Sentences with phrase «little research literature»

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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.

Although there is little — if any — professional literature in this field on the use of homeopathic medicine, my reading and research has led me to the conclusion that these remedies pose minimal — if any — risk to the nursing baby.

Gay fathers tend to be economically well - off, one means by which their children may garner social advantages relative to other children, while additional research has shown that children of gay fathers did not report differences in sex - typed behaviour compared with parents of other family configurations.58 A large literature shows that parents tend to transmit values to their children along socioeconomic status lines, with middle class parents typically imparting different values from parents in lower socioeconomic strata.59, 60 However, little of this work has examined fathers in particular, as distinct from mothers.

After diving into the literature and research while studying for my advanced degrees and working intimately with hundreds of families through my work (plus 3 co-sleeping babes of my own), I discovered that those natural drives of early childhood are actually brilliant and essential for a little one to thrive.

And I also admit that I started to feel sort of silly about scouring all the scientific literature for health benefits (when there is so little research on this topic) because I realized that I didn't care that much what the research says.

After poring over the literature, Mendum and Njenga reported that little previous empirical research into wood burning in sub-Saharan Africa has been conducted, so policy makers have scant data to guide them in formulating best practices for sustainable biomass production and consumption.

Although postpartum depression entered official medical literature in the 1950s, decades have passed with few new options and little research.

«Previous literature has shown little or no benefit from calorie labeling, however that research did not look at long - term exposure, and in those studies most consumers did not notice the calorie labels.

In short, SIBO is growing area of research but there is very little on diet for therapeutic benefit in the medical literature.

Michele Rosenthal: And researching the symptoms that I had, little by little the literature led me to PTSD and it was at that time that I actually took a self - test we have on the HealMyPTSD.com website, a self - test for PTSD --

She is well aware of the research literature that shows little evidence that family income has a large causal impact on student achievement.

Wilson and Korn's literature review (a lit review analyzes a lot of research on a topic) on student attention during lectures found little evidence of a consistent attention span among students.

Little research exists about this population: «The higher the score used to define highly gifted, the sparser the literature base» (Delisle, 1992, p. 174).

It was a result of our attempt to find the holes in the literature; i.e., to generate an agenda for needed future research by mapping what little was known and then prescribing new research.

Little research has been reported on this topic, and very little appears in the literature about CTE educators» use of technical assessment data, particularly as it relates to program and instructional deciLittle research has been reported on this topic, and very little appears in the literature about CTE educators» use of technical assessment data, particularly as it relates to program and instructional decilittle appears in the literature about CTE educators» use of technical assessment data, particularly as it relates to program and instructional decisions.

Dr. Laura Goe, Dr. Courtney Bell, and Ms. Olivia Little note in Approaches to Evaluating Teacher Effectiveness, «Given that teachers» roles involve much more than simply providing subject - matter instruction, it is appropriate to consider a broader and more comprehensive definition of effective teachers consisting of five points and formulated by evaluating discussions of teacher effectiveness in the research literature as well as in policy documents, standards and reports» (2008).

The literature contains little mathematics education research on teacher preparation experiences that engage prospective teachers in developing mathematical explanations in an online learning environment.

However, at this point, it is recommended to make a little investigation and to find out whether you can find enough literature devoted to macroeconomics research paper you have chosen to be able to make a real research, or it is better to find some other topic, which is better disclosed in literature in order you to be able to write an informative macroeconomics research paper.

Of course, I reasoned that if this were the case then some canine behavioural researcher would have attempted to demonstrate that experimentally, but when I searched the scientific literature to see if dog demonstrators could be useful in teaching obedience commands to other dogs, I found very little that directly dealt with this question in the published research archives.

The point I made was that, whereas you said there was «very little research conducted in this area,» there was an extensive literature review documenting relevant work back to 1924, and work specifically on blocking from 1950.

UCS employees have given testimony before the U.S. Senate on 453 occasions, despite the fact UCS has conducted little experimental science or independent research; UCS has instead concentrated on producing literature reviews highlighting scientific research that agrees with UCS» political goals.

However, little to no scholarly literature has been produced on specific legal issues for research purposes.

To date, the literature on mentoring is mixed and little research has adequately assessed the efficacy of mentoring programs.

Such discrepancies may have occurred because these measures are more often used in clinical settings rather than in research settings and, therefore, have received little attention in the pediatric psychology research literature.

Associations between participation in leisure activities and binge drinking among sick - listed individuals have been paid little attention in the research literature.

As in the broader family therapy literature, however, treatment approaches have been derived primarily from theories of family functioning and clinical experience, rather independently from research (Bry, 1988), and with little attention to systematic evaluation.

At the time of the literature review, there was little empirical research about how these new technologies and media could / would impact young children's lives.

A decade from Steinberg's 2001 presidential address, effective evidence - based parenting interventions and approaches exist in the research literature; however, the dissemination from research to practice has been relatively slow, and the difficulty in achieving this has been apparent.8 The literature includes little research on how to support the general population of parents through their child's transition into adolescence, and a substantial research — practice gap exists regarding the impact of a universal approach to parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.

While there is much literature on individual level variables that affect prenatal care adherence such as age, poverty, low self - esteem, and transportation, there is little practice based research knowledge on diminishing potential birth risks by repairing and building the maternal — infant (fetus) relationship prior to the actual birth of the child.