Sentences with phrase «little evidence of significant»

While we've seen it happen in other jurisdictions, there's been little evidence of significant, transformational change on the Canadian legal service horizon.

There was little evidence of any significant damages awards until December 2016, when, according to White and Williams LLP, the Beijing IP Court ordered defendant Hengbao Co., Ltd. to pay $ 7.1 million in damages for infringing a single data encryption patent owned by Watchdata System Co. Ltd..

There was little evidence of a significant interaction between diet and physical activity (P > 0.10 for the interaction in each cohort).

At the same time, members of an independent team of international experts that visited the sites last weekend found little evidence of significant destruction.

Not exact matches

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

There is no evidence for significant increase of CO2 in the medieval warm period, nor for a significant decrease at the time of the subsequent little ice age.

... there is little evidence of any weakening of price competition in grocery retailing and wholesaling has played a significant role in explaining recent increases in food price inflation.

In the largest study to date, Dr. Davidson's study compared rates of apnea after general or regional anesthesia among 722 infants and found that while there was little evidence for a difference in late apnea, there was evidence that regional anesthesia reduced the risk of significant apnea in the first 30 minutes after surgery.

There was little evidence that switching from the cellular to the acellular pertussis vaccine had a significant effect on the spread of pertussis in Massachusetts.

«The data from Ryu and colleagues add to the strong and alarming evidence that sitting too much and moving too little has significant negative consequences for cardio - metabolic health,» commented Michael I. Trenell, PhD, Professor of Metabolism & Lifestyle Medicine at Newcastle University, UK, and an expert on how lifestyle influences lifelong health and wellbeing and chronic disease.

In contrast, there is little evidence to date that whole genome duplication (WGD) has played a significant role in the evolution of their putative extant sister lineage, the gymnosperms.

On top of this, there is some evidence that high levels of BCAAs alone can trigger muscle growth (or prevent muscle catabolism) via certain pathways (again, can be addressed later), though there is little clinical data showing any significant increase in muscle mass in trained athletes through BCAA supplementation.

There is very little evidence showing significant differences in nutritional value of organic and conventional foods.

Webinar description: Today, there is a growing body of evidence that nutrition and lifestyle can have a significant impact on both male and female fertility, and yet women are still told little more than to take a prenatal multivitamin and lose weight.

So since there is little evidence, if any, that the use of gamification returns any significant performance improvement, the fact is that there is more to lose than there is to gain with gamification.

This made a lot of sense: There's significant evidence in cognitive science and brain science that suggests that, when particular areas of the brain are primed, people perform tasks a little bit better for a short time.

There is little evidence that the standardized testing movement has led to greater equity, providing legitimate cause to question the wisdom of continuing down a path of accountability that has not achieved any significant degree of success in achieving its intended ends.

This new WEAC Research Brief concludes that there is little evidence to substantiate the expansion of private voucher schools on the grounds that they are intended to help student achievement: «Research in Wisconsin and other states consistently shows little to no voucher school advantage, and in fact often documents significant ill - effects on students including: school closings, high rates of student attrition for lower - performing students, and decreased assessment scores in math and reading.»

Previous studies have predicted significant expected benefits of AEB technology in low speed rear - end crashes but, so far, there has been little evidence that they really work.

As far as evidence for CO2 emissions as a significant cause of the warming, sorry but I see precious little of that.

The trouble is that there remains little empirical evidence to support the idea, as we were surprised to find out when we talked to UC San Diego atmospheric physicist Veerabhadran Ramanathan about his research showing that another type of aerosol — black carbon — had a significant warming effect:

Following that line of thought it seems like there is little evidence at present to suggest ENSO is changing in any significant way (as stated on a few occasions above).

Two sets of correlations are shown: one based only on the subfossil series and the other including the living tree material whose precise elevations are not known and have been set here to a constant elevation of 250 m. None of the correlations is significant indicating that there is little evidence for an elevation influence on ring density and hence little age - dependent bias in the temperature reconstruction arising out of the differences in sample heights shown in Figure 4.»

Because our excess heat is concentrated in what amounts to point sources, and those point sources are almost invariably located near to the temperature monitoring sites, you may want be a little kinder to Phillip and his opinion that waste heat accounts for a significant amount of our «warming» unless you have convincing evidence that the heat is dissipated so rapidly that its net effect is smaller than our ability to detect.

I'll argue that if you're one of the ~ 3M persons living in the Ben Tre and Long An provinces of Vietnam situated on the Mekong Delta, unsupported claims such as Lindzen's «The evidence is that the increase in CO2 will lead to very little warming, and that the connection of this minimal warming (or even significant warming) to the purported catastrophes is also minimal» is hardly a tight argument and is ethically extremely dubious, aimed as it is at paralyzing the public policy response necessary to protect those people at risk.