Sentences with phrase «lack of research data»

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Among them: «a lack of data standards in treating cancer, lack of data sharing in the research and development enterprise, lack of patient input and participation in clinical trials,» and more.

Many institutions still lack the technological infrastructure needed to harness their own researchers» mammoth data sets, let alone those at other academic centers; fixing that alone could present medical science with one of the greatest research opportunities in decades.

Jonathan Albright, research director at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University, wrote that the lack oversight and transparency into what sort of data Facebook collected on its users meant that the company's platform could continue to be exploited.

Liberating data will spur grassroots research on important social, economic, political and technical areas, currently hampered by lack of access to and high cost of civic data.

While understanding the growing frustration the FA pointed to the complexity of the issue and the lack of useful research — the last study in 2002 failed because it did not provide a big enough volume of data — for the lack of definitive answers up to now.

Dr. Elizabeth Brownell, Director of the Connecticut Human Milk Research Center, and her colleagues also found a consistent lack of data available to hospitals who offer a donor milk program.

While donor human milk undergoes extensive screening and testing to ensure its safety, a first - of - its - kind study by the Connecticut Human Milk Research Center at Connecticut Children's Medical Center, published in the Journal of Human Lactation (JHL), has found a serious lack of standardized data among donor milk banks across North America.

Recent research of home birth data has shown a higher risk in home VBAC for mothers who have never had a prior vaginal birth, yet access to trial of labor in level 1 and level 2 hospitals is lacking.

She also noted that a report sent out last fall by the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council revealed a significant lack of data regarding concussions — especially among the youth.

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.

However, research and policy development should optimize scientific progress by identifying and combating the remediable causes of data withholding (such as those due to a lack of funds).

Given the medical and socio - economic difficulties often faced by people with mental illness, and the lack of research into the other medical conditions they might suffer from, the authors set out to discover, using publicly available data, what proportion of US adults experience each combination of mental illness, substance abuse / dependence and chronic mental conditions.

It also cites a lack of research and reliable data in the area.

Even more disturbing, the data show a perceived lack of knowledge on the part of the supervisor (19 %) and indifference (18 %) about whether the candidate is capable of coping with the demands of their research or not.

The plan also puts the emphasis on training, research and data collection, says Richartz, as Europe lacks adequate data for about half of its fish stocks.

The flood of newly solved structures will revolutionize some areas of research that are currently very difficult to work in due to a distinct lack of data.

These studies are often hampered by incomplete health records, lack of uranium exposure data, and failure to detect residents who have moved, according to Johnnye Lewis, research professor in pharmaceutical sciences at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque.

With the exception of Finland, statistical data on liberal adult education is poorly available and the activities often lack a clear organisation, making the role of liberal adult education in educational policy and academic research less prominent than that of vocational non-formal education.

In a stinging summary, the committee wrote: «Dr. Obokata's actions and sloppy data management lead us to the conclusion that she sorely lacks, not only a sense of research ethics, but also integrity and humility as a scientific researcher.»

«The scientific community has long recognized the urgent need to summon science with its adherence to the identification, collection, and inspection of data, so that evidence may emerge and guide public policy,» Schaal wrote in an Op - ed published on 12 Sept. in The Hill, adding later, «Such scientific research is lacking in response to today's gun violence epidemic.

This facility enables labs within and outside of the Hubrecht Institute that lack the know - how and equipment to support their research with single cell transcriptome data.

«This study is an important step towards developing precision medicine for at - risk and understudied minority populations,» Burchard said, «But the current lack of genomic data from these populations highlights the urgent need for a dedicated national effort to prioritize diversity in research.»

Miroslav Machala, head of the Department of Chemistry and Toxicology at the Veterinary Research Institute in the Czech Republic, said in an emailed response that, while these specific compounds lack data, these types of PCBs could potentially promote tumor growth as well.

KOSIK: Lack of data sharing stymied research on the genetics of Alzheimer's disease for a long time, but things are changing.

Following extensive research on SME preparedness for the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), leading learning provider Litmos Heroes discovers worrying stats on how businesses are preparing for changes, with nearly 27 % of those surveyed citing a lack of confidence around the actions they need to take to ensure compliance.

The lack of precision in these cases seems to be a direct consequence of our research strategy's rather demanding data requirements.

However, the fact that we find very «precise zeros» — that is, we don't find statistically significant relationships even though we have the statistical power in our data to detect even very modest relationships — implies that neither measurement error nor a lack of sufficient variation are what's driving our inability to detect a relationship between teaching and research quality.

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.

Study: Broader Data Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.&raData Use Could Improve Parent Involvement Education Week, May 30, 2013» «Unfortunately, because of a general lack of expertise in using data to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.&radata to guide strategy, sensitivity to releasing performance data publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.&radata publicly, and the political unpopularity of using scarce resources on analysis and [information technology] systems, relatively few large agencies have fully tapped the power of the data they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.&radata they have to better manage the performance of their schools,» says Jon Fullerton, the executive director of Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.»

In the late 1970's, education research was deemed a pseudoscience by many in the field due to a lack of clear data and results that pointed to effective practice.

Kennedy Russ described her shock as she collected data about the lack of access to reproductive healthcare for women, and completed a six - week internship at a local hospital where she «saw these issues in real life» and became «committed to her civic duty» to change the injustices she researched and observed.

Accordingly, there is much research about how such survey data can be gamed and manipulated by instructors (e.g., via the use of external incentives / disincentives), can be biased by respondent or student background variables (e.g., charisma, attractiveness, gender and race as compared to the gender and race of the teacher or instructor, grade expected or earned in the class, overall grade point average, perceived course difficulty or the lack thereof), and the like.

The National Research Council, an organization chartered by Congress, conducted the review and found some promising evidence of improvements, but the evaluators identified many persistent disparities, and noted a lack of comprehensive, accessible data.

What can be gleaned from available research and data is that patterns of giving have shifted in recent decades to include more efforts to fund disruptive or innovative approaches, signaling a belief among funders that problems in K - 12 education are not solely an issue of a lack of resources but also of a need to use existing resources differently.

I thought it very important to share with you all, as he does a great job deconstructing one of the most widespread claims being made, and most lacking research support, about using the data derived via value - added models (VAMs) to inform and improve what teachers do in their classrooms.

Yet, despite the common availability of research into general e-reading, there was, up to this point, a severe lack of data providing insights into consumers» attitudes towards reading on their mobile devices.

Due to lack of uniform reporting and surveillance, veterinary nosocomial infection rates are unknown, though it has been found to be a common problem encountered in veterinary teaching hospitals.3 Additional research is needed to determine the frequency of nosocomial infections in private veterinary practice as this data does not exist at this time.

The controversy, lack of good data, and paucity of high - quality research make it difficult for veterinarians to make informed recommendations to pet owners regarding this feeding practice.

• Many of the bee species lacking sufficient data are also likely declining or at risk of extinction, highlighting the urgent need for additional research.

Lacking the funds to build a parallel network with higher precision, they make use of this imperfect data because the network is extensive, already in place, has a long history and is paid for by someone else and not draining scarce research funds.

Re # 241, student # 2, having gone through the entire Ph.D. process is definitely a fighter and well accustomed to defending his research, but found your points (re the hurricane stuff) not very interesting owing to lack of knowledge of the data and the physics.

Climate change deniers in Congress complain about a lack of data while trying to de-fund NASA's climate change research.

It based the request on the fact that a key AR4 research institution had admitted destroying raw data for its global surface temperature data set due to supposed lack of storage space.

Lyman and colleagues combined different ocean monitoring groups» data sets, taking into account different sources of bias and uncertainty — due to researchers using different instruments, the lack of instrument coverage in the ocean, and different ways of analyzing data used among research groups — and put forth a warming rate estimate for the upper ocean that it is more useful in climate models.

One of the problems bedevilling Himalayan glacier research is a lack of reliable data.

Nothing to do with the data, lack of transparency, advocacy - led research, wild overclaims, models running hot, or legitimate differences in opinion as to how to interpret the data.

A lot of the rest is just nit - picking, eg: «The data used in the K15 paper were only made available through a web site, not in digital form, and lacking proper versioning and any notice that they were research and not operational data.»

«Because of the lack of full documentation of their data and computer code, we have not been able to reproduce their research.

The results of that survey also illuminated the barriers that were impeding weathercasters from reporting local climate change stories, things like lack of access to local data and lack of time to do the necessary research.

I suspect that none will take on this challenge: (a) You are not a PHOSTA and lack the background, knowledge and critical thinking skills it takes to understand the existing data and its implication in terms global geochemical systems; (b) You will be unable to find through literature research or create via experiment or observation the data needed to come to a self - consistent derivation and will thus ignore this challenge in the face of embarrassment; or (c) You will want to conveniently ignore the myriad of data presented by Bohm and others since these data contradict your theory and your working studiously to prove otherwise is, well, just inconvenient.