Sentences with phrase «long empirical studies»

Despite a long empirical studies tradition in law, there has been little use of complexity science.

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Empirical studies find that household savings will typically decline when interest rates fall.17 This suggests that workers, instead of saving more, generally choose to invest in riskier assets, work longer or earn lower retirement incomes.

I could have gone into empirical evidence and biblical study (you didn't either, by the way), but my first post to you was merely introductory — the full discussion would be quite long as you know.

Their presentations will be based on empirical research, some from decades - long studies exploring the longitudinal connections between early development and later problematic behaviors.

«Our study is the first to provide empirical evidence that artificial insemination with long - stored spermatozoa is not only possible but also beneficial to the genetic diversity of an endangered species,» said David Wildt, lead author, senior scientist and head of the Center for Species Survival at SCBI.

Roi Cohen Kadosh, who studies tDCS at the University of Oxford, says Thync's empirical studies are «a very positive point for their side», even though he believes that uncertainties about long - term safety mean the technology isn't ready to be commercialised.

Scientists had long suspected that some local animals might not be able to outrun climate change, but researchers haven't yet been able to prove the hypothesis, says Loarie, who was not involved in this study: «It's just wonderful to see empirical evidence that backs this up.»

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

His studies of collared flycatchers demonstrated, for the first time, that paternal investment in one year could influence investment by the same individuals in display behaviors in a subsequent year providing an empirical link between sexual selection and life history and a rare characterization of the long - term consequences of reproductive investment.

The study had long been sought by school reform advocates and Democratic legislators, who hailed its June 29 release as lending empirical proof of what's needed, financially at least, to boost the state's struggling schools.

The video, featuring the science writer Joe Hanson, explores a vital body of empirical studies on human risk misperception, showing how a rational view of long - term or diffuse threats is obscured by «status quo bias,» our «finite pool of worry,» our tendency to value tribal connections over reality through what researchers call «cultural cognition,» and other characteristics of what I call our «inconvenient mind.»

By their nature, studies of aspects of the past which can no longer be directly measured but which may be partially revealed by various proxies will never have complete reliability, but they ARE being properly and rigorously pursued by long tested scientific methods of working with any available empirical data that might help improve the picture.

This study compares observed, long climatic time series with GCM - produced time series in past periods in an attempt to trace elements of falsifiability, which is an important concept in science (according to Popper, 1983, «[a] statement (a theory, a conjecture) has the status of belonging to the empirical sciences if and only if it is falsifiable»).

If you ever read Isaac Asimov's book Foundation, you might remember a similar episode where a character is amazed that scientists no longer seek out new empirical data, but just manipulate data from previous studies.

New Paper «An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of Human Activity On Long - Term Temperature Change In China: A Perspective From Energy Consumption» By Li And Zhao 2012

In fact, in their recently published book, Catherine Cameron and Lance Long explain how empirical studies in other disciplines as well as in the legal writing field can inform the work of legal writers.4

34 And, much can be gained from reaching out to academics in other specialties who do have expertise in empirical work, potentially leading to interdisciplinary work that could reach a broader audience.35 Long sums up the point well: «If we want legal writing as a discipline to be taken seriously, we must be able to show, throughrigorous studies, that we engage in serious legal writing scholarship.»

Mr. Justice Moldaver relied upon the court's perception of the «science»... in reiterating a long held position that intoxication is not a defence to a general intent offence without referencing any recent empirical studies... By proceeding on this basis, the Court missed the opportunity to provide some rational basis for the general / specific distinction.

On both issues, I submit that Mr. Justice Moldaver relied upon the court's perception of the «science» behind these legal principles in reiterating a long held position that intoxication is not a defence to a general intent offence without referencing any recent empirical studies but instead merely citing the twenty - one year old Daviault case.

There is evidence, both from small qualitative studies and from large - scale, long - term empirical studies, that many of these problems are long lasting.

Like many newer modes of therapy, there are currently no empirical studies comparing IFS to other forms of treatment, and the long - term success of IFS clients has not been measured.