Sentences with phrase «less conclusive»

The literature is less conclusive, however, regarding the specific positive (e.g., partner listens to me) and negative (e.g., partner makes me upset) aspects of marital interaction that may contribute to men's and women's responses on general marital satisfaction items.

Shively maintains the findings were significantly less conclusive than reporters and activists made them out to be.

There are other fingerprints, but to my mind they are less conclusive individually, but convincing in aggregrate.

The near future is less conclusive with regard to winter P, with many locations including southern and central Europe, Iran, and Kazakhstan showing nearly even chances for increased or decreased P over the next 30 years, and most regions showing values between 35 and 65 % (Fig. 10b).

Short term and local variability makes individual time series less conclusive, to compensate for that we would need many time series from different locations.

Other studies cited by the article found that the merle gene was associated with skeletal, cardiac and reproductive abnormalities, but there is far less conclusive evidence for this.

Compared to the previous statistics post, these statistics are much less conclusive.

Although parental involvement is consistently associated with pupils» success at school, the evidence about how to increase involvement to improve attainment is much less conclusive.

Furthermore, the data generated by these favored forms of research are far less conclusive than is sometimes claimed.

When correlating teacher professional development with student outcomes the research is less conclusive.

But a scientific approach to confirming the real life impact of a «green infrastructure» in cleaning the air is less conclusive.

There was some decrease in strep mutans, but less conclusive results.

But studies that look at likes and dislikes are much less conclusive.

But such confessions, often used as the silver bullet to defeat SBS skeptics, became less conclusive upon further scrutiny.

The observations in 2013 were far less conclusive, and hence more controversial, than the new results.

There is less conclusive evidence that antenatal education alone is effective to increase the duration of breastfeeding (Lumbiganon 2016).

The impact of swaddling on reducing crying was less conclusive in this study, but if babies are able to sleep for a longer time, then I'm sure more parents would still be overjoy.

Testing for intolerances is often far less conclusive and often exceptionally confusing.

But here the evidence would be slighter and less conclusive: in the modern world the case is clear.

Not exact matches

If that is not deemed to be conclusive, how about the fact that the average atheist crime against humanity is 18.3 million percent worse than the very worst depredation committed by Christians, even though atheists have had less than one - twentieth the number of opportunities with which to commit them.

Longer - term studies have been less than conclusive, and relapse after long - term sobriety isn't uncommon.

Our results are, however, less than conclusive.

I'm less than half way through them now, but so far I am finding that they get goals and assists at roughly 127.5 % the rate the model predicts, which to me is pretty conclusive evidence that they are in fact significantly better at shooting than the average MLS player.

Although the evidence certainly isn't conclusive, and it does suggest that graduating extinction is an effective way to get your baby to sleep longer and wake less often, is it worth it if there are any potential risks?

These infants «have less neurological development and attain a lower IQ during childhood and adulthood,» he says, adding that parents, until further research provides conclusive answers, should work closely with their pediatricians to monitor their babys» weight and make sure they don't gain too much or too little.

There's no conclusive proof, but you can see this play out in direct - election congressional elections: they are far more polarized than Presidential elections; due to the fact that insufficiently - polarized candidates frequently get primaried by less - moderate candidates in the primary (and the latter often win the primary).

He said: «If we can mediate and if all of us can be on the same page, we can conduct our elections seamlessly, with less litigation, less the amount of money spent in prosecuting those processes of litigation and our elections would always be conclusive».

«Their data is fairly convincing,» says Sundeep Khosla, a bone biologist at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. «But the data in humans has been less than conclusive.»

What data does exist is less than conclusive.

The results were conclusive: runners with a higher genetic score had lower levels of creatine kinase and myoglobin in their blood, that is, less damage to muscle fibres, compared to marathon runners with a less favourable score.

The study, which used information from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a joint effort by Princeton and Columbia universities, did not produce conclusive explanations for why young Hispanic women were less likely to gain too much weight during pregnancy compared with non-Hispanic women.

But, it's too early to make conclusive recommendations other than to encourage Americans to «sit less, move more.»»

The evidence is far from conclusive on this; there are some studies that show less of an effect.

There are also promising indications in other areas of health, nutrition, and medicine that are not «as yet» conclusive but no less exciting.

3) Newsweek says: «And despite Somers» claim that her non-FDA-approved bioidenticals are «natural» and safer, they are actually synthetic, just like conventional hormones and FDA - approved bioidenticals from pharmacies — and there are no conclusive clinical studies showing they are less risky.»

Due to conflicting conclusions from numerous studies, the March of Dimes states that until more conclusive studies are done, pregnant women should limit caffeine intake to less than 200 mg per day.

There is no conclusive evidence that relationships from an online dating background are less satisfying than offline relationships6, with some research even indicating that relationships where the partners met online could potentially be more satisfying7.

But the richness of this final «Potter» has less to do with its central plotline than the conclusive heft of the thing, the accumulated dramatic weight of beloved characters finally and forcefully realizing their long - promised destinies.

The research presently available on the potential of vouchers to improve achievement in public schools is also less than conclusive.

Measures of teachers» academic skills, such as their verbal ability, may more accurately predict their effectiveness, but there is far less evidence on this issue, and these findings are also not conclusive.

When a stock is selling at much less than its net current asset value, this fact is always of interest, although it is by no means conclusive proof that the issue is undervalued.

Cats display these key clinical signs less frequently and a conclusive diagnosis of pancreatitis in this species is much more difficult to arrive at.

The stand drew criticism from Jewish leader Shimon Cohen, who told Jewish Community Online: «The BVA has been obsessed with removing the right of religious communities to carry out religious slaughter, without conclusive evidence that it is less humane than conventional, industrialized mechanical slaughter.»

A brute force approach, I know, but «straightforward» can be good — though it's easy to imagine that negative results might be less than conclusive.

Hence the conclusions, being only as valid as the assumptions on which they are based, are less than conclusive.

There are some measurements and some analyses suggesting that these mechanisms are operating, but the evidence is less than conclusive, and some respectable analysts attribute the indicated circulation changes to natural variability.

So, the following analysis shouldn't be relied on as conclusive evidence that the Arctic sea ice extent has been less than in 1979 many times in the past, but merely suggestive evidence.

The first two of the four ingredients, the warming - related ones, have a distinct climate disruption smell about them, even if the case is less than conclusive enough to convict.

ARGO is not long enough to be conclusive, but even it shows the dampened response and less that expected 0 - 1000 meter warming.

Although the results of the cognitive testing were not conclusive, there was abundant behavioural evidence that, while even before the index event she was disorganised and struggled with completing a training course, since the brain injury she was less socially aware (eg often making socially inappropriate comments), and she was considerably more anxious, vulnerable and dependant than she had been before the SAH.