Sentences with phrase «report little or no impact»

Not exact matches

Unlike the US's strike in April 2017, the latest one did not target Syrian jets or airfields — though the earlier attack apparently had little impact, as Syrian jets took off from the damaged airfield within 24 hours and reports of chemical warfare persisted.

The report concludes that allowing openly gay or lesbian troops to serve in the military would have little lasting impact on the U.S. armed forces.

When NBC 4 New York / Wall Street Journal / Marist asked Democrats earlier this month if Spitzer's sex scandal would impact their vote, only 34 % believed it would have an effect on how they cast their ballot, and 62 % reported it would matter little or not at all.

The analysts found little or no research on the impact of other policies, including gun - free zones, firearm sales reporting requirements and bans on assault weapons.

WHO reports that low back pain has a greater impact on global health than malaria, diabetes, or lung cancer; yet little progress has been made to identify effective prevention strategies.

The report concluded that the feeding reservoirs were in fact a greater source of dioxins in food than emissions are, «and suggest that further risk management actions to reduce emissions from controlled sources beyond those already in place will have little or no additional impact on food levels.»

However, the process was largely viewed as administrative or operational with nearly half of Australian teachers surveyed (43 per cent) reporting that «the appraisal and feedback systems in their school have had little or no impact on the way they teach in the classroom».

This included: attendance levels (studies show a positive relationship between participation in sports and school attendance); behaviour (research concludes that even a little organised physical activity, either inside or outside the classroom, has a positive effect on classroom behaviour, especially amongst the most disruptive pupils); cognitive function (several studies report a positive relationship between physical activity and cognition, concentration, attention span and perceptual skills); mental health (studies indicate positive impacts of physical activity on mood, well - being, anxiety and depression, as well as on children's self - esteem and confidence); and attainment (a number of well - controlled studies conclude that academic achievement is maintained or enhanced by increased physical activity).

It stated that «it is vital that serving teachers have access to on - going, high - quality opportunities to update and refresh their skills and knowledge» and that «evidence - driven, career - long learning is the hallmark of top professions»; also identifying that «teachers report that far too much professional development is currently of poor quality and has little or no impact on improving the quality of their teaching» (Department for Education, 2014: 10).

Although several studies in other disciplines report that teachers planning with print - based ECMs tend to develop a better understanding of instructional strategies and their impact on student thinking (Collopy, 2003; Grossman & Thompson, 2004; Lloyd, 1999; Remillard, 2000, 2005; Schneider, Krajcik, & Marx, 2000), little is known about the effects of technology - enhanced ECMs or those designed for teaching in the social studies.

Despite growing momentum to reform teacher evaluation in order to increase its impact on teachers» practice and persistence in the profession, very little research examines how current reforms influence teachers» attitudes or reported instructional practices.

The strength of the reported impact or effect (e.g., does the model raise student achievement a little or a lot?).

For more on the terrestrial foods topic, see my detailed discussion in this previous post, and this recent (March 30) ScienceNews report on yet another, largely anecdotal «polar bears resort to bird eggs because of declining sea ice» story (see photo below, based on a new paper by Prop and colleagues), which was also covered March 31 at the DailyMail («Polar bears are forced to raid seabird nests as Arctic sea ice melts — eating more than 200 eggs in two hours,» with lots of hand - wringing and sea ice hype but little mention of the fact that there are many more bears now than there were in the early 1970s around Svalbard or that the variable, cyclical, AMO (not global warming) has had the largest impact on sea ice conditions in the Barents Sea).

Where the impact report was covered, its adaptation aspects received little or no mention.

The Sterling Cos. reports nine retail projects totaling 1.7 million sq. ft. are scheduled to open in 1998, resulting in a small increase in vacancy, but little or no impact on rents.