Sentences with phrase «systems under test»

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Then, a stock under consideration is stress - tested by Mauldin Economics» proprietary Equity Evaluation System (EES), which measures more than 100 qualitative and quantitative factors.

And finally, there's the Fibonacci system that they've deemed the most accurate based on their own extensive testing; it can be a little complicated to understand, though, so you might want to get some more experience under your belt or study and test it extensively on a demo account before you try this one.

and thier injuries need to be manage better maybe less playing time for some than others, unfortunately wenger cant afford to give them the proper time of his coaching, as he is under massive pressure to succeed these days and hasn't got time to train them up properly, also he isn't tactically flexible enough to accommodate them into different attacking systems, to test what they can do like having the ox in a 3 man midfield could work wonders.

Has this system been tested by parlaying the underdog with the under?

Duma's ratings system has come under fire for not adequately simulating real - world impacts, but he has tweaked his equation and testing so that rotational acceleration — which occurs during blows that cause the head to turn — will be taken into account in the ratings that will be released next year.

The system has seen dramatic improvements in test scores and a record - high graduation rates under his tenure.

With the problems with the Pearson tests, the state's bogus VAM (value added measure), the setting of cut scores, and now the data being undermined by opt out no school district should have to pay the legal fees to try to fire someone under Cuomo's silly evaluation system!

It is worth noting that while people under age 65 in the U.S. live in a heavily market - dominated economy where poor employment outcomes mean poverty and a lack of access to health care, almost everyone over age 65 has most of their healthcare paid for by Medicare, (a FICA tax financed, single payer system that pays providers more or less the same rates as private insurance companies and has few cost controls), more than half of their nursing home costs paid by Medicaid, (which is stingy in how much it pays providers and moderately means tested), and receives enough of a guaranteed income from the combination of Social Security and SSI payments to keep the poverty rate for people age 65 +, (even if they have no retirement savings of their own), above the poverty line, regardless of the state of the local economy.

The Migration Advisory Committee was established by the Government to advise on shortage occupations, to which the standard Resident Labour Market Test would not be applied whenever a UK employer wished to bring a worker from outside the European Economic Area (EEA) into the UK under the points - based system.

The new definition reads: «A substance produces a psychoactive effect in a person if, by stimulating or depressing the person's central nervous system, it affects the person's mental functioning or emotional state; as measured by the production of a pharmacological response on the central nervous system or which produces a response in in - vitro tests qualitatively identical to substances controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971, and references to a substance's psychoactive effects are to be read accordingly.»

Under the current system, observations conducted by administrators or peers count for 60 percent of the ratings, while state exams count for 20 percent and local tests count for 20 percent.

Under the current teacher and principal evaluation system, students» growth scores — a state - produced calculation that quantifies students» year - to - year improvement on standardized tests while controlling for factors like poverty — make up 20 percent of evaluations for teachers whose courses culminate in the state tests.

He's complained that while only one third of students are passing the new tests connected to Common Core, 95 % of teachers, under a two year old evaluation system, are rated as effective or highly effective.

Under the current system, chemical companies perform safety tests or farm them out to contractors, then submit data for review at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies.

The researchers measured cortisol levels in the participants, both under normal conditions and after the participants had completed a so - called dexamethasone suppression test, which is sensitive to early abnormalities in the stress system.

A total of 100 semen samples were spiked with a recombinant Accuplex ZIKV (SeraCare Life Sciences) at 5 viral copies per ml and processed in Aptima Urine Transport medium (Hologic Inc.) and tested using Aptima ® ZIKV assay released under the FDA's emergency use authorization on the fully automated Panther system from Hologic, Inc..

So Hashikawa's team asked four centres in Michigan looking after about 600 under - fives to test a web - based system for four months last winter.

We did a study a year ago of the U.S. Ground - Based Midcourse Defense system based in California, and found that even under controlled test circumstances it has a 50 percent failure rate.

To test that scenario's accuracy, fisheries ecologist Karin Limburg of the State University of New York, Syracuse, studied the animals» otolith, a little bone under the brain that is part of its hearing and balance system.

«We have demonstrated that the system works, and are now moving forward with additional testing under various cyber-attack scenarios to optimize the algorithm's detection rate and system performance,» says Wente Zeng, a Ph.D. student at NC State and lead author of the paper.

As the research team and international collaborators continue to validate the stemness risk score, plans are under way to test the score in a clinical trial at the Princess Margaret, which now has the NanoString system in its molecular diagnostic laboratory.

They currently have a trial under way at the U-M Health System which tests a two - part gene therapy approach in patients with brain tumors called gliomas in an effort to get the immune system to attack the System which tests a two - part gene therapy approach in patients with brain tumors called gliomas in an effort to get the immune system to attack the system to attack the tumor.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Colorado - based United Launch Alliance (ULA) has completed testing its Emergency Egress System (EES), one of the milestones under NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP).

This difference will allow HDST to utilize lower - cost optical materials, incur less thermal stress in the structures, simplify component and system design, manufacturing and qualification, and lower the costs of system integration and testing, much of which had to be done under cryogenic conditions for JWST.

In test animals, diets high in polyunsaturates from vegetable oils inhibit the ability to learn, especially under conditions of stress; are toxic to the liver; compromise the integrity of the immune system; depress the mental and physical growth of infants; increase levels of uric acid in the blood; cause abnormal fatty acid profiles in the adipose tissues: have been linked to mental decline and chromosomal damage and accelerate aging.

In the fall, I was diagnosed with Lyme Disease among other coninfections of Lyme and understood that while I did not test positive for any autoimmune disease in particular, my autoimmune system was definitely under attack.

Tiffany was also a clinical consultant for three years under Dr. William Shaw at Great Plains Laboratory in Kansas City, Kansas, where she learned how to interpret comprehensive lab - testing results and gained an extensive understanding of candida — how it impairs the immune system and how to heal a body that's been damaged by it.

As noted above, one of the benefits of the analysis presented here is that it relies on student performance on NAEP, which should be relatively immune from such test - score «inflation» since it is not used as a high - stakes test under NCLB or any other accountability system.

Before George W. Bush signed NCLB into law as president, Texas implemented a test - based accountability system in 1993 under Bush as governor that was similar to the subsequent federal NCLB law.

Under the Obama administration, the federal government used carrots and sticks to encourage states to adopt new academic standards and test - based teacher evaluation systems.

Under this program, tens of thousands of students were required to attend summer school, thousands who did not master basic skills were held back rather than being promoted as was traditional in most school systems, and more than 100 schools were put on probation for low test scores.

Under the new system, grades one through three are measured against a goal of reading by the end of third grade; grades four through six on proficient or advanced performance on the English and math portions of a state test indicating middle school readiness; seven, eight, and nine on high school readiness with passing all ninth - grade; grades 10, 11, and 12 focus on the goal of high school graduation.

For example, support for the improvement of student testing, for the development of improved databases and value - added measures, and for initial payments of expanded salaries under performance - based pay could provide important incentives for the states to move toward more logical and more effective funding systems.

Do conservatives want to continue to live under a waiver policy that grants the U.S. Department of Education the authority to micromanage states» annual tests, accountability systems, and teacher evaluation approaches?

It's a new kind of teamwork, and one that's under - emphasized in our testing - based school systems.

My main recommendation, therefore, is to maintain the law's current annual testing requirements, while restoring to states virtually all decisions about the design of their accountability systems, including how schools and teachers are identified as under - performing and what should be done to improve their performance.

Washington — Proposals by President Bush and others to create a national testing system are unlikely to improve schools and could set back reforms already under way, educational researchers cautioned at a meeting here last week.

Notably, more low - income students gained access to government aid under gratuidad because the program does not require students to meet a test - score cutoff, unlike the system of grants and loans it partially replaced.

The task of instruction would fall instead on profit - seeking «entrepreneurs... under contract with the school system... and paid on the basis of increased performance on standardized tests.»

As the accountability system continued to unfold under the next governor, Gray Davis, monetary incentives for teachers and schools were attached to test - score gains on the Stanford 9.

That system, like many under development around the country, will be based in part on how a teacher's students perform on statewide standardized tests.

Ample evidence indicates that the gains students registered in the 1990s and 2000s were driven in large part by the adoption of test - based accountability systems, first on a voluntary basis by some states in the 1990s, and then by the rest under No Child Left Behind.

And here in New York, we're joined by Diane Ravitch, the former assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, historian of education, best - selling author of over 20 books, including Reign of Error: The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America's Public Schools, as well as The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education.

California 8th graders will be required to take Algebra 1 and be tested on it as part of the state's accountability system, under a controversial decision made by the state board of education last week after last - minute pressure from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.

Too many tests put our children under a lot of stress, and also stress the education system when the results produced aren't really useful.

Under this system, many of the services that states need to administer the tests and deliver results will come from the vendor community.

Under NCLB, schools are judged largely on the basis of test scores, and many schools have figured out that the system can be gamed simply by targeting groups of students with intensive test preparation.

A problem with Loveless's argument is that many of my fellow «disruptors» and I who think that it is important to disrupt the education system think this way not under the mindset that it will — or should — help with multiple intelligences or learning styles, but instead because of a simpler and more rigorously tested notion that is far less ideological than Loveless assumes.

And that will be easier to recognize than under the current system, which is haphazard evaluation, or under a system which gives an inordinate amount of emphasis to the standardized tests, which is clearly an inaccurate measure.

Eventually the state turned all the schools under its authority over to charter management organizations (CMOs), dramatically reshaping the teacher workforce and providing the first direct test of an alternative to the U.S.'s century - old system of school governance.