Sentences with phrase «heavily studied issue»

But some panel members argue that the heavily studied issue deserves further scrutiny.

Not exact matches

The study, issued in late 1991, relied heavily on the feminist depiction of sexual relationships as expressions of power, and in every way indicated that «committed relationships,» rather than the created order of marriage, would frame its discussion of sexuality.

The most heavily used herbicide in the United States, atrazine, makes hermaphrodites of male frogs at concentrations commonly found in the environment, according to a study published in the 16 April issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

He cautioned that because the studies rely so heavily on estimates, the data must be considered as just a first attempt to quantify the issue.

Some earlier studies have also found links between estrogen and breast cancer, others have not, and the issue has been heavily debated.

«All doctoral candidates studying issues related to education — whether taking a lens that draws heavily on economics, sociology, or political science, for example — would benefit from training that focuses on conducting education research in partnership with districts and agencies,» said HGSE Professor Nonie Lesaux, who is a member of the PIER Governing Committee.

While not very well known to the general public, her work is heavily studied by art students looking to depict race, gender and class issues.

Here lies some issues too: if a couple of studies being heavily relied upon are being used that have some unknown flaws the Bayes approach may or may not be able to correct for those, whereas direct empirical observations can better correct for such issues, and there are some other frequentist approaches, though much more tedious, can better control for such errors.

We will focus our discussion on the most prominent of these studies, MBH98 - 99, which was heavily relied upon by the IPCC, but we will also itemize issues regarding the other studies, that should be of concern to the Committee.

I have concentrated on the Bayesian inference involved in such studies, since they seem to me in many cases to use inappropriate prior distributions that heavily fatten the upper tail of the estimated PDF for S. I may write a future post concerning that issue, but in this post I want to deal with more basic statistical issues arising in what is, probably, the most important of the Bayesian studies whose PDFs for climate sensitivity were featured in AR4.

Thus far, the study has gained unanimous favor in the scientific community, which was admittedly surprised in 2008 and 2009 at how quickly a defining issue that will undoubtedly affect everyone on the planet became so heavily politicized and took a backseat to health care reform, the housing bubble, and replacing Jay Leno on The Tonight Show.

As part of my law practice I am fairly heavily invested in the study of psychological issues in divorce, including issues such as personality disorders and the pathology of parental alienation.