Sentences with phrase «lack of any data which»

One of the problems when studying molecular evolution is the lack of data which makes it very hard to resolve phylogenies and it also creates artefacts.

Last but certainly not least, I note the complete lack of any data which demonstrates that carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere precedes temperature change.

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A lack of historical data on which insurers can base assumptions is a key challenge.

Technically, Apple has the ability to access data on the iPhone 5s because it is running the company's iOS 7 operating system, which lacks the encryption features that have been built into subsequent versions of Apple's mobile software.

«Internet users in the U.S. are left incredibly vulnerable to this sort of abuse because of the lack of comprehensive data protection and privacy laws, which leaves this data unprotected.»

In the case of some firms, I lacked sufficient corporate information and financial data on which to rate the companies.

«Internet users in United States are left incredibly vulnerable to this sort of abuse because of the lack of comprehensive data protection and privacy laws, which leaves this data unprotected.

This makes them easy to work with, but behind their simplicity lies a complex web of deals and a lack of transparency which last week saw Mark Zuckerberg up before Congress, and Google accused of illegally collecting personal data from children under 13.

Ms Lucas also called for the recording and publishing of gender - specific violent crime data to be made a requirement for police, health and social services - the lack of which she said: «seriously obscures the extent to which women and girls are subjected to gendered violence».

But if in fact in the common vision of reality apart from revelation this element has been subordinate to other elements or entirely lacking, then we must acknowledge that revelation creates the data on the basis of which natural theology reasons.

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Now if the self's identity is narrow, lacking intensity and scope of feelings, the result of the exposure to varying data available for inclusion will be to deny habitually that which is novel.

What we have endeavoured to show in dealing with the materials is that we do not lack an abundance of manuscripts and other relevant data by means of which we can get back to a period quite early in the history of New Testament transmission.

We calculated these transition probabilities using data from the longitudinal National Health and Nutrition Evaluation Survey, which assessed a cohort of women in 1987 and the same women again in 1992.25 Several limitations of these data affect our model: 1) because this national survey lacks data on women before age 35 years, women in our model could not develop hypertension, type 2 diabetes mellitus, or MI before age 35 years; 2) because longitudinal survey data were only available for a 5 - year interval, we assumed that transition probabilities were stable within the 5 - year intervals and converted these probabilities from 5 - year to 1 - year intervals; 3) because the survey data were too few to provide stable estimates by year of age, we used transition probabilities for women in three age groups: aged 50 years and younger, 51 — 65 years, and 65 years and older.

Frustrated by the lack of data, Rose Alliance, the sex worker organisation in Sweden, conducted their own research which was brought to the UK Parliament by Pye Jakobsson.

He argued that the lack of data on households with the current system makes social intervention programmes targeted at the vulnerable difficulty since there is no data as to who is poor and in which community.

But he added that there was still uncertainty and lack of detail on the question of timeliness, and the extent to which practically the data would be available free of registration through non-proprietary and license - free means.

In prepared testimony released Monday by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, which he is expected to deliver Wednesday, Zuckerberg apologizes for fake news, hate speech, a lack of data privacy and Russian social media interference in the 2016 elections.

McNutt's characterization of the paper is drawn from the NSF investigation, which concluded that the researchers were guilty of «an avoidance of protocols, a failure to meet expected scientific standards, a lack of expertise or training in the field of inquiry, poor oversight of less experienced team members, and the misrepresentation of data on which a conclusion was based.

These insights can be useful, he said, for understanding how marine life will respond to climate change and for predicting the movements of species for which tracking data are lacking.

Each time NASA winnows candidates for a new mission, it also helps dictate which subfields will soon benefit from a bumper crop of fresh data — and which are likely to languish in obscurity for lack of interest and resources.

And many universities, which otherwise pride themselves on their data - collection prowess, have evinced an amazing lack of curiosity about the number of postdocs on their own campuses.

One of the challenges to drawing conclusions from a study like this one is the lack of exact data on the U.S. postdoc population, which means that the precision of the quoted numbers is probably misleading.

The problem is that microbes, for reasons including a lack of descriptive data, are not easily accommodated within the 1993 Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), which seeks to preserve diversity.

«We're basically validating a lot of ideas that have been out there since Darwin, but which had never been tested at this scale due to lack of data and the limits of existing technologies,» Rabosky said.

As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.

«The complaint says [Giraldez] refused to provide her with a letter about the sabotage, which presumably would have helped explain her lack of data to future employers.

But the new results, which include extra data showing a lack of side effects, could influence the debate in the 15 states, all in central and eastern part of the US, where legislation is still on the table.

«A lot of people have very strong opinions about what matters for weight loss, and the physiological data upon which those beliefs are based are sometimes lacking,» Hall says.

The Chandra data reveal 95 young stars glowing in X-ray light, 41 of which had not been seen previously using Spitzer because they lacked infrared emission from a surrounding disk.

«Better high - energy data are required in order to determine whether this new method gives a spin estimate which is consistent with that derived from the iron line, or whether it instead reveals a lack of understanding of disc continuum emission and / or of disc reflection,» the team wrote.

«Challenges to greater adoption of computer - modeling include a lack of data for some medical conditions, which makes realistic predictions difficult,» said Donna Lochner, a senior scientific advisor in the FDA's Office of Science and Engineering Laboratories.

If you know even the least little bit about the satellite data — which is how I characterize myself — the lack of concordance with the ground series, for short periods of time, starting in 1998, is a non-issue.

The NIH has established the HeLa Genome Data Access Working Group, which includes members of Henrietta Lack's family.

A lack of data suggests it's impossible to know which study is right.

I hope to fill this void, apply a scientific eye, and impart credence to therapeutic nutrition and holistic medicine by substantiating all my claims with high quality scientific data — instead of pulling statements out of thin air, which sadly is commonplace with headline - grabbing, yet substantive discussion - lacking online articles.

The USA Today article, written in response to an American Heart Association (AHA) statement advising Americans to replace saturated fat with omega - 6 rich polyunsaturated fatty acids from vegetable oils, exemplifies the lack of journalistic integrity, rushing to conclusions, and flagrant misrepresentation of the data to which I was referring.

The game seems to lack single player content which is a shame because the online multiplayer can die at some point leaving the players restricted to either local co-op gaming or by playing against the AI, which is based on data of some of the online ranked players.

But why imply that black students would be better off not going to graduate school at all rather than a for - profit school if a lack of good data means we can't determine which is the better choice?

Evaluating the effect of Prop 227 on achievement is also complicated by the lack of data on student achievement broken down by which program they participated in.

For which purpose, let us return to 30,000 feet and suggest that the two essential sets of data for tracking America's progress or lack thereof in revitalizing the high school are objective test scores and graduation rates.

But this approach is hampered by the evidence base on curriculum effects, which is quite limited due to a lack of data.

Recent research which Affinity Workforce carried out showed the extent to which senior leaders in schools and Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs) struggle to develop meaningful plans for workforce management and recruitment due to the complete lack of data they are able to access.

According to Ingersoll's data, which tracked teacher turnover over a recent 20 - year span, the annual rate of minority teacher turnover increased by 28 percent, with many teachers leaving due to a reported lack of influence within their classrooms and schools.

Due to a lack of reliable data it remains difficult to fully analyze how child care provider finance practices in Pennsylvania compare to industry best practices, and to determine which policy solutions could best address...

However, our data show that schools with sufficient numbers of IT technicians tend to have staff with sufficient domain knowledge, which suggests that staffing challenges are driven more by shortages than by a lack of expertise.

This doesn't surprise Arthur Levine, the past president of Columbia University's Teachers College, who said that even if schools were to keep track of where teachers receive their training, the data surrounding which preparation programs are most adept at producing quality teachers is lacking.

But the lack of demographic adjustments in the published data that can ensure apples to apples comparison among states limit its value as a tool for determining which states perform more or less well than other states or as a means of analyzing performance in the context of differing state education policies.

Then there is the lack of high - quality data on district and school performance, which is as much a problem for highly - educated households as it is for less - educated ones.

Such criticisms may have only been bolstered by last week's report from Duke Law School, which cited North Carolina private school accountability measures as «among the weakest in the country» and blasted a lack of verifiable data to back up claims that failing public school students may be rescued by their private school counterparts.