Sentences with phrase «little consensus on»

Thus, despite several decades of research, there is little consensus on whether childhood television viewing has beneficial, harmful, or negligible effects on educational achievement.10 This uncertainty is at least partly due to a lack of long - term follow - up data, particularly for school - age children.

«Employer brand is a critical part of the job search equation for both job seekers and employers, but there is little consensus on what — or how — to measure and quantitatively compare employer brand preferences.

At least one authoritative treatise on the subject of legal malpractice has opined that ``... there is little consensus on, or even discussion of its meaning.»

But there is little consensus on the response of ENSO itself to climate change and no clear century - scale changes in observed character of ENSO (e.g., Collins et al., 2010; IPCC, 2013; Lenton et al., 2008; Vecchi and Wittenberg, 2010).

There is little consensus on how best to define underachievement, particularly among gifted students.

Yet there's little consensus on the definition of «teacher leadership» or on the best ways to implement and support it.

At least 30 states are launching new systems to evaluate teachers using more rigorous criteria about what makes a good teacher, but so far there is little consensus on what...

«There is... little consensus on how the profession should define «good teaching.»

But beyond that, there's been little consensus on how to fix the problem.

But, until now, there has been little consensus on what constitutes quality instruction or how to properly and reliably evaluate it.

Expanding the supply of high - quality teachers is of the utmost importance, but there is little consensus on how to do so.

However, since customer training is still in its early stages, there is little consensus on what training methods work best.

The literature on ketogenic diet and general anaesthetic is scarce, with very little consensus on management.

There is little consensus on how to proceed but no lack of proposed schemes.

«It must be close to unique to have so much information and so little consensus on what the questions should be,» echoes Joseph Orenstein, an experimenter at the University of California, Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

But the idea that their ancestors at least trekked through the corridor persisted, says Meltzer, even though there was little consensus on when the passage opened or when it became habitable.

To this day, there remains little consensus on the moral and ethical means by which states may lay claim to land or peoples may deem land their homeland.

There appears to be little consensus on who will win this game among our resident NFL experts.

That's why there is so little consensus on who the first pick should be, too many positions exposed and too many question marks over players who were supposed to shine.

There is an abundance of academic literature on the psychological and behavioural effects of visual pornography — albeit with little consensus on results — but virtually no research on the impacts of the written word.

Upon further investigation, there is little consensus on what kind of battery technology may replace lithium ion.

Not exact matches

After generating a little over $ 2 in full - year EPS in 2015, Ligand is on track for $ 8.65 (per Wall Street's consensus) in full - year EPS by 2019.

One of the most difficult factors for the layperson to deal with is the fact that there is very little consensus among the scientists themselves on whether the research should continue and, if so, under what conditions.

Despite consensus on the nature of the problem, there's little agreement about how to handle it.

As predictable and pat as the Esquire piece may be, there's little doubt that the new consensus on family — «straight people blew up marriage a long time ago» — has powerful adherents quite a bit further up in the clouds than the average Esquire reader, or writer.

Even though many economists today recognize that attention should be given to these matters, relatively little work has yet been done on how to calculate them, and no consensus was available to us.

I think the overall consensus on blogland is that everyone had a practically perfect little weekend and yours looks just as fab!!!

There is little doubt that major party and procedural developments — for example, the rise of partisan polarization in the House and Senate will significantly determine whether the two parties, the two chambers, and Congress and the White House can achieve consensus on common objectives.

While there is a latent discontent that some organisations and interests may exert undue influence over the legislative process, there is little in the way of consensus on how matters could be improved.

That would do little for the prospects of reaching consensus on the vexed question of party finance reform.

With Congress on a week - long recess, senators will grapple with the details of the health - care bill, though little consensus is yet to emerge as they'll almost certainly get input from constituents back home.

In any case, it would be difficult to change the funding rules in the run - up to an election and there is little prospect of a sudden consensus on an issue over which the parties have haggled for the past three years.

The numerous studies on menopause have generated little consensus, Lorenz said, leaving women with a wide range of questionable treatments, such as supplements, hormonal treatments and even hot yoga.

That finding is meant to contradict the stereotype of Americans learning little science in school and being oblivious to or willfully ignorant of the scientific consensus on everything from climate change to evolution.

The book is a valuable, if speculative, contribution to the discussion of both autism and animal intelligence, two subjects on which there is little scientific consensus.

In a society where Salman Rushdie remains in hiding, where Northern Irish leaders such as Ian Paisley and Cahal Daly can agree on little other than their opposition to abortion, and where racism is rife, what does consensus mean?

«Clearly there is little consensus about the appropriate policy for treating infants born at low gestational ages, and yet hospital practices regarding the initiation of active intervention have a dramatic influence on rates of survival and survival without impairment,» wrote Neil Marlow, D.M., University College London, in an NEJM editorial that accompanied the research paper.

Because there is so little scientific evidence to draw on, RAND researchers also surveyed 95 gun policy experts from across the ideological spectrum to identify where there might be consensus or opportunities for compromise.

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.

Next Page: Getting the right diagnosis was a challenege [pagebreak] Doctors couldn't agree on a diagnosis Back then there was very little medical consensus on bipolar disorder — and there was very little patient consultation on which treatment would be preferred.

Plus, little scientific consensus exists on the nature of dairy protein intolerance.

There's a growing consensus among nutrition scientists that cholesterol in food has little effect on the amount of cholesterol in the bloodstream.

@Matthew — I though this new film was on par with the second one, but I gather that the general consensus is that it's a little bit better.

As you've no doubt already heard from the general consensus, Lylat Wars / Star Fox 64 on the Nintendo 64 was a fantastic and addictive little scrolling shooter.

The critics consensus on the site sums up the reviews as follows: ««Suicide Squad» boasts a talented cast and a little more humor than previous DCEU efforts, but they aren't enough to save the disappointing end result from a muddled plot, thinly written characters, and choppy directing.»

As the syllabi for teacher education courses suggest, there is indeed an ideological consensus around pedagogical progressivism in education schools, but it has had little serious impact on teaching and learning in American schools.

«Little is known about whether (professional development) can have a positive impact on achievement when a program is delivered across a range of typical settings and when its delivery depends on multiple trainers,» conclude Wayne and co. «Despite a consensus in the literature on the features of effective (professional development), there is limited evidence on the specific features that make a difference for achievement.»

In almost every school district in the country, teachers are currently paid based solely on their years of experience and degree level, despite a consensus in the scientific community that these two factors bear little relationship to their success in improving student performance.

But in many areas of conflict, the challenge is even more daunting in that agreements must be forged when there is little or no consensus on the overarching framework for collaboration.

These and other studies have created a lasting professional consensus that, in general, the scholastic curriculum has some effects on the civic knowledge of students, but little or no effect on their civic values.