Sentences with phrase «term empirical studies»

There is evidence, both from small qualitative studies and from large - scale, long - term empirical studies, that many of these problems are long lasting.

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Being in science, I'm sure you are familar with the need to standardize terms to mean the same thing for all, especially if conducting empirical studies.

These two types of process theology, along with the term «empirical process theology,» are discussed in my «Empirical Theology, A Revisable Tradition,» Process Studies 1empirical process theology,» are discussed in my «Empirical Theology, A Revisable Tradition,» Process Studies 1Empirical Theology, A Revisable Tradition,» Process Studies 19 (1990).

While it would take an empirical study to solve the issue, my hypothesis is that most persons in our culture — liberal, postliberal or what have you — interpret their experiences and «the universe» primarily in terms that are neither biblical nor theological.

Roi Cohen Kadosh, who studies tDCS at the University of Oxford, says Thync's empirical studies are «a very positive point for their side», even though he believes that uncertainties about long - term safety mean the technology isn't ready to be commercialised.

Using empirical data from this monitoring and from ongoing field studies the convention would support, scientists could more thoroughly assess surveys» cumulative long - term impacts on marine life and identify areas where seismic activities should be prohibited or temporarily limited to protect important habitats or vulnerable populations.

His studies of collared flycatchers demonstrated, for the first time, that paternal investment in one year could influence investment by the same individuals in display behaviors in a subsequent year providing an empirical link between sexual selection and life history and a rare characterization of the long - term consequences of reproductive investment.

Phase 1 trials would be small, nongenerablizable empirical studies whose dependent variable is not year - end test scores, but «next - day or next - week outcomes: measurable effects on student behavior, effort, or short - term learning.»

As the goal of the math / science search was to collect and identify any and all empirical studies related to our topic of teacher leadership in mathematics and science, this search was more expansive both in terms of search descriptors and publication types.

[1] A recent study [2] showed that more than 99 percent of teachers in a number of districts were rated «satisfactory,» [3] which does not comport with empirical evidence that teachers differ substantially from each other in terms of their effectiveness.

Forster has conducted empirical studies on the impact of school choice programs in Milwaukee, Ohio, Florida and Texas, as well as national empirical studies comparing public and private schools in terms of working conditions for teachers, ethnic segregation and teacher and staff misconduct.

The video, featuring the science writer Joe Hanson, explores a vital body of empirical studies on human risk misperception, showing how a rational view of long - term or diffuse threats is obscured by «status quo bias,» our «finite pool of worry,» our tendency to value tribal connections over reality through what researchers call «cultural cognition,» and other characteristics of what I call our «inconvenient mind.»

New Paper «An Empirical Study Of The Impact Of Human Activity On Long - Term Temperature Change In China: A Perspective From Energy Consumption» By Li And Zhao 2012

Tracy George of Vanderbilt has developed «a variety of measures to compile a rank of the «top» law schools in terms of their commitment to and intellectual leadership in the field of Empirical Legal Studies,» reports Volokh Conspirator Todd Zywicki.

This article uses the terms below to describe incidents of judicial humour as revealed through our empirical research, including interviews and a court observation study.

Like many newer modes of therapy, there are currently no empirical studies comparing IFS to other forms of treatment, and the long - term success of IFS clients has not been measured.