Sentences with phrase «little supporting data»

Don't get me wrong, models are an important part of defining the expectations, but they are just that, an expectation with little supporting data yet.

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The initiative, supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), is a little bit creepy: it collects data from individual's shopping trips and tells them when items in the fridge are about to expire.
This should come as little surprise for Liverpool fans, for if Lallana were to maintain this level of goals and assists — having scored and created a goal in the four fixtures since the above graph — he would have progressed from average to elite level output without the core shot data to support it.
At the same time, while it may be tempting to assume that some outcomes are worse because of the risks imposed by this system, we have little to no data to support that assumption.
The Commission's David Freidful says the report, titled «Increasing Without Evidence,» finds little data to support the exponential growth of the programs under Cuomo.
The commission's David Freidful said the report, titled «Increasing Without Evidence,» finds little data to support the exponential growth of the programs under Cuomo.
There are a number of eminent marine mammal scientists who either don't buy it at all or say there is too little data to support the sweeping claims.
The most significant criticism is that Soon and Baliunas do not present their data quantitatively — instead they merely categorize the work of others primarily into one of two sets: either supporting or not supporting their particular definitions of a Medieval Warming Period or Little Ice Age.
Michael Hansen, a senior scientist with Consumers Union, says that data supporting the FDA decision are based on just a few cloned animals and include little information about their offspring.
And not least to gather data that can be used to support decision - making processes in situations where nature needs that little extra help» he explains.
Work on astrophysical theory to interpret space - based observations receives little support from NASA, for instance, because it's not related to a particular mission, while NSF managers focus on ground - based data.
But there have been little data to support it.
Little by little over the past year the claims unraveled, as a succession of committees found the papers riddled with manipulated images and plagiarized text and lacking supportingLittle by little over the past year the claims unraveled, as a succession of committees found the papers riddled with manipulated images and plagiarized text and lacking supportinglittle over the past year the claims unraveled, as a succession of committees found the papers riddled with manipulated images and plagiarized text and lacking supporting data.
The initial NMR data supported this idea, indicating that very little of the drug — less than 5 percent — actually formed channels in membranes.
In late 2010, van Schaik and Burkart comprehensively reviewed all the available data on cognitive abilities in three groups of New World monkeys: the cooperatively breeding callitrichids, a group including marmosets and tamarins; capuchins, which occasionally share care of their young; and squirrel monkeys, which are independent breeders with little shared support.
Scientists have long argued about why we devote roughly a third of our lives to sleep, but with little concrete data to support any particular hypothesis.
The new genetic data and analysis bolsters a theory that has long been held by archaeologists, although they had little evidence to support it until now.
The expert review panel recommended one practice guideline based on a 2005 randomized trial that provided data to support a memory retraining protocol.12, 13 The trial enrolled 29 subjects with MS - related learning deficits and randomized them to either the control group (n = 14) or the experimental group (n = 15).13 Both groups participated in 8 «treatment» sessions, which consisted of nontraining memory tasks for the control group and the Story Memory Technique (SMT), which taught the skills of visualization and context to improve learning, for the experimental group.13 In subjects with moderately severe impairment, 88 % in the experimental group showed significant improvement in learning abilities compared with 38 % in the control group (P <.01).13 Subjects with mild impairment showed little improvement.13 On this basis, the technique used in this study was recommended by the review panel as a practice guideline for the rehabilitation of learning and memory in persons with MS. 12
For prevention, it has a reported anti-inflammatory effect, but unfortunately little or no medical data to support its use.
Interestingly, although many cultures have used vitex to support lactation and boost milk supply, there is little scientific data to support this at this time.
There is very little scientific data to support that a healthy high carb diet causes more insulin spiking than low carb, high fat diets.
There is very little data actually supporting the use of a ketogenic diet as a treatment for bipolar, and a well - documented case where a bipolar patient on valporic acid developed full - blown mania with psychosis after starting a ketogenic diet (thanks to @neurocritic for pointing me to this report; read about it below).
Although the researchers were pleased — and a little surprised — to see the findings so clearly support their hypothesis, the study is just the first in a series they have planned to continue exploring the mind - gut connection, including another examination of the data to see whether a correlation exists between fermented food intake and autism symptoms, said Hilimire.
Tl; dr: hangry might be a real phenomenon, but there are little / no data to support it, and much to the contrary.
Results from a combination of levels can provide important data that may either support any conclusions drawn about the outcome of the training and / or help to diagnose potential causes where there has previously been little or none.
There were no surprises from the training staff either: they believe they are doing a good job, but have little to no data to support their conclusions.
As can be seen from the scattering of states into all parts of Figure 4, the data offer precious little support for the theory.
Not only were we lacking extensive data supporting our beginning work on Pathways, we also had little idea of how we were going to carry out what we were planning.
Appropriate for all those who are new to engaging with data, those who may have little access to support from mentors or critical friends and those who want to extend the way they use data in their school or classroom, Using Data to Improve Learning provides a practical guide to the principles of action learning and school - based inqudata, those who may have little access to support from mentors or critical friends and those who want to extend the way they use data in their school or classroom, Using Data to Improve Learning provides a practical guide to the principles of action learning and school - based inqudata in their school or classroom, Using Data to Improve Learning provides a practical guide to the principles of action learning and school - based inquData to Improve Learning provides a practical guide to the principles of action learning and school - based inquiry.
And despite what many NCLB supporters will tell you, when you break down NAEP data — as I have done — there is little support for the notion that traditionally underperforming groups, or anyone else, have done better with NCLB than without it.
Franklin said 2016 poll data show 57 percent responding said their public schools received too little money while 30 percent said the state's support is about right.
Yet despite the DfE report stating that the PISA data «provided little support» to arguments that academic selection boost the progress of the most disadvantaged pupils, ministers said the PISA results support plans for more grammar schools.
You would think, from the authors» refreshingly honest description of how little we know about giftedness, that they would recommend we move on to programs with better data and more support, such as ensuring that every fourth - grader can read.
After analyzing the data and writing each case we found that four components stood out as consistently prominent across all the schools: a broad and deep curriculum designed for all students with little tracking or ability grouping (meaning that most students get the same high quality learning experiences in all classes); a teaching staff with advanced content knowledge; a mission - focused administrative structure with a flattened hierarchy that invited collaboration with and among teachers and students; and supports for underrepresented students, such as advisories with personalized college planning, tutoring or summer research programs on college campuses.
OECD data show that they also pay teachers as well as other college - educated workers, while U.S. teachers earn only 60 percent of the average college graduate's wage and receive little support for their learning.
You mean to tell me that someone potential just running for BOE knows the science behind teaching ELL students, or how to teach reading to a room full of little kids, or how to implement the common core, or analyze data effectively to support student learning, or knows how to hire the right principal or sup.
Statewide systems of school improvement and support were focused largely on compliance and sanctions based on bald, end - of - year data that provided little evidence of how results were achieved and moreover, were not useful for making decisions at the school and system levels.
This was a pure technical breakdown with little support from economic data.
People routinely assume that they can beat the market, while there are little data actually supporting that.
As data designers, we know a little something all about the value of visualization and why it's such an important teaching tool, so we are excited to see Artists for Education support so many hard - working teachers, students, and artists.
However, those latter steps of the process are so far not well - supported in the research, which means that the sunspot data by itself has little persuasive value — to me, anyway.
But there is little closure for loved ones, and the loss of these men still reverberates through the environmental organizations that supported their work and among polar scientists whose research was aided by the data they collected.
That finding, supported by Forest 2006 Fig.S.7, means that the SFZ 2008 surface model data on their own provide very little discrimination against high climate sensitivity, unlike the CSF 2005 data.
There should be support for things that will better define climate response to forcing, like better quality aerosol data and better cloud data, but much less for duplicative modeling efforts, studies that use wildly uncertain models to make wildly uncertain predictions, and silly chicken - little scare - story studies of utter doom.
I also explained I don't have any real beefs with ice core data but if you want to state something specific I'm sure I can find something to cast doubt upon it as very little in this debate is writ in granite, confirmation bias is rampant, overconfidence abounds, the race to publish by inexperienced youngsters on the tenure track is heated, and pal review let's just about anything that supports the consensus view get published while simultaneously quashing anything contrary.
Surely, you must agree that the IPCC assessments about AGW are just plain wrong, since there is too little experimental data to support AGW, with any degree of certainty.
The AMO during the Little Ice Age was characterized by a quasi-periodicity of about 20 years, while the during the Medieval Warm Period the AMO oscillated with a period of about 45 to 65 years... The observed intermittency of these modes over the last 4000 years supports the view that these are internal ocean - atmosphere modes, with little or no external forcing... However, the geographic variability of these periodicities indicated by ice core data is not captured in model simulations.&Little Ice Age was characterized by a quasi-periodicity of about 20 years, while the during the Medieval Warm Period the AMO oscillated with a period of about 45 to 65 years... The observed intermittency of these modes over the last 4000 years supports the view that these are internal ocean - atmosphere modes, with little or no external forcing... However, the geographic variability of these periodicities indicated by ice core data is not captured in model simulations.&little or no external forcing... However, the geographic variability of these periodicities indicated by ice core data is not captured in model simulations.»
It is untruthful, because you have little to no objective data to support your stated conclusion and you know that.
«While Dr. Ball presents his central thesis that climate science has been corrupted by politics, the Article offers little in the way of support for that thesis, apart from vague references to missing or falsified data and political manipulation, unsubstantiated and erroneous references....»
Taken together, the data: 1) do not support the summer insolation hypothesis to explain Holocene glacier fluctuations in southernmost Patagonia; 2) confirm paleobotanical evidence for a warm, dry early Holocene; and 3) suggest that some glaciers in the region reached extents comparable to those of the Little Ice Age shortly before 5.29 e5.05 ka.
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