Sentences with phrase «as a measurement model»

Not exact matches

It still has the same 9.7 - inch, 2,048 - by - 1,536 Retina display, cameras, touch sensor, wireless radios and even the exact same measurements as the previous model.

That means the full accounting for the rainfall from Harvey, Irma, and Maria could take months to deliver as meteorologists piece together their models with the measurements they have.

Public Waldorf schools across the nation are at the forefront of defining themselves as exemplary educational models that value measurement of growth in meaningful, developmental, and authentic ways.

A broader economic approach to the measurement of outcomes, such as stated preference discrete choice modelling, might have captured women's preferences for alternative attributes of planned place of birth and might have been more informative to decision makers, 28 but this was not practically possible given the anonymity involved in the study design and the available resources.

First, a linear regression model was constructed using the latest postnatal weight measurement in grams as the dependent variable and using the breastfeeding medication group (fluoxetine: yes / no) as the independent variable of interest.

«We think that the City of Chicago should be applauded as a model for proactive measurements that encourage and facilitate healthful behaviors,» said Sean Kelly, CEO and co-founder of HUMAN Healthy Vending.

Although continuity of care has been identified as a core component of a model of midwife - led care, there is wide variation in the definition and measurement of continuity of care which will require greater sophistication in future studies.

Measurements of the three - dimensional structure of Earth, as opposed to the one - dimensional models typically used, can help scientists more accurately determine which areas of the United States are most vulnerable to blackouts during hazardous geomagnetic storms.

That means researchers have less information and higher uncertainties when it comes to translating the data into measurements that the models can use, such as air temperature and humidity.

«Moving to non-invasive and repeatable methods of nerve fiber measurements such as in vivo corneal confocal microscopy would enhance study of peripheral neuropathy by enabling early detection of damage, progression of nerve fiber deterioration, and enable assessment of therapeutic strategies in the SIV / macaque model,» explains Dr. Mankowski.

Using direct measurements and computer models, oceanographer Scott Doney of Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and his colleagues calculated that acid rain causes as much as 50 percent of the acidification of coastal waters, where the pH can be as low as 7.6.

They then compared the oxygen isotope ratio in Yonderup dripwater with that predicted by a model (which simulated the dripwater δ18O based on measurements of rainwater δ18O), as well as that measured at a different cave in the region.

Measurement of the fine - structure constant as a test of the Standard Model.

«Combining measurements and modeling in this way is very valuable because it gives us a starting point to compare different cities, gradations between the city and the suburbs or changes in the city as it grows over time,» McFadden said.

All this modelling work, combined with in situ measurements (oceanographic campaigns recently carried out as part of the AMOP project) help improve our understanding of the interactions between biogeochemistry, atmospheric circulation and oceanic circulation.

«It is also known,» continues Sato, «that current models do not realistically model the vertical distribution of the aerosols, and we believe that finer measurements could help there as well.

The study, aimed at quantifying the small - scale circulation that can not be captured by satellite - based altimeter measurements or general circulation models, has immediate practical applications to help better predict the path of catastrophic pollutant events, such as from future oil spills or nuclear disaster events.

Using an interdisciplinary approach that combined evidence from climate modelling of large 20th - century eruptions, annual measurements of Nile summer flood heights from the Islamic Nilometer — the longest - known human record of environmental variability — between 622 and 1902, as well as descriptions of Nile flood quality in ancient papyri and inscriptions from the Ptolemaic era, the authors show how large volcanic eruptions impacted on Nile river flow, reducing the height of the agriculturally - critical summer flood.

«With the gravity field measurements we can provide additional information to the plate tectonic model as we can draw conclusions regarding density and thickness of the different plates,» says Bouman.

These measurements, as well as those that compare protons with antiprotons, may further constrain theories that go beyond the existing Standard Model of particles and the forces through which they interact.

In addition, measurements of the planet's magnetic field matched planetary models fairly well as Juno sped toward Jupiter.

Bringing together observed and simulated measurements on ocean temperatures, atmospheric pressure, water soil and wildfire occurrences, the researchers have a powerful tool in their hands, which they are willing to test in other regions of the world: «Using the same climate model configuration, we will also study the soil water and fire risk predictability in other parts of our world, such as the Mediterranean, Australia or parts of Asia,» concludes Timmermann.

Combining data from these tags with measurements of whale jaws from museum specimens, the team modeled the drag experienced by the whale as it performs its complex underwater acrobatics.

The researchers incorporated information on soot produced by burning fossil fuels, wood and other biofuels, along with that naturally produced by forest fires and then checked their model predictions against global measurements of soot levels in polar snow from Sweden to Alaska to Russia and in Antarctica as well as in nonpolar areas such as the Tibetan Plateau.

Tell it to the judge Even as enhanced computer modeling and more precise measurement bring control of extreme weather closer, those pushing the envelope find themselves facing the same hurdle as Bernard Vonnegut and his colleagues at General Electric half a century ago: the risk of getting sued.

The marathon was used as a benchmark, coupled with climate change models and heat stress measurements

Satellite measurements of eruptions have only recently become precise enough to exploit volcanoes as models for geo - engineering.

While the model's electrical signals are analogous to in vivo measurements, researchers warn that there are still many open questions as well as room to improve the model.

Previously, the most precise test of cosmological models came from measurements with the European Space Agency's Planck satellite of what is known as the cosmic microwave background (CMB)-- a faint glow in the sky emitted 380,000 years after the Big Bang.

But Bowman believes the team has taken the necessary steps — such as reducing and modeling their uncertainties and calibrating their instruments properly — to be confident their measurement is actually a link to the distant past.

Currently, we use Rosetta in conjunction with EPR distance and mobility measurements in order to model the rhodopsin / G - protein complex and conformational changes occurring as the G - protein binds to rhodopsin.

As a co-investigator of the NIDILRR - funded Northern New Jersey TBI Model System, he studies the measurement of employment - related outcomes in the TBI population.

1:20 PM Liu - Abundance Studies of Stellar Hosts of Terrestrial Planets 1:40 PM Kitiashvili - 3D Realistic Modeling of Stellar Convection as a Tool to Study Effects of Stellar Jitter on RV Measurements 2:00 PM Crossfield - Planet Densities (invited) 2:30 PM Break and Poster Viewing 3:00 PM Guyon - Coronagraphs for Planet Detection (invited) 3:30 PM Martins - Exoplanet Reflections in the era of Giant Telescopes 3:50 PM Close - Direct Detection of Exoplanets with GMT AO: A proof of concept design for a GMT Phase A ExAO planet imager 4:10 PM Direct Imaging Discussion - Led by Jared Males 5:20 PM End of meeting for the day 5:30 PM Buses depart for Monterey Bay Aquarium 6:00 PM Conference Banquet Wednesday, September 28 7:30 - 9:00 AM Breakfast 9:00 AM Lewis - JWST - ELT Synergy (invited) 9:30 AM Greene - Characterizing exoplanet atmospheres with JWST 9:50 AM Morzinski - Breaking degeneracies in understanding fundamental exoplanet properties with ELTs 10:10 AM Break and Poster Viewing 11:00 AM Cotton - Detecting Clouds in Hot Jupiters with Linear Polarisation 11:20 AM Boss - Summary

Food and liquid intake measurements are recorded using patented algorithmic load cell technology as applied to behavioral research models of laboratory mice, rats and NHPs.

The study brought together data from several spacecraft, as well as supporting observations from solar wind probes and ground - based geomagnetic observatories, to develop a model that describes the Earth's magnetic field and its interaction with the solar wind not just theoretically as had been the case previously, but based on actual measurements.

As a model, I have very specific measurement requirements (hips half an inch too big and I'm out of the modeling industry).

As I listed my height in my measurements, choosing «below the knee» on the skirt length really did ensure it was below my knee, not below the knee of the original fit model who may well have been much shorter than my 5ft 7.

Can't tell in the picture because the model is wearing a high waisted skirt.My fault as I didn't look at the measurements.

It may well go down as the biggest radiocarbon dating mistake in history; not because there is anything wrong with the measurement process (there may Willard Libby believed he could model the entire world of Carbon 14 by using a grid system.

Kostka was selected as one of a team of 50 K — 12 teachers to serve as advisers for a project called Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms, which will provide access to all of NASA's available online data, ranging from interstellar measurements of electromagnetism to 3 - D models of the Cassini spacecraft, including new curriculum material that Kostka and the other teacher advisers are helping to develop.

Since we used statistical models that included many observable school -, teacher -, and class - level variables — such as school and class size, teachers» levels of education and experience, and schools» demographic makeup — it is clear that the things that make schools and teachers effective defy easy measurement.

Dr. Marzano, a nationally known educational researcher and developer of the Marzano Teacher Evaluation Model and the Marzano School Leadership Evaluation Model, discusses how districts may use teacher evaluation models as primarily either measurement systems — which provide a static picture of a teacher's performance at a given point; or as growth systems — which track improvements in teacher pedagogy over time.

Bob served as Minnesota's Commissioner of Education in the late 1990's leading Minnesota's innovative standards and measurement initiatives, electronic data collection systems and new finance models including having revenue following students to the sites they attend.

Performance assessment, portfolios, and projects (Resnick & Resnick, 1992) were advanced by both educators and measurement experts as assessment models that might foster effective teaching, learning, and measurement of worthwhile outcomes (Shepard, 1989; Simmons & Resnick, 1993; Wiggins, 1993).

Using both classical test theory and modern measurement models contextualized to tests with given purposes, the pre-conference session attendees will explore the ideal distribution of item difficulty, the importance of item discrimination (and its location), as well as the use of distractor analysis to revise items and gain information about student understanding and ability.

Accordingly, and also per the research, this is not getting much better in that, as per the authors of this article as well as many other scholars, (1) «the variance in value - added scores that can be attributed to teacher performance rarely exceeds 10 percent; (2) in many ways «gross» measurement errors that in many ways come, first, from the tests being used to calculate value - added; (3) the restricted ranges in teacher effectiveness scores also given these test scores and their limited stretch, and depth, and instructional insensitivity — this was also at the heart of a recent post whereas in what demonstrated that «the entire range from the 15th percentile of effectiveness to the 85th percentile of [teacher] effectiveness [using the EVAAS] cover [ed] approximately 3.5 raw score points [given the tests used to measure value - added];» (4) context or student, family, school, and community background effects that simply can not be controlled for, or factored out; (5) especially at the classroom / teacher level when students are not randomly assigned to classrooms (and teachers assigned to teach those classrooms)... although this will likely never happen for the sake of improving the sophistication and rigor of the value - added model over students» «best interests.»

The dynamic models of teachers» TPACK and explanations for its growth or stasis can be seen as ends in themselves rather than a means for attempting to produce quantitative measurements.

INCLUDES 1 Hands - On Standards Math Teacher Resource Guide Grade 3 with 40 lessons TOPICS Operations and Algebraic Thinking Multiplying with arrays Multiplying by five Exploring multiplication and division Commutative property of multiplication Associative property of addition Distributive property Number and Operations in Base Ten Estimating the sum or difference Adding and subtracting Multiply by ten Multiplying with multiples of ten Number and Operations - Fractions Identify and write fractions Fractions and equivalent fractions on a number line Proper fractions on a number line Model equivalent fractions Whole numbers as fractions Comparing fractions Measurement and Data Telling time and elapsed time Add intervals of time Finding times after and before Measure weight Pictographs and bar graphs Finding area of squares, rectangles, and irregular figures Building and exploring perimeter Geometry Categorizing and partitioning shapes Resources Building Perimeter Sample Lesson

Though it carries the 5 Series name, this model shares as much with the larger 7 Series, and many of its measurements — including all seating dimensions — differ from those of the 5 Series sedan.

The brakes also felt better on this model, but that likely has more to do with the mileage that was on our Four Seasons car, as the rotor measurements have not changed.