Sentences with phrase «relatively little study»

Trace element status in EPI has received relatively little study.

Whereas social scientists have bent themselves out of shape studying the effects of, say, test - based accountability, charter schools, and other «structural» reforms — and have produced some reasonably solid findings about what works for whom under what circumstances — curriculum is relatively little studied and what's learned almost never makes the New York Times (or even Education Week).

Not exact matches

Capablanca, not only had relatively little playing experience up that point, but by his own admission had never even studied the openings.

«It's kind of an unusual year - almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,» said Brent Plate, a writer who teaches religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

Since I'm a relatively new mom and have only been studying and applying Positive Discipline for a little over two years, I really think a community atmosphere where more experienced moms can chime in and we can all support each other is in order here.

In comparison to the amount of research, the number of studies, and the number of books written about motherhood, relatively little has been written about fatherhood.

I have been at presentations and discussions of UK attitudes to Europe where studies of UK public opinion seem to have found (perhaps counterintuitively) that there is relatively little sense among the public of there being a pro-EU so anti-US (or pro-US so less pro-EU) constituency among the public, though both are fairly common positions among certain elite opinion former groups on left and right.

The phenomenon of similar, repeated recommendations from multiple expert studies producing relatively little change is not unique to these types of workforce issues; a similar, steadily growing series of careful, judicious, and thoughtful reports has accumulated over recent years in the field of laboratory safety, which is also beset by serious problems.

Many privately funded animal studies, meanwhile, get relatively little federal oversight.

As a result, theoretical studies tend to focus on the role of dust and ice particles, paying relatively little attention to the gas component.

«In contrast to the well - studied galaxies in clusters — the «cities» of the universe — we know relatively little about the properties of galaxies in voids.»

Nevertheless, as Tobias says, it is still ``... a field beset with relatively few facts but many theories... The story of early hominid brains has to be read from carefully dated, well identified, fossilised calvariae, or from endocranial casts formed within them... Such materials confine the Hercule Poirot, who would read «the little grey cells» of fossil hominids, to statements about the size, shape and surface impressions... of ancient brains...» The other major limiting factor at the moment is the lack of suitable fossil skulls for such studies.

A study of 9,000 women found that those who ate high levels of sugar during pregnancy were around twice as likely to have a child that went on to develop allergic asthma than woman who ate relatively little sugar.

Most of the topological materials studied so far — including those in Bernevig's atlas — have been relatively easy to understand, because the electrons inside them feel very little of each other's electrostatic repulsion.

«Ketone salts are relatively new to the market and there's not much research on their impact on performance,» says the study's co-author Jonathan Little, assistant professor in UBC Okanagan's School of Health and Exercise Sciences.

They confirmed earlier studies» results, which showed relatively little genetic variation in late European Neanderthals — in other words, that they were closely related to one another.

Now a new study reveals that Nepalese porters do the job better than anyone else, hefting huge bundles while using relatively little energy.

«Little research has looked at this severely impaired population — most is aimed at improving relatively mild movement impairments — and, as a consequence, no validated treatment is available to help those with the most severe disabilities,» says Rachael Harrington, a fourth - year PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience at Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) who will present the study.

To examine whether or not lower status is more benign in small - scale, relatively egalitarian societies in which group members frequently share food and other resources, lack coercive authority, and where people have little wealth to contest, the investigators studied the relationship between status and biomarkers of stress and disease among Tsimane men.

u One study of two adjacent galaxies showed that they had relatively little dark matter.

But acting now will avoid some of the massive damage and cost relatively little, said the study commissioned by Friends of the Earth from the Global Development and Environment Institute of Tufts University in the United States.

«ALMA will be a giant leap forward for our studies of this relatively little explored spectral window towards the Universe,» said Dr. Catherine Cesarsky, Director General of ESO.

«Results of our study show within five days of surgery, most patients are experiencing relatively little pain, and yet, most still had well over half of their opioid prescription left,» said study co-author Dr. Elliot Hersh.

«These findings suggest that consumers may benefit most from help in identifying relatively healthier choices but rely little on information about the exact caloric content of items,» the study authors write.

In studies that we have seen on oleocanthol and other phenolic substances in EVOO, there is relatively little loss of its phenolic contents during the first three months of storage, but a greater percentage loss from 3 — 6 months.

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».

Previous to this study, relatively little was known about the impact of teacher quality in higher education because common postsecondary curricula and standardized assessments are rare.

The teacher in classroom 2 made up for the relatively small number of books for very beginning readers — a problem all teachers in the study faced — by creating many charts and individual little books.

Academic research has done little to help bridge the gap between parents and teachers; until relatively recently, it explored the motivation for parents and teachers to work together in separate studies (Jacobs, 2008).

Whales» habits are extremely interesting, and even though they are relatively well studied, some of their behavior is still a little mysterious.

Since Carnegie's subjects range from the relatively benign, isolated nature painting — along with the brooding architectural structures that often occupy the landscape, such as a gateway into a cemetery — to intimate little studies of excellently formed female asses, this is not an unreasonable question.

As you point out other studies agree with the MBH study so I would have thought what amounts to a sudden global climate shift would be of major interest to climate scientists everywhere yet one sees relatively little written about it.

However, taking account of sampling uncertainty (as most more recent detection and attribution studies do, including those shown in Figure 9.9) makes relatively little difference to estimates of attributable warming rates, particularly those due to greenhouse gases; the largest differences occur in estimates of upper bounds for small signals, such as the response to solar forcing (Allen and Stott, 2003; Stott et al., 2003a).

For some countries, estimating future emissions is straightforward, and results in relatively little difference across studies (e.g. those countries that pledge to reduce economy - wide emissions relative to a past year's emissions).

Several recent studies show little to no economic potential to increase biopower in the U.S. over the next two decades because of its relatively high costs compared with other renewable energy and low carbon technologies (EIA 2015, EPA 2015, NREL 2015, UCS 2014, UCS 2015).

For some countries, estimating future emissions is straightforward, and results in relatively little difference across studies.

The point Among scientists who study climate - change «hockey - sticks», historical records of land - temperature carry relatively little weight (compared to boreholes, limnology, isotope ratios, tree - rings, etc.) for the following objective reasons:

No one is suggesting that there will not be a need to balance wind variations, or that at times there will relatively little wind in many places, but most studies seem to agree that this problem can be dealt with at low cost.

While undergraduate study costs relatively little for Austrian and EU nationals, postgraduate study costs can vary and depend on the institution at which you are studying.

Relatively little is known about social gradients in developmental outcomes, with much of the research employing dichotomous socioeconomic indicators such as family poverty.2 5 16 Thus, it is unclear whether poor developmental outcomes exhibit threshold effects (evident only when a certain level of disadvantage is exceeded), gradient effects (linear declines with increasing disadvantage) or accelerating effects (progressively stronger declines with increasing disadvantage) as suggested by some recent studies.17 — 19 Further, most research has examined socioeconomic patterns for single childhood outcomes1 or for multiple outcomes within the physical3 4 or developmental17 18 20 health domains.

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

In a study of a related question — how the transition to college affects high school best friendships — college students» satisfaction and commitment toward friends declined between the fall and spring semesters of their freshmen year (even if the high school best friend lived close by).2 These declines, however, only occurred for those who spent relatively little time communicating with their friends.

The ACEs study, along with other major epidemiological studies, show that we have a Major Public Health Epidemic that is actually getting relatively little attention in public discourse and has yet to seriously impact policy.

Fact: «Despite the presence of some «equal sharer» couples, Deutsch's study echoes others in finding that most husbands do relatively little domestic labor of any kind compared with their wives.

With regard to the sibling effect, relatively little attention has been devoted to the role of siblings and their impact on one another's development, in comparison to the wealth of studies on parent - child relationships (Howe & Recchia, 2006).