Sentences with phrase «background rate from»

The timing must also be precise: «The high background rate from the overwhelmingly bright moon means you have to gate the detector for periods as short as about 100 nanoseconds.»

Not exact matches

For background, the lawsuits claimed that after declining a request to purchase advertising on Yelp, a number of positive reviews from businesses» listings on the reviews site mysteriously disappeared, downgrading the company's rating on the site.

Limitations: Conclusions from the study are limited in their application to the population of expectant fathers by the low response rate and the low numbers of low - income, ethnic - background, and indigenous fathers in the sample.

«And we can not walk away from this issue until obesity rates drop for children of every age and every background.

This rise and variation in rates is due to the use of reproductive techniques, and is partly accounted for by more births to older women and more multiple births in women from more affluent backgrounds (Smith 2014).

Background rates of breastfeeding initiation: data from an inner - city Cleveland clinic with a similar population reported lower rates with any and exclusive breastfeeding at 5 days at 40.8 % and 22.0 %, respectively.

Where background rates of «ever breastfed» were not reported, we have used either rates published in the WHO Global Data Bank on Infant and Young Child Feeding (www.who.int/nutrition/databases/infantfeeding/countries/en/index; accessed July 2016), or those published in the supplementary material to Victora 2016, and for the two studies from Scotland (Hoddinott 2009; Muirhead 2006), we used www.isdscotlandarchive.scot.nhs.uk/isd/1914 (accessed November 2016).

I think is fairly described as a very robust Labour tribalist from a trade union organiser background (I would place him very much on the right of the party, though you may well approve of his rebelling on ID cards, 90 days detention, the 10p tax rate and other more left / liberal rebellions, which shows he is not easily pigeonholed).

New York congressional candidate Anthony Brindisi distanced himself from his own favorable rating from the National Rifle Association a couple weeks ago by calling for a ban on high - capacity magazines and expanding firearm background checks.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings as a means of providing for a more progressive system is less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts as their families can afford to pay up front.

Using differential interest rates rising with earnings is less progressive and less fair than a graduate tax, a graduate contribution or general taxation because those from wealthy backgrounds will have smaller debts if their families can afford to pay up front or soon after graduation.

On a positive note, there is a commitment to provide the pupil premium at current rates so that schools receive additional funding for those from the poorest backgrounds.

Using the cosmic microwave background, cosmologists find a slower expansion rate than they do from measurements of supernovas.

For the study, researchers estimated the difference in the monthly rate of background checks per 100,000 people for handguns, long guns and both types combined using data from January 1999 through December 2016.

Lead researcher Professor Peter Rothwell, a stroke expert from the University of Oxford, explained: «The risk of a major stroke is very high immediately after a TIA or a minor stroke (about 1000 times higher than the background rate), but only for a few days.

«Back of the envelope [calculations] suggest that what we're going to lose from this spill is nowhere close to the background rates of wetland loss,» says Alex Kolker, a coastal geologist with the Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium in Chauvin.

Ninety percent of them came from caring, intact families; 63 percent had gone to college, compared with the 5 to 6 percent background rate in the developing world, according to Sageman.

Early childhood programs have long been known to be beneficial to children from low - income backgrounds, but recent studies have cast doubt on their ability to substantially increase the rate of children's academic achievement.

Core collapse supernova (CCSN) rates suffer from large uncertainties as many CCSNe exploding in regions of bright background emission and significant dust extinction remain unobserved.

Our analyses of longitudinal data from unmanaged old forests in the western United States showed that background (noncatastrophic) mortality rates have increased rapidly in recent decades, with doubling periods ranging from 17 to 29 years among regions.

While those from Asian backgrounds tend to have the lowest rates of obesity, this condition is most prevalent among non-Hispanic black adults, among whom over 48 percent have obesity.

Background: It has been demonstrated that protein ingestion before sleep increases muscle protein synthesis rates during overnight recovery from an exercise bout.

Indigenous Australians have a high interracial marriage rate, many of whom come from mixed - race backgrounds themselves.

According to several independent surveys, the rates of divorce are quite similar between couples belonging to the same racial backgrounds and those hailing from different backgrounds.

Today, top rated dating apps help bring together partners from all backgrounds come and share their feelings for each other on common platforms trying to discover the right mater that can satisfy their innermost desires the most effective way.

Black and Martin are especially charming as guys from way different backgrounds who become unlikely friends and for a PG - rated family comedy, you could do a lot worse.

It is, however, the last evidence that Wright is supposed to be a mixed martial arts fighter, apart from a throwaway line late in the film explaining why it is that this killing machine — a guy with a vaguely hinted at super-secret special forces background — is spending his time taking dives on a second - rate MMA circuit.

Students attending KIPP schools have higher rates of high - school graduation, college enrollment, and college completion than students from similarly disadvantaged backgrounds who attend other types of schools.

While the 42 percent rate of math proficiency for U.S. white students is much higher than the averages for students from African American and Hispanic backgrounds, U.S. white students are still surpassed by all students in 16 other countries.

Pupils from low income families had a 29 per cent chance of being rated below average at reading by teachers, compared to 20 per cent of equally able classmates from high income backgrounds.

From 1998 to 2007, more than 3,000 graduates of the Puente program have been accepted by four - year colleges, a rate one - third higher than that of Latino students with similar socioeconomic and academic backgrounds who attend the same California public schools but aren't enrolled in Puente.

Comparatively, of the fifth of young people from backgrounds with the highest entry rate, 52.1 per cent went to university in 2016, an increase of 1.2 percentage points.

The figures from UCAS show that, of the fifth of the young English population from backgrounds with the lowest entry rate to higher education, 13.6 per cent entered university in 2016, which represents an increase of 0.1 percentage point.

However, young people from backgrounds with the lowest entry rates are still more likely than ever to enter higher education, and 74 per cent more likely than a decade ago.

A Department for Education spokesperson said record rates of 18 - year - olds, including those from disadvantaged backgrounds, were entering full - time university.

They come from different racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds; they learn at different rates and in different ways; they have different interests and different talents.

Students from low - income backgrounds, who make up over 80 % of the public school population, have improved at an even faster rate than the city's average.

He said in 2014 the rate of students from disadvantaged backgrounds applying to enter higher education was «at its highest level ever».

In fact, the study estimates that instruction from one black teacher in elementary school cuts high school dropout rates by 39 percent among black boys from low - income backgrounds.

Through collective hard work and commitment, KIPP Austin students complete college at a rate that is above the national average for all students and four times higher than that of students from similar economic backgrounds.

I've asked Korn to tell me exactly where the law specifies this, and when I hear back from him, I will update this post.UPDATE: The teachers» union, to back up its assertion, is citing a memo from the state department to the Board of Regents last year which contains this background sentence about the evaluation law: «Tenured teachers and principals with a pattern of ineffective teaching performance — defined by law as two consecutive annual «ineffective» ratings — may be charged with incompetence and considered for termination through an expedited hearing process.»

We display the Low - income Rating on profiles to make it easier for parents to understand how well schools serve students from different socioeconomic backgrounds.

«There is a marked difference in the proportion of pupils from poorer backgrounds attending the top 500 comprehensives compared to the national average when based on the 5A * - C English and maths measure, with FSM rates just over half of the national average in comprehensive schools,» the report says.

Through our collective hard work and commitment, KIPP's four - year college graduation rate is above the national average for all students and four times higher than students from the same communities and economic backgrounds who did not attend a KIPP school.

The rates are even lower for students from low - income backgrounds.

The law brought accountability to American public education, forced revelations of inflated graduation rates, and showed the poor performance of suburban districts in improving student achievement for all kids (including those from poor and minority backgrounds).

College Success Arizona is increasing college completion rates, by helping people understand why college is important to the future of our state and by providing scholarships and mentoring services that help Arizona students from all backgrounds, and income levels, succeed.

Studies of college enrollment and graduation rates of scholarship alumni have shown that, despite coming from socioeconomic backgrounds associated with lower rates of college enrollment, Children's Scholarship Fund students enroll in college at an average rate that is similar to or higher than the general population.

Using administrative data from the UC from before and after the ban on race - contingent admissions policies, we present evidence that UC campuses changed the weight given to SAT scores, grades and family background characteristics after the end of affirmative action, and that these changes were able to substantially (though far from completely) offset the fall in minority admissions rate after the ban on affirmative action.

Our students complete college at a rate that is above the national average for all students and four times higher than that of students from similar economic backgrounds.