Sentences with phrase «as the baseline against»

The state board is expected to decide at its March meeting whether to accept data from the 2016 - 17 school year as a baseline against which future chronic absence levels will be measured.

For example, why did they choose the year 2000, instead of a 19th century date, as the baseline against which to estimate the effects of doubled CO2 — this could throw some people off — Jim]

References to «raw» station data as the baseline against which to compare other analyses may imply that the raw station data are unbiased continuous readings from a single site.

Winter Visual inspection of the Global average temperature graph in GISS Hansen, J et al 2006 suggests that the period 1966 to 1980 was relatively stable with little net change in average global temperature and we will use this as a baseline against which we will assess later decades.

[41] The Applicant's section 7 challenge uses the 1995 Firearms Act as a baseline against which to measure the licensing and registration system under the Act, and finds the latter lacking.

Not exact matches

That is defensible only if one is certain that the baseline level of possible robotic error in civilian protection exceeds that baseline level of human error... I, for one, would not bet against the possibility that for some military applications, we will some day come to see mere human judgment as guaranteeing an unacceptable level of indiscriminate and disproportionate violence.

«This report establishes a baseline against which we can measure the collective impact of #movethedial as we continue to increase the participation and advancement of women in our tech community,» says Chris Dulny, National Technology Sector Leader at PwC Canada.

«I thought I played the best I've played for a very long time,» Goolagong said afterward, and then announced her strategy against Evert in the final: «To get in to the net as much as possible, because there's no way I'm going to beat her sitting on the baseline.

The AI will also serve as a point - in - time baseline against which future progress in terms of implementing fair housing initiatives will be evaluated and recorded.

Detection of major periodontal pathogens in saliva and analysis of serum and saliva antibodies against major periodontal pathogens as well as a vaginal swab for the diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis at baseline were carried out.

But the US president is measuring his cuts against 2005 emissions; most other nations use 1990 as a baseline.

They used the period 1981 - 2010 as a historical baseline against simulations for the years leading up to the end of the century.

by Josh Hodnik Testosterone is used as a baseline standard that all other anabolic steroids are measured against.

This resource is differentiated 3 ways and serves as a way to assess children's baseline abilities at the start of term in Year 3 (or SEND Upper - KS2) to organise them into ability tables or to check progress against.

Tests for pupils at the beginning of school, known as «baseline tests», were intended as a starting point against which to measure progress through primary school.

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Meanwhile, state Superintendent Tom Torlakson has continued to caution against comparing any Smarter Balanced Assessment scores, including 11th - grade results, with those from previous standardized tests, instead saying this year's scores should only serve as a baseline going forward.

Educators have also cautioned against making too much of baseline results since they will serve as a starting point for future progress.

Simply to allow the vehicle a fair shake and to be as accurate against the baseline run as possible.

Additionally, the S&P 500 index is often used as a baseline level of performance against which mutual funds and other asset managers» performance is measured.

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There is of course the scientific reason to measure the anomalies against the most accurate baseline period, but as for educating the public, I'm not too sure they do more benefit than harm.

I can only think of it as defining a baseline prior against which alternative priors can be considered for their information content with respect to the prior necessary to obtain the F&G S domain distribution.

It is true that the model replications of past conditions are not perfect, which is to be expected given the chaotic variations of the climate about its now - changing baseline; however, the ensemble of model simulations has been tested against previously observed perturbations to climate (such as the response to volcanic eruptions) and overall they correspond well with what is observed to occur.

Lower case a-h refer to how the literature was addressed in terms of up / downscaling (a — clearly defined global impact for a specific ΔT against a specific baseline, upscaling not necessary; b — clearly defined regional impact at a specific regional ΔT where no GCM used; c — clearly defined regional impact as a result of specific GCM scenarios but study only used the regional ΔT; d — as c but impacts also the result of regional precipitation changes; e — as b but impacts also the result of regional precipitation change; f — regional temperature change is off - scale for upscaling with available GCM patterns to 2100, in which case upscaling is, where possible, approximated by using Figures 10.5 and 10.8 from Meehl et al., 2007; g — studies which estimate the range of possible outcomes in a given location or region considering a multi-model ensemble linked to a global temperature change.

The EU aims in the 2014 United Nations Climate Change Conference a legally binding 40 % drop in emissions by 2030 against carbon output in 1990 as baseline.

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AO - 16 also cautions against using relative terms (such as high, low, good, fair, poor, strong, weak, or average) without providing a baseline to measure them against.