Sentences with phrase «scant research on»

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«The evidence for economic reform to date is scant and based on purported private statements rather than government pronouncements,» wrote Bruce Klingner, a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and former CIA official, in an October op - ed for the Los Angeles Times.

Research on the issue is scant.

Yet despite its high public visibility and near - ubiquity in blockbuster Hollywood science fiction, throughout most of its 55 - year history SETI has languished on the fringes of scientific research, garnering relatively scant funding and only small amounts of dedicated observation time on world - class telescopes.

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.

«The Parliament has produced a charter for the multibillion - pound animal - research industry to carry on business as usual, with scant regard either for animal welfare or public opinion,» says Michelle Thew, chief executive of the European Coalition to End Animal Experiments.

The research on IF's specific impact on women is scant, and even Stefani admits that the literature on the topic is small and mainly based on rat studies.

Infrared saunas often make health claims that make you think showing up once a week will make immortal, but the research on their benefits is pretty scant.

The scant magnet school literature is largely focused on two issues: a) their achievement effects [2] and b) their effects on socioeconomic or racial segregation [3](by far the largest focus of the extant research).

There has been scant evaluation of these approaches, and a lack of research on what works, and low costs.

Given that people on Brulle's side of the Global Warming / Climate Change argument have been making false claims for decades — for example, that New York and Washington would be under water by the year 20004 — and given that the mass media sound daily alarms about the climate threat, the statement in the National Research Council report that «some» information sources are «affected» by campaigns opposed to policies that would limit carbon dioxide emissions is scant foundation for believing a massive conspiracy exists.5

A scan of the research and evaluation literature on home visiting programs reveals scant attention to this issue.

Conclusions: Overall, the current literature on the role of therapeutic relationship in e-therapy is scant, and much more research is needed to understand the therapeutic relationship in online environments.

In evaluating the deleterious effects of missing in - school time, empirical research has almost exclusively focused on absences, and the scant amount of empirical literature on tardiness has focused on academic achievement.

Although a considerable amount of research on mindfulness has been conducted by relationship researchers interested in psychological or other health - related variables (Brown & Ryan, 2003; Brown et al., 2007; Evans et al., 2011; Kabat - Zinn, 1990, 1993, 1994), research regarding its tie to communication has remained scant (for an exception see Huston, Garland, & Farb, 2011; Jones & Hansen, 2014).