Sentences with phrase «of a causal relationship»

Does this suggest the lack of a causal relationship between class size and student performance?

As its name indicates, perception in the mode of causal efficacy is supposed to give some kind of awareness of causal relationships.

Several studies have supported the existence of a causal relationship between disability and poverty.

Economic conditions may independently affect all of the above, making these variables move together even in the absence of any causal relationship.

The identification of a causal relationship involves, at a minimum, discovering that the variation in a practice is related to variation in success.

However, they are not aware of the causal relationship between early printing practice and the avoidance of subsequent reading problems.

A jellyfish advances and withdraws, and in so doing exhibits some perception of causal relationship with the world beyond itself; a plant grows downwards to the damp earth, and upwards toward the light.

While their results shed light on the unclear role of telomeres in cancer biology, Pierce and his colleagues warn that Mendelian randomization produces estimates of causal relationships, but the estimates could be biased if the genetic variants measured in the study affect cancer risk and telomere length independently.

In applying a predefined algorithm, we identified strong evidence of a causal relationship for protective factors, including intake of vegetables, nuts, and monounsaturated fatty acids and Mediterranean, prudent, and high - quality dietary patterns, and harmful factors, including intake of trans — fatty acids and foods with a high glycemic index or load and a western dietary pattern.

Thus, we can assume that the results of this study suggest a presence of relationhips between family functioning and parental stress and QoL in the group of parents of children with ASD without intellectual disability, but caution is highly recommended when drawing conclusions on the direction of the causal relationships between these variables.

It is important to highlight that an inference of a causal relationship between parental relationship dissolution and child maladjustment has been strongly debated, particularly because it has been difficult to investigate the association while controlling for variables that may be causes of parental dissolution as well as child maladjustment (Amato [2010]-RRB-.

There is every indication of a vague feeling of causal relationship with the external world, of some intensity, vaguely defined as to quality, and with some vague definition as to locality.

But, similarly, a Newtonian scheme seems inadequate from the perspective of a «persuasive» interpretation of causal relationships and, one might suggest, from the standpoint of our lived experience.

Whitehead frankly seeks a new beginning, assuming (I) that, even as determinists have contended, a unitary account of causality ought, in view of the apparent unity of nature, to be given a try, and (2) that our account of causal relationships ought to begin with those we know best — the only ones, in fact, that we know directly at all.

The foregoing account of the relation of the past to the present will appear quite unacceptable if judged from the standpoint of a Newtonian conception of causal relationships.

Having a greater understanding of this causal relationship could inform the creation of a diagnostic tool using the eyes to catch when a person's memory is headed down an unhealthy path, adds Dr. Buchsbaum.

Barack Obama, in contrast, made frequent use of causal relationships, which indicated more complex thought processes.

«In parallel, the development of optogenetic techniques for manipulating the activity of brain cells has made possible the demonstration of a causal relationship between these neural patterns and the associated mental activity.

The court also collected many Florida and foreign cases supporting a potentially broader «no accident» rule: The «lack of other accidents may be admissible to show (1) an absence of the defect or condition alleged, (2) the lack of a causal relationship between the injury and the defect or condition charged, (3) the nonexistence of an unduly dangerous situation, or (4) want of knowledge (or of grounds to realize) the danger.»

In the case of the causal relationship between the moon and tides, the teacher might provide some direct instruction on the following facts:

Hawkins» research methods and analysis are so problematic that the suggestion of a causal relationship between the presence of cats and the absence of birds (native or otherwise) is highly inappropriate (indeed, Hawkins scarcely investigates predation at all).

(The study of the causal relationships between geographic phenomena in a region.)

Dynamic modeling of causal relationship between energy consumption, CO2 emissions and economic growth in India.

«Challenges of the causal relationship between every incurred expense and the accident giving rise to the involved injury would bring the first - party no - fault system to a crashing halt.»

In terms of the legal industry, expert Richard Susskind suggests that kind of causal relationship might be stated as «change the incentives, change the behaviour» — incentives are the key to creating a profession that can flourish into the next decade and beyond.

Physicians are now required to be fully familiar with hundreds of pages of Medical Treatment Guidelines (covering five separate body parts and chronic pain), over 100 pages of Medical Impairment Guidelines, the principles of functional loss evaluation, the variance procedure, the procedure to obtain authorization where a variance is not required and the treatment is not covered by the Medical Treatment Guidelines, principles of causal relationship, reporting, billing, testifying and more.

Longitudinal research design describes patterns of change and helps establish the direction and magnitude of causal relationships [36]- [38].

This principle isthe postulation, fundamental to all exact material knowledge, of the definition of a substance in terms of the causal relationships of law.

We identified strong evidence of a causal relationship for protective factors, including intake of vegetables, nuts and monounsaturated fatty acids and Mediterranean, prudent and high - quality dietary patterns.

«This study gives us an estimate of a causal relationship that could serve as a guidepost for the development of interventions in the future.»

Repeated measurement of couple relationship quality and co-parenting in future sweeps of GUS, as well as parent - child relationships, would help clarify the direction of any causal relationship.

Inferences of a causal relationship between parental relationship dissolution and child maladjustment have been strongly debated, and one important reason for this is the difficult task of investigating the association while controlling for variables that may be causes of parental dissolution as well as child maladjustment (Amato [2010]-RRB-.

Thus the perception of a causal relationship: the jinx.

«This is the first human evidence of a causal relationship between PTEN protein deficiency and disease manifestation, which had only been previously been shown in the laboratory dish or animal model,» Eng remarked.

Mr. Ham is something of an extremist in his views, and advocating a form of creationism that, if true, would seem to mean that God has deceived us by creating a universe that doesn't align with at least some of the causal relationships science has identified.

We may be mistaken in supposing there is a symmetry here, but it would seem that if we can talk of a causal relationship between a present effect and an already perished past cause, we can also talk of a causal relationship between a present cause and a yet to be actualized effect.

This allows them to dissect behaviors in an incredibly precise manner and possibly even help develop evidence of causal relationships.