Sentences with phrase «model standards used»

Model standards used nationwide to guide, prepare, and evaluate school leaders — including principals, their supervisors, and superintendents — are expected to be revised and re-released this fall.

Not exact matches

Consider using a standard RFM model: Your tech tells you how recently a customer has purchased (recency), how often he or she purchases (frequency), and how much that customer spends (monetary).

While, like any empirical results, these findings are a product of the methodology used, it is noteworthy that they are consistent across standard models — and indeed, similar results have been found using broadly similar approaches in other countries.

This belief is so powerfully embedded in the standard equilibrium models most economists use that, strangely enough, even those of us who described the imbalances in one paragraph and in the very next paragraph insisted that a crisis was unlikely — in China's case because of the government's very high credibility and its role as financial guarantor — were automatically assumed to be predicting an imminent crisis.

Furman and Stevenson note that while DOL's plan allows businesses to «continue using existing, conflicted business models,» it requires that they adopt «additional consumer protections such as ensuring advisors follow a best interest standard, enacting policies and procedures to manage and mitigate conflicts, and refraining from certain self - dealing transactions.»

Consistent with the applicable accounting standards, the grant date fair value of the market - related TSR component has been determined using a Monte Carlo simulation model.

Mortgage lenders rank credit scores using an industry - standard model known as the FICO score which assigns a numerical value to a person's credit risk to a bank.

Past experiments at CERN and elsewhere (but using lower energies) together with theoretical work linking the electromagnetic, weak and strong forces led to the «Standard Model» of particle physics, formulated in the 1970s.

Using the same Ishida - patented GA technology as our flagship models, our side beam system detects both metallic and non-metallic foreign bodies - such as glass, stones, rubber and dense plastic - to the same high standards with settings you can control based on your application.

The Australian food standards nutrient profiling model was used to determine the proportion of products not meeting nutrient profiling criteria.

Monica knew from the start that he wanted to use a different type of foam than the black, open - celled polyurethane that is standard among competitor models.

Top - loading models look like standard machines from the outside, but like their front - loading cousin, they use different types of washing action to get clothes clean using less water and energy.

Some convertible cribs (like the affordable and popular Fisher - Price models) don't require special conversion kits or rails — you can use standard bed frames like this:

If you intend to buy a bedside sleeper, avoid used models that don't meet the current safety standards.

Standard Edition 3 - in - 1 carrier, # 99, Manduca Suitable from birth as a front carrier, this model can be used for carrying on the hip from three months old.

Finally, we perform a set of industry standard safety tests, along with our own proprietary tests for braking and stability, to weed out any models that might topple over or fail to stop during use.

As a military history nerd, I'm reminded of the tanks of World War 2 — the Russians built a standard model (the T - 34) that was good enough, easy to manufacture in huge numbers and easy for draftee farmboys to learn to use (the Americans solved the same problem with the Sherman).

Studies show that these models can accurately predict the ways that new drugs will react in the human body and replace the use of animals in exploratory research and many standard drug tests.

A new algorithm creates 3D models using standard video footage from one angle.

Analysis shows an unexpected preference in the direction of movement, which suggests that the standard theoretical models used to describe the motion of stars and dark matter halos in other galaxies might be invalid.

The clinical trial data will be expressed using the CDISC XML standard operational data model.

The researchers then used a combination of existing United States Food and Drug Administration - approved drugs to target autophagy and found ovarian cancer cells to be highly sensitive to these drugs in several different mouse cancer models — even among cells resistant to standard chemotherapy.

The researchers found that calculating lithosphere strength using magnetotelluric imaging maps of the southwestern United States can more accurately describe the rough terrain and volcanic and seismic activity observed on the surface than can standard geologic models.

Specifically, I am investigating how the cAMP / PKA signaling pathway affects collagen structure and deposition, using a hydrogel - based, three - dimensional culture system to create a model that is more physiologically relevant than one produced by standard two - dimensional tissue culture methods.

If it turns out to be consistent with the Standard Model, it is further evidence of its accuracy and can be used to put stringent constraints on models of new physics.

The hypothetical supersymmetric particles, which physicists hope to discover at giant particle accelerators like the Large Hadron Collider, would be «a reflection of all the Standard Model particles, using a mirror that is slightly distorted,» explains Joseph Incandela, a physicist at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

While this single event can not be used to probe beyond - Standard - Model physics, it demonstrates that the approach works well and can be applied to catch more events in the next run of data - taking, which kicks off in mid-April.

The evidence, which scientists have been seeking for 25 years, matches predictions made using the Standard Model of Particle Physics.

The model used real - world measurements of metabolism and built on them to establish temperature comfort standards, a bottom - up approach that can be tweaked to accommodate different office cultures, workplace demographics and climate conditions.

Prior findings point to only six parameters that describe the development of the universe after the Big Bang with relative accuracy, using what is known as the standard model of cosmology.

These will serve as models which Indonesian scientists can use, on their own, to refine the remaining standards.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

The data will also play a role in the development of the next generation of standards and models used by the satellite community for building and shielding their spacecraft.

A kiln that turns wood into charcoal continuously rather than in batches, and at a higher efficiency than standard models, could lead to Britain's neglected woodlands being put to economic use, its Yorkshire inventor claims.

In his new paper, Lovejoy applies the same approach to the 15 - year period after 1998, during which globally averaged temperatures remained high by historical standards, but were somewhat below most predictions generated by the complex computer models used by scientists to estimate the effects of greenhouse - gas emissions.

The academics used standard tests and a psychological model to investigate associations between autistic traits, depression, feelings of not belonging and of being a burden, and suicidal behaviour.

Next, using data from an early clinical trial in women, the researchers created a mathematical model that predicts these ratios in vaginal, cervical and rectal tissues given standard doses of medication taken 2 to 7 days per week.

Although Pollino didn't invent the technology, he developed a computer model that compares what are called «rocking steel - braced frames» to current earthquake standards used in low - to mid-rise buildings.

Scientists used modeling to simulate various growing scenarios, and found a climate footprint ranging from -11 to 10 grams of carbon dioxide per mega-joule — the standard way of measuring greenhouse gas emissions.

Third, different experimental environments must be able to work together in a plug - and - play fashion by following common models of infrastructure and experiment components using open interfaces and standards.

Probing students» ideas about models using standards - based assessment items.

Using distractor - driven standards - based multiple - choice assessments and Rasch modeling to investigate hierarchies of chemistry misconceptions and detect structural problems with individual items.

The rest use the standard open - access «gold» model: The author pays a fee if the paper is published.

When used alongside standard chemotherapy agents daunorubicin and cytarabine in a treatment - resistant AML model, 99.7 percent of cancer cells were killed.

«In order to measure the rate at which the Universe is expanding with the standard cosmology, the model in which there's a Big Bang, a mathematical function is used that depends only on cosmological time,» said Neves, who elaborated the idea with Alberto Vazques Saa, a Full Professor at IMECC - UNICAMP and also the supervisor for Neves» postdoctoral project, funded by the Sao Paulo Research Foundation — FAPESP.

For the particles in the E8 theory to represent the known particles properly, the combination of smaller groups used to form the Standard Model must be embedded inside E8 in just the right way.

There physicist Raymond Davis built an experiment using 400,000 litres of cleaning fluid to detect electron neutrinos, one of the three types of neutrino described by the standard model.

Then, the researcher used a mathematical model to translate the quantile estimates into mean and standard deviation of yield.

The number of new craters found by Speyerer and colleagues is greater than anticipated by standard impact - modeling rates used by lunar scientists.

For influenza we offer the ferret model, the «gold standard» for infections with human influenza viruses, which will be used to assess the efficacy of vaccine candidates.