Sentences with phrase «scientific analyses of evidence»

Perform scientific analyses of evidence in the police crime laboratory in connection with crime detection and law enforcement activities.

Not exact matches

«And to focus more precisely on the issue of «scientific evidence,» the sciences, ordered by their nature and method to an analysis of empirically verifiable objects and states of affairs within the universe, can not even in principle address questions regarding God, who is not a being in the world, but rather the reason why the finite realm exists at all.......

The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

The Code permits manufacturers and distributors of breastmilk substitutes to provide «scientific and factual» information on their products to health workers, but analysis shows what they provide is promotional and rarely supported by independent evidence.

If you read the scientific and medical literature, the controversy about bed sharing safety primarily concerns babies less than 20 weeks old, and the most recent meta - analysis of published studies found no evidence of increased risk for babies over 3 months of age (Carpenter et al 2013).

Objective To conduct a meta - analysis of available scientific evidence on the association between breastfeeding and childhood leukemia.

To conduct a meta - analysis of available scientific evidence on the association between breastfeeding and childhood leukemia.

«The model offers the potential to put linkage analysis on a more reliable and scientific basis, increases standardization, reduces the workload of police investigators and improves the prospect of using linkage analysis as evidence in legal proceedings,» explained Porter.

Our blood analysis service is built on a foundation of scientific evidence and has been designed with a healthcare setting in mind.

New research published online in the journal PLoS ONE is the first scientific analysis of the oldest known evidence of a shamanic costume in Europe.

Regardless of the type of legal proceeding or which side uses scientific evidence, the forensic scientist must be able to write a report and testify under oath about: what facts or items of evidence were analyzed or tested; what tests or analyses were used; how valid or reliable those tests or analyses have been found to be by other courts; why and how the forensic scientist was qualified to conduct those tests or analyses; and, what the results of the tests or analyses were and how those results are relevant to the issues in dispute.

He describes the ancestor around 6 million years ago who was common to chimpanzees and humans, siting the three major sources of compelling scientific evidence for that common ancestors: DNA (which shows humans more closely related to chimps than gorillas are); DNA gene analysis; and morphological evidence from fossils.

The analysis found that significant scientific evidence still supports that doses of 3 grams of oats per day can lower LDL cholesterol levels by 5 to 10 percent.

Various on - line dating sites claim that their methods for pairing individuals produce more frequent, higher quality, or longer lasting marriages, but the evidence underlying the claims to date has not met conventional standards of scientific evidence including: (i) sufficient methodological details to permit independent replication; (ii) open and shared data to permit a verification of analyses; (iii) the presentation of evidence through peer - reviewed journals rather than through Internet postings and blogs; (iv) data collection free of artifacts, such as expectancy effects, placebo effects, and confirmatory biases by investigators; and (v) randomized clinical trials (3, 9).

Effects of Teacher Professional Development on Gains in Student Achievement: How Meta - Analysis Provides Scientific Evidence Useful to Education Leaders (PDF).

With these concepts in mind, the Center employs the following three - stage process: • Knowledge Synthesis — a critical analysis of cutting - edge science and program evaluation research to identify core concepts and evidence - based findings that are broadly accepted by the scientific community.

To this end, the Center has developed a three - stage knowledge transfer process: (1) Knowledge Synthesis — a critical analysis of cutting - edge science and program evaluation research to identify core concepts and evidence - based findings that are broadly accepted by the scientific community; (2) Knowledge Translation — the identification of gaps in understanding between scientists and the public, and the development of effective language to communicate accurate scientific information in a way that can inform sound public discourse; and (3) Knowledge Communication — the production and dissemination of a wide variety of publications and educational media via print, the Web, and in - person presentations.

Clear and compelling analysis of scientific evidence and descriptions of historic events bring this little - known tragedy to life.

Veterinarians are becoming increasingly aware of the problems associated with trying to visually identify dog breeds and some have instituted statements similar to the following in their practices: «Because new scientific evidence has called into question the accuracy of visual breed identification of dogs, our hospital has adopted a policy to not identify canine patients by predominant breed unless the dog is purebred, the predominant breed of the dog's parents is known, or the dog's lineage has been established through the use of DNA analysis.»

For an analysis that, in contrast, reflects an understanding of the scientific evidence that is generally shared in the climate science community, see MacCracken's recent journal article, «Prospects for Future Climate Change and the Reasons for Early Action,» which is posted on the Climate Institute Web site here (3.2 MB).

As EPA nears the release of its finalized hydraulic fracturing / water report, the weight of scientific study and analysis backs the agency's preliminary conclusion that there's no evidence that fracking has led to «widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water resources in the United States.»

On the first sentence stating that the WGI report considers evidence of past and future climate change based on many independent scientific analyses from observations of the climate system, paleoclimate archives, theoretical studies of climate processes, and simulations using climate models, Saudi Arabia proposed clarifying that evidence of future climate change is based on models and simulations only.

Robust evidence (just using AGW «scientific» terminology) on the occurrence of a MGW, warmer than the last decade warming, comes from the analysis of the flux of biogenic opal (SiO2.nH2O).

Carl Sagan's scientific baloney detector warns that when the messengers are attacked instead of the evidence and logic, it is a sure sign a discussion has veered away from the foundations of critical scientific analyses.

Handaxes in dried - up ponds and watercourses: Isaac (1977); F. Clark Howell, «Isimila: A Paleolithic site in Africa,» Scientific American 205:118 - 129 (1961); M. R. Kleindienst and C. M. Keller, «Towards a functional analysis of handaxes and cleavers: The evidence from East Africa,» Man 11:176 - 187 (1976).

There is no evidence of a recent pause or hiatus in global warming, according to an analysis of 40 peer - reviewed studies on the subject published Tuesday in the Scientific Reports, a peer - reviewed journal of the Nature Publishing Group.

Instead of assuming every peak in a frequency analysis constitutes sufficient evidence for the existence of a cycle, I only consider those where abundant evidence exists in the scientific literature that solar cycles match the climate evidence precisely.

The IPCC should of course change its conclusions and confidence levels in response to new scientific evidence and analyses.

«Investigations» of scientific misconduct should themselves align with the usual principles of scientific discourse (open discussion, honesty, transparency of method, public disclosure of evidence, open public analysis and public discussion and reasoning underlying any conclusion).

IMO, what would be more interesting and more valuable to look at the underlying issues related to «availability cascades» as they exist in a non-tribal framework and then, perhaps, carefully and with due skeptical diligence and application of a scientific approach to analysis determine whether this balance that you assert (based on purely anecdotal evidence gathering I assume?)

The whole point of the scientific process is to move beyond, as much as is humanly possible, the political and cultural biases that every human being has, and to instead encourage rational, objective analysis of the evidence at hand.

Poor Communication by Scientists + Full Court Press by Denial Lobbyists to Blame Over at Huffington Post, Andrew Weaver, professor of climate analysis at the University of Victoria, pretty much nails why this is happening — despite the fact that scientific evidence continues to mount that global warming is indeed happening and caused in the largest part by human activity:

... leaves readers with such an inaccurate and misleading impression of the evidence on the causes of climate change that is documented in the scientific literature... My analysis indicates that (your company) provided more that $ 2.9 million to organizations in the United States which misinformed the public about climate change through their websites.»

The Judge addressed the specific issues that arise when dealing with a decision based in part on scientific assessments which involve a predictive element and held that the Reviewing Judge had been inappropriate in entering into his own analysis of the reliability of the scientific evidence before him.

In this case, logical analysis and discussion of the evidence with the opposing expert, resulted in all of the referred complaints having been accepted to have been without scientific foundation.

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Further, in describing flaws in the data the EEOC's expert Kevin Murphy relied upon to support the disparate impact claim, the Judge labeled these reports as 1) «laughable»; 2) «based on unreliable data»; 3) «rife with analytical error»; 4) containing «a plethora of errors and analytical fallacies,» and a «mind - boggling number of errors»; 5) «completely unreliable»; 6) «so full of material flaws that any evidence of disparate impact derived from an analysis of its contents must necessarily be disregarded»; 7) «distorted»; 8) «both over and under inclusive»; 9) «cherry - picked»; 10) «worthless»; and 11) «an egregious example of scientific dishonesty.»

Generalist forensic science technicians, sometimes called criminalists or crime scene investigators, collect evidence at the scene of a crime and perform scientific and technical analysis in laboratories or offices.

Preliminary evidence from descriptive studies within programs and meta - analyses of randomized trials (comparing programs with different characteristics) suggest that it will be important to adhere to established program models until there is sufficient evidence to support revisions.14 Although the scientific literature provides some comparison of effects for programs with different constellations of characteristics, the field of home visits is still in its infancy as far as determining the relative importance of any specific characteristic is concerned.