Sentences with phrase «as the percent difference»

e. Teacher absenteeism, measured as the percent difference between the percent of absentee teachers at alternative and regular schools.

d. Teacher experience, measured as the percent difference between the percent of teachers in their first or second year of teaching at alternative and regular schools.

b. Availability of counselors, measured as the percent difference between the percent of alternative schools in the district that had a counselor and the percent of regular schools that did.

c. Student - teacher ratio, measured as the percent difference between the student teacher ratio at alternative and regular schools.

a. Per pupil spending, measured as the percent difference between dollars per student at alternative and regular schools.

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Government attempts to ease prices — including a 20 percent provincial tax on foreign buyers, a city tax on empty homes, as well as stricter federal mortgage rules — have made little difference: prices are up 16 percent in the past year.

It could be a difference of an ordinary income tax rate, which can be as much as 39.6 percent, or a long - term capital gains rate, 15 percent for most people.

The amount of social jet lag that an individual is exposed to can be quantified as the difference between midsleep on free days and midsleep on work days... Over 40 percent of the Central European population suffers from social jet lag of two hours or more, and the internal time of over 15 percent is three hours or more out of synch with external time.

The cost of living here is 1,364 percent higher than Texas as a state — a bigger difference than any other wealthy city on our list.

For Income - Based Repayment, Pay As You Earn, and loan rehabilitation, discretionary income is the difference between your annual income and 150 percent of the poverty guideline for your family size...

We then calculate what the ratio would be if Amazon added 50,000 Amazon workers and 62,500 supplementary workers over a ten year period, as Amazon's RFP projects, and if the city's housing supply grew 20 percent faster than it did in the earlier period.1 We adjusted the 20 percent figure up or down to reflect differences in metros» level of difficulty in producing new housing, and we assumed that vacancy rates would drop to between 3 and 5 percent of the city's housing stock.

Saving as little as 5 percent of your income can make a big difference long term, Bonner added.

This factor is the one where there's the biggest difference between boards that respondents say need to improve or improve significantly (44 percent prioritize it) and boards rated by their directors as excellent or very good (26 percent highlight this need).

As AW Tozer once said: «If the Holy Spirit was withdrawn from the church today, 95 percent of what we do would go on and no one would know the difference.»

About 47 percent of white evangelicals were less likely to vote for someone who had served as an elected official in Washington for many years, while 34 percent said it made no difference and 18 percent said such political experience would make their support more likely.

Each program shows a significant difference between men and women as viewers, with some programs having as high as 61 percent of their audience composed of women viewers.

As Amy Sullivan notes, «Americans who attend religious services on a weekly basis voted 51 percent for Republican candidates and 48 percent for Democrats, a statistically meaningless difference.»

It didn't make much of a difference with respect to team defense, however, as the Lakers shot just 39.5 percent from the field and 17.6 percent from the three - point line.

The bigger difference is the fact that Ertz had just as many completions as Matthews last year while Ertz had a drop rate of only 0.9 percent while Matthews had a drop rate of 5.1 percent.

Giroud's stats compared to Welbeck's show just how much of a difference he made, with 16 passes compared to 19, passing accuracy of 88 percent compared to 79, three shot assists to one, 26 touches to 36 and he made the same amount of tackles as our new striker in his short time on the pitch.

«Several of you have asked about the difference between Baby Blues (what I had after having Cam) and Postpartum Depression,» she wrote on her website, before going on to explain that 70 - 80 percent of new moms are affected by the baby blues, while only 10 - 20 percent suffer from postpartum depression, which, as she puts it, usually «lasts much longer than a few weeks with much more intense emotions.»

But because genetic differences can affect how well some people's bodies utilize calcium, Abrams said the committee went a step further and established 1,300 milligrams as a «recommended dietary allowance» that would cover 97 percent of all children in the group.

The state's cap is 2 percent or the inflation rate, whichever is lower, but limits vary by district because of differences in exempted expenses such as school renovations funded by bonds and approved by district voters.

The yelling didn't make a difference in the end, as 58 percent of the party voted to endorse the governor, instead of his would - be challenger Zephyr Teachout, a Fordham University law professor and former Howard Dean campaign aide.

Mild gastrointestinal and genitourinary toxicity as reported by doctors was observed more frequently in patients getting the higher daily dose, shorter frequency radiation, but no differences were observed in more severe side effects, which were rare (less than 5 percent) with either regimen.

Experts at the Global Carbon Project and the University of East Anglia in the United Kingdom found emissions globally could drop as much as 0.6 percent this year — after growing at that rate in 2014 — a sharp difference from the 2.4 percent annual growth rate the world has averaged in the past decade.

Strikingly, the treatment approach didn't make a difference to 10 - year survival: Ninety - nine percent of the more than 1600 men in the trial were alive after a decade, whether they had initially received radical surgery, radiation, or active monitoring, which meant no immediate therapy, but intervention as needed.

However, the difference is very small, as granddaughters share on average 27 percent and grandsons 23 percent of their genes with their paternal grandmother.

In fact, differences in cortical thickness in these brain regions could explain as much as 44 percent of the income achievement gap found in this study.

However, these standards don't account for differences in size (the average person is now taller and heavier), body composition (fat versus lean), age (older people have slower metabolisms), activity levels and gender: Women radiate as much as 35 percent less energy than the standard man.

Though the standing - desk employees burned more calories than those with seated desks, the study found there were no between group differences in cardiometabolic health risk factors such as weight, percent body fat, blood pressure, and heart rate.

Compared to the neurologists» diagnoses, the device displayed 92 percent specificity — the ability to detect the difference between patients with severe stroke and those with other conditions such as mild stroke or healthy participants with no brain pathology.

New research indicates that teenagers who drink too much may lose as much as 10 percent of their brainpower — the difference between passing and failing in school... and in life

Additionally, using VASL meant that maximum speed differences also decreased by as much as 10 mph, and the chance of rear - end collisions dropped by 30 percent.

It found that 19 percent of the 38.6 million Americans with mood disorders use prescription opioids, compared to 5 percent of the general population — a difference that remained even when the researchers controlled for factors such as physical health, level of pain, age, sex and race.

Plot of total prefrontal neuron counts as a function of percent difference of brain weight from age - based norms for each study case.

The rate of fatigue (i.e., fatigue index) was quantified by calculating the percent difference in force of the initial contraction and every subsequent contraction, with values plotted as fatigue curves.

The scientists note another difference is that these carbonaceous chondrites have bulk water contents of 15 to 20 percent, while Ceres» content is as much as 30 percent.

The only difference between the two is that to be designated as hemp, a Cannabis sativa plant must be comprised of less than 0.3 percent THC.

In the right column, you can see the percent difference as you go from the darkest bar to the lightest.

Hello, I'm a little confused as to where the 36 % in the title came from after reading the second paragraph where there's just a few percent difference between the T + and the placebo.

In 2005, Browns Mill School became the first sugar - free school in the country, and the results speak for themselves with a 30 percent decrease in nurse visits, a 28 percent drop in teacher referrals for bad behavior, and improved test scores.20 Dr. Sanders - Butler continues to see the difference in the children's health through weight loss and fewer absences, as well as more frequent everyday positive interactions with happier children.

Magnitude is based on the relative difference in the change score, a relative percent difference, using the baseline mean in the meditation group as the denominator.

More clues for understanding the casein - cancer research come from another Indian study — this one published in the late 1980s, and examining the effects of protein in aflatoxin - exposed monkeys instead of rats.14 As with Campbell's experiments, the monkeys were fed diets containing either 5 percent or 20 percent casein, but with one important difference: instead of being slammed with an astronomically (and unrealistically) high dose of aflatoxin, the monkeys were exposed to lower, daily doses — mimicking a real - world situation where aflatoxin is consumed frequently in small amounts from contaminated foods.

During the sixth week of the high - fiber diet, as compared with the sixth week of the ADA diet, mean daily preprandial plasma glucose concentrations were 13 mg per deciliter (0.7 mmol per liter) lower (95 percent confidence interval, 1 to 24 mg per deciliter [0.1 to 1.3 mmol per liter]; P = 0.04) and mean daily urinary glucose excretion was 1.3 g lower (median difference, 0.23 g; 95 percent confidence interval, 0.03 to 1.83; P = 0.008).

As a comparison the difference in 2011 between these two dating sites was 15 percent of the vote.

Here's how to be chill about the height difference, with as little Muslims account for over twenty percent of the population of the world and more than that fraction of prime - aged girls.

A recent study found that 75 percent of white Americans have entirely white social networks — an experience that results in exaggerated perceptions of difference as well as fear and threat.

Ferguson noted that the quality of the teacher (as determined by test scores, level of education, and experience) accounts for 43 percent of the difference in math scores of students in grades 3 to 5.

In all of the following snapshot comparisons, I consider the group - to - group differences (i.e. margins or gaps) as significant if we can be 90 percent confident of the difference — based either on statistical t - tests for comparing means or statistical z - tests for comparing population proportions.