Sentences with phrase «critical use of data»

And it calls on churches to do the same, and to make critical use of data in doing so.

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St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

Using cloud based services to store files also minimizes the likelihood of businesses losing sensitive and critical data.

-- Raj Goyle, cofounder of Bodhala, a platform using AI and big data to empower the legal industry with the evidence required to make critical business decisions

In November, BuzzFeed reported that an Uber executive, Emil Michael, had suggested using the company's customer data to dig up dirt on long - time tech reporter, Sarah Lacy, who is known for being critical of the startup.

«With every public violation of consumer trust be it through misuse of data or external threats, consumers today are paying more attention to the data they share, what organizations they share it with, and how it will be used,» said Scott Miller, CEO, Vision Critical.

Critical evaluation of energy intake data using fundamental principles of energy physiology: 1.

Identifying core components of interventions found to be effective and understanding what it takes to implement those components with fidelity to the program model is critical to successful replication and scale - up of effective programs and practices in different community contexts and populations.7 There is growing recognition in the early childhood field of the importance of effective implementation and the need for implementation research that can guide adoption, initial implementation, and ongoing improvement of early childhood interventions.8, 9,10 The promise of implementation research and using data to drive program management is compelling because it offers a potential solution to the problem of persistent gaps in outcomes between at - risk children and their more well - off peers.

Severity of potential negative health outcomes in EDM environments makes data on both known and unknown drug use critical to further prevention and harm reduction efforts.

Using data gathered from the sessions, Grassi's team discovered increased synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus, a region of the brain critical to memory processing and storage.

During these times of shrinking budgets, data driven decisions are critical to ensure that scarce federal resources are used effectively.

In a new study published in The Quarterly Review of Biology, Dr. Karen Hardy and her team bring together archaeological, anthropological, genetic, physiological and anatomical data to argue that carbohydrate consumption, particularly in the form of starch, was critical for the accelerated expansion of the human brain over the last million years, and coevolved both with copy number variation of the salivary amylase genes and controlled fire use for cooking.

Critical factors to achieve a higher level of information sharing include: a) the development and adoption of global data interchange standards that are harmonized between health care and clinical trials; b) the use of technology that is more acceptable to users; c) clarification of and adherence to regulatory requirements for health care and clinical trials; d) implementation of new technologies that are being employed by other industries to facilitate data interchange, specifically the use of the eXtensible Markup Language or XML.

Prolonged afterslip could delay post-earthquake recovery by continuing to cause damage to critical infrastructure built across the fault such as rapid transit and utilities, said Lienkaemper, who noted that better forecasts of afterslip «can be used to plan temporary and final repairs to rapid transit tracks, water, gas and data lines.»

Crowley and Canzater identify five critical actions that should be priorities for monitoring HCV: 1) expand and standardize reporting to the CDC, 2) utilize electronic medical records to collect data on HCV cases and the cure cascade, 3) fund epidemiologic research using clinical data sets, 4) integrate improved monitoring of HCV with responses to the opioid epidemic, and 5) establish and monitor HCV elimination plans across major US health systems.

In the same critical spirit, The Engine Room, a network - based organisation exploring political, social and other non-academic uses of data, ran a session on when open data goes wrong.

«The AQLI uses the critical data and information gathered from our China research and applies it to every country, allowing the billions of people around the world who are exposed to high air pollution levels to estimate how much longer they would live if they breathed cleaner air,» says Greenstone.

The newly available data gives researchers a treasure trove of measurements they can use to better understand how space weather works and how best to protect critical infrastructure, such as the nation's satellites, aircraft, communications networks, navigation systems, and electric power grid.

This new technology greatly expands the amount of medically critical data we can use to increase the accuracy of treatment decision - making.

Harvard's Institute for Quantitative Social Science is planning to use differential privacy techniques to enable more researchers to share, retain control of, and credit for their data contributions as part of the Dataverse Network, a project that guarantees the long - term preservation of critical datasets.

Cloud storage allows consumers to retrieve their data from any location using any device and can provide critical backups in the case of hard disk failure.

measures incorporated into the center's design that are expected to result in the use of at least 60 percent less power for critical systems than typical data centers.

The new dependency data complement the Dependency Map team's ongoing efforts to use functional genomic technologies like CRISPR and RNA interference (RNAi) to locate vulnerabilities that arise within cancer cells as they compensate for the loss of critical genes due to mutations or expression changes.

For example, a research team last year used LINCS data to identify the role of a critical transcription regulator, heat shock factor 1 (HSF1), in cancer.

While many researchers believe the transition from an anoxic world to an oxic world occurred gradually, Joe Kirschvink (Caltech) and I have suggested instead — based on a critical analysis of the available data, with a strong dose of caution applied to the use of uniformitarian interpretations in such a radically different world — that the transition occurred rapidly (Kopp et al., 2005; Kirschvink and Kopp, 2008).

Minger's analysis tore apart many of the most important statistical claims of the China Study using data from the original monograph of Campbell's massive epidemiological study bearing that name, and brought to light a critical piece of information refuting once and for all Campbell's claims that plant proteins act differently than animal proteins.

We will also show a new way of thinking about fraud — instead of trying to prevent fraud by using shallow transactional data, we will show you how person - based data can be a much more effective barrier to fraud, as well as a critical tool for building safe, trusting online communities.

Consensus needs to be reached on the focus of the observation (teacher, students or both), the frequency and duration of observations, the structure of pre - and post-observation meetings, who is going to own and control these data (critical with video recordings), and last, but certainly not least, the classroom observation guide to be used.

When teachers can not easily use data from learning software to make better instructional decisions, the software fails in one of its most critical benefits in education: that of amplifying the abilities of teachers.

MBDs will allow students to collect and share data using probeware, cameras, and microphones; access on - demand, on - site information about ecosystem components; and visit geo - referenced locations to directly observe critical components of the ecosystem and to experience virtual simulations related to their underlying causality.

We were also glad to see the recent expansion of the New York Performance Standards Consortium, which use performance assessments as a means of breaking the monotony of traditional multiple - choice tests without losing the critical data that assessments provide to inform teaching and evaluate performance.

In February of 2011, CUNY's Office of Institutional Research and Assessment, headed by University Dean David Crook, released critical data (obtained by Director of Policy Analysis Colin Chellman using linear probability models and logistic regression) demonstrating that, all else being equal (i.e., taking into account all measurable demographic and performance characteristics), CUNY's transfer students were at a disadvantage in terms of graduation compared to native students.

The use of objective data is critical for planning, Halstead added.

And using data to improve student achievement is critical to tackling the challenges of NCLB.

Appropriate for all those who are new to engaging with data, those who may have little access to support from mentors or critical friends and those who want to extend the way they use data in their school or classroom, Using Data to Improve Learning provides a practical guide to the principles of action learning and school - based inqudata, those who may have little access to support from mentors or critical friends and those who want to extend the way they use data in their school or classroom, Using Data to Improve Learning provides a practical guide to the principles of action learning and school - based inqudata in their school or classroom, Using Data to Improve Learning provides a practical guide to the principles of action learning and school - based inquData to Improve Learning provides a practical guide to the principles of action learning and school - based inquiry.

At the same time, their silence gives tacit support to arguments by traditionalists that standardized testing should not be used in evaluating teachers or for systemic reform (even when, as seen this week from American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten and others critical of the state education policy report card issued by Rhee's StudentsFirst, find it convenient to use test score data for their own purposes).

The use of data is also critical for personalized learning and continuous improvement.

Students will develop a growth mindset and become critical thinkers, achievers, and life - long learners through the use of data - driven instruction and community supports which meet each student's needs.

Using data from the Measures of Effective Teaching study, we conduct simulation - based analyses that illustrate the critical role that performance measure weights and ratings thresholds play in determining teachers» summative evaluation ratings and the distribution of teacher proficiency rates.

Using data from the Measures of Effective Teaching study, we conduct simulation - based analyses that illustrate the critical role that

Although those resources are critical to the effective use of data, alone they are often insufficient to produce sustained, significant improvement in student outcomes.

Using the data and insight delivered by YouthTruth, Dr. Sapp and his staff were able to focus on critical aspects of school culture that needed to be strengthened.

«The use of data and really focusing on outcomes I really think is critical.

Even for teachers with relevant student test score data available for evaluations, it is critical to use multiple measures to capture the myriad of important things teachers are expected to do.

Observation of a principal engaging in some of their critical responsibilities (e.g., providing instructional feedback to teachers, or leading data team meetings) and using a rubric to evaluate proficiency on specific principal practice standards;

Those who are critical of VAMs, particularly in Florida are «seek [ing] to reverse the hard work of teachers and school districts in using this [sic] data to help inform teacher practice and performance.»

CEA is advocating for consistent policies regarding the collection and use of student data to address critical security concerns.

Sequencing and matched pairs items allow students to interpret information and use critical thinking to determine how data or objects should be ranked or paired in terms of specific attributes.

First, how districts can compromise our use of data and the critical conversations we should be having about school performance.

After all, as Peterson and Kaplan have shown, testing (along with the revamp of how teachers are recruited and trained, and better use of data) is critical to the success or failure of curricula standards.