Sentences with phrase «collect local data»

No one else is allowed to draw conclusions on this issue, only to collect local data for their use.

Collect local data on recent animal adoption and purchase behavior, and benchmark the results against national figures.

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Why you should care: The goal of Placemeter is to collect data to help increase the effectiveness of urban design, give local businesses a better idea of their traffic, and help consumers get useful info like how crowded the bar down the street is before you get there.

At least 189 of the state's 351 municipalities have barred retail marijuana stores and, in most cases, cultivation facilities and other cannabis operations, too, according to local news reports, municipal records, and data collected by the office of Attorney General Maura Healey.

Using data collected in the SCAAP system for 2009, an average share of 5.4 percent of the prisoners in state and local prisons were criminal aliens.

That is why I am excited to be a Director and involved with Premise — a data company that analyzes information people collect on their smartphones about everyday life, like the price of local foods — in its capacity to mobilize these technologies as widely as possible.

Drawing off of survey data collected from local tech startup founders and public and private sector leaders, the annual extensive research project, now in its third year, ranks 25 American cities» readiness to capitalize on the shift to the digital economy.

This might include reading a chapter from a book to prepare for the class discussion the next day, or interviewing a community member for a school project, or collecting real data, such as water samples from a local source for a science lab.

It provides analyses on the characteristics of pupils by their provision of SEN together with the assessment and placement of pupils with statements of SEN.. It is based on pupil - level data collected via the school census and local authority - level data collected via the SEN2 survey.

With data collected over time, the study will increase our understanding of the local impacts of climate change and contribute to the natural history of Great Lakes fish.

Since October 2015 the breastfeeding data have been obtained via interim reporting arrangements to collect health visiting activity at a local authority resident level.

The data - collected from 171 out of 370 councils by the Liberal Democrats under the Freedom of Information Act - has led the party to call on local authorities to step back from unnecessarily forcing people into bankruptcy.

Several trade associations made repeated appearances: in the month we collected data, the Local Government Association and National Farmers Union each appeared at four sessions, while the Federation of Small Businesses appeared at three.

Having collected data from all of these local councils for the first time, today we can take a unique look at Ukip's growing presence in local elections, their specific threat to Labour and the Conservatives and their targeting of areas being vacated by the moribund BNP and its local strongholds.

For state and local income taxes alone, New York state ranked highest in the nation for the amount collected per capita — $ 2,789 — in 2015, according to the latest data from the Tax Foundation.

Consensus CNY is a 19 - member commission with former Rep. James Walsh serving as co-chairman, collecting data on local government to find areas to improve.

ALBANY (AP) The Empire Center says the latest public data show more than 2,900 state and local government retirees in New York are collecting pensions topping $ 100,000.

Program and Service Objective #III: Collect, compile and record data, provide information and file required reports to federal, state and local authorities pertaining to the statistical profile of Erie County Workforce and when needed EEO complaints.

To peer into the crust, they combined data from local earthquake monitoring with a new set of local and regional earthquake data collected by the National Seismic Network of Egypt (ENSN), which was completed in 2002.

He also had them collect data on local carnivores, to see if predation was a factor.

In addition to air pollution data from state and local air agencies, these MESA Air monitors collected and measured variable levels of PM2.5, oxides of nitrogen, and black carbon, among other pollutants over two - week periods between 2005 - 2009.

COASST sees a future in which all coastal communities contribute directly to monitoring local marine resources and ecosystem health through the establishment of a network of citizen scientists, each collecting rigorous and vital data.

Their cohort study analyzed HIV testing data collected by the San Diego County Department of Public Health and the San Diego Primary Infection Cohort between 1996 and 2012, and used genetic analysis to identify local chains of transmission.

«This shows that conservation action can and does work,» particularly at the local level, says Thomas Brooks of NatureServe, a consortium based in Arlington, Virginia, that collects biodiversity data.

Plumptre and colleagues assessed local community and ranger - collected data that included encounter rates at gorilla nests at 10 sites as well as spatial occupancy across the species» range.

In addition, the authors employed a novel method that allowed them to rigorously assess data collected by local community members and rangers to estimate Gorilla abundance.

The data come from more than 150 years of bird - introduction records — including government reports, scientific papers, and observations by local experts — which were collected and analyzed as part of a European program called Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe.

The OSSP was designed at the Lab to help local land stewards manage their properties with students who, as «citizen scientists,» learn about the scientific process while going out to the field to collect useful data.

So far, the team has collected about 100 terabytes of data, accessible from a network - attached storage device that combines local 30 - terabyte servers with cloud storage.

In a second paper published in SRL, Felipe Leyton of the Universidad de Chile and colleagues analyze data collected from 163 of these strong - motion stations to learn more about the local site conditions of underlying rock and soil in these areas.

Julie also led a Collaborative Fisheries Research project in which scientific data on the diet of salmon is collected in partnership with local recreational and commercial fishers, providing data to help understand the recent salmon population crash (Thayer et al. 2013).

On Finland's Torne River, a local merchant began collecting data because the river — and its frozen - or - thawed status — was important to trade, transportation and food acquisition.

As a result of this unanimously positive feedback, Dr. Lee began to collect detailed data on these patients, and also began to research progesterone more in - depth, gathering studies from his local medical library, and communicating with scientists around the world to discuss their work.

The project, run by the John W. Gardner Center for Youth and Their Communities, at Stanford University, works with local communities to collect data from multiple child - serving agencies to inform policy and program decisions.

Teachers and students living in the Potomac and Chesapeake Bay watersheds work with local organizations and learn to sample water quality and collect and analyze data from the waters and the surrounding forest environment.

Meanwhile, through another program, at the Appalachian Highlands Science Learning Center, local high school students help collect data about salamanders.

Of particular interest to the students was collecting data about the local mangrove trees and plotting that data on maps for a science lesson.

To get a sense of where this is happening, I collected data on state and local contributions toward employee retirement plans from the Boston College Center for Retirement Research.

We also collect data on public school - transfer options generated by NCLB, which required schools that received Title I funds and failed to meet minimum requirements on standardized tests for two consecutive years to offer students the option of transferring to a local school that did meet the benchmark.

In fact, all the data collected is passed on to the university to assist in their attempt to study sugar glider possums in their local area.

After the data was collected, school staff members worked with parents, community members, and local health care providers to determine the best way to communicate the information to parents.

Income data collected outside the school meal program may be used in the aggregate to target state or local funding, and individual data may be used to provide fee waivers or other services to individual students.

For allocating state or local funds to districts or schools, alternative data can be used in lieu of the income data collected on school meal applications.

ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) The U.S. Department of Education has developed the new, high - quality, adaptable ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) and associated web - based platform to allow States, local districts, and schools to collect and act on reliable, nationally - validated school climate data in real - time.

They'll do this by collecting data about local trees and analyzing and interpreting...

In Alabama, data collected at local schools goes straight into the state longitudinal data base.

As an example of gathering and communicating about data to extend conversations about equity, one district we recently worked with as part of an equity data review chose to reach out to a wide range of parent and community stakeholders to collect data about their experiences and perceptions of local schools.

Second, state and local officials must become more systematic in how data on ELs are collected and used, by tracking students» progress over longer time periods and by including all students who were ever ELs in accountability metrics.

As a regular part of planning for our efforts to assist local districts, we rely on data from a variety of sources that include state assessment data including M - STEP and MME.. We also collect data from workshop evaluations through an online process with Survey Monkey, although admittedly, our efforts in doing this are inconsistent.

Further, data is collected via regular collaborative conversations held on a monthly basis with local superintendents, curricululm directors, principals, couselors, and ancillary staff.