Sentences with phrase «than literature so»

David Coleman likes non-fiction better than literature so the amount of literature to be read in K - 12 schools throughout the country is restricted.

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The results suggest that the tax elasticity of retail activity may be larger than found so far in the literature.

I mean, it's okay & even lovely in a few passages, but not more so than other poetry & literature.

At least Jesus is thought to have existed without any evidence whatsoever other than literature that has so much excluded and content that has been lost in translation that it's almost impossible to be a genuine Christian because no matter what you are ignorant to so many other facts... assuming everything is true.

I've spent far more time than I care to admit combing through complementarian literature, reading debates about whether women can read Scripture aloud in church, whether female missionaries should be permitted to give presentations on Sunday evenings, what age groups women should be allowed to teach in Sunday school, whether women can speak in small group Bible studies, what titles to bestow upon worship leaders and children's ministry coordinators so that they don't appear too authoritative, and on and on and on.

In any event, one of the unavoidable side effects of literature and the arts generally is that they cater to the human need to believe that cognitive dissonance is only a temporary thing, so that they anticipate and support those grand unification theories that have compelled political reformers no less than scientists.

No less a figure than John Henry Newman may once have argued that «English Literature will ever have been Protestant» [Newman 1852, 314] but, as authors from G.K Chesterton [1928, 236 - 242] to Ian Ker [2003,1 - 12] have argued since, the literary outlook was never quite so bleak for Catholics.

And one of the reasons that the literary has come to seem so much more problematic a critical category than it was 20 years ago is because we have been compelled to take into our notion of it many of the diverse, ill - classified, disruptive kinds of literature contained in the Bible.

One wonders whether, in the future, when we shall know so much more about what literature says and how it hangs together than we now do, we shall come to see literary myth as a similarly constructive principle in the social or qualitative sciences, giving shape and coherence to psychology, anthropology, theology, history and political theory without losing in any one of them its own autonomy of hypothesis.»

So far, the scientific literature shows that babies who lose greater than 7 % of their birth weight are at highest risk of developing excessive jaundice and hypernatremia to levels that can cause long - term developmental disability.

He says it will take about a year to catch up on the research literature he missed while working on the book, but the grant he rewrote five times is now in hand, so the lab is bigger than it's ever been.

And from the literature, we are learning that old styles of early intervention, such as debriefing sessions, are not as effective as once thought — and that more often than not, people are incredibly resilient and can recover on their own and should be given the opportunity to do so.

The book also urges researchers not to publish the same work in more than one journal or to slice it into several papers to increase their publication count, because doing so is an improper use of reviewers and editors» time and dilutes the value of the scientific literature.

«There has been common lore in the behavioral literature that women do better than men in many types of face - processing tasks, such as face recognition and detecting and categorizing facial expressions, although, when you look in the empirical literature, the findings are not so clear cut,» said Scherf.

Previous reviews of the IER literature have speculated that repeated acute periods of negative energy balance experienced during IER may preferentially mobilize fat within visceral and intra-hepatic sites, perhaps more so than CER, owing to their acute sensitivities to ER.96, 97 Corroborative evidence shall be discussed next.

In regards to cerebrospinal fluid testing, the literature from 15 years ago says less than 3 percent of people with neurological Lyme test positive with a spinal tap, so that's not helpful.

Because you know what, I do have an opinion on that, I'm not saying it's right or wrong because it's based on the same literature that's available to everybody who might have a completely different opinion than mine so who's right?

But the literature is so sparse in this area that we can not make any real statements or predictions about the effects of fasting, other than that we just don't know, and that we should continue to emphasize the centrality of awareness, caution, and loving nourishment in moving forward.

An engrossing video game can place you into the moment more so than any film, song, painting, or piece of literature.

Perhaps because the research literature on the strength of Boston charter schools is so compelling, charter proponents have focused more on touting academic benefits than debating financial costs.

He sought to integrate math into other subjects, such as literature, science, social studies, and geography, so that users could easily adopt the activities and focus on more than one area of their curriculum at one time.

More than 120 leading authors and illustrators of books for children, including several national award winners, are calling on President Obama to «change the way we assess learning so that schools nurture creativity, exploration, and a love of literature.»

«In a world of so many distractions for young minds, the place of literature is more important than ever,» he said.

We have a teacher of English treating his work at face - value rather than analysing it in an exploratory way he might approach a piece of literature, a school where the message has been so reduced that the point of the study has been subverted and RP Phelps clarity of thinking around research analysis, because that is what Hattie's work is.

So when they are being impulsive, challenging authority — these are symptoms that have been in literature for more than 30 years,» he said.

A thesis paper consists of the introduction (providing the audience with background information on the subject); an abstract (containing a short description of your thesis statement, research questions, key findings, and so on - usually, it is no longer than 300 - 350 words); literature overview; methodology; key findings; discussion / interpretation of the results; conclusion; bibliography; appendices.

The one thing I've been hoping somebody like Hugh would say is that if publishers are more than just a business, they are curators of literature, or protectors of culture, then why are they so concerned with profits?

So, Giraldi thinks that romance novels aren't literature and they aren't writing any more than a Twinkie is food.

So while his daytime hours are spent at a local liberal arts college teaching literature to entitled millennials who would rather spend more time arguing about the finer points of plagiarism than write yet another essay about Hamlet, Sam drowns his leisure hours playing Elfquest, an online role - playing game where his avatar is the coolest and most revered among his fellow gamers.

«eBooks make content more accessible than ever before so people can experience it, so they can experience the joys of all kinds of literature without feeling this narrow - mindedness, guilt, peer pressure, and community pressure that would prevent them accessing books.»

In 2012 Seattle - based online retailer's AmazonCrossing imprint published more works of fiction and poetry in translation than any other press except for Dalkey Archive, and is the largest publisher of literature in translation so far this year, according to the most recent update of the «Translation Database» compiled by Open Letter Books Three Percent at the University of Rochester.

This disease is more common in dogs than cats, so most of the literature on pets that I found relates to dogs.

For more than a hundred years, film has been the American audience's most culturally significant way of connecting with stories, more so than literature or even television; as opposed to video games which are very young in the world of art and storytelling.

I (and others) have been perplexed for years why so many in the ice sheet dynamics community have resorted to re-inventing the wheel (as a square) rather than avail themselves of this literature — it's not obscure.

In other words, if you agree that there is lots of energy at higher prices than those consistent with Hummers in every garage, and if you agree that political manipulation in almost every country (including the US) to keep prices down is hurting us more and more every day, and you note from ample literature, demonstrations, and at least a dozen European countries where energy use used both more efficiently and more carefully than in the US, you have to conclude that the forecasts of continued rapid growth in demand will be cut off at the pass, so to speak, by higher prices, drying up of subsidies, and above all more efficient and more careful energy use, fewer miles run and all that.

My recollection of the literature on human brain chemistry is that we store a lot more memories than we can access, so the mechanics of our memories are as good as an elephant's.

So the published literature suggests that the trend increased 8X over the course of a little more than a decade.

The «overwhelming consensus» might well be, on L&P's admission, nothing more than the product of so many self - deceived experts» over-estimation of themselves, except for their caveat that experts are «those who publish in the peer - reviewed literature in their area of expertise».

The removal of gray literature from the IPCC reports no references to anything other than peer reviewed literature, so no references to blogs or amateur scientists.

So should we be promoting sites that intentionally misinterpret that literature for people who don't understand it, that way they end up less informed than if they read nothing at all?

Second, you skipped the Roman warm period, and I am grateful that even the» the climate consensus community» accepts that the «so - called Holocene Climactic Optimum was indeed warmer than both the LIA» What you fail to note is peer review literature supports the MWP, the coolest of the three warm periods, as being as warm as today, and NO, the» the climate consensus community» did not even exist when this was known so they did not inform me of this.

Thus, the widely practiced discipline of writing for the refereed scientific literature means that the resulting pages focus on the science rather than on the distractions that humans enjoy so much.

There is a big difference between a private company employing a leading expert, and the IPCC employing a political activist who reviewed and published his own work grey literature (non peer reviewed) which amounted to little more than an advert for his own industry and by doing so helped push the IPCC's political agenda and fill his own bank balance, but also failed to provide any independent scientific evidence of a way forward.

Below, we've collected some clips and quips culled from the recently published scientific literature (and observations) that show that perhaps the impacts from climate change resulting from our production of energy from fossil fuels isn't going to worse than we thought — and, in fact, may not prove to be so bad at all.

David — It is curious to me that you seem to be quite willing to take Muller's word for so much, rather than (apparently) examining the data (or primary literature) for yourself.

However, in general, the science of climate impacts is less clear than the physical basis for climate change, and the literature is thinner, so there is necessarily more ambiguity in WG 2 statements.

The workplace learning literature focuses on processes and supports for learning rather than on techniques and topics for teaching, so that learners are included in a rich curriculum that includes the work, the culture of the workplace, and the resources in the form of people and artifacts.