Sentences with phrase «significant bodies of evidence»

There is NOT a significant body of evidence to support whey protein as being more effective than other protein sources.

In June the British Psychological Society said there was «now significant body of evidence that the WCA is failing to assess people's fitness for work accurately and appropriately».

It's easy to day today that «the believers [of the «consensus» ulcer theory — S.] never had a significant body of evidence or research to support this contention.

While it is true that many scientists believed ulcers were due to stress and diet, and this was later proven wrong, as with many early medical beliefs, the believers never had a significant body of evidence or research to support this contention.

The trial judge erred in fact in misstating the scope of the evidence and in failing to relate a significant body of evidence to the issue of goodwill.

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While a number of vocal critics dispute the wisdom of these actions, there is general agreement - based on a growing body of evidence - that forward guidance and quantitative easing have had a significant and beneficial impact.

The evidence for the importance of board diversity is somewhat stronger than the evidence recommending board sizes of five or greater, in large part because there is a significant body of literature indicating that team diversity generally improves performance.

A growing body of evidence from NBO research worldwide suggests that large scale implementation could have a significant impact on postpartum depression, parenting stress, and a range of other factors that have potential to derail healthy development.

What really struck me was how feminised the Labour policy agenda has become, and what powerful evidence it provides for the shift in perspective that comes from having a significant body of women at the top of the party.

The findings, just reported in the journal Development and Psychopathology, add to a growing body of evidence that environmental factors, including maltreatment in childhood, can have a significant bearing on the negative psychosocial outcomes of attention - deficit hyperactivity disorder.

Up to one third of children are involved in bullying, and a growing body of evidence has shown that bullying is a significant public health concern, which can cause long lasting health and social problems.

«While there is a growing body of evidence to support active surveillance for men with low risk prostate cancer, men who have unfavorable - risk cancer and significant comorbidity, notably heart disease, may be best served by considering RT alone or possibly active surveillance.

«Not only does it add significant weight to the growing body of evidence that PCV prevents disease, but it suggests that vaccines may have a role to play in the fight against antibiotic resistance.»

This contributes to a growing body of evidence suggesting that social factors have had a significant influence on the evolution of facial expression.»

In recent years, a substantial body of evidence from clinical epidemiology and mouse models has revealed that the immune system presents a significant barrier to tumor formation and progression.

«Once again, Dr. Trasande and his collaborators have ignored both scientific principles and a significant body of research to generate alarmist headlines, create concern, and pressure public officials to disregard the weight of the scientific evidence.

According to a major review published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, there's no significant evidence that guzzling extra glasses will help flush your body of toxins, improve skin tone or reduce headaches any better than being adequately hydrated will.

«This new study adds to the body of evidence supporting the fact that indoor tanning poses significant risks.»

There is some debate as to what part of ketosis has the greatest impact on your body, but there's significant evidence to show that the ketogenic diet produces many notable effects.

Webinar description: Today, there is a growing body of evidence that nutrition and lifestyle can have a significant impact on both male and female fertility, and yet women are still told little more than to take a prenatal multivitamin and lose weight.

There is a significant body of high - quality evidence showing that part of this difference is causal (not explained by differences in student characteristics between two - and four - year colleges), although community colleges likely increase educational attainment relative to not attending college at all (http://papers.ccpr.ucla.edu/papers/PWP-CCPR-2012-004/PWP-CCPR-2012-004.pdf).

A growing body of empirical evidence indicates that significant adversity during childhood (e.g., from abuse or neglect, exposure to violence, deep and persistent poverty, and / or the cumulative burdens of racial or ethnic discrimination) can contribute to lifelong problems in learning, behavior, and chronic health impairments such as cardiovascular disease, hypertension, diabetes cancer, and depression, among many others.

Once we get beyond the idea that assessment is more than just quizzes and tests — and that it's the documentation of whereby you make this case that the student has done something significant — this body of evidence, if we want to stick with that judicial metaphor, proves the student actually learned something.

A growing body of evidence indicates that children who experience significant adversity are at increased risk for lifelong programs in learning, behavior, and health.

«Abstract: A growing body of evidence points to the size of schools as a significant determining factor in academic achievement.

Adding to a growing body of evidence of overall progress made by Newark's public schools and life outcomes for Newark students, two studies released this month by Harvard University and MarGrady Research reveal significant gains made by the school district.

A growing body of evidence suggests that racism lies behind a significant proportion of the cultural «insensitivities» students from diverse backgrounds experience in school.

It's no secret that pets make us happier and now a growing body of scientific evidence is revealing that pet ownership (or even just petting an animal for an extended period of time) has a significant impact on physical and mental health.

In a letter distributed to family housing residents, Flatau said the breed choices chosen for the ban were based on «a significant body of empirical evidence indicating they are apt to violent behavior, often unpredictable and have the capability to inflict severe harm or death.»

Last week, the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and 10 other leading world bodies expressed the consensus view that «there is now strong evidence that significant global warming is occurring» and that «It is likely that most of the warming in recent decades can be attributed to human activities».

In this instance, however, the overall weight of the evidence from the cumulative body of information contained in this Public Health Review demonstrates that there are significant uncertainties about the kinds of adverse health outcomes that may be associated with HVHF, the likelihood of the occurrence of adverse health outcomes, and the effectiveness of some of the mitigation measures in reducing or preventing environmental impacts which could adversely affect public health.

However, our meta - analysis did find multiple lines of evidence of biases within our sample of articles, which were perpetuated in journals of all impact factors and related largely to how science is communicated: The large, statistically significant effects were typically showcased in abstracts and summary paragraphs, whereas the lesser effects, especially those that were not statistically significant, were often buried in the main body of reports.

«The sum of the evidence against saturated fat over the past half - century amounts to this: the early trials condemning saturated fat were unsound; the epidemiological data showed no negative association; saturated fat's effect on LDL - cholesterol (when properly measured in subfractions) is neutral; and a significant body of clinical trials over the past decade has demonstrated the absence of any negative effect of saturated fat on heart disease, obesity, or diabetes.

Since a large body of evidence links pollution with poor health, and health is an important part of human capital, efforts to reduce pollution could plausibly be viewed as an investment in human capital and thus a tool for promoting economic growth... We find robust evidence that ozone levels well below federal air quality standards have a significant impact on productivity: a 10 ppb decrease in ozone concentrations increases worker productivity by 4.2 percent.

In exemplary fashion, Mr. Tonkovich untangled a confusing body of evidence and argument, discerned the most important legal issues, and effectively presented submissions that were of significant assistance to the Court in the efficient resolution of this case.

These results are similar to those found in other sustained nurse home visiting studies, 1 14 although the intervention impacted on a broader range of domains of the home environment for this subgroup of women than has been reported previously.1 An increasing body of evidence from both animal and human studies suggests that stress in pregnancy has significant impacts on developmental and behavioural outcomes for children.29 While the mental development of children of mothers who were not distressed antenatally in both the intervention and comparison groups was comparable with the general population, children's development was particularly poor in the distressed subgroup in the absence of the MECSH intervention, suggesting that sustained nurse home visiting may be particularly effective in ameliorating some adverse developmental impacts for children of mothers with antenatal distress.

EA is the first comprehensive construct based on an integration of attachement theory / research emotional perspectives that describes both caregiver and child contributions to the parent - child relationship and that is supported by a significant body of empirical evidence and research - spanning almost two decades.

EA is the first comprehensive construct based on an integration of attachment theory / research and emotional perspectives that describes both caregiver and child contributions to the parent - child relationship and that is supported by a significant body of empirical evidence and research — spanning almost two decades.

High expressed emotion (EE) refers to affective attitudes and behaviors toward patients characterized by critical comments, hostility, and emotional over involvement (EOI).3 The construct has traditionally been applied to the study of familial relationships, and it is well established that levels of familial EE are significant predictors of outcome across a range of psychiatric and physical health conditions.4 A substantial body of this research has been carried out with people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia, and there is strong evidence that those living in high EE environments have a much higher risk of relapse than those living in low EE environments.5 The success of family intervention studies aiming to reduce high EE and relapses add to the support for a causal relationship.6, 7

Evidence for the importance of distinguishing between a more normative versus a more deviant character of communication between peers comes from a significant body of research on processes of deviancy training (i.e., rule - breaking talk and reinforcement thereof) during peer interactions in micro-time (i.e., over the course of seconds, minutes, or hours) and the link with the development of problem behaviors in macro-time (i.e., across years; Patterson, Dishion, & Yoerger, 2000; Wachs, 2015).