Sentences with phrase «reported high confidence»

For example, authors reported high confidence in statements for which there is little evidence, such as the widely - quoted statement that agricultural yields in Africa might decline by up to 50 percent by 2020.

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«Authors reported high confidence in some statements for which there is little evidence.

Participants reported high confidence levels throughout the study but expressed some concerns related to their local contexts.

In that report, researchers reported high confidence in exactly what Hoerling said the data showed — an increase in extreme temperatures.

Confidence in institutions rose and fell in waves, with respondents in both surveys reporting high confidence in institutions in the late 1980s and again in the early 2000s, with confidence then declining to reach its lowest point in the early 2010s.

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On the other hand, companies that do export actually reported a higher level of confidence on the question of trade deals than non-exporters.

According to the TD report, recent research indicates that boys demonstrate more confidence in math and more voluntary participation in high school and university math classes, implying that more effective methods of «developing numeracy skills and confidence» in young girls are needed.

The Brexit and Trump effect have not dented UK business optimism as manufacturing confidence has reached a 20 - month high, according to the latest Business Trends Report by accountants and business advisers BDO LLP.

Contractors have high confidence in the market's ability to provide new business for the next 12 months, up one point from the level reported in Q4.

Of course, all it took to spike the Dow / SPX higher was a couple of immaterial «consumer confidence» reports in order to reflate the stock market with some «hope.»

I hoped that this wouldn't happen, because the longer reported GDP growth remained high, the worse for China's economy over the medium to long term, but in the end the pace of adjustment was always going to be driven by political variables, not economic variables, and this made it very hard to project with much confidence.

In many ways, the sky - high confidence in the global economy being reported mirrors the dynamic of the deals market.

The Sensis Business Index reported favourable conditions among small and medium businesses, with confidence about the coming 12 months remaining near an historic high.

The December quarter ACCI Survey of Investor Confidence, which also covers the non-farm sector, reported a high level of current and expected business conditions.

In addition, most business surveys reported conditions that were at high levels throughout 2004, while consumer confidence has been close to record levels.

The September quarter Rabobank survey suggests that farm equipment investment intentions, which are not covered in the Capex survey, remain at a high level, despite a slight decline in reported confidence in the farm sector.

APRA wanted the report to provide the community with confidence that shortcomings at CBA had been identified are were being adequately addressed, realising it is critical to the long - run health of the financial system that the Australian community has a high degree of confidence that banks and other financial institutions are well governed and prudently managed.

The NAB survey of the non-farm sector, for example, reported that business conditions and confidence in the September quarter were at their highest levels since 1994.

Teens report a higher or comparable degree of Christian orthodoxy and confidence in the church when compared to their parents or other adults.

The HSR Advisory Committee further reaffirmed the reliability of the HSR, stating that the monitoring of consumer awareness, attitudes and interaction with the system points to improvements in how people understand and use it: A majority of 74 % agree that the HSR helps in identifying healthier options within the same food category and 65 % reported that their confidence in the system is high or somewhat high.

Women who take an independent breastfeeding class prior to birth report higher success of meeting breastfeeding goals and more confidence in their breastfeeding relationship.

In a convenience sample of 45 children during a 1 - week training workshop provided by child psychologists and psychiatrists, inter-paediatrician agreement was high, with Pearson correlation coefficients of 0.80 (95 % confidence interval: 0.67, 0.89) for vocabulary, 0.72 (0.54, 0.83) for similarities, 0.80 (0.67, 0.89) for block designs and 0.79 (0.66, 0.88) for matrices.16 Since we previously reported that the intervention resulted in significantly higher verbal IQ scores in intention - to - treat analysis, 16 we focused on results for verbal IQ scores in the present study.

A recent meta - analysis of 11 studies that investigated the association of bed - sharing and SIDS revealed a summary OR of 2.88 (95 % confidence interval [CI]: 1.99 — 4.18) with bed - sharing.158 Furthermore, bed - sharing in an adult bed not designed for infant safety exposes the infant to additional risks for accidental injury and death, such as suffocation, asphyxia, entrapment, falls, and strangulation.159, 160 Infants, particularly those in the first 3 months of life and those born prematurely and / or with low birth weight, are at highest risk, 161 possibly because immature motor skills and muscle strength make it difficult to escape potential threats.158 In recent years, the concern among public health officials about bed - sharing has increased, because there have been increased reports of SUIDs occurring in high - risk sleep environments, particularly bed - sharing and / or sleeping on a couch or armchair.162, — , 165

*: 99 % Confidence interval (CI) for Flint study was reported N / A: not available **: Mean satisfaction scores are reported: lower scale indicates higher satisfaction.

The attacks on the High Court in Kumasi, the recent attacks on a Member of Parliament in Brong Ahafo and other reported incidents of highhandedness by perceived political agents have to be denounced forcefully and dealt with in a firm and swift manner that will inspire public confidence».

And today we learn that the Government is so unhappy with the banks» failure to make enough loans to business that it has set higher targets - notwithstanding reports of low demand for lending due to lack of business confidence.

Parents who believe a school nurse is onsite 5 days a week report higher levels of confidence in the school's ability to handle health and safety situations.

«The high degree of involvement in the lives of an opioid user among attendees is consistent with reported motivations to have a kit in the house for a greater sense of security and improved confidence to handle an overdose,» explained lead author Sarah Bagley, MD, from the Clinical Addiction Research and Education (CARE) Unit at BUSM and BMC and a physician in General Internal Medicine at BMC.

«The committee has a high degree of confidence that the new USAMRIID facility will have the appropriate and effective physical security, biosurety program, and biosafety operating practices and procedures in place to protect its workers and the public from exposures to pathogens, and any new pathogens, studied in its laboratories,» the report says.

The report also found that low - income Texans were significantly more likely to have less confidence in understanding health insurance terms than those with higher incomes.

[T] he idea that the sun is currently driving climate change is strongly rejected by the world's leading authority on climate science, the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which found in its latest (2013) report that «There is high confidence that changes in total solar irradiance have not contributed to the increase in global mean surface temperature over the period 1986 to 2008, based on direct satellite measurements of total solar irradiance.»

Individuals with higher self - reported confidence also initiated more conversations, regardless of gender or age group.

Bilingual students also attain higher levels of achievement on standardized tests in reading, writing, social studies, and math and report higher levels of self - confidence (Tochon, 2009).

While most central office administrators spoke about unevenness in the leadership strengths of their principals, leaders in higher - performing districts expressed greater confidence in their ability to improve the quality of school leadership through hiring practices, leadershipdevelopment programs, school placement, and supervision (see also Section 2.2 of this report on district contributions to principals «efficacy).

The initial study reported in 1992 (Romance & Vitale, 1992) showed that 4th grade Science IDEAS students displayed higher achievement on nationally - normed tests in reading comprehension and in science (in comparison to demographically similar students) and more positive attitudes and self - confidence toward reading comprehension and science.

Interestingly, middle school teachers reported a higher level of confidence (n = 36, M = 3.92, SD = 0.841) than did high school teachers (n = 75, M = 3.47, SD = 1.031), t (109) = 2.279, p < 0.05, d = 0.48.

However, high - need districts were less likely than other district types to report confidence in the efficacy of the new law.

Compared with similar peers, students participating in certified Linked Learning pathways earn more credits in the first two years of high school, are more likely to be on track with the a-g credits they need for college eligibility, and report greater confidence in their life and career skills.

Teachers reported that their students demonstrated increased self - confidence, improved ability to speak in front of groups and on behalf of themselves, and knowledge of career options beyond high school.

In turn, these same teachers report higher levels of job satisfaction and confidence in their ability to teach and to motivate students, according to a 2013 -LSB-...]

They enjoy math more, their confidence is higher, their standardized test scores are better, their acceptance into accelerated math programs increased, and graduates of this system report great success as they move into the next years of math.

Teachers in high - poverty schools report fewer computers and less training on how to use technology with students compared to their colleagues in wealthier districts — leading to decreased confidence for these teachers when it comes to using educational technology.

McNeil says GM's large - pickup sales are benefiting from the housing comeback, which in April grew 13.1 % according to the U.S. Commerce Dept. Consumer confidence now at a 5 - year high, the Conference Board reports.

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As the Q3 2015 report at Nielsen Insights reported, «Global consumer confidence increased three index points in the third quarter to 99, the highest level since 2006.

«Despite high prices, contacts expressed confidence about the residential outlook,» the Boston Fed reported.

Many of these news reports revolved around private research group The Conference Board's Consumer Confidence Index, which had reached its highest levels in eight months.