Sentences with phrase «scant research»

There has been scant research examining the rate at which muscles, or people, recover from training.

Yet there's scant research evidence that teachers use pre-assessment in ways that improve learning, according to Guskey and McTighe.

While scant research has been done on the effectiveness of watermarking against piracy, it stands to reason that watermarking reduces the chances of an e-book showing up on pirate websites for sharing.

There is scant research on how the parenting practices of custodial grandmothers affect the psychological adjustment of grandchildren in their care.

While a few studies have indicated that cupping may reduce pain and increase well being, as The New York Times notes there's scant research to determine whether it's anything more than a placebo effect.

Scant research had been done since, during which time U.S. electricity usage patterns have changed as air conditioning and household electronics have become more pervasive, observes economist Matthew Kotchen of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

There's scant research that's similar in the United States, likely because of the dubious ethics involved in keeping an animal brain «alive» apart from its body.

But as new science is brought to bear on old cases, it is becoming clear that over the past several decades, dozens, perhaps hundreds, of people have been convicted of arson based on scant research and misguided beliefs.

Despite this fact, there is scant research that examines the nature of the paths — both the number and types of institutions — that students take to obtain a bachelor's degree or through the higher education system more generally.

Outside of and in spite of these scant research efforts, many shelters had operated for decades through the vertical transfer of knowledge perpetuated by personal experience and by perception.