Sentences with phrase «quality evidence suggests»

«High quality evidence suggests Vitamin D can reduce asthma attacks.»

«High quality evidence suggests Vitamin D can reduce asthma attacks.»

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Anecdotal evidence from Britain, China and Australia suggests Apple Pay is popular with core Apple followers, but the quality of service, and interest in it, varies significantly.

Existing evidence suggests that 1 - 1.5 g / kg body weight of high quality protein, spread throughout the day, is necessary to maximally stimulate muscle protein synthesis.

Evidence suggests that the use of lavender may slow the activity of the nervous system, improve sleep quality, promote relaxation, and lift mood in people suffering from sleep disorders.

Most programs emphasize the importance of a positive visitor — family relationship since programs are voluntary, and visiting depends on the willingness of the family to invest.10 Indeed, evidence suggests that the quality of the relationship is a predictor of program outcomes.

While there is some evidence to suggest that helmeted children recognize that they are somehow different, a 2008 study on the quality of life of children who had undergone helmet therapy discovered that 96 % of patients and their families were satisfied with treatment results.

Fourth, higher quality maternal interactions have been shown to improve brain development at 5, 10 and 24 months.34 Fifth, there is growing evidence to suggest that the beneficial effects of exclusive breastfeeding may be moderated by the infant's genome, 35,36 and the metabolism of the fatty acids in maternal breast milk.37 For example, Krol et al. 36 showed that infants exclusively breastfed for a longer duration (above the 50th percentile) showed a heightened sensitivity and interest in a happy visual stimulus (eyes) than infants exclusively breastfed for a shorter duration (below the 50th percentile).

«The Conservative Government is clearly encouraging a more commercialised and marketised approach to education development and is deliberately promoting a strategy which its own evidence suggests risks undermining the provision of high quality public education in developing countries.

It called for responsibility for driving through changes to be clarified, said minimum quality standards based on clinical evidence are needed and suggested removing the secretary of state from the reconfiguration process to «depoliticise» it.

While transparency, openness and reproducibility are readily recognized as vital features of science and embraced by scientists as a norm and value in their work, a growing body of evidence suggests that those qualities are not necessarily evident today.

The damning OIG report showed that important public - health information was held back by Bush's Council on Environmental Quality, and evidence also suggests that critical press releases were altered, making them contradict scientific fact.

Although there is little evidence that MSC secrete TGF - β1, the bone marrow is rich in this cytokine, suggesting that MSC reside in a compartment with immunosuppressive qualities.

Quiz Ref IDFemale physicians now account for approximately one - third of the US physician workforce17 and comprise half of all US medical school graduates.18 Despite evidence suggesting that female physicians may provide higher - quality care,1 - 4, 7,8,10,12 - 16 some have argued that career interruptions for childrearing, higher rates of part - time employment, and greater tradeoffs between home and work responsibilities19 may compromise the quality of care provided by female physicians and justify higher salaries among male physicians.20 - 22 Therefore, empirical evidence on whether patient outcomes differ between male and female physicians is warranted.

Currently, the American Gastroenterological Association (AGA) suggests that people with diverticulitis eat a fiber - rich diet or take fiber supplements, but admits that the recommendation is based on a «very low quality of evidence.»

Consistent epidemiological evidence, particularly for depression, suggests an association between measures of diet quality and mental health, across multiple populations and age groups; these do not appear to be explained by other demographic, lifestyle factors or reverse causality.

This current evidence suggests intakes in the range of at least 1.2 to 1.6 g / kg per day of high quality protein to achieve optimal health outcomes for active adults, compared to the current RDA Guidelines for protein of 0.8 g / kg per day for all adults including older ones (7).

The science is clear that high quality saturated and mono unsaturated fats are better for you than poly unsaturated and trans fats, and it also seems clear that eating small amounts of these high - quality fats may be beneficial... But there is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that basing one's diet on these fats is beneficial in the long run, and there is several decades» worth of research to suggest that eating too much fat and animal products is linked to cardiovascular disease.

The negative effects seem to lie in the capacity of some foods / nutrients to stimulate proliferative pathways that in turn stimulate development of acne — suspect foods include those with a high glycaemic load and milk.11, 43, 44 Other evidence comes from several studies reporting that the prevalence of acne varies significantly between different populations and is substantially lower in non-Westernized populations that follow traditional diets, 45 a common factor among these traditional diets being a low glycaemic load.46 Various studies have provided evidence that high - glycaemic - load diets are implicated in the aetiology of acne through their capacity to stimulate insulin, androgen bioavailability and insulin - like growth factor - 1 (IGF - 1) activity, whereas the beneficial effects of low - glycaemic - load diets, apart from weight and blood glucose levels, also include improved skin quality.44 The clinical and experimental evidence does in fact suggest ways in which insulin can increase androgen production and affect via induction of steroidogenic enzymes, 47 the secretion by the pituitary gland of gonadotropin - releasing hormone and the production of sex hormone - binding globulin.48 Insulin is also able to reduce serum levels of IGF - binding protein - 1 increasing the effect of IGF - 1.49 These insulin - mediated actions can therefore influence diverse factors that underlie the development of acne such as:

Quality technological provision is a huge challenge with the funding squeezes upon schools, but evidence from my classroom strongly suggests that it is an investment worth making.

Despite these differences, the bulk of the available, high - quality evidence on school voucher programs suggests that they do yield positive achievement effects for participating students.

A large body of evidence suggests that differences in quality between schools affect how students learn, but it will take creative policies to tap this potential.

Early evidence suggested that quality control was indeed a concern: The achievement gains made by charter students in Arizona, in particular, often lagged that of their district peers through 2012.

These within - school differences likely understate the overall import of teacher effectiveness because, as recent evidence suggests, there are also differences in teacher quality across schools.

In short, our evidence suggests that the existence of class - size effects is related to the quality of the teaching force.

Despite persuasive evidence suggesting that a high - quality curriculum is a more cost - effective means of improving student outcomes than many more - popular ed - reform measures, such as merit pay for teachers or reducing class size, states have largely ignored curriculum reform.

Global evidence suggests that the most successful education systems are those that combine equity with quality.

A growing body of evidence suggests that these differences in college quality will translate into substantial differences in the college graduation rates and lifetime earnings of the students who received the ECO-C Intervention.

Growing evidence also suggests that the skills and qualities acquired through PSHE have a significant impact on students» academic achievement, employability, and future life chances

Evidence suggests that children's academic and social - emotional outcomes improve when adults collaborate across home and school environments to provide consistent, reliable, high - quality learning experiences, particularly during key developmental transitions.

But our evidence also suggests that a 15 - year period with little oversight of academic quality may be too long to wait to intervene and potentially close schools that are producing subpar results.

Although the policymaker's challenge is to figure out how to expand access to such programs while preserving quality, evidence suggests that investment in early childhood education has the potential to significantly address disparities that arise from family disadvantage.

[58] More conclusive evidence is needed for certainty, but the available evidence suggests that the regulations promulgated by the state, including the state testing mandate, discouraged higher - quality private schools from participating in the scholarship program.

This is a significant opportunity, given that the evidence suggests that teacher quality is the most important school factor in explaining differences in student performance.

If these assumptions hold, evidence that the effects of being assigned to a teacher who shares one's race are concentrated in disadvantaged or highly segregated schools would suggest that differences in teacher quality are influencing the findings to some degree.

Evidence suggests that Americans have been wise enough to ignore the woefully misleading information about student proficiency rates generated by state testing systems when forming judgments about the quality of their state's schools.

As Prof. Coe reminds us, «learning happens when people have to think hard» but unfortunately there is no easy way of measuring this, so what does he suggest is effective in terms of evidencing quality?

The author suggests that in order detect differences in school quality, the evidence we gather must reflect the extent of student mastery of learning targets that are much more precise.

The authors examine the link between teachers» pension incentives and workforce quality and find no evidence to suggest that the incentives raise quality.

This evidence suggests that a high - quality UPK program would significantly reduce achievement gaps at kindergarten entry.

According to Berwick, bad apple strategies aimed at identifying and eliminating the bottom tail of the quality distribution were common in business and industry until overwhelming evidence suggested they were not effective at improving quality.

Available evidence suggests not that technology creates educational improvement but rather that educational improvement comes about through coherent instruction and assessment that supports high - quality student learning.

There is good evidence internationally to suggest that greater autonomy in the governance and management of local schools has beneficial effects, but restrictive entry requirements and politically compromised central brokering leaves the system vulnerable to variable sponsor quality.

«There is remarkably little high - quality, relevant research evidence to suggest that detailed or extensive marking has any significant impact on pupils» learning.»

Furthermore, in the broader K - 12 area, the evidence suggests that market competition via charter schools has not resulted in clear dramatic improvement in average school quality.

Evidence from comparative studies suggests, however, that Head Start programs are not significantly different from those commonly cited as being high quality, at least in attributes that produce better outcomes.

Research suggests high - quality assessments of school principals should be, among other things, consistently applied and tested for fairness; seen as an ongoing process for professional growth rather than a «tool» or isolated event; and based on the best available evidence.

Though many of the corporate - style reformers argue that their preferred priorities of more high - stakes testing, the elimination of teacher tenure, and expansion of charter schools will narrow the achievement gap, there is no evidence to indicate that these policies will work, and in fact, recent evidence suggests that such policies will further cause high - quality teachers to flee from our neediest schools.

While these assumptions have an attractive ring to them, they rest on shaky ground, at best; the evidence to date suggests that few principals have made the time and demonstrated the ability to provide high quality instructional feedback to teachers.17 Importantly, the few well - developed models of instructional leadership posit a set of responsibilities for principals that go well beyond observing and intervening in classrooms — responsibilities touching on vision, organizational culture, and the like.18

Research and best practice models suggest that high - quality assessments: (1) measure what they are designed to measure; (2) are consistently applied and tested for fairness; (3) regard assessment as an ongoing process for professional growth, not just a «tool» or an isolated event; (4) use the best available evidence, often from multiple sources; (5) reinforce the organization's core goals; (6) provide actionable feedback on what matters most; and (7) help build a culture of continuous improvement.