Sentences with phrase «held assumption»

Research evidence today underscores the importance of academic competence in a child's achievement of personal integration and social effectiveness, and it contradicts the long - held assumption that the seriously disturbed child must be treated for his illness before he can become an effective learner.

Sanford listed ease of use — meaning it takes minimal effort to fill their profile with these words rather than coming up with a creative sentence — and the widely held assumption that because everyone else is doing it, «it must be the professional thing to do.»

I attempt to shed light on a commonly held assumption built into many A2J technologies.

There's a widely held assumption in law firms that new associates should be billing hundreds of hours within their first months on the job, and many thousands of hours within their first two or three years.

«There's a widely held assumption in law firms that new associates should be billing hundreds of hours within their first three months on the job, and many thousands of hours within their first two or three years....

... But an unprecedented three - year experiment conducted at Stanford University is raising questions about that long - held assumption.

America's energy revolution has disproved the long - held assumption that increased energy production creates higher emissions.

The commonly held assumption of a factor of 2 — 3 for the Arctic amplification has been valid only for the current warming period 1970 — 2008.

This finding contradicts the often - held assumption that projected warmer conditions always favor mosquitoes and clarifies some of the uncertainty in complex feedbacks involving climate and climate change influences on vectors and virus transmission, enabling more targeted public health action by using location - specific knowledge of vector responses to climate.

The commonly held assumption of a factor of 2 - 3 for the Arctic amplification has been valid only for the current warming period 1970 - 2008.

The report held the assumption that unfettered expansion of the Alberta tar sands would happen regardless of politics, economics, or the climate.

Sure, the volatility we saw in the market has had a psychological effect on investors, but in addition, we've also experienced a decade of flat growth in stocks, which has many people questioning the long - held assumption that buy - and - hold investing is the best way to produce gains on your money.

And we would do well to shed the long - held assumption that we know how to help 3.5 million individual teachers become masters of their craft, instead giving consideration to some new ideas about what schools or the teaching profession itself might look like — ideas that could have a much broader impact on instructional quality.

There is something about the intangibility of what fashion is, alongside a widely held assumption that there is something inherently trivial, even fake about it, that means any fictional portrayal of the world veers to caricature.

A growing group of eco-minded brands, however, are turning this long - held assumption about activewear on its head by swapping synthetics for sustainable materials.

This is based on a widely held assumption that the body will convert what it needs to the biologically active form T3.

We are beginning to amass a literature that helps us answer these questions and it turns out that the answers require an overhaul of a long - held assumption: that the mind and the body are separate.

It's been a long and widely - held assumption so far that bigger athletes need larger quantities of protein, directly correlating their bodyweight to their daily protein recommendations.

New research overturns a long - held assumption that Przewalski's horses (Equus ferus przewalskii), a rare and endangered animal native to the steppes...

But a pair of recent papers throw that long - held assumption into question.

The new evidence, assembled by a team led by CSHL Associate Professor Lloyd Trotman, contradicts a long - held assumption about PTEN function, and could help scientists design more effective drugs to counteract cancer's hallmark trait, uncontrolled cellular growth.

The study challenges a long - held assumption that the last common ancestor (or LCA) of humans and apes - the identity of which is still a matter of debate - would have resembled a chimpanzee with hands like modern - day chimps.

«In contrast with the widely held assumption that an individual specialization provides social advantages, we have found that specialization can in fact have a negative impact on the propagation and the chances of survival and growth of a colony,» summarized Jongepier, first author of the study.

Marion L East, head of the research team, continues: «The results do not support the long - held assumption that the 1993/1994 epidemic was caused by a virulent CDV variant spilled over from domestic dogs to lions and hyenas in the Serengeti NP.»

The research was carried out on the basis of a widely held assumption that growth and development are «conserved» within lineages — in other words, the way a group of organisms grows today would not have changed significantly from the way its ancestors grew millions of years ago.

«This research finding experimentally verified the long - held assumption that Argentine ants use gaster - produced compounds during aggressive interactions with other ant species.

«We do not disagree with the commonly held assumption that over-eating is a central cause of obesity and metabolic syndrome,» Gewirtz says.

The researchers also ruled out a long - held assumption that tardigrades survived dehydration thanks to a specialised sugar called trehalose, which is known to perform the task in tree frogs, for example.

An international team of researchers, led by scientists at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, have discovered that a language's grammatical structures change more quickly over time than vocabulary, overturning a long - held assumption in the field.

«Overall, however, the study confirms the long - held assumption that the genetic differences between populations of a given species might predict its probability of contributing to the diversity of life,» Harvey said.

In the first paper in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Gillis and Criswell confirm the long - held assumption that teeth and the scales of sharks and skates have a common evolutionary origin.

«The commonly - held assumption that polypharmacy is always hazardous and represents poor care is misleading.

«Long - held assumption of gene expression in embryonic stem cells challenged.»

In a study published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, ORNL researchers challenged a long - held assumption that a battery's three main components — the positive cathode, negative anode and ion - conducting electrolyte — can play only one role in the device.

There's a commonly held assumption that a pregnant woman's immune system fades into a weak shell of its former self to keep from attacking the growing fetus.

Dwork's approach throws in a wildcard variable that she calls k to ensure that the puzzle solving is challenging enough to keep up with Moore's law, the widely held assumption that the processing speed of computer chips doubles every 18 months.

The long - held assumption was that it takes a planet the size of Earth to insulate a molten iron core, whose currents and eddies act as a dynamo to generate a magnetic field.

At the outset, Joel shared a popularly held assumption: just as sex differences nearly always produce two different reproductive systems, they would also produce two different forms of brains — one female, the other male.

Research published in Science today overturns a long - held assumption that Przewalski's horses, native to the Eurasian steppes, are the last wild horse species on Earth.

Surprisingly, we found no evidence to support the widely held assumption that species in the desert were more likely to become cooperative.

A new study from the University of California, Berkeley, challenges a long - held assumption in psychology that most human emotions fall within the universal categories of happiness, sadness, anger, surprise, fear and disgust.

«For the avoidance of doubt, I think it is important to point out that every forecast published by the OBR since the June 2010 Budget has incorporated the widely held assumption that tax increases and spending cuts reduce economic growth in the short term,» the OBR chairman wrote in his tersely - worded letter.

There is a commonly held assumption that «Black Africans» do not face linguistic barriers but those who originate in countries such as Somalia and the Democratic Republic of Congo do face language difficulties in their education or in getting a job

Chris Grayling will deliver a surprisingly liberal speech on penal reform today which appears to contradict the widely - held assumption he was going to shift to the right on law and order.

This has given rise to the widely held assumption that problems of service delivery in healthcare and education are related to high immigration from other EU states.

Both men and women were found to be equally affected by depression, a finding that actually shocked researchers, as it was inconsistent with previous studies and contradicts the historically held assumption that parenthood affects women more.

While he's never made any secret of his faith or the way it plays into his work in Iraq, Courtney insists that he's found the Iraqi government to be far more open and accepting of his beliefs and mission than the commonly held assumption might lead one to believe.

This anomaly threw a massive wrench into the broadly held assumption that IQ was the sole source of success.

Effective leaders realize the value of questioning widely held assumptions and biases - those around them, as well as their own.

Long - held assumptions about which type of financial product to use may no longer hold true, WalletHub finds.