Sentences with word «methodological»

So it appears that the climate community was well aware of methodological issues with S09.

Handbook of Family Resilience Becvar (2013) View Abstract Explores how resilient families adapt and adjust and includes discussions related to the evaluation of a family resilience focus, a consideration of methodological issues when attempting to study family resilience, and ramifications of and approaches related to the inclusion of family resilience in clinical practice.

Climate change studies have used various different regional definitions, depending on the character of the problem considered and differences in methodological approaches.

She has also been engaged in the issue of reproducibility in life sciences, raising awareness of methodological problems with DNA sequencing of formalin - fixed samples, microRNA detection technologies, and antibody validation.

Results were discussed in terms of methodological limitations such as the use of self - report measures; theoretical weaknesses for example the variability in the approaches used in attachment research; and future research, which included the use of longitudinal studies which may offer insight into how early parenting behaviours act as predictors of later relationship functioning.

Up till this point, their findings of methodological flaws in the original Mann paper have been upheld.

A preliminary spatial model for the future spread of feral hogs in the southeastern U.S. was presented (Hickling, Collins and Carr), using Arkansas data as a case study to stimulate discussion on methodological approaches.

There are a number of serious methodological challenges involved in empirical research on how education policies affect ethnic segregation.

«The top ten studies based on methodological quality all used patients» breast dimensions before selecting final implant dimensions, and this should now be considered standard of practice based on our analysis,» Drs. Adams and McKee write.

This difference in findings might be explained by methodological differences between the current and previous studies.

Risto, Martin Wolf (certainly an economist himself) of Financial Times made the same point methodological point: «I don't believe that the standard discount rate approach is of great use when we are discussing a problem like climate change.

Neither MPS nor Representative Pope offer legitimate directions for future research, nor do they identify any serious methodological errors in the existing study.

Previous evaluations of the Home - Start program (Barnes et al. 2006; Frost et al. 2000) suffer from methodological problems such as lack of a comparison group, and the sole reliance on parental self - reports as a source of information.

Setting aside some serious methodological issues with the new study, its authors draw some curious conclusions from their results.

The field of Applied Animal Behavior specializes in the behavior of companion animals, the behavior of farm, zoo and laboratory animals and studies of the behavior of wild animals when these studies are relevant from an applied perspective, as well as methodological studies.

That's an important methodological principle for me.

concluded that the data collected in the United States to support the theory that pit bulls posed a unique danger to the public is flawed by methodological shortcomings.

Submissions will be rated on methodological rigor, clarity of writing, and contribution to the literature.

CALDER researchers tackle this important and timely question by describing the analytic framework of value - added measures, by identifying methodological concerns about value - added estimation and ways to mitigate them, and by discussing the policy uses of value - added estimates of teacher effectiveness.

Allegretto and Mishel fail to address or even acknowledge major methodological advances in the literature in recent years that cast serious doubt on their conclusions.

MSCI Style Indexes categorize value and growth securities using clear and consistent sets of attributes and a rigorous methodological framework.

Quantifying the area affected by different energy sources raises challenging methodological questions.

Still in its R&D phase, Oraclum will engage in experimental testing of several methodological approaches within the BAFS to pick out the best one.

Direct evidence on the effectiveness of screening in reducing melanoma morbidity and mortality is limited to a single fair - quality ecologic study with important methodological limitations.

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Second, the fundamental methodological weakness of the movement may have contributed to its demise.

4 The 2011 PES introduced several methodological changes including expanding the sample and to include more discrete Indigenous communities and over sampling in urban and regional areas with a high proportion of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander residents.

SSC's research on defining the exact parameters of school size provides future research with methodological basis.

According to the report's methodological appendix, the method by which the U.S. information was collected was different (and clearly less reliable) than how it was collected from all of the other countries.

To create a single measure that draws on each of these different methodological strengths, we combined these component measures into a single Composite Index of Classroom Engagement (CICE), which was the average of teacher ratings, student ratings, independent photo ratings, and redirects.

Moreover, there are also methodological reasons to approach detachment as a mediator.

Yet the analysis of the empirical relationship between school and residential segregation relies on flawed methodological decisions concerning how to define segregation and divergent trends over time.

The move towards combining process and outcome evaluation builds on other, related methodological developments.

«Psychologists have been building personality profiles manually for years; however, there are serious methodological difficulties associated with this practice.»

All fair as far as it goes, although readers who want to dig into the controversies around selection bias, methodological research issues, or a final reckoning of impact will be disappointed.

Different methodological choices are tested and evaluated.

The faithless reason of methodological atheism is dangerous to Christians, but it can be overcome.