Sentences with phrase «defined as any degree»

In Manno and Firestone (2006), teacher leaders with content expertise (defined as a degree and certification in mathematics or science) were found to be better equipped to lead subject - related school improvement than teacher leaders without such expertise.

According to Investopedia, liquidity is defined as the degree to which an asset can be bought or sold in the market without affecting the asset's price.

Quality can be defined as degree or grade of excellence.

In women, it is defined as any degree of glucose intolerance with onset or first recognition during pregnancy (1).

iii) SDI: This index is defined as the degree of crowding within stocked areas (48).

Second, size is probably a surrogate measure of several dimensions that lead to innovation: total resources, slack resources (defined as the degree to which an organization has more resources than those required for ongoing operations), employees» technical expertise, organizational structure, and so on.

For the purposes of this review adherence is defined as the degree behaviour corresponds with an agreed on recommendation.

Self - Esteem is defined as the degree to which people perceive their own qualities and characteristics as positive.

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The OECD defined a country's adult education level as the percentage of people between the ages of 25 and 64 who have completed some kind of tertiary education in the form of a two - year degree, four - year degree or vocational program.

We define millennials as those aged 18 - 34, and only include respondents with a 4 - year college degree or higher as college - educated.

Kansas City fared better than New York City and Los Angeles in metrics such as tech workers per capita, share of workers with a Bachelor's degree or higher, entrepreneurial growth and share of «knowledge» workers, defined as those in occupations such as architecture, social science, health care and education.

From extensive personal experience, I can say that there's a difference between Islam and Christianity that can only be defined as a difference of KIND and NOT of degree.

If we define faith as «confidence» or «conviction» based on the evidence presented, and once we recognize that there is no such thing as «degrees of faith,» then this leads to the truth that faith is not a work.

Since my early days as assistant at my teacher Edmund Schlink's Ecumenical Institute at Heidelberg and afterward during many years of regular ecumenical discussions, especially with Roman Catholic theologians, I became increasingly aware that Christian theology today should not limit itself to some narrowly defined confessional loyalty inherited from the past but should help to build the foundations of a reunited, if to some degree pluralistic, Christian church that should become more and more visible within the foreseeable future.

Evangelicalism, in this paradigm, is now no longer a distinct theological tradition (i.e., «Reformation Christianity,» though it tends to be dominated by a «Reformed» articulation of Christian faith) or a particular piety and ethos (as it tended to be in classical evangelicalism) but has become a theological position staked out between conservative neo-orthodoxy and fundamentalism on a spectrum from left to right that is defined essentially by degrees of accommodation to modernity.

In any case, this distinction between the given and The Given is anticipated in the correspondence, as seen in Brightman's willingness to admit some degree of «faintness» in the given.40 The real difference may lie in Brightman's methodological desire to have the self (and what is given to and as the self, the shining present) clearly defined, while Hartshorne insists that not only the self, but also the given «is more or less vague,» and must be so.

In their standard metaphysical discussions, process theists usually define coercive power as the power to bring it about that another entity is totally devoid of any degree of self - determination.

Despite their combined evil, they still didn't cause the same degree of human carnage and suffering as 20th century wars fought by world leaders who defined themselves as religious.

It at once becomes clear, when we adopt this altered standpoint, that the purpose of a new Declaration of the Rights of Man can not be, as formerly, to ensure the highest possible degree of independence for the individual in society, but to define the conditions under which the inevitable totalization of Mankind may be effected, not only without impairing but so as to enhance, I will not say the autonomy of each of us but (a quite different thing) the incommunicable singularity of being which each of us possesses.

The degree of elaboration in any given piece of mythology is irrelevant for its classification as mythology, whereas to define myth in terms of «observable» and «unobservable» tends to suggest the contrary.

Griffin defines this concept in various ways, but as applied to his critique of free - will theodicies, the illuminating power of a theodicy is closely tied to the degree to which individuals find it convincing.

The question comes down to this: in what ways, to what degree, have I or have I not opened myself to love, to give love and to receive love, to commit myself in utter faithfulness, to live in real mutuality, to look at others with «eager expectancy» (as Baron von Hügel defined «hope»), and thus in the truest sense to have been a man?

For example, if man were defined as essentially a rational animal, rationality could not admit of degrees, and «more» of it would not constitute a norm or an ideal, without entailing that some human beings are less «human» than others.

Relationally defined standards can be accepted as having the same degree of objectivity in those circumstances to which the standards apply as absolute standards are alleged to have in all circumstances.

Some have suggested that their candidate has never claimed to be «a choirboy» — thereby defining deviancy down to such a degree that respect for women, protection of the vulnerable, and a defense of sexual morality are recast as naive and unrealistic.

If, as I maintain, the movement of the cosmos towards the highest degree of consciousness is not an optical illusion, but represents the essence of biological evolution, then, in the curve traced by Life, Man is unquestionably situated at the topmost point; and it is he, by his emergence and existence, who finally proves the reality and defines the trajectory — «the dot on the i»...

As believers, we must acknowledge the extent to which our supposed God - talk fails to define who or what God is, not to the degree that we stop talking about God, but to the degree that we leave room in our theology for mystery, doubt, complexity, and ambiguity.

God - talking lunacy = cult = religion, it's just a matter of degree and of which faiths cultures will define as «normal.»

These studies suggest that the modern individual has to an important degree been the creation of a more sharply defined public sphere from which the private realm can be more clearly differentiated.8 Questions of interior space then become more important, as do the relations between these inner realities and those that constitute the public or external realms.

For the purposes of the analysis, we defined cold weather as any game with a kickoff temperature of 32 degrees Fahrenheit and below.

If nature is defined as whatever obstetricians do not do, then the degree to which a birth can be called natural is inversely proportional to the degree to which an obstetrician appears to play a role

Adverse maternal morbidity: defined as at least one of: general anaesthetic; instrumental birth; caesarean section; third or fourth degree perineal trauma; blood transfusion; admission to an intensive treatment unit, high dependency unit, or specialist unit; or maternal death (within 42 days after giving birth)

You would never believe it but I hold a Ph.D. degree from a major university in this country and when I say major, define that as one of the top 5 universities in this country.

«This suggests that, to a certain degree, monies in the DIIF are being treated in the Executive proposal as an additional undesignated reserve for the State, since many of the outlined intended uses are broadly defined.»

This «fat tail» scenario would mean the world experiences «existential / unknown» warming by 2100 — defined in the report as more than 5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.

Biology textbooks define the difference between micro - and macroevolution as a matter of degree.

If this display is rotated 45 degrees so that the dots define an imaginary diamond instead of a square, you perceive the path of motion rotated 45 degrees as well.

The 1 - million target doesn't distinguish between associate and bachelor's degrees, for example, nor does it mean that every student will become part of what is generally defined as the nation's scientific workforce — as a faculty member, for example, or working in a corporate research lab or federal research facility.

Moreover, the annual number of hot days — defined as average temperatures exceeding between 25 and 30 degrees Celsius, depending on location — rose by almost two a decade.

A side - roll is defined as a roll of between 45 and 135 degrees from a normal orientation along the seafloor — the most common version uses a 90 degree roll with a downward head pitch of about 30 degrees, which matches favorably with earlier speculative sketches of bottom feeding.

The authors defined a heat event as three or more successive days in which the 24 - hour daily mean temperature rose above a certain historical average high for July and August — in Philadelphia's case, 27 degrees Celsius.

The official date of a PhD is defined as the year that the degree was conferred, i.e. the year printed on the official PhD certificate.

The National Academies define a postdoc as «An individual who has received a doctoral degree (or equivalent) and is engaged in a temporary and defined period of mentored advanced training to enhance the professional skills and research independence needed to pursue his or her chosen career path,» but individual institutions can have many different names for the positions commonly thought of as postdocs.

In an HBM poster from the 2012 meeting, You and colleagues reported using a «connectivity degree» — computed by counting, for each voxel, the number of voxels meeting a correlation threshold of r > 0.25 inside (local) and outside (distant) its neighborhood defined as a sphere of 14 mm radius (Sepulcre et al., 2010)-- to find that degree of functional connectivity was higher in 7 — 13 - year - old children with ASD than TD children (You et al., 2012).

This is the relationship between luminosity (L), radius (R) and temperature (T): L = (7.125 x 10 - 7) R2T4 where the units are defined as L - watts, R - meters and T - degrees Kelvin

Historically, the tropics — defined as approximately 20 degrees north latitude and 20 degrees south latitude — has been one of the poorest parts of the world, with the lowest agricultural productivity, and some of the highest incidence of malnutrition, Goldsmith says.

Scientifically, you can define a calorie as the amount of heat you need to raise the temperature of one unit of water from 0 to 1 degree Celsius.

The motion of the scapula and upper arm is defined as a 2:1 movement ratio, meaning for every 2 degrees of upward humeral motion there is 1 degree of upward scapular motion.

Flexibility is defined for a joint or a group of joints as its range of motion, or degree of extension, that its tissues are capable of.

Ron is a proponent of the concept of «radiant health,» a degree of health that the Chinese define as «health beyond danger.»