Sentences with phrase «against established standards»

NCRA serves as an independent, third - party organization that reviews and approves court reporting programs, measuring them against established standards of educational excellence — the General Requirements and Minimum Standards (GRMS).

If they don't so certify their products against the established standards, isn't that cause for concern?

Prepare for accreditation and other evaluations by self - reviewing your videos against established standards or assessments

The AKC sanctions dogs shows competitive exhibitions that judge dogs against the established standard of perfection for their breed.

Not exact matches

In an extraordinary essay, «Colors, Cultures, and Practices» in The Tasks of Philosophy, MacIntyre draws explicitly on Wittgenstein's arguments against a private language, to argue that our judgments of color are socially established standards.

Sunrise Growers hires independent third party auditors from the California Processing Strawberry Advisory Board to inspect and grade all incoming fruit against a set of rigid standards established by the California Department of Food and Agriculture.

While professional milk banks have established their own standards to help ensure that their supplies are safe, online breast milk networks and advertising have also emerged virtually without regulation, though the Food and Drug Administration warns against using milk procured online.

Passionate Journey: My Unexpected Life, by Marian Tompson, Just Released by Hale Publishing What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

What does it take to change established childbirth practices, hospital procedures, infant nutrition standards, and cultural norms that work against the best interests of mothers and their babies?

Critics say the new rules will roll back the Healthy, Hunger - Free Kids Act championed by Former First Lady Michelle Obama, who worked to establish strict nutritional standards on the program as part of her campaign against obesity.

«This legislative action will be the first of its kind for a major American city, as well as the first set of regulations by any state in the union, and it will establish new registration, cleaning and monitoring standards for cooling towers in the fight against Legionnaires» disease,» Mr. de Blasio said.

The simplest way to detect Stunted Growth is through growth charts from the World Health Organization that compare height against age, then the family stature is considered and height established for the country, if the result is two or more deviations below standard the disease is determined.

«In the long term, we'd also like to establish a repository of process models and case studies from different manufacturing sectors so that users of the standard can compare and contrast against their production methods,» Lyons said.

Federal policymakers need to establish a regulatory regime that sets a standard for quality, encourages innovative firms to compete against the historic market leaders, and gives administrators leeway to determine programmatic fit.

Opponents of centralized control of education have begun to mobilize against the Gates - orchestrated effort to establish national standards, curricular materials, and assessments.

For the past 25 years, the National Board has advanced the teaching profession by establishing and maintaining the definitive standards of accomplished teaching and certifying more than 100,000 teachers across the country against those rigorous standards.

Teachers should check each pupil's mark against the threshold to establish whether they have achieved the expected standard.

Setting itself against standard accounts of interdisciplinary «integration,» and rooting itself in the authors» own experiences, the book establishes a radical agenda for collaboration across these disciplines.

The project shares many of the values we uphold in the tolino partnership: We strongly believe in the vision of books as cultural assets rather than simple consumer goods and stand against those trying to establish a monopoly via proprietary standards and closed - system vendor lock - in.

The RECOVER guidelines establish a standard and benchmark against which veterinary professionals can evaluate their CPR methods and training.

16.25.1.6 OBJECTIVE: To promote, preserve and protect the public health, safety and welfare by regulating the practice of veterinarians, veterinary technicians, bovine artificial insemination technicians, and bovine pregnancy diagnosis technicians; to establish the authority to take action against any licensee or permittee for failure to meet set minimum standards for licensure or permit certification as promulgated by the board; and to inspect and regulate veterinary facilities to further protect the public.

If this is their site where temperatures are verified against you can be thankful they are not responsible for establishing all measurement standards in the country.

This was established on the systematic comparison between models» predictions with actual observations obtained over almost one solar cycle (1998 — 2007) at four European ionospheric locations (Athens, Chilton, Juliusruh, and Rome) and on the comparison of the models» performance against two standard prediction strategies, the median - and the persistence - based predictions.

-- The Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall establish standards for protection against radiation (including occupational exposures) resulting from activities at facilities that use an advanced fuel recycling process, including facilities to fabricate fuel enriched with actinide elements other than uranium.

I therefore need to test other examples of the product against the key clauses of the relevant product safety standards, and also establish whether the products were designed and tested against these standards in the first place — and that the appropriate certification and documentation for these tests exists.

The textbook definition of negligence is «conduct that falls below a standard of behavior established by law for the protection of others against unreasonable risk of harm.»

As previously mentioned, any legal action against a healthcare provider, whether it is an individual or institution, must establish that there was a breach or violation in standard of care.

The trade ‑ off for permitting the police to deploy their dogs on a «reasonable suspicion» standard without a warrant is that if this procedure is abused and sniffer ‑ dog searches proceed without reasonable suspicion based on objective facts, the consequence could well tip the balance against the admission of the evidence if it is established under s. 24 (2) of the Charter that, having regard to all the circumstances, the admission of it in the proceedings would bring the administration of justice into disrepute.

Without an expert opinion from another doctor to comment on whether or not the alleged offending doctor breached the standard of care, establishing a case for negligence against the offending doctor is very difficult.

«Burden of proof» is expressed by identifying a party who, to be successful in the proceeding, has the onus of establishing that the evidence for or against a proposition meeting the applicable «standard of proof».

Quality assurance managers work with other staff to establish procedures and quality standards and to monitor these against agreed targets.

Designs and implements office policies by establishing standards and procedures; measuring results against standards; making necessary adjustments.

Designed and implemented office policies by establishing standards and procedures; measuring results against standards; making necessary adjustments.

The concurrent validity of each questionnaire must have been assessed in comparison to established «gold standard» instruments (such as the Hamilton Depression and Anxiety Scale) which have themselves been assessed against clinical interviews or a clinician diagnosis with correlation analyses typically greater than 0.65.

In the 1930s, the Federal Housing Authority established mortgage underwriting standards that significantly discriminated against minority neighborhoods.