Sentences with phrase «strong use of evidence»

CRPE will report on how each of the 50 state plans addresses key opportunities such as innovative state / local governance models, coherent accountability and school improvement «theories of action,» strong use of evidence and experimentation, and so on.

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The programs with the greatest promise in affecting these outcomes have employed professional home visitors, with the strongest evidence coming from trials of programs using nurses.

The biggest accolade pacifiers receive from researchers is that there is strong evidence to suggest that if a baby uses a pacifier while sleeping, then their chance of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) is less than an infant who sleeps without a pacifier.

Some barriers include the negative attitudes of women and their partners and family members, as well as health care professionals, toward breastfeeding, whereas the main reasons that women do not start or give up breastfeeding are reported to be poor family and social support, perceived milk insufficiency, breast problems, maternal or infant illness, and return to outside employment.2 Several strategies have been used to promote breastfeeding, such as setting standards for maternity services3, 4 (eg, the joint World Health Organization — United Nations Children's Fund [WHO - UNICEF] Baby Friendly Initiative), public education through media campaigns, and health professionals and peer - led initiatives to support individual mothers.5 — 9 Support from the infant's father through active participation in the breastfeeding decision, together with a positive attitude and knowledge about the benefits of breastfeeding, has been shown to have a strong influence on the initiation and duration of breastfeeding in observational studies, 2,10 but scientific evidence is not available as to whether training fathers to manage the most common lactation difficulties can enhance breastfeeding rates.

At one extreme, some certifiers have abandoned using SIDS as a cause - of - death explanation.7 At the other extreme, some certifiers will not classify a death as suffocation in the absence of a pathologic marker of asphyxia at autopsy (ie, pathologic findings diagnostic of oronasal occlusion or chest compression8), even with strong evidence from the scene investigation that suggests a probable accidental suffocation.

The ICPC said its investigation into the petition had revealed strong evidence of collusion, bid rigging and corrupt practices against Namylas Nigeria Limited in the bid process; and that the company used falsified, forged and doctored PENCOM Compliance Certificate, Tax Clearance Certificate and ITF Certificate of Compliance to submit its bid during the bidding process.

ICPC's investigation into the petition had revealed strong evidence of collusion, bid rigging and corrupt practices against Namylas Nig Ltd in the bid process; and that the company used falsified, forged and doctored PENCOM Compliance Certificate, Tax Clearance Certificate and ITF Certificate of Compliance to submit its bid during the bidding process.

Ministers appeared sympathetic to evidence that cannabis was getting stronger, due to the greater availability of skunk, and the reported links between cannabis use and mental illness.

Perhaps most exciting of all is strong evidence, now repeated in several studies, that moderate regular use of cannabis in middle age can delay and even prevent the onset of Alzheimer's.

Although audit and feedback is often suggested as a way of improving hand hygiene, this study puts its use on a firmer footing than previous non-randomised studies, providing the strongest evidence yet that this is an effective way to improve hand hygiene when coupled with a repeating cycle of personalised goal - setting and action planning.

They are done because you have evidence, the people who breached the law and thereby caused damage to the public interest... Strong evidence of wrong doing which a court of law can reliably use to convict,» he said.

The government said it wanted to use evidence of the affairs at Mr. Silver's sentencing, most likely to counter testimonials from the defense that he was a man of good character, strong ethics and integrity.

While some evidence was found to support hypotheses that cannabis use is a contributory factor in increasing the risk of schizophrenia, the researchers were surprised to find stronger evidence that the opposite was also likely.

While we find stronger evidence that schizophrenia risk predicts cannabis use, rather than the other way round, it doesn't rule out a causal risk of cannabis use on schizophrenia.

The statistical significance of the signal is supposedly very high, exceeding the «five - sigma» standard that physicists use to distinguish evidence strong enough to claim discovery.

Using an algorithm Van Veen developed to parse the detailed EEG data, the researchers were able to compile strong evidence of the directional flow of information.

«Despite strong evidence against the use of codeine in children, the drug continues to be prescribed to large numbers of them each year,» said Sunitha Kaiser, MD, UCSF assistant clinical professor of pediatrics at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital San Francisco and lead author.

«Limited data on medical cannabis use in children: Strongest evidence supports use to reduce seizures, side effects of chemotherapy.»

In fact, just one site earlier than the 400,000 year mark has strong evidence of controlled fire use, the pair says: the 780,000 - year - old Gesher Benot Ya'aqov site in Israel.

An analysis of more than 120 studies that examined the effectiveness of medications to treat alcohol use disorders reports that acamprosate and oral naltrexone show the strongest evidence for decreasing alcohol consumption, according to a study in the May 14 issue of JAMA.

We may conclude that even though the visual system can make sophisticated use of such abstract properties as the physics of luminance ratios and the statistics of segmentation required for transparency, it is «dumb» with regard to other characteristics such as color because of the happenstance manner in which its hardware (or «squishy - ware») evolved through natural selection — strong evidence against «intelligent design.»

According to the Italian - led experimental collaborations behind the proposal — ICARUS and NESSiE — the simultaneous measurement of muon and electron neutrinos at both near and far detectors would provide much stronger evidence for or against the existence of sterile neutrinos than is possible with just a single detector like the one used for LSND.

Examples of use and non-use are cited from early childhood education, where empirical evidence on program effects is relatively strong.

A new study has found strong evidence that tobacco use can chemically modify and affect the activity of genes known to increase the risk of developing cancer.

Based on the strong evidence of effectiveness, «We should not limit or impede the use and expansion of buprenorphine therapy,» write Drs. Xiaofan Li, Daryl Shorter, and Thomas Kosten, of the Menninger Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine and Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Houston, Texas.

The report proposes further research to determine whether the validity of latent fingerprint analysis is strong enough to be used as evidence.

Maunakea, Hawaii — Astronomers using several of the largest telescopes on Earth and space have discovered the brightest galaxy yet found in the early Universe and have strong evidence that examples... Read more»

Brushing with fluoride toothpaste has played — and continues to play — a major role in combating tooth decay, and there is strong scientific evidence that daily use of fluoride toothpaste has a pronounced preventive effect.

«Scientists use the ratio of the various sulfur isotopes as their strongest evidence for atmospheric oxygen.»

• Patients must have adequate coagulation (international normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT), partial thromboplastin time (PTT) ≤ 1.5 times ULN) • Adequate liver function (total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times the ULN, alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 2.5 times ULN Exclusion Criteria: • Presence of active / uncontrolled central nervous system involvement • History of clinically significant cardiac disease; uncontrolled hypertension • Left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) < 45 % • Allogeneic stem cell transplant within 100 days before first dose of study drug • Known history of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection • Chronic or active hepatitis B or C, requiring antiviral therapy • Evidence of history of bleeding disorder, dialysis, or coexisting cancer that is distinct in primary site or histology from the cancer evaluated in this study • Serious, uncontrolled infection • Unresolved chronic toxicity > grade 1 from prior therapy • Use of strong CYP3A4 inhibitors or strong inducers within 7 days prior to the start of study treatment and for the duration of the study

Cold Spring Harbor, NY — Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of an interbreeding event between Neanderthals and modern humans that occurred tens of thousands of years earlier than any other such event previously documented.

Cancer Prevention Breakthrough Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center scientists have provided definitive evidence that oral HPV infection, acquired through oral sex, is a stronger risk factor for oropharyngeal head and neck cancer than is combined heavy use of alcohol and tobacco.

On February 21, 2012, astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope announced that they had obtained strong supporting evidence that GJ 1214 b mostly likely has a steamy atmosphere of water based on analysis of its colors in infrared light.

Using several different methods of DNA analysis, an international research team has found what they consider to be strong evidence of interbreeding...

We use GenERA to survey the entire regulatory landscape of a 3 «UTR, and apply it in a multiplex fashion to analyse combinatorial interactions between sets of miRNA response elements (MREs), providing strong evidence for cooperative activity.

According to the published, evidence - based guidelines update by the American Academy of Neurology and the American Headache Society, strong evidence supports its use in the prevention of migraine headaches.

Like many folk remedies, there is not strong scientific evidence supporting some of these claims, which explains why some uses of colloidal silver are controversial.

Digestive health: As reported in several issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association, digestion is the area where the most probiotics studies have been performed, with the strongest evidence to date occurring in the treatment of antibiotic - associated diarrhea.1 The use of antibiotics to clear an infection, especially over a long period of time, can destroy many of the natural bacteria in the gut, leading to an imbalance in the gut flora, favoring «bad» bacteria and allowing them to thrive.

There is strong anectdotal evidence that suggests that oral use of colloidal silver assists the immune system in dealing with viral infections such as Hepatitis C and HIV, through long term use of colloidal silver.

There is also strong evidence in support of it's use as a general health supplement, but for the purposes of this article, we'll focus on performance enhancement and muscle growth.

Whether clinical evidence exists for or is strong enough to support the use of such dietary regimens as health interventions is unclear.

I have adapted one of their figures into two new ones, showing the state of scientific evidence (strong and emerging separately) for «therapeutic uses of the ketogenic diet».

A person who makes good use of vintage items, such as the SC, and mixes colors and textures well can use the same hat, shoe, or jacket to evidence a variety of strong sartorial impressions.

«At the same time, there is a strong evidence - base indicating that the use of dramatic enquiry — a drama - based practice where the teacher and pupils work in roles within a fiction to explore a story in a particular setting with developing characters — as well as the creation of a «community of writers», where the teacher writes alongside the children as a role model, can make the process of writing more meaningful for children.»

Not only was it strong in its use of evidence, but the voice displayed a sense of discovery about the material and an enthusiasm for its central question.

It says the two with the strongest evidence in improving student outcomes are: content knowledge (including how students think about content); and quality of instruction (including effective questioning and use of assessment).

Current users of the book have said: «this is groundbreaking stuff... so simple and so powerful...», «I feel stronger because I know what to ask about the evidence... any evidence», «my primary colleagues love this book... now we bounce off each other and have become a great school», «Dr Slater is a real living teacher and I think a modern day maverick... as soon as I hear words like «the evidence says...» I use what I got from this book...» «I want the best from my students, my staff and myself and....

They found strong evidence of an instructional interaction with teachers such that, for some teachers, students» learning of macroeconomics increased using PBL but, for others, learning increased using more traditional instructional methods.

While there is little empirical evidence that the use of technology improves student learning, the descriptive evidence of technology's affect on student social studies experiences is strong.

While some ESSA programs allow the use of all four levels of evidence, Section 1003 requires that CSI and TSI schools use these funds only for interventions reflecting one of the highest three levels of evidence (Strong, Moderate, and / or Promising).