Sentences with phrase «decades of data available»

We should have a couple of decades of data available in a variety of forms if we're going to purport to identify problems and solutions, data on numbers in and out of the profession, incomes, distribution between urban and rural, etc..

Not exact matches

With the explosion of digital marketing this past decade, chief marketing officers have become exposed to tremendous troves of data and are taking advantage of the information available to them.
Three Statistics Canada analysts have recently used newly available data to measure Canadian replacement rates over the period from the early 1980s to the middle of the current decade.
Because each individual source of readily available data on income distribution has different advantages and limitations, no single source illustrates all of the major trends in inequality over the past six decades or so.
Why only compare decades of peak deployment between a small set of countries, they reasoned, when there was publicly available data covering 68 nations over 52 years (1965 - 2016)?
At present, the best available data indicate that the worldwide impact of religious switching alone, absent any other factors, would be a relatively small increase in the number of Muslims, a substantial increase in the number of unaffiliated people, and a substantial decrease in the number of Christians in coming decades.
On Monday, I used an estimated version of my S&P + ratings — using points scored and allowed (the only data points available) to compare output to expected output based on opponent strength — to rank which programs were the best in each decade going back to the 1890s.
Knowledge is power, and valuable data is readily available with an element of immediacy that didn't exist a decade ago.
Across the entirety of the Arctic Ocean, it's disappearing at an eye - popping rate of 13 % per decade since satellite data was available.
After analyzing reams of publicly available data on casualties from Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and decades of terrorist attacks, the scientists conclude that «insurgents pretty much seemed to be following a progress curve — or a learning curve — that's very common in the manufacturing literature,» says physicist Neil Johnson of the University of Miami in Florida and lead author of the study.
Western Digital Sharespace Make your e-mails, music, and digital photo files nearly indestructible with Western Digital's ShareSpace — a box with the kind of data storage capacity available only at major computing centers just a decade ago.
Much of what makes cloud computing tick — the Internet, mobile computers, networked data storage, software housed in data centers and delivered over the Web, et cetera — has been available since the beginning of the dot - com era more than a decade ago.
Flight - test data gleaned during a Red Dragon mission would be available to NASA at a fraction of the cost and about a decade sooner than NASA could do it, Philip McAlister, director of NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Development Division in Washington, D.C., told a colloquium last week.
But, in response to the authors, he said they «were analyzing new data on sport - related mortality in the Veneto region of Italy during the last decade and that updated data were not available for public release yet.»
Their new report rehashes a decade - old debate over that technical issue, which is related to their 2008 claim that «all of the data available show that teachers work at least as many hours each work week as comparable college graduates.»
There are three leading explanations: 1) the sample of children included in the data set used by Phillips, the Children of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (CNLSY), especially in the early years, may be nonrepresentative; 2) better information on students» background characteristics is available in the Early Childhood survey; and 3) blacks born into recent cohorts have made real gains relative to blacks born a decade earlier.
Between 2000 and 2010, the most recent decade of available data, public K - 12 enrollment increased 2 percent.
While the field of teacher preparation has made significant advances in recent decades — creating stronger clinical partnerships, developing better performance assessments, making better use of newly available data sources, meeting more demanding state approval and national accreditation standards, and developing new models and patterns of preparation — not all of these advances have been universally adopted at the program level.3 To consolidate the gains and to overcome challenges to implementing universal high standards for admission and academic rigor in teacher preparation, states, school districts, and teacher preparation programs must work together to enact key policy changes.
What can be gleaned from available research and data is that patterns of giving have shifted in recent decades to include more efforts to fund disruptive or innovative approaches, signaling a belief among funders that problems in K - 12 education are not solely an issue of a lack of resources but also of a need to use existing resources differently.
He has spent the better part of the last decade compiling and analyzing dog behavior and he is familiar with all the data available on the cutting edge methods of training dogs.
The OAA collection represents four decades of producing and acquiring interviews by the Video Data Bank, and features more than 400 available titles, of which at least half are interviews produced by the Video Data Bank and its co-founders Lyn Blumenthal and Kate Horsfield.
But for your information, the * data * (which are not mine, but are freely available from the web) suggest a rate of increase of 0.5 deg.C per decade.
They find about 0.25 °C less Arctic warming during the past decade than in the GISS analysis, a difference that they attribute to our method of interpolating and extrapolating data, especially into the Arctic Ocean regions where no station data are available.
http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/04/12/1858631/sense-and-sensitivity-how-the-economist-got-it-wrong-on-warming/ where the authors state: «Yet they find that by including just an additional decade of data (i.e. using observations available through 2010), the estimate falls by nearly half, to 1.9 °C.»
Some of those may have overlapped with the proxies used by Moberg (2005), but M05 is one of several dozen NH reconstructions drawn up in the last 15 years, so it's highly likely didn't limit themselves to the data from MO5, which is much older and less extensive than the evidence available from the last decade.
Give me at least 20 year periods with warming trends less than 0.05 C per decade from a majority of the available data sets and I will call it a trend and then and only then discuss what to make if those trends continue for another year.
We continue to make this data freely available for research, and so far our decade - by - decade analysis has been cited in at least six peer - reviewed studies on the environmental and public health impacts of MTR.
Again you may go back to scientific papers of past decades when the issue of land based observations was studied by the scientists as there was not yet much knowledge on the suitability of the available data for calculating averages of the temperature change.
Why only compare decades of peak deployment between a small set of countries, they reasoned, when there was publicly available data covering 68 nations over 52 years (1965 - 2016)?
No such complete meta - data are available, so in this analysis the same value for urbanisation uncertainty is used as in the previous analysis [Folland et al., GRL 2001]; that is, a 1 sigma value of 0.0055 deg C / decade, starting in 1900... The same value is used over the whole land surface, and it is one - sided: recent temperatures may be too high due to urbanisation, but they will not be too low.
So the model runs that are claimed to produce a «hiatus» of a decade (or more); Did they predict the current continuing hiatus, using only the data available at the time?
A large number of such data have been produced over the past decades in paleomagnetic laboratories around the world, so that the amount of available data is getting large enough to allow for global inversion models of the Holocene magnetic field.
This balance probably is not affected by the omission of black carbon emissions because they increase little between 1940 and 1970 relative to increases during other decades of the 1850 — 2000 period for which data are available (10).
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