Sentences with phrase «researchers over the evidence»

But João Zilhão, an archaeologist at the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom who has often tussled with White and other researchers over the evidence from the Grotte du Renne, says that the new study «prove [s] the exact opposite of what [its] authors claim.»

Not exact matches

What continues to be lost, in my view, in much of what the media has reported over the last six years about the results of autopsies conducted by researchers at the Sports Legacy Institute in Boston on the brains of athletes - autopsies which show the presence of the dark splotches of tau protein which are the tell - tale sign of CTE - which is that they provide, at most, anecdotal evidence suggesting a possible connection.

Researchers can also hone in on causation by tracking child development over time, and looking for evidence of change.

In 2009, based on evidence that the benefit - risk ratio for mammography screening is higher among women over 50 and with less frequent screening, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) reversed its previous recommendation of mammography every one to two years beginning at age 40, and recommended routine screening every two years starting at age 50, the researchers noted.

Brown University researchers have produced new evidence that lunar swirls — wispy bright regions scattered on the Moon's surface — were created by several comet collisions over the last 100 million years.

Apsell acknowledged that science has been under siege of late, with a sizeable percentage of the public still believing that researchers continue to disagree over long - settled evidence on climate change, for example.

Researchers here, many with outsize personalities and egos to match, argue over everything from the strength of the evidence to the ethics of clinical trials — even to the magnitude of the MDR malaria disaster: Is it a category 4 or category 5?

If you believe climate sceptics, a huge body of evidence involving the work of tens of thousands of scientists over more than a century should be thrown out on the basis of the alleged misconduct of a handful of researchers, even though nothing in the hacked emails has been shown to undermine any of the scientific conclusions.

Across all cultural indicators, the researchers found evidence that individualism has been rising steadily over the last 150 years.

The researchers had hoped their finding was evidence that bees may use «nature's medicine cabinet» to rid themselves of the intestinal parasite Crithidia bombi, which can decrease the survival of queen bees over the winter and hamper the success of young colonies in the spring.

However, with further study, the researchers found no evidence of the survival of any leaf miners over the Cretaceous - Paleocene boundary, suggesting an even more total collapse of terrestrial food webs than has been recognized previously.

The Grants had shown that gene flow has occurred in the finches of Daphne Major during the past 40 years, but the new study found extensive evidence for gene flow throughout the roughly 1 million years that the birds have occupied the archipelago, which has helped the researchers update their understanding of how the lineages diverged over time.

So if researchers can chart the changes in the number of salmon that swim upstream, they can get an accurate history of alterations in the ocean — which gives evidence of how climate has changed over time.

By reviewing over 90 academic studies on consumer response to process labels, the researchers found that while these labels satisfy consumer demand for quality assurances and can create value for both consumers and producers, misinterpretation is common and can stigmatize food produced by conventional processes even when there is no scientific evidence those foods cause harm.

But in an Opinion paper published June 16 in Trends in Cell Biology, researchers propose that new genomic evidence derived from a deep - sea vent on the ocean floor suggests that the molecular machinery essential to eukaryotic life was probably borrowed, little by little over time, from those simpler ancestors.

The researchers found evidence that, over the past 10 billion years, the strength of the bond between an atomic nucleus and its surrounding electrons has changed by one part in 100,000.

Researchers followed the volunteers with video cameras (including ones mounted in a three - wheeled stroller, prompting passersby to wonder aloud about a lost baby, Kaur recalls) to capture visual evidence of exhaust blasts or lurking smokers that they could then correlate to particle measurements over the course of the trip.

The researchers found that for men over 50, roughly half will have some pathological evidence of prostate cancer.

Indeed, over the past 2 decades, researchers have turned up considerable evidence that homosexuality isn't a lifestyle choice, but is rooted in a person's biology and at least in part determined by genetics.

All told, the researchers gathered 679 bats, 222 birds and 129 mice and other small mammals over several years to test for evidence of the Ebola virus.

By examining carbon isotopes in the wood of 1100 trees, the researchers found evidence that over time these trees were indeed using water more efficiently.

In the absence of fossil evidence, previous researchers have disagreed over whether primate brains got bigger first, and then more folded and complex, or vice versa.

But researchers recently combined the results of 15 observational studies in a meta - analysis conducted in the U.S., Europe and several developing nations involving over 53,000 homosexual men to determine if any evidence for protection exists.

This picture I described (in a highly simplified fashion) has been known in essence for over 15 years now has been put togther through the proper process of peer - reviewed research involving numereous researchers and independent lines of evidence.

However, like many other such researchers, he has become convinced by the compelling weight of evidence indicating human influence on climate that has unfolded over the past decade, remarking that «with each passing year the evidence has gotten stronger — and is getting stronger still.

Researchers have been conducting various studies over the years and have found there's not enough evidence to show that use of cell phones poses a risk of cancer.

This consortium of researchers, clinicians, and patients, has «systematically investigated and graded» evidence for over 35 «alternative» treatments for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS, aka Lou Gehrig's disease), a fatal disease that destroys the nerve cells that control voluntary muscle movement.

Researchers from the Institute of Psychiatry and colleagues found evidence that gene inactivation is often skewed toward one X chromosome over the other, and that this bias may already be established in early childhood.

A team of over 60 scientists and researchers from nine countries outlined the current status of MNCH in sub-Saharan Africa, presented evidence - based solutions, and used national data to identify immediate high - impact opportunities for saving lives.

Researchers have sought evidence of processes that could cause a thick atmosphere to be lost over time.

Tribulus Terrestris is a plant which gained popularity due to evidence of having T - boosting properties reported by researchers in Bulgaria, where it's been found to have the biggest quantity of its active ingredients: saponins, over 90 %.

Researchers have also found evidence supporting the claim that spelt may be easier for humans to digest than wheat.4 Modern wheat has been altered over the years through breeding to simplify its growth and harvesting, increase its yield and raise its gluten content for the production of commercial baked goods — all of which has rendered modern wheat more difficult to digest.

Researchers have found evidence over the years that when people wolf their food, they end up consuming more calories than they would at a slower pace.

«The results show that, although there is ample evidence to indicate that exercise is beneficial, a ketogenic diet sustained over time can help more people with overweight or obesity,» the researchers confirmed.

Top researchers in PCOS from all over the world met for this 2 day workshop to present evidence - based information on PCOS and to clarify the following:

There is no evidence that online dating has affected the proportion of people finding partners over time - displacement of old methods of partnering up seems to be what the researchers observed.

But an interesting 2017 article by Yale researchers (Stamans, Sheskin & Bloom, 2017) points to evidence that, in general, people value fairness over equivalence.

Researchers issued a strong caution against using what they called the «modest improvement» in test scores over the past four years as evidence that mayoral control had improved learning in District schools.

To probe these questions, The Wallace Foundation in 2011 launched a five - year, $ 75 million initiative to help six large districts build stronger principal pipelines by (1) creating clear job requirements detailing what principals and assistant principals must know and do, (2) ensuring high - quality training for aspiring leaders, (3) developing more selective hiring procedures, and (4) using well - crafted evaluations to identify the needs of principals and ongoing support to address them.79 Over the life of the initiative, it is expected that participating districts will have filled at least two - thirds of their principal slots with graduates of high - quality training programs - enough to enable independent researchers to gather meaningful evidence on whether and how better leadership can transform the academic fortunes of children.

However, like many other such researchers, he has become convinced by the compelling weight of evidence indicating human influence on climate that has unfolded over the past decade, remarking that «with each passing year the evidence has gotten stronger — and is getting stronger still.

Whether you are gullible enough to accept the figures as accurate depends on how much credibility you put in the multitude of observational measurements taken by different methods over many decades by diverse groups of researchers that form a strong consilience of mutually supporting evidence for the validity of the estimates and the possible errors.

Indeed, the researchers who purport to «prove» that conservatives «distrust» climate scientists are the very same ones who are publishing studies (or republishing the same study over and over) that they interpret as «proving» consensus - messaging will work (despite their remarkable but unremarked failure to report any evidence that being exposed to the message affected the proportion of people who «believe in» climate change).

Anyway, the researchers at Duke «say trends over just a 10 - year period do not show much about long - term warming,» and there's no evidence whatsoever to suggest that long - term warming over the next 100 years is going to be anything even noticeable, abnormal.

Researchers from the University of Tennessee wrote: «The evidence that consumers increase energy consumption after being exposed to conservation calls, yet no reduction in generation is observed over critical superpeak hours, is consistent with an emergent body of work in environmental economics exploring the unintended consequences of various policy actions.»

Now that the evidence shows that CO2 has no significant effect in the real world over recent decades, the major research question is why — not how small the ECS may be in the idealized world of climate researchers.

Researchers can also hone in on causation by tracking child development over time, and looking for evidence of change.

In a recent meta - analysis (i.e., a study that statistically combines similar results from numerous other studies), researchers examined evidence of the effects of attachment on long - term relationships across 31 published studies.4 The researchers wanted to know whether having an insecure attachment style might exert additional influence on the typical decline in relationship satisfaction over time, by making that decline even steeper as time goes on.

This summary of the evidence is based on a systematic search of the literature, and correspondence with leading researchers, to identify all well - conducted randomized controlled trials of the full Triple P System that evaluated its effect over a sustained period of time.

The study bolsters some anecdotal evidence that men's porn use can shake the self - esteem of their girlfriends or wives, though certainly not all couples have conflicts over pornography, said study researcher Destin Stewart, a clinical psychology intern at the University of Florida.

Researchers have identified that certain early indicators of problematic behavior, such as high oppositional behaviors and hyperactivity, increase the likelihood that these behaviors will become chronic issues and there is some evidence that aggression is fairly stable over time (Nagin and Tremblay 2001; Olweus 1979; Ulman and Straus 2003).