Sentences with phrase «by shared characteristics»

Results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics — race or ethnicity, gender, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch, highest level of parental education, type of school, charter school, type of school location, region of the country, status as students with disabilities, and status as students identified as English language learners.

NAEP results are provided for groups of students defined by shared characteristics: gender, type of school, location, race / ethnicity, eligibility for free / reduced - price school lunch programs, students with disabilities, and students identified as English language learners.

Not exact matches

Regardless of your definition of success, there are, oddly enough, a great number of common characteristics that are shared by successful businesspeople.

«Research shows that entrepreneurs tend to score higher on characteristics related to extroversion, so they might not recognize that their personal preferences for space configurations are not shared by all of their employees, or that open spaces may undermine performance on certain kinds of activities for certain people,» Leary explains.

Discover some of the basic characteristics shared by good mutual funds that investors can use to help them in selecting funds.

These are all characteristics shared by successful entrepreneurs.

For many years, Apache was seen by its peers as a cost leader, but the company's statistics have been eroding meaningfully, which has limited its ability to grow intrinsic value per share, a characteristic that we demand in our investments.

I believe in nationality; not in terms of race or of divine commissions for world conquest, but simply thus: mankind inevitably organizes itself in communities according to its geographical distribution; these communities by sharing a common history develop common characteristics and inspire local loyalty; the individual family develops most happily and fully when it accepts these natural limits.

The hint of an answer is provided a few lines later when he says: «Thus a set of entities is a society (i) in virtue of a «defining characteristic» shared by its members, and (ii) in virtue of the presence of the defining characteristic being due to the environment provided by the society itself» (PR 89/137).

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

From their knowledge it is possible to arrange people into groups defined by certain shared characteristics.

Indeed, if the past is infinite, it must share certain abstract characteristics, such as are embodied in Whitrow's two criteria, by virtue of its infinitude, with any other infinite sequence.

Mays (RW 240) points Out the similarity between every world view's having an «essential relation» and Whitehead's opinion expressed in Process and Reality that certain characteristics are shared by every cosmic epoch.

Moreover, our moral energies can themselves be nourished by sharing in that reverence for life which, so I have argued elsewhere, is characteristic of God's own consciousness (McDaniel 1989a, 1989b).

Chimpanzees» of which we share 99 % of our DNA, display the same love and compassion characteristics as us... it is easier to survive / mutually beneficial to work as a group vs. by yourself.

I can search for inks by different characteristics (permanence, chemical properties, colors, sheens, dry time, sensitivity to paper quality), look up recipes for homemade ink combinations, and browse images of doodles members have shared with each other.

Several characteristics that come under the heading of «methodology» seem to be shared by all the churches, and they show that the emphasis on dialogue and interpersonal relations during the past decade has had a profound effect.

So far I have argued three points: that persons engage in behavior patterns which can be characterized as purposive, i. e., as exhibiting a structure of aims, values, and methods of attainment; that individuals and institutions are interrelated, with each side influencing and being influenced by the purposes and activities of the other, although with neither being in any way reducible to or explicable solely in terms of the other; and that the institutional pole in this interaction shares with the individual as its opposite those characteristics that define its behavioral patterns as purposive.

Like every part of the cosmos, only in an eminent degree, it has its own distinctive characteristics, not shared by other cosmic events and processes; so it must be understood in its own terms.

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.

A third characteristic — not unique since it is shared at least superficially by other ancient law codes — is, of course, that all the law is seen as, in very fact, the law of God.

They thus do not share the imagined heritage, destiny or physical traits and personality characteristics that unite individuals who are related by blood.

Political activists shared some of the personal characteristics of those they fought — they were «uptight,» repressed, dominated by time and work.

Yes, but the two lovers share in that; and by their sharing, they seem also — at least to themselves, each for the other — to share in the sort of endurance through all vicissitude which is characteristic of God who is never - failing love.

The writings of Thomas Aquinas and the authors who inspired and succeeded him are ambiguous on the question: Are human beings to be defined by the characteristics which they share with other creatures or by the features which set them apart?

Every back three shares certain characteristics, but every manager has to figure out how their personnel can best deal with the new issues presented by a bottom - heavy formation.

«The king is like a father with many children and a good father knows that no matter how much they resemble him physically and by character trait, none of his children will absolutely share his own characteristics and nature and no two children are alike.

When forensic investigators analyzed the seized works, they found cat hair embedded in the paint — a characteristic not shared by Hunter's authentic work.

«We think some of these genes could be «hijacked» by cancer cells and may contribute to the shared invasive characteristics of the placenta and cancer,» Sutherland says.

That close relationship with an insulator is a characteristic shared by certain types of high - temperature superconductors, which function at significantly warmer temperatures than other superconductors, although they still require cooling.

One recent hypothesis is that changes in how neural crest cells work could lead to common characteristics shared by domestic animals, such as floppy ears, juvenile faces and spotted coats (SN: 8/23/14, p. 7).

They analyzed 24 nest characteristics, including shape, material, and building behaviors — such as tree - hollowing, leaf - stripping, or plant - macerating — looking for common materials or methods shared by different species that would point to a recent common ancestor.

In a study published in Springer's journal Gender Issues, she investigated the characteristics shared by 31 school boys involved in 29 mass shootings at American schools between 1995 and 2015.

Recently, dengue virus emerged as a prime suspect because it shares many genetic and structural characteristics with ZIKV and is endemic in most of the regions affected by Zika's global spread.

The King lab at Berkeley has pioneered the exploration of the origins of multicellularity by looking at choanoflagellates for shared characteristics and behaviors conserved by evolution in animals.

It turns out that the structure and function of brain centers responsible for learning and memory in a wide range of invertebrate species may possibly share the same fundamental characteristics, according to a new study published in the journal Current Biology and performed by University of Arizona neuroscientists Nicholas Strausfeld, Regents» Professor in the Department of Neuroscience, part of the UA's School of Mind, Brain and Behavior, and Gabriella Wolff.

The spatial patterns of forest harvesting intensity were well explained by forest - resource related variables (i.e., the share of plantation species, growing stock, forest cover), site conditions (i.e., topography, accessibility), and country - specific characteristics, whereas socioeconomic variables were less important.

«But no matter the year - to - year variations, we found relatively consistent and definitive characteristics were shared by the majority of pools supporting Yosemite toad offspring compared to those unoccupied.»

Medullary bones have characteristics not shared by other bone types.

«These features on Vesta share many characteristics with those formed by debris flows on Earth and Mars,» Scully said.

K3C60 is a compound in which purely molecular features coexist alongside metallic properties, a characteristic shared by so - called «strongly correlated» materials.

New planarian tissues and organs are created by neoblasts - adult stem cells that share certain characteristics with embryonic stem cells and can differentiate into essentially all the cells in adult animals.

Each country, although different in culture and history, shares snow leopard habitat characteristics such as mountains with steep slopes dotted by rocky bluffs, ridges broken by outcrops, and valleys interrupted by cliffs.

The strong reflection seen on Mercury is too large to be caused by a momentary «glint» off a crater wall, and when studied in more detail, shares the characteristics of reflections from the water ice seen on Mars and the icy moons of Jupiter.

Basic characteristics are shared by all hierarchical levels and include the ability of a system to adjust to changes in its environment.

While the cancer in dogs shares characteristics with humans, there are differences in the likelihood of the cancer metastasizing and the tissue of the prostate.ANCHOR However, by studying the prostate gland in dogs, Charles Huggins discovered that the growth of tumours was dependant on the natural hormones of the body.

In attempts to overcome this limitation, methods have been developed that use as a query, not a single sequence, but sets of related sequences or a representation of the characteristics shared by related sequences.

This is the non-sustainable, infinite growth model which shares features characteristic of the process of cancer itself — a model, which by its very nature, is doomed to fail and eventually collapse.

Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) work their magic by interfering with the production of PGE2 from arachidonic acid, a characteristic they share with EPA.

By and large, liberals and conservatives do not differ in their tendencies to seek out a partner that shares their characteristics.