Sentences with phrase «decades of data make»

This is possible, of course, but decades of data make it clear that it's extremely unlikely, and that the overwhelming majority of investors fail in the attempt.

Not exact matches

Women now make up more than one - third of all MBA recipients, according to federal data — up substantially in the past decade.

While a majority of Americans believe this to be true — 63 % say guns make them safer — decades of crime data and research overwhelmingly shows both that armed civilians are not the solution to mass shooters and that guns don't make people safer.

And being perhaps the world's most comprehensive aggregator of economic data for the largest and most advanced economies on the planet — and having tracked such data for the last five decades — one might suggest that the OECD knows a thing or two about improving productivity and making an economy grow.

Newly released city data shows over the past two decades African - Americans have been arrested for pot at a disproportionate rate compared to white residents, even though the two groups make up a similar percentage of the population.

Take a decade - by - decade look at just a few of Mathematica's projects that have made a lasting impact on the field of research and the use of data to make a difference.

New data from the U.S. Census Bureau shows that New York's statewide population fell for the first time in a decade, largely a result of upstate population losses outpacing the gains made downstate.

Scientists are used to persisting for decades, if necessary, to collect the data needed to make sense of these solo acts.

Decades of data collected as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term Ecological Research program have turned up some puzzles, such as surprising chemical gradients in lake waters that didn't quite make sense.

«The wealth of data we've collected over decades makes our models of coastal variability increasingly more reliable — but only for a 500 km stretch of southeastern Australia,» Turner added.

«Decades of investment shouldn't go to waste just because a site has closed; we can repurpose existing electric and other infrastructure to make sure our data centers are reliably serving our users around the world.»

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.

One research challenge involves having just a few decades or a century of high - quality weather data with which to make sense of events that might occur once every 1,000 or 10,000 years in a theoretical climate without human influence.

In the past two decades, NASA has made tremendous progress in gathering and analyzing data that help researchers understand more about the mechanics and global impacts of El Niño.

After nearly 2 decades of struggle, resulting in considerable gains, women still make up only 12.5 % of senior faculty (associate and full professors) in the natural sciences and engineering at all U.S. universities and 4 - year colleges (see upper graph), according to National Science Foundation data.

«Especially when we talk about investing in science and innovation, where the fruits of those investments may take years or even decades to materialize, we need to make sure that we have a data infrastructure in place to document and evaluate their outcomes,» said Li.

«IRTF and other facilities have provided direct support to the Cassini — Huygens mission and made it possible to link that data to decades» worth of earlier and ongoing ground - based studies,» said IRTF director John Rayner.

Decades of hard data inform the matchmaking process and make the experience that much easier for online daters.

The data displayed in Tables 1 and 2 implies few if any improvements have been made in the democratic quality of any of these six polities over the past decade, with longstanding personalist leaders, imperious ruling parties, and oligarchic political opportunists alike demonstrating their ability to continuously manipulate existing political institutions to impose their mandates over substantive domestic opposition.

While these strategies are necessary, the data on student achievement in Massachusetts, after nearly two decades of reform, makes it readily apparent that schooling solutions alone are not sufficient to achieve our aspiration of getting all students to proficiency.

Decades in the making, Florida's system stands out nationally for its use of student data to influence policy and practice.

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.

We worried that Donald Trump's support for charter schools and school choice would make those issues toxic on the left; growing polarization would sound the death knell for any hope of centrism and bipartisanship, both of which have been essential for the ed - reform project for the better part of two decades; and populist attacks on data and reason would make it that much harder for our arguments to win the day.

The New York - based AUSSIE, which was recently acquired by an Australian company, Editure, took in more than $ 15 million of that amount last year, making it the system's top provider of professional development, according to an analysis by The Hechinger Report of a decade's worth of school spending data obtained from the city education department.

What we should do instead is expand upon the accountability measures set in place a decade ago under No Child — and provide families with the data they need (including, contrary to the assertions of our friend, Andy Rotherham, value - added data on teacher performance) so they can make smart choices and spur systemic reform.

Analyzing more than a decade's worth of data from Chicago Public Schools, they found that schools where adults demonstrate a shared sense of responsibility for student learning are four times more likely to make substantial gains in reading than schools without strong professional ties.

The Coleman Report came under intense fire, but re - analyses of the Coleman data and the collection of new data in the decades since it appeared support its finding that the quality of public schools doesn't make much difference in student achievement.

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.

State math standards over the past decade or so have focused on trying to cut across these traditional disciplines — making real - world modeling and real - world data a central part of the math curriculum.

Along these lines, the pressure created by the last two decades of reforms hasn't been all bad; it has focused attention to helping all students succeed, relying upon data to make decisions, and looking for bright spots and best practices.

According to data from Greenwich Associates presented in testimony to the House Committee on Financial Services (Harold Bradley of American Century Management, March 12, 2003), mutual funds pay an average of between 5.1 and 5.5 cents per share in commissions to make securities transactions - a rate that has not changed significantly in the past decade.

Armed with data and decades of experience, we are ready to make our case on behalf of small businesses, consumers and pets alike.

The breed's friendliness, intelligence and love of physical activity helped make it the most popular dog in America for the last two decades, according to American Kennel Club data released last week.

Now, there's nothing wrong with making mistakes when pursuing an innovative observational method, but Spencer and Christy sat by for most of a decade allowing — indeed encouraging — the use of their data set as an icon for global warming skeptics.

Reducing the data to three decades when the choise of a different three decades on which to make the fit would radically alter the result is not good science, and not informative.

Cowtan and Way have shown that use of satellite data to reconstruct the missing data in the Arctic makes the pause disappear and the average rate increase over the last 17 is 0.12 C / 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.

DES MOINES (AP)-- Warmer and wetter weather in large swaths of the country have helped farmers grow corn, soybeans and other crops in some regions that only a few decades ago were too dry or cold, experts who are studying the change said... The change is due in part to a 7 % increase in average U.S. rainfall in the past 50 years, said Jay Lawrimore, chief of climatic analysis for the Asheville, N.C. - based National Climactic Data Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North DakData Center... Brad Rippey, a U.S. Department of Agriculture meteorologist, said warming temperatures have made a big difference for crops such as corn and soybeans... For example, data from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakdata from the National Agricultural Statistics Service show that in 1980, about 210,000 soybean acres were planted in North Dakota.

We simply have not got enough decades of hard global - wide data (for example satellite observations) to draw some of the conclusions we have drawn about man - made CO2 for example.

The main conclusions are: 1) The linear warming trend during 1973 - 2012 is greatest in USHCN (+0.245 C / decade), followed by CRUTem3 (+0.198 C / decade), then my ISH population density adjusted temperatures (PDAT) as a distant third (+0.013 C / decade) 2) Virtually all of the USHCN warming since 1973 appears to be the result of adjustments NOAA has made to the data, mainly in the 1995 - 97 timeframe.

Climatologists differ on the various causes of climate change, the rate at which the earth is warming, the effect of man - made emissions on warming, the most accurate climate data and temperature sets to use, and the accuracy of climate models projecting decades and centuries into the future.

Global warming makes planetary wave resonance events more likely (2017) Record Balkan floods of 2014 linked to planetary wave resonance (2016) The Likelihood of Recent Record Warmth (2016) A Decade of Weather Extremes (Nature Climate Change 2012) Increase of Extreme Events in a Warming World [+ data / code]

We extend the previous GACP dataset by four years through the end of 2009 using NOAA - 17 and -18 AVHRR radiances recalibrated against MODerate resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) radiance data, thereby making the GACP record almost three decades long.

Second question: Is it possible that the lack of warming in the last decade is due to the lack of «adjustments» that can be made to the data or lack of stations to eliminate?

There's also a number of 19th Century higher educational instutions that made the standard daily observations and logged that data conscientiously for decades.

I've just witnessed two decades of so - called experts moving the goalposts on the point - of - no - return for saving life on earth, telling us snow and ice in temperate climes would only be seen in history books, and fudging the data to make the past cooler and the present warmer.

But I don't see how the last decade of temperature data makes such a difference to that argument (being heavily influenced by La Nina and solar minimum (F&R 2011), and being relatively short in duration: a robust conclusion shouldn't depend on adding on few more datapoints).

A classic example of «belaboring the obvious», but the important thing to remember is: It makes absolutely no difference whether you (and I) are right about the «fitness for use» of the global temperature data base, A cursory examination of the actions of various Western governments over the past couple of decades, and recent US policies implemented over the past few years, up until the Social Cost of Carbon regulations now coming into effect, will show that we are having a strictly academic discussion.