Sentences with phrase «new empirical studies»

But the new empirical studies of emergence move far beyond truisms.

And now — based on sea level behavior between 1930 and 2010, as derived from United States tide gauge data, plus extensions of previous global - gauge analyses — a new empirical study, which does not rely on a relationship between sea level and temperature, casts doubt upon both sets of projections.

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IGOPP's Executive Chair, Dr. Yvan Allaire's study on Hedge funds Activism Hedge Fund Activism: Preliminary Results and Some New Empirical Evidence, is quoted in a recent article entitled «Can America's Companies Survive America's Most Aggressive Investors?»

Subject to all the usual qualifiers about empirical work, I note a new study of shareholder activism that suggests it does not creat value and can even be value destroying:

But I pointed out that there was new evidence — from biblical studies and from various empirical studies in the human sciences, especially psychology and sociology — that completely undermined the traditional understanding of homosexuality as a chosen and changeable state.

Co., 1978); Thomas C. Campbell and Yoshio Fukuyama, The Fragmented Layman: An Empirical Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Lay Attitudes (Philadelphia: Pilgrim Press, 1970); James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as an Independent Variable,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 11 (1972): 65 - 75; James D. Davidson, «Religious Belief as a Dependent Variable,» Sociological Analysis 33 (1972): 81 - 94; James D. Davidson, «Patterns of Belief at the Denominational and Congregational Levels,» Review of Religious Research 13 (1972): 197 - 205; David R. Gibbs, Samuel A. Miller, and James R. Wood, «Doctrinal Orthodoxy, Salience and the Consequential Dimension,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 12 (1973): 33 - 52; William McKinney, and others, Census Data for Community Mission (New York: Board for Homeland Ministries, United Church of Christ, 1983), part of a denomination - wide study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1study of census data relevant to each congregation in the United Church of Christ; David O. Moberg, `' Theological Position and Institutional Characteristics of Protestant Congregations: An Explanatory Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study,» Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion 9 (1970): 53 - 58; Wade Clark Roof, Community and Commitment; Thomas Sweetser, The Catholic Parish: Shifting Membership in a Changing Church (Chicago: Center for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1Study of Religion, 1974).

He's a professor at the University of California, Berkeley School of Law and he studies the use of empirical research to inform legal policy; and he's the author of an article in the August issue of Scientific American titled, «How New York Beat Crime», about the reasons for the huge drops in crime over the last couple of decades in America's largest city.

Such claims have linked the rise in occurrence of corn diseases like Goss's wilt, which causes leaf blight and systemic wilt, to the adoption of transgenic corn across the U.S.. However, a new study from the USDA - Agricultural Research Service (ARS) provides empirical evidence showing no increase in disease susceptibility in transgenic sweet corn treated with glyphosate.

Researchers will integrate existing scholarly literature with new empirical findings from a survey of science communicators, case studies of science - relevant legislating, and qualitative interviews with policymakers to propose a set of best practices for presenting science to policymakers.

Edward Vessel, scientist at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, who conducted the study together with Amy Belfi and Gabrielle Starr (New York University), explains: «We suspect that the reason for the strong influence of sensory imagery is its ability to convey meaning.

This empirical analysis of atmospheric pollutants, traffic congestion, consumer choice of fuel and meteorological conditions provides an important tool for studying other large cities, such as Chicago, New York, London and Beijing.

Mathematics, theology, philosophy and law are examples of fields that revolve within a stand - alone world in which new findings are derived by means of logical operations consisting of axioms, postulates or articles of faith (theology) that need not be proven true or accurate through empirical studies or analyses.

New scientific knowledge is considered valid only after empirical studies and analyses show that theory and reality coincide.

These approaches are important complements to empirical studies, generating new predictions that we can test with genomic data or in field or greenhouse experiments.

The result is Fordham's new study School Closures and Student Achievement: An Analysis of Ohio's Urban Districts and Charter Schools, which brings to bear fresh empirical evidence on this critical issue.

A new Fordham study, Three Signs That a Proposed Charter School Is at Risk of Failing, employs an empirical approach to do just that.

The paper presents new empirical evidence that complements existing studies on performance pay, not least because the cross-country design goes some way to capture general - equilibrium effects of teacher sorting that have eluded existing experimental studies.

This symposium presents four empirical studies that respond to this call for new analyses to identify and understand the differing needs of subgroups of current and former ELs.

But a new study published by Thomas Dee and James Wyckoff provides the first empirical evidence that the controversial policy could be encouraging effective teachers to stay in the classroom — and improve their practice.

People have been training dogs for centuries, yet very few empirical studies have directly compared different techniques for teaching dogs new behaviors.

SLR satellite data includes things such as the «GIA Adjustment» — which is the amount of SLR that there would have been if the ocean basin hadn't increased in volume and in the case of this new study, how much higher the sea surface would have been if it had not been suppressed by the Mount Pinatubo volcanic eruption, another correction for ENSO / PDO «computed via a joint cyclostationary empirical orthogonal function (CSEOF) analysis of altimeter GMSL, GRACE land water storage, and Argo - based thermosteric sea level from 2005 to present», as well as other additions and adjustments — NONE OF WHICH can actually be found manifested in any change to the physical Sea Surface Height.»

Again, empirical studies (imo) are what's needed to make progress in climatology — the modelling is fine, but you aren't going to discover interesting new stuff by modelling.

A new study by the MIT climate research area confirms that the climate sensitivity guesstimate is significantly too high per the real world empirical evidence.

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

Backup generation requirements are exaggerated; transmission costs for new renewables are four times as high as more credible, independent estimates — in one area after another, ALEC's studies have a loose and biased relationship to empirical data.

Article: This new study for the northern China Sea is just another recent example of empirical evidence supporting past research regarding the global warming experienced during both the Roman and Medieval periods.

Currently, he is developing a new set of theoretical and empirical tools to study energy - system transitions in order to inform energy and environmental policy.

By way of the blog Empirical Legal Studies comes word of new research showing that women attorneys have less success before the Supreme Court than men.

Part V offers practical advice to new empirical researchers about potential questions for empirical research, data collection issues, the role of institutional review boards and methodologists, and writing up a study.

Via The Volokh Conspiracy comes news of two new lawprof group blogs: Empirical Legal Studies and International Economic Law and Policy Blog.

Southwestern Law School, for example, has incorporated empirical research on lawyers» careers into a class in its mandatory first - year curriculum: «Professionalism explicitly grounds the course through the introduction of case studies of lawyers» careers that have been drawn from empirical research...» 23 Indiana University's Mauer School of Law has introduced a four - credit first - year course on the Legal Profession that similarly involves students in learning about lawyers» careers using empirical research and discussions with practicing lawyers.24 Interestingly, in both cases, the deans of the law schools themselves are part of the professor team teaching these new first - year courses.

Professor William Henderson, (who blogs at the Empirical Legal Studies Blog) will head the new Center, working closely with several other law professors.

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A new subfield within «Empirical Legal Studies», has now emerged: Experimental Jurisprudence.

12 Shaun's article introduces us to the three empirical research strategies and how to apply those strategies to the study of legal writing, provides advice to new empirical researchers, and concludes with a bibliography containing a list of general resources on empirical research, as well a list of the legal writing empirical studies that have been done.13 Whether you wish to embark on a journey and write scholarship containing empirical research or not, as Shaun states in the introductory paragraph, «this Article should make you a more informed consumer of empirical scholarship.»

Anyone who is keen to study what judges actually do must read a new empirical analysis by giants in their respective fields of political science, economics and law.

Environmental Engineer — Duties & Responsibilities Trained environmental engineer with experience in industrial and academic settings Oversee development and feasibility study of a new low level chlorine detection method by nanotechnology Direct identification and quantification of sulfate - reducing bacteria (SRB) and sulfur - oxidizing bacteria (SOB) by Real Time Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT - PCR) Lead research for «Control of distribution system water quality in a changing water quality environment» funded by Tampa Bay Water Authority, Water Research Foundation Responsible for analyzing biological parameters and interpreting data from distribution system samples Manage QA / QC and sampling protocol for all biological project samples Compose and organize the entire biological sections for final project reports Develop and verify empirical models relating biofilm density and HPC measurements to water quality Responsible for designing water, sewer, fire, and storm drainage systems for a 3 story building Composed an Operations & Maintenance Manual for drainage systems Drafted full - size CAD blue prints of drainage systems and other structures Proficient in water / waste water treatment, experimental design, and laboratory studies Provide research for a project studying the effects of ultra-filtration on oily waste water Create a full 40 MGD water treatment plant process and design for a fictional city in North China Oversee site and source water selection, water pump stations design, treatment plant planning and pipeline layout Drafted full - size CAD blue prints and composed an Operations & Maintenance Manual Experience with hydraulic modeling and waste water plant design Consistently recognized for excellence in team leadership, project management, and academic study

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.

Computer - mediated counseling: an empirical study on a new mental health treatment.