In a 2005 study, Dr. Boyd and colleagues analyzed influential, evidence-based clinical practice guidelines used to treat nine of the most common chronic diseases, among them osteoporosis, arthritis, Type 2 diabetes and high cholesterol.
Most influential were evidence published in the medical literature (569 GPs citing this as 'very' influential; 62.6%), and national policy relating to screening (n = 541; 63.6%).
Influential supporting evidence for this theory is that different artificial stimulation protocols lead to either strengthening or weakening of synapses between CA3 and CA1 neurons in the hippocampus.
The four-factor model advocated by Nock and Prinstein [ 26] has been extremely influential, as evidenced in part by a Google Scholar citation count exceeding 600.
This allows an examination of the data for outliers that are overly influential, as evidenced by inconsistency between the lowess and regression lines.
This allows an examination of the data for outliers that are overly influential, as evidenced by inconsistency between the lowess and regression lines (i.e., when one or two data points with both high lead dose and uric acid move the lowess line away from the regression line, they are likely to overly influence the regression line as well).
Order it so that the most influential and powerful evidence is the first to be presented, mediocre evidence is in the middle, and a final powerful piece is at the end.
The debate about him has only grown in recent weeks after an influential magazine presented evidence suggesting that he may have supported the violence, a contention he has dismissed as politically motivated.
At a lunch Friday in Minneapolis, two of his top advisers — Charlie Black, a veteran political operative, and Dan Coats, a former senator from Indiana — were extolling Ms. Palin's virtues to about 150 influential evangelicals as evidence of Mr. McCain's ideological commitments.
Though essentialist accounts have been very influential, we review evidence that shows their limitations.
