Sentences with phrase «of valid studies»

Their review, however, inappropriately excluded a number of valid studies, and inappropriately included studies that were not valid comparisons, such as comparisons of different types of Canadian Immersion programs (Krashen 1996, 1999b).

Kingston and Nash evaluated each study in Black and Wiliam's meta - analysis and discovered many that had flawed research designs, reducing the number of valid studies from 300 to 13.

Not exact matches

Until this study, the first of its kind to use in - person and computer - assisted observation to measure the commercial - watching habits of 376 adults, no valid research had been done on the topic.

Most agnostics and atheists were in your shoes, have studied the bible and more importantly the history behind it's composition but at some point most realized that the reason for the current focus of worship was no more valid than worshiping any other god.

In mathematics, it is the study of valid inferences within some formal language.

OK... just for the sake of arguement... lets assume that the study is 100 % valid and true.

The journalists did not research whether it was a valid study, at least it does not appear so, but that didn't stop the posting of this story.

An aesthetic analogue of communication takes in the whole range of art as valid for communication study.

Our concern in this study is with the spiritual vision behind modernity and the nature of the critique which primal vision brings to it and to evaluate the same from a Christian theological view - point and to see how the spiritual vision of post-modern society may incorporate what is valid in it.

I believe that the processes of reconciling that have been suggested through the group dynamics and the marriage counseling studies are generally valid beyond themselves — so long as the basic initial conditions can be met.

If the latest study on the subject by UNESCO (in 1953) is still valid, less than 10 percent of the world's population lives in countries the press of which has available to it both the western wire services and that of TASS.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

Must all sacramentally valid marriages resemble my friends», beginning only after a few years of theological study, during a Mass set to music by Mozart?

Two and a half years later, the same social science journal that published the original study publishes a «re-analysis» of the very same data set (that's right, no new data collection, just reinterpretation of the admittedly valid stuff).

The truth in many peer - reviewed and stoichmetrically valid research studies show positive and healthy outcomes as a result of prayer.

The god of the torah and bible has too many self - contradictions to be a valid being to either believe or disbelieve, and if there's nothing to test and study with verifiable results, then it's pointless to discuss except as philosophy.

Studies have shown that a valid way of measuring the vitality of a given family is to evaluate the strength of its relationships with the circle of friends immediately outside the family.

James L. Rogers» review of research on the psychological consequences of abortion found that only one out of 300 studies could be considered valid (in James K. Hoffmeier, Abortion: A Christian Understanding and Response, 1987).

It must be made abundantly clear that the history of religions is not proposed as the only valid method of studying religions.

Regarding the short - term animal feeding study, Konrad wrote: «Our rat - feeding study was comprehensive and statistically valid; a panel of experts reviewed the study and unanimously agreed that soy leghemoglobin is safe.»

«We are committed to continuing these types of studies to assure our customers that the decisions we are making are valid,» Kupper said.

Until you have read each one of those cited studies, don't list it as a valid study.

This has not happened yet and therefor any study that is quoted is not actual valid or relevant to the issue of night waking in babies and toddlers.

This does not mean they are incapable of publishing valid findings, but it is prudent to be aware of the money behind a publication when evaluating a study.

To see if these patterns were valid in a wider population, they undertook the larger, county - wide study, conducting an analysis of births at Women and Children's, Millard Fillmore Suburban, Sisters of Charity Hospital and Mercy Hospital, located either in the city of Buffalo or its nearby suburbs.

Detailed data regarding breastfeeding exposure and adequate control for confounding factors are necessary for valid estimates of the relationship between breastfeeding and later intelligence, but no study to date has fulfilled these requirements.

Unfortunately, in a meta - analysis of 139 studies with 13,835 children, the AQS was only found to be valid when trained observers did the rating after observing the mother and child interact for several hours: «It is concluded that the observer AQS, but not the self reported AQS, is a valid measure of attachment» (IJzendoorn et al., 2004, p. 1206).

However no published studies have determined if self reports of sleep position are valid, consistent or reliable.

Parents with kids that study in different schools and do extra curricular activities, retired / old people, tourists, businessmen have a lot of valid reasons to still need to use a private or at least massive transportation system, so we can not rely solely on bicycle transportation methods for those, still, we must provide those that can rely on them (young people, average commuters living not that far from the office, teenagers...)

She expressed concerns about the subjectivity she believes would shape the selection process and the lack of data or study indicating what constitutes a valid personal net worth.

In 2008, several political analysts [60][61][62][63] discussing the Bradley effect referred to a study authored by Daniel J. Hopkins, a post-doctoral fellow in Harvard University's Department of Government, which sought to determine whether the Bradley effect theory was valid, and whether an analogous phenomenon might be observed in races between a female candidate and a male candidate.

Wade, on the other hand, tackles controversial subjects — arguing, for example, that studying the biological basis of race is both scientifically valid and medically useful — but says little on the politics of genetics.

George Brooks, an exercise physiologist at the University of California, Berkeley, says the researchers «are to be commended for this work» — the first study with enough people to give valid results.

That's because experimental studies of field plots and smaller watersheds show that these assumptions are valid, he says.

As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.

A limitation of the study is that it says nothing about possible pre-existing neurobiological differences between the groups, an explanation for the observed differences that is equally valid.»

Led by Julie Demuth, a scientist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the study, «Explicating experience: Development of a valid scale of past hazard experience for tornadoes,» characterized and measured people's past tornado experiences to determine their impact on the perceived risks of future tornadoes.

A group from the NIH's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) evaluated the live imaging system as a potential alternative to traditional methods of assessing investigative influenza vaccines and treatment in mice, which can be time consuming and require more study animals for valid statistical comparison.

The approach allows researchers to «actually come up with a valid estimate of the rate of false convictions — knowing something that people say [in criminal justice] is not knowable,» says study author Samuel Gross, a law professor at the University of Michigan Law School and editor of the National Registry of Exonerations, a U.S. - focused exoneration database.

The EPA's IG found (pdf) in 2014 «there was significant uncertainty in the study data,» meaning the EPA's assumptions on the amount of methane that spews from pipelines «may not be valid.»

A comprehensive study of one branch of the dinosaur family tree resurrects Brontosaurus as a valid genus.

(Carbin did a basic analysis using data that is independent of the tornado reports used in the study and found a signal «that would suggest that their findings are valid,» he told Climate Central.)

Study strengths include a large sample, valid information on filled prescriptions and routinely collected information on diagnosis of spontaneous abortion or related procedures.

In this study, suicidal ideation was used as the indicator of suicide risk because too few patients reported a history of suicide plan or had made a suicide attempt for statistically valid conclusions to be made.

To Meldrum, the anatomy captured in those prints and the casts of others he has examined as well as still unidentified hairs, recordings of strange calls and certain witness testimonials all add up to valid evidence that warrants study.

«We have proof of principle that MurJ is actually a valid target because we showed that if we stop it from working, the cells will die within 10 minutes — very quickly,» said Natividad Ruiz, assistant professor of microbiology at The Ohio State University and a co-lead author of the study.

The estimations of Brown were made for a planet transit search centered on the Galactic plane in Cygnus (matching the Kepler field) for a sample of stars brighter than 12, and Brown considers these estimates to be valid to within a factor of 2 for the ground - based surveys that were the subject of his study.

In calling for additional research to ensure that latent print examinations are valid, the AAAS and the PCAST reports propose such studies be conducted without the knowledge of examiners.

Veaujour says the containment system of the model 213 may not be the same as in the West, but that IAEA studies «show it is valid».

However, when 50 children were evaluated with the Autism Diagnostic Interview — Revised 35 and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule — Generic, 36 94 % met criteria for ASD on both instruments, and 100 % met criteria on at least 1 instrument.37 Record - review validation studies conducted by the investigators demonstrate that the predictors of valid ASD diagnoses were having more than 2 diagnoses in the medical record.38 Most influenza infections in our study were determined from International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnostic codes rather than serologic evidence.