Sentences with phrase «while such observations»

While such observations are convenient to use as evidence for already - formed opinions on the matter, these should not hold as scientific proof for or against the climate change science.

While such an observation hardly sounds like headline news, it is a milestone in the development of teaching as a profession.

Not exact matches

While they didn't fit any particular model, I can certainly share some interesting observations and insights that may have influenced their rise to such lofty positions in the business world.

But while the truth will set you free, remember the psychologist Erich Fromm's observation of humankind's attempt to escape from such freedom.

While the approach of all these authors is basically the same, a few words seem in order regarding Brahmabandhab, since he was the first to advocate such a theory, as do also some observations concerning the relation between Christianity / Christians and Hindu society in Tamilnadu.

Meanwhile, the TGO will remain in orbit while it performs detailed, remote observations of the Martian atmosphere, searching for evidence of gases of possible biological importance, such as methane and its degradation products.

When asked if he would consider using only local measures to evaluate teachers, such as observations, while schools transition to the Common Core, he said: «I'd be open to anything that allows us to do the teacher evaluations faster.»

Paleontologists have long suspected that these observations reflect a fundamental coupling between the rates of species formation and anatomical change: groups of organisms that contain lots of species also seem to have greater amounts of anatomical variation, while groups with only a few species, such as the gar, lack much morphological variety.

While biomarkers have never been spotted in observations of an exoplanet, because their signal is so faint, the new generation of telescopes being planned today, such as the European Extremely Large Telescope, may be sensitive enough to detect them.

But while the historical observations showed a decreasing trend, climate models suggested such events should increase.

While you are out making observations, use appropriate protection such as long - sleeved shirts and long pants to prevent mosquito bites.

While this technique is widely used, it usually provides only anatomical snapshots of tissues or physiological functions such as blood flow rather than observations of the activity of specific cells.

While recent observations have found such disks surrounding the baby - twin stars, named «circumbinary disks», those observations could not image the structures and gas motions of the disks to feed materials to the binary, because of the insufficient imaging resolution and sensitivity.

What this is saying I think is that no one had managed at that point to build a physics - based model which produces a very high sensitivity while agreeing well with observations such as the effect of the Pinatubo eruption.

While the studies assume that the converging plasmas share symmetrical characteristics such as temperature, density and magnetic strength, observations have shown that this is hardly the case

While none of these observations should have the final word in a debate about the health value of grains, they are important to keep in mind so that when Price's work is brought up in such a debate, it is presented accurately.

While it's possible that you were simply making an observation about possible ingredients that could add to the overall carbs of a sweetener, it feels more like your intention was to warn people that MSG and GMO ingredients could possibly be in their sweeteners, and that they should be wary of such things.

While this approach contrasts starkly with status quo «principal walk - through» styles of class observation, its use is on the rise in new and proposed evaluation systems in which rigorous classroom observation is often combined with other measures, such as teacher value - added based on student test scores.

These observations can help educators make valuable inferences regarding students» mastery over skills, while offering new ways to assess factors not easily measured on multiple - choice tests, such as problem solving, critical thinking, collaboration, persistence, and creativity.

We are also experimenting with alternatives, such as remote observation, that may keep costs down while ensuring a high degree of reliability in measurement.

While Kraft and Gilmour assert that «systems that place greater weight on normative measures such as value - added scores rather than... [just]... observations have fewer teachers rated proficient» (p. 19; see also Steinberg & Kraft, forthcoming; a related article about how this has occurred in New Mexico here; and New Mexico's 2014 - 2016 data below and here, as also illustrative of the desired normal curve distributions discussed above), I highly doubt this purely reflects New Mexico's «commitment to putting students first.»

While Jenny reported confidence in skills such as saving files, moving files, and downloading images, it became apparent during classroom observations that even these skills required instruction and continued practice with the guidance of the researchers throughout the course of the project.

Another 15 percent will be based on locally selected measures of student achievement, while the remaining 60 percent will depend on more qualitative measures such as classroom observations.

While in person observation and conversation can be highly effective, it is unrealistic to believe that such a program can be easily scheduled with hundreds, or even thousands, of teachers to be coached.

While he has called for an overhaul of No Child Left Behind's narrowly - focused exams, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan's policy prescriptions have stressed judging teachers by student test scores, in addition to classroom observations and other such measures.

For instance, while primary quantitative data contain such methods as self - completion questionnaires, structured questionnaires and structured observations; the qualitative data collection methods, on the other hand, comprise of methods like in - depth interviews, focus groups and participant observation.

Capturing the transitional quality that makes autumn such a magical time, Winter Is Coming pays tribute to the mysteries of nature while teaching readers about the importance — and pleasures — of simple observation.

An obvious fan, Steves begins by giving a warm impression of B&B s in general and makes a number of pertinent observations: «While B&B s often lack the conveniences of a hotel — such as fancy lobbies, restaurants, and in - room phones — I happily make the trade - off for the personal touches that they do offer, whether it's joining my hosts for tea in the afternoon or relaxing by a common fireplace at the end of the day.

While these special bullets can have some additional functionality, such as sticking to a far point temporarily for improved vision, my main observation is that the levels can be beaten without them.

Alongside Drew, local artist Richard Wentworth has created a piece through walking the streets and discovering «making impromptu observations, and unearthing the many lost bits of information that a city offers»; while Chloe Dewe Mathews» responds to Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut research phase, which saw the director catalogue the streets of Islington, such as Upper Street, Camden Passage and St John's Street, which inform the fictionalised version of Manhattan he later built at Pinewood Studios.

Themes such as immigration, discrimination, gentrification and the effects of globalization extend from highly subjective experiences and observations into works that tactically engage others through populist metaphors while maintaining critical perspectives.

Inspired by direct experiences and observations of her surroundings as well as the films, plays, and novels of such luminaries as Alfred Hitchcock, John Cassavetes, Roman Polanski, Jack Smith, Jorge Luis Borges, Tennessee Williams, and Samuel Beckett and mainstays of popular culture like soap operas and science fiction, her work is carefully scripted and produced while maintaining an immediate sense of spontaneity and unpredictability.

The sway between a structured, observational approach to image making and the free - form, improvisational gestures of his interventions is very much at the crux of Divola's practice and can be traced from his earliest foundational work of the 1970's to more recent bodies of work such as Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert (1996 - 2001), where Divola documents the dogs that chased his car while working in the Southern California desert; As Far as I Could Get (1996/1997), where Divola sets up a camera and runs away from it during a given exposure; and Dark Star (2008), where his melding of intervention and observation continues to be in the foreground in large - format, color work made during the last decade.»

While the report does not speculate on the actual effects these changes will have on the ability of the human population to survive, the scientists permit themselves the observation that it is hard to see how humans can adapt to such rapid changes.

Past comparisons among coral reef survey methods have demonstrated that while there are some biases among methods, most provide comparable results when comparing among similar types of observation such as percent coral cover or disturbance [44], [45].

While it takes into account earlier planning exercises in arctic research, it also includes some ideas that have not been explicitly articulated previously, such as defining NSF's possible role in contaminant studies, the importance of long - term observations and monitoring as a foundation for basic research in the Arctic, and the significance of the Arctic in high atmosphere studies.

There are, however, caveats: (1) multidecadal fluctuations in Arctic — subarctic climate and sea ice appear most pronounced in the Atlantic sector, such that the pan-Arctic signal may be substantially smaller [e.g., Polyakov et al., 2003; Mahajan et al., 2011]; (2) the sea - ice records synthesized here represent primarily the cold season (winter — spring), whereas the satellite record clearly shows losses primarily in summer, suggesting that other processes and feedback are important; (3) observations show that while recent sea - ice losses in winter are most pronounced in the Greenland and Barents Seas, the largest reductions in summer are remote from the Atlantic, e.g., Beaufort, Chukchi, and Siberian seas (National Snow and Ice Data Center, 2012, http://nsidc.org/Arcticseaicenews/); and (4) the recent reductions in sea ice should not be considered merely the latest in a sequence of AMOrelated multidecadal fluctuations but rather the first one to be superposed upon an anthropogenic GHG warming background signal that is emerging strongly in the Arctic [Kaufmann et al., 2009; Serreze et al., 2009].

In its two Draft Reports sent to external scientific review, while IPCC mostly evaded the problem, its perfunctory assessment of the developing discrepancy between models and observations, such as it was, included major errors and misrepresentations, all tending in the direction of minimizing the issue.

The negative exponential growth model was developed quite a while ago before statistical methodology which used enormous calculating power (such as lowess applied to 48000 + observations over 415 predictor points) became commonly available.

The point they make may be summarized by the following quote: «While in the observations such breaks in temperature trend are clearly superimposed upon a century time - scale warming presumably due to anthropogenic forcing, those breaks result in significant departures from that warming over time periods spanning multiple decades.»

While such an assumption may seem remarkable, it was based on the observation that improvements in technologies - and in particular in their efficiency - occur over time.

While identifying the human contribution to such changes remains highly challenging — even using state - of - the - art climate models and observations, progress is still possible and, indeed, of critical importance.

... While on the evidence by Dr. Wooden seeking to offer an opinion about the plaintiff's injuries such as the inferences to be drawn from the observations in the x-rays or with respect to the cause or mechanism of the injury would be prohibited because of the plaintiff's failure to comply with Rule 40A.

Meaningful participation by women can pre-empt such criticism while strengthening the quality of observations, analysis and decision making.

«I conclude that a witness with special skill, knowledge, training, or experience who has not been engaged by or on behalf of a party to the litigation may give opinion evidence for the truth of its contents without complying with rule 53.03 where: the opinion to be given is based on the witness's observation of or participation in the events at issue; and the witness formed the opinion to be given as part of the ordinary exercise of his or her skill, knowledge, training and experience while observing or participating in such events,» wrote Justice Janet Simmons on behalf of the court.

Observations that could be important while drawing: There will often be a first person who breaks a rule, such as making a second line, which will prompt someone else to tattle on them.This can often signal tensions between members who try to maintain control in the family.There could also be a person who is strictly trying to adhere to the rule or someone who tries to control what others are doing to the drawing, asking them to change the color or order of family members chosen.