Sentences with phrase «comparison tests as»

Blame that on Mercedes wanting to do as well in magazine comparison tests as BMW and also wanting to attract younger buyers.

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While a smaller issue in comparison, largely because it doesn't impact the live ethereum network, the problems facing the Casper test network also provide evidence of the early - stage nature of ethereum as a technology.

• Her comparisons of Nazism and communism were sporadic and uneven, and she hardly dealt with Italian fascism as predecessor of these test cases of totalitarianism.

As a comparison, the pole times for the Spanish GP were 1:24.681 in 2015 and a 1:22.000 in 2016, with the best testing lap of 1:18.634.

I know, as you'd expect, there are a lot of comparisons in testing between them and us, but Eric [Boullier] and the full team are focused on our programme, and very confident we're going to have a good season.»

I couldn't help but see in him a personification of education these days — our focus on test - scores, assessment, standards, ranking and comparison, as well as a correlating misunderstanding of the importance of play (at one point in the film, a boy confronts this adult: «But they are toys!

As with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population samplAs with other neuropsychological testing tools, the value of the SAC in concussion assessment is maximized when individual baseline test data is available because, without such baselines, the athlete's postinjury performance on neuropsychological testing and other concussion assessment measures, such as the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population samplas the SAC, must be interpreted by comparison with a generalized «normal» based on a large population sample.

Recognizing the educational challenges represented by children in poverty, who are not fluent in English or have other special needs, the Bloomberg administration — even as it relentlessly encouraged the growth of charter schools — built a citywide methodology designed to look past simple comparisons of average school scores on state tests.

After an hour - long informational session, a follow - up questionnaire found that nearly all attendees were able to correctly answer questions about the rationale for screening, the difference between the need for additional testing and a cancer diagnosis, the benefit of negative screenings as a baseline for future comparisons, and the continued importance of physical examinations.

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As a point of comparison, McCright also tested the beliefs of conservative white females.

Morosan and Svanidze decided to do follow - up tests to determine exactly how hard the compound was, and while they were at it, they also decided to measure the hardness of the other compositions of titanium and gold that they had used as comparisons in the original study.

By comparison, tests using cerebral spinal fluid — currently used to detect sporadic CJD — were 77 percent sensitive and 100 percent specific, and the results took twice as long to obtain.

But a detailed study of students» performance on TIMSS as well as on the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), another widely reported international comparison test, by B. Lindsay Lowell of Georgetown University's Institute for the Study of International Migration and Hal Salzman of the Urban Institute in Washington, D.C., suggests otherwise.

As a comparison, they performed the same test on 161 critically ill patients in the hospital who did not have sepsis and 164 healthy patients who were having outpatient surgery.

«More selective HIV screening is thought to miss more cases, but there have never been well - designed comparison studies on which targeting criteria are best,» he says, «so with this study, we hypothesized that by using very broad criteria and applying sufficient resources to test everyone who met those criteria, we could detect nearly as many cases as universal screening but still use many fewer tests.»

Antibody treatment conferred significant protection as determined by comparison of weights in untreated versus prophylaxis and at the time of treatment versus 12 d after infection (unpaired, two - tailed Student's t test, P < 0.05).

To allow comparison across cognitive tests, we also express cognitive decline in terms of percentage change as a function of the range of each test (estimate of 10 year decline / range of test × 100).

NeuroStemcell is focused on the identification and systematic comparison of progenitor cell lines with the most favourable characteristics for mesDA and striatal GABAergic neuronal differentiation, generated either directly from human embryonic stem (ES) cells, from Neural Stem (NS) cells derived from ES cells or fetal brain, from induced Pluripotent Stem (iPS) cells or from in vitro short - term expanded neural progenitors from ventral midbrain grown as neurospheres (VMN, Ventral Midbrain Neurospheres) 4, and perform rigorous and systematic testing of the most prominent candidate cells in appropriate animals models.

One - way ANOVA was used for three - group comparisons, followed by post-hoc multiple comparison tests (as specified in figure legend).

Statistical analyses were made using either Student's two - tailed unpaired t test or analysis of variance (ANOVA) as specified in the figure legends, and Newman - Keuls procedure was used for multiple comparison analysis.

For each comparison, the genes with FDR values ≤ 0.05 were used as the test list, and the full complement of genes expressed were used as the background list.

Using mice as «guinea pigs» to test human drugs is flawed for a number of reasons, but perhaps the most relevant is that their biology isn't an apples - to - apples comparison with ours.

It depends on what you're trying to accomplish, as they are completely different tests so it's not an apples to apples comparison...

Comparison of inulin and lactulose as reference standards in the breath hydrogen test assessment of carbohydrate malabsorption in patients with chronic pancreatic exocrine insufficiency

This study evaluated a new set of cardiac patients for the primary outcome of diabetes, which was not significantly associated with fasting (after multiple - comparisons correction) in the first study (37) and, thus, required additional evaluation as the primary hypothesis test (38).

I did not start plant based diet until about a year ago and now on oxygen part of the time, but at testing they said I was an anomaly as I was still working and not on oxygen at that time in comparison to the test results for my breathing.

We ran it through the same procedure that we used on all of our other test sites, and although it did not score as high as some of the others, it still seemed worthwhile in comparison to a lot of the other bogus sites that we found.

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Screen tests for Tobey Maguire (in which he goes Bruce Lee (okay, maybe more like Bruce Li) on a band of thugs bleeped as often as Ozzy Osbourne on MTV), JK Simmons, the CGI Spider - Man (phenomenal — trust me), and key make - up and costumes and a lame 3 - minute gag reel finish off the serviceable package, not counting ROM - enabled weblinks, videogame promos, «comic to film comparison,» and a nifty option to scratch your very own commentary track for Spider - Man.

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.

Second - and third - grade students using the Seeds of Science / Roots of Reading units made significantly greater gains in understanding science concepts, knowledge of science vocabulary, and reading comprehension, as measured by tests developed by project researchers, compared to students in comparison conditions for both earth science and life science units.

A comparison to three classes with students from the same schools showed that students participating in the gardening project had higher science test scores, as measured by pretest and posttest scores on a science test developed for the program.

The NEPC report paints a dismal picture of student learning at K12 - operated schools, but the fatal flaw of the report is that the measures of «performance» it employs are based primarily on outcomes such as test scores that may reveal more about student background than about the quality of the school, and on inappropriate comparisons between virtual schools and all schools in the same state.

Our comparison group is a significant improvement on the self - selection of countries that choose to take a test as well as an improvement upon arbitrary membership in an organization like the OECD.

Moreover, summative assessment sat at the core of many of the policy reforms that the leaders described: additional accountability levers such as teacher evaluation systems and statewide school report cards draw on data coming out of these summative tests to make determinations and comparisons regarding teacher and school - level performance.

By way of comparison, the authors note that the impact of being assigned to a teacher in the top - quartile rather than one in the bottom quartile in terms of their total effect on student achievement as measured by student - test - based measures of teacher effectiveness is seven percentile points in reading and six points in math.

One could forgive the American public if, upon examining the results of recent international tests, it regarded East - Asian nations as a single educational behemoth that had perfected a uniform strategy for dominating the United States in comparisons of students» mathematical ability.

To facilitate a comparison between the United States as a whole and other nations, the aggregate U.S. trend is estimated from that same 14 - year period and each U.S. test is weighted to take into account the specific years that international tests were administered.

The upshot: Even as they write «college and career readiness» rates into their ESSA plans, many states have no reliable way to determine how many of their high school seniors are reaching that point and, regardless of what they use for standards and tests, practically none will be able to make valid comparisons with other states.

And NAEP can also be leveraged to allow for cross-state comparisons using state testing data, as we see in recent studies from Sean Reardon and others.

These comparisons take into account students» test scores in the prior year as well as their race or ethnicity, gender, age, suspensions and absences in the previous year, whether they repeated a grade, special education status, and limited English status.

The treatment groups consist of schools managed by each type of private provider, and the comparison group includes the regular public schools with test scores below the median for all regular district schools, as discussed above.

And while some see portfolios as excellent qualitative measures instead of standardized tests, we know that the subjective nature of portfolio assessment can make it an unreliable comparison between schools.

While NAEP, the Nation's Report Card, scores are the gold standard for measuring student achievement and serve as a yardstick for state comparisons, NAEP results are generally not known by students and their families, who rely on their state test results to know how they are performing.

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The number of correct answers to test questions is placed in comparison to the norm (or average) and reported as a percentile.

The premise for standardized testing is a simple one: teachers, families and the public should know how much students are learning in comparison to their peers across the state, as well as in comparison to a standard of proficiency.

As a further point of comparison I provide results from a study [xvii] of Project STAR that examined the impact on middle school test scores of exposure to class size reduction in the early grades.

(While we prefer state assessments as policy, we think any widely respected test that allows for ready comparison against other schools or districts is a reasonable compromise);