Sentences with phrase «valid studies on»

The IES report adds to a growing body of recent, comprehensive, scientifically valid studies on state and local voucher programs that have found startlingly lousy academic results for voucher students.

Not exact matches

Until this study, the first of its kind to use in - person and computer - assisted observation to measure the commercial - watching habits of 376 adults, no valid research had been done on the topic.

If the latest study on the subject by UNESCO (in 1953) is still valid, less than 10 percent of the world's population lives in countries the press of which has available to it both the western wire services and that of TASS.

I assume that you have placed as much study and thought on this issue as I have, and that you have valid reasons for the conclusions you have reached, as do I.

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

This great psychological / science community can never and has never conducted a valid study to show how one chooses to act on their orientation is not impacted by their environment.

James L. Rogers» review of research on the psychological consequences of abortion found that only one out of 300 studies could be considered valid (in James K. Hoffmeier, Abortion: A Christian Understanding and Response, 1987).

If you'd like more info on the study that got this idea going and why it may not be valid, check out this post: https://www.mommypotamus.com/does-lavender-oil-cause-estrogen-imbalance/

Parents with kids that study in different schools and do extra curricular activities, retired / old people, tourists, businessmen have a lot of valid reasons to still need to use a private or at least massive transportation system, so we can not rely solely on bicycle transportation methods for those, still, we must provide those that can rely on them (young people, average commuters living not that far from the office, teenagers...)

He explained that after feasibility studies, more areas owned by the university would be placed on mining lease, valid for 25 years.

Wade, on the other hand, tackles controversial subjects — arguing, for example, that studying the biological basis of race is both scientifically valid and medically useful — but says little on the politics of genetics.

«A study which relies on people remembering what products they used and how they used them is not reliable or valid,» says the spokeswoman.

As no relevant study is available for comparison with the appropriate comparator therapy, the benefit assessment of the drug manufacturer is based on its own deliberations and assumptions, for which, however, a valid data basis is lacking.

Led by Julie Demuth, a scientist from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the study, «Explicating experience: Development of a valid scale of past hazard experience for tornadoes,» characterized and measured people's past tornado experiences to determine their impact on the perceived risks of future tornadoes.

The EPA's IG found (pdf) in 2014 «there was significant uncertainty in the study data,» meaning the EPA's assumptions on the amount of methane that spews from pipelines «may not be valid.»

The growing recognition that something has gone awry in the laboratory has led to calls for, as one might guess, more research on research (aka, meta - research)-- attempts to find protocols that ensure that peer - reviewed studies are, in fact, valid.

Study strengths include a large sample, valid information on filled prescriptions and routinely collected information on diagnosis of spontaneous abortion or related procedures.

After testing a methodology that studies group and individual variables together on over two thousand adolescents, they have been able to show that this is valid in predicting psychological well - being.

The estimations of Brown were made for a planet transit search centered on the Galactic plane in Cygnus (matching the Kepler field) for a sample of stars brighter than 12, and Brown considers these estimates to be valid to within a factor of 2 for the ground - based surveys that were the subject of his study.

Dr Peter Stott, commenting on Gavin's study in the Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/global-warming-hasnt-paused-study-finds says the term slowdown is valid because the past 15 years might have been still hotter were it not for natural variations like deep ocean heat uptake.

However, when 50 children were evaluated with the Autism Diagnostic Interview — Revised 35 and the Autism Diagnostic Observation Schedule — Generic, 36 94 % met criteria for ASD on both instruments, and 100 % met criteria on at least 1 instrument.37 Record - review validation studies conducted by the investigators demonstrate that the predictors of valid ASD diagnoses were having more than 2 diagnoses in the medical record.38 Most influenza infections in our study were determined from International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision, Clinical Modification diagnostic codes rather than serologic evidence.

Whether or not these studies are valid, on top of the lessening quality of life that I perceive to be caused by my personal cell phone use, questions about my health and my impact on the environment are enough motivation for me to put this particular technology away for a while.

Given the relatively very high doses used in the study on the whole and the fact that only mild toxicity was reported, I would say that this conclusion appears to be valid but I would like to see more studies using high such high doses for comparison in order to truly validate these findings.

I would think that for a study to be valid, you would have to compare a healthy vegan diet to a (relatively) healthy non-vegan diet (i.e., as healthy as one can get while still taking on the health risk of eating animals).

094870: As this video (backed up by valid studies) and others on this site show, traditional soy products are very healthy.

So far, I've reviewed the basics on assessing studies and the importance of differentiating essential oils» mechanisms in humans versus in petri dishes or rodents.6 I've also discussed why it is imperative in experiments to use quality, uncontaminated essential oils that are not polluted with plasticizers to provide valid results.6 - 9 Another pitfall I highlighted with in vitro (petri dish) studies included the use of testing trays that contain phthalates and endocrine disruptors which can escape into the experiment along with the essential oils.

I wanted to leave a comment on the Canadian doctor's site saying all that, and sticking up for the very valid possibility that some women don't do well with fasting, so it should be properly studied and discussed with an open mind, but I'm not feeling very concise tonight, and I am not sure if Stefani has posted any updated information on this topic since 2012, etc., so in the end I haven't written anything there.

If studies don't show low cortisol levels in the majority of people with chronic fatigue, and most people with chronic fatigue don't identify with the symptoms of low cortisol levels, it simply does not make sense to keep focusing on cortisol as a valid way of explaining fatigue.

This study established initial evidence for a valid and reliable assessment tool to observe school recess environments with a specific focus on safety, resources, student engagement, adult engagement, pro - social / anti-social behavior, and student empowerment.

Several subsequent studies suggest that the measures are probably reasonably valid on average.

It is important to note, however, that even if the conclusions from these studies are right, they provide evidence about whether value - added measures are valid on the average across large numbers of teachers.

NBI 76 says, «NEA will facilitate access to empirical research and reviewed and / or valid studies, for member use, on the NEA website to assist members in combating the concerted attacks on public education and public educators.»

Eight years in development, including 10 pilot studies, and applying standards based on valid research on effective teaching, the evaluations in the report provide convincing evidence that a large majority of our nation's teacher preparation programs are miserably failing our aspiring teachers and our children.

In addition to these four state - based studies of voucher program impacts on test scores, some recent studies do show positive effects on graduation rates, parent satisfaction, community college enrollment, and other nonachievement - based outcomes, but it is unclear if these outcomes are lasting and valid.23 For example, research shows that nationally, graduation rates for students in public schools and peers participating in voucher programs equalize after adjusting for extended graduation rates.24 Some critics suggest that private schools may graduate students who have not successfully completed the full program.25 Also, in regard to parent satisfaction, while some studies do show greater satisfaction among parents whose children participate in voucher programs, the most recent evaluation of the D.C. voucher program shows that any increase in parent or student school satisfaction is not statistically significant.26

The New School studies say that the SWR ranges from 2 percent to 9 percent; the long - term value proposition of stocks depends heavily on the valuation level that applies at the day of a stock purchase, according to an analytically valid examination of the historical data.

And all the old studies based on that data can also no longer be regarded as valid.

Dr Peter Stott, commenting on Gavin's study in the Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/jun/04/global-warming-hasnt-paused-study-finds says the term slowdown is valid because the past 15 years might have been still hotter were it not for natural variations like deep ocean heat uptake.

The attribution study was based on series of 5 - yr - mean temperatures and spatial averages of 90 degree sectors (i.e. to four different sectors), where sectors and periods with no valid data were excluded.

The estimate of 3 + / -1 deg C (for doubled CO2) based on paleo - data and model studies is therefore still valid, even after this program.

Hence, if David and the IPCC etc wish to put forward ideas that ignore basic physics, meaning that they ignore the maximum entropy production which the Second Law says will tend to occur, thus establishing a stable temperature gradient which, as Big Wave Dave said, «obviates the need for concern over GH gases,» then the onus is on them to prove what they say, not only with valid physics, but also empirical evidence, experiments and studies, as appropriate and as is usually done in physics.

The reason that subjective rating studies use multiple independent raters is so that their ratings are valid, and not just based on one skewed judge.

As such little that is discussed from inference OF the «graph» is infact based on a VALID study.

When the data do not help, Innuit studies do: «The traditional knowledge of native peoples, passed down through generations, is no longer valid» Is there an Innuit saga on the warm period of Greenland 1000 years ago, when the Vikings settled there?

Having least effect on the posterior PDF is not a valid argument as that depends on issues of experimental methodology rather than on the phenomenon being studied.

That's not proven by studying these papers beyond the observations that their argument lacks all valid basis and is based on explicitly erroneous reasoning.

There can not even be an honest agreement on the «time - order» of the phenomena we are observing — e.g., we have numerous studies that show increases in atmospheric CO2 follow increases in temperature and yet, AGW theory assumes the reverse as valid information from the get - go.

The U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's «statement of two years ago — that the global surface temperature has shown a much smaller increasing linear trend over the past 15 years than over the past 30 to 60 years» — is no longer valid,» the study claims.

You may work on - campus if you are attending a public educational institution or a qualified private educational institution, AND you have a valid study permit.

All of these important professional documents of the American Association of Medical Assistants and the American Association of Medical Assistants Endowment depend on a valid and comprehensive role delineation study.

Results: Reliability and validity of the scale and its four subscales, such as «stop unpleasant emotions and thoughts» (a = 0.92) «used problem - focused coping» (a = 0.71), Self - efficacy on diabetes problem solving (a = 0.74) and «get support from friends and family» (a = 0.67) were approved explicitly by a psychometric analysis; these show that the scale was slightly valid and reliable on the study setting.