Sentences with phrase «including evidence of problems»

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Barnett contends that the criticisms of a strong patent - rights system overlook recent empirical evidence and have overestimated the impact and scope of problems including «patent trolls» (firms that own patents but do not manufacture products), «royalty stacks» (the total demands of multiple intellectual property holders for remuneration leave too little revenue left for the manufacturer), and «patent thickets» (complex and conflicting legal claims that increase transaction costs for manufacturers).

As for celibacy, if instances of clerical sexual abuse, including homosexual abuse, are as frequent in churches where the clergy can marry» and the evidence is that they are» celibacy would seem to be, at most, marginally related to the problems that produced the scandals.

It should be noted that we closely monitored our subjects for any possible adverse effects after the consumption of Golden Rice and found no evidence of any problems, including allergic reactions or gastrointestinal disturbance.

We are proud of our global efforts to reduce harmful consumption of alcohol, including support of evidence - based programs aimed at tackling the biggest problems.»

There is no evidence that they will develop low blood sugars if they don't feed every three hours (the whole issue of low blood sugars has become a mass hysteria in newborn nurseries which, like all hysterias, results from a grain of truth, perhaps, but actually causes more problems than it prevents, including the problem of many babies getting formula when they don't need it, and being separated from their mothers when they don't need to be, and not latching on).

There is a lot of evidence that says that depression and other mood disorders in the parents have a negative impact on children, including cognitive difficulties, insecure attachment, and behavioural problems.

There is now evidence that beyond the risks that they can cause in pregnancy, there are potential problems later in life as well, including the risk of SIDS.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

«This is a problem that faces us relating to a handful of people in this country including Abu Qatada whereby you've got intelligence but not evidence that can be used in a criminal trial.

Many of our members - including people with mental health problems and their carers - shared their experiences with us and we gave our evidence to the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs to help with the review process.

Respondents in this year's survey pointed to five main causes of the field's less than favorable reputation: drug and product recalls such as the withdrawal of Avandia; safety issues such as the discovery of problems with raw material from China used in medical products; scandals, including evidence that pharmaceutical companies have failed to release data from trials whose results cast doubts on their drugs» safety and efficacy; lawsuits brought against companies that failed to warn patients of problems with their products; and ethical issues such as kickbacks for physicians promoting specific medications.

Interestingly, the authors noted that since the study showed that microbiota in the gut can influence the brain, it «adds to evidence suggesting that the intestinal microbiota may play some role in the spectrum of brain disorders ranging from mood or anxiety to other problems that may include autism, Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis.»

«There is increasing and compelling evidence that points to associations between Pittsburgh's poor air quality and health problems, especially those affecting our children and including issues such as autism spectrum disorder and asthma,» said Grant Oliphant, president of The Heinz Endowments.

In 2005 the magazines Rolling Stone and Salon copublished a story by environmental lawyer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (nephew of former President John F. Kennedy) alleging a government conspiracy to cover up evidence that thimerosal, a mercury - containing preservative once used in vaccines, can cause brain problems, including autism.

«Some of the health conditions documented to be associated with shift work include an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, diabetes, a number of psychological and mood disturbances, reproductive problems and most recently the evidence related to cancer was evaluated.

Examples include the Strom study (funded by the Infant Formula Council) that declared soy formulas «safe» in a great media blast but did not look at thyroid problems or asthma and whose data actually indicated reproductive problems; or the Klein literature study (carried out at a DuPont Children's Hospital; DuPont owns Protein Technologies, a manufacturer of soy protein isolate) which declared that there is no evidence in the literature of endocrine effects.

Researchers have looked at a variety of cardiovascular problems — including heart attack, ischemic heart disease, and atherosclerosis — and found preliminary evidence of an ability on the part of cruciferous vegetables to lower our risk of these health problems.

Dr. Weston Price noticed that once white flour and white sugar were introduced to unsuspecting cultures, tooth decay, physical degeneration, and disease set in over the period of a single generation.40 Current evidence links excessive sugar and white flour consumption with the development of almost any health problem, including (but definitely not limited to) cancer, 41 osteoporosis, 42 heart disease, 43 hypoglycemia, adrenal exhaustion, and parasitic and yeast infections.44 Sugar and refined flour also depress the immune system within minutes of consumption, 45,46 which means more sniffles, allergies and gloomy moods.

The archeological record shows that in every measurable way human health declined with this transition, with clear evidence of physical degeneration, including a loss of height and bone density, and a dramatic increase in dental and skeletal problems.

This was evidenced by the loss of diabetic control, the intensification of hypoglycemia, the occurrence of presumed «insulin reactions» (including convulsions) that proved to be aspartame reactions, and the precipitation, aggravation or simulation of diabetic complications (especially impaired vision and neuropathy) while using these products... dramatic improvement of such features after avoiding aspartame, and the prompt predictable recurrence of these problems when the patient resumed aspartame products, knowingly or inadvertently.»

There is strong evidence linking sugar to a host of health conditions including, chronic inflammation, diabetes and, yes, thyroid problems.

Let's face the truth: There is substantial evidence that cancer patients suffer greatly when undergoing these treatments, including increased incidence of organ damage, premature aging, sexual dysfunction, neuropathy, cancer recurrence and secondary cancers, dental problems, diabetes, endocrine changes, fatigue, hypothyroidism, memory loss and incontinence, among other conditions.

Despite plenty of scientific evidence that diets don't produce lasting results for most people and despite countless numbers of dieters, most of them women, thrown into a lifetime of damaging despair, low self - esteem, and self - hatred thanks to failing diets, our culture still blindly adheres to the low - calorie diet as the panacea for all life's problems, including those extra pounds.

Despite the high use of sleep medication, increasing evidence has demonstrated that long - term use of such drugs may have negative side - effects including dependency, day - time drowsiness, nausea, fatigue, confusion, and memory problems (Ramar & Olsen, 2013).

In its report, looking at evidence from experts, including industry watchdog the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), Demos states there is a growing problem of youngsters «sexting» and producing their own illegal material.

Specifically includes: Typical and Atypical antipsychotics How each drug works Evaluation of each drug - evidence for effectiveness, problems with evidence for effectiveness, relation to the dopamine hypothesis, serious side effects and the chemical cosh argument

The problems with just this 25 % policy, however, and as he writes, include the following: the «policy reflects the view that teachers are inadequately motivated to do their jobs;» this implies, without any evidence that only an arbitrarily set «25 % of a district's teachers deserve a raise;» this facilitates a «culture of competition [that] kills the collaboration that is integral to effective education;» «[t] he idea that a single teacher's influence can be isolated [using VAMs] is absurd;» and just in general that this policy «reflects a myopic approach to reform.»

I share many of those apprehensions, especially given the lack of convincing evidence that vouchers improve students» academic outcomes and the problems we've seen with poor accountability and limited oversight in the charter sector, including in your home state of Michigan.

Finally, there is evidence of rigorous feedback from kids as their thoughts are revealed in deliberate strategies including talk - alouds, problem - solving, and item analysis work - throughs.

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However, it's important to note that too much potassium may have the opposite effect — there is some evidence that a diet that includes excessive amounts of potassium may increase the risk of heart problems in our canine companions.

GRCA opposes mandatory spay / neuter legislation because: 1) there is no evidence to suggest that it is effective in achieving its stated goal; 2) it causes well - documented health and developmental problems in some pets, especially when performed before sexual maturity; 3) it pushes responsible breeders out of the licensing system; 4) it reduces the availability of well - bred healthy, home bred and raised puppies; 5) it encourages the importation of puppies and dogs from less acceptable sources, including foreign countries; and 6) because laws that force owners to perform surgery on their pets without a rational basis for doing so may be unconstitutional.

There is growing evidence to show that flat - faced or brachycephalic cats (picture 1), including most modern Persians or Exotic Shorthairs, are suffering from a number of health problems, leading to lifelong suffering as a direct result of being «designed» to have a very flat face.

At GelbspanFiles.com, my main focus is to amass a collection of information which shows myriad problems with the accusation that skeptic climate scientists are paid industry money to lie and spread misinformation, and myriad problems with the people surrounding that accusation, including one of the main promulgators of alleged «core evidence» proving it, global alarmist book author Ross Gelbspan.

As has been mentioned earlier, I think an accurate historical perspective (evidence) of the past 50,000 years (to include our early Holocene) would go a long way in building interest from alarmists and skeptics in addressing the problem from a factual perspective (what has happened) rather than a mindless modeling game (what answer do we want to make happen).

«We know that plants grow better at higher CO2,» is an overly simplified and grossly inaccurate Idsoism, and «which would include plankton,» simply ignores the problems of acid - base balance in the oceans, as well as the evidence you yourself cite (https://judithcurry.com/2011/02/26/agreeing/#comment-49162 though say you disagree with..

On the health front, the scientific evidence is increasingly clear that eating too much of these greenhouse gas - intensive meats boosts exposure to toxins and increases the risk of a wide variety of serious health problems, including heart disease, certain cancers, obesity and, in some studies, diabetes.

Let's also hear from loonies of the precautionary environmentalist side — the ones who had quite enough evidence in 1990 that AGW was a problem and would likely lead to many problems including increased storms (heat energy could become kinetic energy, they reasoned), so let's start turning off lights not in use & a myriad of other measures that not only save the earth but save us money.

There is evidence that standing all day can cause problems, but most of the studies, including the one that says the risk of carotid atherosclerosis increases by nine times, were looking at employees of companies trapped at the same task, like a machine or a checkout at the supermarket, all day long.

As New York Times reporter Luanne White reports in this article, In New Orleans, Rust in the Wheels of Justice (11/21/06), in the aftermath of Katrina, «as many as 500 defendants, mostly in drug, theft and assault cases, have been freed because of problems with evidence, including difficulty in finding the witnesses who have moved away.»

The EHRC is sending out letters today (4 December) to Allen & Overy (A&O), Clifford Chance, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Linklaters and Slaughter and May — along with a range of other leading employers, including FTSE 100 companies — to request evidence of how they are tackling the problem of sexual harassment.

There is evidence that marginalized groups, including persons with disabilities, tend to experience poorer health outcomes, and widespread agreement that disparity in health outcomes is largely due to the social determinants of health, which are the poorer economic and social conditions experienced by them: Robin L. Nobleman, Are Health Problems Legal Problems in Disguise?

The majority did note that a trial judge retains discretion to exclude evidence in a given case, based on the sorts of potential problems we identified, including an individual DRE's inability to explain how he / she made the determination, evidence of bias, failure to comply with the training, and contradiction of the DRE's opinion by bodily sample evidence or even the evidence of bystanders.

The Plaintiff gave evidence at her discovery that she suffered from pain in numerous areas in her body including «problems with her eyes, ringing in her ears, neck pain, problems with her shoulders and shoulder blades, her upper back, her hip, her lower back, bruising to her hips, leg, knee and ankle pain, as well as headaches, dizziness, hair loss, weight problems and a variety of emotional problems, including impaired memory and concentration, sleep, fatigue and decreased energy levels ``.

The 1975 program included viewing videos of mock family law proceedings followed by discussion of errors presented in the videos; identifying and resolving various evidence and ethics problems; debating truancy laws; and detailing alternatives to training school.

However, where disclosure problems do exist, including the disclosure of the proffered opinion of a participant expert only on the eve of trial, the trial judge has the discretion to exclude the last - minute opinion evidence.

We will take up the issue of relevance, including the rules concerning the balance between the probative value and the prejudicial impact of evidence and the special problems of character and credibility.

The seminar component of the Clinic examines the principal problems that lead to the conviction of the innocent and the leading proposals for reform, including mistaken eyewitness identification, false confessions, faulty forensic evidence, the role of forensic DNA testing, post-conviction remedies for innocence claims, the use of «jailhouse snitches» and other cooperating witnesses, incompetent defense counsel, and police and prosecutorial misconduct.

teaching assignments in a college or university that included both class instruction in economics subjects and one of the following (1) personal research that produced evidence of results, (2) direction of graduate theses in economics, or (3) service as a consultant or advisor on technical economics problems.

The work responsibilities of the social worker includes writing assessments, conducting interviews to clients and their families to know the type of problem, providing counseling support, recommending best solutions ion particular cases, coordinating and making referrals to different agencies, participating in meetings like child protection seminars or mental health, maintaining records needed in preparation of legal action, guiding evidence to be used in court, helping clients through individual or group conferences, developing and implementing written materials for educational purposes, conducting workshops and providing psychiatric social work.