Sentences with phrase «several decades of research»

Several decades of research clearly demonstrate that high - quality, developmentally appropriate early childhood programs produce short - and long - term positive effects on children's cognitive and social development... A growing body of research indicates that more developmentally appropriate teaching in preschool... predicts greater success in the early grades

Thus, despite several decades of research, there is little consensus on whether childhood television viewing has beneficial, harmful, or negligible effects on educational achievement.10 This uncertainty is at least partly due to a lack of long - term follow - up data, particularly for school - age children.

Unfortunately, however, decision makers in family law and mental health fields remain largely ignorant about several decades of research on child development.

This often comes at enormous cost to all of us, because these far too often go unnoticed; the last several decades of research on human bonding offers powerful evidence that our relationships are based on the success of these many small everyday bids and responses.

These tools and materials are built on a decade of experience with school turnarounds and several decades of research about successful turnarounds across sectors.

And pioneering trans - fats researcher Mary G. Enig, Ph.D., formerly at the University of Maryland, says: «Several decades of research show consumption of trans fatty acids promotes heart disease, cancer, diabetes, immune dysfunction, obesity and reproductive problems.»

«Despite several decades of research, it has remained uncertain whether raised levels of triglyceride can cause heart disease,» said lead researcher Nadeem Sarwar, a lecturer in cardiovascular epidemiology at the University of Cambridge in England.

Although these economic models have provided a strong and unifying foundation for the development of theory about decision - making, several decades of research on these topics has produced a wealth of evidence demonstrating that, in practice, these models do not provide a satisfactory description of actual human behavior.

The Chain of Survival is a five - step process for providing treatment to victims of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) in 1990 after several decades of research into SCA.

Despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay, and bise xual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience.

The APA states despite the persistence of stereotypes that portray lesbian, gay, and bisexual people as disturbed, several decades of research and clinical experience have led all mainstream medical and mental health organizations in this country to conclude that these orientations represent normal forms of human experience.

Not exact matches

As I have written about several times of late, research in the past four decades has shown that the predominant largest factor influencing decisions on the part of buyers are their goals and their associated goal - directed behaviors.

The groundbreaking work that Daniel Patrick Moynihan did in 1965, on the black family, is an example — along with the critical research of psychologist Judith Wallerstein over several decades on the impact of divorce on children; Barbara Dafoe Whitehead's well - known work on the outcomes of single parenthood for children; Sara McLanahan and Gary Sandefur's seminal book, Growing Up with a Single Parent; and David Blankenhorn's Fatherless America, another lengthy summarization of the bad empirical news about family breakup.

Over the last several decades, more and more research has suggested that experiences in early life — even prenatal life — can have a disproportionate influence on the development of personality and physical and mental health.

Bill Mahoney of the New York Public Interest Research (NYPIRG) counted the number of bills introduced and passed in the Assembly and Senate for the past several decades, and found it was the lowest number since 1914, 98 years ago.

Vom Saal has spent several decades researching the potent effects of everyday low - dose exposure to chemicals like bisphenol A (BPA) that are known as endocrine disrupters.

«In fact, they are already experiencing sharp declines in population and extinction on a global scale, and they have become the focus of several research and conservation programmes in recent decades,» the scientist explains.

«Other research from our group has observed that over the past several decades, the US has developed a complex system of farming, storage, transportation, processing, manufacturing and marketing that favours a lower cost of highly processed foods,» she says.

Allen's research team also showed that prior to the recent (since ~ 1980 onwards) tropical widening, the tropical belt actually contracted for several decades, consistent with the reversal of the PDO during this earlier time period.

Summers got an earful, if not directly, as Spelke described in several interviews and in a high - profile public debate with her colleague and friend Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker how voluminous evidence from decades of research shows little if any inherently sex - based differences in infants or toddlers.

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.

Recent research indicates that unless forests are guaranteed to regrow to carbon parity, production of wood pellets for fuel is likely to put more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and preserve fewer species on the landscape during the next several decades.»

More than a decade ago several research colleagues from the University of Reims Champagne - Ardenne and Moët & Chandon and I decided to examine the behavior of bubbles in carbonated beverages.

Over several decades Pines and members of his research group have developed numerous ways to hyperpolarize the spins of atomic nuclei.

So for several decades, research focused on developing a vaccine for each of the four serotypes and then combining them.

But despite 2 decades of research, several potential AIDS vaccines have failed to teach the immune system to produce antibodies that can stop HIV.

Over at Discover magazine, Veronique Greenwood has written a terrific article explaining the development of gene therapy, one of the most promising avenues of medical research over the last several decades.

He appointed the late Mildred Cohn to a tenured faculty position in his department at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine in early 1960, when she had been struggling to earn a faculty position for several decades because of well - entrenched gender discrimination in U.S. academia, despite her sustained, brilliant research accomplishments.

To understand why cholesterol got a bad rep, we need to go back several decades — 1950s, in fact — and look at the research of Dr. Angel Keys.

The group questioned the motive of the new research pointing to the deceptive research, and it also defended its clandestine efforts by reaffirming findings over the last several decades that concluded sugar does not contribute to heart disease — a point that's only half - true, considering sugar contributes greatly to obesity, which can put one at a higher risk of developing heart disease.

The science is clear that high quality saturated and mono unsaturated fats are better for you than poly unsaturated and trans fats, and it also seems clear that eating small amounts of these high - quality fats may be beneficial... But there is absolutely zero evidence to suggest that basing one's diet on these fats is beneficial in the long run, and there is several decades» worth of research to suggest that eating too much fat and animal products is linked to cardiovascular disease.

A colleague informed him of a startling trend: liver cancer was plaguing affluent Filipinos at a much higher rate than their less - wealthy counterparts — a phenomenon that, despite a slew of other lifestyle differences, Campbell believed was linked to their higher intake of animal protein.1 Bolstering his suspicions, Campbell also learned of a recent study from India showing that a high protein intake spurred liver cancer in rats, while a low protein intake seemed to prevent it.2 Intrigued by this gem of little - known research, Campbell decided to investigate the role of nutrition in cancer growth himself — an endeavor that ended up lasting several decades and producing over one hundred publications (none of which pertained to Fight Club).3

He's spent several decades researching the nature of bingeing and overeating via work with his own patients and a self - funded research program with more than 40,000 participants.

The Paleo Diet is a whole food based approach to eating that coincides with the last several decades of scientific research.

Given that the majority of research over the past several decades has shown no beneficial effect of antioxidant supplementation, it has been recommended that the nutritive antioxidant requirements for individuals participating in exercise training should range between 100 to 200 percent of current recommendations for the general population.

Sweeney's study is part of a growing body of research showing that married men and women are more alike than they were several decades ago, sharing similar educational backgrounds and job experiences.

It is very much the product of changing attitudes about the Civil War and several decades» worth of scholarly research into Reconstruction.

The Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE) has tracked the teacher workforce over the course of several decades.

Three decades of research documents several types of pernicious test prep that have become pervasive in our schools.

It is likely that new research in the next several decades will offer insights that make important advances in the fields of learning and teaching.

Instructional coaching grows out of several trends that have been surfacing in research and practice over the past two decades.

Research over several decades has shown that when families are involved in their own child's education, their child does better in school — regardless of family background (e.g. race, educational level, income, marital status).

Dr. Marzano's Teacher Evaluation Model is based on his acclaimed Art and Science of Teaching framework and the meta - analytic research he has conducted over the past several decades.

They include Kai - ming Cheng, a professor at Hong Kong University who has been a member of the Hong Kong Education Commission, is intimately familiar with the Shanghai reforms and was recently appointed to the China State Advisory Committee on Curriculum Reform; Tom Corcoran, Co-director of the Consortium for Policy Research in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education ComResearch in Education at Columbia University and an early observer of the work of the Shanghai Municipal Education Commission; Ben Jensen, a principal at the Grattan Institute in Melbourne, Australia, whose research on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Comresearch on several aspects of the Shanghai system have drawn the notice of many observers; Vivien Stewart, Senior Advisor to Asia Society for education, and earlier, to the United Nations, who has been visiting, observing and leading delegations to China for more than a decade; and Minxuan Zhang, President of Shanghai Normal University and deputy director of the Shanghai Education Commission.

He provides evidence from several decades of scholarly research on teacher effectiveness to show that teachers do make a difference in student achievement as measured by large - scale standardized achievement tests.

Several decades of investment research has shown that fees are extremely important in determining long - term investment performance.

Dr. Bengston has been conducting research on this form of energy therapy for several decades and has proven the effectiveness of his techniques in ten controlled animal experiments conducted in five university biological and medical laboratories.

After graduating from the University of Montana with a degree in Wildlife Biology, he spent several decades working on a multitude of wildlife research projects.

I would also like to mention that during our 4 day / 3 night hike, we encountered several other hikers along the trail who were with various other tour companies (some of which I had researched prior to booking with Active Adventures), and were told several stories about various mishaps and / or negative experiences they were having with their tour leaders... perhaps we lucked out with our fantastic tour leader, but I definitely do not regret for a second my decision to ring in the third decade of my life with Active Adventures!

At the trial, several former Knoedler employees — including Melissa De Medeiros, who was Freedman's assistant, and Edye Weissler, the gallery's librarian — said they had done provenance research into the Rosales works to find documentation that proved the paintings were purchased decades ago by a Swiss collector with the help of either Ossorio or Herbert.