Sentences with phrase «study of number sense»

She pioneered the study of number sense in newly hatched chicks.

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Third, a number of studies have shown that Taylor Rules are robust in the sense that they generally perform quite well across a range of different assumptions about how the economy is structured and operates.

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Lest common sense fail to convince readers that surgery is not a treatment for a mental disorder, a Swedish study published in 2011 found that over the long term, 324 people who had undergone sex - reassignment surgery demonstrated an alarmingly high suicide rate and experienced considerably higher numbers of severe psychiatric problems than were present in the general population.

The Winter, 1986 issue of Process Studies, Volume 15, Number 4 is devoted to the problem of the analogy of society in the technical Whiteheadian sense to human societies.

Volume XVI, Number 1 Tending the Flame: The Link Between Education and Childhood — Philip Incao Why Love Matters: How Affection Shapes a Baby's Brain — Sue Gerhardt Research into Resilience — Christof Wiechert Reading Research Supports the Waldorf Approach — Sebastian Suggate Thinking and the Sense of Thinking — Detlef Hardop Outline of a Study Methology — Elan Leibner The Founding Intentions — Michaela Glöckler Attending to Interconnection: Living the Lesson — Arthur Zajonc

A common issue is that nutritional studies are often plagued with a number of biases and are often poorly designed (small samples, cross-sectional, etc.) Still, it makes as much sense to use the 6 month marker for all babies for eating solids as it does expecting your child to walk right at 12 months, to speak at 15 months, and to eliminate on a potty at 24 months on the dot.

«In this way these receptors regulate our senses of smell, taste and vision as well as a number of other conditions and feelings,» explains Professor Johan Åqvist, who directed the study, which is now being published in the journal PLoS Computational Biology.

The study challenges the prevalent «sense of numbers» theory.

A number of studies have revealed that game playing triggers dopamine release in the brain, a finding that makes sense given the instrumental role that dopamine plays in the way the brain handles both reward and exploration.

The team has yet to release its final numbers from the Wyoming study, but Hower and O'Keefe's earlier studies of the Ruth Mullins fire provide some sense of scale.

Remarkably, although mouse studies had indicated that different transcription factors were differently important for generating pain and itch sensing neurons versus pressure and limb position neurons, in the dish these factors produced equal numbers of each of the three main subtypes.

Given the number of genomes studied and the sophisticated analysis used, the date for when the species diverges is «the best estimate of what we've gotten so far, and it makes sense,» says Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist at UC Santa Cruz, whose earlier work also suggested these bears split less than a million years ago.

Calling the study «fantastic,» psychologist Lisa Feigenson of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland, says that because there is such a «drastic» difference in number sense between the Pirahã and most other human groups, it must be their language that limits their conceptual abilities.

While the study has some degree of coherency, «the researchers are mixing [a number of theoretical ideas] into a brood that makes no sense,» says Parsons.

«This is meaningful because a lot of recent studies have shown that young children's number sense is a reasonable predictor of their math skills.

Building on related studies in a number of field sites, we will develop and utilize a novel integration of several established remote - sensing methods to quantify behavior and biopsy sampling to measure stress hormone levels in three delphinid species that are common and frequently exposed to Navy mid-frequency active sonar (MFAS) off California.

Not sure that theory has been studied but it makes sense if you stop feeding bacteria FODMAPs (which are fast food for them) that perhaps the numbers of bacteria may stay more stable.

A new study and accompanying infographic from DatingAdvice.com reveal that 1 in 4 Americans say a solid sense of humor is the number one thing they want in a partner, above looks, money or morality.

It's that kind of fact — knowing that most of the things we're trying probably are not working — that gives you a sense of urgency around increasing the number of trials, rather than what the federal government strategy has been: to fund a few very expensive, very high - quality studies of a smaller number of interventions.

Called the Instructional Change Study, this project is working in a number of schools across the country, trying, in a sense, to «scale up» the inquiry approach, but to ensure that the whole school is engaged in the effort.

Not according to a number of financial experts, including Robert Abboud, an Ottawa — based CFP and the author of No Regrets: A common sense guide to achieving and affording your life goals, our very own Canadian Capitalist blogger, Ram Balakrishnan, and Dr. Moshe Milevsky, the York university professor whose initial 2001 study became the impetus behind the current belief that you'll always save with a variable rate mortgage.

Scientific studies show there is little if any linkage between hurricane frequency and severity with CO2 in the atmosphere, but an objective, common - sense, easy to understand analysis of hurricanes over the past 110 years, also demonstrates that climate change is not affecting the number or severity of hurricanes.

They include those items ignored, glossed over, or deliberately misrepresented; projections are consistently wrong; the science has not advanced, a 2007 paper in Science by Roe and Baker concludes; «The envelope of uncertainty in climate projections has not narrowed appreciably over the past 30 years, despite tremendous increases in computing power, in observations, and in the number of scientists studying the problem»; and claims of impending disasters that simply do not make scientific sense.

Professor Heckman and his co-authors Sneha Elango, Jorge Luis Garcia and Andres Hojman provide clarity in Early Childhood Education, a new working paper that makes sense of a number of seemly conflicting research studies on the effectiveness of public investment in early childhood education.