Sentences with phrase «of strong empirical evidence»

This prescient statement merits careful examination by those who continue to assert the fashionable belief, in the face of strong empirical evidence to the contrary, that human CO2 emissions are going to cause dangerous global warming.

Not exact matches

That is, we provide strong empirical evidence for the existence of two option - implied components in the equity premium that contain non-redundant information, with the predictability stemming from the variance risk premium being far more short - lived than that of the correlation risk premium.

Barnett contends that the criticisms of a strong patent - rights system overlook recent empirical evidence and have overestimated the impact and scope of problems including «patent trolls» (firms that own patents but do not manufacture products), «royalty stacks» (the total demands of multiple intellectual property holders for remuneration leave too little revenue left for the manufacturer), and «patent thickets» (complex and conflicting legal claims that increase transaction costs for manufacturers).

Flew was a strong advocate of atheism, arguing that one should presuppose atheism until empirical evidence of a God surfaces.

Firstly, George Osborne and Danny Alexander deserve credit for designing a fiscal consolidation that broadly aligns with economic best practice: empirical evidence shows that a ratio of 4:1 spending cuts to tax rises appears to correlate with the fastest and strongest recoveries; raising taxes to fund government spending is counter-productive.

Examples of use and non-use are cited from early childhood education, where empirical evidence on program effects is relatively strong.

If this article was based on any strong empirical evidence, surely the presence of cellulite would be considered a discerning factor when assessing ones physical and emotional wellbeing?

Existing empirical evidence, however, does not find a strong role for measured characteristics of teachers — such as teacher experience, education, and test scores of teachers — in the determination of academic achievement of students.

The report's author, Wellesley College economics professor Eunice S. Han, looked for empirical evidence of the effects of strong teacher unions from about 4,600 districts — a third of U.S. public school districts — which included approximately 37,200 teachers within 7,500 schools.

A recent review (McCarty & Wiley, 2011) notes that «there is compelling empirical evidence that strong, additive, academically rigorous Native language and culture programs have salutary effects on both Native language and culture maintenance / revitalization and student achievement, as measured by multiple types of assessments.»

While there is little empirical evidence that the use of technology improves student learning, the descriptive evidence of technology's affect on student social studies experiences is strong.

There is «strong empirical evidence» that targeting financial incentives in subjects where there is a shortage of teachers can help improve retention rates, but acknowledges that although schools can currently make these payments they are unable to do so due to budget pressures.

This requirement recognizes that in an evolving field the strongest approaches to turnaround might require a mix of old and new approaches, requiring innovation beyond what has been revealed in empirical evidence to date.

For decades, principals have been recognized as vital to the effectiveness of schools, but strong empirical evidence on the extent to which, and the ways in which, school leaders matter has not been available.

The clear seasonality in TCs («hurricane season») with highest activities during the summer is one of the strongest pieces of empirical evidence that higher temperatures give more favourable conditions for tropical cyclones (After all, TCs only form in the warm tropics...).

On the other hand the empirical evidence on the value of climate forcing coefficient (given as 5.35 W / m ^ 2) is strong when no great accuracy is required.

So the 2nd Harries ref that allegedly established a strong link between surface temp & ghgs provides no empirical evidence that CO2 is the primary cause of climate warming.

The empirical correlations are fairly strong as shown by both Dickey et al and Wyatt & Curry, but I don't consider that strong evidence as the correlation consists really only of very few minimums and maximums.

Over the last couple of weeks, I've seen four major reports (details over the fold) from very different sources, all making the same point: decarbonizing the world economy will involve economic costs that are (a) small; and (b) far outweighed by the benefits And, the empirical evidence so far is strong.

In the summary of Chapter 7, one can read that the effects of variation in solar radiation are negligible You seem to miss the whole point.: «The Chapter 7 authors are admitting strong evidence («many empirical relationships») for enhanced solar forcing (forcing beyond total solar irradiance, or TSI), even if they don't know what the mechanism is.»

There is, however, strong empirical reasons for lower bounds on sensitivity, which is where you get some fun debates from those who propose — in spite of all evidence to the contrary — a low value.

Outside of models and in terms of empirical evidence they did present a strong correlation between cumulative emissions and cumulative warming.

In addition to reduced aerosol cooling and increased black carbon warming there is the IPCC's new admission of strong evidence for some mechanism of solar forcing substantially stronger than TSI (p. page 7 - 43): «Many empirical relationships have been reported between GCR or cosmogenic isotope archives and some aspects of the climate system (e.g., Bond et al., 2001; Dengel et al., 2009; Ram and Stolz, 1999).

Altogether, the empirical data support a high sensitivity of the sea level to global temperature change, and they provide strong evidence against the seeming lethargy and large hysteresis effects that occur in at least some ice sheet models.

«Altogether, the empirical data support a high sensitivity of sea level to global temperature change, and they provide strong evidence against the seeming lethargy and large hysteresis effects that occur in at least some ice sheet models.»

And for all the support of ABS the empirical evidence seems quite strong that the likelihood of the materialization of the risk of market consolidation is far higher once you have ABS.

Christopher Harvey, head of equity strategy at Wells Fargo, believes that perhaps there is a stronger correlation than has been stated previously, but he, like Lee and Datatrek analysts, is linking these relationships more to sentiment that empirical evidence.

However, the strong association also found between marital dissatisfaction and psychological disorder provides empirical evidence on the need to educate married couples as well as the general public on the mental health implication of marital dissatisfaction.

Emotionally focused therapy has been studied extensively, and a strong empirical base of evidence supports the intervention, which is based on research that has identified differences in how couples relate to each other and how these differences are critical to relationship distress and success.

When courts or legislatures do address the principles for adjudicating child custody disputes, they often act without close attention to factual complexity, empirical evidence, or respect for generally prevailing principles of lawmaking... [An] example of thoughtless action in the custody area occurred in the 1980s when several jurisdictions adopted a strong preference for joint custody... [T] he presumption for joint custody was adopted without careful attention to empirical evidence or diversity of factual situations....

Dyadic developmental psychotherapy, which is an evidence - based, effective, and empirically validated treatment is composed of a variety of elements and based on a number of principles that have strong empirical support.

There is also strong empirical evidence that both types of antisocial behavior are partially influenced by genetic factors.