Sentences with phrase «with evidence of impact»

There are a robust group of school - based mental health programmes with evidence of an impact across a variety of emotional and behavioural problems in children

The most prominent example, the Investing in Innovation program, funds both promising ideas and those with evidence of impact, with more money going to programs with more evidence.

A back - end check that the evaluation results corresponded with evidence of impact on student achievement, where available, could have accomplished our purposes more effectively.

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«There is no evidence that a cut in corporate taxes is associated with any significant impact on employment,» conclude longtime U.S. tax policy researchers Karel Mertens of Cornell University and Morten O. Ravn of University College London.

As evidence of the economic impact RFRA laws can have on local economies, ratings and reviews site Angie's List, founded by Bill Osterle and Angie Hicks in 1995, announced over the weekend that it was halting a $ 40 million expansion of its Indianapolis headquarters, expected to bring with it an additional 1,300 jobs, while it examines the implications of the law.

The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks.

Dalton et al. (1998)(reviewing 31 studies of board leadership structure and finding «little evidence of systematic governance structure / financial performance relationships») and Rhoades et al. (2001)(meta - analysis of 22 independent samples across 5,271 companies indicates that independent leadership structure has a significant impact on performance, but this impact varies with context).

Small rate changes or more evidence of earnings and capacity to pay is also unlikely to impact on high net worth buyers, which is typically defined as those with assets worth more than $ 2m in addition to their home.

The primary factors that have impacted our rating are mixed — some indicating strength, some showing weaknesses, with little evidence to justify the expectation of either a positive or negative performance for this stock relative to most other stocks.

9 Consumer Social Media Trends That Could Impact Marketers — Social Media Examiner has put together a nice piece with recent evidence of social media happenings that you should know about and take into account when planning for future marketing efforts.

«Wal - Mart continued to capitalize on its investments in [the third quarter] as evidenced by its impressive online sales performance, with growth of over 20 percent on a $ 14 [billion] to 15 billion base, without a full quarter of impact from Jet.com,» Moody's analyst Charlie O'Shea said in a note.

Still, when you couple this absence of increased credit with the lack of evidence that QE worked the way the Fed thought it would, you would be forgiven for wondering whether QE had any significant impact on output and employment at all.

Resistant starch is gaining momentum in the nutrition community due to emerging evidence in animal studies and some limited evidence in human studies suggesting that RS may positively affect body composition, favorably impact blood lipid and blood glucose levels and increase the amount of good bacteria in the colon, and may enhance satiety when consumed with whey protein.

Interestingly, just days before the NFL's decision to suspend the use of impact sensors was announced, my local paper, The Boston Globe, came out with a powerful editorial in which it urged college, high school, and recreational leagues in contact and collision sports to consider mandating use of impact sensors, or, at the very least, experimenting with the technology, to alert the sideline personnel to hits that might cause concussion, and to track data on repetitive head impacts, which, a growing body of peer - reviewed evidence suggests, may result, over time, in just as much, if not more, damage to an athlete's brain, as a single concussive blow, and may even predispose an athlete to concussion.

2002 Midwifery Today, Philadelphia, «The Anthropology of Hospital Birth»; «Closing the Evidence - Practice Gap» with Marsden Wagner; «Dealing with Consumer Demand»; «Medical Imperialism: The Impact of the Western Model of Birth on the World» with Marsden Wagner; «Birth Renaissance around the World: Models that Work,» with Jan Tritten.

With regard to the impact of home visiting programs on maternal depression, evidence from recent studies suggests that some components help to improve child's health and development and mothers» sensitivity to child cues.

«According to the US Food and Drug Administration, the scientific evidence is «mixed» over the benefits of adding ARA and DHA to baby formula, with no currently available published studies on the long - term impact.

But there's mounting evidence that their efforts — including improved high - tech voter contact systems — are making an impact, especially given that tea partiers and parts of the GOP base are less - than - thrilled with Romney.

At 11 a.m., dozens of of housing advocates and tenants will join with elected officials to announce a «scathing new report that exposes statistical evidence of Airbnb's negative impact on affordable housing in NYC,» Public Advocate Tish James will speak, City Hall steps, Manhattan.

To see if these deaths were linked with the KT extinction, the researchers tested for iridium, the rare metal found throughout the world near the KT boundary, thought by most to be evidence of a cosmic impact.

There is a body of evidence showing the benefits of synchronizing education times with teens» body clocks; interestingly, while «studies of later start times have consistently reported benefits to adolescent sleep health and learning, there [is no evidence] showing early starts have a positive impact on such things», add the researchers.

«Along with evidence of frictional obstruction to subduction,» Tsuji says, «the fault structure appears to have also impacted earthquake location and behavior.

A photograph of an insect, plant or animal, tagged with the date and location where it was taken, can provide valuable scientific data, e.g., on how urban sprawl impacts local ecosystems or evidence of local, regional or global climactic shifts.

Researchers leading a large, ongoing study in women called VOICE that compares PrEP with pills to a vaginal microbicide plan to revaluate the ethics of continuing to use a placebo control group given the new evidence of oral Truvada's powerful impact.

Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at Wake Forest Baptist, said, «This study, along with future research, will help inform relevant evidence - based recommendations for youth football leagues to reduce head impact exposure and ultimately improve the safety of sport for our young athletes.»

«Current evidence suggests that insect herbivore extinction decreased with increasing distance from the asteroid impact site in Mexico, so pools of surviving insects would have existed elsewhere that could have provided a source for the insect influx that we observed at Mexican Hat.»

The findings, published in the journal Nature Communications, show that integrating evidence from historical writings with paleoclimate data can advance both our understanding of how the climate system functions, and how climatic changes impacted past human societies.

But along with the notorious polar vortex, the year also brought new evidence that human activities are altering the climate in ever more obvious ways — and that the risks of severe impacts rise with every ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.

Finding evidence for these strong electron - lattice interactions, known as polarons, emphasizes the need to quantify their impact on complex phenomena such as superconductivity (the ability of some materials to carry current with no energy loss) and other promising properties.

The lab finding is «part of a growing body of evidence that ocean acidification alone and combined with other stressors will have effects beyond shell mineralization,» said Terrie Klinger, a University of Washington marine sciences professor studying the impacts of acidification.

In general, research plans are weighed more heavily later in the game, with more readily comprehensible evidence (especially pedigree, letters of recommendation, impact factor of journals, etc.) being weighed more heavily in the early rounds.

Faced with evidence of the complex impact of biomedicine on late 20th - century life, some bioethicists seem to prefer to celebrate scientific advances.

By studying sections of marine shelf on the Atlantic Coastal Plain associated with the period between the Paleocene and Eocene epochs, Schaller and colleagues uncovered some of the first direct evidence for such an impact event.

Most academic studies have found little evidence of any tangible long - term economic impact, with the most recent concluding that in most cases the Olympics are a money - losing proposition for host cities.

The evidence is pretty compelling that something is going on with air pollution and autism,» says Kalkbrenner, who adds that further study is needed to determine the neurodevelopmental impacts of specific chemical pollutants during precise developmental windows.

But Jonathan Eisen, a microbiologist at the University of California, Davis, calls this «ludicrous,» after a NASA press release drew media attention with claims of an «astrobiology finding that will impact the search for evidence of extraterrestrial life,» a theme that Wolfe - Simon echoed at the briefing.

However, the contribution of each mechanism in diverse taxa remains an open question in biology, with evidence to support the impact of each [7].

A few interesting articles in early life human microbiome, plus: A comparison between Staphylococcus epidermidis commensal and pathogenic lineages from the skin of healthy individuals living in North American and India; A new tool to reconstruct microbial genome - scale metabolic models (GSMMs) from their genome sequence; The seasonal changes in Amazon rainforest soil microbiome are associated with changes in the canopy; A specific class of chemicals secreted by birds modulates their feather microbiome; chronic stress alters gut microbiota and triggers a specific immune response in a mouse model of colitis; and evidence that the short chain fatty acids profile in the gut reflects the impact of dietary fibre on the microbiome using the PolyFermS continuous intestinal fermentation model.

In its 2012 statement on Climate Change, the American Geophysical Union (AGU) has reconfirmed that there is compelling evidence of human impact on the climate system with potentially far - reaching consequences for ecological and political systems.

While they are primarily associated with risk of breast cancer, this analysis supports the growing body of evidence that they have a broader impact.

We also present evidence that TRLs with reduced ApoC - III content do not affect lipolysis and that a reduction in LPL expression and activity does not suppress the impact of ASO inhibition on lowering plasma TG levels.

While it's important to recognize that diet is frequently associated with other factors that may impact cognition in aging, Fargo says — such as smoking, education levels, and socioeconomic status — he does believe that there is «sufficiently strong evidence to conclude that a healthy diet may reduce the risk of cognitive decline.»

Scientific evidence shows that moderate caffeine intake does not affect athletic performance (and can in fact slightly improve it), but alcohol consumption can interfere with muscle recovery from exercise, and negatively impact a number of other performance variables.

Scientific evidence shows that moderate caffeine intake does not affect athletic performance (and can in fact slightly improve it) or hydration status, but alcohol consumption can interfere with muscle recovery from exercise, and negatively impact a number of other performance variables.

Combine that with the majority of evidence showing stretching has no impact on injuries, and it seems unlikely stretching was the reason these athletes stayed healthy.

A meta - analysis of randomized controlled trials involving individuals with vascular disease, showed that mindfulness interventions reduced stress, depression and anxiety, as well as evidence that mindfulness has a positive impact on physical outcomes such as blood pressure and stress hormones.

Although sustainability guidelines are unlikely to be included in the final version of the 2015 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, the Advisory Committee included the following statement in their initial report: «Consistent evidence indicates that, in general, a dietary pattern that is higher in plant - based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds, and lower in animal - based foods is more health promoting and is associated with lesser environmental impact (greenhouse gas emissions and energy, land, and water use) than is the current average U.S. diet.

Unless one of the above conditions that l - carnitine seems to impact afflicts you there is no evidence to suggest that supplementing with any form of carnitine will aid a ketogenic diet.

Schwingshackl L, Hoffmann G. with this link with no summary: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23294905 Dr Greger summarizes it as: «Now we have studies that measure the impact of low carb diets on arteries directly, and a review of all the best studies to date found that low - carb diets impair arterial function, as evidenced by a decrease in flow - mediated dilation, meaning low - carb diets effectively stiffen people's arteries.»

Perhaps with not much evidence, but I believe that if you know someone who has struggled with their sexuality or you, yourself struggled with it, the impact of the words in which Stuhlbarg speaks emulates a dream we only wish were one - hundred - percent exhibited in households around the world.