Sentences with phrase «relatively little evidence»

I think there is relatively little evidence to suggest that Facebook and Twitter and that kind of thing is really a strong way of promoting books.

There is relatively little evidence about how subjective judges will respond to new evaluation systems, but the existing empirical evidence around dismissals suggests that changes are likely to be modest.

In my own data, I find relatively little evidence that the propensity of a student's peers to engage in criminal activity influences the degree to which he commits violent crimes.

There's relatively little evidence for these claims as of right now.

They have said in recent weeks that the plan to crack down on benefit tourism showed No 10 was not serious about introducing major reforms because there is relatively little evidence of benefit abuse by EU citizens.

Not exact matches

The early evidence is that there has been relatively little deterioration in consumer expectations so far.

Not necessarily in tone or by being insulting (thankfully there's been relatively little of that from both sides), but in that we require and unashamedly DEMAND real, objective evidence.

Evidences show coral reefs play a critical role in wave attenuation but relatively little direct connection has been drawn between these effects and impacts on shorelines.

Relatively little is known about the dingo's ecological role in the forests of southeastern Australia, although there is evidence that they can suppress the populations of macropods and red foxes [18,19].

Consequently, evidence for an inverse association between cruciferous vegetable intake and cancer risk provides relatively little information about the specific effects of indole -3-carbinol on cancer risk.

Surprisingly, we have relatively little rigorous evidence about how field trips affect students.

For instance, in a recent study by Kings College London, Beyond Barriers to LOtC in the Natural Environment, evidence showed «there are many examples of schools with relatively restricted budgets providing exemplary LOtC and relatively well - funded schools doing very little».

There is relatively little quantitative research on the features of TPPs that are associated with student achievement, but what does exist offers suggestive evidence that some features may matter.

Because many of these programs are relatively new, there is little rigorous evidence on their effectiveness in producing principals who improve student outcomes.

Despite the studio's volume, there is relatively little of Ruff's work in evidence.

The 2014 vintage is strong on performance, painting, print and drawing with relatively little sculpture and photography, but all with a clear bias towards a concern with materiality and a notably tactile quality, with many patterned and closely worked surfaces in evidence.

So if Texas 2011 was attributable to AGW (as Mass asserts it isn't but with little supporting evidence), this intensity of event will have been relatively weak compared with what we should expect in the coming century.

In short: (i) scientific understanding advances rapidly, but (ii) avoidance, denial, and reproach characterize the overall societal response, therefore, (iii) there is relatively little behavioral change, until (iv) evidence of damage becomes plain.

There is plenty of evidence to show that over-exposing children to technology is damaging and relatively little that demonstrates concrete benefits.

In a paper in Nature this week, scientists present palaeo - oceanographic evidence that deep convection of surface waters in the North Atlantic — the engine that keeps the AMOC in constant motion — began to decline as early as around 1850, probably owing to increased freshwater influx from Arctic ice that had melted at the end of a relatively cold period called the Little Ice Age (D. J. R. Thornalley et al..

Chief Justice McLachlin tells us relatively little about the Tsilhqot» in people and their occupation of their traditional territory or about the evidence presented during 339 trial days before Justice David Vickers in the Supreme Court of British Columbia (Tsilhqot» in Nation v British Columbia, 2007 BCSC 1700).

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

Thus, despite growing evidence on the interconnected nature of children's and parents» emotions during interactions as well as research showing the link between parent - child emotion regulation difficulties and children's AD, relatively little research examined this in tandem.

A decade from Steinberg's 2001 presidential address, effective evidence - based parenting interventions and approaches exist in the research literature; however, the dissemination from research to practice has been relatively slow, and the difficulty in achieving this has been apparent.8 The literature includes little research on how to support the general population of parents through their child's transition into adolescence, and a substantial research — practice gap exists regarding the impact of a universal approach to parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.