the most rigorous studies available on U.S. programs have focused on Spanish - English programs, the most common form of bilingual education.)

Although the newer study was far more academically rigorous, it was largely ignored by the mainstream media.

For example, one study suggests that children's developmental delays may lead to multiple placements and also may be a consequence of multiple placements.62 Further, most studies examining the effects of placement instability are not methodologically rigorous.