Sentences with phrase «growing body of literature»

The Burning Tigris is part of an ever - growing body of literature on the complex problem that may constitute the greatest threat to world peace in the 21st century — genocide and the «complex political emergencies» that spawn mass murder, refugee crises and pervasive political instability.

There is a small but growing body of literature demonstrating the effectiveness of IYP programmes in New Zealand, for example with Maori participants [9, 20 — 22], single parents with children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder [23], and within the Ministry of Education [22, 24, 25].

Theological education has been heavily scrutinized over the past 15 years, as evidenced by a growing body of literature.

Moreover, this growing body of literature represented a wide spectrum of convictions.

This study provides compelling data to add to this growing body of literature.

Add to that the growing body of literature that makes the connection between nutrition, physical activity and child wellness, and you have an atmosphere that is far more receptive to new, innovative ideas than ever before.

According to a growing body of literature, typical examples of populist discursive practices include the reliance upon Manichean oppositions, romanticised and essentialist visions of the people, appeals to the multitude whilst excluding others and extreme simplification and moralisation (Wodak 2003).

An accompanying editorial, by James A de Lemos, M.D., said the findings support a growing body of literature that suggests identifying the location and type of fat deposits can provide important information about the risk of heart disease not found in the simple BMI measurement.

«There is a growing body of literature documenting the existence of one or more potential conflicts of interest reported for authors or members of guideline development panels,» he says.

Meanwhile, the report — which adds to the growing body of literature documenting the challenges that early - career researchers around the world are facing — also calls for measures to address the problems in academia.

The study adds to the growing body of literature that suggests people are poor judges of the amounts of food they're eating.

This study adds to a growing body of literature demonstrating a lack of detrimental health effects with higher dairy intake.

Barr's findings add to a growing body of literature suggesting that the familiar problems of child - rearing — endless crying and battles to establish regular sleep patterns — are not as ubiquitous as was once thought.

Choo continued, «This adds to a growing body of literature published over the past three years that is remarkably consistent in demonstrating that state medical marijuana policies do not have a downstream effect on adolescent drug use, as we feared they might.»

The identification of the secondary breakdown product adds to a growing body of literature investigating the potential health effects of coffee drinks, says Peter Martin, a professor of psychiatry at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee, and director of the university's Institute for Coffee Studies.

There is a growing body of literature supporting the high therapeutic potential of LM22A - 4 for the treatment of Rett syndrome and other diseases associated with lowered levels of BDNF.

The results of this study add another surprising chapter to the growing body of literature surrounding the effects of the gut microbiota on immune functioning.

A growing body of literature has highlighted the important links between quality of life (QOL), sleep, and chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS), such that disease severity has been correlated with worse QOL and patients with worse QOL have poor sleep.

The new study in Cell Reports adds to a growing body of literature showing how these drugs may work.

«These findings add to a growing body of literature underscoring an increasingly important relationship between systemic inflammation, central inflammation, and pathological outcomes,» she said.

In this vein, Parker's study joins a growing body of literature (including some of his own previous work) that modifies the most streamlined models in which people smooth out consumption in anticipation of drops or increases in income — and instead accounts for the bumps and jolts in spending that the data reveals.

A growing body of literature suggests that cancer stem cells (CSC), tumor cells with the ability to self - renew and differentiate, play important roles not only in metastatic colonization but also in establishing the metastatic niche to support metastatic colonization (Visvader and Lindeman, 2012).

Yet, despite a growing body of literature to the contrary, some microbiome studies are evidently designed as though diet and nutrition were irrelevant to study outcomes.

There has been a growing body of literature using rodents as models of human obesity, even though there are many confounding factors including species, strain, age of the animals, type of diet, level of fat, and type of control diet.

«There is a growing body of literature that says that being involved in activities that challenge your brain are good for your mind,» says Gene D. Cohen, MD, PhD, director of the Center on Aging, Health, and Humanities at George Washington University, and author of The Mature Mind: The Positive Power of the Aging Brain.

«This study supports a growing body of literature demonstrating that adipose tissue imaging provides important information about cardiovascular risk not contained in the measurement of BMI alone,» said Dr. Ian Neeland.

They conveniently ignored the large and growing body of literature that continues to show that planned home birth with qualified and experienced midwives holds no greater risk of perinatal mortality than birth in the hospital, and in fact results in far fewer interventions and lower risk of maternal and perinatal morbidity.»

A growing body of literature supports the role of omega 3 fatty acids in mitigating the toxic effects of Standard American Diet - induced membrane toxicity.

Although the study makes a contribution to the growing body of literature on end - of - life care, the fact that the researchers relied on caregivers and doctors to describe the patient's experience is a shortcoming, says Michael Levy, M.D., director of the pain and palliative care program at Fox Chase Cancer Center, in Philadelphia.

[xi] While I know of no strong evidence across - the - board pay raises boost student outcomes, there is a growing body of literature suggesting some positive effects of various forms of performance - based pay.

There is a growing body of literature on key dimensions such as stress, resilience, retention, the development of professional identity, and the role of social support and mentors (Gibbs & Miller, 2014).

The project seeks to capitalize on a growing body of literature that indicates executive function, self - regulation, and toxic stress are key levers of change for improving outcomes for low - income children and families.

Perhaps most importantly, The Integration Anomaly ignores a growing body of literature finding that the very type of unregulated school choice it proposes has, in many instances, exacerbated racial segregation.

We have read the growing body of literature that examines the impact of such trends on the uses (potentials and provisos) of digital technologies to support learning and teaching (Manfra, 2014; Swan & Hofer, 2008).

This study also contributes to a growing body of literature on the impact of professional development in the arts for teachers on student learning outcomes.

A growing body of literature suggests that the two most notable predictors of the bullying involvement of students with disabilities are lack of social skills and communication skills.

The report, «A Better Picture of Poverty: What Chronic Absenteeism and Risk Load Reveal About NYC's Lowest - Income Elementary Schools,» released Nov. 6, 2014 by the Center for New York City Affairs at The New School, is part of a growing body of literature that argues that the poverty level of schools» populations isn't necessarily a good way to identify schools that need extra resources.

This study adds to the growing body of literature examining exactly how mathematics teachers can support student mathematical thinking through the way they speak, respond to, and listen to students.

Powerful pre-assessment has the potential to address a worrisome phenomenon reported in a growing body of literature (Bransford, Brown, & Cocking, 1999; Gardner, 1991): A sizeable number of students come into school with misconceptions about subject matter (thinking that a heavier object will drop faster than a lighter one, for example) and about themselves as learners (assuming that they can't and never will be able to draw, for example).

A growing body of literature reveals how it's possible for Canadian investors to earn up to $ 50,000 a year in dividend income and pay almost no tax, provided they have no other sources of income.

While McKinley is reluctant to divulge his full financial situation, it's consistent with a growing body of literature that reveals how it's possible for Canadian investors to earn up to $ 50,000 a year in dividend income and pay almost no tax: provided they have no other sources of income.