Sentences with phrase «know studies pointing»

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But more recent studies — Schaffner points to experiments conducted during Obama's presidency by Nick Valentino and his colleagues at the University of Michigan — found that those penalties were no longer showing up.

Case studies, testimonials and reviews offer value at different points in the sales funnel, but it doesn't mean marketers can't get creative when it comes to UGC — no matter what their industry is.

If we spend our lifetime studying Scripture without getting to know Christ better, we are missing the whole point.

James Nuechterlein's medley of reviews of the three new Lincoln studies is particularly artful in weaving together so much that we have come to know about the mature Lincoln who led the Union through the war years, as well as pointing out those areas in which Lincoln will perhaps always be clothed in mystery or contradiction.

Most agnostics and atheists were in your shoes, have studied the bible and more importantly the history behind it's composition but at some point most realized that the reason for the current focus of worship was no more valid than worshiping any other god.

I recall quiet Saturday mornings, walking with my father block to block, as he pointed out the landmarks no one else knew: the spot where the Third Avenue El of old stopped (he pointed out the supports hidden beneath the black asphalt); the apartment house where another close - knit family lived in cramped quarters, the three boys studying in dim lights under their mother's watchful eye to become a lawyer, a doctor, and a priest (and later a bishop); and the double spires of St. Patrick's Cathedral, the place of my parents» wedding and the baptisms of their three boys.

Yes, I was one of the freaks of Christianity who got his kicks studying, debating, and teaching the finer points of theology that few people even knew existed, and fewer cared about.

So, for instance, if it is not clear to the readers of my work that my writing is done by an Episcopalian Christian, I will have failed to practice this virtue — which, of course, includes my making clear at which points the materials I study or engage seem to me false, noxious, or incomplete; just as it includes my making clear when and in what ways it seems to me that the materials I engage are true, have taught me something I didn't know before, or may be of use to me and my community in its search to apprehend and incarnate the gospel.

You seem like someone who is interested in these kind of word studies so maybe you know if this is accurate or not: Someone else pointed out to me that the word for «punishment» in the sheep / goat passage is a Greek word that has more of a correction / discipline / child - training / restorative / purifying focus than «punishment» does in English.

Both of them are now believers, which is their choice as adults, but they fully understand my position on religions and we sometimes have some wonderful discussions on the subject, but I usually just get them confused because I know so much more about the Christian faith than they do because I have studied it from a secular point of view.

Conway Morris points out that we don't actually know what life is at all; although we can study and describe it in detail, we don't really understand how it coheres.

rappinronreagan: re: «The overwhelming majority of studies do not point to an all plant based diet» How do you know?

It came up at christmas dinner; at one point, the topic of breastfeeding came up, and my spouse's uncle started to say «I know breastfeeding reduces the risk of allergies later» and, expecting him to move on to obesity and IQ and whatever else he was about to say, I just said «No, that's not true», and started trying to explain the difference between correlation and causation, and the difficulties with prospective studies and confounding factors, etc..

Although the health effects of these chemicals to babies are not yet known, it's still an important safety risk to consider, because as the study pointed out, babies actually inhale more air per surface than adults, putting them at greater risk for inhalation exposure.

Quality ratings of the studies are shown in Table 1, where each asterisk denotes 1 point and the NOS score is the sum of the points.

I know there are studies saying breast is best, but not all scientists agree on that point.

The study's author noted (and anti-home-birth advocates are quick to point out) that the outcomes were a result of «a good risk - selection system, good transport in place, and well - trained midwives,» factors that are no doubt influenced by the collaboration of Dutch doctors and midwives and a national health system that support home births as a viable choice for women.

As the British study points out, however, no dirty diaper (or «nappy,» as they're known in the U.K.) is impact - free.

At another point during the presentation Q&A, Dr. Lawry refers to the importance of the study because it is «an issue that is, you know, widespread around the continent».

First, the groups contend a statewide public financing system would cost at most $ 40 million, far less than the $ 200 million advocates claim, pointing to a study from SUNY Albany professor Michael Malbin as how the system would also help lesser - known candidates raise cash.

«A person who studies scientific books with a view of knowing the real facts ought to turn himself into an opponent of everything that he studies; he should thoroughly assess its main as well as its margin parts, and oppose it from every point of view and in all its aspects.

We know why our studies are important, yet we stand and watch, baffled, as people point to an irrelevant part and say, «Look!

For one thing, they point out, acupuncture studies are extremely difficult to double - blind — a methodological approach in which neither the researchers nor patients know who is receiving the treatment under investigation and who is receiving the placebo or sham.

Plus, he points to two clinical studies that have shown that the fever - reducer acetaminophen — commonly known as Tylenol — decreased fever - associated birth defects, and he suggests that doctors and patients consider the drug's use to treat fevers early in pregnancy.

Up to this point, the best way to study epigenetic effects has been a strain of mice known as agouti viable yellow.

«At one level, it just reinforces a point that we already knew: that the effects of climate change and sea level rise are irreversible and going to be with us for thousands of years,» says Williams, who did not work on the study.

You know they will pay you back in some form, at some point — so no worries, says Joan Silk, an evolutionary biologist at Arizona State University in Tempe who has spent most of her career studying social relationships in primates, specifically female baboons.

The documentation ranges across the whole spectrum of drug development: Investigators» brochures provide information on all that is currently known about the medicine and so need periodic updating; accurate and concise protocols are required to ensure that trials are performed effectively; clinical trial reports (generally from phase II and III studies) present the information gathered from the trials; higher level documents provide summaries of efficacy and safety data from clinical trial programmes; expert reports provide critical interpretation of the results; and response documents clarify any points that are not clear to the regulatory agencies or provide additional analyses or supporting data for any items of concern.

Indeed, Paul M. Wise, who led the study, points out that fraternal twins are no more genetically similar than any other pair of siblings.

At this point, the science of studying hurricanes, for example, we know a lot more about them now than we ever used to.

And large, genome - wide studies searching for genetic underpinnings for more common diseases, such as lung cancer or autism, have pointed to the nether regions of the genome between the protein - producing genes — areas that were often thought to contain «junk» DNA that was not part of the pantheon of known genes.

Our analysis points to both previous studies and our results being driven by the same insertion of an additional small piece of DNA, an insertion which has a known function.

For instance, people who insist that vaccines cause autism may point to the known dangers of mercury as evidence, even though mercury is no longer a component of most vaccines, and studies have found no link between vaccines and autism.

Still mysterious, however, is how grid and place cells obtain the information that every GPS system requires: the angle and speed of an object's movement relative to a known starting point, says Edvard Moser, co-author of the new study along with May - Britt Moser, his spouse and collaborator.

«We kind of know it goes on,» says Jeffrey Hoover, an avian ecologist at the University of Illinois in Urbana who wasn't involved with the study, «but we never had a good data set to point to.»

And there are a number of studies — William Rees who's at the University of British Columbia was in that session and he brought up some studies that showed that, right: Beyond a certain point of material income, happiness doesn't increase, satisfaction doesn't increase and in fact even utility, you know, to society or utility even to economic prosperity does not increase beyond a certain level of income and that's individual, corporate.

I know that you have done some scholarly studies of the physics of curling, and the reason I got in touch was I was watching curling during the Olympics, and you see these people furiously sweeping the ice in front of this big heavy granite rock, as its going down the ice and, what are those sweepers actually accomplishing from a physics point of view?

The study's results suggest that sensitivity to changes in climate can not be predicted simply by knowing locations within the species» climate envelope, she pointed out.

On the other hand, Ann Olga Koloski - Ostrow, the self - professed «Queen of Latrines» and a classical archaeologist at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, who was not involved in the study, points out that it's difficult to know exactly how prevalent the use of human feces as fertilizer actually was during the Roman Empire: «We can just say that in some early farming texts, we know that they'd build the slave toilets over an area where the excrement could be collected and then spread over the crops, but that was just on isolated farms here and there.»

That's about 2000 years earlier than suggested by previous studies focusing on a different, more selective set of genes known as the exome, but it's in line with recent archaeological findings that point to distinctly Tibetan permanent settlements appearing between 3600 and 5200 years ago, Yang says.

The new study explored fossil locations in Northern North America — the entry point for bison into the continent — and extracted DNA from two of the oldest bison fossils known on the continent.

She points out that they are consistent with those from «several other recent studies that have shown that U.S. female service members are no more vulnerable than male service members to the negative mental health consequences of warfare exposure.»

Indeed, this point has been demonstrated by studies with DNMT inhibitors, DAC (also known as 5 - aza - 2 ′ - deoxycytidine) and zebularine.

There is a finely graded inverse association between age and cognitive performance, 3 4 5 but the age at which cognitive decline becomes evident at the population level remains the subject of debate.5 6 7 A recent review of the literature concluded that there was little evidence of cognitive decline before the age of 60.8 This point of view, however, is not universally accepted.5 6 Clinicopathological studies show good correlation between neuropathology and the severity of cognitive decline, 9 10 11 and neurofibrillary tangles and amyloid plaques, the hallmarks of pathology, are known to be present in the brains of young adults.12 13 Emerging consensus on the long gestation period of dementia14 15 also suggests that adults aged under 60 are likely to experience age related cognitive decline.

From studies of changes in temperature and sea level over the last million years, we know that the climate system has tipping points.

«We have long known that men begin to lose their sense of smell some years sooner than women, but this is the first study to point to racial or ethnic differences,» said study author Jayant Pinto, MD, associate professor of surgery at the University of Chicago.

In fact, many of the things we know about the nature of galaxies like the Milky Way were learned by studying Andromeda, since the overall features of our own galaxy are disguised by our internal vantage point.

The authors note that there are 33 other known drugs that affect 7 - DHC levels, «so the studies reported here may point to a problem of broad scope.»

Scientists have long studied the roles of brain cholesterol in Alzheimer's, one reason being that mutations in a cholesterol - carrying protein known as APOE are the strongest genetic risk factor for the disease, Ferris points out.