Sentences with phrase «times background levels»

Scientists in Sweden have shown that beaver ponds can cause levels of methylmercury — a particularly toxic form of mercury — to rise in downstream waters by as much as 3.5 times the background levels during summer months.

The concentrations are up to 10 times the background level.

At some locations he said concentrations of the gas were 100 times the background level.

One hundred times a background level would double the warming effect of methane in the locality.

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Your application should ask for specific information such as name, address, and phone number; educational background; work experience, including salary levels; awards or honors; whether the applicant can work full or part time as well as available hours; and any special skills relevant to the job (foreign languages, familiarity with software programs, etc.).

Cuomo officials, speaking on background, don't believe they will face the same level of opposition this time around.

- GDP per capita is still lower than it was before the recession - Earnings and household incomes are far lower in real terms than they were in 2010 - Five million people earn less than the Living Wage - George Osborne has failed to balance the Budget by 2015, meaning 40 % of the work must be done in the next parliament - Absolute poverty increased by 300,000 between 2010/11 and 2012/13 - Almost two - thirds of poor children fail to achieve the basics of five GCSEs including English and maths - Children eligible for free school meals remain far less likely to be school - ready than their peers - Childcare affordability and availability means many parents struggle to return to work - Poor children are less likely to be taught by the best teachers - The education system is currently going through widespread reform and the full effects will not be seen for some time - Long - term youth unemployment of over 12 months is nearly double pre-recession levels at around 200,000 - Pay of young people took a severe hit over the recession and is yet to recover - The number of students from state schools and disadvantaged backgrounds going to Russell Group universities has flatlined for a decade

As a field applications scientist, I work with customers of every disposition, temperament, background, and experience level imaginable, sometimes all in the same room at the same time.

On four occasions I measured spikes of methane that were about 10 times higher than background levels.

Levels detected in a short duration pulse at the plant itself have reached as high as 8,217 microSieverts per hour, or eight times the dose endured in a typical CT scan and four times the normal dose of background radiation in a year.

The helium content of the Sasayama fullerenes, for example, is more than 50 times higher than background levels.

Mapping methane plumes on the streets of Boston and San Francisco paints a picture of «clean» streets with few natural gas leaks, and more common «dirty» streets where methane concentrations can be more than 15 times global background levels.

Data collected in recent months from Boston and San Francisco show concentrations of up to 30 parts per million, more than 15 times global background levels.

Data items are collected at the level of academic department and include full - time graduate students by source and mechanism of support, with data on women; part - time graduate students by sex; and citizenship and racial / ethnic background of all graduate students, including first - time students.

A team from the University of Zagreb found concentrations of cadmium two hundred times higher than background levels around a munitions dump near Ojutin.

The arsenic spikes were transient, and returned to acceptable background levels by the time the water was extracted for use farther away.

At the same time, there is a low level of spontaneous activity at synapses whereby neurotransmitter is released occasionally, producing a kind of background «noise» in terms of neuronal signals.

Whether you are a first time cook, or have a background in nutrition, we teach at a level suitable to everyone.

Imagine dropping into the deepest states of meditation in just a few minutes or bringing a new level of relaxation and flow to your yoga practice... simply playing the Deep Peace sound healing in the background while you practice yoga or meditate will take you deeper, faster and help you get even more out of the time you are already spending.

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Students in the HDP Program come from all backgrounds with various experience levels, and I always loved the times when I got to hear someone describe what they were doing before they came to Harvard.

Survey results indicate that inclusive schools have several strengths in promoting STEM education in students who are underrepresented in STEM fields, such as recognizing that some students need extended instructional time, keeping students with teachers for multiple years, providing students with higher levels of contact with mentors in STEM fields who mirror the students» backgrounds, and emphasizing career and technical preparation.

As many as two - thirds believe that grammar schools level the playing field for children from disadvantaged backgrounds either some, 54 per cent, or all, 13 per cent, of the time.

Eastwood imagines that over time these technologies would also know the different students based on their reading levels, numeracy, background knowledge, and other areas, such that it could provide access to the appropriate OER content to support that specific child in continuing her learning.

Mock Congress: Cell Phone Surveillance Reform Time required: 4 class hours Grade level: 10 and up Class size: 18 or more Pages: 51 Contains: 18 individualized profile sheets, Background information on NSA surveillance, Graphic organizer for assigned roles, Graphic organizer with word - for - word format on how to run committee meetings and floor debate, Sample rubrics for 3 - minute speeches and participation, Socratic seminar questions for students observing speeches / committee hearings, Maps to various educational standards, Sample follow - up quiz on the legislative process, Teacher instructions and preparation period suggestions.

In the update of her best - selling, classic work, Carol Ann Tomlinson offers a powerful and practical way to meet a challenge that is both very modern and completely timeless: how teachers can divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct so many students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

For example, the maximum permissible background - sound level for a typical classroom is 35 dBA, with a maximum reverberation time of 0.6 to 0.7 seconds (depending on room volume).

In a differentiated classroom, teachers divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively teach students who have various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests (ASCD).

Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this channel shows you practical, real - world examples from experienced elementary and secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

In a differentiated classroom, teachers divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively teach students who have various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

Each DVD will help teachers learn how to divide their time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, interests, and readiness and skill levels.

Based on the updated second edition of Carol Ann Tomlinson's book The Differentiated Classroom: Responding to the Needs of All Learners, this video shows you practical, real - world examples from experienced secondary school teachers of how to divide your time, resources, and efforts to effectively instruct students of various backgrounds, readiness and skill levels, and interests.

The obstacles in each level keep time too and operate in sync with the background beats.

Single player and both online and offline multiplayer modes are available, with a level editor providing the player the option to create their own riot events dictating aggression levels of both sides, weather, time, and obstacle positions all against uploaded backgrounds.

You can use about everything in the background against your opponent if timed correctly and also punch or kick your opponent out of the level dealing an insane amount of damage and also moving to a new part of the level, it's really fun to do!

In an early level of Trials Evolution called Ridinghood, we gleefully rode through a lightning fast level, ramping off ancient ruins with a blood red sky in the background, featuring a moon that's easily ten times too large.

Just some of the Sunshine parts of this game include many Spring - themed backgrounds, a flower that makes pegs bloom, happy music, a unicorn, and Ode to Joy playing every time you beat a level.

Instead of the typical flagpole and a castle from the first game, as well as the Hawksmouth gate from the second this time, when the player reaches the end of the level, the colors of the background lose their standard patterns and the whole background becomes mainly black, with some white lines here and there.

Silent Hill was my first introduction to the horror genre, When I started playing it, I saw the intro and what I saw was nothing indicative of a horror game, or neither an action game, it looked more like a sad psychological drama game, It got me wondering what did I get myself into, then I started playing it and when I got to the alleyway part and got killed by the children zombies, I immediately turned off my Play Station, I was horrified, but somehow the game kept calling me to play, I decided to keep playing, it got to a point where I couldn't play at night, I had to turn any background music down simply because it was just too much for my 12 - year - old head, but at the same time I was having fun on a level I never imagined I could before.

Level designs are bright and colorful with a lot going on in the background and foreground at times which sometimes hurts the gameplay because it can obscure obstacles and you end up crashing.

The background story integrates into each level, with your objective, most of the time, being to find three items hidden in the area you're holding out: two amps, and a guitar.

Each wave brings a background layer of musical accompaniment with it, and by the time you get to the boss waiting for you at the end of each level, you'll have a full 10 - layer soundtrack as your auditory guide.

All eighteen levels from the arcade have been recreated, but because of the lack of backgrounds and missing colors, they run together in a rush of poorly rendered neon (this might be the first time I've been unimpressed with the Master System's graphics).

Instead of one flat plain there is now a foreground and background that you will switch back and forth between a number of times in each level.

The «Dance of the Sugarplum Fairy» that plays as background music adds a level of familiar comic horror to the game, though I suspect this perpetually looped ditty may become annoying if you play Dungeon Overlord for long periods of time.

Many of the game's hardest levels display a familiarity with mechanics unseen even in the official Mario levels, such as using the background song to guide one's precise timing of actions through a level or a single shell to hop across multiple pools of lava.

On a formal level the videos are characterized by static camera positions, the frequent equation of playing time and time played and the imperfect application of the chroma key technique, a video processing technique from television in which a monochrome background can be substituted by a background in a different colour (e.g. Blue Box).

Is not the precipitous loss of groundwater levels, the fact that deep, rich agricultural soils that took thousands of years to be generated but are now exhausted in less than a decade, the collapse of marine fisheries, the loss of biodiversity (thousands of times higher than background rates), the number of species becoming endangered etc. etc. etc. not enough to say that we are headed in the wrong direction?

In order to arrive at a measured value of the aiTSC, all we need to do is to identify a CO2 signal, against the background of natural noise, in the temperature / time graph, which we can prove was caused by increased levels of CO2.

You answer: «Depends of what time of the day (and in what season) samples were taken: at night and mornings, the highest levels are found, as at night plants and soil bacteria respire CO2 and wind speeds are often low, thus all CO2 of all sources (including human sources) accumulate, typically with over 100 ppmv compared to background.»