Sentences with phrase «significant evidence of impact»

They must also be evidence - based, meaning they demonstrate statistically significant evidence of impact or are working towards doing so.

Of these, RAND identified 60 SEL interventions, including Playworks Coach, that showed statistically significant evidence of impact from a «well - conducted research study.»

Not exact matches

«There is no evidence that a cut in corporate taxes is associated with any significant impact on employment,» conclude longtime U.S. tax policy researchers Karel Mertens of Cornell University and Morten O. Ravn of University College London.

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.

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

But, judging from recent messaging, Fed policymakers have yet to see compelling evidence of an acceleration in overall activity, viewing growth as set to remain at around trend rates, and are reluctant to factor in any significant impact from the Trump administration's future policies.

Still, when you couple this absence of increased credit with the lack of evidence that QE worked the way the Fed thought it would, you would be forgiven for wondering whether QE had any significant impact on output and employment at all.

We can be pretty certain, in terms of providing empirical evidence, that Jesus existed and made a significant impact on a group of people and on the course of history.

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.

A 2012 paper by the Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Essex studied the minimum wage and «found almost no evidence of significant adverse impacts on employment».

The Report highlights the significant shift since 2010 in DFID's international development strategy to increasingly promote private sector involvement in the design and delivery of education services, despite the fact that DFID's own research evidence questions the impact of such interventions in relation to education quality and equity for learners.

A study provides the first evidence that pollen production is significantly stimulated by elevated carbon dioxide in a grass species as a result of climate change, which may have significant impact on human health.

The discovery of coesite in the Chicxulub Crater under the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico was significant evidence that this geological formation resulted from the impact of a comet or large asteroid.

The evidence is clear from this study that a Minimum Unit Price would not have a significant effect on low risk drinkers but would target those for whom the impact of alcohol - related liver disease is most devastating.

«This study adds to the existing evidence base to suggest premature menopause can have a significant impact on cognitive function in later life which healthcare professionals must be aware of.»

To be eligible for funding through the IvP 2016 call, all proposals must be aligned to SFI's legal remit and must also either be aligned to one of the 14 priority research areas (see below) or to any other research area where there is convincing evidence that there will be significant potential for economic and / or societal impact in Ireland.

Therefore, there is, as yet, no robust evidence for realized severe disruptions of marine socioecological links from ocean acidification to anthropogenic CO2, and there are significant uncertainties regarding the level of pH change that would prompt such impacts.

The researchers concluded that only a few foods or dietary patterns have a significant impact on your risk for heart disease, whereas the vast majority of things that we dietitians typically recommend have only weak associations — or may even lack sufficient evidence to say that these foods impact heart disease at all.

There is no evidence that the levels of mycotoxins in the diets of developed countries have a significant impact on your health.

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.

And qigong, in particular, may have the most significant impact on reducing diastolic blood pressure [DBP], according to a review of studies published in Evidence - Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine (2017; article ID 9784271).

In their analysis, they found that Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound (ELOB) had highly promising and significant evidence of effectiveness (six studies across multiple states) to support the positive impact the program has on student achievement.

Feedback has a significant impact on learning, contributing a gain of eight months» worth of learning progress when implemented well (Evidence for Learning, 2017b).

The need we are addressing is the absence of an active R&D platform in the early childhood field (particularly in the first three years after birth) to confront the longstanding over-reliance on «evidence - based» programs that produce statistically significant but small magnitude impacts rather than a balanced agenda that includes the design and testing of innovative strategies that are aiming for substantially larger impacts at scale.

There is evidence to suggest that making publishing part of the English course and putting Creative Writing at the centre has had a significant impact on student engagement and achievement.

While the number of observations is too small to yield statistically significant evidence that charters are helping the district schools, they offer no help for the claim that they are having a negative impact.

Evidence points to the improvement - focused messaging having a stronger impact on both credit attainment and student attendance, though the size of the study limits our ability to call the difference in outcomes between positive and improvement messaging statistically significant.

Third, what evidence there is about the impact of various antecedents on leader efficacy suggests that results are either mixed or not significant.

Research evidence strongly concludes that the teaching of metacognitive skills has a significant impact on pupil progress.

Bold and courageous policies, including existing approaches with evidence of significant impact on student achievement in the state.

Charter schools also had significant positive effects on the reading scores of students with special needs.13 These results are supported by additional findings that charter schools have the most positive impacts on black and Hispanic students, and the least positive impacts on white students.14 In fact, research has found some evidence of negative impacts on white students and non-poor Hispanic students in both math and reading compared to their peers in traditional public schools.13 16

State policy and other ecosystem features have a significant impact on the role EMOs or CMOs play in a state, as evidenced by wide variation in the share of EMO - and CMO - run schools across states.

«While most of the publishers suspected a negative impact of piracy on legal sales,» the researchers wrote, «we find no evidence of a significant shift in sales because of pirated copies being available online.»

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.

The U.S. pet industry is paws down — and fins, claws, scales, and wings down — an important and significant contributor to the U.S economy as evidenced by the findings of a recently announced study at the Pet Industry Leadership Conference on the economic impact of the U.S. pet industry.

Of course Mass may feel that a linear regression of average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011 heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculationOf course Mass may feel that a linear regression of average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011 heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculationof average Texas summer temperatures since 1895 provides conclusive evidence for his case that AGW is currently far too weak to play a significant role in the Texas 2011 heatwave (an argument he recycles in his Aug 9 blog post), but it is strange Mass picks on Rupp et al 2012 without mentioning Massey et al 2012 in the same collection of papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculationof papers that similarly finds AGW impacts in excess of Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculationof Mass's method (3 times in excess by my calculation).

Taken in total, the vast majority of evidence suggests that anthropogenic forcings are now dominant and that human impact over the next century will be significant, possibly catastrophic.

What this model shows is that if orbital variations in insolation impact ice sheets directly in any significant way (which evidence suggests they do Roe (2006)-RRB-, then the regression between CO2 and temperature over the glacial - interglacial cycles (which was used in Snyder (2016)-RRB- is a very biased (over) estimate of ESS.

A review of studies looking at the impact of music therapy («personalized music experience offered by trained music therapists») and music medicine («listening to pre-recorded music provided by a doctor or nurse») in people with cancer has found significant evidence that music does indeed ease symptoms of cancer.

In fact previous climate warming after the last ice age did have significant negative impacts on early human settlements (evidence of periods of significant and rapid regional sea level rise).

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.

Climate and environmental scientists have frequently invoked the term Anthropocene to highlight the impact of humans on the planet, and even started to think about how and when to date the most significant evidence of change.

His argument will be based on probability and impact — that there is now enough evidence to render significant adverse impact likely, and that the human and economic cost of inaction would outweigh the cost of effective action.

At present, as I discussed in my analysis article on Tuesday, evidence for widespread ecological damage is thin; so we have to presume that as of now, the significant volume of oil that remains (even a quarter of 4.9 milion barrels is still far more than released by the Exxon Valdez) is not hitting enough of those key zones to be having a major impact.

More Scientific Evidence For CO2's Dubious Climate Impact Emerges Image Source: Robertson and Chilingar, 2017 According to the most basic precepts of anthropogenic global warming (AGW), variations in CO2 concentrations exert significant control on sea surface temperatures, glaciers, sea levels, and generalized climate dynamics (i.e., precipitation patterns).

Massive policy impacts need very highly significant evidence Proposed mitigation of majority anthropogenic global warming has very highly significant consequences, demanding massive transformation of our energy generation and use.

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.

If communication researchers have trouble establishing clear evidence of a significant impact for Climategate, what explains the apparent overreaction by scientists and their bunker mentality?

In addition, they state that there was «no significant correlation between calcification rate and seawater aragonite saturation (Ωarag)» and «no evidence of CO2 impact on bleaching.»