Sentences with phrase «terms of scientific studies»

Again, it must be highlighted that in terms of scientific studies, there still remains a lack of solid clinical data on their application, particularly in humans.

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The concept of the supernatural is culturally derived from an innate cognitive schema...» The scientific evidence for his position comes from an analysis of studies done on children that show that their innate way of viewing the world is in terms of «design, function and purpose» - making them, in effect, «intuitive theists.»

Others have insisted that their work is social - scientific in the strong sense of the term — that is, as work guided by the correlation of models and data, as are more purely sociological and social - psychological studies.

The April 1989 Scientific American contains a report on the principal findings of a long - term study of the effects of adversity in early childhood on human development.

This is the first time scientific research has given an accurate picture of the long - term soil carbon storage on organic versus conventional farms throughout the U.S., since most studies focus on individual farms or total soil organic carbon.

And considering many of the health effects are long - term, let's hope that the wealth of scientific studies that show the evils of BPA will prevail.

you do realize that this «study» is not all scientific in nature and therefor invalid in terms of reliability?

«According to the US Food and Drug Administration, the scientific evidence is «mixed» over the benefits of adding ARA and DHA to baby formula, with no currently available published studies on the long - term impact.

In the new study, published 9 January in Scientific Reports, developmental neuroscientist Moriah Thomason of Wayne State University School of Medicine in Detroit, Michigan, and colleagues report a difference in how certain brain regions communicate with each other in fetuses that were later born prematurely compared with fetuses that were carried to term.

In the study that is now being published in the scientific journal SLEEP, sleep researchers Jonathan Cedernaes and Christian Benedict, sought to investigate the role of nocturnal sleep duration for this memory transfer, and how long - term memories formed by sleep remain accessible after acute cognitive stress.

With several years of postdoctoral study under their belts, today's new science faculty members are, in purely scientific terms, better trained than any previous generation of newly independent scientists.

You talk in the Scientific American Mind piece about what you would be thinking about in terms of how you would make a choice about what to study if you were starting now.

But the real dearth — the lack of clear pathways into careers that could enable today's generation of gifted young Americans to become the researchers who make tomorrow's great discoveries — is convincing more and more of the nation's best students not to seek careers in fields such as law, finance, medicine and other fields that offer much better short - and long - term career prospects instead of dedicating an average of seven years to PhD study plus an additional five years or more of postdoctoral training now considered necessary to compete for an academic career in many scientific fields.

The study, published in the scientific journal Biological Reviews, concludes that the theory of «fecundity selection» — one of Charles Darwin's three main evolutionary principles, also known as «fertility selection» — should be redefined so that it no longer rests on the idea that more fertile females are more successful in evolutionary terms.

Another prong of the study looked at how frequently visitors were feeding — «provisioning» is the scientific term — the monkeys, and conversely, how much of their diet came from eating natural foods in the environment.

The long - term scientific study of AAN revealed the association of the disease with Aristolochia.

The study, published today in Nature Scientific Reports, is the first to compare the long - term metabolic effects of conventional soybean oil to those of Plenish.

Adding the antiplatelet drug ticagrelor to aspirin as long - term therapy after a heart attack significantly reduced the rate of subsequent death from cardiovascular causes, heart attack or stroke, with the benefit appearing to accrue for nearly three years, according to a study presented at the American College of Cardiology's 64th Annual Scientific Session.

But a new opportunity may be opening up for studies of chimpanzee behavior and cognition: A first - of - its - kind partnership between a sanctuary and a research center, announced this month, is designed to bolster the scientific output of facilities that have until now primarily focused on the long - term care of their animals.

This study — only the second overall assessment of diet and food on this disease — provides a very thorough evaluation of current scientific knowledge and makes a point of only reporting dietary interventions and specific foods that clearly show proven long - term effects.

«Although the impact of long - term use of e-cigarettes on health is still unknown,» the study stated, «the available scientific evidence indicates that e-cigarettes are less harmful than combustible cigarettes, and that smokers switching to e-cigarettes could benefit from a decrease in health risks related to smoking combustible cigarettes.»

«One of the challenges with this study was that the genetic hits pointed to a gene that had not been characterized, so we were really starting from scratch in terms of grasping the biology,» says Suzanne Jacobs, the associate scientific director of the Broad's Diabetes Research Group and a co-senior author of the paper.

Paintings have been getting more colourful and more complex in terms of brightness and contrast since the Medieval period, a study in Scientific Reports demonstrates.

The scientific proof of concept for Paleo diets being heart healthy is drawn from very small, short - term studies.

2 - Artificial Sweeteners — after almost 50 years of artificial sweeteners in the food chain, not a single peer - reviewed scientific study has shown any correlation between the use of such nasty tasting stuff and long - term weight loss.

On the basis of a confined long - term description of the available results, most scientific studies suggest that Alli must not be used for 24 months or 2 years continuously.

«Studies support the notion that short - term VLCKDs are safe and effective in terms of promoting weight / fat loss, improving metabolic and cardivascular risk factors and are compatible with a physically active lifestyle... there is sufficient scientific research to safely prescribe a VLCKD as an option to those people who prefer this approach...»

We teach you the secrets of long term permanent weight loss learned in scientific studies performed at the National Weight Control Registry.

The studies were called randomized controlled trials, which are considered the «gold standard» in research «The scientific term for it is «silly,»» ays Michael Holick, a professor of medicine at Boston University, told the paper.

One aspect of this emphasis on the importance of scientific verification that I find alternately disquieting and amusing is the reductionist misconception that yoga practice and effects can be fully understood in analytical and biochemical terms; that if we study the brain waves of meditators, for example, we will understand the nature of consciousness and the causes of the transcendent experience some meditators report.

There have been no human studies that were well - controlled and scientific when it comes to observing possible life extension or long - term effects of caloric restriction or intermittent fasting.

Due to scientific studies showing the negative consequences to bone mineral density from long - term overuse of AI medications, we adamantly recommend that AI's are ONLY used for short periods of time.

While some of these explications may have a basis in legitimate scientific studies, others feel suspiciously vague and circular in their reasoning, using terms like «dopamine» and «pheromones» as hand - waving «proof» that women are hard - wired to do things like gossip and fall in love at first sight.

The resources available will use dyslexia friendly fonts so all students can access the learning - Students will summarise their learning from the previous six topics with some one mark questions and will write down the answers in exercise books Students will review our GCSE studies so far and will see how many topics they have already completed and what also needs to be completed before the May exams Students will be introduced to the key terms of this topic and will answer two tasks based on famous scientists and the relationship they had with religion Students will then answer a task that recognises the differences between scientific truth and religious truth and will finish with some two mark questions from the two previous theme topics

Use of the term case studies creates an impression that some kind of scientific data gathering was involved in at least some localities.

This lab reinforces key concepts and scientific terms from your study of the Chemistry of Life and gives students the opportunity to practice laboratory procedures and become more familiar with common lab equipment.

Pillar # 2 — Avoidance of Punitive Methods Scientific studies have shown that the use of confrontational, punitive training techniques on dogs not only does not work long term, but actually exacerbates aggressive response and makes already aggressive dogs even more aggressive.

Scientific studies that have been published in established and recognized scientific journals provide more insight into what is good for the long - term health of pets than much of the information that appears online or in bloScientific studies that have been published in established and recognized scientific journals provide more insight into what is good for the long - term health of pets than much of the information that appears online or in bloscientific journals provide more insight into what is good for the long - term health of pets than much of the information that appears online or in blogs.»

Many studies have focused on proving the effects of acupuncture in modern scientific terms.

The work relates to my interest on a simple level, of the appearance of a functional form in relation to the body and space, but also incorporates anthropometry — the scientific study of the measurements and proportions of the human body — and ideas about permutation, the body as a fluid term for encapsulation, intervention, figuration, and the politics of exposure.

White has long been involved with efforts to study and protect dolphins, as well, and is on the scientific advisory board of the Wild Dolphin Project, a long - term research effort off the Bahamas that was written up (and videotaped) for The Times in 2011 by my friend Erik Olsen.

With a mix of scientific research and his own observations — the 51 - year old Wohlleben studied forestry and has worked in the forest since 1987 — the man who speaks for the trees does so in decidedly anthropomorphic terms.

It seems a greener way to go, though that's not proven conclusively by scientific studies, or evidence either health-wise or in terms of carbon footprint.

Recent scientific studies, including an assessment by the United Nations Environment Program and the World Meteorological Organization indicate that it's possible to slow the pace of warming and melting in the Arctic in the near term by reducing emissions of two common air pollutants, soot and smog.

They include increasing monitoring of how various post-fire actions (re-seeding and Hydro - mulching, for instance) influence such things as flood and erosion risk and long - term ecosystem health; increasing synthesis of scientific findings (in isolation from each other, fire science studies can be confusing and even contradictory); and directing social science research toward further understanding of the disconnects.

The fund will support efforts potentially including, but not limited to, the protection and restoration of vital wetlands and estuaries, the creation and enhancement of wildlife habitat, invasive species migration, and the conducting of scientific studies to ensure the long - term viability of the area's natural resources.

And in fact when you look at the scientific literature, it's an interesting disconnect because the modelers who study emissions and how to control those emissions are generally much more comfortable setting goals in terms of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas concentrations because that comes more or less directly out of their models and is much more proximate or more closely connected to what humans actually do to screw up the climate in the first place, which is emit these greenhouse gases.

There can be no successful account of CO2, aerosols, and temperature until there is a scientific account of each, given in terms of physical hypotheses that describe natural processes, that enables the researchers to explain that the objects of their study, CO2 concentration, aerosol uptake, temperature records and such are not changing.

The study, in addition to being even more terrifying than last summer's draft, may act to motivate increased urgency for scientific research in Greenland and Antarctica, especially their effects on ocean circulation — as well as increased attention to the possibility of truly dire near - term global change.

A study in 2004 looked at the abstracts of nearly 1000 scientific papers containing the term «global climate change» published in the previous decade.