Sentences with phrase «useful evidence of»

At this workshop, teams of 4 — 8 institutional representatives collaborate with experienced facilitators to develop assessment plans that both aim to cultivate an institutional culture committed to continuous improvement and address the need to produce useful evidence of student learning.

A single beehive can collect pollen from dozens of different plant species, and this pollen is useful evidence of the hive's foraging behavior and nutrition preferences.

Watching a video of a harmful or violent act being committed can provide useful evidence of the circumstances surrounding the action.

Not exact matches

A huge quantity of scientific evidence supports napping as a useful tool to heighten employee performance.

In summary, available evidence suggests that a simple model of Bitcoin price based on Metcalfe's Law is useful for understanding and perhaps predicting Bitcoin price.

In summary, evidence suggests that cryptocurrencies comprise a new asset class, potentially (but with considerable risk) useful as a diversifier of conventional asset classes.

Sustainability Reporting: Final chart in this session looks at the proportion of companies which have adopted «sustainability reporting» - it speaks to the emerging field of ESG research where there is a growing acceptance and body of evidence which says that ESG (Environment, Social, Governance) factors are also relevant and can particularly be useful in filtering out companies that are at risk of brand impairment, legal liability, and general backlash due to inferior ESG practices and ratings.

In summary, evidence indicates that a high level of investor sentiment during a bull market may be a useful predictor of low future returns for speculative stocks.

Since the S&P 500 Index and growth stock indexes have been dominating in recent years, the academic evidence suggested by the research of Martin Cremers and his associates is useful.

Tom, the bible is just as valid for evidence of God being part of day to day life as any math text is for proof of math being useful in day to day life.

While exhorting us to contemplate nature, the Qur» an says, «In the creation of skies and the earth, the difference between night and day, the ships which run at sea carrying that which is useful for mankind, the rain water which Allah sends down from the sky to revive the earth after its death, and to spread animals on it, and the arrangement of winds and clouds between sky and earth, in all those things there are evidences (for the existence of God) for those who make use of their brains» (Surah II, 164).

Branch presents an abundance of useful evidence suggesting a conflict within the movement (and within King) over its internal politics, but he rarely pulls this material together in summary fashion, and this is but one of several themes that are left largely bereft of sustained analysis and critical judgment.

That's only useful when you need to rely upon talking people into seeing your point of view, and people with evidence on their side really shouldn't have to do that.

The evidence of reality is quite useful for action, but can in no way help us to understand the meaning of our lives.

Inductive reasoning seeks to generalize based on incomplete evidence (which is very useful, but incapable of proof.)

Science is wonderful and this field is very interesting, but if we're going to get any presently useful information from the specific field of geological dating, it's much, much more recent stuff like climate evidence.

Scientific evidence does show us that beverages containing these sweeteners can be a useful tool as part of an overall weight management plan.

To assist health care professionals in advising their patients about carbohydrates, sugar and health, the SRAS team of nutritionists and dietitians have developed a range of useful, evidence based resources.

-LSB-...] Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum - graecum) is an herbal supplement that is claimed to be useful for a broad range of various conditions, without any substantial scientific evidence, from baldness, constipation, and heartburn to diabetes, cholesterol and erectile dysfunction.

For many years it was believed that apparent life - threatening events were the predecessors of SIDS, and home apnea monitors were used as a strategy for preventing SIDS.329 However, there is no evidence that home monitors are effective for this purpose.330, — , 333 The task force concurs with the AAP Committee on Fetus and Newborn, which has recommended that infant home monitoring not be used as a strategy to prevent SIDS, although it can be useful for some infants who have had an apparent life - threatening event.334

«Our position was that any evidence session would be most useful once the German presidency had set out their timetable for discussions leading up to the European Council and once the government had drawn up a set of policy options in response which would provide the basis for a discussion at an evidence session.

Meanwhile, some of them have made useful statements while a few have declined even with the glaring evidences that were found against them in terms of material cash, documents and property recovered pointing to their compromise.

The NRC is sending a radiation - protection specialist to New York this week to inspect the Indian Point nuclear power plant after state officials found evidence of a surge in radiation levels in groundwater there...» A little more info would be useful here.

Recordings of another, unnamed state senator and two other officials yielded «evidence useful to law enforcement,» prosecutors said in court papers.

Recordings of «State Senator # 1» and two other pols «did yield evidence useful to law enforcement authorities,» Tuchman wrote.

On Friday, prosecutors said in court papers that Ms. Huntley's recordings of a senator and two other elected officials «did yield evidence useful to law enforcement authorities.»

Even if high levels of these amino acids are not causing diabetes, evidence suggests they are useful biomarkers for predicting who is at risk, enabling such people to adjust their lifestyle before they get sick.

Researchers from Royal Holloway, University of London, together with an international team from across the United States and Europe, have found evidence which challenges the belief that a type of technology known as Levallois — where the flakes and blades of stones were used to make useful products such as hunting weapons — was invented in Africa and then spread to other continents as the human population expanded.

The Review's lead author, Professor Theresa Marteau, Director of the Behaviour and Health Research Unit at the University of Cambridge, UK, says: «This evidence suggests that using nutritional labelling could help reduce calorie intake and make a useful impact as part of a wider set of measures aimed at tackling obesity,» She added, «There is no «magic bullet» to solve the obesity problem, so while calorie labelling may help, other measures to reduce calorie intake are also needed.»

The authors of the CHAA study acknowledge that the study presents correlation but does not imply causation, but stress that the evidence linking business value with health and safety programming continues to grow and is useful to investors.

«We've combined these to increase the probability of obtaining useful associative evidence,» says Sermon.

The method used in the study is known as the Hirsch Index and while the study authors acknowledge factors such as there being high public interest leading to more studies of a particular illness, they believe that because it is objective and evidence - based it will be a useful complement and guide to more traditional methods of risk assessment and can be used to produce a shortlist of pathogens for authorities to focus on.

For instance, the study provides evidence that drugs designed to block the function of IDH might be useful in treating benign cartilage tumors to possibly prevent their transformation to malignancy.

Even though evidence from other settings or populations would be useful to assess the generalizability of this study, Mogstad said it is highly relevant to policymakers in Norway and the United States, because disability insurance is now one of the largest transfer programs in most industrialized countries.

Moreover, there are few popular accounts of these findings: to the extent that Out of the Blue presents a clear summary of some of the evidence, it should prove a useful book.

By comparing the numbers of species of ostracods that have evolved bioluminescence for either mating displays or defensive purposes to related species without bioluminescence, Ellis realized she could gain very useful evidence to support or refute the theory of sexual selection as a driver of species diversification.

According to Gawande, «the three inches of guidance, explaining what the evidence suggests and so on, needs to be turned into a useful form that tells you what you can do.»

The concept of OEE was generally well received, as evidenced by this quote from the report: «This kind of elevator would be very useful in getting a building quickly evacuated because it takes time to go down those stairs and the more people you can get out quickly, especially from the higher levels, the less likely there is to be a real disaster.»

In addition to offering early evidence of a drug's effectiveness, if depth of response predicts patient outcomes, then, Doebele says, depth of response may be a useful goal of treatment.

Accumulating scientific evidence suggests that total fat content is not a useful measure of harms or benefits of food, and that fats from nuts, fish and phenolic - rich vegetable oils are healthier than fats from meat and processed foods.

A new review published by a joint scientific working group of the International Federation of Clinical Chemistry and Laboratory Medicine (IFCC) and the International Osteoporosis Foundation (IOF) finds that current evidence continues to support the potential for bone turnover markers (BTMs) to provide clinically useful information for monitoring osteoporosis treatment.

«This is some of the first evidence that electrons and holes could still interact like this across such a long distance,» commented Professor Adachi, «so this structure may also be a useful tool for studying and understanding the physics of excitons to design better OLEDs and organic solar cells in the future.»

«This new effort is the most comprehensive and consistent that I know of to pull evidence together and produces useful and important results.»

Whilst the anonymous «citation cartel» report provides useful evidence for citation malpractice, it has also led to serious damage to the reputation of colleagues including myself, which I feel is also a form of unfortunate scientific misconduct.

In our latest work, for example, we have found evidence of a potentially clinically useful connection of complement in mesenchymal stem cell - based therapies, suggesting that complement is a valid target for improving the viability and function of mesenchymal stem cells, which are under extensive evaluation in clinical trials for treating many inflammatory and degenerative diseases.

The growing evidence that cancer and metabolism are connected, emerging from a number of laboratories around the world over the past 10 years, has further fueled these hopes, though scientists are still working to identify what tumors might be most responsive and which drugs most useful.

Notably, the West African cohort has been useful for refining the association signals found in European and Asian ancestry populations; it has provided some of the earliest evidence for how relatively diverse populations might facilitate fine - mapping of loci originally identified in more homogeneous populations characterized by larger regions of strong linkage disequilibrium.

It is perhaps reasonable to think that it should be the primary target based on the evidence to date, and Spiegel is optimistic that useful therapies will emerge, but de Grey is cautious, and Bains somewhat unhappy about the poor quality of some past research on this topic.

There has been no conclusive evidence to reject LCDM, but many astronomers are interested in testing LCDM because discrepancies can be a useful probe to unlock the mystery of the accelerating Universe.

(6) However, it would be useful to see a more thorough analysis of the effect of ablating p16Ink4a - expressing senescent cells, and whether there may instead be evidence of a short - term rejuvenation of tissue function that is slowly lost over time to rising levels of other kinds of aging damage that INK - ATTAC activation does not address.