Sentences with phrase «on consistent evidence»

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Consistent with the evidence from other contexts, we show that the presence of female directors on target boards is positively and significantly associated with target boards seeking advice from top - ranked financial advisors.

There is no evidence to suggest that technical analysis works on any sort of consistent basis.

While many investors are in search of a guru or someone who can see around corners, the data and evidence suggest that it's simply not possible, especially on a consistent and forward - looking basis.

MY coclusions have been built on evidence given to me over the years (by God Himself) and it was consistent, etc..

Why on earth would a minister who had met me twice and could clearly see no evidence of the accuracy of those miserable stories which he «knew had to be true because he had heard the same consistent stories about me all these years?»

They aren't fighting to hold on to the vestiges of a «Christian America» but instead are looking for the best ways to be faithful exiles in a post-religious world, a mindset evidenced by Q's consistent use of mainstream venues in the heart of the host cities instead of suburban megachurch bunkers.

It is just this lack of knowledge, and our dependence on isolated fragments of information, not always consistent with each other, which have led to so many different interpretations of the available evidence and to such varying estimates of the development of primitive Christian doctrine and organisation.

Denial on the other hand, is being skeptical of an assertion that has a lot of objective evidence, little to no conflicting objective evidence, and has been independently verified and often is consistent across multiple disciplines, but hasn't been «proved».

This shift was amplified by the Evangelicals» steady religious market share since 1960 (about one - quarter of the population) and consistent conservatism on social and foreign policy issues — a conservatism that gave evidence of expanding to include traditional Republican economic issues.

But our recommendations of high - fiber diets, regular exercise, and smoking cessation may be said to rest largely on evidence of consistent associations.

On the evidence of books like this, it would seem that people like Cardinal Joseph Bernardin, who connect such other «pro-life» causes as opposition to nuclear weapons to their antiabortion stand, are consistent and compelling even to those who will not finally be compelled.

I am (a) A victim of child molestation (b) A r.ape victim trying to recover (c) A mental patient with paranoid delusions (d) A Christian The only discipline known to often cause people to kill others they have never met and / or to commit suicide in its furtherance is: (a) Architecture; (b) Philosophy; (c) Archeology; or (d) Religion What is it that most differentiates science and all other intellectual disciplines from religion: (a) Religion tells people not only what they should believe, but what they are morally obliged to believe on pain of divine retribution, whereas science, economics, medicine etc. has no «sacred cows» in terms of doctrine and go where the evidence leads them; (b) Religion can make a statement, such as «there is a composite god comprised of God the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit», and be totally immune from experimentation and challenge, whereas science can only make factual assertions when supported by considerable evidence; (c) Science and the scientific method is universal and consistent all over the World whereas religion is regional and a person's religious conviction, no matter how deeply held, is clearly nothing more than an accident of birth; or (d) All of the above.

David de Gea has been perhaps Man United's most consistent performer this term but the capture of Victor Valdes, the former Barcelona man moving to Old Trafford on a free transfer in January, may be evidence of the possibility that the club may be preparing for life without the former Atletico Madrid man.

As we have discussed before, the Frenchman's performances have improved over the last few months, but we have little evidence that the midfielder will be able to show this kind of form on a consistent basis or for the whole Premier League season.

On the evidence side, I know that the evidence primarily comes from observational studies, and there are methodological issues with measuring dose and duration of breastfeeding particularly after the introduction of complementary foods, however the evidence is fairly consistent in showing a reduction in gastrointestinal, respiratory and ear infections (see «Breastfeeding and maternal and infant outcomes in developed countries» http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17764214).

On the basis of a remarkably consistent body of research on lesbian and gay parents and their children, the American Psychological Association (APA) and other health professional and scientific organizations have concluded that there is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to parental sexual orientatioOn the basis of a remarkably consistent body of research on lesbian and gay parents and their children, the American Psychological Association (APA) and other health professional and scientific organizations have concluded that there is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to parental sexual orientatioon lesbian and gay parents and their children, the American Psychological Association (APA) and other health professional and scientific organizations have concluded that there is no scientific evidence that parenting effectiveness is related to parental sexual orientation.

This is consistent with existing evidence on blood pressure as a surrogate indicator of CVD and stroke risk for the general population.

Second thing is the consistent pattern is that there will be a failure to indict on a local level even if the evidence suggest otherwise [Chamberlain's father's murder was recorded by LifeAid].

«Our position is that radiological contaminants are diffusely spread across the site, as evidenced by the consistent discovery of elevated radiation on nearly every occasion CWM has had to put a shovel in the ground,» said Gary Abraham, the attorney representing the Town of Lewiston, Niagara County Legislature and the villages of Lewiston and Youngstown against CWM.

The findings of the effect on mortality indicated borderline evidence, but remained consistent with benefit.

The findings offer the first experimental evidence on the metabolic consequences of consistent delayed eating compared to daytime eating, and will be presented at SLEEP 2017, the 31st Annual Meeting of the Associated Professional Sleep Societies LLC (APSS), on Sunday, June 4.

«What's appealing about the current growing body of evidence on right - to - carry laws is that different researchers using different methodologies and different data sets are coming to similar conclusions... We are all coalescing around the same message, and that's the best that science can do: Look at the imperfect data in different ways and see if a consistent story emerges.»

If it turns out to be consistent with the Standard Model, it is further evidence of its accuracy and can be used to put stringent constraints on models of new physics.

The NRC panel, chaired by neurobiologist Charles Stevens of the Salk Institute in La Jolla, California, looked at more than 500 human, animal, and cellular studies on EMFs and found «no conclusive and consistent evidence... that exposures to residential electric and magnetic fields produce cancer, adverse neurobehavioral effects, or reproductive and developmental effects.

Proponents» evidence «is not internally consistent, not reproducible, and certainly not consistent with being produced by impact,» says a geochemist who has been publishing on impacts for 27 years.

«In addition to developing a consistent and integrated system for identifying, triaging, and treating people, more evidence - based research is needed to determine which treatments are most effective,» said Dr. North, who is a member of the emergency medicine's section on homeland security at UT Southwestern and director of the Program in Trauma and Disaster at the VA North Texas Health Care System.

Indeed, the evidence from Misliya is consistent with recent suggestions based on ancient DNA for an earlier migration, prior to 220,000 years ago, of modern humans out of Africa.

These results need to be interpreted with caution, say the authors, but overall, the financial crisis in Europe seems to have had mixed effects on health outcomes, with the evidence being most consistent for suicides and mental health.

He emphasized that the results of their study are fully consistent with evidence on the fraction of cancers in developed countries that are potentially preventable, through improvements in environment and lifestyle.

Based on all the evidence, the paper states, Earhart «was known to have been in the area of Nikumaroro Island, she went missing, and human remains were discovered which are entirely consistent with her and inconsistent with most other people.»

· evidence supports a positive relationship between higher levels of sodium intake and risk of heart disease, which is consistent with previous research based on sodium's effects on blood pressure;

If early weaning was typical of Neandertals, Humphrey says, it would be consistent with other evidence for a «faster pace of development» and raise the possibility that Neandertal mothers had shorter intervals between births and thus more kids on their hands at any given time.

«This is a great piece of work,» says Alexander Bentley, an anthropologist at Durham University in the U.K. Bentley adds that the new findings, including the signs of violence on the skeletons — such as multiple skull fractures — are consistent with other archaeological evidence from Central Europe that men raided outside communities and captured their women.

It is our hope that this review will provide more extensive evidence on the tremendous patient safety benefits that checklists offer and will lead to the consistent adoption of their use in surgery.»

Therefore studies based on observed warming have underestimated climate sensitivity as they did not account for the greater response to aerosol forcing, and multiple lines of evidence are now consistent in showing that climate sensitivity is in fact very unlikely to be at the low end of the range in recent estimates.

A recent analysis based on a sky mapping project called the Outer Solar System Origins Survey, which discovered more than 800 new «trans - Neptunian objects,» suggests that the evidence also could be consistent with a random distribution of such objects.

Even so, we maintain that the early Mars climate cycle hypothesis remains consistent with observable geologic evidence and could have played at least a partial role in providing warm conditions on early Mars.

One aspect of the work, the evidence that higher levels of linoleic acid in the circulation are associated with a reduced risk of diabetes, seems consistent with dietary guidelines recommending use of cooking fats and other products based on vegetable oils in preference to saturated fats of animal origin.

Dr Gower says, «The precise nature of the ancestral snake is contentious, but the evidence from vision is consistent with the idea that it was adapted to living in low light conditions on land.»

This finding is consistent with anecdotal evidence suggesting that this Swedish breed of chicken inherited their black skin and internal connective tissue color from Asian chickens that were first brought to Norway by a sailor on the East Asian trade routes centuries ago.

«The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum (blood) cholesterol, consistent with the AHA / ACC (American Heart Association / American College of Cardiology) The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee will, in response, no longer warn people against eating high - cholesterol foods and will instead focus on sugar as the main substance of dietary concern.

One cited study, which attributes stroke to excessive salt intake, is a meta - analysis of thirteen studies published between 1966 and 2008 in which most measurements of sodium intake were highly inaccurate estimates based on food frequency questionnaires.22 The second is a review of fifty - two studies, which concluded that strokes are not caused by excess sodium but rather by insufficient potassium, a finding that is consistent with the preponderance of evidence.23 Cordain ignores more recent large clinical and epidemiological studies, which have found that sodium intakes of less than 3 grams per day significantly increase cardiovascular risk.3, 4

Finally, clinical studies have not yielded consistent evidence for adverse effects of saturated fat on CVD risk factors other than LDL cholesterol, although reduced insulin sensitivity and increased inflammation have been reported in animal and cellular studies.

We found a stronger inverse association between increased intake of higher - fiber, lower - GL vegetables and weight change, consistent with experimental evidence suggesting an influence of these factors on satiety [8], glucose and insulin responses [21], fat storage [21], and energy expenditure [9].

Jane Thanks for the links which lead me somehow to this http://ddr.nal.usda.gov/bitstream/10113/13706/1/IND44016804.pdf I have the 1999 version but was waiting for the 2007 one to come down in price -LRB--: Overall based on the paper there is more consistent evidence that excess Omega 6 LA and lack of Omega 3 are factors in poor mineral absorption, rather than saturated fats.

There is very limited evidence for any consistent set of learning «styles» that can be used reliably to identify genuine differences in the learning needs of young people, and evidence suggests that it is unhelpful to assign learners to groups or categories on the basis of a supposed learning style (Evidence for Learning,evidence for any consistent set of learning «styles» that can be used reliably to identify genuine differences in the learning needs of young people, and evidence suggests that it is unhelpful to assign learners to groups or categories on the basis of a supposed learning style (Evidence for Learning,evidence suggests that it is unhelpful to assign learners to groups or categories on the basis of a supposed learning style (Evidence for Learning,Evidence for Learning, 2017a).

Consistent with the Wisconsin evidence, parallel studies in Colorado and Maryland found that weather - related differences in the number of days students had spent in school when they were tested had noticeable effects on their achievement.

Although we do not have direct evidence on student confidence, we can make use of student course grades and rank within the class to probe for evidence consistent with this kind of effect.

Consistent with this evidence, the research on relative age indicates that being among the youngest in the class has benefits, in both the short and long term.

But a large body of evidence based on nonexperimental methods paints a consistent picture of the effects of charter schools.