Sentences with phrase «more empirical support»

The new program aims to develop the next generation of family intervention scientists who can help bring more empirical support to family therapy and help disseminate it in the broader health care environment.

However, the general view of evolution gained more and more empirical support.

Not exact matches

Data driven — Readers are more apt to trust content strongly supported by empirical data.

At least with science, we look at empirical evidence, craft a theory that explains the evidence, then continually look to refine the theory as we uncover more evidence to support or refute our theories.

The biblical understanding of creation supports the empirical, observational aspect of science, but the Christian evaluation of the rational component seems more ambiguous.

More importantly, specific results of clinical investigation provide empirical support.

As others have also pointed out there is a wealth of empirical evidence that supports the fact that infants who sleep better have better child - mother interactions (i.e. http://www.jaacap.com/article/S0890-8567 (09) 64116 - 2 / abstract)- again, more references can be provided upon request.

While reduced vegetation cover and soil disturbance can make more sediment available for emission in dust storms, the researchers say, the widely reported link between the storm and the fighting in Syria was untested and lacked empirical support.

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.

Lead researcher Dr Chidiebere Ogbonnaya said: «Our study is the first to show empirical support for claims that the productivity gains of these pay schemes might be associated with employees» experience of more intense working.

Rick Strassman has proposed a theory even more reductionist and far - fetched than Hamer's, yet one that has empirical support.

It's important to note that as science progresses we are seeing more and more empirical evidence to support and back up this perspective.

In a new book, An Empty Curriculum: The Need to Reform Teacher Licensing Regulations and Tests, (Rowman and Littlefield: 2015), I make the case, with empirical support wherever possible, that the revision of the licensing system for each stage in a teaching career and the construction of new or more demanding teacher licensure tests contributed significantly to the long - lasting effects of the state's first - class standards.

It involved a thorough review of empirical research (see the Bibliography for a selection of supporting sources) and sought the input of researchers and more than 1,000 school and district leaders through surveys and focus groups to identify gaps among the 2008 Standards, the day - to - day work of education leaders and leadership demands of the future.

Jonathan Cohen, president of the National School Climate Center (formerly the Center for Social and Emotional Education), says there are more than 300 empirical studies that support the notion that «when schools make these core processes integral facets of school life, student achievement increases and school violence decreases.»

I wish that there were more empirical evidence to support this!

With those caveats stated, it is absolutely true that the consensus «physics» is not supported by the actual empirical climate evidence over more recent years.

The IPCC CAGW premise or hypothesis has not yet been supported by empirical scientific data, nor has it successfully withstood falsification attempts — as a result it remains an uncorroborated hypothesis, nothing more.

More importantly, there has been zero scientific empirical proof provided by the wind industry to support their claims of consequential CO2 reduction.

The narrative was always more important then the science, that's why it's a high pressure sales pitch to grab the authority «to do something» when there is less than nothing in actual empirical or reproducible predictive models to support the actions.

But as this Holland dataset confirms, the actual empirical global and regional trends of a climatic shift of ever more severe weather events do not support the alarmists» predictions; the irrational fears of more frequent / larger weather disasters as a result of CO2 or global / regional «warming» is unjustified, per the scientific evidence.

Looking to fields of study such as composition and rhetoric theory, legal writing scholars including Anne Ruggles Gere, 2 Laurel Oates, 3 and Linda Berger4 helped us to learn more about the ways we write and read as lawyers and teachers.5 Other scholars like Kristen Tiscione began to do empirical work, surveying practicing lawyers and judges to learn more about their preferences, which writing techniques worked, and which didn't.6 Both in the Legal Writing Journal and in other publications, legal writing scholars turned their eye towards the question of how we read and how we write, and developed a strong body of scholarship that has enriched the discipline and supported how we teach legal writing in the classroom.

In addition to the many other reasons to strive for effective legal writing, these results provide empirical, not just anecdotal, support for the theory that more readable writing can make a difference, although of course our study does not prove a causal relationship.

More importantly, this is the first study providing straightforward empirical support for the relation between behavioral inhibition and SM.

Furthermore, despite growing empirical support for the Family Stress Model, such model is not static and more empirical evaluations are needed to identify risk and protective factors for changing the family stress process.15

Jonathan Cohen, president of the National School Climate Center (formerly the Center for Social and Emotional Education), says there are more than 300 empirical studies that support the notion that «when schools make these core processes integral facets of school life, student achievement increases and school violence decreases.»

Read more about the ABFT model, its theoretical foundations and empirical support in Family Process [PDF].