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TNR doesn't reduce feral cat populations, even according to the only TNR proponent who has actually attempted a rigorous study on it (and despite her cooking her numbers).

«I think physicians will welcome a large, rigorous study on this topic and factor this information into their decision - making process,» he said.

This lack of scientifically rigorous studies on teaching and monitoring integrity was a common refrain at the meeting and in the report.

For their analysis, researchers used the results of 23 rigorous studies on the short - and long - term impact of school - based interventions on student knowledge of teen dating violence, attitudes toward teen dating violence, and frequency of perpetration or victimization in adolescent intimate partner relationships.

Jennings also appears unaware that there are rigorous studies on the effects of NCLB and other high - stakes accountability systems, such as those by Thomas Dee and Brian Jacob (see «Evaluating NCLB,» research, Summer 2010) and those published by Stanford University researchers Eric Hanushek and Margaret Raymond in 2005, and Martin Carnoy and Susanna Loeb in 2002.

In fact, the evidence from the 7 rigorous studies on school choice programs with long - term outcomes suggests that portfolio management and other heavy regulations are neither necessary nor desirable for producing long - term gains for students.

Indeed, it is disconcerting to note that even now, unfortunately, inappropriate clinical practices are employed by some clinicians and parents even when abusive and dangerous for the child's life.2, 3 In our opinion, rigorous studies on the effectiveness of intervention programs in promoting the development of secure attachments in maltreated children are essential in order to answer the questions posed by researchers.

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Indeed, only recently have rigorous health studies on the impact of unconventional natural gas development on health been completed.

Our 11th annual America's Top States for Business study is our most rigorous yet, measuring all 50 states on 66 metrics in 10 categories of competitiveness.

APF Canada Disclaimer: Given the controversial nature of this topic, APF Canada has attempted to provide a transparent, fact - based backgrounder that, while referencing the main studies published to date on the issue of foreign - ownership in Vancouver real estate, does not delve into a rigorous academic critique of these studies.

«Based on rigorous analysis with extensive robustness checks, we conclude that the suspicious trading activity caused the unprecedented spike in the USD - BTC exchange rate in late 2013, when the rate jumped from around $ 150 to more than $ 1,000 in two months,» the study states.

BOEM's Environmental Studies Program develops, funds, and manages rigorous scientific research specifically to inform policy decisions on the development of energy and mineral resources on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS).

Just published in the journal the most careful, rigorous, and methodologically sound study ever conducted on this issue found numerous and significant differences between these groups — with the outcomes for children of h0m0 rated «suboptimal in almost every category

In taking this position, Spitzer has agreed purely scientific approach to the limitations of Spitzer's study and would be to conduct more rigorous outcome findings, something that he along with others have been calling for all along Even the APA Report on correct Responses to Orient.

Or a similar integrity, for, as Anderson writes, «the largest and most rigorous academic study on the results of hormonal and surgical transitioning... found strong evidence of poor psychological outcomes.»

Insh «Allah, it will make people curious enough to study more rigorous sources on the Prophet (pbuh) and Islam.

The three questions can serve as horizons within which to conduct rigorous inquiry into any of the array of subject matters implied by the nature of congregations, disciplined by any relevant scholarly method, in such a way that attention is focused on the theological significance of what is studied:

The one constraint this proposal does lay on decisions about the content of the course of study is that it be focused by rigorous and sympathetic study of a pluralism of types of Christian congregation.

Chess has chugged along for the last 1,400 years as a one - on - one contest of rigorous study, Spartan discipline and iron will.

But without multiple mutually corroborating & very rigorous population studies to determine strong associations among different variables, one can't speak confidently on what causes what — and this in a discipline, psychology, already fraught with poorly designed and low - statistical - rigor studies.

More rigorous longitudinal studies using outcome measures focusing on movement quality are recommended to understand any long - lasting influence on the motor skills in these infants.

Several weeks ago, the agency issued draft guidance on structure / function claims for infant formula, suggesting that in order to be substantiated, such claims require «competent and reliable evidence,» preferably from randomized, double blind studies — a rigorous scientific standard.

In 2013, Mathematica conducted the first rigorous study of the impact of EL middle schools on academic achievement outcomes.

Although there are studies of home visiting that report effects of child maltreatment on child and family outcomes, relatively few of them use rigorous methods that support drawing causal inferences about effectiveness.

Findings from the National Early Head Start Research and Evaluation project, a rigorous Congressionally - mandated study, indicate that the program had modest but positive impacts on EHS children at age three in cognitive, language, and social - emotional development, compared to a control group.xxiii In addition, their parents scored higher than control group parents on such aspects of the home environment as parenting behavior and knowledge of infant - toddler development.

Mitchell guesses that there will probably be 10 more years of rigorous testing in animals before moving on to human clinical studies.

Although their study employs statistically rigorous methods of analysis, the researchers caution that their results are based on observational data.

Because of discordant findings in studies on the relationship between the athlete's age and sports - related concussion symptoms and their duration, Lee, Odom, and colleagues chose to study age - related differences by applying rigorous matching criteria across different age groups and by using reliable change index (RCI) methodology.

«Clarification based on rigorous research studies will permit researchers to identify the conditions under which depression can influence substance abuse treatment retention and outcomes, which in turn will help to specify when depression needs to be directly addressed with this population of young people,» explained the researchers.

«Rigorous data is essential to guide policies and programs that expand access to health throughout the world,» said IHME Director Dr. Christopher Murray, the lead author on the GBD studies.

Although the study is more than just another entry in the long - running nutrition wars — it is more rigorous than the vast majority of research on the topic — Ramsden makes no claims that it settles the question.

By using meta - analysis, an advanced statistical technique that analyzes many studies at the same time, they performed rigorous testing to determine whether the beneficial effect of adding biochar depends on geography.

Among the panel's recommendations are calls for more rigorous «intergeneration» animal feeding studies, a halt on trials conducted outside public institutes, and the removal of advisers with conflicts of interest from regulatory bodies.

When I learned that one member of their team, Adrian Veres at Harvard University, was studying scientific fame, I teamed up with him to create a hall of fame for science based on rigorous culturomic data.

Despite some earlier studies claiming that genetic variants predict whether someone has a better chance of shedding pounds on a low - carbohydrate or a low - fat diet, and despite a growing industry premised on that notion, the most rigorous study so far found no difference in weight loss between overweight people on diets that «matched» their genotype and those on diets that didn't.

A rigorous study documenting the lab's impact on student achievement awaits another day.

This would allow for rigorous studies of prenatal influences on health and make it easier to arrange to collect placentas and cord blood, he notes.

But few rigorous studies have been conducted on them, and many researchers question whether even the best programs do anything more than make people better at the game itself.

In turn, his commitment has changed the study of psychiatric disease into a molecular field based on rigorous analysis of the action of specific genes and proteins.

This view on historic temperatures, particularly in the Medieval Warm Period, has been reversed by a number of more rigorous studies.

Her rigorous studies and focus on delivering impactful solutions to large problems make her the ideal recipient of the 2017 Blavatnik National Award in Chemistry.»

«Lila is a rigorous biophysical chemist, but unlike most chemists who avoid complexity and prefer reductionist type studies, Lila's whole career has been focused on applying chemistry and biophysical methods to the study of peptides and their role in biology as well as protein folding and trafficking in vivo,» says Jeffrey W. Kelly at The Scripps Research Institute.

None of the assertions are based on rigorous statistical associations, oceanographic observations or physically based simulations; it is all seat - of - the - pants stuff of a sort that was common in the early days of climate studies, but which is difficult to evaluate when viewed as a scientific hypothesis.

As the associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, my work has been focused on the rigorous study of the optimal diet for the brain, not just to prevent or mitigate Alzheimer's (obvious from the name of our clinic) but also to maintain memory, cognition, and focus over an entire lifetime.

At least two rigorous studies failed to find any link between the two, including a landmark 2003 study investigating the higher - than - average breast cancer risk among women living on Long Island.

As the associate director of the Alzheimer's Prevention Clinic at Weill Cornell Medical College, my work has been focused on the rigorous study of how our lifestyle choices — especially our diet — influence the health of our brains.

After a rigorous 4 years of study at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine, I completed my clinical internship at the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic - with a full year rotation on the paediatric focus shift - and the LAMP Community Health Centre both in Toronto, Ontario.

UACIM research activities contribute rigorous scientific studies on the integration of complementary therapies with conventional medicine, with a focus on educational research, corporate health improvement research, and methods to study clinical outcomes in integrative medicine.

Scientists have studied and shown the positive effects of CaHMB on increasing strength, lean mass, and decreasing muscle damage and improving recovery after rigorous exercise for decades.

--- Janet Bond Brill, PhD, RDN, nationally recognized nutritionist and author of three books on cardiovascular disease prevention «Dr. Varady's rigorous studies of alternate - day fasting have established its powerful ability to promote weight loss.