Sentences with phrase «significant body of literature»

A significant body of literature also points to differences in access to reading materials by students from low - income families in comparison to their more affluent peers (Allington & McGill - Franzen, 2008).

Although a significant body of literature suggests that obesity reduces risk of osteopenia and osteoporosis (1, 2), there are also numerous recent reports that obesity and its comorbidities reduce bone formation (3 — 6).

He chooses this tome when a significant body of literature has for over a century pointed to the Reformation as the Rubicon of secularization, beginning with Max Weber's seminal The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism in 1905.

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.

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How to Fix the Future is a truly important book and the most significant work so far in an emerging body of literature — others of note are Tim Wu's The Attention Merchants and Zeynep Tufekci's Twitter and Tear Gas — in which technology's smartest thinkers are raising alarm bells about the state of the Internet, and laying groundwork for how to fix it.

«Current guidelines for weight loss surgery in adolescents: A review of the literature,» which Mudd conducted with a colleague, highlights the significant variance in current guidelines, particularly when it comes to age, body mass index, and co-occurring health problems.

And once I started reading, it quickly became evident that Susan Cain's contribution to the existing body of literature would be significant.

On the other end of the scale, Blume won the Margaret A. Edwards Award in 1996, an ALA lifetime achievement award recognizing an author and her body of work for «significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.»

The Margaret A. Edwards Award, established in 1988, honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.

Margaret A. Edwards Award The Margaret A. Edwards Award honors an author, as well as a specific body of his or her work, for significant and lasting contribution to young adult literature.

Idris Khan: A World Within, a survey bringing together significant bodies of work, drawing on a range of interests including classical music, the history of art, literature, philosophy and religion, is at The New Art Gallery Walsall, 3 February - 7 May 2017.

The exhibition will bring together significant bodies of work drawing on a range of interests including classical music, the history of art, literature, philosophy and religion.

This significant new study adds to a growing body of peer - reviewed literature and other scientific analyses challenging former Vice President Al Gore and the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

Although such arguments continue to rage, there is no doubt that there is a significant body of scientific opinion (as well as published peer - reviewed literature [5]-RRB- that is sceptical of the alarmist claims by green activists about the effect of carbon dioxide emissions on the climate.

Invariably, a significant body of peer - reviewed medical literature is analyzed by these experts.