Sentences with phrase «by individual observation»

Not exact matches

Among widely followed indicators, we can see some of this in the declining number of individual stocks achieving new 52 - week highs when the major market indices push higher, by the tendency for trading volume to become dull on advances and expand on declines (or what is a similar observation, the tendency for the market to make little progress on heavy up - volume and substantial downside progress on light down - volume), and in the recent explosion of insider selling.

If an individual claimed that he was chosen by God and could not sin no matter how heinous his actions, we would commit him for observation.

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs in nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine intervention.

This type of argument is again broadly evidentiary in nature, although it reflects not the «turn to the subject» characteristic of the appeal to individual experience, but rather a «pragmatic» or «linguistic» turn, as illustrated by Whitehead's observation that the evidence of human experience as shared by civilized intercommunication «is also diffused throughout the meanings of words and linguistic expressions» (cited in TPT 74).12 Such an appeal is an essentially historical form of argumentation.

Western culture may be compared to a lake fed by the stream of Hellenism, Christianity, science, and these contributions might offer an extremely valuable way of considering the conceptions of a life of reason, the principle of an ordered and intelligible world, the ideas of faith, of a personal God, of the absolute value of the human individual, the method of observation and experiment, and the conception of empirical laws, as well as the doctrines of equality and of the brotherhood of man.

Deism is the recognition of a universal creative force greater than that demonstrated by mankind, supported by personal observation of laws and designs of nature and the universe, perpetuated and validated by the innate ability of human reason coupled with the rejection of claims made by individuals and organized religions of having received special divine revelation.

The warning followed the observation by the Nigeria Police Force leadership of the increasing resort to acts of brigandage by sets of misguided individuals who apparently are hiding under the cloak of Movement for the Actualisation of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to threaten national security and public peace in parts of South East geopolitical Zone and some other conterminous States.

«The warning followed the observation by the Nigeria Police Force leadership of the increasing resort to acts of brigandage by sets of misguided individuals who apparently are hiding under the cloak of Movement for the Actualization of Sovereign State of Biafra (MASSOB) and Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) to threaten national security and public peace in parts of South East geopolitical Zone and some other conterminous States» IGP Arase said.

The catalytic action of individual Ni atoms at the edges of a growing graphene flake was directly captured by scanning tunneling microscopy imaging at the millisecond time scale, while force field molecular dynamics and density functional theory calculations rationalize the experimental observations.

Researchers have shown that observations by Earth - orbiting instruments can be used to estimate carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from individual power plants.

These results agree with an anatomical observation that the researchers have confirmed using MRI: amusical individuals have an excess of grey matter in the inferior frontal cortex, accompanied by a deficit in white matter, one of whose essential constituents is myelin.

The infrared auroras show up in green in this false - color composite from NASA's Cassini spacecraft, stitched together from 65 individual observations taken by the probe's Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer in 2008.

This hypothesis is supported by several observations so we decided to test it by scanning the brains of individuals of varying age with functional magnetic resonance imaging and analysing the data both with fApEn and SampEn.»

Though the roots of evolutionary biology can be found in field work and close observation, today, the field is deeply tied to computing, since the scale of genetic material — tiny but voluminous — can not be viewed with the naked eye or put in order by an individual.

He found that both sexes were able to peacefully cohabitate, at times sharing the same den and supporting earlier observations by Rodaniche that reported groups of up to 40 individuals living together in tropical Eastern Pacific waters.

«Up until our expedition, catches had only been made at specific points and observations made on individual polar cod caught beneath the ice by divers,» says David.

This behaviour and further findings from observations can be best explained with an interesting assumption: Although the brightness variations in the gamma ray region also originate from the flare ups in the blazar, they are amplified to different degrees by the gravitational lens effect of individual stars in the foreground galaxy.

The monkeys used a mix of learning by observation and individual experience to figure out how to open the fruit, they found.

Nevertheless, the anatomical connection between the bones was not affected, confirming the original observations made over a century ago by their discoverers, that the La Ferrassie 1 individual was deliberately buried by other members of their social group.

My first observation is that the breadth of this field has grown immensely such that topics represented 25 years ago by individual speakers would now require individual meetings.

«With the inauguration of the Institute for Personalized Medicine, we have reasserted our early leadership in the science of tailoring therapy to individuals, an approach that in some ways began at Hershey with the observations around pharmacogenetics by our founding chair of pharmacology, Elliot Vesell, more than 40 years ago,» said Daniel Notterman, vice dean for research and graduate studies.

Evaluation of these processes in AOGCMs is mainly restricted by lack of observations, but some early progress has been made in individual studies (e.g., Schmittner et al., 2000; Pardaens et al., 2003; Wu et al., 2005; Chapter 9).

«We have found that the relationship between mass, rotation rate and age is now defined well enough by observations that we can obtain the ages of individual stars to within 10 percent,» Sydney Barnes from the Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics in Germany, said.

The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters acknowledges the vital contributions made by hundreds of individuals around the world, whose technical innovations have beaten down the many sources of noise that would otherwise plague observations.

A particularly intriguing observation was that diagnostic success varied by individual ancestry.

The team are currently working to build on their initial observations, with new research understanding how an individual's levels of the stress hormone cortisol are affected by their gut microbiome, as Aura explains: «Social contact, stress physiology and gut microbiome are all intensely related.

I am intrigued by another posters observation that the negative mood seemed to come with many individuals with high milk supplies while a positive mood seemed to come with those who had low milk supply.

That's an especially interesting observation in light of a study released earlier this week by the University of Southern California's Annenberg Inclusion Initiative, which found that of the 899 individuals who have been nominated for the last six Grammy ceremonies, 90.7 percent were men and 9.3 percent were women.

A study published in Education Next by Eric Taylor and John Tyler found that teacher evaluation systems that include high - quality classroom observations can improve the effectiveness of individual teachers.

These new systems depend primarily on two types of measurements: student test score gains on statewide assessments in math and reading in grades 4 - 8 that can be uniquely associated with individual teachers; and systematic classroom observations of teachers by school leaders and central staff.

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Child - level assessment data means the data collected by an agency on an individual child from one or more valid and reliable assessments of a child's status and progress, including but not limited to direct assessment, structured observations, checklists, staff or parent report measures, and portfolio records or work samples.

All professional practice data (such as data collected during classroom observations or walkthroughs) is collected by individuals who have been trained and certified to properly implement the observation / assessment tool used at their school (either Marzano or Danielson Frameworks).

Well structured peer feedback experiences built on observations instead of evaluations can give BOTH students involved — the giver and the recipient — chances to act like detectives by reflecting on how well individual work products align with success criteria.

Data - gathering methods focused singularly on students, and included focus groups, written surveys, individual interviews, small group interviews, interviews anchored by classroom observation, videotaping, audiotaping, and note taking.

The application requires at least 18 months of data reflecting improvement results, and attestation by a supervisor or other individual who had responsibility for oversight or observation of efforts and results.

Children demonstrating readiness for kindergarten: Number of children who meet readiness milestones on the Kids Individual Development Survey (KIDS) as determined by teacher observations.

Lesson observation by senior staff or Curriculum Leaders to provide feedback on how classroom management can be improved on an individual basis

Functions The teacher leader: a) Facilitates the collection, analysis, and use of classroom - and school - based data to identify opportunities to improve curriculum, instruction, assessment, school organization, and school culture; b) Engages in reflective dialog with colleagues based on observation of instruction, student work, and assessment data and helps make connections to research - based effective practices; c) Supports colleagues» individual and collective reflection and professional growth by serving in roles such as mentor, coach, and content facilitator; d) Serves as a team leader to harness the skills, expertise, and knowledge of colleagues to address curricular expectations and student learning needs; e) Uses knowledge of existing and emerging technologies to guide colleagues in helping students skillfully and appropriately navigate the universe of knowledge available on the Internet, use social media to promote collaborative learning, and connect with people and resources around the globe; and f) Promotes instructional strategies that address issues of diversity and equity in the classroom and ensures that individual student learning needs remain the central focus of instruction.

By shifting focus from influencing singular teacher actions through individual classroom observations to increased involvement in and supervision of teacher teams, principals can have greater impact on the actions of teachers and as a result, student learning.

Anesthesia and surgical pain management must be totally controlled by an individual completely dedicated during the entire procedure to constant observation of monitors including respiration, EKG, blood pressure, and core body temperature.

Sea Lion Island shelter a small, localized population of elephant seals, that we are studying in great detail by marking almost all breeding individuals every season, by spending a large amount of time in the field doing behavioural observations, and by using a mixture of different techniques to gather accurate measurements of different aspects of individual phenotype of males and females.

I desire to find the abstract in the natural, and, by close observation of the intensity of individual moments, approach the transcendent.»

The red line shows the observations (HadCRU3 data), the black line a standard IPCC - type scenario (driven by observed forcing up to the year 2000, and by the A1B emission scenario thereafter), and the green dots with bars show individual forecasts with initialised sea surface temperatures.

As described by conservative economist Friedrich von Hayek, it refers to «the observation that the data required for rational economic (decision - making) are distributed among many individual actors, and thus unavoidably exist outside the knowledge of a central authority.»

The location influence on Perth's historic temperature trends is acknowledged by the BoM in footnotes to the Perth Metro Daily Weather Observations where it states that «Significant variations can be experienced across the Perth metropolitan area on individual days.

Comparisons of individual models with aerosol observations have shown a large underestimate of the ΟΑ component by models, especially in polluted areas.

Is that by individual papers that used a uniform prior in their individual assessment of CS, or is the IPCC range 1.5 - 4.5 C itself based on a uniform prior corrected by all the observations?

So, adjustments are made by the Australian Bureau of Meteorology to these individual series before they are incorporated into the Australian Climate Observations Reference Network — Surface Air Temperature (ACORN - SAT); and also the UK Met Office's HadCRUT dataset, which informs IPCC deliberations.

I also suggest you read the paper by Easterling and Wehner (2009)(Google scholar will find it easily), which shows that similar slowdowns have ocurred before in the OBSERVATIONS as well as in the output of individual model runs.