Sentences with phrase «weaker evidence of»

Children reported significantly higher levels of maternal warmth and weaker evidence of less mother hostility when fathers have ADHD (See Table 4).

The UK Childhood Cancer Study investigators23 published in 2001 a study that provided 1636 leukemia cases and indicated a weak evidence of borderline statistical significance that ever (compared with never) having been breastfed was associated with a small reduction in leukemia risk (OR, 0.89; 95 % CI, 0.84 - 1.00).

In the current case, prosecutors joined unrelated allegations into a single indictment to heighten the appearance of wrongdoing, «with weak evidence of one scheme propping up weak evidence of another,» Williams argued.

They ignored weak evidence of the planet's existence stretching back to 2013 in favor of stronger observations over the subsequent three years, factoring in other studies of the star stretching back 16 years.

An analysis of the geographical distribution of allele frequencies showed weak evidence of variation in distribution of alleles, with clusters representing a higher than expected number of samples with the major allele being identified for 5 SNPs.

However, even large - scale analyses of present - day data provide only weak evidence of the Anglo - Saxon migration impact, mainly for two reasons.

Unexpectedly, epitope encoding regions were enriched for sites displaying weak evidence of directional selection influenced by HIV - 1.

The modest or weak evidence of these dietary exposures is mostly consistent with the findings of RCTs, although RCTs have yet to be conducted for several factors.

In addition, we found modest evidence to support a causal relationship for intake of fish, marine ω - 3 fatty acids, folate, whole grains, dietary vitamins E and C and beta carotene, alcohol, fruits, and fiber, and weak evidence of causation for intake of supplementary vitamin E and ascorbic acid, saturated and polyunsaturated fatty acids and total fat, α - linolenic acid, meat, eggs, and milk.

Of the four relevant correlations, only one was significant, providing only weak evidence of an association.

He's been saying that climate science is alarm - driven for years, but this opinion presents pretty weak evidence of that.

Last year he said the 5 - year mean was weak evidence of a slowdown of global warming, by which he means the surface air temperature, which should be clear to anybody who reads Hansen.

There was weak evidence of an association between partner alcohol use and baseline adolescent depressive symptoms after adjusting for confounding variables (b = -.065, 95 % CI = -.13, -.00, p =.05).

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Too many investors saw something else: a return to the bad old days of aggressive currency manipulation, evidence that the Chinese economy was much weaker than thought, or both.

China «s consumer price inflation slowed to its weakest pace in almost a year in August, pulled down by abating food costs, although an encouraging moderation in producer price deflation added to growing evidence of a steadying economy.

The evidence also suggests, however, that any expansion is likely to be relatively weak except for a 1 - 2 quarter bounce of inventory rebuilding, and that the sustainability of any upturn may be cut short by accelerating debt problems.

This generally supports the case that Living Goods offers high quality products, but because our experience on the site visit may have been non-representative and there are many other potential factors that may affect the effectiveness of drug treatments aside from following storage procedures for drugs properly, we consider it to be only weak evidence in support of the quality of Living Goods» drug treatments.

In «Miles to Go Before We Sleep,» Johnathon Stroud, chief intellectual property officer at Unified Patents, argues that Barnett ignores other evidence that supports the elimination of «weak» patents through an administrative process created by the 2011 America Invents Act.

Underlining the lack of evidence for a rate rise, communicating that any change in policy would not come as a surprise or ahead of schedule, and forecasting weaker US growth thanks in part to the strong dollar had its desired effect: but not for long.

According to U.S. best practices, nonprofit boards should be comprised of at least five people who have little overlap with an organization's staff or other related parties.70 However, there is only weak evidence that following these best practices is correlated with success, and if they are correlated, that may be because more competent organizations are more likely to both follow best practices and to succeed — rather than because following best practices leads to success.

Your examples are evidence, but they are weak evidence and they do not meet your precondition of being «nonbiased».

No evidence of Adam and Eve or hell or heaven or god or satan... just stories meant to fool the weak of heart and gullible... stories to make you feel like you're less of a person than you are.

The evidence that Jesus ever spoke of himself as the Messiah is thus decidedly weak.

Women and men are less different then you may think and there is no evidence that either gender is more noble, protective of the weak.

No matter how weak you may believe it to be, it is far stronger than any evidence for a GOD or gods, of which there is none.

Capital punishment's lack of demonstrated superiority as a deterrent (the evidence for its effectiveness being at best mixed), the capacity of society to protect itself equally well by permanently imprisoning those who are currently being executed (which is possible at limited marginal cost, especially when one takes into account the cost of the extended trial procedures and interminable appeals and reviews which usually accompany capital punishment)-- all these points are important, but their utility is chiefly as rebuttal arguments in response to the empirically weak but emotionally strong claims made on behalf of capital punishment.

According to Gareth Nelson, «evidence, or proof, of origins — of the universe, of life, of all the major groups of life, of all the minor groups of life, indeed of all the species is weak or nonexistent when measured on an absolute scale.»

If your faith is so weak that it can not stand up to being looked at from an objective, historical, evidence based perspective, then this article is the least of your problems.

Where one appeal to the evidence of experience is weak, the other is strong.

But that is only one example — the strength of Fonte - Nagai paper is the cumulative evidence that a relatively weak love of country persists across a large range of issues.

I hope one day he realizes that there's a difference between flip flopping and changing your mind and it's not weak or cowardly to change your opinion in light of new evidence.

At the end of the day, the prosecution's case was weak to begin with and I believe that the verdict of «not guilty» was the correct one due to a lack of evidence.

The holy spirit is real to me he speaks to me he leads me he gives me wisdom he comforts me and he empowers me to do the work i am called to do.the evidence that you are walking by and with the holy spirit is that you are walking no longer walking according to the flesh but by the spirit of God.One of the things i used to struggle with was sin but no more it is the holy spirit that empowers me to live a holy life and when tempted i admit that my flesh is weak but that in Christ i am an overcomer and in the holy spirits power he strengthens me to be like Christ.To God be the glory great things he has done.brentnz

Yet there too there is empirical evidence of new forms of religious expression, even new religious institutions, that resemble the «weak» American model.

Hepcat, Your incessant insults show that you subscribe to ad hominem argument, more evidence of weak critical thinking skills.

Although early studies showed that saturated fat diets with very low levels of PUFAs increase serum cholesterol, whereas other studies showed high serum cholesterol increased the risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), the evidence of dietary saturated fats increasing CAD or causing premature death was weak.

«Even the authors of this study admit that they failed to find any cause and effect, and provide weak scientific evidence to support their contention.

Although a number of studies have investigated the evidence for anti-obesity programmes at school, the results have been mixed and the studies weak.

Arsenal have allot of mentally weak players, and they have very little evidence of holding any leaders.

Though on evidence of Gabriel Paulista and Callum Chambers performance against Liverpool, there is no cause for worry against a weaker Newcastle side.

Besides the 2013 University of Washington study, a number of other recent studies have found education ineffective in improving self - reporting by athletes, adding to a growing body of evidence challenging the conventional wisdom that inadequate athlete concussion knowledge is the principal barrier to increased reporting, and suggesting that one of the best ways to combat underreporting by athletes of concussion symptoms may be to shift the focus of educational efforts towards helping coaches facilitate concussion reporting, the theory being that athletes will be more likely to report concussion symptoms if they no longer think that they will be punished by the coach for reporting, such as by losing playing time or their starting position, perceived by their teammates as letting them down, or viewed by their coach as «weak,» all of which have been documented in numerous studies over the past decade as reasons athletes are reluctant to report concussion symptoms.

It's clear in your weak defenses of your claims and attempts to explain yourself that you really have no true deeper understanding of the physiology of the human body, the process of birth, and the use of statistics and evidence in medicine.

In child attention at five years of age, weak evidence was found (one study) favouring the supplementation.

A systematic review of strategies to reduce the rate of Caesarean birth in low - risk women [12] concluded that no single strategy was uniformly successful in reducing CS but the evidence was weak — suggesting more research is needed to begin to identify effective strategies to reduce CS.

Jim was determined to find answers over why the rear facing information in US is so weak considering there has been overwhelming peer reviewed research and evidence for a large number of years.

On the issue of whether Orwell had the Fabians in mind: I think the direct evidence is weak.

«The findings from DFID - commissioned research published in recent years indicates that there is weak evidence that market competition enhances the quality of schools in the private or public sectors.

He too alluded darkly toward «evidence of voter suppression,» and called for formal federal oversight of the final vote count — though was weak on the details of what nefarious activities transpired.

Evidence and testimony showed how some lawmakers can wield their considerable power to extort benefits for themselves or others; how the weak enforcement of lax financial disclosure requirements gives legislators ample opportunity to mask illegal payments as outside income; how moneyed real estate interests spend millions of dollars in campaign contributions to influence legislation; and how power is concentrated in the hands of the so - called three men in a room: the legislative leaders and the governor.

Her committee has criticised the government's ability to detect fraud among welfare to work providers, and said arrangements for inspecting contractors were so weak that evidence of potential fraud was not picked up.