Sentences with phrase «very useful evidence»

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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, we have generated a high - quality RNA - Seq gene annotation pipeline that is now routinely used in Ensembl annotation and is proving particularly useful for species with very little protein or cDNA evidence.

The evidence base that would be useful for teachers and parents to raise children's socio - emotional skills is still very limited.

This resource is very useful, especially for the question (4) s and (5) s which require evidence.

Setting the same assessment at multiple points across the school year provides excellent quantitative evidence of student improvement; very useful for benchmarking.

The former Lib Dem schools minister, David Laws, told the BBC: «It would be very useful to see that report, for people to be able to see what evidence has been used and for the Department, if it disagrees with that view, to offer alternative evidence».

I know there's nothing formal available for most of them, but at least a rough grouping into say 3 categories... (1) considered useful by many veterinarians; (2) controversial; (3) little evidence for usefulness would have been very helpful.

The very best way to prevent periodontal disease is daily dental home care, but it is useful to add in effective, evidence - based dental food to provide daily plaque control.

Observational evidence is not very useful.»

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.

This type of evidence could very well be extremely useful in the future.

It is very useful that this be done as soon as possible after an accident in order to preserve evidence and locate witnesses.

From the point of view of liability in the civil claim it is very useful for the family's lawyer to attend the inquest, because it will be an opportunity to get advanced sight of the police evidence and to assess and question the witnesses.

Taking videos and photographs can prove very useful when it comes to furnishing evidence for an insurance claim.

You'll need to pay $ 30 annual subscription fees to access video from the cloud, but that's a small price to pay for what could very well become useful video evidence.

We're not convinced by the supposed science of brain training - it's a sector that makes bold claims based on very flimsy evidence - but there's no doubt that spending time learning or practicing useful things is better for you than mindlessly swiping through trivia on Twitter.

Employers do not always consider offer letters to be employment contracts, but these letters are actually very useful because they can be used as an important evidence if your employer makes changes regarding your job responsibilities or your compensation sometime after you take the job.