Sentences with phrase «language suggesting the number»

Certain food pyramids may have specific language suggesting the number of servings recommended per day, while others simply suggest eating plenty of certain types of foods and limiting the consumption of other types of foods.

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After his death, a number of other books, dictionaries, and grammar manuals in various languages were found in Jefferson's library, suggesting that he studied additional languages beyond those he spoke and wrote well.

The similarity between chicks and humans suggests that humans» «mental number line» is likewise innate, yet there is still a cultural component, as the left - right tendency can vary based upon language.

Such changes, Li and colleagues suggested while reviewing a number of related studies, are consistent with anatomical changes that can occur in the brain as a result of learning a second language, no matter the age of the learner, as they reported in a recent issue of Cortex.

He points also to brain - imaging research that shows native speakers of Chinese and native speakers of English process the same Arabic numerals in different parts of their brains, suggesting that language and culture influence even which neurons are recruited to deal with numbers.

«The research would suggest that there are a number of parents who start off with high aspirations for their children but gradually disengage, partly because the schools don't talk a language they understand, because they have poor experiences themselves with school and they find them frightening places to go to...»

That said, a number of community members shared that they enjoyed the videos, found the suggested apps helpful, connected with one another on DuoLingo, and shared an explanation with the group on the Total Physical Response Method for language learning.

Our study suggests that a cultural mismatch due to differences in language reduces, in many instances, the number and quality of learning opportunities to which Latino / a students might have access.

The survey for The National Centre for Languages (Cilt) suggests the number of schools where at least half of pupils in Year 10 study a language is down to 40 %.

Prof Howson suggested high unemployment in Spain and the need for Spanish language teachers in England could explain the large numbers of teachers from Spain in the figures.

With physical bookstores in English - language markets in «terminal» decline, a small number of companies with «no history with books» dominating the consumer book market, and «insane» pricing of books and e-books, the free market had gone too far, suggested the man who oversaw the rise and fall of Borders in the United Kingdom, Philip Downer.

The reasons for that are many: the timid language of scientific probabilities, which the climatologist James Hansen once called «scientific reticence» in a paper chastising scientists for editing their own observations so conscientiously that they failed to communicate how dire the threat really was; the fact that the country is dominated by a group of technocrats who believe any problem can be solved and an opposing culture that doesn't even see warming as a problem worth addressing; the way that climate denialism has made scientists even more cautious in offering speculative warnings; the simple speed of change and, also, its slowness, such that we are only seeing effects now of warming from decades past; our uncertainty about uncertainty, which the climate writer Naomi Oreskes in particular has suggested stops us from preparing as though anything worse than a median outcome were even possible; the way we assume climate change will hit hardest elsewhere, not everywhere; the smallness (two degrees) and largeness (1.8 trillion tons) and abstractness (400 parts per million) of the numbers; the discomfort of considering a problem that is very difficult, if not impossible, to solve; the altogether incomprehensible scale of that problem, which amounts to the prospect of our own annihilation; simple fear.

Also the README uses a period instead of commas as a large number separator, suggesting that the README writer's first language is not English.

Comment: A number of commenters suggested that HHS revise the definitions of health information and individually identifiable health information to include consistent language in paragraph (1) of each respective definition.

The chapter documents a number of good practice approaches both nationally and internationally and suggests a way forward to formal recognition of Indigenous languages and the establishment of a national body to promote Indigenous languages.

Recent theoretical work suggests that bullying might arise out of early cognitive deficits — including language problems, imperfect causal understanding, and poor inhibitory control — that lead to decreased competence with peers, which over time develops into bullying.14, 15 A small number of studies provide circumstantial evidence that such a hypothesis might have merit7: 1 study found a link between poor early cognitive stimulation and (broadly defined) inappropriate school behavior, 16 and another found cognitive stimulation at age 3 years to be protective against symptoms of attention - deficit disorder at age 7 years.17 A study of Greek children found that academic self - efficacy and deficits in social cognition were related to bullying behavior.18 A large US national survey found that those who perceive themselves as having average or below - average academic achievement (as opposed to very good achievement) are 50 % to 80 % more likely to be bullies.8 Yet these studies are based on cross-sectional surveys, with the variables all measured at a single point in time.

The works by Glascoe and colleagues suggest that the number and nature of parents» concerns are correlated with a probability of failing a developmental screening test15 and having significant behavior problems16 or true speech and language problems.17 Parents of children with global developmental delay had concerns about behavior, speech and language, and emotional status more often than concerns about global development.18