Sentences with phrase «little direct study»

Thermally incised meltwater channels that flow each summer across melt - prone surfaces of the Greenland ice sheet have received little direct study.

Not exact matches

A little harsh David, but study after study after study indicates that there is a direct correlation to lack of faith and intelligence across the globe in every developed society.

Very little is known about the direct effects of drinking on breastfeeding; a 2017 study showed that over half of Australian women who breastfeed drink at low levels, and use strategies, such as timing when they drink and breastfeed, which does not seem to be harmful to babies at 12 months.

A study conducted in 2001 by Jerold Hayden, a Harvard professor of urban planning and design, with the Department of City Planning and the Municipal Art Society, found that 40 percent of these parks «were and are practically useless, with austere designs, no amenities and little or no direct sunlight.

The problem is that smallholder farmers in developing countries often have low productivity and little likelihood of generating the profits needed to rise above poverty level, says Prof. Johns, who directs the McGill Canadian Field Studies in Africa program.

«Several studies and clinical evidence suggest AIM2 functions as a tumor suppressor, but until now, we've had very little direct evidence to explains how this occurs,» said Justin E. Wilson, PhD, the study's first author and a postdoctoral fellow at UNC Lineberger, the UNC School of Medicine Department of Microbiology and Immunology and the Department of Genetics.

Early sipping represents what is often a child's first direct experience with drinking, yet little research has examined the long - term impact of this behavior, in part because most studies do not measure early sipping and tasting alcohol with parental permission.

But until his study, «there was little direct evidence for the magnitude of the problem in China».

«Ice cores contain little air bubbles and, thus, represent the only direct archive of the composition of the past atmosphere,» says Hubertus Fischer, an experimental climate physics professor at the University of Bern in Switzerland and lead author of the study.

Two related studies led by the Pagliarini lab, published consecutively in today's (Aug. 4) issue of the journal Molecular Cell, identify functions for three little - known mitochondrial proteins that play either a direct or potential role in disease.

«We know very little about the genetics of what makes us attractive to mosquitoes,» said James Logan, who is directing the study.

Created by the New York animators the Fleischer Brothers (Max, the eldest of the three, produced; Lou animated and later supervised the music; their little brother, Dave, directed), she was, as the animation historian Donald Crafton puts it in his recent study, «Shadow of a Mouse» (University of California Press), «one of the earliest cartoon characters to be a fully fleshed - out human being and the only classic» toon star generated as female (neither Minnie nor Daisy were leading ladies).»

Shouldn't half a century and hundreds of studies be enough to earn Direct Instruction a little respect if education is so evidence - based?

«Unfortunately, we also found that most adults appear to be doing very little to address these serious problems,» said Richard Weissbourd, who led the study team and who directs Harvard's Making Caring Common project.

In 2003, a task force formed to study the effectiveness of the Prince George's County pit bull ban concluded the ban to be extremely costly while providing little attendant financial or public safety benefit to the county and noted that, as a direct result of the ban, «Animal Management Division human resources [are] stretched thin... thus reducing their ability to respond to other violations of the [Animal Control] Code.»

Africa is a good case study on this - there is a direct correlation between for - market farming and environmental problems, while more traditional farming methods (subsistence farming, which would be better described as «needs plus») have little impact (and in some cases can be shown to be beneficial to the environment).

The crux of Bates» claim is that NOAA, the federal government's top agency in charge of climate science, published a poorly - researched but widely praised study with the political goal of disproving the controversial global warming hiatus theory, which suggests that global warming slowed down from 1998 until 2012 with little change in globally - averaged surface temperatures — a direct contrast to global warming advocates» claim that the earth's temperature has been constantly increasing.

The authors say that while models exist to determine the life cycle greenhouse gas profile of direct land conversions — say, converting a stand of timber to a biofuel crop — there has been little study of indirect land changes.

A few groups pursued the study of possible mechanisms, for example elaborating theories of how changes in the atmosphere's electric circuit, which varies with the flux of cosmic rays, affected precipitation in the Arctic, Ram et al. (2009), or devising experiments that they hoped would show a direct and strong effect of cosmic rays on clouds, e.g., Svensmark et al. (2007)(which brought a strong press reaction but proved little).

Put a little bit differently, over the three years covered by our study about 3.4 million people reported experiencing a physical health problem and / or high lives of stress as a direct consequence of that legal problem.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

The study also found that a little more than one - third of recent homebuyers who obtained their mortgage through a broker, direct lender, or someone else chose one of the following four creative mortgage options, listed in the order of popularity:

First - Time Homebuyer Savings Account Program Study (S. 7316 — Little / A.9039 — Ramos) Status: Passed Senate / Assembly Ways and Means Governor Cuomo's 2017 Approval Memo for the NY First Home bill directed the State Legislature to pass additional legislation requiring the Division of Housing and Community Renewal, in consultation with the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance and the State of New York Mortgage Authority to issue a feasibility and economic impact report on the implementation of a first - time homebuyer savings account in New York State.