Sentences with phrase «significant research gap»

«The lack of comprehensive analysis regarding cumulative impact of small hydropower,» Kibler said, «is a significant research gap with important policy implications.»

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Research Shows Enterprises Are At Significant Risk From Common Endpoint Device Security Gaps

First, according to the Pew Research, among countries currently debating national identity issues, there is a significant age gap between those who view religious affiliation as essential to national identity.

«After many years of critical research and significant investment, we are delighted to see the first of our range of human milk oligosaccharides becoming commercially available, thus addressing a major gap in the nutritional composition of infant formula,» says Prof. Wim Soetaert, Inbiose executive chairman.

Discrimination is not a significant cause in the gender pay gap between men and women, according to new research released today.

To fill this gap, the researches mapped wilderness areas — biologically and ecologically intact landscapes that are free of any significant human disturbance — and compared their current map to the one produced using the same methods in the early 1990s.

At a time when the Government is working to reduce the current skills gap between the number of technology jobs and the people qualified to fill them, the research has revealed a significant increase in expenditure on technology, with schools currently realising an increase in their budgets of 6.6 per cent.

«One of the reasons behind the gap between the research and practitioner communities is the impression among teachers and school administrators that investing in social and emotional skills will involve significant additional efforts and resources.

The research was funded by the Nuffield Foundation and found that taking part in after - school clubs could play a significant role in closing the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their better off peers.

«The Middle Skills Gap Initiative exemplifies the kind of action - oriented research that can have a significant impact in the world,» said Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria.

Schools actually narrow the achievement gap; it's what affluent children get before they start school that gives them significant academic advantages over the children of the middle class and the poor, according to the research.

There is shockingly little publicly available information on the amount and proportion of dollars districts spend on take - home teacher pay, and this is a significant gap in the national research.

By considering subgroup performance data from 2001 - 2004, the research team sought to determine which schools, including those not making Adequate Yearly Progress, were, in fact, making significant progress toward closing the gap.

For these and other reasons, an extensive body of research suggests that small schools and small learning communities have the following significant advantages: • Increased student performance, along with a reduction in the achievement gap and dropout rate • A more positive school climate, including safer schools, more active student engagement, fewer disciplinary infractions, and less truancy • A more personalized learning environment in which students have the opportunity to form meaningful relationships with both adults and peers • More opportunities for teachers to gather together in professional learning communities that enhance teaching and learning • Greater parent involvement and satisfaction • Cost - efficiency Ultimately, creating successful small learning communities and small schools at the middle level increases the chances for students to be successful in high school and beyond.

Recent research in Maryland, Illinois, and at the National Center for Education Statistics, has shown that standardized tests create a significant technology gap for students in high - poverty schools — students receive lower scores on computer - based tests than they would using pencil and paper.

In light of recent research by Sean Reardon and associates at Stanford's Center for Education Policy Analysis that achievement / opportunity gaps are due primarily to differences that occur before third grade, it is significant that school effectiveness can move the needle at the third - grade level.

We discussed the research that shows how the awkward, computerized format of the SBAC test creates a significant technology gap for students in high - poverty schools.

The research also failed to find a «significant positive impact» on social mobility, and in fact found that the gap between the proportion of children on free school meals attaining five A * to C GCSEs including English and maths and all other children was actually wider in selective areas (34.1 per cent) than in non-selective areas (27.8 per cent).

Significant gaps exist among 401 (k) plan sponsors, recordkeepers and plan participants in their perceptions on several important priorities, new research from Cerulli Associates finds.

As the One Health initiative grows to bridge the gap between human and veterinary medicine, there has been significant research in the area of comparative oncology.

NEW YORK, September 18, 2017: Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and partners announced first - of - its - kind research today analyzing finance flows for electricity and clean cooking access in 20 countries across Africa and Asia with significant access gaps, and how finance strategies could be scaled and refined to reach more people, more affordably, with sustainable energy.

Congressman Mollohan (D - WV), who called for the study together with Congressman Rahall (D - WV), said the GAO study found there were «significant gaps in the research on how these facilities impact wildlife.

The research reveals a significant bias towards the West — with 83 % of lawyers at the top 30 firms based in Europe or North America — and clear gaps in key trading areas around the world.

Presentations and discussions at the recent Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women's Health Conference in Sydney revealed significant gaps in the health sector in policy, research, practice and k...

Most egregiously, this has led to the axing of primary health care research, development and evaluation with the loss of the PHCRED Strategy and BEACH; mental health reforms floundering between Primary Health Networks and the National Disability Insurance Scheme; and efforts to Close the Gap on Indigenous disadvantage making little progress due to significant budget cuts and program delivery increasingly removed from Indigenous organisations.

Although significant progress has been made in what we know about the impact of trauma on early childhood development, there remains, as pediatrician Jack Shonkoff (National Research Council and Institute of medicine, 2000) has said, a substantial gap between what we know and what we do.

Previous research has shown that the proportion of smokers who reported living in smoke - free homes was increasing faster among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders than among other Australians, but that a gap remained in 2008.5 Our study demonstrates that this gap now appears to have been closed, reflecting a significant change in behaviour by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander smokers.

This study is a product of an ongoing collaboration between the OSLC Latino Research Team and Centro LatinoAmericano (the largest social services agency for Latino families in the local area) to address significant gaps in prevention science and intervention services to evaluate and address the needs of Latino families with youngsters at risk for substance use and related problems.

Unexpectedly, research identified a «transmission gap» (van IJzendoorn, 1995a, b; van IJzendoorn and Bakermans - Kranenburg, 1997) because the mediating role of maternal sensitivity was significant but modest.