Sentences with phrase «of academic literature on»

The tsunami of academic literature on tDCS has spurred a corresponding wave of media articles claiming jolts to the brain can improve memory, boost math skills and «bring out the genius in you.»

Because there is only a small amount of academic literature on religious freedom (including virtually no mention of it in the four major academic human rights journals) the State Department should make a short - term commitment to provide seed funds to better understand the linkages between religious freedom, national economics, political development, and other fundamental liberties.

There is an abundance of academic literature on the psychological and behavioural effects of visual pornography — albeit with little consensus on results — but virtually no research on the impacts of the written word.

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Cited thousands of times in the news media and academic literature, Dr. Morgan's work on the topic has helped to spark national policy debate regarding universal pharmacare in Canada.

As it turned out, this «research paper» was nothing but a «review of literature,» a repacking of what others had already written, with the academics putting their own negative spin on it.

It is an abstraction, the frame of reference of which, I have noticed in reading some of the literature, changes depending on who uses it, what intellectual tendencies he or she represents, what academic discipline he or she comes from, and specially what political persuasion, inclination or group he or she belongs to.

Prairie Moon Waldorf School offers a rich and comprehensive academic program which includes English based on world literature, myths, and legends; history that is chronological and inclusive of the world's great civilizations; science that surveys geography, astronomy, meteorology, physical and life sciences; and mathematics that develops competence in arithmetic, algebra, and geometry.

A growing volume of academic literature and media attention has focused on research about birth place.

TN: I think one of the interesting things about the argument for the need to strip things back to basics is that it comes at a time when a lot of the academic literature has gone the other way and is obsessed with adding things on.

Some of the academic literature is confusing on this point, as they will define either verification or secrecy more loosely.

Others, like Tom Burke, founding director of U.K. - based environmental group E3G, dismissed the Nature piece as «an ivory - tower view of life» that focuses on what is being said in academic literature rather than what is happening on the ground as countries slowly but surely buckle to international pressure to take on climate responsibly.

The report is part of a growing body of academic and advocacy literature aimed at focusing attention on gender.

The study, published in the journal Science Communications, remains one of the few in the academic literature to systematically assess mass media reporting based on the expectations of researchers, reporters and the average reader.

Before I go into what my lipid results were, I thought it would be a interesting to do a literature search to find what data there is in the academic literature looking into the effect of a ketogenic diet on cholesterol.

«Historically, people in their late teens and early 20s have not used online dating at particularly high rates — and the academic literature on this subject would say that young people don't particularly need to use online dating in the first place, since they have lots of available options for people to date within their social circles,» Aaron Smith, associate director of research at Pew Research Center, told Mashable.

Most of the stuff I find myself creeped out by no matter how many times I see it (e.g., Cure, the Winkie's scene in Mulholland Drive) is just on the border of the irrational, but slasher movies — in which the narrative is almost always a process of elimination — are really easy to rationalize, which is probably why there's so much academic literature about them.

F. Murray Abraham's Robert Crawford deluges his students with academic outpourings on great literature and all other manner of topics Forrester despises.

Perhaps because the research literature on the strength of Boston charter schools is so compelling, charter proponents have focused more on touting academic benefits than debating financial costs.

Hi Amelia, This article on effective implementation of project based learning looks at a very recent literature review on PBL by a group of UK - based academics.

Following an existing literature on teacher and school value - added, this recent charter school research controls for student demographics and baseline academic achievement in order to estimate the effectiveness of individual schools.

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OCR's legal analysis is on par with its review of the academic literature.

«The ultimate goal of the study is to further develop the existing literature on school outcomes for LGBT students of color, and to explore possible interventions that might address the existing gaps in academic achievement and mental health,» she says.

Abstract: In this article the literature on the effects of school size is summarized to describe what is currently known about its relationship to economic efficiency, curricular diversity, academic achievement, and related variables.

Findings in the existing literature of effects of school size show small schools advantage on curricular diversity, academic achievement, daily attendance rates, teacher and student morale, student and parent participation, etc..

«The intense, academic, two - day competition calls on students to have a broad range of knowledge in everything from math and science to art and literature,» according to the Northridge Patch.

She notes that the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) has resulted in a greater emphasis in today's literature on the true role that classroom teachers themselves play in leading students to achieve their highest levels of academic success.

While there is substantial academic literature on school vouchers and while debates continue between opposing camps of researchers, it's safe to say that vouchers have not produced the kind of large improvements in academic achievement that market - oriented reformers originally promised.

While the academic literature is plentiful on Black agrarianism as a form of social, economic, political liberation, a pedagogical lens is underemphasized.

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Based on the above, a reaction paper is therefore a form of academic paper written in response to reading a piece of literature.

Professional writers possess knowledge (degree in literature or some other specialty) and experience in academic paper writing, so they can write a sound paper on any topic regardless of its difficulty.

In fact, the requirements for the format of literature term papers may vary depending on the kind of academic institution as well as on teacher's personal requirements.

The recipient may be a public librarian, academic librarian, school librarian (public or private), an educator (pre K - 12 or any level therein, or higher education), or youth literature advocate whose vocation, work, volunteer service or ongoing promotion of books with and / or on behalf of youth is significant and sustained.

The guide draws on my 30 years as a professor of communication studies at Augustana College and on a dense academic literature.

A vast bank of academic literature has been published on the subject; systematic strategies have been encoded and funded to capture it.

There is a growing academic literature on market microstructure; one thing it addresses is measurement of the total costs of trading.

Using examples from academic literature, popular culture, legal cases, and the media, he illustrated how a combination of media, myths, and politics have led society to fear certain dogs based on their presumed breed or appearance.

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She has published extensively in the academic literature, particularly on Harvard University's Social Museum, a historical collection of social reform photography; portrait photography in West Africa; and contemporary photography and video.

Her academic research and publications about Spanish literature focus on art criticism, the impact of new technologies on literary practice, and on the relations between visual culture and writing.

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Since this blog has given considerable space to the discussions of the global warming deniers (who have no real basis in serious academic literature), it would only seem fair to review this book by Speth in the NY Times, and then have a discussion of it on this blog.

This consensus extends from large academic reviews of the literature such as Steve Sorrell's groundbreaking 2007 review for the UK government to more recent reviews conducted by the European Commission, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and the International Energy Agency (IEA).

This technical document assesses the scientific literature on the potential role of renewable energy in the mitigation of climate change for policymakers, the private sector, academic researchers and civil society.

It could monitor the impact of IPCC reports, both on the academic literature and on national and international policies.

For example, ranking the opinion of an academic biologist involved in the IPCC on the attribution of climate change higher than that of a scientist from another field that has studied the issue and read all the journal articles or an actively engaged citizen scientist that is technically educated and reading all the literature.

For example, McShane and Wyner used the Wegman Report as their primary source for their overview of the «academic literature» on the «hockey stick» controversy.

Moreover — while academic articles are not the only indicator of serious attention — the scholarly literature on climate adaptation massively outweighs that on mitigation (see graph 1).