Sentences with phrase «scarce evidence of»

Logically, it would be pointless to use these data to project the costs of future heatwaves, since there is scarce evidence of any change.

Spending the summer in Quito, Ecuador, I found scarce evidence of contemporary art.

Local political leaders rarely object to rechartering such schools, even when there is scarce evidence of their effectiveness.

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Elsewhere, evidence of the SBA is scarce.

It might well be queried why these schemes continue to be promoted in pharmacies and schools.They are not cheap to run and, in an environment where resources are particularly scarce, there seem to be only two explanations: either policy makers are simply ignorant of the evidence or there is an ideological agenda at work.

Granted we could of gotten an average benchwarmer but the market evidence suggests that top CBs are pretty scarce.

One of the two recently developed midwife - led units has been threatened with closure on the grounds of scarce resources [7], despite evidence from a randomised controlled trial demonstrating that they are actually cost - effective [8], with overwhelmingly positive birth experiences reported [9].

Writing in a linked Comment, Gino Vumbaca from Harm Reduction Australia, said: «Evidence on the effectiveness of compulsory and voluntary drug dependence treatment in the Asian region has been scarce and this study is a much needed addition to the evidence base that is required to inform policy making... The present study provides solid evidence in support of urgent need to expand availability of and access to evidence based voluntary drug dependence treatment approaches to all whom are affected by drug depEvidence on the effectiveness of compulsory and voluntary drug dependence treatment in the Asian region has been scarce and this study is a much needed addition to the evidence base that is required to inform policy making... The present study provides solid evidence in support of urgent need to expand availability of and access to evidence based voluntary drug dependence treatment approaches to all whom are affected by drug depevidence base that is required to inform policy making... The present study provides solid evidence in support of urgent need to expand availability of and access to evidence based voluntary drug dependence treatment approaches to all whom are affected by drug depevidence in support of urgent need to expand availability of and access to evidence based voluntary drug dependence treatment approaches to all whom are affected by drug depevidence based voluntary drug dependence treatment approaches to all whom are affected by drug dependence.

Whatever the metabolic reason for this syndrome, says John Speth, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan's Museum of Anthropology, plenty of evidence shows that hunters through the ages avoided protein excesses, discarding fat - depleted animals even when food was scarce.

But the Sumatran evidence shows that some of the earliest people to depart from Africa figured out how to survive in rainforests, where detailed planning and appropriate tools are needed to gather seasonal plants and hunt scarce, fat - rich prey animals, Westaway and colleagues report online August 9 in Nature.

«The link between metabolism and cancer has been proposed or inferred to exist for a long time, but what is more scarce is evidence for a direct connection — genetic mutations in metabolic enzymes,» said senior author Ricardo C.T. Aguiar, M.D., Ph.D., associate professor of hematology - oncology in the School of Medicine and a faculty scientist with the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) at the UT Health Science Center and the South Texas Veterans Health Care System, Audie L. Murphy Division.

But evidence of domesticated cattle at Çatalhöyük is scarce until after the move to the West Mound.

Unfortunately, fossil evidence from this period, the dawn of the human race, is scarce and often ambiguous.

Although the evidence is mounting that expanding instructional time will result in real learning gains, evidence on the costs of extending the school year is much scarcer and involves a good deal of conjecture.

He specifically notes that previous research has found «scarce and weak» evidence of a relationship between tests of pedagogical knowledge and student achievement.

At a time when head teachers across England and Wales are crying out for sufficient funds to run their schools, provide pupils with a broad and balanced curriculum and retain teachers and support staff, the Government is proposing to lavish scarce education funding on a policy which all the evidence confirms will undermine the high standards of education that comprehensive schools have been able to achieve in the decades since selective education was ended in most parts of the country.

Seduced by dynamic presentations and jazzy technology, desperate school leaders jump onto education bandwagons, committing scarce resources to strategies and programs based more on wishes and promises than on solid evidence of effectiveness.

«This NAO report provides a challenging judgement on the work of this government in meeting its responsibilities around evidence - informed and impactful spending of scarce public resources in education, particularly around the improvement and retention of the existing teaching workforce.

Inside, evidence of cost - cutting is scarce.

The publication of this set of research papers is very timely as loss and damage will be a key topic during the climate negotiations in Warsaw next month (11 - 22 November 2013), and empirical evidence is still scarce.

On the contrary, it had been established for decades that the posterior distribution is sensitive to the choice of prior distribution when observational evidence is scarce.

While we have a good understanding of how modern Amazonian peoples live and use the rainforest, evidence of how ancient Amazon tribes impacted the forests has been scarce.

The Court of Appeal disagreed, finding that the trial judge erred by using the plaintiff's benching as evidence that employment opportunities for someone with his skills were very scarce.

Parental mental illness Relatively little has been written about the effect of serious and persistent parental mental illness on child abuse, although many studies show that substantial proportions of mentally ill mothers are living away from their children.14 Much of the discussion about the effect of maternal mental illness on child abuse focuses on the poverty and homeless - ness of mothers who are mentally ill, as well as on the behavior problems of their children — all issues that are correlated with involvement with child welfare services.15 Jennifer Culhane and her colleagues followed a five - year birth cohort among women who had ever been homeless and found an elevated rate of involvement with child welfare services and a nearly seven - times - higher rate of having children placed into foster care.16 More direct evidence on the relationship between maternal mental illness and child abuse in the general population, however, is strikingly scarce, especially given the 23 percent rate of self - reported major depression in the previous twelve months among mothers involved with child welfare services, as shown in NSCAW.17

The timing of these cuts could not be worse, as the greatest need for evidence arises when new money is scarce, and choices have to be made about which service systems and approaches work best.

While a substantial body of international evidence indicates that these children display poorer cognitive and socio - emotional outcomes than children living in traditional families, research on childhood mental disorders is scarce.

Empirical evidence on the development of peer clustering in smoking during the transition period from adolescence to adulthood is relatively scarce.

Evidence regarding the mediating role of academic self - efficacy among Asian American students is scarce, but a study by Eaton and Dembo (1997) found that, on average, Asian American ninth graders had lower academic self - efficacy beliefs but higher achievement behaviors compared to non-Asian American students, suggesting that academic self - efficacy may not be responsible for the high achievement of this group.