Sentences with phrase «defined as the measurement»

«Beats Per Minute» is defined as the measurement of tempo within a musical composition.

A tax base is defined as the measurement or assessment of a tax liability or the total assessed value of assets, properties or income in a certain area or jurisdiction.

Climate, sometimes understood as the «average weather,» is defined as the measurement of the mean and variability of relevant quantities of certain variables (such as temperature, precipitation or wind) over a period of time, ranging from months to thousands or millions of years.

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Estimates on the share of foreign ownership in Vancouver's housing market vary significantly and suffer from both problems of definition (such as defining «foreign» and «luxury») and measurement (such as the proxy measures used for vacancy and nationality).

Watch this webinar to learn how to define common entry points for physical contaminants and how x-ray systems help to strengthen quality control programs by performing additional quality assurance checks such as component count, fill level inspection, mass measurement and more.

Public Waldorf schools across the nation are at the forefront of defining themselves as exemplary educational models that value measurement of growth in meaningful, developmental, and authentic ways.

Assuming that these concepts are operationally defined (independence or dependence) it is highly likely that childhood independence, defined here as some measurement of a child's ability to act alone or to make a decision alone, or to solve a problem alone, or to comfort itself, is likely produced in any number of ways, and it may be an accurate description pertinent only to the domain within which it is being measured.

Here, we report on local and global changes in MHW characteristics over time as recorded by satellite and in situ measurements of sea surface temperature (SST) and defined using a quantitative MHW framework, which allows for comparisons across regions and events1.

It is typically used as a measurement of the energy contained in some defined amount of food.

The diagnosis of diabetes, by conventional standards, (though I believe that diabetes ought to be diagnosed by insulin and leptin values rather than blood glucose), is defined as a fasting plasma / serum measurement of 126.

However, there are some commonly - used movement tests using categorical measurements that are much less well - defined, such as for knee valgus or lumbar rounding during the back squat.

The Merriam - Webster dictionary defines mathematics as «the science of numbers and their operations, interrelations, combinations, generalizations, and abstractions and of space configurations and their structure, measurement, transformations, and generalizations.»

This measurement system is meant to establish a student's progress in each of several key learning - skills areas, demonstrating how and when students meet benchmarks in workplace - skills development as defined by the Partnership for 21st Century Skills.

As it is with politics today, many educational researchers who define themselves as aligned with the disciplines of educational finance or educational econometricians are substantively more in favor of VAMs than those who align more with the more general disciplines of educational research and educational measurement, methods, and statistics, in generaAs it is with politics today, many educational researchers who define themselves as aligned with the disciplines of educational finance or educational econometricians are substantively more in favor of VAMs than those who align more with the more general disciplines of educational research and educational measurement, methods, and statistics, in generaas aligned with the disciplines of educational finance or educational econometricians are substantively more in favor of VAMs than those who align more with the more general disciplines of educational research and educational measurement, methods, and statistics, in general.

For a district qualifying under this paragraph whose charter school tuition payments exceed 9 per cent of the school district's net school spending, the board shall only approve an application for the establishment of a commonwealth charter school if an applicant, or a provider with which an applicant proposes to contract, has a record of operating at least 1 school or similar program that demonstrates academic success and organizational viability and serves student populations similar to those the proposed school seeks to serve, from the following categories of students, those: (i) eligible for free lunch; (ii) eligible for reduced price lunch; (iii) that require special education; (iv) limited English - proficient of similar language proficiency level as measured by the Massachusetts English Proficiency Assessment examination; (v) sub-proficient, which shall mean students who have scored in the «needs improvement», «warning» or «failing» categories on the mathematics or English language arts exams of the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System for 2 of the past 3 years or as defined by the department using a similar measurement; (vi) who are designated as at risk of dropping out of school based on predictors determined by the department; (vii) who have dropped out of school; or (viii) other at - risk students who should be targeted to eliminate achievement gaps among different groups of students.

I'd guess he means research characterized by measurement and research expert Gerald Bracey as «a circular argument which defines effective teachers as those who raise test scores, then uses test score gains to determine who's an effective teacher.»

These measurement actually take distance in account, they don't care of the angle of a cone of light or its intensity per se, If you want you can consider them as a measure of the results of all the defined above as they will indicate how illuminated the target surface is and its what changes when we say that one headlight is brighter than the other

In addition, it's more theoretically pure to use ems for measuring type because it's a typographic measurement, and if you're already defining your content parameters in a typographic unit of measurement and proportion, it makes sense to apply the same idea across the rest of your layout as well.

So, while one website may define H1 as black, bold and an inch tall, another website may define H1 as red, italic and a half inch (btw, inches are not the unit of measurement; I use it to illustrate relative size).

Carl Bacon, in the book, Practical Risk Advanced Performance Measurements (2012), defines recovery time, or drawdown duration, as the time taken to recover from an individual or maximum drawdown to the original level.

ASC 820 «Fair Value Measurements and Disclosures» defines fair value as the price that would be received upon the sale of an asset or paid upon the transfer of a liability (i.e., the «exit price») in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date and establishes a hierarchy for inputs used in measuring fair value that maximizes the use of observable inputs and minimizes the use of unobservable inputs by requiring that the most observable inputs be used when available.»

Preoperative blood analysis, radiography, and other diagnostic tests, such as blood pressure measurement, electrocardiography (ECG), echocardiography, and / or abdominal ultrasonography, may be necessary to completely define common feline health problems, such as obesity, diabetes, hyperthyroidism, renal insufficiency, hepatic lipidosis, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, and asthma.

The allele that decreases the value of the phenotypic measurement (ie, the favourable allele) was defined as A1, and the allele that increases it (ie, the unfavourable allele) as A2.

For practical reasons, it is defined as a collection of meteorological measurements, their averages and fluctuations over a period of 30 years.

Workshop participants recommended that steps should be taken to define air - sea fluxes as ECVs or EOVs, particularly for those fluxes that can be measured directly and for which there is consensus about measurement methods (e.g., air - sea heat and momentum exchanges using the eddy covariance method).

Henry says: If you define religion as: seeking God's face and asking Him to show you which is the way (to do good) and you define science as doing tests and measurements and evaluations to find out what to do (to do good), then it should not take you very long to figure out that science and religion are two paths that both must lead to the truth.

I would define the «heat content of the system» as a measurement of the energy levels of the seas, ground and atmosphere combined.

Measurement of CO2 concentration is always problematic; the «Standard Dry Air» SDA basis of measurement and comparison is at standard temperature and pressure which is a non-existent parameter; and as we are seeing, CO2 is not a well - mixed gas at all and will be defined by, amongst other variables, SH, or absolute humidity; SH can vary from 0 to 5 % by volume of atmosphere; as the SH increases, the absolute amount of other gases, including CO2, decreases; to say therefore that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have remained stable and not been above 280ppm over the last 650my is fanciful; even if you assume past CO2 levels have not got above 280ppm the range of variation within that limit has been greater than the currenMeasurement of CO2 concentration is always problematic; the «Standard Dry Air» SDA basis of measurement and comparison is at standard temperature and pressure which is a non-existent parameter; and as we are seeing, CO2 is not a well - mixed gas at all and will be defined by, amongst other variables, SH, or absolute humidity; SH can vary from 0 to 5 % by volume of atmosphere; as the SH increases, the absolute amount of other gases, including CO2, decreases; to say therefore that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have remained stable and not been above 280ppm over the last 650my is fanciful; even if you assume past CO2 levels have not got above 280ppm the range of variation within that limit has been greater than the currenmeasurement and comparison is at standard temperature and pressure which is a non-existent parameter; and as we are seeing, CO2 is not a well - mixed gas at all and will be defined by, amongst other variables, SH, or absolute humidity; SH can vary from 0 to 5 % by volume of atmosphere; as the SH increases, the absolute amount of other gases, including CO2, decreases; to say therefore that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 have remained stable and not been above 280ppm over the last 650my is fanciful; even if you assume past CO2 levels have not got above 280ppm the range of variation within that limit has been greater than the current increase;

Childhood body mass index (BMI)(calculated as weight in kilograms divided by height in meters squared) was defined as the average of sex - and age - standardized BMIs as calculated from physical measurements taken at ages 5, 7, 9, and 11 years.

The measurement model of work engagement as initially defined did not fit the data satisfactorily.

Changes that are reflected in repeated measurements and that may not be attributed to real change in quality of life, are defined as response shifts.

Programs should define their measurements based on their curriculum but could include measures such as father attendance at program activities, homework completed by fathers, and lessons the father practiced with the child or mother.

Structural equation modeling (SEM) allows for the simultaneous examination of the relationships between latent constructs defined by multiple measures as well as directly observed variables (e.g., gender, HbA1C) while reducing the effect of measurement error on results.