Intuitively, the basic conclusion of the Cleantech
Group analysis makes sense: the more you reduce your use of paper media in a single electronic device, the less you'll pollute by harvesting and shipping physical goods.
Not exact matches
«When they're not
making as much money, people will be a lot more sourpuss on them,» says Stephen Baker, vice-president of consumer electronics
analysis at market research firm NPD
Group.
In an
analysis of the changing shape of the American middle class, Pew Research Center divided the population into three
groups: Lower - income Americans
made less than 2/3 of the median household income, middle - income households had incomes between 2/3 and 200 % of the median, and upper - income households had income more than twice the median income.
But I suppose it is churlish to emphasise what she does not do when she does so much, and the rather more trenchant
analysis which others might
make of the same set of problems is not likely to have been honed working for steering
groups anddeanery teams.
Best
Analysis: Karl Giberson at The Huffington Post with «Why Evangelicals Are Fooled Into Accepting Pseudoscience» «The relentless assaults on the integrity of science by
groups like the Discovery Institute have
made it impossible for many people to understand the significance of a «scientific consensus.»
What is needed to
make this a relevant proposal is a critical empirical
analysis of the present situation in terms of whether there is any real likelihood of any class,
group, or coalition of
groups emerging as the agency of both ideological and political change.
-
Analysis What should we
make of yesterday's announcement of the merger between Dr Pepper Snapple
Group and Keurig Green M...
Los Baños, Laguna — Farmer - scientist
group MASIPAG's call to revoke the application to field and feed test Golden Rice is validated after Testbiotech
made an
analysis on risk assessment
made by Food Standards Australia and New Zealand (FSANZ) on Golden Rice.
Further
analysis needs to be conducted before direct comparisons of some food
groups within the food
group classification can be
made.
The results for the few food
group intakes that were dichotomized before the heritability
analysis, such as for infant formula milk and fruit juice, should not be overinterpreted because there are several indications that they might be an artifact: small numbers of pairs with at least one consumer for formula milk (15 %) and other beverages (13 %)
made their distributions extremely positively skewed, and the reduced variation in the data due to dichotomizing these variables compromises power and accuracy of the parameters, therefore limiting interpretation.
To decide a
group is crazy all too often lets Political Risk Analysts off the hook, as such a characterisation implicitly means that
analysis is simply impossible, as the
group in question is not sane enough for rational
analysis — the kind capable of being studied and assessed — to be
made.
Crain's has conducted an
analysis of data scraped and
made publicly available by advocacy
group InsideAirbnb, and found the number of users
making their homes available is up slightly from February.
It's part of a much longer process, naturally, since activists, industry
groups and nonprofits have been working for weeks to
make sure that their issues appear in the President's speech in just the «right» way (or not at all), and the spin certainly won't stop tonight (besides the cable - news and blog
analysis, the White House itself will be taking questions online after the speech).
The company spent months monitoring 64 environmental discussion
groups and figuring out what
makes them tick, and they've put together a list of seven secrets to list success along with an
analysis of list dynamics.
Campaign
group Justice welcomed today's review as a «sensible and clear - headed»
analysis of the Human Rights Act, with director of human rights policy Eric Metcalfe saying it
made a «refreshing change from ill - informed attacks» on the law.
Syracuse 20/20, the
group spearheading an
analysis of local consolidation, set a goal of
making recommendations by the end of 2015, which Mahoney said is too long to wait.
In
making the Justice Department announcement, Rosenstein also said the department would reinstitute next month the Council of Federal Forensic Laboratory Directors, a
group of the heads of the government's leading forensic laboratories and digital
analysis centers; put in place a system for monitoring examiner's courtroom testimony and regularly review the new standards «to confirm that they reflect current scientific knowledge and best practices.»
The
group also analyzed data from national forest inventories across Europe,
making the study one of the most comprehensive
analyses of forest ecosystem functioning at this scale to date.
The
group requires careful
analysis from multiple experiments before it will
make the call.
Before we can
make recommendations for the future, we need to better understand the composition of today's biomedical research workforce, and that's where the
analysis and modeling
group really comes in.
Contrary to earlier studies, the
analyses divided orb weavers, the many spider species that
make the classic spiral webs and cobwebs, into two
groupings and put them on very different branches of the tree.
From these findings, Dass and his
group suggest employers alter their assumptions of what
makes an employee leave a company, and that they change their employee retention data collection and
analysis efforts.
Examples of fringe collaboration include the amateur naturalist who brings in a species new to science but is not concerned with subsequent taxonomic research on it, the technician who
makes a vital series of
analyses at a distant laboratory, or the
group of undergraduates who provide a preliminary database from student projects that later forms the justification for a full - blown project.
And it may be true that this kind of
analysis could
make it easier for outside
groups to reproduce and analyze the study.
«We compared all manner of signalling data resources and clarified the properties of different datasets, which helps researchers
make better - informed decisions in their
analyses,» says Julio Saez - Rodriguez, visiting
group leader at EMBL - EBI and professor at RWTH Aachen.
The ability to distill a rigorous distinction between the experiences came not only from randomly assigning meditating students to two
groups — one focused on the nose and one focused on the belly — but also by employing two independent coders to perform standardized
analyses of the journal entries the students
made immediately after meditating.
A focused oligonucleotide microarray of 1,178 genes, qRT — PCR of selected transcripts, and western
analysis of hypoxia inducible factor - 1α (HIF - 1α) were used to compare retinas from the hypoxic and recovery
groups to control animals that were not
made hypoxic.
In addition to Gruen, who led the weak lensing working
group, and Wechsler, whose
group provided realistic simulations of the survey critical to testing several aspects of the cosmological
analysis, a large number of KIPAC scientists, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students and alumni have
made crucial contributions to DES — from building the instrument to developing theory and simulations and analyzing the data.
For the new
analysis, the researchers removed a control
group of nearly 500 health - care workers and
made other statistical adjustments.
In addition to having up to 13 pesticides detected on the fruit, according to an Environmental Working
Group (EWG)
analysis, conventional «strawberries have a large surface area and all those tiny bumps, which
makes the pesticides hard to wash off, so you're ingesting more of those chemicals,» explains Marion Nestle, PhD, a professor of nutrition and public health at New York University and author of What to Eat.
UK GUARDIAN — June 5 — «The Infidelity Report» carried out by the Consumer
Analysis Group, revealed that 1/3 of people think people were
made to stray, over 3/4 consider infidelity more common than ever and nearly as many find it increasingly acceptable.
* 4 POWERPOINTS * 18 READING /
ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels) * 86 VIEWING QUESTIONS * 62 VIEWING / READING / LITERARY ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work) Credits and Opening Montage, Film Techniques, Brainstorming and Making Connections, Juxtaposition of Scenes, Connecting Allusions to Theme, Paintings and Significance, Symbols, TV Repairman, Significance of Name and Titles, Mural, Music * 4 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 2 FIVE - PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 1 AP STYLE PROMPT * 1 AP STYLE PASSAGE TEST (analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY
ANALYSIS SHORT ANSWER QUESTIONS (based on Bloom's cognitive levels) * 86 VIEWING QUESTIONS * 62 VIEWING / READING / LITERARY
ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or group work) Credits and Opening Montage, Film Techniques, Brainstorming and Making Connections, Juxtaposition of Scenes, Connecting Allusions to Theme, Paintings and Significance, Symbols, TV Repairman, Significance of Name and Titles, Mural, Music * 4 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 2 FIVE - PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 1 AP STYLE PROMPT * 1 AP STYLE PASSAGE TEST (analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY
ANALYSIS MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTIONS * 14 FOCUSED ACTIVITIES (Individual or
group work) Credits and Opening Montage, Film Techniques, Brainstorming and
Making Connections, Juxtaposition of Scenes, Connecting Allusions to Theme, Paintings and Significance, Symbols, TV Repairman, Significance of Name and Titles, Mural, Music * 4 READER RESPONSE ESSAY QUESTIONS * 2 FIVE - PARAGRAPH ESSAY PROMPTS * 1 AP STYLE PROMPT * 1 AP STYLE PASSAGE TEST (
analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY
analysis / application of skills) * EXAMPLE LITERARY ESSAY
ANALYSISANALYSIS
First, our
analysis of parent preferences will reflect only the views of those parents who actually
made requests, so it is important to understand this
group.
The typology includes logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which have underlying algorithms with a story wrapper that amounts to an algorithmic problem), rule - using problems, decision -
making problems (e.g., cost - benefit
analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault and eliminating a problem space), diagnosis - solution problems (characteristic of medical school and involving small
groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic performance, case
analysis (characteristic of law or business school and involving adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values and which may have no obvious solutions).
Roland Fryer Answers Reader Questions About His Police Force Study New York Times, 7/12/16 «My sincere hope is that the type of
analysis being done in our paper will lead other police departments and community
groups to understand the types of data we need to answer these important questions and work together to be more transparent and
make that data public.»
The typology includes: logical problems, algorithmic problems, story problems (which are algorithmic problems with a story wrapper), «rule - using» problems, decision -
making problems (e.g., cost - benefit
analysis), troubleshooting (systematically diagnosing a fault, eliminating a problem space), «diagnosis - solution» problems (characteristic of medical school, which involve small
groups understanding the problem, researching different possible causes, generating hypotheses, performing diagnostic tests, and monitoring a treatment to restore a goal state), strategic - performance, case
analysis (characteristic of law or business school, which involve adapting tactics to support an overall strategy and reflecting on authentic situations), design problems, and dilemmas (such as global warming, which are complex and involve competing values, and which may have no solutions).
When the DOE regulation listed 11 stakeholder
groups that state governments must consult when specifying the data and
analysis that would go into program report cards, neither researchers nor evaluators
made the list.
2) Student - Learning Data
Analysis and Decision
Making Many
groups make a big deal out of teachers using more data to drive better instruction for students, but it's tough to do in the traditional classroom.
The problem, she said in a separate
analysis, is that Ms. Raymond compared the achievement of individual charter students with that of
groups of students from nearby public schools, without
making the statistical adjustments necessary to account for the natural downward biases that result from that sort of calculation.
As we learned from the descriptive
analyses, the 60 minutes a day of small -
group instruction were
made possible because of collaborative efforts and negotiations among staff members working in a collaborative model.
While our
analysis indicates that ability
grouping and DI occur simultaneously, there is still much to learn about how teachers
make meaning of these practices and the extent to which changes in the larger institutional environment inform their decisions.
In order to
make a true difference in attitude, teachers need time (and money, as necessary) to do professional reading and reflection (professional journals, discussion, writing), attend regional or national multi-day conferences, conduct peer and self observations and
analysis, and / or perhaps join a Critical Friends
group.
Because of the work on logic modeling, I feel fairly confident that two years from now, in my final meeting with this
group, I will be able to provide them with data
analysis that helps them
make decisions that guide the future of the project.
CEM, based at Durham University, claimed its test was «tutor - proof», but
analysis by campaign
group Local Equal Excellent found the tests
made little difference to the number of state school primary pupils accessing grammars.
For the 10 % sample of observations described above, the second expert reviewer agreed with the first about the codes which
made up the variables used in the data
analyses: 100 % whole -
group, 99 % small -
group, 95 % vocabulary instruction, 91 % phonemic awareness instruction, 91 % phonics instruction, 94 % coaching in word - level strategies, 96 % asking lower - level questions, 82 % asking higher - level questions, 100 % comprehension skill instruction, 88 % comprehension strategies instruction, 94 % teacher - directed stance, 92 % student - support stance, 95 % active responding, and 97 % passive responding.
Analysis of information
made available via university websites during the 2016 - 17 academic year by a
group of the UK's most selective universities, the Sutton Trust (ST) 30, indicates that a majority of these universities use contextual data to inform their admissions processes.
Our own
analysis of the midsize car
group that IIHS tested found that pricier models don't have better headlights, despite the hoopla many fancy brands
make about their LED systems.
The data, collected by the Codex
Group (a think tank that conducts book and publishing research) and presented by Douglas McCabe of Enders
Analysis, showed that 48 % of all purchases on Amazon were
made through directed searches.
An
analysis of traditional and Roth IRA contributions
made by Vanguard
Group customers for the 2007 through 2012 tax years showed that, on average, 41 % of the dollars contributed to IRAs for any given tax year are invested between January and April of the following year.
[See this Argo
Group (ARGO: LN) post & letter — the peer
analysis makes for interesting reading: Median net cash / investments totalled just 0.8 % of AUM for UK - listed asset managers].