Sentences with phrase «at multiple measures»

«The data is showing us what we believe to be true, which is that looking at multiple measures gives you a much more appropriate and more nuanced look at the effectiveness of the schools,» said Miller.

Measuring student growth without relying solely on narrow standardized tests involves looking at multiple measures of student learning, such as essay exams, portfolios of students» work in various subjects, and group projects that require analysis, investigation, experimentation, cooperation, and written, oral, or graphic presentation of findings.

Rub 3: The city and state are now beginning to look at multiple measures in their evaluation of district schools.

Staff members look at multiple measures before determining whether special GT services are needed.

Not exact matches

Linton suggests experimenting by sending e-mails at varying times of day and measuring open rates on multiple devices.

It doesn't matter whether one looks at basic measures such as median valuation multiples over the past (bull market) decade, or whether one uses a more complex discounted cash flow model.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Multiple approaches are needed to combat VAD, including nutrition education and consuming a diverse and nutrient rich diet; promoting breastfeeding and complementary feeding practices; vitamin A capsule supplementation; food fortification; and other public health measures aimed at the control of infectious diseases.

By some measures it was the greatest sporting upset ever: multiple bookmakers had never paid out at such long odds for any sport.

Measure at multiple places, just to be sure.

Main Outcome Measures Descriptive statistics and multiple logistic regression analysis relating sleep position at each follow - up age to symptoms in the prior week (fever, cough, wheezing, stuffy nose, trouble breathing or sleeping, diarrhea, vomiting, or spitting up) and outpatient visits in the prior month (ear infection, breathing problem, vomiting, spitting up, colic, seizure, accident, or injury).

In order to accurately measure the efficacy of several home visiting programs, a comprehensive assessment that includes measures of multiple child and family outcomes at various points in time should be favoured.

The study authors provided data from multiples for infant morbidity (jaundice, infant feeding difficulty, weight loss, dehydration, illness not related to jaundice / feeding, ER visit, and hospitalisation) at two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge, and measures ofmaternal satisfaction (amount of information on feeding your baby, clarity of information on feeding your baby, amount of help with feeding your baby, and total satisfaction with care), assessed in hospital, two weeks after discharge, and two months after discharge.

At the same time, the measure requires public schools, government agencies and public colleges to have multiple - occupancy bathrooms, along with locker rooms, be designated to be used only by people of their «biological sex» — or what was stated on their birth certificate.

At the same time, the measure would change the Multiple Dwelling Law and allow New York City residents to share a single home and give regulators information in order to target bad actors.

City officials are authorizing new safety measures and equipment use at the Rikers Island jail, including taser guns for corrections officers, multiple sources confirmed to POLITICO New York.

Sponsor Dan Squadron (D - 26), who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, made the case at the Senate Elections Committee meeting, saying the measure requires that LLCs be more transparent, and that the founders of multiple LLCs be subject to the same $ 5,000 donation limit in place for corporations and not be used «as a way for individuals and other corporate interests to skirt campaign finance regulations.»

Sponsor Dan Squadron, a Democrat who represents lower Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn, made the case at the Senate Elections Committee meeting, saying the measure requires that LLC's be more transparent, and that the founders of multiple LLC's be subject to the same $ 5,000 donation limit in place for corporations and not be used «as a way for individuals and other corporate interests to skirt campaign finance regulations.»

The assessment instrument is designed to measure students» understanding of energy at basic, intermediate, and advanced levels and draws on a bank of 372 multiple choice items targeting 14 different key ideas about energy forms, transformations, and transfers.

Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland: «Planetary Object Geophysical Observer (POGO),» a secondary payload that is a hopper to be dropped on the asteroid surface by the Asteroid Retrieval Vehicle to measure elemental composition of asteroid regolith at multiple locations.

In their study Dr. Würtz and colleagues used a technique called Mendelian randomization to assess whether increases in BMI in 12,664 mostly non-obese adolescents and young adults causally affects multiple cardiometabolic risk markers (82 molecules measured in their blood at a single time point).

We will develop multiplexed assays that will allow us to measure multiple proteins at a time in human samples, thus increasing the speed with which we can test candidate biomarkers.

In carbon dioxide, for example, these multiple isotopes are found more often than expected — a phenomenon called clumping — which leads to a powerful tool for measuring the temperatures at which the molecules formed, now and in the ancient past.

Antibody production was measured at multiple time points following each injection.

The tower is part of the AmeriFlux network, a consortium of scientists using a network to work with the eddy covariance technique, measuring fluxes of CO2 and CH4 at multiple sites across the Americas.

Scientists at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) thought they had finally won a measure of respect after adopting two major revisions to their conservation strategy — setting aside more habitat and designing recovery plans for multiple species.

A flow meter measured seawater volume, which was pumped through external ports at predetermined times, and multiple 200um - mesh filters retained the plankton from separate samples.

A flow meter measured seawater volume, which was pumped through external ports at predetermined times, and multiple mesh filters retained the plankton from separate samples.

Since tornado experiences can occur at any time throughout one's life, and in multiplicity, the survey items measured both one's most memorable tornado experience and his or her multiple experiences.

The study, published in the Journal of Child & Adolescent Trauma, measured the impact of polyvictimization — exposure to multiple forms of victimization — on school climate at the middle and high school levels.

The assaults that this most fundamental theory of reality makes on our intuition are legion: particles that exist as probabilistic wave functions in «superpositions» of multiple states or places, or at least seem to as long you don't look at them; «entangled» particles that influence each other over vast distances of space when you measure one of them.

Physicists measure the strength of signals in multiples of the experimental uncertainty, σ, and the discrepancy now stands at 3.5 σ — short of the 5 σ needed to claim a discovery, but interesting enough to warrant trying again.

Other research measures announced by Flaherty included $ 72.75 million for a forestry and environmental genomics competition at Genome Canada; $ 63.78 million over 5 years for the Canadian Space Agency's plan to develop the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, which proposes to generate radar images using multiple satellites; and $ 17.46 million over 5 years «to commence the pre-construction design phase» for the proposed Canadian Arctic Research Initiative.

Yet, this is the first time we have been able to measure multiple features at the same time as measuring which genes are being expressed.

It does this by measuring the force and motion of the wearer's arms and using those measurements to control the action of a pair of robot arms; a computer keeps the robotic force at a constant multiple of the human one and transmits appropriate feedback to the wearer.

«The three - day multiple pass dietary recall that asks people to remember what they ate is the gold standard for measuring food intake, but we can't accurately measure someone's diet or food intake,» said Spruijt - Metz, a research professor of psychology at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

Led by researchers at NYU Langone's Multiple Sclerosis Comprehensive Care Center, the new study reports that participants with MS who used tDCS while playing the cognitive training computer games designed to improve information processing abilities showed significantly greater gains in cognitive measures than those who played the computer games alone.

Wearable sensors have already been used to measure individual components of sweat such as sodium, but this is just the tip of what's possible, says Ali Javey at the University of California, Berkeley: «If you want to get any meaningful information about your health condition, it's very important to be able to analyse multiple chemicals at once.»

Unlike the satellite temperature record, where only a few satellites are measuring temperatures at any given point of time, there is a large amount of redundancy in surface temperature observations, with multiple

In January 2018, multiple GOA - ON members met at the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO in Paris, France, to develop the indicator methodology for the 2030 Agenda SDG target 14.3 «average marine acidity measured at an agreed suite of representative sampling stations».

The team has transferred these diagnostic capabilities to a new Vertical Shock Tube facility, where they plan to simultaneously measure density - velocity at multiple times to probe the temporal evolution of the quantities and physics of turbulent mixing.

«This nested design uses a bioecological framework to measure risk and protective factors at multiple levels of analysis — «from neighborhoods to neurons and beyond,»» Jacobson said.

The study showed that measuring MRD just twice during remission induction therapy — at day 19 and day 46 — rather than multiple times during the more than two years of treatment was sufficient to guide treatment of most pediatric ALL patients.

These findings underscore the difficulty of detecting non-cultivable B. burgdorferi following antibiotic treatment, as interpretation of xenodiagnosis depends upon timing and number of ticks tested, and the outcome of infection must be measured by analysis of multiple tissues at appropriate intervals.

Some researchers refer to it as the first hit of the «multiple - hit» progression of fatty liver disease, although at this stage it can be reversed by lifestyle measures (2).

At the beginning of his career, Fitzgerald was trained to measure body fat composition through multiple hand - caliper devices to create a fat score.

Blood glucose levels were measured at multiple time points for five hours after eating, and glycemic index was calculated by standard formulas.

I have a child with special needs who wakes multiple times in the night, and therefore so do I. I've been trying to lose weight and limiting myself to 1400 calories per day (meticulously measured and recorded in a food diary) which should mean I lose about a pound a week, but I'm losing half that if at all some weeks.

When you look at EMG data, a measure of what degree you're activating muscles, it shows that planks target multiple muscle groups and ones that miss out when you do standard ab exercises like crunches.

Owing to the shape and multiple attachment sites of the erector spinae, it appears appropriate to measure the muscle size at known distances throughout the length of the muscle, standardised to the vertebrae.