Sentences with phrase «of the potential bias from»

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To avoid any regional bias, we spoke to people throughout the beer industry — from brewers to hop farmers — to get their take on areas that are showing a lot of potential, though may still be under - the - radar on a national basis.

When speaking with your clients about international opportunities and the potential benefits of diversification, keep in mind that baby boomers are particularly at risk from the home bias.

The use of mock products reduced the potential bias from preconceived notions about known brands.

Views are particularly polarised in the United States, with interventions and costs of hospital births escalating and midwives involved with home births being denied the ability to be lead professionals in hospital, with admitting and discharge privileges.5 Although several Canadian medical societies6 7 and the American Public Health Association8 have adopted policies promoting or acknowledging the viability of home births, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists continues to oppose it.9 Studies on home birth have been criticised if they have been too small to accurately assess perinatal mortality, unable to distinguish planned from unplanned home births accurately, or retrospective with the potential of bias from selective reporting.

The results of this study should be interpreted with caution because the breastfeeding team collected breastfeeding outcome data from the intervention group, thus introducing the potential for bias.

More than 100 prospective jurors filled out questionnaires yesterday, as prosecutors and defense lawyers sought to identify potential bias or conflicts that might disqualify people from serving next week in the corruption trial of ex-Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver.

On that front the Survation poll is pretty positive about Jeremy Corbyn with people saying he came across as more trustworthy and in touch than his rivals (though such polls are always a bit tricky because of the choice of clips — Survation tried to iron out any potential biasing effect by having clips from each candidate being interviewed on the Marr show, so they were all interviews, all the same setting and same interviewer... but even then you ended up with two candidates defending their position on the welfare bill, one talking about the EU referendum and one talking about rail nationalisation.

Universities are particularly sensitive to university space, resources and / or faculty being involved in outside activities during their working hours, and also for potential conflicts of interest, in which your university research could be biased by receiving outside funding from an inappropriate source, as when a drug company has a vested interest in the outcome of your independent research.

In reviewing the fur trapping data from two U.S. and six Canadian jurisdictions, Newsome and Ripple eliminated potential sources of bias such as records from fur farms that raise foxes.

Using a biased regulatory analysis, the agency excluded the possibility of an act of terrorism as well as the potential for damage from a fire beyond 50 miles of a plant.

Various manipulations of the data showed that two major potential confounding factors, SNP ascertainment bias and weak selection at presumably - neutral sites, had little influence on the inferences from their data set.

In order to avoid a potential bias caused by selection of a particular referent subject, subject - specific SI maps from all the subjects are summarized as a weighted average, with the Jaccard index for each subject as the weight.

Setting the fact that the bias from big pharma (which we know include / control / owns dairy industry etc.) is real and even documented and not just potential, how can you compare the «potential» bias of somebody who has very high economic interest in having a specific result coming out of the study with that of somebody who is simply following a related social, scientific, religious, pratical etc. pattern?

Of 2,666 students in the original SCSF sample, the researchers obtained information for 2,637 students, or 99 % of the cohort, «greatly reducing the potential for bias due to attrition from the evaluation,» they notOf 2,666 students in the original SCSF sample, the researchers obtained information for 2,637 students, or 99 % of the cohort, «greatly reducing the potential for bias due to attrition from the evaluation,» they notof the cohort, «greatly reducing the potential for bias due to attrition from the evaluation,» they note.

Importantly, our null effect estimates from the random experiment differ substantially from those found from an analysis of CPS data, raising concerns about the potential for selection bias in non-experimental estimates of returns.

This is the focus of a new report [published in the Australian Journal of Education] from researchers at the University of New England, which looks at different types of potential bias in grading including gender, race and physical attractiveness.

This in turn prompted Mr. Goldhaber and Ms. Gordon to rebuke and state that it was imperative that the public understands what type of research was informing said policy claims and where and from whom educational institutions and think tanks receive funding from as there is greater potential for underlying evidential biases.

Borgonovi and Achiron offered this advice: «Training teachers to recognize and address any biases they may hold about different groups of students — boys and girls, socio - economically advantaged or disadvantaged students, students from different ethnic or cultural traditions — will help them to become more effective teachers and ensure that all students make the most of their potential.»

• Revised ZF 6HP26 transmission with «Quickshift» system that cuts shift times by 50 % and enables double downshifts • New 40/60 rear - biased torque split for the all - wheel drive system reduces understeer when powering out of bends and provides for better modulation of line and attitude by «throttle steering» • Retuned Continuous Damping Control (CDC) system, stiffer suspension bushes and uprated rear anti-roll bar benefit body control, steering response, turn - in and balance • Increased 50 mm rear track improves grip and stability • Lightweight, 20 - inch, 10 - spoke alloy wheels offer 10 kg (22 lb) weight saving per car, reducing unsprung and rotating mass and improving brake • 275/35 ZR20 Pirelli Ultra High Performance tyres • Advanced ESP system fully exploits potential of the most powerful W12 engine and improved chassis • Standard - fit carbon - ceramic brakes provide fade - free braking and contribute a 20 kg (44 lb) reduction in rotating and unsprung mass from the front axle.

This book provides new insights into the nature of political bias with regards to evidence and critically considers what an «improved» use of evidence would look like from a policymaking perspective.Part I describes the great potential for evidence to help achieve social goals, as well as the challenges raised by the political nature of policymaking.

Personally, based on the lack of numbers of cases for comparison, lack of discussion of limitations and potential bias I would conclude very little from this study.

«However, compensation for a different potential source of bias in SST data in the past decade the transition from ship to buoy - derived SSTs, might increase the century - long trends by raising recent SSTs as much as 0.1 °C, as buoy - derived SSTs are biased cool relative to ship measurements»

Another source of short - lifetime bias in the community probably comes from a calculation used to compare the greenhouse consequences of different gases, called the Global Warming Potential (GWP)[13].

The IPCC range, on the other hand, encompasses the overall uncertainty across a very large number of studies, using different methods all with their own potential biases and problems (e.g., resulting from biases in proxy data used as constraints on past temperature changes, etc.) There is a number of single studies on climate sensitivity that have statistical uncertainties as small as Cox et al., yet different best estimates — some higher than the classic 3 °C, some lower.

S1 which removed alternatively (a) all tree - ring data or (b) 7 additional long - term proxy records associated with greater uncertainties or potential documented biases (showing the temperature reconstruction was robust to removal of either of these datasets), we here removed both data sets simultaneously from the predictor network (Fig.

Separate from the potential northern bias, are you confident that jogs similar to the one recorded in the last century (a well - instrumented century) could not be hidden in the «smear» of millenniums of proxy [indirect] temperature data?

When they did this, they discovered some potential instrument bias problems with the recent dataset, which seem to have resulted from the recent transition of the in - situ ocean sounding instruments from the old Expendable Bathythermographs (XBT) system, which has a small warm temperature bias, to the new Argo system, which has a small cold temperature bias in a subset of the instruments.

If you (or anyone else) could explain to me whether there is a criterion that differentiates my posts about potential bias in your (or other posters») analysis from other posts that also focus on potential bias in your (or other posters») analysis — outside of starting orientation or the fact that they elicit more responses — I will heretofore make an effort to respect that criterion as exclusionary.

Please note, questioning the existence of motivated reasoning is not the same as questioning motivation And certainly it is logical to question the potential for motivated reasoning from those who are support «conventional wisdom» --(which in contrast to the potential of your own biases — you seem willing to offer as the operational rationale for the reaction among those who disagree with your findings).

Any future metrics of model behaviour should take account of potential biases arising from this region of the atmosphere, especially if the stratosphere is poorly resolved as is the case in HadSM3

Re «Gixxer Boy» comment above, since you have widespread acceptance for impartiality (however grudging and qualified from the Warmists) it it possible that you could act as a collecting and reporting body for compiling conflicts of interest and potential bias among AR5 authors?

If however I move nearer to Earth and allow my domain knowledge more freedom to assist, which of course risks bias because all knowledge about a conflicted domain comes with potential and in fact (on aggregate) likely biases from both sides, my opinion is different.

The scenario encapsulates so much BS from assumptions, ignorance of observational trends, rational action on big and apparent dangers, and then there is the data sets, the models, the potential for bias, did I mention the assumptions.

A rigorous check on the potential introduction of bias from a failure to consider vulnerability reduction in normalization methods is to compare trends in geophysical variables with those in the normalized data.

We can estimate the potential magnitude of the ice mass biases by noting that if the average velocity prediction bias of ~ 5 mm / yr evident in Figure 5 is developed over ~ 2 × 10 ^ 6 km2, an area somewhat smaller than that of West Antarctica, this would cause an apparent but spurious ice loss of ~ 33 Gt yr - 1, which is a significant fraction of all published ice mass rates derived from GRACE [Velicogna and Wahr, 2006; Chen et al., 2006; Ramillien et al., 2006; Sasgen et al., 2007a].

Not only that, but there is increasingly compelling evidence that the recent short - term slowdown in the surface temperature record was much less pronounced than previously estimated, if rapid Arctic warming is fully reflected, along with potential biases from the changing mix of sea surface temperature measurement sources in recent years.

However, compensation for a different potential source of bias in SST data in the past decade — the transition from ship - to buoy - derived SSTs — might increase the century - long trends by raising recent SSTs as much as ~ 0.1 deg C, as buoy - derived SSTs are biased cool relative to ship measurements [10 — Worley et al 2005]

«Despite the wealth of metadata that is now available, it is not possible to estimate the biases in an exact manner so an attempt has been made to assess the potential uncertainties in the biases that arise from assumptions made in the process of aggregating the information.

(2) thou shalt not fudge the data (3) thou shalt not invent arbitrary statistical methods to suit thy data (4) thou shalt not indulge in any form of bias e.g. thou shalt not employ incomplete, highly selective, subjective literature reviews (6) in the interests of transparency and replication thou shalt not hide the data or code (7) thou shalt not make vague or exaggerated statements unsupported by evidence (8) thou shalt not tolerate actual or potential conflicts of interest (9) thou shalt not allow political interference to compromise scientific integrity (10) thou shalt not use unvalidated computer models (11) Thy university shall insulate undergraduate fees from research expenses and require research to be self supporting independent of the teaching.

Perhaps you could account for potential sources of bias, like over-policing, by controlling for things like the frequency of police visits and neighborhood demographics, but if such a genuinely thoughtful model resulted in a map that differed from the traditional distribution of «crimes» it wouldn't score very well.

If the «maternal wall,» or the mommy track, as we know it, is a form of gender bias, then women lawyers are, in fact, being precluded from higher earning potential because of their family obligations.

As a viewer of the Canadian broadcasting system, moreover, I find rather patronizing — not to mention alarming — the suggestion that the government's regulator must protect me from potential editorial biases.

Those who question the validity of some of the comparisons from the insurance providers because of potential bias will find an alternative with this option.

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

We used EHCs as recruitment sites because they provide health - related information that can be used for eligibility screening purposes, and their clients are usually willing to participate in health - related studies endorsed by the Department of Health, HKSAR.37 Although EHCs» clients are representative of the general population of older adults in terms of age and SES, 37 they tend to be more health conscious.38 To examine the potential bias (better mental health) associated with recruiting participants from the EHCs, we recruited approximately 30 % of the sample (n = 258) from elderly community centres with no formal provision of medical and health services.

So far from these topics being off - limits, any MHP seeking appointment in a court case needs to fully inform the parties prior to their consent [123], of information about the following kinds of potentials for bias and agenda: whether the MHP has been married or divorced, and how many times, and under what kinds of circumstances, and how the MHP currently feels about those events; whether, if divorced, the MHP went through litigation over custody or property, and such details as whether the MHP had problems paying or receiving child support, as well as the custody arrangements of the MHP's own children and how these worked out and everyone's feelings about them; the MHP's own personal experience taking care of and spending time with children, within and without the scope of «parenting», and with regard to parenting, whether that was parenting as a primary caregiver, married or single parent, with or without household and third party help, or as a working parent or stay - home parent, and for how many children, and for how long, and the outcomes from all of that; i.e. how much time has this person actually spent caring for children on his or her own, and how well did this person's own family systems function, and is this person in fact an «expert» in creating a functioning family and raising happy, healthy, successful children with good outcomes, nay «best» outcomes, thoroughly well - adjusted and having reached the very pinnacles of their innate potential.

In addition, another limitation arises from the use of self - report measures, that introduces issues of potential reporter - bias and shared method variance.