Sentences with phrase «supported past studies»

The discoveries supported past studies on the vegetation changes in North America's boreal and Arctic regions.

Not exact matches

During the past five years, Auburn Seminary's Center for the Study of Theological Education (with support from Lilly Endowment Inc.) has been intensively examining theological faculty.

A recent study by the Catholics in Alliance for the Common Good finds that social and economic supports such as benefits for pregnant women and mothers and economic assistance to low - income families have contributed significantly to reducing the number of abortions in the United States over the past twenty years.

Paradoxically, the hundreds of studies done in the past decade have apparently served to support diametrically opposing conclusions.

According to a study published by the Istituto Catteneo, a significant share of Five Stars votes come from individuals who supported centre - left parties in the past, if with little enthusiasm.

The long - running British Election Study, which has followed a 30,000 - strong panel of voters over the past three years, found Labour picked up significant support from remain - minded voters, despite its ambiguous stance on what sort of Brexit deal to pursue.

Tajaih, a resident of Harlem, began studying the challenging Lincoln Douglas (LD) debate format only this past fall, after attending a summer debate camp with support from Success Academy.

Lead researcher Alex Chepstow - Lusty of French Institute of Andean Studies in Lima, Peru, says warmer temperatures enabled the Inca to build mountainside terraces for growing crops at altitudes previously too cold to support agriculture, and provided meltwater from the Andean glaciers for irrigation (Climate of the Past, vol 5, p 375).

Although scientists have used a whole array of experimental techniques in the past to investigate the atomic scale details of surface diffusion, they have generally studied the surfaces of traditional three - dimensional materials and have supported the notion that diffusion involves a simple random walk on the surface.

The results — along with a recent Dartmouth - led study that found air temperature also likely influenced the fluctuating size of South America's Quelccaya Ice Cap over the past millennium — support many scientists» suspicions that today's tropical glaciers are rapidly shrinking primarily because of a warming climate rather than declining snowfall or other factors.

The new study supports the likelihood that these vertical fault zones have displaced the seafloor in the past, which means they could send out tsunami - generating pulses towards the nearby coastal mega-city of Los Angeles and neighboring San Diego.

While the improvements in N of 1 patients aren't always as dramatic, research over the past 20 - plus years has produced solid support for the idea that these studies really can help doctors and patients work together to make better decisions.

In past studies to develop a new animal model for the brain events that support motor development, neurophysiologist Martin Garwicz of Lund University in Sweden and his colleagues discovered that the schedules by which ferrets and rats acquire various motor skills, such as crawling and walking, are strikingly similar to each other; the progress simply happens faster for rats.

«Our study was in line with past research on stress, loneliness and social support in adults, but we strengthened past research by applying it to children.

«The duration of support is outstanding,» said Dr. George Mychaliska, a pediatric and fetal surgeon at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, who has spent the past 10 years researching similar systems, and was not involved in this study.

«Past studies have shown the people with chronic conditions who have more support from family and friends are more successful in managing their health,» she says.

The VPL is based at the University of Washington, and comprises researchers at 20 institutions working to understand how telescopic observations and modeling studies can determine if exoplanets are able to support life, or had life in the past.

As the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station (MDRS) begins its 16th year of analog studies in southern Utah, we look back with pride on the people who have supported the station in the past, those who have been and are now working on their dreams through their professional position in the space sector.

«The safety and efficacy profile of acetaminophen is supported by more than 150 studies over the past 50 years,» the company added.

Coenzyme Q10 is considered a premier supplement for supporting overall cardiovascular health, and many studies over the past decades have supported its use in this regard.

Nevertheless, this study «officially» supports what some cardiologists and others have come to claim over the past few years, defying conventional medicine's false culprit of cholesterol from saturated fat while pointing to arterial inflammation.

I know you have covered flax seeds in the past, but I think that repeat info when new studies also support the same conclusions are very helpful.

In the past I've met other women at Bible studies that had the same appreciation for fashion, home decor, styling etc and they have always been great support and we always held each other accountable.

As a region, the South has become a national leader over the past decade in providing support for prekindergarten programs, says a new study by the Southern Education Foundation.

One of fewer than 50 NBCT Social Studies teachers in the state, Lyman has been mentoring candidates, organizing NBCT support programing, and leveraging his status as an NBCT to advocate for the profession for the past 3 years.

After graduating from the Special Studies Program this past June, Groff headed to the United Kingdom on a Fulbright Scholarship to spend nine months at Futurelab, a nonprofit organization that develops innovative resources and practices to support new approaches in 21st century learning.

According to Valerie Strauss in her Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, the study found that «the report, together with a number of other studies released in the past year, effectively serve as a warning to policymakers in states that are moving to implement laws, with support from the Obama administration, to make teacher and principal evaluation largely dependent on increases in students» standardized test scores.»

This begins with demonstrating the power of technology to support specific social studies activities and projects that together center on the development of children's (a) «personal civic beliefs,» (b) «capacity for social and public action,» (c) «ties to their localities and the world outside,» and (d) «awareness of past present and future» (Cogan et al., 2000, p. 50).

In support of this, he cites a recent Harvard study,» Evaluating Newark's Education Reforms,» that finds more than half of the significant English language arts (ELA) gains in Newark over the past five years can be attributed to students opting for a new or different school, as opposed to benefiting from improvements in their existing school.

A new study based on the Annenberg Institute on School Reform's (AISR) work with the Transatlantic School Innovation Alliance (TISA) adds to the emerging literature supporting the idea that peer networks among educational practitioners, both within and across schools, can improve teaching and learning.In England, there has been a focus over the past decade on developing formal peer networks, especially in urban settings that have traditionally underperformed relative to other areas of the country.

Her past project work also includes National Charter School Resource Center Task Order 1, the National Evaluation of Writing Project Professional Development, the Teaching and California's Future study, and a study examining local partnerships in support of arts education.

In the past, technology has been used to support traditional, giving - intensive paradigms of social studies instruction.

The hot deal is the Sorento; it brings a wealth of equipment, decent resale value and a solid reputation reliability that's supported by the fact Kia has won the J.D. Power's Initial Quality Survey for the past two years, a study that ranks automakers by the fewest thing gone wrong in the first 90 days of ownership.

An argumentative essay about death penalty will try to support the death penalty essay by using examples and arguments for death penalty essay from past studies.

Their study and review of other sources over the past many years find that students might perceive they do better when they use a digital textbook, but the measurable outcome doesn't support that perception.

Check out our website for more information on our current and past studies, and to learn how you can support studies that improve feline health and wellness.

The collection will enhance and fundamentally support the research needs of young curators enrolled in CCS Bard's two - year graduate program in curatorial studies by exposing them to primary sources documenting innovative curatorial and institutional models and artistic practices of the past thirty years.

The Foundation targets its support specifically to early mid-career individuals (completed their formal studies within the past five to fifteen years), those who have achieved recognition for at least one major project.

Jen's project and trajectory over the past few years offers a wonderful case study of how Creative Capital supports innovative artists.

Another new study (Anomalously weak Labrador Sea convection and Atlantic overturning during the past 150 years by David Thornalley and colleagues) was published in the same issue of Nature, which supports this finding and places it in a longer climate history context.

The ice core data for the past 800k years does support this study.

But let's make sure the research is not simply «agenda driven», i.e. to support a political agenda, such as the implementation of a direct or indirect «carbon tax», but real scientific studies to clear up the many uncertainties regarding the relative importance of natural and anthropogenic attribution of past climate change, for example.

I have spent much of the past 2 years analyzing and re-constructing some of the basic studies used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to support their conclusions about global warming and, in turn, to promote policies on climate change.

Drawing on case studies of past environmental debates such as those over acid rain and ozone depletion, science policy experts Roger Pielke Jr. and Daniel Sarewitz argue that once next generation technologies are available that make meaningful action on climate change lower - cost, then much of the argument politically over scientific uncertainty is likely to diminish.26 Similarly, research by Yale University's Dan Kahan and colleagues suggest that building political consensus on climate change will depend heavily on advocates for action calling attention to a diverse mix of options, with some actions such as tax incentives for nuclear energy, government support for clean energy research, or actions to protect cities and communities against climate risks, more likely to gain support from both Democrats and Republicans.

If you don't know these things (and I confess a few scientists who quasi study this issue and generally support the consensus position that we are affecting the climate and our past and present actions present significat risk of major future shifts don't fully) then you don't really know this issue — because it goes to what Climate Change actually is, and why it presents the range of future shift that it does.

In a number of past posts over at Coyote Blog, I have noticed the phenomenon of published studies whose data does nothing to bolster the theory of anthropogenic global warming adding in a line or two in the article saying that «of course the author's support anthorpogenic global warming theory» in the same way movies routinely assure audiences that «no animals were hurt in the filiming of this movie.»

The 12 scientists and support staff made a slow crawl across a vast, blank stretch of East Antarctica this past austral summer for three months to study how regional climate variability relates to global climate change expected to encounter brutally cold storms and other challenges on the high polar plateau.

Deploying this metocean data collection technology builds on the more than 20 robust studies the state completed over the past two years in support of the New York Offshore Wind Master Plan and reinforces Governor Cuomo's steadfast commitment to safeguarding our natural resources for generations to come.»

The American Wind Energy Association, which also supports a federal carbon cap on existing plants, recently published a study that found that consumer rates declined over the past five years in the 11 states that use the most wind, while rates increased collectively in all the other states during that same time period.

Article: This new study for the northern China Sea is just another recent example of empirical evidence supporting past research regarding the global warming experienced during both the Roman and Medieval periods.