Sentences with phrase «useful evidence on»

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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.

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).

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.

For evidence, it will be useful to look at the other passage on which McHenry draws:

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

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

The National Screening Committee, an independent clinical body, will look at the evidence and advise on what additional screening procedures would be genuinely useful in detecting other conditions.

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.»

Although preliminary, the finding builds on evidence that short - term starvation helps the body guard against stress and may be a useful medical tool.

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.

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.»

Nickell's more practical outlook comes in useful in advising on how to carry out an investigation; finding and preserving evidence, and how to document the case.

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.

Although the research on TENS may be thin, they added, «there seems to be considerable empirical evidence that, at least in some patients, TENS is useful.»

Based on the empirical evidence of current literature, this review concludes that standing and treadmill desks are potentially useful in reducing workplace sedentariness while having a positive influence on workplace stress and overall mood.

I tried to search for information on this subject, but could not find any useful source to provide evidence for this statement.

Although there is some evidence that exogenous ketones may be useful in neurological disorders like Alzheimer's disease, studies on their use in other areas are limited.

Small, handheld devices may be useful for recording data and evidence whilst on a geography field trip but a PC with a large display screen and plenty of data storage is far more relevant for a music technology lesson or for CAD (computer aided design) purposes.

But teachers» hunger for guidance and information on digital tools in a fast - changing tech landscape certainly suggests that these and other approaches toward practice - based evidence generation would be useful initiatives for districts and partners to explore in earnest.

It is based on the beliefs that: • Evidence is most powerful when generated locally • To be useful, evidence must be generated quickly and cheaply • Piloting and testing should be a natural part of the way that school agencies make deEvidence is most powerful when generated locally • To be useful, evidence must be generated quickly and cheaply • Piloting and testing should be a natural part of the way that school agencies make deevidence must be generated quickly and cheaply • Piloting and testing should be a natural part of the way that school agencies make decisions.

Effects of Teacher Professional Development on Gains in Student Achievement: How Meta - Analysis Provides Scientific Evidence Useful to Education Leaders (PDF).

Take the next step toward a better understanding of assessment by visiting Assessment: At a Glance, where you'll find articles and videos on alternative forms of assessment, interviews and opinion pieces by experts in the field, and a wealth of useful and informative resources, including an instructional module on building an evidence - based assessment.

The answer is that the reports, one by Demos's Robert Hiltonsmith and the other by EPI's Monique Morrissey, offer some useful background information on pension reform in Rhode Island, but fail to provide sufficient evidence to support this striking conclusion.

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But when leaders can provide a frame that's focused on instruction and say «listen, all forms of evidence are useful here, what we want you to do is anchor your instructional decisions in evidence, and talk about instruction and use that evidence to think about student thinking... what do we really know about student learning in this context?»

The results of EEF - funded projects focusing on maths provide useful evidence for schools looking to invest in specific interventions.

I expect it would be useful but that its impact would be muted by the same factors that suppress that uptake of evidence that already exists on the impact of broader policies and programs.

But they provide some useful suggestive evidence on the potential of tenure reform to transform public education.

Substantial research evidence demonstrates that CBMreading is a robust indicator of reading development and a useful predictor of student performance on state tests.

Statewide systems of school improvement and support were focused largely on compliance and sanctions based on bald, end - of - year data that provided little evidence of how results were achieved and moreover, were not useful for making decisions at the school and system levels.

Here we identify challenges districts face in bringing about change, strategies that seem useful in improving student learning and evidence about the impact of the district on improving student achievement.

The «Acting on the evidence» process is a cycle for school improvement that senior leadership teams have previously found useful in reviewing the current use of TAs and guiding a process of change.

As evidenced in our first review, it became clear the Accord would have a shot at claiming our top award after our first week with the car: «From the bold new look to the long list of useful tech, the totally redesigned 2018 Honda Accord is the most advanced, most sophisticated midsize sedan on the market.

your corpus is also dependent on who did the uploading — as evidence by the comment up above that says «hey, most of the big books are probably ones we uploaded» — so a more useful answer to the question of the size of text would probably be found in the project gutenberg corpus.

Then there is the concept of distraction — evidence that time spent checking email or checking up on Facebook newsfeeds — can actually be useful to a learner stuck on a problem because you can let go of the difficulty and then return to it afresh.

ACE reviews evidence on the efficacy of interventions in animal advocacy in order to help determine which are likely to be most useful.

Other useful diagnostic aids include comparison of height with that of littermates, evidence of delayed epiphyseal closure or dysgenesis on skeletal radiographs, and skin biopsy.

Still, before starting to get rid of a card that represents two decades of evidence that you pay your bills on time, I would attempt to transform it into something more useful — preferably a rewards card that pays for itself.

I'd like the comment thread below to focus as much as possible on evidence and on useful resources that help clarify these points.

So while their conclusions may be valid: yes there is no evidence of a discrepancy, given their uncertainties, and yes there is no «statistically significant» decline in OHC rates of change, but the uncertainties are so large that neither dataset is useful to know what is really going on, and that is the key point.

For forecasts of the timing and extent of the coming cooling based on the natural solar activity cycles — most importantly the millennial cycle — and using the neutron count and 10Be record as the most useful proxy for solar activity check my blogpost linked above, The most important factor in climate forecasting is where earth is in regard to the quasi - millennial natural solar activity cycle which has a period in the 960 — 1020 year range.For evidence of this cycle see Figs 5 - 9.

Clearly, if the data was given to us on terms that forbade its further disclosure to persons / instructions that would exclude the applicant (and we have evidence of that), then we can also assume some presumption of adverse effect (although once again, thinking ahead, evidence of this would be useful).

SciDev.net: This policy brief, published by the Overseas Development Institute, explores how different types of knowledge feed into policymaking processes — based on case - studies in three South - East Asian countries — and suggests that classifying knowledge can be a useful way of promoting evidence - based decisions.

The key to deciding if these models are useful, because they do produce something that might appear to be similar to a cardiac arrhythmia, and so could be said to produce a useful result, is that they can be falsified on the basis of specific predictions such as implying a range of conduction velocities within the heart that have never been measured in real life or that an arrhythmia can persist in a small piece of isolated tissue when all the experimental evidence suggests that a minimum volume of tissue is required to support an arrhythmia.

(As propaganda depends on quantity and repetition... The truth just needs to be heard by a thinking mind...) So truthful questions and truthful evidence and truthful doubts and truthful counter points are attacked, vilified (usually «attack the messenger»), deleted, and drowned out in a flood of non-sequitur and appeal to authority arguments... (Another useful tool, btw, is just to measure the number of Logical Fallacies vs correct logical syllogisms... the more LF the more it's propaganda... the more correct logical syllogisms, data included btw, the less propaganda and the more honest science... but I haven't named that thought tool yet... Perhaps the LF Ratio?

I'm not talking about his claims that the IPCC and others have failed to damp down that long, fat tail as much as they should have — as far as I knew, that was «settled» years ago by his work, among others, and Figure 2 shows very clearly that combining the different lines of evidence very effectively shows very high sensitivities to be unlikely, despite the instrumental period on its own not being able to show that, so I wasn't aware that this was the problem that he claims it is — but rather his claims that the last ten years or so tell us anything useful.

It is the combination of all lines of evidence and tested theory which is the basis for the educated folks (that is, folks educated in climate science in particular) giving useful information on that technical subject, concerning what we do actually know about climate and what it's doing.

I am yet to be persuaded that attemptes to put bounds on it that are not based on evidence are useful.

And often it doesn't stop there, with counter-claims made against counter-claims, based on evidence, until useful knowledge emerges.

One of our suggestions was that looking at the enforcement of and compliance with decisions rendered under international investment treaties could prove a useful means of measuring progress on the rule of law, since the way countries deal with their disputes provides evidence of accountability.