The approach of Picus and Odden to policies is simple: if a program
shows a large positive effect in one study, it should immediately be implemented across the state.
Whatever the focus, however, middle - class students
showed larger positive effects than did low - income students (Cooper, Charlton, Valentine, & Muhlenbruck, 2000).
Not exact matches
That is why a
large number of meta - analyses
showed a
positive effect of sport and physical activity on depression.
But when it comes to blood sugar and insulin sensitivity, the
positive effects of fish oil are so powerful that they almost rival the
effects of exercise, while a
large new study
showed that the synergistic blood sugar - lowering
effect of fish oil and regular exercise is more than impressive.
Plus, I've included prebiotic fiber, which has
shown significant
positive effects in the
large intestine3...
Findings from 94 independent tests
showed that implementation intentions had a
positive effect of medium - to -
large magnitude (d =.65) on goal attainment.
Once again, the results
showed even
larger positive effects than those obtained for the full sample.
As well, CT
showed larger effects on the mathematics achievement of special need students than that of general education students, the
positive effect of CT was greater when combined with a constructivist approach to teaching than with a traditional approach to teaching, and studies that used non-standardized tests as measures of mathematics achievement reported
larger effects of CT than studies that used standardized tests.
This research
shows that charter schools in the urban areas of Massachusetts have
large,
positive effects on educational outcomes.
Some studies
show positive effects on attendance and outcomes in smaller districts, although a 2010 Georgia study found students had improved passing rates on state - administered exams in
larger districts.
But ERA's research
shows that the RSD's willingness to close schools has actually been beneficial, finding that «roughly one - third of the reforms»
large positive effects on measured student achievement can be attributed to this process.»
The report
shows that the charter network has
positive effects on students» academic success in math and reading, and that elementary and middle schools in particular
show large gains in achievement.
Foukal et al did not claim to
show that solar forcing has no
effect on climate, merely that there is no
positive evidence for a longer term forcing
larger than seen over the 11 year cycle.
To point out just a couple of things: — oceans warming slower (or cooling slower) than lands on long - time trends is absolutely normal, because water is more difficult both to warm or to cool (I mean, we require both a bigger heat flow and more time); at the contrary, I see as a non-sense theory (made by some serrist, but don't know who) that oceans are storing up heat, and that suddenly they will release such heat as a
positive feedback: or the water warms than no heat can be considered ad «stored» (we have no phase change inside oceans, so no latent heat) or oceans begin to release heat but in the same time they have to cool (because they are losing heat); so, I don't feel strange that in last years land temperatures for some series (NCDC and GISS) can be heating up while oceans are slightly cooling, but I feel strange that they are heating up so much to reverse global trend from slightly negative / stable to slightly
positive; but, in the end, all this is not an evidence that lands» warming is led by UHI (but, this
effect, I would not exclude it from having a small part in temperature trends for some regional area, but just small); both because, as writtend, it is normal to have waters warming slower than lands, and because lands» temperatures are often measured in a not so precise way (despite they continue to give us a global uncertainity in TT values which is barely the instrumental's one)-- but, to point out, HadCRU and MSU of last years (I mean always 2002 - 2006) follow much better waters» temperatures trend; — metropolis and
larger cities temperature trends actually
show an increase in UHI
effect, but I think the sites are few, and the covered area is very small worldwide, so the global
effect is very poor (but it still can be sensible for regional
effects); but I would not run out a small warming trend for airport measurements due mainly to three things: increasing jet planes traffic, enlarging airports (then more buildings and more asphalt — if you follow motor sports, or simply live in a town / city, you will know how easy they get very warmer than air during day, and how much it can slow night - time cooling) and overall having airports nearer to cities (if not becoming an area inside the city after some decade of hurban growth, e.g. Milan - Linate); — I found no point about UHI in towns and villages; you will tell me they are not
large cities; but, in comparison with 20-40-60 years ago when they were «countryside», many small towns and villages have become part of
larger hurban areas (at least in Europe and Asia) so examining just
larger cities would not be enough in my opinion to get a full view of UHI
effect (still remembering that it has a small global
effect: we can say many matters are due to UHI instead of GW, maybe even that a small part of measured GW is due to UHI, and that GW measurements are not so precise to make us able to make good analisyses and predictions, but not that GW is due to UHI).
For example, the use of a single scaling for all other anthropogenic forcers doesn't sit well with me given the combination of spatially - heterogeneous
large (> 1W / m2)
positive and negative factors — but really it needs to be
shown why such a thing is an issue, and what
effect it might have.
Image: Orangutan marooned on deforested oil palm concession in Central Kalimantan (Greenpeace) In another move that
shows public pressure can have a
positive effect on big companies and their suppliers, the world's
largest consumer goods company and
In Denver, low - resource families who received home visiting
showed modest benefits in children's language and cognitive development.102 In Elmira, only the intervention children whose mothers smoked cigarettes before the experiment experienced cognitive benefits.103 In Memphis, children of mothers with low psychological resources104 in the intervention group had higher grades and achievement test scores at age nine than their counterparts in the control group.105 Early Head Start also identified small,
positive effects on children's cognitive abilities, though the change was for the program as a whole and not specific to home - visited families.106 Similarly, IHDP identified
large cognitive
effects at twenty - four and thirty - six months, but not at twelve months, so the
effects can not be attributed solely to home - visiting services.107