Sentences with phrase «model subjects tested»

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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave a perfect five - star crash rating on the Tesla Model X after the electric SUV was subjected to a series of crash tests.

It is customary and even ethically mandatory that experimentation that carries with it a substantial degree of risk to human subjects first be tested in an animal laboratory or, at the very least, on a computer model.

Barring this one logically inappropriate means of testing the reliability of models, the metaphors of religion lie open to evaluation along very similar lines to the models used in the sciences to represent a subject matter that lies beyond our powers of direct inspection.

To test this model, we used high - resolution functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to examine brain activity in 14 healthy subjects while they performed an active «escape - pain» task within a two - dimensional maze.

When they tested the savvy model on the remaining 10 percent of subjects, it successfully predicted the financial means of those users.

Using multivariate models, we tested associations between eNOS htSNPs and diabetes (n = 461 and 474 case and control subjects, respectively) and glucose intolerance (two cohorts of n = 706 and 738 U.K. and Spanish Caucasians, respectively), and we tested eNOS x total energy expenditure interactions on glucose intolerance.

We also applied a computational model to describe task behavior and test subjects» latent representations of ingredients in recipe space.

Climate models are being subjected to more comprehensive tests, including, for example, evaluations of forecasts on time scales from days to a year.

And he was able to poke, prod and measure countless test subjects — including fitness models and athletes.

In addition to modeling lessons for teachers and working with small groups of students, the skills specialists also regularly analyze student scores on diagnostic, formative, and standardized tests across classrooms, subjects, and grades.

But not for all the usual reasons that people raise concerns: the worry about whether we've got good measures of teacher performance, especially for instructors in subjects other than reading and math; the likelihood that tying achievement to evaluations will spur teaching to the test in ways that warp instruction and curriculum; the futility of trying to «principal - proof» our schools by forcing formulaic, one - size - fits - all evaluation models upon all K — 12 campuses; the terrible timing of introducing new evaluation systems at the same time that educators are working to implement the Common Core.

«Success» in implementing standards - based reforms under this model is defined not in terms of test scores in a limited number of subject areas, but broadly, in terms of providing all students a sound basic education on a sustained basis.

So you will see that by early next year [2012] we have to deliver on the first model, which is [teacher evaluations in] the tested subjects.

This is why, in our modeling efforts, we do massive multivariate, longitudinal analyses in order to exploit the covariance structure of student data over grades and subjects to dampen the errors of measurement in individual student test scores.

The policy requires that at least 40 percent of teachers» evaluation be based on a value - added model (VAM)-- a model that comprises a bewildering formula that incorporates test data from students they do not teach or from subjects they do not teach.

When I listen to some charter network leaders talk about their models, they often openly state that they spend disproportionate amounts of the school day on tested subjects (English and math).

The law encourages local districts to submit teacher pay proposals for the pilot that could look like one of two distinct models: either pitch a plan that would reward teachers on the basis of how well their students do on tests, or present an idea for paying teachers who work in hard to staff subject areas or rural / high poverty schools and / or taking on additional leadership roles to improve student success.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

• The «blended learning» model of education exemplified by the Rocketship chain of charter schools — often promoted by charter boosters — is predicated on paying minimal attention to anything but math and literacy, and even those subjects are taught by inexperienced teachers carrying out data - driven lesson plans relentlessly focused on test preparation.

The availability of test scores in multiple subjects for each student permits us to estimate a model with student fixed effects, which helps minimize any bias associated with the non-random distribution of teachers and students among classrooms within schools.

The «layered model,» as it is called by researchers, collects between three and five years of test - score data for each student in as many subjects as possible, including reading, math, science and social studies, in order to make predictions about how a student will score on a given test.

Of the 12 models subjected to this test so far, two scored Good, four scored Acceptable, three scored Marginal and three scored Poor.

With its compact size and concept - car looks the Evoque is clearly a new kind of Range Rover, but it has been subjected to exactly the same punishing test and development regime as the larger Range Rover models.

But some variants in the model range were subject to a three - star safety rating for safety, according to local crash test authority ANCAP, taking some of the shine off the new car's launch.

The Crossfire debuted as a 2004 model, and for 2005, there are already some changes: There is a convertible model, a higher - powered, 330 - horsepower SRT model and a Limited model, which is the subject of this test.

Performance Tested to the Limit In recognition of the extreme performance potential of the Focus RS500, the limited edition model has been subjected to a series of concentrated durability tests which have focused on the car's track capabilities.

Our test subject is a rear - wheel drive Luxury model, which is the second trim level in the ATS hierarchy.

The test subject were all small cars — specifically, 2014 models of the Chevrolet Volt, Ford C - MAX Hybrid, Fiat 500 L, Hyundai Veloster, Mazda5, MINI Cooper Countryman, Mitsubishi Lancer, Nissan Juke, Nissan Leaf, Scion FR - S, Scion xB, and Subaru BRZ.

After subjecting the phone to a number of tests, we learned that the OS build that is preloaded on the device is less prone to errors and glitches than the previous BlackBerry models.

To get a sense for how the model performs with actual gameplay, we subjected it to thorough testing in GTA V, Batman: Arkham Knight and Elite Dangerous.

The move comes after numerous social games firms test the limits of the free - to - play model, which — though once a subject of doubt — has created a multi-billion-dollar industry.

No model has yet been subjected to this test.

But then we are facing the problem of, how good the models are, and how valid are the tests they are subjected to.

The obvious reason for the deep divide on this subject is that the IPCC offers modeling which can not be tested for decades ahead.

At this point, belief in one of those models over others is tantamount to a religious belief because none of them has been subjected to stringent testing of any kind (comparisons of model predictions to out of sample data being the best.)

The standard mechanism of the Popperian hypothetico - deductive model is to pose an argument, grounded or instrumental, and subject it to tests which threaten it with embarrassment.

For example, no - one seriously thinks that computer modelling should be subject to the same requirements as a field test.

«We should not be using public money to pay for faster and faster computers so that increasingly fine - grained climate models can be subjected to ever larger numbers of simulations until we have got the data to test whether the predictions of existing models are confirmed (or not disconfirmed) by the evidence.»

The test involved subjecting all three smartphone models (which feature OLED displays, which are notably vulnerable to burn - in) to 510 hours of showing a static image at full brightness.

We pitted a Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge against two iPhone 6 Plus models for 12 rounds of image - quality tests with different types of subjects and lighting conditions.

Longitudinal logistic models and ordered regression models with clustering for repeated measures across subjects adjusted for infant gender and visit were used to assess maternal and infant predictors of TV exposure and to test whether infants with both maternal and infant risk factors had higher odds of more detrimental TV exposure.

Leading home visiting models have been subjected to rigorous testing with scientifically validated control groups.

To test the revised two - factor model with three lower - level maladaptive factors (model 2), we subjected it to a CFA.